A must-read for all parents, THE ANXIOUS GENERATION is the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media and big tech --- and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

A must-read for all parents, THE ANXIOUS GENERATION is the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media and big tech --- and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

A must-read for all parents: the generation-defining investigation into the collapse of youth mental health in the era of smartphones, social media and big tech --- and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood.

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on many measures. Why?

In THE ANXIOUS GENERATION, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt lays out the facts about the epidemic of teen mental illness that hit many countries at the same time. He then investigates the nature of childhood, including why children need play and independent exploration to mature into competent, thriving adults.

Haidt shows how the “play-based childhood” began to decline in the 1980s and how it was finally wiped out by the arrival of the “phone-based childhood” in the early 2010s. He presents more than a dozen mechanisms by which this “great rewiring of childhood” has interfered with children’s social and neurological development, covering everything from sleep deprivation to attention fragmentation, addiction, loneliness, social contagion, social comparison and perfectionism. He explains why social media damages girls more than boys and why boys have been withdrawing from the real world into the virtual world, with disastrous consequences for themselves, their families and their societies.

Most important, Haidt issues a clear call to action. He diagnoses the “collective action problems” that trap us and then proposes four simple rules that might set us free. He describes steps that parents, teachers, schools, tech companies and governments can take to end the epidemic of mental illness and restore a more humane childhood.

Haidt has spent his career speaking truth backed by data in the most difficult landscapes --- communities polarized by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the public health emergency faced by Gen Z. We cannot afford to ignore his findings about protecting our children --- and ourselves --- from the psychological damage of a phone-based life.

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice --- to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever --- in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice --- to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever --- in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice --- to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever --- in this incandescent novel of redemption and love.

On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of her past.

She is unmoored in her old city as the ghosts of her former life begin to resurface: her loving but difficult mother, her absentee father, and the two gifted dancers who led to her downfall.

One of those dancers, Alexander, is the love of her life, who transformed both Natalia and her art. The other is Dmitri, a dark and treacherous genius. When the latter offers her a chance to return to the stage in her signature role, Natalia must decide if she again can face the people responsible for both her soaring highs and darkest hours.

Painting a vivid portrait of the Russian ballet world, where cutthroat ambition, ever-shifting politics and sublime artistry collide, CITY OF NIGHT BIRDS unveils the making of a dancer with both profound intimacy and breathtaking scope. Mysterious and alluring, passionate and virtuosic, Juhea Kim’s second novel is an affecting meditation on love, forgiveness and the making of an artist in a turbulent world.

Both harrowing and ferociously funny, JAMES is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

Both harrowing and ferociously funny, JAMES is a brilliant, action-packed reimagining of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view.

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, who recently has returned to town. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and too-often-unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.

While many narrative set pieces of ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN remain in place (floods and storms, stumbling across both unexpected death and unexpected treasure in the myriad stopping points along the river’s banks, encountering the scam artists posing as the Duke and Dauphin), Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light.

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a “literary icon” (Oprah Daily) and one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime, JAMES is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of 21st-century American literature.

Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE BOARDWALK BOOKSHOP, returns with the joyful and utterly irresistible story of a mother who couldn't love her kids more but hopes that, just this once, they please don't come home for Christmas.

Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE BOARDWALK BOOKSHOP, returns with the joyful and utterly irresistible story of a mother who couldn't love her kids more but hopes that, just this once, they please don't come home for Christmas.

Susan Mallery, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE BOARDWALK BOOKSHOP, returns with the joyful and utterly irresistible story of a mother who couldn't love her kids more but hopes that, just this once, they please don't come home for Christmas. Perfect for fans of Mary Kay Andrews and Julie Murphy!

Julie Parker’s kids are her greatest gift. Still, she’s not exactly heartbroken when they ask to skip a big Christmas. Her son, Nick, is taking a belated honeymoon with his bride, Blair, while her daughter, Dana, will purge every reminder of the guy who dumped her. Again. Julie feels practically giddy for one-on-one holiday time with Heath, the (much) younger man she’s secretly dating.

But her plans go from cozy to chaotic when Nick and Dana plead for Christmas at the family cabin in memory of their late father, Julie’s ex. She can’t refuse, even though she dreads their reactions to her new man when they realize she’s been hiding him for months.

As the guest list grows in surprising ways, from Blair’s estranged mom to Heath’s precocious children, Julie’s secret is one of many to be unwrapped. Over this delightfully complicated and very funny Christmas, she’ll discover that more really is merrier, and that a big, happy family can become bigger and happier, if they let go of old hurts and open their hearts to love.