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THE INVISIBLE LIST de Ravi Gupta

A manifesto in defense of turning your hobbies into passions and becoming a lifelong learner along the way.

THE INVISIBLE LIST
by Ravi Gupta
Harmony/PRH, publication date TBD
(via Javelin)

Ravi offers readers a battle-tested formula for how to reclaim your time, follow your dreams, and remake yourself as a lifelong learner by pursuing a different goal from your bucket list of deferred passions each and every year.

Packed with concrete, actionable advice for how you can master one passion a year, from whittling down your choices, to the habits necessary for success, to dealing with the constraints that life throws your way, to crossing the finish line, THE INVISIBLE LIST is a winning formula that teaches you how to master new skills and reshape your own sense of what you can achieve. It’s Oliver Burkeman’s 4,000 Weeks, meets Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, with a dash of Atomic Habits thrown in.

Ravi Gupta is a serial social entrepreneur dedicated to reforming civic institutions. He is the cofounder and CEO of The Branch, a media company committed to combating online polarization. In addition, Ravi serves as the CEO and founder of Squadra Health, a company focused on longevity and wellness. Before these ventures, he cofounded Arena, where he led efforts that helped elect dozens of candidates and launched one of the largest campaign-staffer training academies in political history. Earlier in his career, Ravi founded and served as CEO of RePublic Schools, a network of charter schools in the South, and established Reimagine Prep, Mississippi’s first charter school. He also played key roles in Obama’s first campaign and first term, serving as an assistant to Chief Strategist David Axelrod and Ambassador Susan Rice. A native of Staten Island, Ravi graduated from Yale Law School and Binghamton University. He’s won numerous awards, including the Truman Scholarship, the Webby Award, and Binghamton’s University Medal, along with recognition in Forbes’s “30 Under 30” and Crain’s “NYC 40 Under 40.”

GROW de Justina & Ronnie Blakeney

Designed to encourage and activate personal growth, this imaginative deck and guide combines the wisdom of a self-help book with the magic of oracle cards to help readers find purpose and focus on personal transformation.

GROW:
Pathways to Passion, Purpose & Peace Guidebook & Card Set
by Justina Blakeney & Dr. Ronnie Blakeney
Abrams, January 2026

GROW is a cosmic companion to help you navigate life’s in-between moments—when you’re craving change, clarity, connection, or a way back to yourself.

Created by Justina Blakeney and her mother, developmental psychologist Dr. Ronnie Blakeney, Grow helps you find insight and a soulful path forward.

Each oracle card, along with the companion 228-page guidebook, offers guidance and nourishing daily practices to ground you and to uplift your spirit. Readers can start anywhere and return again and again to what feels healing and helpful.

Pull a card to awaken the magic within. Share with loved ones to grow together in wisdom and wonder.

Includes: Guidebook and 50 oracle cards with hand-painted artwork by Justina.

Justina Blakeney is a visionary artist, designer, and New York Times bestselling author. As the founder and creative force behind Jungalow®, she’s celebrated for her bold use of color, pattern, and plants to inspire soulful, joy-filled living. Her work—spanning art, writing, and interior design—celebrates the wild beauty of nature and the transformative power of creativity. 
Dr. Ronnie Blakeney is a Harvard-trained developmental psychologist, mother, grandmother, and lifelong guide for growth and healing. From consulting at the White House to founding a therapeutic school for adolescent girls, her work bridges deep emotional wisdom with practical tools for change. She’s helped thousands navigate life’s challenges with more courage, clarity, and heart.

GROW is their first creative collaboration—a soul-nourishing project decades in the making. Blending art and science, intuition and insight, it’s a heartfelt invitation to awaken the wisdom within and live more meaningfully, boldly, and beautifully.

OPERATION SPARROW de Jason Bell

The first book to tell the full story of one of the greatest yet most unknown operations of WWII.

