Hello e-galley readers! Check out some of the exciting e-galleys that were recently added to Edelweiss for your downloading pleasure:
WHITES: STORIES by Mark Doten
9781644452905 | 8/19/25
The excoriating stories in Mark Doten’s brilliant first collection dissect the pathological narratives that shape our culture and country. Narrated by a crosscutting array of White people, Doten’s stories spotlight the self-serving logic through which their characters struggle to make sense of, and take control of, the narrative of our time. They run the political spectrum from “well-intentioned” liberals and newly woke CEOs to Trump appointees, QAnon adherents, and believers in replacement theory. There is an anti-vax nursing home employee, an anti-woke billionaire, a nonbinary sneaker podcaster turned January 6 insurrectionist, a nonprofit LA housing president dubbed “WORST KAREN EVER,” an elderly Republican in denial of his COVID-19 diagnosis, teenage YouTubers responding to a shooting at their suburban Minnesota school, a demonically possessed cookie manufacturer drafting a BLM statement with his new Black employee, and a gay White supremacist figure who may be a joke on 4chan, but will have his revenge.
While their identities and allegiances differ, all of them are united by a ferocious belief in themselves, certain that everything they’ve done can be justified, if you’ll just hear them out. In WHITES, Doten has written a relentless book that confirms their standing as one of the great satirists of their generation.
COULD SHOULD MIGHT DON’T: HOW WE THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE by Nick Foster
9780374619350 | 8/26/25
You may not know the name Nick Foster. But after just a moment of googling you’ll realize that he’s been shaping the missions of companies that have surely shaped the world you live in—Sony; Nokia; Dyson; Google itself, where he was the head of design at Google X, the search giant’s “moonshot factory”; and the Near Future Laboratory. His insights are unfamiliar because they have been locked behind endless NDAs.
COULD SHOULD MIGHT DON’T is Foster’s public debut, the first time a much sought-after explainer of the future is able to tell us how he thinks about the future, how he sees others think about it, and how we might be able to imagine, shape, and make the future better for ourselves. He shows what futurists have gotten wrong and what they’ve done right, and synthesizes years of experience into a clear and inspiring vision not of what to do next but of how to best figure out what to do next.
Foster identifies COULD SHOULD MIGHT DON’T as the four primary attitudes his futurist colleagues take toward envisioning the future. He does not advocate any one of them. Instead, he uses them as lenses to show us where things might have gone if we had been able to think about things differently.
Above all, COULD SHOULD MIGHT DON’T is a no-nonsense, practiced, and practical guide to how to think about the future for ourselves—giving us an advantage or two for use in our own lives—and how to make it so.
SEA, MOTHERS, SWALLOW, TONGUES by Kim de l’Horizon; translated by Jamie Lee Searle
9780374612375 | 8/26/25
A glorious, tender, unsparing exploration of language, family, history, class, and the very idea of the self and the human, SEA, MOTHERS, SWALLOW, TONGUES begins with the loss of memory. As their grandmother falls into dementia, the narrator begins to ask questions—to fill in the silences and the gaps. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past. The matrilineal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom, and power. Could this be where they belong?
A quest toward understanding, a story of liberation—from generational trauma, gender constructs, class identity, the limits of language—SEA, MOTHERS, SWALLOW, TONGUES invents its own forms, words, and bodies to conjure and cast out the very idea of the unspeakable. It searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming, and reaches for wisdom beyond the human. In SEA, MOTHERS, Kim de l’Horizon recasts family narratives, abandoning the linear in favor of a fluid, incantatory, expansive search into who we are.
LOVE THE TEEN YOU HAVE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO TRANSFORMING CONFLICT INTO CONNECTION by Ann-Louise Lockhart
9781250361004 | 10/28/25
NIGHTMARE OBSCURA: A DREAM ENGINEER’S GUIDE THROUGH THE SLEEPING MIND by Michelle Carr
9781250342720 | 11/18/25
People think of nightmares as something to forget about, to leave behind in the dark of night, to make our peace with having no control over. But over the past few years, bad dreams started showing up everywhere. Social media was filled with #CovidDreams and stories of how our suddenly bizarre and fearsome daily lives were interweaving into dream content.
