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"The Trailcutter takes off and never lets go. Some authors grab you with a voice. Others are savvy storytellers who almost turn the pages for you. Mike Robinson does both." —Richard Dooling, National Book Award Finalist and author of White Man's Grave

As a child, Leonard "Lee" Skay weathered the psychological fallout of his mother's escape from a cult. Now entering middle age, he is a builder of hiking trails around Los Angeles County, though he hasn't been hired in a while. His marriage to Dawn, a professional screenwriter, is one of increasing friction. So when a wealthy colleague of Dawn's asks him about building a private trail in the canyon behind his Malibu home, Lee jumps at the opportunity--even with the mysterious, unsolved shootings in the region. 

While out working, he encounters Daniel Williams Janus, a vibrant yet strange man who seems to have carved his own minimalist haven in the depths of the canyon. As Janus quietly helps Lee build the trail, the two form a unique bond, one unprecedented in Lee's checkered social history. 

Then, as the shootings continue, and some odd coincidences pop up between Janus and others in his life, Lee finds himself slipping further into the shadows of a potentially deadly situation.

A riveting retelling of one of the great adventure stories of antiquity—when Greek philosopher-warrior Xenophon led a stranded band of the "Ten Thousand" mercenary soldiers on a treacherous escape from the Persians.

400 BC. The Persian prince Cyrus the Younger hires an army of Greek soldiers to oust his brother from the Persian throne. But when Cyrus dies in battle during the army's trek through the middle east, the army is stranded deep in enemy territory.

Led by Xenophon, a young Athenian philosopher turned solider, the Ten Thousand fought their way home through deserts and mountains, snowstorms, starvation, and relentless attacks, evolving into one of the most fearsome forces of the ancient world. Their journey, chronicled in Xenophon's Anabasis, is one of history's greatest military stories.

In Band on the Run, Robert O'Connell not only gives us an exciting and witty retelling of this story, but he has done so with a wise contemporary spin. For in his estimation, this was the battle that established the use of powerful mercenary forces. The attempted conquest of the Ten Thousand begins a historical line through Western history of the use of mercenary armies that has lasted up to our present day. And, as O'Connell shows, much misery and tragedy in human history has been due to this trajectory. This is a brilliant revisionist history with important lessons for our time.

Welcome through the doorway of this picture book . . . about doors! From a Caldecott Honor author and a New York Times Best Illustrated artist comes a celebration of entrances, thresholds and portals — and all the endless possibilities they can lead to!

Some doors may give you a nervous, fizzy feeling . . . and also make you glad you came.

There are so many kinds of doors: swinging doors and sliding doors, screen doors for feeling the night air, revolving doors for going around and around. Doors that open into . . . anything you can imagine! A birthday party, a shipwreck on the salty sea floor, a fairy's tiny home, a slide into a room full of pillows! Or even the fantastical future ahead. Where will the doorway of this picture book lead? The only way to find out is to turn the page and go through . . .

In a playful ode to Ruth Krauss's A Hole Is to Dig and Remy Charlip's essay A Page Is a Door, this imagination-sparking picture book from an award-winning duo will be welcomed by anyone who is entering a new phase of life — and invites readers of all ages to embrace the marvelous possibilities that wait for them behind every new door.

Includes a beautiful foldout page and textured spine.

A dark, captivating YA tale of deception and survival, set in the same faery world as Nettle.

Long ago, kings and queens of the faery realms exchanged talismans with one another to maintain harmony in their world. The Stag King gave up a shard of antler, the Owl King a feather, and the Minnow Queen a shimmering, silver scale. But the Owl King has grown restless, and his kingdom has become dangerous as he feeds off the magic of others. Always he hunts for a new bride to sustain him.

When devoted sisters Ilsette and Lyla are summoned to court, the Owl King's eye soon falls on the beautiful Lyla. Determined to save her sister from a terrible fate, Ilsette sets out on a quest to find the prized feather and change the balance of power.

Lyla bewitches the king with her stories, but time is running out. Meanwhile, Ilsette's search leads her to a realm with two moons and scarlet stars. Here she must trick King Locryn into revealing the feather's secret whereabouts, so she can steal it. She's befriended by a strange magpie and two shadow faeries, but all the while, she faces an impossible truth — to save her sister, she must destroy peace among the realms.

A super-cute adventure through 200 adorable facts, in an irresistible pocket-sized book.

Follow an ingenious trail of 200 facts about all things cute, cozy, and sweet. You'll meet the pygmy hippo called Moo Dheng whose ears wiggle when she sleeps and encounter the world's tiniest teddy bear. You'll learn that elephants dance in the rain and babies hiccup inside the womb. And you'll even jet off into space to discover a comet shaped like a rubber duck and a dwarf planet with a huge, heart-shaped ice field on its surface. Every fact in the book is connected to the next in funny and delightful ways. But there isn't just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches and you can choose to jump to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Where will your curiosity take you?

Cute FACTopia! is the latest addition to the bestselling FACTopia! series, which also includes: FACTopia!,Return to FACTopia!, Gross FACTopia!, Animal FACTopia!, History FACTopia!, Science FACTopia!, Secret FACTopia!, and Epic FACTopia!

A German psychoanalyst, his Jewish wife, and their young daughter are swept up in the rising tide of fascism.

Günter Zeitz, psychoanalyst-in-training and the son of a Catholic country doctor, and Josine Rosen, Sigmund Freud’s patient and the daughter of a Jewish shipping magnate, first meet in 1924, in Freud’s Viennese waiting room. As their intense affair develops, Freud arranges for Günter’s appointment to the newly created Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute. Shortly after the move, their daughter Hannah is born. But less than a decade later, all their hopes and ideals are profoundly challenged by political realities so horrific that they are, initially, beyond comprehension.

A heartrending story of love in a time of hatred, an absorbing investigation into the Nazis’ exploitation of psychoanalysis, and a cautionary tale about self-deception and the failures of a people to recognize the lies of their charismatic leader, We Want So Much to Be Ourselves examines the ways science can be corrupted and one’s very identity transformed by historical circumstance.

“[A] haunting tale of one man’s journey through the 20th century from horror to hopefulness.” —Library Journal

Autistic Ghost Stories and Other Chilling Situations is the possession of a mind, whose host summons an explorative seance.

An exorcism of thought, where misconceptions and misunderstandings are lured into metaphorical stories and investigated for the means of re-marrying the artistically lost and macabre expression of the neurotype. Autism is a topic rarely explored through any artistic avenue, even when a creative venture has proven itself to be beneficial. Topics of the macabre, tales laced with ghostly, gothic elements, are especially ignored when creatively positioned with autism; Autistic Ghost Stories and Other Chilling Situations is a fictional disruption.

This short story collection is made for others, interested in autistic and disabled pursuits that are written and explored through gothic themes. Scary stories that speak to horror fans who love a spooky social investigation of our society. For people who are interested in dynamically queer and ghostful relations. For autistic adults who’ve survived or still navigate the macabre, decayed nature of ableism, and horrors relating to their everyday lives.

Titles listed in Autistic Ghost Stories and Other Chilling Situations include: The Compost, I Am the When and Does It End, They Travel Through the Touch, An Amusement of Witches, The Spot, The Resting Place, We Can’t Go Back, Beneath the Voice, Spinner, Spinning, and The Spread.

From Tracy Wise, author of Madame Sorel's Lodger, comes a tale of ambition, affection, and aristocracy.

She understood industry. He understood duty. Neither expected love.

When Alec Raeburn, Duke of Selkirk, leaves his faltering estate to seek an heiress on the Marriage Mart, he has no intention of falling in love. What he needs is a mother for his young daughter, Marjorie, and a partner with security to manage affairs at home. He's accompanied by Finn, his wealthier cousin and the Duke of Galloway, a friend who lends support but also presents competition.

As the London Season begins, Aurora Hardcastle also arrives with a friend, Millicent Wentworth. The sole inheritor of an industrial fortune, Aurora has resigned herself to the process of finding a husband, but her heart remains in the world of her father's factory, where she learned the business under his guiding hand.

An outing to the Tower of London brings the four together, and Aurora befriends Marjorie. But Millicent's beauty and charm make her the Season's Incomparable, and all eyes are on her—including Alec's and Finn's.

At a concert event for the Ton, Alec and Aurora begin to see each other in a new light, with Marjorie as the connecting force. As they grow closer and contemplate a match, a devastating discovery threatens everything. Both are forced to reassess their past and especially, the future they envisioned—if they're to have any chance at happiness together.

Beloved author/illustrator Isabelle Arsenault returns to the Mile End Kids of Montreal in this charming picture book told in comic book-inspired panels about practice, overcoming fears and getting back on the wagon . . . er, bike.

A perfect pick for introducing 4-to-8-year-olds to graphic novels. Tom is ready to take the training wheels off his bicycle, but his friends aren't so sure. How will he convince them that his next stop is the Tour de France?!

Tom won't let a few mishaps keep him from becoming the cyclist he knows he was born to be; that's what bandages are for. But his friends in the Mile End neighborhood think he needs more practice. Helping him train, they build an obstacle course to get ready for the road . . . but when Tom announces he's ready for a longer ride, without training wheels, his friends are overwhelmed with worry! What if he gets lost? What if he falls? What if he just goes and goes FOREVER?

