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THE ATHLETE CODE de Joe Lemire

A debut nonfiction by a Sports Business Journal writer Joe Lemire, THE ATHLETE CODE explores the fast-changing world of tech- and data-driven athlete development and injury prevention, using vivid narrative and experiential journalism to chronicle humanity’s progress in these areas. For fans of The Sports Gene and Born To Run.

THE ATHLETE CODE:
Biohacking the Limits of Human Performance
by Joe Lemire
St. Martin’s Press, Spring 2028
(via the David Black Agency)

From our Apple Watches to our Oura Rings, wearable tech is everywhere. But where is performance technology going? And with its help, how far can we push the human body?

THE ATHLETE CODE by Joe Lemire will explore these questions while taking readers on an enlightening journey of data and devices, breakthroughs and revelations, vivid anecdotes and memorable characters—and even his own admirable athletic efforts.

Athletes, coaches, and trainers have always tried to turn scientific breakthrough into on-the-field advantage. But historically that has happened by way of more effective equipment, better nutrition, and data that outsmarts conventional wisdom. Now, the fertile ground for a tech- and data-driven edge is in player development and injury prevention. And the sports tech industry is on the precipice of realizing the Holy Grail potential of two goals that long seemed mutually exclusive: performance and durability.

We are witnessing a golden era of sports performance, as new technologies are allowing athletes to reach unprecedented heights. These devices monitor, analyze and predict athlete form and performance in increasingly more precise and less invasive ways—and as a result, they help their subjects push the boundaries of what humans can achieve.

THE ATHLETE CODE will chronicle humanity’s progress in these areas, including:

• The data-driven development of the fittest man in world history.
• The implementation of the first real-time injury detection system capable of identifying muscle, ligament or tendon tears minutes before they happen.
• Insole sensors that can detect asymmetrical movement and advanced motion-capture analysis, both of which have been used by some of the world’s fastest sprinters.
• Bluetooth-connected EEG caps that enable athletes to play video games with their mind to train concentration and decision-making.
• Biomechanical analysis that helped turn a walk-on college baseball player into an ACC Pitcher of the Year, the No. 7 overall MLB draft pick, and a future ace.

Lemire will bring this reporting to life with absorbing stories (the remarkable tale of a professional baseball team’s injury-free season), dozens of exclusive interviews (including with Olympic gold medalists, world-renowned runners, and baseball Hall-of-Famers), and Plimptonian experiential journalism (he has used augmented reality glasses while running and AR goggles while swimming, exercised while wearing as many as four different sensors, and trained with a pocket-sized radar and a smartphone-based biomechanical analysis to raise his fastball to 82 mph.).

There is a strong history of readers devouring books about the intersection of sport and science, including David Epstein’s The Sports Gene and Range, James Nestor’s Breath, Jeff Passan’s The Arm, and Alex Hutchinson’s Endure. THE ATHLETE CODE will attract readers of those books; it will also be required reading for coaches and trainers across sports and levels of competition, as well as for weekend warrior athletes across the country.

Joe Lemire is a reporter for Sports Business Journal, and the country’s only devoted sports technology writer. He began his career with Sports Illustrated as an entry-level reporter, quickly ascending the ranks to become the youngest writer on the magazine’s masthead. He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and USA Today, and has appeared regularly on the MLB Network. He specializes in stories that distill complicated concepts into accessible ideas and blend objective research with engaging anecdotes for a thorough and compelling exploration of a topic.

THE WILL de Maggie Smith

THE WILL is part psychological thriller, and part meditation on motherhood, the rabbit holes of magical thinking, and the terrifying power of desire. This deeply unnerving, yet psychologically relatable story by New York Times bestselling author and poet Maggie Smith will appeal to fans of Helen Phillips’ The Need, Ashley Audrain’s The Push, and Rachel Yoder’s Nightbitch.

THE WILL
by Maggie Smith
Knopf, 2027
(via the David Black Agency)

When Caroline’s sister and brother-in-law are killed in a car accident, the couple’s will names Caroline as the guardian of their two young children. After years of miscarriages and failed fertility treatments, Caroline had said she’d do anything to be a mother. Anything. Grieving her only sibling and struggling to parent two heartbroken children, Caroline begins to unravel, convinced she willed the accident in some Faustian bargain. But that’s impossible—isn’t it?

Maggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Good Bones, Goldenrod, Keep Moving, and My Thoughts Have Wings. A 2011 recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Smith has also received a Pushcart Prize, and numerous grants and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Sustainable Arts Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, appearing in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Best American Poetry, and more. She is the host of The Slowdown podcast, and she writes about craft in her bestselling Substack newsletter, For Dear Life. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.

THE PROSPEROUS HEART de Julia Cameron

Create a sense of security and abundance in your life today by applying Julia Cameron’s bestselling Artist’s Way techniques to the topic of prosperity.

