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Continuity (Paperback)

Continuity (Paperback)

$19.95

Continuity releases November 20, 2026. Order yours today. 

His father controls the family. The Great Clock controls history. Carlos San Sebastian has never controlled much of anything. 

Then someone murders his father six years before Carlos was born.

Carlos belongs to a dynasty of time travellers whose history is supposedly protected. Their past cannot be changed. Their bloodline cannot be interrupted. And no one should be able to kill the family patriarch before his children exist.

Yet someone has.

With twenty-two hours before the damaged timeline corrects itself, Carlos must travel through his family’s history, identify the killer, and prevent a murder that has already happened. Unfortunately, he can barely control his own jumps, has never solved a crime, and has spent most of his life disappointing the father he is now expected to save.

His only possible ally is his estranged sister, Monique, who abandoned the family years ago and has no interest in preserving the man or the legacy Carlos has been ordered to protect.

But the deeper Carlos travels into the past, the more the family’s laws begin to look like lies. The Great Clock may not protect history. His father may not deserve saving. And restoring the family timeline may require Carlos to surrender the first life that has ever truly belonged to him.

Continuity is a time-travel novel about family, consequence, and a son forced to decide whether becoming an adult means accepting his inheritance or finally refusing it.


Baseball's Greatest Generation (Hardcover)

Baseball's Greatest Generation (Hardcover)

$30.00

Baseball's Greatest Generation releases September 29, 2026. Order yours today. 

Baseball’s greatest generation did more than change the game. It helped change the country. 

Between 1952 and 1960, an extraordinary class of players transformed Major League Baseball. Jackie Robinson, Willie Mays, Henry Aaron, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks, and their contemporaries rose to greatness as baseball integrated, the Civil Rights Movement gathered force, and Topps baseball cards became a defining part of American childhood.

Veteran journalist and sports-card historian T.S. O’Connell traces those three histories together, pairing each year with a defining player, the struggle for integration beyond the ballpark, and the cards that carried baseball’s new heroes into millions of homes.

For children opening wax packs, Black and White stars appeared on equal pieces of cardboard, measured by the same statistics and worthy of the same admiration. The cards did not end racism. But they helped a generation imagine integration before much of America was prepared to live it.

Featuring O’Connell’s original illustrations and six paintings by baseball artist Charles DeSimone, Baseball’s Greatest Generation tells the story of the players, cards, and cultural transformation that made the 1950s baseball’s most consequential era.

The greatest players had the greatest baseball cards to prove it, and together they helped America see a different future.


Dead Girls Do Talk (Paperback)

Dead Girls Do Talk (Paperback)

$19.95

Dead Girls Do Talk releases on September 22, 2026. Order yours today!

Before their words became evidence, they were simply trying to understand their own lives. 

They wrote in diaries and journals. They saved letters, emails, text messages, calendars, and private notes. They documented relationships, fears, unwanted attention, escalating control, and ordinary moments they never imagined would one day be examined by detectives or presented to a jury.

In Dead Girls Do Talk, investigative journalist and true crime author LaDonna Humphrey examines cases in which women’s own words survived the violence committed against them and changed what investigators, families, and courts understood.

Fifteen-year-old Candice Parchment recorded an attempted sexual assault she was too frightened to report. A mother’s private diary helped reopen the suspicious death of Robin Gilbert after twenty-one years. Julie Jensen left behind a letter she hoped would never be needed. Susan Powell’s voice survived across journals, emails, videos, calendars, and the scattered records of an ordinary life. And at the center of Humphrey’s investigation is nineteen-year-old Melissa Witt, whose diary may still contain vital context surrounding her unsolved 1994 murder.

Drawing on nearly a decade of investigative work, interviews, police records, court documents, academic research, and victims’ personal writings, Humphrey reveals why evidence often begins long before the crime scene. These private records do not replace forensic science or prove guilt on their own. They preserve relationships, behavioral patterns, warnings, and changes that hindsight might otherwise distort or erase.

Dead Girls Do Talk refuses to reduce murdered and missing women to bodies, headlines, or supporting characters in stories about the men who harmed them. It restores the person before the mystery and asks us to recognize a devastating truth:

These women were not waiting to be heard after they died. They were asking to be heard while they were still alive.


Bluesdaddy (Hardcover)

Bluesdaddy (Hardcover)

$29.99

Bluesdaddy gives music memoir readers a vivid, funny, hard-won life story in which rock-and-roll legend is not the prize, but the weather Will Johns had to survive before the blues could give him a voice of his own.

Bluesdaddy is scheduled for release September 1, 2026. Order yours today! 

Will Johns was born close to rock-and-roll royalty. That did not make life easy. It made the ghosts louder.

The son of legendary producer Andy Johns and nephew of Glyn Johns, Will grew up in the orbit of Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton, Cream, and the complicated mythology of modern music. He saw the rooms most fans only imagine. He knew the people behind the records. He inherited stories, wounds, expectations, and a name already tangled in history.

But Bluesdaddy is not a backstage victory lap. It is the story of a boy searching for steadiness, a guitarist searching for his own sound, and a man learning that being near greatness does not save you. The blues does.

With humor, bite, and disarming honesty, Johns traces a life of unlikely refuge, family chaos, musical apprenticeship, road-warrior absurdity, addiction’s shadow, love, loss, near-misses, and moments so surreal they could only happen in rock and roll. He plays with heroes, loses opportunities, survives collapses, sells treasured guitars, and keeps chasing the sound that tells the truth.

When Buddy Guy finally hears him play and says, “Now that’s what you call the blues,” the moment lands not as celebrity approval but as something deeper: recognition earned the hard way.