But Tom knows he has what it takes. A combination of experience, grit and determination is all he needs to prove to his friends he's ready for the ride of a lifetime!

Join Tom and familiar faces Colette, Maya, Albert, Jimmy and the rest of the gang on a Mile End Kids adventure in this beautiful picture book told in graphic novel-style panels from Isabelle Arsenault, one of Canada's most beloved children's illustrators.

A stunning debut memoir about love, loss, and the Vietnamese immigrant experience in the American South.

As an infant, Thao Ha was evacuated on one of the last flights out of Saigon during the fall of the city in April 1975. Like the other lucky few—and the thousands who came after—she and her family found sanctuary in America. Raised in the growing Vietnamese community in Houston, she did all the things American kids of the '80s and '90s did—but she also ran with a Vietnamese street gang. By her early twenties she'd picked fights with other girls who threatened her sister, transported a fugitive across county lines, and been shot as a bystander in a pool-hall fracas turned violent. But the greatest shock came when her boyfriend, Vu, the love of her early life, took the rap for a drive-by shooting and went to prison for sixty years.

Enough was enough. Thao got serious about school and majored in sociology under the mentorship of an inspiring professor. She went on to earn a PhD and a tenured professorship at Mira Costa College in Oceanside, California.

But as William Faulkner said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past."

The decades of her professional success brought marriages, divorces, failed relationships, and family trauma. But one person stayed with her through it all. Like a still-small flame far out on the landscape, the figure of Vu was somehow always with her. Sentenced to sixty years, Vu was locked up in the infamous Beto Unit, the most violent maximum-security prison in Texas. Nicknamed "the gladiator unit," it is a place where inmates must be prepared to fight for status and for their very survival. Nearly twenty years into his sentence, Thao and Vu reconnected.

Three years after that, he was dead.

Love Letters to the Dirty South is a memoir about what it means to love, long for, and lose someone incarcerated. A testament to lifelong love, it is also an unflinching depiction of prison culture, a loving portrait of family life in the Vietnamese diaspora community, and a counternarrative to the typical immigrant's story. As a Vietnamese refugee and sociologist, Thao Ha deftly explores refugee trauma, mass incarceration, and prison injustice, and she shows how unconditional love attempts to navigate, resist, and thwart a dehumanizing system. In this stunning debut, she tells her story of reckless youth, love reclaimed and tragically lost, and the power of words to transcend boundaries with unflinching honesty, insight, and conviction.

Fourteen-year-old Alma, a Nemunite living in the shadow of Agrimedan high society, yearns to explore the magic her grandmother refuses to acknowledge.

But when the royal family descends upon Blackwell's Keep, the security of her peaceful life unravels. Whispers of forbidden romance with a court musician swirl, while the enigmatic Prince Silas stirs a dangerous attraction.

As courtly intrigue escalates and a shocking betrayal threatens upend her entire life, Alma must choose between the stifling expectations of society and the exhilarating, terrifying power that lies within her.

In 1985, Elliott and Mary Tepper moved their four young sons into San Blas, Madrid's most notorious heroin slum—ground zero of Europe's drug epidemic.

While other children played soccer, seven-year-old Jonathan was handing out tracts to addicts in syringe-littered parks and befriending bank robbers, former prostitutes, and recovering junkies twice his age.

What began as eight men detoxing in a small apartment grew into Betel, now one of the world's largest drug rehabilitation networks. But Shooting Up isn't an institutional history—it's a boy's-eye view of a radical experiment in compassion during the AIDS crisis, full of unforgettable characters, street danger, and moments of unlikely grace.

Part Angela's Ashes, part The Cross and the Switchblade, Tepper's memoir captures the grit and squalor of addiction alongside the stubborn hope of lives remade. Shooting Up announces Tepper as a powerful new voice in memoir, one who transforms a harrowing childhood into an unforgettable testament to hope.

Sandy Writes Her Story is a heartfelt picture book about living with invisible illness or invisible struggles and finding healing through creativity, self-authorship, and connection.

When Sandy meets Thea, a wise turtle who encourages her to share her story, she learns to name her feelings, honor her limits, and discover that even when her illness can't be seen, she can-and her story matters.

A tender celebration of emotional expression and the importance of being seen, Sandy Writes Her Story is written for children—and the adults who support them—navigating chronic illness, big feelings, and the early stages of self-understanding.

The Future Is Here.

"The series successfully showcases future voices representing the vast spectrum of the speculative fiction genre." —Library Journal

"The L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has quietly been shaping the next wave of genre storytellers—with a legacy that's as cosmic as the stories themselves." —SciFiNow.co.uk

"The gangbuster of science fiction short story collections. Outstanding." —Midwest Book Review

Discover the next generation of science fiction and fantasy with twelve emerging authors and three powerhouse storytellers. These unforgettable short stories deliver everything readers love—time travel, first contact, magical realism, monsters, fairy-tale twists, and pulse-pounding science fiction and fantasy—crafted to surprise, thrill, and keep you turning pages.

Dive into a time-rescue gone wrong, a beauty treatment with a terrifying side effect, a detective battling a body-hopping killer, and a homesteader uncovering a truth that rewrites Earth itself. Explore whimsical, high-stakes fantasy as a baker braves the fairy underworld; confront supernatural horror in "Ghost Dog"; and experience the emotional and ethical tension of love trapped in virtual reality in "As Long as You Both Shall Live." Whether you're seeking the genre-bending innovation of "Bloom Decay," the emotional epic of "A Girl and Her Dragon," the humor and chaos of "The Triceratops Effect," or the visionary mystery of "Skinny-Shins," this volume delivers standout stories readers will recommend, review, and remember.

Featuring original stories by Orson Scott Card and Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

Perfect for fans of: Orson Scott Card, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Blake Crouch, Brandon Sanderson, V. E. Schwab, Naomi Novik, Michael Crichton, Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, and Black Mirror.

Includes:

• 12 illustrated stories from emerging stars of speculative fiction
• 3 bonus stories by bestselling authors.
• 3 articles on the craft and business of writing and illustrating from top creators

Selected from thousands of entries worldwide, Writers of the Future Volume 42 brings together a new generation of emerging authors and illustrators--your launchpad into the future of science fiction and fantasy.

Our dogs are no longer just pets—they're family. This means, according to celebrity dog trainer Jaime Goodrich, that the way we train them needs to change.

The role dogs have played in our lives has changed. No longer are they solely workers, bred to herd for or hunt with us. So it's time to change how we raise them too. In Unleashed, celebrity dog trainer Jaime Goodrich shows you how to understand your dog, provide support, and a create secure, lasting bond with one of the best relationships you could have in your life.

Unleashed argues that behavior problems worsen, not improve, with heavy discipline. If you instead address the source of a dog's anxiety or fear, problematic behaviors will naturally and permanently disappear. Goodrich provides techniques rooted in kindness and understanding rather than punishment and dominance. She addresses attachment in dogs—what normal attachment looks like and what it looks like when things go south. She teaches you how to identify your dog's particular coping strategy and how to identify stress signals your dog is giving you. You'll be able to recognize your dog's particular triggers and desires, and, most importantly, be able to figure out how to work within your dog's particular neurological level to make substantial change in their behaviors.

Unleashed teaches you how to:

-Curb your dog's reactivity toward humans and other dogs

-Walk your dog calmly and politely on leash

-Address hyper, shy, or aggressive behavior

-Teach essential house obedience skills for a balanced home life

-Eliminate destructive behavior like barking, chewing, and digging

-Treat phobias, separation anxiety, and fearful reactions

-Implement safety training for stress-free outings

Most importantly, Unleashed will give you the tools you need to fix any behavior problem, confidently and humanely. The result is that you will be able to nurture a more balanced, happy, and connected dog.

In Regency Bath, flowers speak louder than words. Someone is using them to lie.

Clara Hartwell makes her living writing the fashionable language of flowers books favored by Bath's society brides. With a careful arrangement of violets for devotion, camellias for admiration, or striped carnations for refusal, a bouquet can express feelings society would rather leave unsaid.

For women who cannot always speak their minds, flowers have become a clever secret language.

But when a young errand boy is found dead by the river with a list of false flower meanings in his pocket, Clara realizes someone in Bath is twisting that language into something dangerous.

Determined to uncover the truth, Clara joins forces with Bath's thoughtful new coroner, Dr Gideon Bell, a man who notices far more than he says and who is not easily fooled by polite society's careful appearances. As the two follow a trail of coded bouquets, whispered scandals, and carefully planted lies, Clara begins to suspect the murderer may be hiding in the very circles that commission her work.

Complicating matters further is Adrian Vale, a charming perfumer whose interest in Clara may be more than professional. His knowledge of scent and symbolism could either help her solve the mystery or lead her straight into danger.

In a city where every bouquet carries a message, Clara must decide which meanings to trust and whether her own heart has been mistranslated.

Perfect for readers who love:

• historical romance with mystery
• strong, clever heroines
• slow-burn romance
• found family
• Victorian flower language and secret messages

Because in Bath, a single flower can say everything.

Or hide a deadly lie.

Winner of the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize, selected by Alexandra Kleeman, Adam O'Fallon Price's unflinchingly honest and deliciously existential stories explore the ways our deepest hunger teases us toward both our best selves and endings we should have avoided.

