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Read Your Mind: Proven Habits for Success from the World’s Greatest Mentalist
Author: Oz PearlmanNEW RELEASESuccess Self-Help
“I have always said that your mind is the most powerful weapon. Oz has learned to master it and is now sharing his tools to help you do the same.”—David Goggins 💪
“Oz gets right to the point: Success starts with understanding people. Read Your Mind isn’t about tricks—it’s about tools. If you want to close deals, build real relationships, and take control of any room, this book is your playbook.”—Mark Cuban 💼
From one of the most sought-after entertainers today, a powerful, modern twist on How To Win Friends and Influence People that blends the intrigue of mentalism with practical strategies for success. 🎩
Drawing on over thirty years of experience captivating audiences and accruing psychological insights, Oz Pearlman reveals the techniques and habits that have propelled his extraordinary career and shares the ingenious secrets behind his craft to teach you how to unlock your full potential. You’ll build confidence, sharpen your memory, connect more authentically with others, and eliminate your fears—all through simple, easy-to-master strategies that can be learned in minutes and applied for a lifetime. ⚡
Read Your Mind helps you turn your focus inward, teaching you how to identify and overcome the mental blocks that hold you back, building habits that stick. 🎯
Through compelling stories and practical tips, you’ll learn how to:
* Master the art of influence to read people, win trust, and shape outcomes 🤝
* Sharpen your cognitive and emotional intelligence 🧩
* Overcome rejection, procrastination, and self-doubt 💫
* Tap into the psychology of connection and persuasion 🎭
You don’t need to be a mentalist to create real, lasting change—you just need to think like one. 🔮
Why I’m including this: Pearlman positions this as a modern How To Win Friends and Influence People—he’s not teaching magic tricks, he’s revealing the psychological principles mentalists use to read people, build rapport, and influence outcomes, then showing you how to apply those same techniques in business and relationships. 🎪 The endorsements from David Goggins (mental toughness guru) and Mark Cuban (billionaire entrepreneur) establish credibility across both self-improvement and business worlds—this isn’t entertainment fluff, these are serious success tools. Mark Cuban’s “Success starts with understanding people” cuts to the core promise: Pearlman teaches you to decode human behavior, anticipate reactions, and build genuine connections. 👥 The “thirty years of experience captivating audiences and accruing psychological insights” means Pearlman has performed thousands of shows where he’s had to instantly read strangers, predict their choices, and win their trust—he’s field-tested these techniques in high-pressure situations. The “simple, easy-to-master strategies that can be learned in minutes and applied for a lifetime” promise addresses the biggest self-help objection: this won’t require years of study or complex implementation. ⏱️ The specific skills—master influence, sharpen cognitive and emotional intelligence, overcome rejection and procrastination, tap into psychology of persuasion—are concrete rather than vague “improve yourself” platitudes. Pearlman’s “identify and overcome the mental blocks that hold you back” suggests self-awareness work: before you can influence others, you need to understand your own patterns, fears, and limitations. 🪞 The mentalist framework is brilliant because it’s inherently fascinating—readers want to know the secrets behind mind-reading tricks, and Pearlman hooks that curiosity to deliver practical psychology. If you’ve loved Daniel Pink’s To Sell Is Human for influence psychology, Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink for reading people, or Dale Carnegie’s classic for relationship-building, Pearlman delivers similar insights filtered through the unique lens of mentalism. 🎯
Author: Sue Monk KiddNEW RELEASECreativity and Writing
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER 📖 • From the bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Book of Longings: an intimate work on the mysteries, frustrations, and triumphs of being a writer, and an instructive guide to awakening the soul. ✨
When Sue Monk Kidd was in high school, a home economics teacher wrote a list of potential occupations for women on the blackboard: teacher, nurse, librarian, secretary. “Writer” was nowhere to be found. 📝 On that day, Kidd shut the door on her writerly aspirations and would not revisit the topic until many years later when she announced to her husband and two children that she was going to become a writer. And so began her journey into the mysteries and methods of the writerly life… 🚪
In Writing Creativity and Soul, Sue Monk Kidd will pull from her own life and the lives of other writers—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Harper Lee, and many others—to provide a map for anyone who has ever felt lost as a writer. 🗺️ At the heart of this book is the unwavering belief that writing is a spiritual act, one that draws inspiration from the soul, that wellspring of creativity between imagination and feeling. Once you tap into that part of yourself, said Maya Angelou, there are only three more things you need as a writer: something to say, the ability to say it, and, perhaps most difficult of all, the courage to say it. 💪
Equal parts memoir, guidebook, and spiritual quest, Writing Creativity and Soul is a pilgrimage and a touchstone, a journey into the transformational force of the imagination and the creative genius that lies in the unconscious. 🌟
