David Alexander was responsible for shooting the album cover of the 1978 Grammy-winning Eagles' Hotel California. The front cover depicts The Beverly Hills Hotel at sunset. He shot the image 60 feet above Sunset Boulevard on top of a cherry picker with the light  and unfamiliar vantage point giving it a slightly sinister look in keeping with the Album’s theme. A critical and commercial success, Rolling Stone named Hotel California the 5th best album cover of all time and the highest rated pure photography cover. Hotel California went on to incredible success, becoming a 1970s cultural landmark, cementing Alexander's reputation in the entertainment industry and beyond.  Acclaimed commercial photographer, David Alexander, built his reputation early in his career by creating  album covers for The Eagles and Blues Brothers among other 70’s rock bands as well as movie posters for iconic films like THE TERMINATOR. His eye is still sharp as ever! Alexander has now focused his  attention on understanding the meaning behind images. In PICTURES OF TIME, he explores the intersection of science, art, and, perhaps, philosophy. Described as "photography that makes you think." the images are arranged as a contemplation of time, raising thought-provoking questions such as what is time and can time really be seen?  This beautiful tabletop book is  filled with powerful images encouraging reflection.

Tuni Deignan spent most of her life using a whole host of coping mechanisms to avoid facing the trauma of her childhood: a sexually abusive father and a mother who seemed helpless to stop him. But when a bike accident rendered her immobile and independent on narcotics at age of fifty-five, she finally sat down to unwind and understand the circus of her life; a journey that led her to a place of understanding, peace, and even joy. Ultimately, it took her decades of dancing, hiding, faking, having sex, costuming, implanting, dissociating, marrying, divorcing, and purging—all while staying silent about her past trauma—before a bike accident at age fifty-five forced her to stop and truly take stock of her life.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Bad Guys comes another hilarious illustrated series starring a pampered cat who is way tougher than anyone realizes. In CAT ON THE RUN: IN CAT OF DEATH, Aaron Blabey’s story centers on this huge internet star, Princess Beautiful, a celebrity cat turned outlaw and her struggle to clear her name. Sure to be a hit like The Bad Guys, Pig the Pug, and Thelma the Unicorn, which will come to Netflix in 2024

Steve Roach from F.A.C.T. Food Animal Concerns Trust talks SUPERBUGS through our food supply.    Antibiotics! Our food supply is under siege! With the summer BBQ and grilling season underway, it’s more important than ever to know how your food is being treated before you give it to your family and friends! The overuse of antibiotics in industrial animal agriculture is creating deadly superbugs. Everyone is at risk — even people who don’t eat meat.  Steve Roach’s work at Food Animal Concerns Trust focuses on reducing the human health risks that result from the production of food animals including risks from foodborne illness, dangerous drug residues, and antibiotic resistance. Steve, who joined FACT in 1998, has a master’s degree in anthropology. Learn more here

Graci Kim writes about the magic she wants to see in the world. Published by Rick Riordan Presents and inspired by Korean mythology, her Gifted Clans Trilogy for middle grade readers was featured in TIME Magazine for Kids, dubbed a “sparkling yarn” by Entertainment Weekly, and named Barnes & Noble Young Reader Pick, among other honors. It has been optioned by the Disney Channel for a television series and is being translated into multiple languages. THE LAST FALLEN REALM is a work of fantasy and the perfect end to Graci Kim’s Gifted Clans saga.

Norman Solomon's new book WAR MADE INVISIBLE chronicles the federal prosecution of Americans for disclosing top-secret information, including U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who spent seven years in prison before President Obama commuted her prison sentence in early 2017. War Made Invisible also covers the case of U.S. Air Force veteran Daniel Hale, a drone whistleblower currently midway through serving a 45-month prison sentence for giving classified documents to the press.

I couldn't imagine having to keep a secret like this, can you? This is a story of learning who to trust to keep your secret, it's a story of love and one man's quest to get free to be.
In 2019, R.K. Russell broke the mold when he came out as bisexual in an essay for ESPN that ignited the sports world. His powerful memoir, THE YARDS BETWEEN US,  shares his story and explores his love of football, men and women, walking the devastating tightrope of keeping his sexuality secret, the tension between his private and public lives, and the importance of crashing through barriers.

ELLIE ENGLE SAVES HERSELF is LEAH JOHNSON'S middle grade debut about friendship, change, and the power we have to love ourselves. It is a laugh-until-you-cry, cry-until-you-laugh story. Her best-selling debut novel, You Should See Me in a Crown, was a Stonewall Honor Book, the inaugural Reese’s Book Club YA Pick, and named one of Time’s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. “This delightful, magical middle-grade debut from young adult author Johnson (Rise to the Sun, 2021) excellently harnesses the anxiety that is prevalent throughout the junior-high years. Ellie's magic serves as a metaphor that carves out a space for uncovering and awakening her identity as a young queer Black girl.—Booklist starred review Leah lives in Indianapolis, where she writes books about Black girls with big hearts.

You are probably familiar with Heartstopper, the graphic novel by Alice Oseman that is also a Netflix series.  Now available for the first time in the US, SOLITAIRE features the characters that inspired Heartstopper. It was originally published in the UK in 2014 and Oseman wrote it when she was just 19 years old! Solitaire introduces fan favorites Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper -and the unforgettable Tori Spring. Tori isn’t sure how to be happy again. Then she meets Michael Holden, and they try to unmask the mysterious Solitaire (and survive high school) in Oseman’s stunning, unflinchingly honest debut novel. The audio book is narrated by Jenny Walser, the actress who plays Tori on HEARTSTOPPER

Angeline Boulley— the award-winning and bestselling author of 2021’s Firekeeper's Daughter and an enrolled member of the Chippewa Indians—takes us back to Michigan’s Sugar Island in the high-stakes thriller, Warrior Girl Unearthed. Boulley spotlights the Native repatriation movement, as well as the missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis, which is also a featured story line on a hit TV show and new streaming documentary series that was well received at Sundance.