Objects of Desire, Price's debut short story collection, is filled with people driven by restless longings and unattainable desires—pushed to act by needs only half-understood—all the while picking up unintended bedfellows and conspirators: A resentful brother grapples with the responsibility of bone marrow donation for his dying sibling. A down-on-his-luck artist chases his dog through a cornfield and into the home of dangerous strangers. A college women's soccer goalie takes her pain out on her opponents, as she struggles to process her childhood and forgive her mother. 

Price shows us how the aching, often desperate, pull of wanting can unsettle our lives. The characters in this collection are consistently reaching for something more, only to miss the mark in quiet but irreversible ways.

Basketball meets monsters in this first book in a hilarious middle-grade series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Wesley King!

When eleven-year-old Baxter Brooks wakes up one morning with a sweet beard, he's pumped. How many fifth graders get to sport cheek mittens in math class? It's pretty much the greatest day of his life.

What he first assumes is insta-puberty, escalates . . . rapidly. He grows fangs, people scream, he almost gives a cat a heart attack . . . it's a total mess. When Bax gives his whole school a were-scare during a play, he's shuttled off to an academy for misfit monsters . . . and into the zany world of beast ball. But if Bax wants to lead the long-suffering Pugs to triumph and solve the mystery of the Extremely Inconvenient Phantom, he'll have to learn to embrace his hairy werewolf alter ego. Yes . . . even the ankle scarves.

Welcome to Prodigium Academy, where Diary of a Wimpy Kid meets Hotel Transylvania in this middle-grade series featuring ludicrous artwork, loads of humor and a monster-sized heart.

It was a true delight to select these stories and compile an anthology of work from around the world.

Covering themes as wide as death to dancing, magic to mystery, nostalgia to neurosis, time travel to traveling through time, and science fiction to society, these stories venture outward and inward to form a permanent collection built by the temporary gathering of talent. The authors came together, submitted these stories, and have separated back onto their respective paths. What is left is a great collection of short stories to thrill, entertain, and just make readers think.

—Ben White, Editor of Running Wild Press Short Story Anthology, Vol. 9

A century-old soldier's diary wasn't meant for him, but he found himself in the story.

In his fifteenth novel, multiple-award-winning author Gerald Everett Jones weaves a richly layered dual narrative that bridges a century of war, love, and self-discovery.

An art historian living a quiet life in Southern California never expects his late mother's antique collection to contain a mystery that will upend him. Yet hidden among her rare books is a meticulously handwritten World War I diary, signed only with the initials "J.F.W." The coincidence is unsettling. The contents are even more so.

The diary's author-a British cavalryman turned infantry officer-records his journey from the Devon coast to the Western Front and onward to Mesopotamia, where global powers clash over railways, oil routes, and control of the Suez Canal. His prose is disciplined, factual, and restrained. But what he does not say is as provocative as what he reveals. Why did he reenlist after injury? What compelled him to leave home twice? And why conceal his full name?

Determined to uncover the soldier's identity, Jonathan Frederick Worthington plunges into military archives, geopolitical history, and the shadowy politics behind the Berlin-to-Baghdad Railway. With the help of an enigmatic librarian whose intellect challenges and unsettles him, he reconstructs the broader forces that shaped the Great War-imperial ambition, Russian expansionism, Ottoman alliances, and the fragile infrastructure of empire.

But as Jonathan reads deeper, the past begins to answer back. In imagined counterpoint, the soldier defends his choices, confronts personal betrayal, and reveals a man far more complex than the official record suggests. The search for historical truth becomes inseparable from Jonathan's own reckoning with grief, identity, and his fear of intimacy. What begins as an academic curiosity evolves into a confrontation with how stories are shaped-by nations, by families, and by the silences we inherit.

Blending literary historical fiction, academic intrigue, metafictional dialogue, and geopolitical suspense, this novel explores the human cost behind the Eastern Question and the strategic struggle for Basra, Baghdad, and beyond. For readers who love intelligent historical narratives, layered character studies, and stories where past and present collide, this is a powerful meditation on memory, empire, and the fragile act of interpretation.

History is never settled. It waits for someone brave enough to read between the lines.

For fans of Birdsong, The Alice Network, and Letters From Skye, Jonathan's Journal is a lyrical journey into forgotten wartime frontiers, intimate secrets, and the quiet heroism of personal discovery.

Among his captivating titles, Jones has received high praise for Clifford's Spiral and Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner:

Praise for Clifford's Spiral: Independent Press Awards 2020 Distinguished Favorite in Literary Fiction.

"We've seen and noted the comparison of this author by other reviewers to literary giants like Roth and Vonnegut. And we can't disagree. Yet we feel there may be yet another strata for Gerald Everett Jones, who arguably is doing the best work of his career. We predict that he lacks only a mention in the The New York Review of Books or, better yet, Oprah, to become a nationwide best-selling author. Five-plus stars to Clifford's Spiral, a true literary novel if ever there was one. We say in all seriousness that if you only read one novel this year, this should be it." - Don Sloan, Publishers Daily Reviews

Praise for Harry Harambee's Kenyan Sundowner:

"The convincing, well-rounded characters offer a few stereotypical barbs about African culture, which is realistic considering their perspectives, but otherwise the Kenyan backdrop offers an inviting element for readers to explore with the protagonist. Readers looking for engaging contemporary fiction with an emotionally available adult male lead. Great for fans of: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter, Eric Jerome Dickey's Thieves' Paradise." - BookLife Reviews on Publisher's Weekly

A queen in the mid-sixteenth century who has to save her lineage from the enemies, a naive seventeen-year-old, wedded to a middle-aged farmer who battles her intense attraction towards another woman, a lonely housewife in a failing marriage to an ambitious businessman who is haunted by memories of her affectionate lover—what do these women have in common?

The Betta is a fictitious mountain district in South India. The people residing here are isolated. What happens when a group of strangers find their way into the heart of the hills?

In these interconnected stories, each woman inherits a culture in crisis from those who came before her. The voices of these women from five different centuries stand testament to the journey of one community.

As time progresses, the façade of the hills change and people are hauled into this cycle. All the while the mountains stand witness to the metamorphosis, resistance, slander, tyranny and courage.

Beatrice Sims can hardly wait to join the Dirty Diggers at a summer camp for teen girls interested in unearthing the secrets of ancient ruins.

Beatrice dreams of finding mysteries from the past while she yearns to make new friends.

Instead, the WWII refugee from England is seen as an outsider by the other girls and when a precious artifact goes missing, Beatrice is suspected of being the thief.

Yet when a violent storm threatens the camp, Beatrice discovers something even more valuable - the courage to face danger and compassion to help others.

An unforgettable memoir from New York City's first female lifeguard chief, this coming-of-age story plunges into the rough-and-tumble, sun-soaked world of Rockaway Beach in the 1970s and 1980s.

The first time I ever saw a lifeguard get horned was in the summer of 1974. So begins the singular story of Janet Fash, the first female lifeguard chief at Rockaway Beach. Janet never expected to be a lifeguard, but when she got recruited by a friend to join the New York City lifeguarding corps, she never looked back. Rockaway Beach, her first post, had it all: sun, sand, and the imperative to be the best. After all, people's lives are on the line.

Lifeguard: A Love Story is a singular memoir about Janet's life on the beach. Rockaway is considered the most dangerous post in the city, with unpredictable rip currents and packed beaches. But it's also the envy of lifeguards everywhere—a beach where all the action happens, where you're as likely to save three lives before lunch as you are to stop the hot dog vendor from getting robbed. Janet started as a lifeguard there in 1979, making it through the customary hazing and binge drinking at Connolly's, the local watering hole. She met and made friends with the surfers, who could always be counted on to help with a rescue. She met her husband on the beach and made sure her children, once they came along, were ocean-swimmers-in-training. Her fellow lifeguards showed up to her wedding and family funerals, and became her lifelong friends. Soon, forty years had passed and she'd spent almost every summer with a whistle around her neck.

Lifeguard is an evocative picture of how a place as special as Rockaway Beach has changed over four decades. Yet at its most essential, it's a coming-of-age tale, detailing what it was like to be a woman rising through the ranks in a male-dominated field, details of the legendary "Caveman Conventions" on the beach in the 80s, an inside look at the persistent union corruption that has plagued the corps, and a poignant through-line of grief, as the stakes of the job are life and death.

Lifeguard: A Love Story is about how a job can become something like a vocation, if you love it enough.

In 1921, an anonymous, PhD-holding faculty wife asked in the Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, "Can it be in the divine order of things that one PhD should wash dishes a whole lifetime for another PhD just because one is a woman and the other a man?"

In Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America, Amy Mittelman reveals what took place behind ivy-covered walls, tracing the origins and evolution of faculty wives' clubs across American higher education. These organizations brought together highly educated women whose unpaid labor—from hosting dinners and receptions to mentoring young academic wives—quietly sustained universities while also fostering philanthropy, activism, and political engagement.

Through archival research and biographical portraits, Mittelman explores gender and race, social and cultural history, and the intersection of modern feminism with other reform movements, showing how faculty wives challenged chauvinism and carved out autonomous identities within institutions not designed for them.