Why I’m including this: Kidd’s opening anecdote—a teacher listing acceptable occupations for women, “writer” conspicuously absent—establishes the external and internal barriers aspiring writers face, especially women whose ambitions were dismissed or erased. 🚫 That she “shut the door on her writerly aspirations” for years resonates with anyone who’s buried a creative dream because others said it wasn’t realistic, practical, or appropriate. Her later announcement to her family “I’m going to become a writer” is the reclamation moment—choosing herself despite years of conditioning. 🎉 Kidd’s bestselling credentials (The Secret Life of Bees, The Book of Longings) prove she didn’t just become a writer, she became a massively successful one, making this less “here’s what might work” and more “here’s what actually worked for me.” 📚 The company she keeps—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Harper Lee—signals this isn’t craft technique book but literary tradition, positioning writing as calling rather than career. Kidd’s central thesis that “writing is a spiritual act” drawing from the soul reframes creativity as sacred practice, not commercial production. 🕊️ Maya Angelou’s three requirements—something to say, the ability to say it, and the courage to say it—reduce writing to essential components while acknowledging the hardest part is courage, not skill. That emotional/psychological barrier is what stops most writers, not lack of talent. 😰 The “equal parts memoir, guidebook, and spiritual quest” structure means you’re getting Kidd’s personal journey (how she overcame her own blocks), practical guidance (how you can do the same), and philosophical framework (why writing matters beyond publishing success). The “transformational force of the imagination and the creative genius that lies in the unconscious” suggests Kidd will teach accessing deeper creativity rather than surface productivity hacks. 🌊 If you’ve loved Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird for honest writing wisdom, Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way for creative unblocking, or Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down the Bones for writing as spiritual practice, Kidd delivers similar soul-level guidance from a bestselling novelist who knows what it takes to sustain a writing life. 💝
Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World
Author: Elizabeth KolbertNEW RELEASENature and Environmental Science
A landmark collection of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert’s most important pieces about climate change and the natural world 🏆
“To be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth,” Rolling Stone has advised, “you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert.” 🌏
From her National Magazine Award-winning series The Climate of Man to her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Sixth Extinction, Kolbert’s work has shaped the way we think about the environment in the twenty-first century. Collected in Life on a Little-Known Planet are her most influential and thought-provoking essays. 📰
An intrepid reporter and a skillful translator of scientific ideas, Kolbert expertly captures the wonders of nature and paints vivid portraits of the researchers and concerned citizens working to preserve them. She takes readers all around the globe, from an island in Denmark that’s succeeded in going carbon neutral, to a community in Florida that voted to give rights to waterways, to the Greenland ice sheet, which is melting in a way that has implications for everyone. 🧊
We meet a biologist who believes we can talk to whales 🐋, an entomologist racing to find rare caterpillars before they disappear 🦋, and a climatologist who’s considered the “father of global warming,” amongst other scientists at the forefront of environmental protection. 🔬
The threats to our planet that Kolbert has devoted so much of her career to exposing have only grown more serious. Now is the time to deepen our understanding of the world we are in danger of losing. ⚠️
Why I’m including this: Kolbert is arguably the most important environmental journalist of our time—her Pulitzer Prize-winning The Sixth Extinction reframed mass extinction as happening right now, caused by humans, and this collection gathers her most influential climate and nature writing in one place. 📖 The Rolling Stone endorsement—”to be a well-informed citizen of Planet Earth, you need to read Elizabeth Kolbert”—establishes this isn’t optional reading for eco-nerds, it’s essential literacy for understanding the world we live in. The breadth of her reporting (National Magazine Award-winning Climate of Man series, Pulitzer Prize-winning book) shows sustained excellence over decades, not one viral article but career-defining work. 🎖️ Kolbert’s gift is being a “skillful translator of scientific ideas”—she makes complex climate science, evolutionary biology, and ecological systems comprehensible without dumbing them down, respecting both scientists and general readers. The global scope—Denmark’s carbon neutrality, Florida’s waterway rights, Greenland’s ice melt—shows climate change isn’t abstract future threat but present reality with solutions emerging alongside catastrophes. 🗺️ The human stories—biologist who believes we can talk to whales, entomologist racing to find caterpillars before extinction, climatologist as “father of global warming”—give faces to scientific work, making readers care about both the researchers and what they’re trying to save. Kolbert’s “intrepid reporter” credentials mean she’s been to these places (Greenland ice sheet, Florida communities, Danish island), not just synthesizing others’ research but witnessing and reporting firsthand. 🎥 The urgency is undeniable: “threats have only grown more serious...now is the time to deepen our understanding of the world we are in danger of losing” acknowledges we’re running out of time, making this collection both archive of what we knew and call to action about what we must do. 🚨 If you’ve loved David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth for climate urgency, John McPhee’s nature writing for scientific storytelling, or Bill McKibben’s environmental activism, Kolbert delivers unparalleled climate journalism with hope alongside horror. 🌱
