The truck is packed, and the fly-fishing duo jump in and make their way along the river as craggy mountains loom. Step by step, we see Papa and the child connect their rods, add flies, then they walk the trail to the water’s edge. They take in the sights and sounds all around them, and …
Artificial intelligence is transforming industries and daily life at dizzying speed. In this broad tour of AI’s effects, Diamandis (entrepreneur and XPRIZE founder) and Kotler (author, journalist, and head of the Flow Research Collective) urge readers to retool their minds for radical change. They call out a growing mismatch between ancient brains and modern technologies: …
Middle schooler Mary Seaver is prone to energetic outbursts and offbeat behavior, and she’s filled with imaginative ideas. Her teenage sister, Allison, who goes by Al, is her polar opposite and wants nothing more than a typical high school experience filled with sports and school dances. When an alien presence reveals itself to Mary and …
“Without clear thinking, we only accomplish the wrong things faster,” writes Nugent, co-founder and CEO of a sports-focused tech advisory company. “A Phillips-head screwdriver will never be a hammer, no matter how fervently you swing it.” In these pages, the author lays out a program specific to sports franchises to help them develop productive plans …
Anthropologist Reese (Black Food Geographies, 2019) immerses herself in the subject of how present-day Black families and churches, mostly in the South, use the sharing of food to build and preserve communities and family structures. Reese grew up in rural East Texas, watching a beloved grandmother “stooped over tomatoes and her uncooperative collard greens, while …
Maudy Lorso is the head park ranger at Stone’s Throw State Park in Michigan. She loves her job, and she loves living in the town of Stone’s Throw, which is on the shore of Lake Michigan. Maudy’s life isn’t without complications: She’s running for a seat on the Village Council, but her opponents are wealthy …
“Nothing is as it seems” is a repeated refrain in this Christian political thriller that pits Satan’s and God’s plans against each other. When Jimmy’s mother was murdered, her unforgettable last words to 11-year-old Jimmy were: “This is not the end.” Now, 17-year-old Jimmy is asked out on a date by classmate Sasha, whose senator …
The city of Lunaris is isolated from the pain of the past. Indeed, that’s the price its residents pay for asylum there: Their personal histories are erased from their memories, which allows them to live free from trauma. However, this apparent blessing may hide its own curse; as protagonist Ada Temperance Acevedo learns, “safety is …
Having observed, and often participated in, presidential campaigns for more than half a century, Sloan offered readers weekly commentary via Substack throughout the summer and fall of 2024 on the presidential race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Even as a vocal minority within the Democratic Party questioned Harris’ leadership and viability, the author believed …
The Glory Peak Ski Resort is founded in 1966 by Bill Macklemore, a World War II veteran–turned–ski instructor who developed a site near Fortooth into a premier skiing destination (it is said that “Fortooth was one of those towns where reality was far more potent than myth”). His devotion to his business is so all-encompassing …