"The best book yet from this talented author/illustrator, and one that children will love."— School Library Journal, starred review

"Consistently beautiful." — The New York Times

A deluxe reissue of a classic picture book about creativity, courage, and imagination, perfect for children who love art, storytelling, and meaningful adventures.

A gust of wind sends a handmade paper princess flying. "Wait! I didn't finish you," cries the little girl who made her. "I'll finish myself," calls the princess as the wind carries her away--over a meadow and river, to a carnival and a playground, and finally back home.

This beloved picture book by Elisa Kleven follows one small paper princess on a vibrant, imaginative journey of self-discovery. Told with lyrical simplicity and illustrated in Kleven's signature mixed-media collage, the story celebrates creativity, resilience, and belonging as the princess learns to find her own way in the world.

Here's what makes The Paper Princess a timeless treasure:

* A Beloved Classic Returns: Back in print after years of reader demand, Elisa Kleven's cherished story continues to inspire a new generation of children.

* A Princess Unlike Any Other: This imaginative heroine doesn't rely on castles or crowns. She discovers her strength through creativity, curiosity, and determination.

* Stunning Mixed-Media Artwork: Elisa Kleven's signature collage illustrations create vibrant miniature worlds filled with texture, color, and playful detail.

* A Story About Courage and Belonging: Through her journey, the princess learns that confidence and character grow from within.

* A Deluxe Gift Edition: Featuring foil stamping and sculptural embossing, this edition makes a beautiful keepsake for families and classrooms.

The Paper Princess is a beautiful picture book about imagination, creativity, and finding your way, perfect for young readers, classrooms, and anyone who believes in the power of art and storytelling.

Seventeen-year-old Meigan Wilder has always felt caught between who she is and who she thinks she's supposed to be. But on an ordinary spring afternoon in Colorado Springs, one unexpected moment sends her somewhere she never imagined, and into a life she never asked for.

Suddenly stranded in 1880, Meigan must navigate a frontier town where her modern clothes, silver bracelets, and outspoken nature make her an instant outsider. Taken in by a wary farming family, she struggles to survive in a world with rigid rules and narrow expectations. Yet as she adapts to her new reality, Meigan begins to uncover strengths she never knew she had and discovers that even the smallest choices can echo far beyond their moment.

A story of identity, courage, and the quiet power of becoming yourself, The Echo She Left Behind follows one young woman's journey to find her place in a time that isn't her own.

In a world where reality is maintained by Archivists sworn to preserve a single, sanctioned version of the past, truth is a controlled substance—and memory is a weapon.

When fragments of erased history begin resurfacing—glitches in streets, ink that bleeds through time, stories that refuse to stay buried—the fragile order holding the world together starts to fracture. What was once quietly rewritten now fights back.

Caught between preservation and annihilation, those who sense the Unwritten must decide whether stability is worth the cost of silence-or whether some truths are dangerous precisely because they are alive.

The Archivist's War is a cerebral, emotionally grounded speculative fantasy exploring power, memory, and who gets to decide what is allowed to exist. For readers who love immersive worlds, moral tension, and stories that linger long after the final page.

He took her for her magic. He didn't expect her to steal his heart.

Natalie has spent her life protecting her family—raising her sister and caring for her ailing father in a world ruled by vampires. But when a brutal raid destroys her village, she strikes a desperate bargain: her freedom in exchange for their lives.

Taken by Rayhan, a powerful vampire warrior, Natalie is forced to use her unstable magic to solve the murder of his father. If she fails, she may never see her family again. But if she succeeds, the truth could be more dangerous than the killer himself.

Rayhan never meant to take a prisoner—but Natalie is no ordinary human. When she inadvertently unlocks memories he buried long ago, he realizes she may be the key to justice—and vengeance. What he didn't expect was the fire between them. Now, the woman who could destroy him might also be the only one who can save him.

As deadly secrets unravel and the killer turns their sights on Natalie, desire collides with betrayal, and trust becomes the ultimate risk.

Dark magic. Forbidden romance. A fight for survival.

Can love bloom between sworn enemies-or will it become the weapon that tears them apart?

Captured by the Vampire Knight is perfect for fans of steamy vampire romance, enemies to lovers, and magic-bound fated mates.

The name is Dagger. Flint Dagger.

As codename Quartz, an agent of M.O.U.N.T.A.I.N. (the Ministry of Unorthodox Natural Talents and Information-Nabbing), I'm regularly tasked with the most difficult, world-saving assignments, which I always complete with grace and panache. (And successfully, I might add. Is the world still here? You're welcome.)

My latest mission briefing from "D": The nefarious Dr. Gnoll is building a machine that will give him power over all magic on Ados. Unfortunately, both a rival agent - Maxine Charisma (don't smirk at me like that) - and Dr. Gnoll's henchgnolls are already en route to the location of the MacGuffin Rod, an artifact that Dr. Gnoll needs to complete his plans. You must secure the MacGuffin Rod at all costs and prevent Dr. Gnoll from activating his machine. To assist you, Kew, the head of the Ministry's magic division, has outfitted you with the latest magical tools, including a magical clockwork horse to speed you on your journey. The future of all magic is at stake, so godsspeed.

A noble steed. A sexy rival. A dangerous artifact. A bunch of incompetent minions (they always are). A megalomaniacal villain (they always are, too). A world-threatening master plan. Time to go to work.

This companion to the Governor General's Award-winning picture book On the Trapline is a loving and inspiring ode to grandparents.

When I'm a moshom, a long, long time from now, I will watch my grandchildren dance and play hockey, and I will be the loudest one cheering. I will take them on the trapline and teach them how to fish. I will feed them Bannock and share stories about our community. I will tell them I love them, just like my moshom did.

This heartwarming story thoughtfully explores the legacy of love, traditions and heritage passed down from generation to generation. Through the eyes of three siblings and their moshom (grandfather), readers are taken on a journey filled with cherished moments, from cheering at sports events to sharing traditional Cree knowledge and language. This picture book beautifully captures the bonds between grandparents and grandchildren, making it perfect for shared reading and an ideal gift for special occasions like birthdays, holidays or family celebrations.

Includes a glossary of Swampy Cree words and an author's note.

A retrospective poetry debut about the beauty of the invisible and the language of the heart.

In this current environment of chaos and uncertainty, Remember the Sweetness returns us to the uncluttered familiar. The poems explore the spirit alive in the ordinary that lends clarity in the face of loss, unafraid to pull back the sheet and look closely. They revel in mysteries perceived through an interior lens.

Written in free verse and prose, the poems move between sparse and generous musings, between playful and poignant. Rooted in a quiet strength with courage to examine, it is an intimate expedition through the peaks and tunnels of the heart.

Beckham Bumblebee is always on the move — buzzing from flower to flower, convinced he can handle the whole garden on his own.

But when the garden grows busier than one bee can manage, Beckham discovers something he never expected: some things are simply too big to do alone.

What follows is a joyful adventure through a garden full of surprises, where Beckham crosses paths with Bella Butterfly, Hugo Hummingbird, Breyen Beetle, and Bey Bat — each one bringing something unique and wonderful that Beckham never could have managed by himself.

Through Beckham's journey, young readers ages 3–8 discover how pollinators work together in the real natural world — and how that same spirit of teamwork and cooperation shapes their own friendships, classroom moments, and daily life.

A STEM and social-emotional picture book that parents will want to read again and again, teachers will reach for in the classroom, and children will carry with them long after the last page.

Part of the Pollinator Path Series — where meaningful stories, like pollinators, help ideas grow.

"A charming introduction to ocean conservation with an uplifting message and a call to action." —School Library Journal, starred review

Discover how ocean animals help protect our planet in this inspiring STEM picture book about marine life, conservation, and real-world heroes.

It's an exciting day for one special class when legendary oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle helps them dive into the brilliant biodiversity of the ocean—revealing how marine animals work together to keep our planet healthy and inspiring simple actions to protect our blue planet. Did you know the ocean has superheroes? One curious student discovers just that as she learns how creatures like phytoplankton, oysters, and whales play vital roles in ocean ecosystems--and how even kids can make a difference through everyday choices like protecting beaches and reefs.

Here's what makes Ocean Superheroes an inspiring read for curious kids:

* Real Ocean Heroes: Discover fascinating marine animals, from plankton to whales, and the surprising ways they help protect our planet.

* STEM Learning Through Story: A science-rich narrative introduces ocean ecosystems and environmental concepts in a way young readers can easily understand.

* Inspiring Real-Life Role Models: Dr. Sylvia Earle helps guide young readers toward curiosity, discovery, and environmental stewardship.

* Empowering Kids to Take Action: Simple, kid-friendly ideas show how small everyday choices can help protect the ocean.

* Educational Extras: Includes a glossary and resources for kids, parents, and educators who want to learn more about marine life and conservation.

Ocean Superheroes is a STEM picture book about ocean animals, conservation, and caring for the planet, perfect for curious kids, classrooms, and future changemakers.

“An excellent chronicling of his extraordinary and exemplary life.” —Captain Paul Watson, Whale Wars

“Garrick is celebrated for his dedication to making the world a better place in this thorough biography.” - Booklist

Garrick was key to high profile eco-campaigns beginning in the early 1970s counter-culture. A fearless activist, he ran across ice floes in -35 degree weather to protect baby harp seals and hiked through snowy BC mountains to protest a wolf cull.

