MAHJONG MURDER de Jared Goudsmit

For fans of cozy mysteries and logic puzzles, this interactive whodunnit challenges you to solve a murder at the world’s largest mahjong tournament using clues, deduction, and detective work.

MAHJONG MURDER: A 40,000-Suspect Puzzle Book
by Jared Goudsmit
Andrews McMeel, October 2026

You arrive at the world’s largest mahjong tournament ready for relaxation and fun. But when the returning champion drops dead from a poison-coated tile, enigmatic Detective Victoria Sharpe gives you a number of crucial tasks to help her catch the killer:

• Decipher a collection of cryptic clues
• Scour attendance sheets listing over 40,000 potential suspects
• Eliminate innocent players and zero in on a group of conspirators
• Identify the murderer before the clock runs out and the tournament ends

Put your powers of deduction to the test, enjoy hours of immersive screen-free entertainment, and see if you can unmask the killer before the final tile is played!

Jared Goudsmit is a Chicago-based puzzle maker and playwright. He is the lead editor of the Universal Sunday crossword, and has created puzzles for The New York Times, LA Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Crosswords With Friends app. He has also constructed for the Apple News+ Emoji Game, Netflix’s Keysmash game, and the Celebrity Cipher. As a playwright, his horror comedy “Dead Air” and film-noir parody “Blacktop Jungle” are published by YouthPLAYS, and his Wild West satire, “Derailed,” is published by Samuel French. When he’s not writing clues, you can find Jared playing cutthroat board games with his friends or eating toasted ravioli in his hometown, St. Louis.

AI NATIVE de Kai-Fu Lee

A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee.

AI NATIVE:
The Mandate to Transform Your Company
by Kai-Fu Lee
Crown Currency, November 2026

Two years ago, the best AI agents could autonomously complete tasks that took a human expert roughly six minutes to complete. Today, top AI agents across nearly all white-collar industries can complete the workday of the smartest humans in less time than a coffee break—at a fraction of the cost. 

What happens when the most expensive thing that companies buy—human thinking—becomes practically free?

This is the single most consequential question facing business leaders for a generation, and many are struggling with how to answer it. AI is not simply another technology cycle but a fundamental transformation in the economics of business. The answer is not to dabble. It is to become AI NATIVE.

Kai-Fu Lee has spent the past four decades pioneering AI in business from nearly every vantage point: as a researcher, senior executive at Apple, Microsoft, and Google, and now a CEO himself. Few thinkers can match his combination of technical expertise and business acumen. 

In AI NATIVE, he draws from this deep well of experience to offer a radical new roadmap for company leaders to become AI Native. With punchy, insightful guidance, Lee dispels the lies CEOs are being told about AI, offers a clear roadmap for how to re-structure teams with powerful agentic AI at the center of the enterprise, and reveals the power and potential of using AI to tap into the hidden trove of knowledge inside companies. Those that get it right will flourish in the AI age.

AI NATIVE is the only book leaders need to navigate the defining challenge of our time.

Kai-Fu Lee is a pioneering expert in AI whose insights are recognized around the world. A former senior executive at Google, Microsoft and Apple, he is currently the Chairman and CEO of Sinovation Ventures and the founder of 01.AI, a global company focused on AI transformation with agentic AI. A New York Times bestselling author, his most recent book AI 2041 was named a best book of the year by The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Financial Times and has been translated into more than fifteen languages. Lee has a bachelor’s degree from Columbia and a PhD from Carnegie Mellon. His numerous honors include being named to the Time 100 and Wired 25 Icons lists.

THE HEAVY de Shawn Martinbrough

In this contemporary noir thriller written and illustrated by Shawn Martinbrough, a hardboiled debt collector confronts the ghosts from his past while contemplating his future on the streets of New York City.

THE HEAVY
by Shawn Martinbrough
Abrams ComicArts, April 2027

In THE HEAVY, author and illustrator Shawn Martinbrough tells the hard-hitting story of Charles “Dukes” Duchamp, a New York based debt collector with a love for jazz and a loss that has haunted him for years. Each week, Dukes makes his rounds collecting money for Basil-Leon Panassie, an eccentric club owner with criminal ties in New York and abroad.

When Basil announces a change in business and a night’s worth of collections goes missing, Dukes pursues a vicious, former colleague who escapes to Paris. Although the City of Light holds dark memories for him, Dukes has never let a debt go uncollected, and in order to set things right, he must face his fears and retrieve what has been taken.

THE HEAVY is an original, contemporary noir themed graphic novel about rivals, revenge, and redemption.

