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USE YOUR BRAIN d’Erica Dhawan

A provocative, story-driven guide to reclaiming your mental edge in a tech-dominated world. Dhawan’s previous book, Digital Body Language, has been a go-to title for navigating the digital workplace with rights sold in nineteen territories.

USE YOUR BRAIN: How to Think Deeper in a World on Autopilot
by Erica Dhawan
St. Martin’s Press, January 2027

We have trained ourselves to surrender pieces of our agency to technology for decades; GPS tells us where to turn, search engines tell us what to know, and smartphones make constant availability feel normal. With the dawn of AI, the age of hyper-speed is here whether we like it or not. These new tools don’t just support our brains, they outsource them to machines that don’t feel, don’t doubt, and don’t care. But the future doesn’t belong to those who blindly follow algorithms or trends—it belongs to those who outthink them.

USE YOUR BRAIN is a practical playbook for nurturing, not abandoning, your critical thinking skills in an era defined by speed and automation. Author Erica Dhawan conducted a years-long intensive study of people across five continents and all walks of life—from CEOs and artists to students and scientists—and the leaders who are thriving aren’t dependent upon new technology; they’re able to use it to their advantage while refusing to compromise their own judgment.

Packed with entertaining stories and concrete advice, USE YOUR BRAIN is essential reading for getting ahead in modern life, whether you’re an executive navigating scale, an employee trying to stay relevant, a parent raising independent thinkers in a world of instant answers, or someone who just wants to remain mentally sharp and fully human. Anyone who wants to succeed in today’s world must understand a baseline truth that runs counter to everything Silicon Valley is selling us; that speed is not the same as wisdom, automation is not the same as judgment, and efficiency is not the same as progress. They will be the ones who know when to challenge it, when to trust their own reasoning, and when to step back and think for themselves.

Erica Dhawan is a globally-recognized expert on leadership and teamwork. She is regularly named as one of the top fifty management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and a top fifty keynote speaker by Real Leaders. She speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TED, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, among others. She has degrees from Harvard, MIT Sloan and The Wharton School.

MORSELS de Abe Moss

A relentlessly fast-paced supernatural horror from a striking new talent that will have you reading late into the night and afraid to find who—or what—is staring right back.

MORSELS
by Abe Moss
Podium Entertainment, June 2024

Connie can’t deny she’s nervous about meeting her boyfriend’s family. Spending the weekend at their ritzy woodland summer home, Evan has already given her fair warning that his parents are cold, snobbish, and especially unpleasant toward those outside their usual social circles.

So when Evan’s mother warmly greets them with open arms, Connie is as confused as he is. Evan’s parents are nothing like he described.

They’re so friendly, in fact, Evan himself can hardly believe they’re real.

Then, while helping with dinner, Connie overhears strange noises coming from the basement—what almost sounds like voices calling out for help.

Connie doesn’t realize that once the door is opened, it can’t be closed. Or that once she descends those rickety steps into the darkness below . . . she may never see the light of day again.

Abe Moss has been writing horror stories for as long as he can remember, and hopes to never stop. With each book he writes, he hopes to try something a little different. The possibilities are endless and that’s what he really loves about storytelling. He hopes you’ll enjoy his stories too! He also writes suspense thrillers as Beau Savage . . . if you’re into that kind of thing.

VERY BAD NEIGHBOURS de Sue Hincenbergs

The second book from international bestselling author of The Retirement Plan, Sue Hincenbergs.

VERY BAD NEIGHBOURS
by Sue Hincenbergs
William Morrow, Spring 2027
(via Mushens Entertainment)

Sophie Kowalski arrives in her new neighbourhood looking for a fresh start for her young family, and neighbours she can befriend over their white picket fences. Her husband Mike has finally quit his less-than-legal job putting bad people into the ground, and at last they can lead a normal life.

But that dream threatens to explode before it’s even begun when Sophie and Mike learn there’s a hit out on the school’s queen bee. Lauren’s killer body and circle of devotees might be to die for, but who would actually want her dead?