He met Paul Watson, known as the founder of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, and the brothers-in-arms shared in life altering adventures including the Wounded Knee occupation.

Garrick comes alive from Gilbert's use of his deeply insightful and humorous writing, unpublished letters, 150 journals and her extensive interviews with him. The book is illustrated with archival images and Garrick's own drawings.

Inspector Hunnam is a gentleman, gorgeous, and is great at solving murders.

With the help of his trustworthy partner and friend, Sergeant Weston, and the beautiful, clever, Miss Grey, Inspector Hunnam is back in this cozy, detective, ninth murder mystery novel, in the Inspector Hunnam Mystery series set in 1920's London.

1928 London, at a privately owned boxing gym, after the main title match, one of the boxers is murdered! A boxing gym full of suspects, a former boxing champion, a washed-up old boxer, a young scrapper, and a dangerous owner, we find out the victim had many enemies, and several of the intriguing suspects, including a boxing manager and trainer, all had a definite motive for murder!

The tall, blonde, gorgeous, Detective Inspector Hunnam, and his partner, Detective Sergeant Weston, are brought in on the case to investigate the murder. During the course of their murder investigation, Inspector Hunnam's friend from university becomes their prime suspect in the case.

With no shortages of motives or suspects, everyone at the boxing gym had the same animosity and resentment towards the victim, and wanted the victim dead. We find fixed matches. Boxers taking dives. A missing pair of boxing gloves. A rivalry between boxers. And a second murder occurs. Inspector Hunnam, along with his brother, his Sergeant, and Miss Grey, solve the case, looking forward towards their next, exciting, murder mystery adventure... together!

How migrant workers, with the support of unions, won justice in a landmark court decision.

"An intimate, human-scaled history of a landmark Canadian labor rights campaign, A Fight for Justice offers a prescient perspective on the turbulent overlap between immigration and labor rights. The book excels in humanizing the string of legal back-and-forths it covers. A clear, potent work of modern labor history." - Foreword Reviews

"Readers are taken on a roller-coaster ride of victories and set-backs." - Pacific Northwest Labor History Association newsletter

In April 2006, forty-two Latin Americans landed in Vancouver to excavate tunnels for the subway extension in time for the 2010 winter Olympics. They thought they'd won the lottery with promised wages far above what they would earn at home. But the reality was miserable wages, unpaid overtime and inadequate living conditions. And so began their fight for justice.

In 2008, the tribunal delivered a triumphant decision, a landmark case in the evolving issue of global migration. Workers were awarded $2.4 million to compensate for discrimination based on country of origin, lost wages and inferior accommodations and meals.

Author Joe Barrett, fluent in Spanish, shares his unique insider perspective as he became a liaison between workers, union officials and lawyers throughout the court battles.

Ventura, California, 1971. The Orphans MC had established themselves as a respected group of players in the SoCal area. They partied with the Hells Angels, Satan's Slaves, Question Marks, and several others.

For 20 year old Jeff Hayes, becoming an Orphan offers all he's ever wanted: bikes, brotherhood, nonstop partying, and a healthy sense of danger. He earned his colors, becoming Vice President for the outlaw motorcycle club during its heyday before it all came to a shocking end.

The 70s were morphing into the 80s and times were changing. With no formal qualifications, Hayes forged a path that would see him becoming the CEO of a multi-million dollar steel company, while his old self was never too far from the surface.

Orphans is a riveting memoir from the golden age of outlaw motorcycle culture, representing a time and space in which America was the land of plenty. It tells the true story of a young man living a fast life, who evolves and grows on his own terms, and intense male friendships that last until the grave.

Sam Iravani is a freelance writer. His articles have been featured in VICE, Filter, and Thought Catalog.

Desire, power, and identity collide in this psychologically charged literary novella.

Katie Monahan is on the brink of adulthood, restless, uncertain, and hungry to be seen. When an impulsive decision pulls her into an unfamiliar world of blurred boundaries and unspoken rules, she is forced to confront the cost of attention and the limits of her own control over her life.

Told through intersecting perspectives, Twins explores the fragile line between choice and coercion, longing and consequence. As the past presses in and the present spins dangerously out of control, each character must reckon with what they are willing to sacrifice and what can never be undone.

With sharp emotional insight and theatrical precision, Laura Emack delivers a literary novella that examines power, inheritance, and the moments that define who we become.

Twins is a gripping work of contemporary literary fiction for readers drawn to psychological depth, moral complexity, and stories that linger long after the final page.

A Gothic masterwork of nineteenth-century Naples — now in its first modern English translation.

Naples, 1840. In the anatomy hall of the Hospital for the Incurables, a young medical student stands over his dead sister's body and makes a vow. What follows is one of the most gripping novels of the Italian Romantic era: a story of hidden identity, buried crimes, a blind woman of extraordinary perception, and a city where justice moves slowly but with terrible force.

Beatrice Rionero has been blind since childhood, raised by her widowed father in a villa above the Bay of Sorrento. When a mysterious foreign physician arrives — Dr. Oliviero Blackman — he claims to offer her the chance of sight. But Blackman is not what he appears. And neither is anyone else in this labyrinthine story of secrets, vengeance, and redemption.

Francesco Mastriani (1819–1891) was the great chronicler of Neapolitan society — a writer sometimes compared to Dickens and Eugène Sue, whose serialized fiction drew enormous popular audiences while unflinching in its portrait of class, injustice, and the hidden lives of the poor. La Cieca di Sorrento (1852) is his most celebrated novel: a work of Gothic sensation and moral seriousness, set in the streets and drawing rooms, courtrooms and catacombs of nineteenth-century Naples.

This first modern literary English translation, by Idara Crespi, restores the full force of Mastriani's prose — its declarative rhythms, its operatic emotional peaks, its dark comedy, and its portrait of a blind woman whose inner sight surpasses everyone around her.

For readers of Wilkie Collins, Eugène Sue, and Alexandre Dumas.

If we trust math to describe the universe and send rockets into space, could it also help us better understand our emotions, our conflicts, and the struggles we face in life?

Math is everywhere. We see it in nature, in buildings and roads, and in how food is measured and cooked. We rely on it daily, often without noticing.

Yet when it comes to life, it can feel harder to see. Why do relationships feel harder to navigate than equations? Could emotion be pointing to something we have not yet understood? Could math help us see it more clearly?

Most books about conflict and emotion borrow from psychology. This one draws from math.

Math Heals is a work of reflective nonfiction that examines the structure beneath everyday life. Drawing from experiences as a physical therapist, a homeschooling mother, and a parent of a child on the autism spectrum, Tiffany Suson reflects on how the clarity of mathematics can illuminate the complexity of being human.

What if your love story rewrote you?

Romance author Lacy Travers's career is flatter than the champagne at her last pity party. So when a disgruntled fan accuses her of "ruining love" at a sad little book signing—and her ex-boyfriend Elliott swoops in like a knight in polyester armor—it's just another weird chapter in her life.

But things take a surreal turn when a party invite lands her not in Elliott's apartment... but in an operating room. As the surgeon. In a world straight out of one of her books.

Trapped in her own romance novel—with no clue how to escape—Lacy must survive cringey tropes, steam-soaked plot twists, and the very clichés she once mocked. When Elliott gets pulled into the chaos too, the two must navigate vampire seductions, cowboy duels, and more than a few forced proximity scenes.

The real kicker? The more they rewrite the story, the more the story rewrites them.

With every sizzling page turned, Lacy begins to question the love she's always written off—and the nerdy sci-fi writer who's been beside her all along.

The Romance Loop is a laugh-out-loud, genre-hopping romantic comedy-a story about messy hearts, meta love, and the unexpected magic of a story you never saw coming.

One determined goddess. Two beloved gods. Three coveted thrones.

Ancient Egypt’s most formidable goddess will stop at nothing to save her true love from the wrath of a vengeful god in this romantic retelling by the author of Neferura, perfect for readers who loved Lilith.

Isis, goddess of thrones and magic, steals the crown of Egypt and hands the power to her husband, Osiris. Together, Isis and Osiris live an idyllic life, ruling justly until the god of chaos, set on revenge for a crime Isis knows nothing about, traps Osiris in a box—a box that quickly vanishes.

Driven by rage and desperation, Isis spends decades disguised as a human woman, isolated from home and family as she searches for her lost love. When she finally uncovers the box, what she finds will change her life—and the fate of gods and mortals—forever. Unless Isis can right the wrongs of a betrayal she didn’t commit and deliver Egypt into the hands of a worthy leader, Egypt will fall into chaos.

Isis of Egypt: Goddess of Thrones is a feminist retelling about the woman behind one of the ancient world’s most widespread and enduring cults, a goddess whose message of empathy and resilience resonates still today.

Learn how to turn your expertise into a clear, compelling nonfiction book that reaches the people who need it most.

Whether you're a consultant, coach, educator, healthcare provider, or entrepreneur, writing a book can expand your influence and help more people benefit from your ideas. The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide provides a practical, step-by-step roadmap for moving from concept to finished manuscript without getting stuck along the way. Written by veteran editors and book coaches Marisa Solis and Elizabeth Dougherty, who have guided hundreds of nonfiction books from idea to publication, this hands-on guide walks you through every stage of the writing process with clarity and confidence.

