Coming Soon To A Bookstore Near You (September 23, 2025)

All book descriptions provided by the publisher.

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The Outrageous, Definitive, & Untold Story
By Craig Inciardi

Diversion Books
Available in Hardcover and ebook

Craig Inciardi was a rising star at Sotheby’s, wheeling and dealing in rock memorabilia, when he got the call to help launch the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum. The catch? There was no museum. Just a “guitar of no importance and three interesting sheets of paper.”

With a green light and few guardrails, Inciardi hit the road and became the Indiana Jones of rock history—working out of Rolling Stone’s offices, answering to Jann Wenner, and tracking down legends for their sacred stuff. His journey took him to Ozzy Osbourne’s country estate (where Ozzy greeted him with a gun), Keith Moon’s boyhood home, and Art Garfunkel’s secret stash of letters from Paul Simon. Along the way, he landed the guitar Pete Townshend used to write “Tommy,” Otis Redding’s leather coat worn before his fatal plane crash, Patti Smith’s duct-taped boots, Aretha Franklin’s handwritten notes, Debbie Harry’s stagewear, and John Lennon’s glasses that were worn on the day he died.

And that’s only a fraction of the rock-relic stories on offer.

Meanwhile, Inciardi pulls back the curtain on the hall’s chaotic birth: the cutthroat induction debates, the backstage meltdowns, and the legendary all-star jams with Jagger, Dylan, Springsteen, and more.

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Idiot Sandwich: 100+ Recipes to Elevate Your Sandwich Game
Foreword by Gordon Ramsey

Harper Influence
Available in Hardcover and ebook

When the world’s biggest chef, Gordon Ramsay, places two pieces of bread around your face and asks, “What are you?” there’s really only one response: “An idiot sandwich!” When the whole world watches that exchange, it inspires a viral meme, then the internet’s favorite culinary competition show, and now—finally—this cookbook.

Join Gordon and some of the most exciting FoodTok chefs and YouTube stars on our trial-and-error journey to delicious, creative, and completely unique sandwiches. Inside, find more than 100 showstopping recipes that blend innovative and international flavors, including:

● Zach King’s Steak Banh Mi
● Susi Vidal’s Spicy Chicken Parm
● Matt Stonie’s Mississippi Shrimp Slugburger
● H Woo’s Thai Fried Chicken
● Albert Niazhvinski’s Wellington Sando
● Emmanuel Duverneau’s Caprese Chicken
● Josh Scherer’s Carne Asada Cheesesteak

What’s more, Idiot Sandwich goes back to basics (obviously, for all of us idiots), outlining pantry essentials, equipment (mandolins, meat mallets, and mixers, oh my!), breads, and everything else you need to get prepped. Divided into simple, idiot-proof sections, this cookbook will teach you how to make the best sandwiches for morning, noon, and night—and hey, you can even reward yourself with one of our sweet treats, after.

Developed and curated by Gordon Ramsay himself, and written with Courtney McBroom (co-author of Momofuku Milk Bar, Milk Bar Life and All About Cake), Idiot Sandwich is an outrageously fun guide to achieving that perfect, mouthwatering combination of saucy, crunchy, savory deliciousness that only a sandwich can deliver. If you take nothing else from this book, know that anything can be a sandwich, and any idiot can make one. Yes, that means you!

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Picket Line: The Lost Novella
By Elmore Leonard

Mariner Books
Available in Hardcover, ebook, large print paperback, and digital audiobook

The first major release in nearly a decade from the late, best-selling Elmore Leonard—"the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review): Picket Line is the never-before-published, prescient story of a budding agricultural strike in Texas, the racial tension brewing in the fields, and what happens when brutality from “the man” goes unchecked.

“If a man comes out of the field and goes on the picket line, even for one day, he’ll never be the same...”

Chino and Paco Rojas seem well-mannered, at least for Chicanos, to the white cops that pull them over for littering on the long drive from California to Trinity, Texas. So well-mannered, in fact, that Captain Frank McKellan lets them off with a warning and recommends them a job at Stanzik Farms, the largest independent melon grower in the area.

But Chino and Paco didn’t drive all this way for work. Instead, Chino is looking for a mysterious man, Vincent Mora, whose new Valley Agricultural Workers Association is causing a scene striking against the farm owners.