Bluesdaddy is the story of a man born into noise, raised on chaos, and saved by the blues.

Watch Buddy Guy's reaction to Will Johns playing the blues. 

(Video copyright WillJohnsMusic)


The Woman in Blue (Paperback)

The Woman in Blue (Paperback)

$19.95

The Woman in Blue releases August 28, 2026. Order yours today.

On Labor Day weekend, 1956, a six-week-old baby vanished from her carriage inside a crowded Sears department store in Hamden, Connecticut. Five days later, three boys fishing at Lake Whitney found her—sealed in a potato sack, weighted down with a rock.

For nearly seventy years, the disappearance of baby Cynthia Ruotolo has remained one of Connecticut's most haunting unsolved crimes. Investigators had several leads, but one stood out—a mysterious woman in a blue dress, seen in the Sears parking lot that afternoon. Composite sketches were drawn. Files were opened and reopened. The woman was never found.

James Peinkofer was investigating a different Connecticut case—the shaken-baby killings of nurse Virginia Jaspers—when he came across the Ruotolo file and noticed something the original investigation missed: this wasn't the family's first infant death. It wasn't their second, either.

Drawing on autopsy reports, forensic analysis, and firsthand interviews with surviving family members, Peinkofer reconstructs the case from the inside out—and lays out a methodical, evidence-driven argument for what really happened and why investigators were looking for the wrong woman from the very beginning.

The Woman in Blue is a cold case reopened by someone who knows exactly what to look for in the silences of an old autopsy report—and a sober reckoning with how many "accidents" get filed away because no one asked the right question at the right time.


Better Angels (Hardcover)

Better Angels (Hardcover)

$45.00

Better Angels releases on September 5, 2026. Order yours today!

We remember the number: 343. This book remembers the people. 

On September 11, 2001, 343 members of the FDNY lost their lives. In the years since, the number itself has become part of American memory. But every number had a name, a family, a firehouse, a history, a personality, and a life already in progress.

Better Angels: The Firefighters of 9/11 brings those lives forward again.

Artist Dawn Howkinson Siebel spent more than thousands of hours over six years creating individual portraits of the fallen firefighters on burned blocks of wood. In partnership with the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, the completed Better Angels exhibition traveled across the United States, including a presentation at the World Financial Center overlooking the World Trade Center site.

Now the portraits are gathered with some of the stories behind the faces.

Here are legendary chiefs and young probationary firefighters. Fathers whose children had not yet been born. Brothers who entered the fire service together. Coaches, musicians, veterans, carpenters, cooks, practical jokers, marathoners, and men who had spent years waiting for the chance to join the FDNY. Some were off duty and went anyway. Some were preparing to retire. Some were still climbing when others were coming down.

Their stories unfold alongside the events of September 11, the experiences of survivors, the other first responders who died that day, and the continuing toll of 9/11-related illness.

Abraham Lincoln called upon “the better angels of our nature.” For Dawn Siebel, these firefighters embodied that ideal: ordinary human beings capable of extraordinary service to others.

Three hundred forty-three is a number. Better Angels remembers 343 lives.


The Monkees Comic Book Book: Reference Book and Price Guide (Paperback)

The Monkees Comic Book Book: Reference Book and Price Guide (Paperback)

$45.00

The Monkees Comic Book Book releases on September 12, 2026. Order yours today!

You thought you knew The Monkees. Then there were the comic books.

At the height of Monkeemania, Davy, Micky, Mike, and Peter escaped television and landed in a medium with an even looser relationship with reality.

The result was The Monkees comic-book series: gloriously strange adventures filled with disguises, spies, sharks, cows, elephants, impossible escapes, fourth-wall-breaking gags, instant changes of scenery, and the kind of logic that makes perfect sense only when The Monkees are involved.

Now that wonderfully peculiar corner of Monkees history has been brought back together in The Monkees Comic Book Book: Reference Book and Price Guide.

The original comics have been carefully digitally restored, reviving their bright colors and exuberant artwork while preserving the character of the originals. But this is more than a trip through vintage panels.

It's also a collector's guide to the series, including a complete price guide to the original comics, background on collecting them, and a timeline placing the comic releases alongside what was happening in the world of The Monkees at the time.

Along the way, you'll also find:

  • the story of collecting the original Monkees comics
  • an extensive interview with legendary Monkees comic artist Jose Delbo
  • a complete price guide for the original issues
  • a timeline connecting the comics to the larger Monkees story
  • memories and commentary from people connected to The Monkees, comics, television, music, and 1960s pop culture
  • a foreword by Peter Noone
  • contributions and appearances from Bobby Hart, Butch Patrick, Deana Martin, Bill Mumy, James Lee Stanley, Jon Provost, and many more
  • photographs, memorabilia, history, and several delightful detours that could probably happen only in a book about The Monkees

Authors Mark Arnold and Charles F. Rosenay!!! previously teamed up for Not Just Happy Together: The Turtles from A-Z (AM Radio to Zappa), their sprawling guide to the music, history, personalities, and wonderfully tangled universe surrounding The Turtles. Here, they bring that same collector's curiosity to one of the most unusual corners of Monkees history.

This is not an attempt to make The Monkees comic books more dignified than they were.

Quite the opposite.

It's a chance to enjoy them again in all their colorful, corny, chaotic, fourth-wall-demolishing glory while preserving the history around them and giving collectors a practical guide to the originals.

Part restored comic collection, part reference book, part price guide, part pop-culture time machine, The Monkees Comic Book Book is exactly as strange, useful, and specific as its title suggests.

Paperback edition.