Here's what makes The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide an essential resource:

* A Clear Road Map for Writing Your Book: Follow a proven framework that takes you from initial idea to completed manuscript with manageable, actionable steps.

* Designed for Experts and Professionals: If your profession involves helping people improve their lives, turn your knowledge into an advice-based nonfiction book.

* 25 Practical Exercises and Writing Tools: Writing prompts, preformatted templates, and market analysis exercises help you clarify your message and stay focused.

* Structure Your Book with Confidence: Develop your advice-based book's premise, fine-tune your framework, and strengthen your table of contents upfront--making writing faster and less stressful.

* Navigate the Publishing Process: Write a book proposal, explore publishing paths, and build the platform needed to reach your audience.

If you've been thinking about writing a book but aren't sure where to start or how to finish, The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide gives you the structure, strategy, and support to bring your book to life.

The Continent is in grave danger. The Lands Without Sky are poised to wage war against all other nations.

Sirod, Grand Master of the Order of the Sky, intends to reunite the Orders that govern Nature—which have long been at odds with one another—to form a united front against the mysterious enemy fighting under the banner of the Fiery K.

Accompanied by his young apprentice Ĵarad, Sirod embarks on an epic journey across the continental lands, where he will face harsh challenges that will test not only his faith but the very reality of his world.

One voice. One beat. One obsession.

Under the shadows of Queens, lyricist MC Malevolent and visionary beat producer DJ Loco rise from grimy recording booths to viral sensation. From underground rap battles to spotlight domination, they attempt to build an empire side by side, bound by loyalty forged in hunger and ambition. Until Portia Fairchild, a talented classical pianist, mysteriously steps into their lives with a composed exterior that both men crave. She was raised in a military family and is a gifted artist in her own right. Portia's nothing like the women desperate to be arm candy and instant fame, and having proximity to a rapper.

What starts as collaboration spirals into obsession.

As their fame rises and industry sharks circle, desire turns into a dangerous rivalry. What begins as fascination twists into obsession. Malevolent wants Portia's devotion not just to his music, but to him. He first set eyes on Portia while she worked as a receptionist at the recording studio. She was beautiful, quiet, and some mystery to her that captured his heart. Simultaneously, Loco notices Porita's beauty, poise, and talents that he experienced first. She reminded him of someone he once loved. Loco's deep desire to be with her alternated his friendship into a rivalry that becomes chaotic.

The stakes rise, every glance becomes a challenge, every weakness, a weapon, and a touch a betrayal. Portia's a force that threatens both men and becomes the most dangerous risk of all.

Fame tightens its grip. Secrets surface. Trust fractures. Brotherhood breaks under jealousy, and ambition turns violent. In a world where reputation is power and weakness means destruction, choosing her might cost them - everything.

Malevolent is a dark romance about obsession disguised as devotion, friendship destroyed by desire, and the brutal cost of choosing your heart over your history.

And when love turns into a battleground, someone always bleeds.

The Guardian of the Weldafire Stone is meant to unite the people of Kartha—a task that seems impossible when so many forces are divided against each other.

A task for someone worthy. Not someone like Marc Dairner, who’d been chosen as a candidate because his parents had been martyred for the rebellion cause. Apart from bearing their name, his own notoriety as the second most-wanted man in the country should be enough to disqualify him. Despite his reluctance, he'd promised that he would consider accepting the role if ever it became necessary to appoint someone.

In the meantime, Marc has been preparing to take his parents place as the leader of the rebellion against the Valca Order. But when he meets Velle, everything changes. His eyes are opened to a world of possibilities beyond battles and bloodshed. Any plans he has to disassociate himself with the rebellion seems impossible when every act against The Order has his name attached to it, regardless of whether or not he was involved.

When Marc learns that Landon Valca of the Valca Order has discovered a magical stone that indwells the life of Kartha—the same stone he’s promised to protect if ever the time came—he’s forced to leave Velle and flee the city in order to track down an old friend and fulfill his promise before Landon gets to the stone first. As he treks across the country, making new enemies and contending with long-standing prejudices, he can’t help but wonder if anyone will ever be able to unite the people, let alone him. How can he become the hero the people believe he is when his very name elicits conflict?

You love him.

But lately… you feel alone next to him.

You miss how it used to feel.

Easy. Natural. Close.

Now some days, it feels like you’re living with a roommate.

And the hardest part?

You still care. A lot.

You just don’t always know how to say it anymore.

This is for the moments you stay quiet…

and wish you hadn’t.

For when the words are there,

but they don’t come out right.

This journal gives you the words.

Simple prompts to help you say:

“I see you.”

“I respect you.”

“I still choose you.”

So he feels it.

Not just hears it.

And something shifts.

He softens.

He opens up.

The tension eases.

You start to feel like you’re on the same side again.

No long talks.

No pressure.

No guessing what to say.

Just 5 minutes a day.

Small moments that change how you show up with each other.

Plus 12 love coupons

so your words turn into real moments.

This isn’t about trying harder.

It’s about finally saying what matters.

Created by a licensed couples therapist

with 26 years of helping couples reconnect.

A simple way to feel close again.

Decoding the Architecture of Japan: A 16-Year Introspective Journey of the Tokaido Road

"Most travelers visit Japan to see its beauty. An IT governance specialist walks to see the governance and its controls."

In 2006, following a life-altering accident and eight months of recovery, Ichiro Asanuma stood at Nihonbashi--the "Kilometer Zero" of Tokyo. Armed with only a walking stick and a machine-like focus on his physical goal of reaching Kyoto, he embarked on a 494km pilgrimage along the ancient Tokaido Road.

This is not a typical travelogue designed to motivate you with fantastic romance. It presents unembellished, pragmatic themes that appear as both ordinary views and hidden secrets, reflecting the complex mixture of factors in our world. While every human effort is touching, these efforts usually disappear into society as small contributions to a larger system. Asanuma--a certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), IT governance specialist, and IT strategist--spent the next 16 years documenting the performance and results of this historic route through a professional lens. He captures the human struggle to achieve the small miracles that sustain them. He treats the Tokaido not just as a path, but as a vast network of blood vessels and neural circuits within a living "social system" governed by silent rules, historical legacies, and modern architecture--a powerful river that cannot be resisted, even by those who try to swim against its current.

Why this book offers a unique analytical gaze into the Real Japan:

• A 400-Year Inquiry into Society: Utagawa Hiroshige presented a realistic view of 19th-century Japanese society--including its social polarization and diversity--through his ukiyo-e prints. This book supports readers in questioning and analyzing society by contrasting these historical scenes with contemporary photographs. By pairing ukiyo-e examples of Edo-period society with modern views that capture the "breath of humanity," the book gives readers the chance to reflect on how Japan's culture and mindset exist today.
• The Governance of the Road: From the strict military checkpoints (Sekisho) of the Edo period to modern-day "Compassion Zone" street signs, discover how the physical structures of the road exert unconscious influence over human behavior and maintain social order.
• High-Resolution Observation: Driven by his original purpose and obsession, Asanuma chose the "slowness" of walking to sample the world at a resolution impossible to capture at speed. Experience the subtle breath of local culture--matured through the passage of time--and the "breath of the people" as documented through signage and stories over nearly two decades.

Whether you are a professional seeking insights into social governance or a traveler looking to decode the "hidden codes" of Japanese history, this photo essay provides the technical manual you need to understand the Land of the Rising Sun.

"Adventure and transformation await on the Old Tokaido."

Will you--who are allowed to have emotionally stubborn, personal dreams--join the inquiry into what defines the Japanese people and their social systems, diving into a vast ocean of fear and similar selfish dreams?

In the ruins of war, trauma, and unspoken pain, mercy still runs.

Letters from the Ruins: Mercy for Every Wounded Heart is a collection of raw, intimate, unsent letters written from one scarred soul to others who carry invisible weight.

From combat veterans still hearing incoming in quiet rooms, to fathers afraid their children see only the cracks, to chaplains searching for the right words, to the spouses, parents, and friends who love through the fractures—these letters speak directly to every heart that has ever felt too far gone, unforgivable, or lost in the dark.

Drawing on lived experience as a combat veteran and single father, the author writes with unflinching honesty about moral injury, survivor guilt, the long return home, and the slow, deliberate work of containment--one interrupted episode at a time.

Blending Scripture (canonical and wider echoes), metal lyrics that became prayers, and the quiet persistence of mercy, these letters do not offer quick fixes or platitudes.

They offer presence. They offer the reminder that the doors are wide. They offer the truth that the Father never stops running—toward the broken, the limping, the questioning, the ones who still can't look in the mirror.

Whether you carry the scars of war, love someone who does, or simply know what it feels like to wrestle with shame and doubt, these letters are for you.

You are not alone. You are not beyond reach. Mercy is already running.

Come as you are. The Table is set. Your seat is still empty.

Perfect for veterans, military families, trauma survivors, chaplains, spiritual seekers, and anyone walking through moral injury, PTSD, or the long road of healing.

Step into the ruins. The doors are wide open.

He was hired to find the leak. He didn't know he was the bait.

Caleb Rourke thought returning to Washington was just another job — a routine security audit for a biotech giant, triple the usual rate, quick in and out. Then he found a ghost in the code: a decade-old encryption signature from a heist he was supposed to have buried forever. And a name he never expected to see again.