Stanzik’s fields and Mora’s union bring together a cast of unlikely characters: Connie Chavez, a former picker and blossoming revolutionary who leads with a bullhorn and a fearless mouth; Bud Davis, a white Xavier University student working for spending money; Harold Ritchie, a local marine-turned-cop; Luis Tamez, a striker whose grandson served with Harold in Vietnam; and many more, including the pragmatic Chino, who finds himself pulled irrevocably into the cause.

Some are neighbors, others just passing through. Some know each other well, or at least thought they did…before the picket line. This never-before-published gem from master storyteller Elmore Leonard describes the early days of an unprecedented farmers’ movement; the complex cast of Chicanos, Anglos, and migrants that impact the union; and the careful balance of passion, patience, and pure, stupid guts that it takes to hold the line.

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The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy
By Matthew Boedy

Presbyterian Publishing
Available in Hardcover

"A sobering assessment of the evolution of Christian nationalism." —Publishers Weekly

Exposing the decades-long plan to radically transform America, from Bill Bright and Loren Cunningham’s 1975 “seven mountains” vision to Charlie Kirk’s 2020 praise of Donald Trump for embracing it, The Seven Mountains Mandate reveals how prosperity preachers and political operatives are destroying democracy under Trump's second administration.

The movement to install a populist strongman in the White House with a game plan for enforcing right-wing policies and catering to evangelical Christians started well before Donald Trump’s first candidacy. For decades, a well-funded network of religious and political operatives has been quietly working to dismantle democracy and replace it with Christian theocracy. Their strategy? The seven mountains mandate—a plan to seize control of seven key pillars of American society and reshape the nation:

● Education
● Government
● Religion
● Family
● Business
● Media
● Entertainment

Scholar Matthew Boedy exposes how this movement—driven by prosperity preachers, extremist politicians, and right-wing power brokers—laid the groundwork for Trump’s presidency and is now advancing its agenda under his second administration. From local school board elections to billion-dollar megachurches, this multipronged effort is reshaping the country in ways most Americans don’t even realize.

Discover what has motivated the key players in this movement, how they’ve operated, and what is the unprecedented role of millennial "kingmaker" Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and the new face of Christian nationalism and the seven mountains movement, who believes that “we finally have a president who understands the seven mountains of cultural influence.”

Today’s news is so much more than the scattershot orders of an extreme administration. With Project 2025 policies in motion, the seven mountains movement is closer than ever to its goal of turning America into a Christian nationalist state. Leaders of this movement have been playing a long game, undermining democracy to establish a theocracy, but it’s not too late to halt their progress and reverse the tide. This book reveals what’s happening behind the scenes—and what you can do to stop it.

The Seven Mountains Mandate is ideal for discussing with others. Visit www.wjkbooks.com/SevenMountains to access free resources, including a book club guide, an eight-session guide for using the book in adult group study at your church or organization, and videos from the author that engage each of the mountains in the Seven Mountains Mandate.

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The Cars: Let the Stories Be Told
By Bill Janovitz

Grand Central Publishing
Available in Hardcover, ebook, and unabridged audiobook download

The Cars formed in the late 1970s as an alliance of five journeymen musicians with roots in Maryland, Ohio, New York, and New England. They had each performed in a series of bands before finding one another—along with the right sound at the right time. That sound, soon fortified by their iconic imagery, turned them into Rock and Roll Hall of Famers.

Biographer, critic, and musician Bill Janovitz explores the musical, cultural, and commercial impact of the band with articulate and knowing insights. He draws on his own exclusive new reporting along with the enthusiastic participation of the surviving members of the band, as well as nearly everyone who surrounded them over the years. The band’s unusual providence is fully explored here for the first time, and each of their landmark albums is masterfully chronicled and dissected, as is their profound support of the Boston music scene that has reverberated around the world and throughout the decades.

Yet, with all of the success, there were also significant conflicts within the band, which led to an untimely end. Janovitz reveals the stories of each member, and of the group as a whole, with great care and understanding. To paraphrase The Car’s own lyrics: Hello again, you might think this is just what you needed. It’s magic. Let’s shake it up and let the good times roll.

https://www.wjkbooks.com/SevenMountains