OPERATION SPARROW:
The Incredible True Story of the Spies Who Tricked Hitler and Won the War
by Jason Bell
Hanover Square Press, Fall 2026
(via Vertical Ink Agency)

Three American special forces parachute into Nazi-allied Hungary in the dead of night, spring 1944. The three-man team is designed to look like the spear’s tip of an Allied invasion to help Hungary extract itself from Hitler’s grasp. The leader of the first Sparrow team is iron-jawed, barrel-chested Florimond Duke: all-American football player, big-time New York advertising executive, and knowing volunteer for a likely suicide mission, but he takes the risk because there is no one better suited for selling the Nazis on a lie. If their plan succeeds, they will be captured by the Germans, and Hitler will be fooled into sending reinforcements far from the coming Allied invasion at Normandy to counter a make-believe invasion instead of the real one. If it fails? German armor will destroy the coming Allied landing in France, and the war could be lost. But against enormous odds, Sparrow’s first stage is completely successful – the Nazis divert twelve divisions to counter the fake invasion. The next stage is Canada’s daring mission to keep Hitler’s forces pinned down – it is like Canada’s invasion at Dieppe, except an unmitigated success. Hitler was completely convinced by the plot, and the Canadian forces made him pay a high price for his mistake. Operation Sparrow was one of the most astoundingly risky and successful missions of WWII, yet its story has not been told, and Jason Bell’s OPERATION SPARROW will be the first book to tell the full story of one of the greatest yet most unknown operations of the war.

Jason Bell, Ph.D. is a professor of philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. He has served as Fulbright Professor at Göttingen in Germany, and has taught at universities in Belgium, the United States, and Canada.

EVERYDAY GENIUS de Nelson Dellis

Written by six-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis, this practical nonfiction book includes fun, simple techniques that can help anyone look smarter and actually get smarter at the same time.

EVERYDAY GENIUS:
Hacks to Boost Your Memory, Focus, Problem Solving, and Much More
by Nelson Dellis
Foreword by Barbara Oakley
Abrams Press, March 2026

What if one fun-to-read book could teach you how to read faster and remember more? What if you had a toolbox for learning anything more proficiently, from mastering a new language to improving your focus, memory, and concentration—and even decision-making?

And what if that book could also teach you hacks for solving puzzles and riddles, counting cards in blackjack, solving Rubik’s cube blindfolded, and improving your strategy in chess, Sudoku, and other games?

In 2009, inspired by his beloved grandmother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s, Nelson Dellis embarked on a transformative journey to strengthen his cognitive abilities. That led not just to his six USA Memory Championships, but to his lifelong commitment to helping others boost their mental abilities.

While he doesn’t promise to turn you into the next Albert Einstein, he does guarantee that you will be amazed at how much hidden potential you have waiting to be unlocked.

In Everyday Genius, Dellis offers a guide filled with practical techniques that readers of all backgrounds can use to supercharge the little skills that will make a big difference in their personal and professional lives.

Nelson Dellis is a six-time USA Memory Champion and highly-sought-after speaker and coach. He placed bronze at a Speed Reading Olympiad in 2016 and plays part-time on a card-counting Blackjack team that has won over $100,000 from casinos. Dellis also runs a successful YouTube channel with 300,000+ subscribers which is devoted to creating content around mental hacks and memory techniques. Barbara Oakley is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She created and teaches Coursera’s “Learning How to Learn,” which has over 4 million registered students. Oakley is a New York Times bestselling author whose book A Mind for Numbers has sold millions of copies worldwide. She has been published in outlets like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. She is the winner of the McGraw Prize and is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. 

SIDE CHARACTER ENERGY d’Olivia Tolich

A sharp, wise, hilarious novel about love—romantic, platonic and toxic—from a brilliant new voice in Australian fiction.

SIDE CHARACTER ENERGY
by Olivia Tolich
Text Pubishing Australia, February 2026

Before she met Bee, Gertrude was alone—like a whale singing on a different frequency so that none of the other whales could find it. Then Bee decided they were friends, and now they’re not just best friends: they live in the same house and work together too.

Gertrude’s whole life, in fact, seems to revolve around Bee. Not that it’s a problem; she’s just not sure why she’s going on double dates with Bee and her new boyfriend Will, a pompous-finance-bro, and his friend Arthur, who is apparently also a jerk.

Apparently. Because there might be more to Arthur than Gertrude thinks. And, according to Arthur, there might be more to Gertrude than she thinks as well. And if that’s true? Where would that leave her life with Bee?

The author herself writes, “This book is for everyone who watches a romcom and thinks the best friend should get their own movie.” 

Senior Editor at Text, Mandy Brett, writes, “A lot of craft goes into crafting effortless fun. Olivia Tolich is a master of her craft.” 

Olivia Tolich is an emerging author based in Melbourne. She holds a Masters of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing from the University of Melbourne and works as an educational publisher.