When Caleb's ruthless aunt Vivienne — Washington's most formidable power broker, days from confirmation as Secretary of State — summons him back into her orbit, she doesn't ask for loyalty. She assumes it. But Caleb is about to discover that the audit was never about the company. It was about him. And the man he once loved, who vanished ten years ago, is walking through the lobby.

In the Serpent's Shadow is a razor-sharp political thriller about power, betrayal, and the dangerous moment when the past stops being history and starts being a weapon.

The serpent is in the light now. And Caleb Rourke is finally the one holding the pen.

In Manhattan, everyone owes someone.

All Claire and Daniel Mercer wanted was to get their daughter into the right school. All it took was one small favor. Then another. Then another.

When a fellow board member turns up dead, Claire realizes the co-op's favor system was never about getting them to do things. It was about getting them to confess — one reasonable compromise at a time — until the board owned them completely.

Now they know too much. And someone is making sure that's not a problem for long.

All the Right Favors — because in Manhattan, nothing is ever free.

Every generation, the gods take their due. This time, they might take her.

Princess Azhara was born cursed. Marked by ancient magic. Promised to an unholy bargain sealed in blood. When the Reaping begins, suitors will descend into the labyrinth beneath the palace—each one fighting to win her hand or die trying.

She’s never had a choice. Not in the Reaping. Not in her future. Not even in the power buried beneath her skin.

Until now.

The golden prince arrives with charm too slick to trust and eyes that gleam with secrets. Her quiet guardian—once her only constant—has begun to keep dangerous truths from her. And as the labyrinth trials unfold, Azhara realizes the maze isn’t her only trap.

It’s the men.

One lies. One loves. One kills. And she’s not sure which is which.

As suitors fall and secrets surface, Azhara must choose what’s worth saving—her kingdom, her heart, or herself.

Labyrinthine is a seductive, myth-woven romantasy of deadly trials, cursed bloodlines, and a love born in shadows."

When Hell’s Master of Spells is murdered, a realm-wide competition is held to find his replacement.

Eager to prove himself and live out his dream of serving his king, novice magician Ulrynk puts his name forward for consideration. Despite his youth, Ulrynk’s raw talent and unconventional spellcasting quickly make him a threat to his more experienced competitors.

His ambition catches the eye of Jeffrey Logan, the king’s enigmatic ward. But while the attraction between the two of them is undeniable, Jeffrey’s status in Lucifer’s court demands their budding romance remain hidden until the competition’s end.

When new evidence emerges and complicates the murder investigation, Ulrynk and Jeffrey work together to see the killer brought to justice—no matter the potential consequences or risk to Ulrynk’s victory.

In these tales, love transcends every boundary—death, memory, time itself.

A ship captain exchanges letters with a mysterious island dweller through glass bottles that always find their way to each other. Memory Keepers and creatures of the Void discover forbidden love across cosmic divides. A blacksmith's boy and a village girl are torn apart by revolution, their bond tested by violence and forgetting. A ghost mother watches over her disabled daughter.

From celestial beings navigating eternal duties to mortals seeking connection across impossible distances, these stories explore love in all its forms—queer and straight, mortal and divine, tender and tragic. Each story is a doorway into worlds where devotion defies fate, where souls find each other across lifetimes, and where even the most broken hearts continue to beat with hope.Perfect for readers who love the lyricism of Madeline Miller and Alix E. Harrow, the emotional storytelling of Studio Ghibli films, and the mythic beauty of Ursula K. Le Guin's work.

If you read for gorgeous language and deep feeling rather than fast plots—these stories will captivate you.

It's the summer of 1986, and the Crestfield Galleria is the place to be.

Tiffany Carter works at Tendance, the trendiest boutique in the mall, and dreams of escaping her small town to study fashion in New York. When strange incidents begin to ripple through the Galleria after hours, her part-time job turns into a full-time nightmare.

Tiffany assumed rumors of a Phantom stalking the Galleria were just an urban legend meant to scare new employees. Now she feels it too.

Someone is watching... following... waiting.

When the body count begins to rise, Tiffany realizes the Galleria isn't just a hangout. It's a hunting ground.

She must uncover the truth before she becomes the Phantom's next victim.

Broadway for Beginners is the practical guide for anyone seeing live theatre in New York City for the first time (or the first time in a while) and wanting it to feel easy, not stressful.


This book walks you through the decisions that matter most: what to see, how to buy tickets without getting scammed, where to sit, and how to avoid common tourist mistakes that can cost you time and money.

Inside you’ll learn:

• How to buy from the official box office (and avoid excessive fees)
• How to find legitimate discounts and promotions
• Seat-picking strategies to get the best value for your budget
• When to arrive, what “door hold” means if you’re late, and how some shows actually start before the stated curtain time
• The intermission restroom strategy (because 15 minutes goes fast)
• Simple etiquette rules that keep you (and everyone around you) from having a bad experience
• Stage door basics: what to expect, how to be respectful, and how autographs usually work

Written by Broadway insider and musical theatre co-producer Brian Guy.

What does it mean to know God as Father?

In The Heavenly Father: A Biblical Perspective, Hegumen Abraam Sleman invites readers into a deeper understanding of God’s nature as revealed in Scripture.

Through rich biblical insight and a Christ-centered vision, this book shows how Jesus reveals the Father and calls us into a living relationship with Him.

Rooted in both the Old and New Testaments, it presents the oneness, love, and presence of Yahweh God in a clear and transformative way.

This poetry book is radical, philosophical, and psychological; it reflects the themes of identity/perception; emotional apprehensions, transmutation, as well as transcendence; existential dread; the ambiguity of suffering; symbolic dreams; individuation and the soul's search for meaning, and many other bizarre effects of the human experience.

It also reflects our zeitgeist; the inhumane regimes and our dystopian society; the build-up of angst from invented monotony and authoritarianism, but above all, the unwavering faith in humanity to thrive within and withal, — to transform ourselves internally so we may create externally for ourselves our very own utopia. It also bridges, or better yet, exposes, the interrelation between consciousness and stanza, — nay; consciousness and Art in general.

This poetry book, unlike the standardized ones, is very intense, — in the sense that it reveals the complexities of uncomfortable truths, requires the reader's undivided attention and a plausible cognizance for deep thought, and the willingness to ponder on the incomprehensible; to contemplate infinity — so to speak. This book is also quite experimental, and may be a wee bit distinct from the traditional stanzas that the dear reader may be used to or familiar with.

Indulge in the phantasm of this healing, rebellious, enlightening yet dark-themed work of poetic literature and paradox.

Every subject serves Rome. Only a few can save it.

An aristocrat. A slave. A pair of disgraced soldiers. And a legendary general.

Five strangers. One secret war.

When an elite gladiator defies death in the arena, his shocking victory earns him more than glory—it draws him into the heart of a secret mission that could change the fate of the Empire. Hardened by brutality and betrayal, Jason is recruited into a covert task force to stop an insidious coup from toppling Rome from within.

Joining him are Mallia, a senator's daughter suffocating in privilege; Argus and Tacitus, ex-legionnaires cast out by the very army they swore to serve; and Severus, a retired general and the Emperor's most trusted ally. Together, they are reborn as the Septem Fideles-seven loyal ones-and sworn to protect Rome from the shadows.

As rebellion stirs and enemies close in, loyalties are tested, forbidden love ignites, and ancient powers threaten to awaken. The Empire's fate rests on the shoulders of five outcasts who must fight as one—or fall divided.

Seal of Rome is a sweeping tale of heroes and villains, betrayal and sacrifice, forbidden love and unrelenting suspense-set against the brutal beauty of an imagined Ancient Rome at the height of its glory—and on the brink of ruin.

DCI Lilian Wyles is confronted by a troubling case, one that only the four queens of crime can help solve—even amidst the ongoing war efforts.

Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Ngaio Marsh are back in the follow-up novel to The Four Queens of Crime.

1941, London. When DCI Lilian Wyles finds a young woman murdered at King's Cross Station, she needs the help of someone she can trust, but Richard Davidson, her former Scotland Yard partner, has joined MI5 and is busy tracking black market routes outside of London, so for now, she is on her own.

After having met the four queens of crime during a murder investigation two years earlier, DCI Wyles has kept in touch. But Agatha, Dorothy, Margery, and Ngaio are all involved in the war effort and have problems of their own.

Agatha is volunteering at the University Hospital Pharmacy, where a dangerous anesthetic has been stolen. Dorothy has heard unsettling information from her connections at the BBC regarding members of the Royal Navy. Margery, who has been in the countryside helping families escape the city from the bombing, is worried about one of her charges whose older sister has gone missing. And Ngaio, who has relocated to New Zealand and is volunteering as an ambulance driver, has begun gathering secret intelligence from wounded soldiers and sailors that may put her in danger.

When the four queens contact DCI Wyles for help, the information they share makes the final pieces of the puzzle fall into place. DCI Wyles once again finds herself collaborating with her old partners in crime to solve the mystery and close the case in this thrilling sequel, perfect for fans of Nicola Upson and Anna Lee Huber.

Cara is in her mid-20's and lives in Poole, on the South coast of the UK.

