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"I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer": Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column
Mary Beth Norton

A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical.

203 pp. - Miscellaneous

Birnbaum's 2025 Walt Disney World: The Official Vacation Guide
Birnbaum Guides

Presents a guide to the different sections of Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, including the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, and the Walt Disney World resorts.

364 pp. - Miscellaneous

BLK MKT Vintage: Reclaiming Objects and Curiosities That Tell Black Stories
Jannah Handy, Kiyanna Stewart

This one-of-a-kind treasure trove of Black cultural ephemera, from the entrepreneurs behind the vintage shop BLK MKT Vintage, expands on their mission to curate vintage objects that tell Black stories and celebrate the contributions Black people have made to our American consciousness.

262 pp. - Miscellaneous

The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life
Suleika Jaouad

A guide to the art of journaling—and a meditation on the central questions of life—by the bestselling author of Between Two Kingdoms, with contributions from Hanif Abdurraqib, Jon Batiste, Salman Rushdie, Gloria Steinem, George Saunders, and many more.

305 pp. - Miscellaneous

The Cemetery Traveler
Ed Snyder

Taking "dark tourism" to new heights, author/blogger/photographer Ed Snyder not only feeds your curiosity be taking you into hundreds of cemeteries across America, but he takes you into his private world of cemetery travel. Morbid curiosity leads to all-consuming passion for dead things.

128 pp. - Miscellaneous

The Invention of Design: A Twentieth-Century History
Maggie Gram

From a brilliant cultural historian, “a secret history of the twentieth century” (Louis Menand) told through the story of design and its utopian promises.

322 pp. - Miscellaneous

My Garden: A Year of Design and Experimentation
Jacqueline van der Kloet

A month-by-month tour of the renowned naturalistic garden designer Jacqueline van der Kloet's home garden—a visual feast of perennials, trees, grasses, shrubs, and bulbs that have inspired a generation of gardeners and designers.

323 pp. - Miscellaneous

Start Making Sense: How Existential Psychology Can Help Us Build Meaningful Lives in Absurd Times
Steven J. Heine

A "beautiful, deep, thoughtful" (Angela Duckworth, New York Times-bestselling author of Grit) investigation into the science of why we crave meaning—and how we can pursue it in this age of anxiety.

335 pp. - Miscellaneous

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