Shawn Martinbrough is an Eisner Award nominated artist whose comic book projects include; Batman: Detective Comics, Luke Cage Noir, The Black Panther, Hellboy, Promethee 13:13, Anansi Boys and the NAACP Image Award nominated, bestselling kid’s book, Like Lava in My Veins published by Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Kids. He is the writer of Red Hood: The Hill for DC Comics, co-author of Judge Kim and the Kids’ Court for Simon & Schuster and is currently writing and illustrating original graphic novels for Ignition Press, Image Comics and First Second/ 23rd Street Books. Shawn has lectured about his career at Walt Disney Animation, Lockheed Martin, The Pentagon, Peterson Space Force Base, TEDx Mid Atlantic, The International Spy Museum, The California African American Museum, The Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, The Society of Illustrators, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Columbia University, Savannah College of Art & Design, The University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Temple University. He is also a Vanity Fair contributor, an art curator and currently draws / writes in Washington, D.C.

THE JERUSALEM EFFECT d’Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman

An exciting and timely new book by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, the team who wrote the international bestseller The Bible Unearthed.

THE JERUSALEM EFFECT:
How a Remote Highland Stronghold Became the Most Contested City in the World
by Israel Finkelstein & Neil Asher Silberman
St. Martin’s Press, Spring 2028
(via the Carol Mann Agency)

Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman’s The Bible Unearthed has sold over 500,000 copies worldwide. Finkelstein is Israel’s most senior and distinguished archaeologist. Their upcoming book The Jerusalem Effect: How a Remote Highland Stronghold Became the Most Contested City in the World offers a new look at one of the most venerated–and disputed–cities in the world.  It asks why this small, highland city on the edge of the desert has mattered so much to so many for so long. Through cutting-edge technology and study of ancient to modern texts, The Jerusalem Effect shows us how the archaeology and history of Jerusalem teaches us about some of today’s most urgent and geopolitical religious conflicts.

Finkelstein and Silberman critically depart from most other books concerned with Jerusalem and the Middle East through their innovative framework dubbed « The Jerusalem Effect »: an enduring belief that physical control of Jerusalem is proof of divine favor. Jerusalem, they argue, has become the flashpoint for the clash of two opposing ideologies: a desire to make the city pure and untouchable, and an outward-facing ambition to tie the city’s future to alliances with powerful empires around the world. At a moment when sacred geography and political identity are again colliding—from Jerusalem and Kyiv to Washington and Tehran—The Jerusalem Effect offers a unifying perspective on the history that lies behind today’s headlines. 

In an era of disinformation, populism, and religious polarization, this book offers not just history but perspective—a diagnosis of why the myth of sacred possession continues to enthrall the modern world, and a warning that the drama first staged in Jerusalem over three thousand years ago is still being replayed on today’s political and spiritual stage. Writing for a wide general audience, The Jerusalem Effect is for anyone who wants to understand why this one city continues to ignite such faith and discord across the globe.

Israel Finkelstein is among the most influential archaeologists of his generation. A member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the French Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Finkelstein has also been featured on CNN and on news and opinion stories on European broadcast and streaming networks.

Neil Asher Silberman is an American archaeologist, historian, and heritage theorist whose writings and leadership in public archaeology have shaped international practice. A former Guggenheim Fellow and editor of the 3-volume Oxford Companion to Archaeology, he has been a frequent commentator and national lecturer for heritage-policy bodies and museum projects.

Together, Finkelstein and Silberman form a team uniquely positioned to contribute to the public media conversation at a time of renewed global interest in the politics of faith and identity. The Bible Unearthed continues to appear on academic and commercial reading lists two decades after publication, ensuring a substantial built-in audience for The Jerusalem Effect.

SHOULD HAVE BENS d’Elle Gonzalez Rose

The Do-Over meets See You Yesterday in this paperback original romance full of second chances, parallel lives, and a first love that keeps finding its way back.

SHOULD HAVE BENS
by Elle Gonzalez Rose
HarperCollins Children’s, July 2027

Photo credit: Kristen Pierce

Carmen’s life is always on the move: new towns, new schools, and relationships with expiration dates. Her only constant has been her best friend Benny—until she broke both their hearts. Then, days after her latest move, she wakes up in a life that isn’t hers. One where she said yes to a different Ben. Then another. And another…

Each reality shows Carmen what could have been, and no matter where she lands, Benny Cortez is always there. If she can end the time jumps, will she find her way back to him—or realize he’s the one “what if” she can’t rewrite?

MULTIVERSE ROMANCE WITH A TWIST: A heartbroken girl cycles through alternate lives with every “should have” Ben, turning second chances into a sweeping, emotional love story across realities.

TIKTOK-FRIENDLY TROPES: Second chances, friends-to-lovers, and alternate realties make this a perfect read for fans of THE DO-OVER and crossover readers who loved THE HUSBANDS.

AN IRRESISTIBE INCLUSIVE ROMANCE: This high-concept love story also delivers the voice and visibility that Latine teen readers continue to search for.

LAYERS BENEATH THE ROMANCE: Beneath the sliding-door concept, SHOULD HAVE BENS gains extra emotional heft by grappling with Carmen’s constant uprooting, fear of attachment, and what it takes to finally choose love.

Elle Gonzalez Rose is an award-winning author of several books for teens including Marisol Acts the Part and I Didn’t Do It. Hopefully by the time you’re reading this she’s able to do a pull-up.