Michelle Carr assures us that there is an upside to nightmares, an advantage to facing these inner demons at night, from helping us deal with difficult events in life to providing a safe space to practice responding to potential real-life threatening scenarios. At the extreme though, nightmares can seep into our waking lives and harm our mental health. This crossover is especially true for those who have faced significant trauma, but nightmares can interfere with anyone’s ability to regulate emotion.
Luckily, Carr explains, modern dream science is revealing how we can interact with the dreaming mind and illuminate the usefulness of nightmares. With dream engineering, we are learning to modulate the brain and body while asleep, to dampen negative emotion and interrupt the bodily stress of a nightmare, and to empower a sense of agency and freedom in both the dreaming and waking world. Drawing on her cutting-edge research as the Director of the Dream Engineering Research Lab at the University of Montreal, Carr shows us how to tap into our sleeping minds to lead more conscious and lucid lives.
LINCOLN’S GHOST: HOUDINI’S WAR ON SPIRITUALISM AND THE DARK CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT by Brad Ricca
9781250338907 | 10/28/25
THE SISTERHOOD by Tasha Alexander
9781250374981 | 9/23/25
London, 1907: When the Season’s most accomplished and elegant debutante, Victoria Goldsborough, collapses and dies at her engagement ball, the great and good of London Society prepare to mourn the tragic loss of an upstanding young woman. But all is not what it seems, and after a cup of poisoned tea is revealed to be the cause of death, the king himself instructs Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves to unearth the truth.
Who would want to harm one of the most popular women of the year? Is it her fiancé with whom she had an unusually brief courtship; a rival for his affections bitter at being cast aside; her best friend who is almost certainly hiding a secret from Colin and Emily; a disappointed suitor with a hidden gambling habit; or a notorious jewel thief who has taken a priceless tiara from the Goldsborough home? When a second debutante succumbs to poison, the race is on to find a ruthless killer.
Emily and Colin’s investigation leads to a centuries old tomb in the center of London with a mysterious link to another death dating back to Roman times and the violent reign of Boudica, ancient Britain’s fearsome warrior queen. As the stakes rise and the clock ticks down, Emily must find the killer before they strike again.
THE HISTORY OF MONEY: A STORY OF HUMANITY by David McWilliams; forward by Michael Lewis
9781250408181 | 11/11/25
The story of humanity is inextricable from that of money. No innovation has defined our own evolution so thoroughly and changed the direction of our planet’s history so dramatically. And yet despite money’s primacy, most of us don’t truly understand it.
As leading economist David McWilliams shows, money is central to every aspect of our civilization, from the political to the artistic. “Money defines the relationship between worker and employer, buyer and seller, merchant and producer. But not only that: it also defines the bond between the governed and the governor, the state and the citizen. Money unlocks pleasure, puts a price on desire, art and creativity. It motivates us to strive, achieve, invent and take risks. Money also brings out humanity’s darker side, invoking greed, envy, hatred, violence and, of course, colonialism.”
In THE HISTORY OF MONEY, McWilliams takes us across the world, from the birthplace of money in ancient Babylon to the beginning of trade along the Silk Road, from Marrakech markets to Wall Street. Along the way, we meet a host of innovators, emperors, frauds, and speculators, who have disrupted society and transformed the way we live. Filled with memorable anecdotes, and bolstered by an introduction from leading economics writer Michael Lewis, THE HISTORY OF MONEY is an essential, extremely readable history of humanity’s most consequential invention.
LUCKY DAY by Chuck Tingle
9781250398659 | 8/12/25
Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it’s not always good.
Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.
When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he’s investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossible—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it’s Vera’s last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.
Because what’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying there, and she’s the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability . . .
SIMULTANEOUS by Eric Heisserer
9781250384294 | 10/28/25
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