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HOW TO SAVE THE PLANET WITHOUT REALLY TRYING de Jessica Eise

Dr. Jessica Eise, a behavior and climate researcher, reveals a radical shift: people do want to help. The problem isn’t willpower—it’s that we’ve ignored how our brains and bodies are wired for action.

HOW TO SAVE THE PLANET WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
by Jessica Eise
Urano US, Fall 2027
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For over 40 years, climate change has dominated the headlines—and yet, meaningful action remains out of reach. We’re told it’s the system’s fault, that our choices don’t matter, and in the same breath, that none of us are doing enough. No wonder so many—especially the young—feel paralyzed and hopeless. What’s missing isn’t passion: it’s an understanding of how people actually work. In How to Save the Planet Without Really Trying, Dr. Jessica Eise, a behavior and climate researcher, reveals a radical shift: people do want to help. The problem isn’t willpower—it’s that we’ve ignored how our brains and bodies are wired for action.

It turns out human psychology and physiology are tailor-made for this fight. When we tap into our natural instincts, we can guide ourselves to want less meat, consume less, and live more closely in line with our values. The result? Freer, lighter, happier lives—and real progress on the climate crisis. This isn’t wishful thinking. It’s science.

In four powerful sections—Body, Space, People, Tools—Eise lays out an intuitive science of transformation and a practical playbook: simple, repeatable, or “plugand-play” tools scaled by impact and effort. The result is maximum climate impact with maximum pleasure. The future of sustainability has never looked so easy!

Blending the habit building clarity of Atomic Habit with the simplifying joy of Marie Kondo, How to Save the Planet will speak to the same audience as David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth, Greta Thunberg, and Christina Figueres’s The Future We Choose. It only takes 3.5% of the population to bring about great change.

Dr. Jessica Eise is a social scientist and professor at Indiana University, recognized globally for her pioneering work on how cultural, political, and psychological forces shape responses to climate change. Author of How to Feed the World (Island Press), she is widely cited in and writes for popular media, in addition to her scholarly work. She received her PhD from Purdue and, unusually for an academic, has an MA in journalism from NYU.

THE MASQUERADERS de Betty Shamieh

A suspenseful, historical murder mystery, The Masqueraders follows a cast of flawed and unapologetic women as they forge a place for themselves in a deeply divided world.

THE MASQUERADERS
by Betty Shamieh
Avid Reader Press, Spring 2028
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When we meet Leila, her husband Meir has just flown her from their small Palestinian village to France to tell her he is not who she believes him to be. He is a spy—and has been from the moment they met.

Decades later, their Americanborn daughter, Eve, stands over her father’s body, murdered by stabbing. She is meant to fulfill the role of grieving daughter, but instead her training as a forensic pathologist has her thinking about cause of death, suspects, and motives. Eve knows about her father’s past, and her first suspect might have been her mother had she not been long dead.

Across an ocean, Raphaella, one of the Israeli agents who recruited Meir, has also just learned of Meir’s death and has her own questions: is someone hunting her former operatives?

Inspired by the true stories of Israeli spies who married Palestinian women and fathered children while undercover in the 1950s, The Masqueraders asks: what are the limits of love? What betrayals can be forgiven? How far is too far?

Betty Shamieh is the author of the novel Too Soon and fifteen plays. She is the playwrightin-residence at the Classical Theatre of Harlem. Her six New York play premieres include the sold-out off-Broadway runs of Roar and Malvolio, a sequel to Twelfth Night, which were both New York Times Critic’s Picks. Shamieh was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and named a UNESCO Young Artist for Intercultural Dialogue. She is a founding artistic director of The Semitic Root, a collective that supports innovative theatre cocreated by Arab and Jewish Americans. A graduate of Harvard College and the Yale School of Drama, she lives with her family in San Francisco.

WINTERVEIL d’Ava Reid

The Secret History meets Ready Player One in #1 bestselling author Ava Reid’s brand new, thrilling alternate-future duology, where four teens are recruited to a century-long, virtual Cold War until they discover the truth and decide to fight back.

WINTERVEIL
by Ava Reid
HarperCollins, September 2026
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The top students at Valeran Academy should be in jail. Instead, they were offered a way out: enroll and pledge themselves to the nation. In their alternate future where the Cold War still rages, America needs patriots—don’t call them spies.

In the halls of America’s most covert military academy, all that matters is who is number one. Four students rise to the top: Julian, the politician; Klaudia, strategist; Nadiya, the soldier; and Giselle, the beauty queen with a secret that could change everything.

As they compete for the top ranking that would free them from their gilded cage, the four feel strangely drawn together. Underneath every rivalry lurks a desperate yearning, bringing the strongest of them down to their knees.

Too soon, they’re ripped from the safe walls of their school and recruited for a mysterious training mission that their elusive headmaster tells them is only a simulation. But the four teens quickly realize that they are merely pawns, designed to play off of each other in a dangerous game. Even their blossoming feelings will be used against them in this game of war.

