Archives de catégorie : Nonfiction

STAY CALM, IT’S JUST YOUR BRAIN de Richard S. Gallagher

Start your 7-week journey to managing anxiety.

STAY CALM, IT’S JUST YOUR BRAIN:
A 7-Week Journal for Rewiring Your Anxiety
by Richard S. Gallagher
Callisto/Sourcebooks, December 2024

When anxiety strikes, there are proven tools to help you keep calm and manage your feelings―but they only work if you’re in the habit of using them. This journal shows you how to build that habit, with therapeutic exercises and guidance that make working through anxiety easier.

  • A 7-week plan ― Each week you’ll focus on a different aspect of anxiety, how it affects you, and simple ways to work through it―like noticing your anxiety triggers, practicing mindfulness, and facing your fears.

  • Expert advice ― Find advice and reassurance from therapist Richard Gallagher, who specializes in treating anxiety disorders.

  • Positive change ― As you record your thoughts, read encouraging affirmations, and practice each technique, you’ll learn to stop anxiety before it starts.

Richard S. Gallagher, LMFT is a psychotherapist based in upstate New York who specializes in treating anxiety disorders. A former customer service executive and public speaker, he is the author of numerous communications skills books including What to Say to a Porcupine, The Customer Service Survival Kit, and Stress-Free Small Talk.

THE LAST PARENTING BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ de Meagan Francis

From the co-host of the hit podcast The Mom Hour, here is your guide to the last stage of « active » parenting as your teenagers prepare to step into the world and you prepare to step back into yourself.

THE LAST PARENTING BOOK YOU’LL EVER READ:
How We Let Our Kids Go and Embrace What’s Next
by Meagan Francis
Sourcebooks, May 2025

We read the parenting books. We sign our kids up for the activities. We cheer from the sidelines. And then… they get ready to leave. We know it’s coming (and sometimes, when things are really rough, we look forward to it!). But when your kids are on their way to being functional adults, what does it mean for your identity as mom? The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read is your guide to the last stage of « active » parenting, as your teenagers prepare to step into the world and you prepare to step back into yourself.

Author Meagan Francis has been blogging and podcasting about motherhood for more than 25 years, going from five kids under her roof to just two. By offering midlife mothers a roadmap to reinventing their relationships with themselves, their kids, and the world around them, Francis helps readers to harness some of the mothering energy they’ve been directing toward their children and redirect toward nurturing themselves in order to use this unique life stage as an opportunity for personal transformation.

From the co-host of the hit podcast The Mom Hour, The Last Parenting Book You’ll Ever Read is your guide to the last stage of « active » parenting as your teenagers prepare to step into the world and you prepare to step back into yourself, for moms getting ready to launch their almost-adult kids and enter the empty nesting stage of their lives.

Meagan Francis is a mother of five and a blogger, writer and expert on being a happier, more productive mom. She’s the author of five books and the co-host of The Mom Hour podcast.

COSMIC BULLSH*T de Chris Ferrie

#1 bestselling science writer for kids Chris Ferrie is back with the bullsh*t, examining today’s mind/body/spirit fads, including astrology, cosmic energy, aliens, young earth theories, and more!

COSMIC BULLSH*T:
A Guide to the Galaxy’s Worst Life Hacks
by Chris Ferrie
Sourcebooks, March 2025

#1 bestselling science writer for kids Chris Ferrie is back with the bullsh*t…but this time instead of taking down all the pseudoscience related to quantum physics, he’s examining today’s more suspect mind/body/spirit fads, including astrology, cosmic energy, aliens, young earth theories, and other “space” themes.

Another sweary science book from Chris Ferrie combines two popular trends in books and debunks the junk “science” that has permeated our society in the form of astrology and other fads. Truly hilarious and witty content elevates this book from merely a joke or gift item to a truly useful and enjoyable book to keep on your shelf long-term.

Chris Ferrie is an award-winning physicist and Senior Lecturer for Quantum Software and Information at the University of Technology Sydney. He has a Masters in applied mathematics, BMath in mathematical physics and a PhD in applied mathematics. He lives in Australia with his wife and children.

WOW, YOU LOOK TERRIBLE de Danny Ricker

From Jimmy Kimmel Live! co-head writer Danny Ricker comes a satirical self-help manifesto for parents on the brink of despair, guaranteed to get you back the three things parenting takes from us all: our time, money, and mind.

WOW, YOU LOOK TERRIBLE!
by Danny Ricker
Hyperion Avenue, May 2025
(via Kaplan/DeFiore Rights)

You used to be a person. A real one—with hobbies, expendable income, and sex that was at least semi-annual. But then you had kids, and the more you became a parent, the less you became yourself. You love your children deeply, but most days you feel like nothing more than their service animal. That ends today (. . . just the second part. You can still love your kids.)

WOW, YOU LOOK TERRIBLE! is a beacon of hope to beleaguered parents across the globe. The revolutionary child-rearing techniques within will teach you how to:

• Save money on soccer by having your child join a cult
• Throw your kid’s entire birthday party in 17 minutes flat
• Get shredded abs while pulling your toddler out of a bounce house
• Rid your life of the Easter Bunny once and for all
• And much, much more

With illustrations, personal stories from the author, and a foreword by four-time father and beloved late night scamp Jimmy Kimmel, this book will take you down the righteous path of parenting less and living more.

Danny Ricker is a father, husband, author, and Emmy-nominated writer-producer from Burbank, California. He has written for the Oscars, the Primetime Emmys, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and currently serves as co-head writer and co-executive producer at Jimmy Kimmel Live! where he has worked since he was a small baby.

WHAT’S LEFT de Malcolm Harris

A vital guide for collective political action against the climate apocalypse, from bestselling leftist Malcolm Harris— “a brilliant thinker and writer capable of making the intricacies of economic conditions supremely readable” (Vulture)

WHAT’S LEFT:
Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis
by Malcolm Harris
Little, Brown, April 15, 2025
(via The Gernert Company)

Climate change is the unifying crisis of our time. But the scale of the problem can be paralyzing, especially when corporations are actively staving off changes that could save the planet but which might threaten their bottom lines. To quote Greta Thunberg, despite very clear science and very real devastation, the adults at the table are still saying “blah blah blah.” Something has to change—but what, and how?

In What’s Left, acclaimed writer and public intellectual Malcolm Harris cuts through the noise and gets real about our remaining options for saving the world. Just as humans have caused climate change, we hold the power to avert a climate apocalypse, but that will only happen through collective political action. Harris outlines the three strategies—progressive, socialist, and revolutionary—that have any chance of succeeding, while also revealing that none of them can succeed on their own. What’s Left shows how we must combine them into a single pathway: a meta-strategy, one that will ensure we can move forward together rather than squabbling over potential solutions while the world burns.

Vital and transformative, What’s Left is the guidebook we need at the moment we need it most. It confirms Malcolm Harris as next-generation David Graeber or Mike Davis—a historian-activist who shows us where we stand and how we got here, while also blazing a path toward a brighter future.

Malcolm Harris is the author of the national bestseller Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials; and Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit: History Since the End of History. He was born in Santa Cruz, CA and graduated from the University of Maryland.