THE PROSPEROUS HEART:
Creating a Life of Enough (New Edition)
by Julia Cameron
St. Martin’s Essentials, March 2026 (first published 2011)
(via David Black Agency)

In this dynamic creative-renewal program, New York Times bestselling author Julia Cameron presents a twelve-week program for using your creative heart and soul to lead you to prosperity in all the areas of your life. With inspiring new daily tools and strategies that follow in the footsteps of Cameron’s groundbreaking Artist’s Way, this book guides readers in developing a life that is as full and as satisfying as they ever thought possible.

Drawing on her decades of experience working with artists as an expert on the creative process, Cameron shines a clear light on the path to forging a direct relationship between the passion that ignites our creative work and the more practical aspects of living our lives (for example, how one can keep a roof over their head without losing track of their soul!) In this wise volume, Cameron gives readers the courage and permission to live their lives as they create their art: purposely and fully.

Hailed by The New York Times as “The Queen of Change,” Julia Cameron is credited with starting a movement in 1992 that has brought creativity into the mainstream conversation― in the arts, in business, and in everyday life. She is the bestselling author of more than fifty books, fiction and nonfiction; a poet, songwriter, filmmaker and playwright. Commonly referred to as “The Godmother” or “High Priestess” of creativity, her tools are based in practice, not theory, and she considers herself “the floor sample of her own toolkit.” Her #1 bestseller, The Artist’s Way, has been translated into more than forty languages and sold over five million copies to date.

BLASTING THROUGH BLOCKS de Julia Cameron

A guide to getting (and staying) unblocked, by best-selling author of The Artist’s Way Julia Cameron.

BLASTING THROUGH BLOCKS:
Get Unstuck & Unleash Your Creative Potential
by Julia Cameron
St. Martin’s Essentials, November 2026
(via David Black Agency)

Every artist—or aspiring creator—knows the sting of being stuck. BLASTING THROUGH BLOCKS is a “good news” book: yes, you will find yourself in its pages. You’ll recognize the resistance, the internal critic, the fear of failure, the perfectionism, the inertia. But the promise here is simple: you can always unblock. You don’t need grand methods or deep dives into theory—just the willingness to work with small, powerful tools.

Across 52 essays, you’ll encounter one creative block and one practical practice each week. Some tools will feel familiar—rooted in The Artist’s Way heritage—but many will surprise you with their straightforwardness, their clarity, their freshness. Over time, these practices build into a living, flexible toolkit you can revisit whenever you feel stuck again.

This is a book for personal pilgrimage and communal practice alike. Use it as a companion through a year of your creative life. Bring it to your writing group or your classroom. Gift it to any artist in your life. As these pages light up one shadow at a time, you’ll begin to see the spiritual and psychological pathways through your creative difficulties—and rediscover why your work matters.

GRINGAS de Manola Gonzalez Rosillo

The first Luisa may have passed away, but that won’t stop her from giving her granddaughter unsolicited advice from beyond the grave.

GRINGAS
by Manola Gonzalez Rosillo
Bloomsbury, Winter 2028
(via Frances Goldin Literary)

In 1950s Mexico, Luisa is a sheltered young woman who jumps at the chance to escape her hometown of Obregón for a bustling Mexico City. There, she meets and falls in love with Victor, a handsome lawyer with grand political ambitions for improving the future of their country. But as Luisa ascends the social ladder into the opulent, treacherous center of Mexico City’s elite, Victor’s behavior becomes increasingly suspicious, just as Luisa’s roles as wife and mother grow ever more claustrophobic. As her marriage fractures, Luisa must decide how to wield her power within a patriarchal society—and makes a risky choice to go behind her husband’s back.

Decades later, a tragic incident endangers Luisa’s family, forcing them to flee to Tijuana and try to obtain American visas. During this upheaval, the third and final Luisa is born, the last in a line of proud Mexican matriarchs. Over the next decade, the first Luisa, now Abuela, discovers what the price of crossing the border will mean for her family as they move between Mexico and America, navigating the opaque immigration process while raising the third Luisa as an Americanized border child and, much to Abuela’s mortification, slowly losing the privilege and identity to which they’d become accustomed. But only Abuela knows that she’s the one who caused the family’s downfall, and must confess her secrets before it’s too late.

Moving between the past and the present, GRINGAS explores the sacred bond between grandmother and granddaughter while navigating questions of class privilege, family loyalty, and assimilation. It has the intergenerational, wisecracking family dynamics of Elizabeth Acevedo’s Family Lore and the playful perspectives of Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s Calendaria—with a dash of the pithy humor of a Mexican Gilmore Girls, if Emily Gilmore had grabbed the reins of the story.

Manola Gonzalez Rosillo is a Mexican-Spanish-American writer originally from San Diego, California. She is a Reese’s Book Club LitUp Fellowship Finalist and Columbia M.F.A grad, where she received the Fondation Femme Debut scholarship and the Writing Program scholarship. She has been published by The Bare Life Review, Columbia Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine and Longreads.