To win, they will have to question everything: each other, themselves, even their very understanding of reality.

It was only supposed to be a game. But now lives and hearts are on the line. Are you brave enough to play?

“It’s a tense, fast-paced race to a cliff-hanger of a conclusion to this duology starter. Each character is easy to root for and immaculately rendered as sympathetic, despite distinct flaws. An absolute must-read for dystopian readers and history enthusiasts alike.” – Booklist Reviews (starred review)

“Reid is well regarded for her lyrical writing and nuanced characters; here she paints a vivid portrait of a world fallen to climate change and capitalism, juxtaposed against the ways love is redemptive. VERDICT A dark dystopian novel for readers craving something more mature than The Hunger Games. Perfect for high school collections.” – School Library Journal (starred review)

“A dark and gripping feminist tale.” – Kirkus Reviews

Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, A Theory of Dreaming, Lady Macbeth, Juniper & Thorn, and The Wolf and the Woodsman. Her books have been published in over fourteen territories. She lives in the New York area. Follow her on Instagram @avasreid and find her online at tumblr.com/avasreid.

THREAT ACTORS de Mitch Moxley et Johnny Liesman

A quarter-billion-dollar crypto heist, a violent kidnapping, a network of teenage cybercriminals, and the rise of the Gen Z Mafia.

THREAT ACTORS
by Mitch Moxley & Johnny Liesman
Random House, Fall 2028
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Not too long ago, responsible adults worried that adolescents who spent hours playing video games like Grand Theft Auto were being indoctrinated into a world numbed to violence and misogyny. What flew under the radar were the late-night sessions on less violent multiplayer games like Minecraft and Roblox that primed kids for something just as unsettling. There, kids could learn to cheat, hack, and steal in online marketplaces selling “rare” usernames and game add-ons, earning an “education” that seamlessly propelled them into the higherstakes cryptocurrency world and hijacking digital wallets—sometimes in a matter of seconds. Threat Actors follows one such group of young men as they graduate from scripted phone scams into threats and beatings, and from “small” seven-figure thefts to the heist of a quarter billion dollars from an unsuspecting middle-aged investor. They are members of “the Com,” or “the Community,” a fast-growing online collective of young criminals trained at home and emerging as a brutal and organized 21st-century Mafia.

THREAT ACTORS (a term used by law enforcement and investigators to describe this growing class of cybercriminals) follows the group’s most notorious crime down every rabbit hole, revealing who the “threat actors” behind the senseless usernames are, examining how an anonymous young investigator on X helped the FBI unravel the mystery of their identities, and asking who’s really to blame for the conditions that guided them down the path to crime.

Mitch Moxley is a writer who has contributed to The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, and other publications. He is the co-creator, writer, and host of the podcast Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe (Audible Originals, October 2026), and author of the memoir Apologies to My Censor, about the six years he lived in China.

Johnny Liesman is a New York-based investigative journalist and producer who codeveloped and reported the Audible Originals series Over My Dead Body: Operation Sideswipe and is producing an upcoming podcast hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow. He’s spent countless late nights in the Telegram channels of the Com—and grew up in the same online world as many of the book’s subjects.

THE ST. ALWYNN GIRLS AT SEA de Sheila Heti

From “one of the freshest, funniest and most ingenious humans writing today [and] one of our best living authors” (The Washington Post) comes a deeply delightful seafaring adventure and a brilliant group portrait of female adolescence.

THE ST. ALWYNN GIRLS AT SEA
by Sheila Heti
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2027
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Photo credit: Luis Mora

To escape the dangers of wartime bombings, the girls of St. Alwynn’s have been evacuated by their headmistress to a ship on the high seas. Yet instead of being safe, they find themselves plunged into a different kind of chaos. Trapped in a floating pressure cooker of teenage anguish and rivalry, their isolation is penetrated by just one thing: the weekly arrival of the mail bag, bearing letters from a distant boys’ ship.

Through the perspectives of the passionate Dani, the high-minded Lorraine, the sensitive Flora, and the beautiful Yvonne, THE ST. ALWYNN GIRLS AT SEA creates a dramatic and vivid mini-society. But as their ship sails onward, westward, or perhaps just around in circles, the girls find themselves in ever more peril. Will they never reach home? Is their headmistress okay? And what if they’ve completely misunderstood each other―and themselves?

Hilarious, moving, and taking on some of the biggest questions of life, THE ST. ALWYNN GIRLS AT SEA delivers the absorbing and wondrous pleasures of childhood reading while inventing an entirely new category of narrative pleasure, anchored by the psychological incisiveness Sheila Heti is known for. It is as though she has gone back in time and returned to the present with a lost modern classic in hand.

Sheila Heti is the author of eight books, including the critically acclaimed How Should a Person Be? and the New York Times Bestseller, Women in Clothes (edited with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton). She is the former interviews editor at The Believer magazine, and has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Paris Review, n+1, The London Review of Books, and more. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages. She lives in Toronto.