Life After Major Weight Loss explores the rarely discussed emotional, psychological, and relational realities that follow significant weight loss. While most conversations focus on before-and-after photos, this book speaks to the quiet chapter no one prepares you for: identity confusion, grief for the body you once lived in, fear of regain, shifting relationships, unexpected attention, and the internal work that begins when the scale finally stops moving. With honesty and compassi...

The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of notable works from hundreds of anthologie...

If you've tried every diet, followed every rule, and still feel disconnected from your body, The Health Autonomy Method offers a radically different path forward. This is not another meal plan, trend, or short-term fix it's an identity-driven system designed to help you lose weight, restore energy, and sustain health for life without burnout, obsession, or dependency. Author Candace Oates challenges the broken healthparadigm that relies on restriction and compliance, replacing it w...

GLP's Are a Tool, Not the Answer is a clear, empowering guide for anyone using or considering GLP-1 medications who wants more than short-term weight loss. While these medications can quiet appetite and jumpstart change, this book tackles the truth few talk about: weight loss without strength, nourishment, and identity change is fragile. Drawing on decades of real-world coaching experience, the author reframes GLP-1s as what they truly are a tool while placing responsibility, self-trust, a...

The National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn MonroeNow a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne NicholsonIn one of her most ambitious works, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker—the child, the woman, the fated celebrity, and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice...

The unforgettable story of the rise, fall and ultimate redemption of an American family.The Mulvaneys are seemingly blessed by everything that makes life sweet. They live together in the picture-perfect High Point Farm, just outside the community of Mt Ephraim, New York, where they are respected and liked by everybody.Yet something happens on Valentine's Day 1976. An incident involving Marianne Mulvaney, the pretty sixteen-year-old daughter, is hushed up in the town and nev...

‘A page-turner … nothing less than magical’ Observer ‘An extraordinary slice of suburban noir’ Daily MailFrom one of America’s most renowned storytellers comes a novel about love and deceit, and lust and redemption, against a background of child abductions in the affluent suburbs of Detroit.In the waning days of the turbulent 1970s, in the wake of unsolved killings that have shocked Detroit, the lives of several residents are drawn togethe...

This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is "certain to stick in your mind long after you've turned the last page" ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch).Includes "Big Momma," a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short StoryHere are six of Joyce Carol Oates's most "frightening—and deeply disturbing—short stories" ( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette). In the titular story, a boy becomes obsessed with his cousin's dol...

**A gripping collection of propulsive, psychologically suspenseful stories by the legendary Joyce Carol Oates “who is surely on any shortlist of America’s greatest living writers” (The New York Times Magazine)“A genius in the truest sense of the word.”—Rebecca Makkai“One of the greatest writers among us today.”—Gillian Flynn**“Haunting . . . masterfully orchestrated . . . Oates’s best work is simmering and remorseless.”—Vogue

Frank Oates emerges as a gifted, restless naturalist whose life was shaped by birds, travel, and an unquenchable desire to know the world firsthand. From his Oxford years, where sport, outdoor adventure, and scholarly friendships mingled with bouts of illness and overwork, to his long recovery, American travels, and devotion to collecting specimens, the book traces the making of a man whose curiosity rarely stayed within bounds. The volume brings together his letters, journals, maps, field...

‘Chilling’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘Tom Ripley, eat your heart out’ NPR‘Eerie, shocking, provoking’ GILLIAN FLYNNA chilling, captivating novel about the dark secrets that surface after the shocking disappearance of a charming, mercurial teacher at an elite boarding school.Who is Francis Fox?A charismatic, young English teacher joins an elite New Jersey boa...

#1 Bestselling Author—A reclusive author in ill health is forced to hire a live-in assistant with a mysterious past in this thrilling novel."Dark, suspenseful, and trance-like. . . . [Oates's] novel dances the line between the rational and the mythical. . . . [It] has all the complex symmetry of a Gothic cathedral." — OregonianCelebrated author Joshua Seigl, an idiosyncratic bachelor and confirmed recluse—young but...