The Luck We Carry is a collection of personal essays about love, loss, and the enduring presence of the people who shape us. Written over many years, the book traces life after the death of the author's husband, Ken, and the ways grief quietly weaves itself into identity, memory, and daily living.Rather than offering advice or prescriptive steps for grieving, The Luck We Carry bears witness to what it means to continue living after profound loss. These essays expl...

The Luck We Carry is a collection of deeply personal essays about love, loss, and the quiet, often unexpected ways life continues after grief.After losing his husband, Ron Stempkowski found himself navigating a world that looked familiar but felt fundamentally changed. These essays trace that terrain with honesty and restraint, exploring what it means to survive the worst thing that happens to you and still remain open to joy, humor, connection, and meaning.

Plot Twist: You’re a Journaler Now!A Playful Guide to Building a Journaling Habit with Your Pen, Your Pages, and Your SanityReady to finally start journaling—and actually stick with it?This fun and practical guide makes journaling simple, stress-free, and even a little addictive. Written in short, binge-worthy “episodes,” Plot Twist: You’re a Journaler Now! helps you turn blank pages into breakthroughs without the pressure to be pe...

Ron Stempkowski met his husband Ken on a cold Chicago night in a neighborhood bar—only to fall for him a second time, two months later, in the same bar. It was the kind of meet-cute that felt like the beginning of everything. Ten years in, it was.Then came the second cancer diagnosis. Then the wheelchair. Then a "soirée" instead of a funeral—because Ken, dying, still had notes on the guest list.The Luck We Carry moves through the full arc of that love story: the im...

Instant New York Times bestseller · Hilarious stories and advice about the ups and downs of growing up, from a popular YouTube artist and storyteller.Like any shy teen turned young adult, YouTube star James Rallison ("The Odd 1s Out") is used to being on the outside looking in. He wasn't partying in high school or winning football games like his older brother. Instead, he posted comics on the Internet. Now, he's ready to share his hard-earned advice from h...

Command attention and respect by conversing with confidence, credibility, and charismaTwo books packed into one eBook!You can speak up and be heard at business meetings. You can chat with confidence in at parties. You can be the one with the best job and most interesting friends. It’s all about how you communicate and connect with others—which is something you can learn.How to Talk to and Instantly Connect with Anyone do...

**An instant New York Times bestseller!The sequel to the New York Times bestselling The Odd 1s Out, with all new and never-before-seen content featuring opinions, stories, and signature characters from YouTube phenomenon James Rallison**James Rallison has always felt like he was on the outside looking in. His YouTube videos are all about his "odd" behavior, and with over 13 million subscribers and millions more followers on social media, these ani...

**"Kristi Coulter charts the raw, unvarnished, and quietly riveting terrain of new sobriety with wit and warmth. Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." —Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The RecoveringKristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Go...

The popular blogger and New York Times bestselling author of Yarn Harlot puts her humorous spin on everyday life, parenting, and, well, pants.The Amazing Thing About the Way It Goes takes on the amazing in the ordinary in this side-splitting series of short commentaries. Pearl-McPhee turns her trademark wit and perspective to everything from creative discipline to a way you would never think about fixing your email situation. This book loo...

"Hilarious, smart, and utterly addicting. Watch out, Nora Ephron." -Valerie FrankelJenna McCarthy presents an uproarious but insightful peek behind the curtains at the unholy state of matrimony. With ballsy wit and bawdy humor, she explores everything from male domestic idiocy and the frustrating misfires in spousal communication to how to stay true to the peskiest of vows: forsaking all others. Part in-your-face guide, part brutal confession, this book is...

In this tender, funny, and sharp memoir-in-essays, the author of Amateur Hour examines marriage, divorce, and the ways love, loss & longing shape a life.Six weeks after she and her husband announced their divorce, Kimberly Harrington began work on a book that she thought would be about divorce, full of dark humor and a not-small amount of annoyance. After all, on the heels of planning to dissolve a twenty-year marriage, they had chosen to still live togethe...

The popular humorist discusses the intricacies of being a man, from beauty routines and DIY projects to Star Wars and the Superbowl.Everyone loves Dave Barry. His irreverent bestselling books incite universal laughter. In "The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind is Beer" and Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry, Dave goes on a testosterone riff, enlightening all about the intricacies of being male. Men everywhere can relate to this book's...