Coming Soon to a Bookstore Near You (November 18, 2025)

Street dates November 25, 2025. All book descriptions provided by the publisher.

Finding Flannery: A Travel Memoir Exploring the Mystique of Flannery O’Connor and the Legacy She Has Left Us All
By Christina Brajkovich, Karen Anne Mahoney, and Roxane B. Salonen
En Route Books and Media

Follow the journey… During the fiftieth anniversary year of the death of Flannery O’Connor, three writers from the North embarked on a pilgrimage to Milledgeville, Georgia, to uncover the mystique of their heroine, whose stories have left as many shocked as in stitches.

What formed this famed literary artist, who, though her life was cut short by lupus, became one of America’s most celebrated fiction writers, and whose stories of grace, sin, and redemption—with their misfit characters and grotesque violence—still point us to the light of truth?

Get ready to be transported into the Deep South, where the world is best taken in from a front-porch rocking chair amid peaches and magnolias, and where Flannery penned her best works in the shadow of a dairy farm. Along the way of this vivid travelogue, you’ll peer into the places that educated and shaped Flannery’s imagination and fed her devout Catholic soul.

Becoming an Artist: How to Make Art Like a Human by Embracing Failure, Discovering Your Creative Voice & Finding Joy in the Process
By Scott Christian Sava
Hay House LLC

Is there such a thing as cheating in art? No.

Am I too old to start making art? Of course not.

Will I ever like my art? Yes. Eventually. But not always (it’s complicated).

Can my art ever get better? Yes. But with practice (and a lot of patience).

If I become an artist, will I be rich? What? No. Who’s asking these questions???

With the inviting nature of Bob Ross and the kindness and empathy of Mister Rogers, Scott Christian Sava has become the internet’s “art dad” to over four million artists (young and old) around the world. But this is not a book about how to hold a pencil. Or how to draw a superhero. Or how to break into the art world (although we do talk about that a little). It’s about how we can enjoy the process of making art and let go of perfection and self-doubt and the fear of failure by learning to be okay with where we are on our own individual artistic journey. That art is all about experimentation, failing, and trying again.

Becoming an Artist is part encouragement, part storytelling, part sketchbook. Filled with art, stories, silly tangents, hard-won wisdom, and over fifty black-and-white watercolor illustrations, all created during a very hectic week in New York City.

Whether you’re a total beginner, a burned-out pro, or someone who hasn’t made art since middle school, this book is your permission slip to just make stuff. To be weird. To be imperfect. To be human.

Floating Home: Lessons From a Life Less Ordinary
By Adam Lind
Bloomsbury Tonic

What if the life you're chasing… isn't the one you truly want?

After losing his father, Adam Lind made a decision that changed everything. He left behind the expected path and spent five years hitchhiking across twenty-six countries—learning from the people who picked him up, sleeping under open skies, and discovering the extraordinary hidden in the everyday. Now, aboard his stubbornly charming narrowboat The Raman Rose, Adam continues that journey on the UK’s waterways—and invites us to join him.

Blending travel memoir, philosophy, and the search for meaning, Floating Home reveals how adventure, community, and compassion can reshape our lives. With humour and heart, Adam shows that happiness isn't found by following the rules—but by choosing your own way, one small brave step at a time.

Killing Monarchs: Regicide in the Tudor & Stuart Age
By Richard Heath
Pen & Sword

Rulers (and would-be rulers) have always faced the possibility of a violent death. Between the seventh and eighteenth centuries, over 20% of all British and European monarchs suffered such a fate. Some died in battle or in accidents, but most of them were murdered or executed.

During the time of the Tudors and Stuarts, some monarchs were the victims of lone assassins, some were killed after palace coups led by relatives or royal officials, and others after being defeated in a civil war. Their manner of death included public beheading, internal injury as a result of a knife attack, being hacked down by a group of noblemen, and ritual strangulation with a silk cord.

Killing Monarchs takes us on a journey across Europe. Starting in England and Scotland (Lady Jane Grey and Mary Queen of Scots), it moves to France (Kings Henry III and Henry IV), and then further east to Russia (Tsar Feodor II and various pretenders to the throne) and the Ottoman Empire (Sultans Osman II and Ibrahim I). It then returns to Britain to consider why Charles I was executed.

It provides a clear picture of the various forces that existed in society at the time, and these are reflected in the motives of the regicides—the killers of monarchs—even though many were not honest about them. The lust for power, the desire for a more effective leader, religious differences, and occasionally the wish to do away with monarchy altogether all played a significant role.

Mafia Secrets: Untold Tales from the Hollywood Godfather
By Gianni Russo
Citadel Books

The Kennedys, Marilyn, the Vatican, Vegas, The Godfather, the Mob, and more…

During a cursed childhood in a Manhattan neighborhood teeming with Italian immigrants, Gianni Russo fended for himself at an early age. It was a quality that didn’t go unnoticed by Frank Costello—father figure, mentor, and legendary crime boss. Thanks to Costello, Gianni was only twelve when his luck would change for a lifetime. All of it charmed—and thrilling. With it came Hollywood glamour, Vegas risk-takers, political conspiracies, sex, murder, shadow governments, and secrets.

The stories Gianni Russo could tell…

Now he does in this bombshell confessional. This is the inside account of the Sicilian Mafia, Cosa Nostra, what really transpired in those Mulberry Street clubs, and who whacked whom—including how mobster Tony Spilotro and his brother really died, finally revealed for the first time. This is Gianni, buddy of Frank Sinatra, and intimately more with Marilyn Monroe. What’s the cover-up behind her death, JFK’s, and Jimmy Hoffa’s? It’s all here.

So is the clandestine role of the pope as the sacred boss of bosses, the glory days and downfall of Las Vegas, and the colorful behind-the-scenes tales of Gianni’s role in the greatest movie ever made, The Godfather.

The go-getter Frank Costello once called “The Kid” shares his shocking, exhilarating, sometimes violent, and always riveting life with the dealmakers of Hollywood and the Mob. Gianni Russo lives to tell—and spills it all.

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