There’s no way Sophie can let this happen – but trying to stop a murder is about to land her in the middle of the neighbourhood’s darkest secret, and soon she’ll discover that these picket fences can be sharp as knives…

Sue Hincenbergs is a former TV producer. She lives in Toronto with her husband, her scruffy, middle-aged rescue dog Kramer, and the rooms full of the stuff her three sons left behind when they moved out. Her debut, The Retirement Plan was a huge Canadian bestseller, staying in the Hardback top 10 chart for 11 weeks



LOVE WALKED IN de Sarah Chamberlain

A sunshiny American bookstore whisperer clashes with the grumpy British owner of the shop she’s trying to save in this winning opposites-attract romance for book lovers.

LOVE WALKED IN
by Sarah Chamberlain
St. Martin’s Press, September 2025
(via Kaplan/DeFiore Rights)

He has a struggling bookshop. She has a knack for bringing bookstores back to life. As soon as she walks into his store, all bets are off…

Mari Cole’s whole life is her dream job: rescuing and revitalizing indie bookstores. Friendship? Love? No thanks. After a hard childhood, she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone. Besides, books have never let Mari down the way people have. Then she gets the offer of a lifetime: rescuing Ross & Co. Once the most prestigious independent booksellers in London, the store is a shadow of its former self and needs an expert outsider to turn things around. But the offer turns out to be a double-edged sword: Leo Ross, the store’s new owner, is as cold and hostile as the British winter.

For as long as he can remember, Leo Ross has known his future is becoming the next generation to run Ross and Co. He’s sacrificed almost everything he cares about, but the bookshop is still failing on his watch, and now there’s an obnoxiously cheerful American woman convinced that she’s going to magically make everything better. Leo’s life is difficult and messy enough as it is, and he doesn’t want her help.

When Mari and Leo are forced to work closely together to bring the store back to life, Leo’s icy surface thaws to reveal the passionate man underneath. As winter gives way to the possibility of new beginnings, Mari begins to see that true love could be even better in real life than in the pages of a book. Can they put their pasts aside and learn to let love in?

« A comfort read for lovers of books, Richard Curtis movies, and romance with a touch of enemies-to-lovers. » ―Kirkus

« The grumpy/sunshine trope animates this charming rom-com… Readers will fall in love with Mari and Leo as Chamberlain skillfully reveals their hidden depths and believable vulnerabilities. The result is a multilayered love story that hits all the right notes. » ―Publishers Weekly

Sarah Chamberlain is a writer, editor, and cookbook translator whose articles have appeared in VICE, The Guardian, Food52, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. When she’s not writing witty, sexy contemporary romance, she enjoys making dinner for her friends and family, watching Cary Grant movies, and setting records as an amateur competitive powerlifter. Originally from Northern California, she lives in London.

THE INNKEEPER de Pradeep Niroula

A witty, dazzling speculative debut for readers of White Teeth and Sea of Tranquility—with a dash of Forrest Gump—the novel braids multiple storylines into a brilliantly converging plot, exploring displaced identity, national mythmaking, privilege, and the search for agency in an age of accelerating mechanization.

THE INNKEEPER
by Pradeep Niroula
Blackstone, Fall 2026
(via Nancy Yost Literary)

Almost everything seems to be going right for our nameless narrator from the secretive nation of Ratnastan. Freshly graduated from a prestigious Northeastern college and newly employed at an AI startup, he appears to be on a path to success—until a chance bicycle collision with a young woman named Samantha sends him careening into an entirely different future.

When Samantha asks him to visit her sprawling, antique-filled house, he discovers it is no ordinary bed-and-breakfast, but a clandestine inn for time travelers—a crossroads of hidden portals stretching from the 1850s into the future.

Unable to travel himself, our narrator becomes the inn’s unlikely steward: host, confidant, and steadying presence to a rotating cast of eccentric and occasionally famous (hello, Herman Melville!) guests from across history. All the while, he juggles the absurdities of his tech job and falls hopelessly for Autumn, a medical student visiting from five years ahead…an almost-romance shadowed by the uncrossable gulf between them.

But when he uncovers a devastating connection between the network of inns, his homeland, and his own family’s past, the careful balance he’s maintained begins to fracture…with consequences that ripple across time itself.

Pradeep Niroula grew up in Nepal and studied physics and fiction at Harvard. After graduation, while working at a startup, he lived in a bed-and-breakfast to save on rent, helping with chores — the setting that ultimately inspired THE INNKEEPER. Pradeep received a PhD in physics and now works as a research scientist in quantum computing and artificial intelligence at JPMorgan. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and Scientific American, and his writing has appeared in LA Review of Books, The Drift, and MIT Technology Review, among other publications.