She has recently had her heart broken after finding out her boyfriend has been having an affair with her boss. They had just bought their first house together and were happy, or so Cara thought. Cara is trying to rebuild her life and needs to find a new job if she is going to keep her house by herself, now she has thrown Jake out. She also must deal with the added pressure of her best friend's wedding coming up this Christmas. Cara is maid of honour and her now ex-boyfriend, Jake, is the best man, her life isn't as straight forward as she'd like. Cara secures her dream job in a brand-new designer shoe shop in the wealthy town of Sandbanks, Poole, and works to rebuild her life. After making a promise to herself to stay single, she certainly hadn't planned on being swept off her feet.

Lucca is in his early 30's and had to flee his hometown of Messina in Sicily after a messy divorce. He comes from a high-profile and very wealthy family who run a successful lady's fashion business in Italy. He feels he needs to break away from the family that has become poisoned by his ex-wife, so moves to the UK and quietly begins designing shoes.

Meeting a gorgeous new mystery man was certainly not part of Cara's new plan. Cara's brief first encounter with Lucca, as he is making some money as a courier at this point, has her flustered, but Lucca isn't who he seems. After getting over the divorce, he has secrets that he preferers not to share.

Cara and Lucca start a passionate relationship but knowing everyone has a past they both have a fear of getting hurt. Will Lucca bare all and share his secrets with Cara before she finds out what he is hiding. Can they both learn to trust each other with their fragile hearts?

Feeling suffocated by the Trumpster Fire? The door to a better life is always open.

Donald Trump's America feels less like the land of the free and more like a quickly spreading dumpster fire. If you've ever thought, "Maybe it's time to think about getting out of the US..." this book is your roadmap to moving abroad.

The Trumpster Fire Escape Almanac blends biting political commentary with practical guidance for Americans considering living overseas. Part escape manual, part statistical almanac, it helps you answer the real questions about leaving America.

• Where can I live without my blood pressure spiking at every headline?
• Which countries welcome expats with decent healthcare, affordable living, and functional democracy?
• How do visas, taxes, language, and safety stack up in 99 countries and nearly 500 cities worldwide?
• What's the difference between running away and choosing a better life?

With data pulled from the World Bank, CIA Factbook, UN, and more, this unique relocation guide offers both the facts and the comic relief you'll need to plan your expat life. Whether you're a retiree, a digital nomad, or just someone who can't breathe through the smoke anymore, this book shows you how to scout, select, and settle into your new homeland.

Gideon Hausner, Attorney General of Israel, conducted the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi ideologist and performer of "The Final Solution" aimed at murdering Jews, which ended with the killing of 6 million people.

The surviving witnesses refused at first to testify, and had to be persuaded to expose their unbelievable suffering in a warm atmosphere at the Hausner's Jerusalem home. Tamar (14) and Amos (11), Gideon's children, listened behind closed doors and heard things they will never forget. Tamar expresses her emotions and feelings. Amos details his insight as a lawyer of the trial's formidable challenges. What an amazing combination.

The Epilogue (written after the book was published) compares the awful crimes committed by Hamas on the "Black Saturday" to those committed by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Many survivors define the 7th of October as one day Holocaust.

The Authors

Adv. Tami Hausner-Raveh was Deputy Attorney General at the ministry of justice and a director in leading companies like Bezeq international and Rafael. nowadays she serves at the board of Yad Vashem and chairperson of Channel 12news.Adv.

Amos Hausner is a board member of Massuah, served as the legal counsel of World Zionist Organization; He is an international expert of fighting smoking, and succeeded in achieving several legal precedents. Amos lectures to various crowds on the Holocaust: lawyers, teachers, security forces etc.news.

The Streets of London Rarely Bother to Hide Their Ugly Secrets…

There’s nothing new about soiled doves meeting a dirty end, but when society and its broadsheets sensationalize a string of brutal slayings attributed to a ‘gentleman’ they named Jack, the horrors just seem to go on.

After months of relentless pursuit, Scotland Yard believed his reign of terror ended in a pool of his own blood. Could they have been wrong? Echoes of his distinctive murders surface once more. Had Red Jack pulled a trick of his own? Or are there devotees among the city’s populace continuing his bloody judgement?

With the faith of the Queen staunchly behind them, Detective Adrian Hope and his canine partner Grace O’Malley draw the case. Can they solve the Pale Horse Conspiracy before Whitechapel’s cobbles once more run red with blood, or will Red Jack’s legacy continue?

What makes a show unforgettable? Is it a Tony Award-winning performance? An intimate venue where the actors are close enough to touch? A new actor making a stage debut?

In The Best of Broadway (and Beyond), theatre enthusiast and Off-Broadway co-producer Brian Guy takes readers through his favorite shows out of over 80 shows experienced in 2025. From Broadway's biggest hits to hidden Off-Broadway gems to Seattle regional productions, this book celebrates live theatre in all its forms.

Highlights include:

• Hadestown and Ragtime, two of the year's most powerful musicals
• Audra McDonald's legendary performance in Gypsy on Tony Awards Eve
• Jonathan Groff's immersive nightclub experience in Just In Time
• Hugh Jackman in an intimate Off-Broadway play
• Discoveries like Caroline at MCC and Bat Boy at New York City Center
• Seattle productions including Come From Away's 10th anniversary production and After Midnight
• A community theatre tribute and even a high school musical that made the cut

This is not a critic's takedown. It's a book of love—personal reflections on the shows that moved, surprised, and entertained. Guy shares insights on cast performances, production quality, seating choices, and what makes certain theatrical experiences stay with you long after the curtain falls.

Whether you're planning a trip to New York, curious about Off-Broadway shows, or simply love reading about live performance, this book celebrates what makes live theatre magical.

Brian Guy is the author of Broadway for Beginners: A Tourist’s Guide to Broadway and Off-Broadway in New York City, editor of Preview Night, and co-founder of Neurodiversity Allies, a nonprofit that advocates for sensory accessibility in live theatre. He is a musical theatre co-producer and resides on Bainbridge Island in Washington State.

What happens when a seasoned physician pulls back the curtain on America's health care system?

Dr. Bernard M. Patten has lived medicine from every angle: patient, doctor, advocate, and critic. With wit, candor, and unflinching honesty, he takes readers on an eye-opening journey through decades of encounters that reveal both the brilliance and the failures of modern medicine.

From the golden age of doctor-patient trust to today's labyrinth of insurance denials, inflated costs, over-testing, and medical quackery, Patten exposes a system where profits too often come before patients. Along the way, he shares vivid stories about hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and the people caught in between.

This book is a call for clarity, skepticism, and empowerment. Readers will come away better prepared to navigate the complexities of American healthcare, armed with knowledge, perspective, and a critical eye. If you want to understand what went wrong with the most expensive health care system in the world, The Great American Medical Show will inform, provoke, and inspire.

When Janie Williams returns to a Romanian orphanage after a difficult visit the year before, she hopes the trip will go well and she will manage to regain the director’s respect.

But shortly after her arrival, two babies die in suspicious circumstances and Janie finds herself looking for answers. Do the deaths have anything to do with her presence in Romania?

When a suspect is taken into custody, everyone breathes a sigh of relief. But then another child is suffocated and it becomes clear there is more to this than they first imagined. And when Janie uncovers a seedy black market operation and a staff member at the orphanage is badly beaten, she starts a race against time to decode the clues before it is too late. Can she find the murderer and stop the killings before she needs to return home?

The Incident in Romania is a cosy mystery novel and the first book in The Janie Williams Incident Series. Author Diana Manwaring will keep you guessing in this fast-paced story where all is not as it seems.

What do you do when you bump up against a crisis moment while implementing Artificial Intelligence, or while you're still in the tippy-toe, pondering phase regarding AI management, your personal conduct?

AI is everywhere. Its usage is unavoidable. Do you have a plan? Or are you akin to most people, and you have invested little thought into how or if you should use AI? You're just in the river, and it's flowing. Or maybe more like you're already in free fall. Aimless.

Please don't do that!

And for those who are Christians or follow biblical principles, you need to protect yourself; along with leveraging this tool, aiding your Kingdom of God impact.

Join Rick on his excursion, birthed out of his own crisis moment. Stunned, yet already steeled for the inevitable clash.

The God-Imprinted AI Playbook is like being in the room with Rick as you discover together--pulled along by his personal, engaging, and sometimes confessional manner of writing. And as always, when reading one of Rick's books, expect the unexpected. You'll undoubtedly laugh, and a few tears may fall like rain. Plan on growing, yet this off-ramp may steer you to an unforeseen vista.

Malachi is surfing a fresh wave in Season #2 of the Jesus at Walmart series.

4th Man Surf Club, the fourth book in the series, is a standalone novel. Yet it will offer fans of the first three books a little extra tingle—like a family reunion.

Malachi no longer works at Walmart, the place that helped mold him into the man he is today. He’s moved to South Haven, Michigan. From there, adventure and unpredictable escapades await—the God-imprinted variety. And, like always with Malachi, expect the unexpected.

He still loves people, and his passion for God has not waned. Even though his journey through the pages of 4th Man Surf Club would knock almost any Jesus-surfer off their board.

Not Malachi. Even as he’s being battered by the waves of life-turmoil, he proclaims: “Our God is able.”

Are you in, for the ride of your life?

And when the last wave of 4th Man Surf Club lands you on the sandy shore of Lake Michigan; you’ll realize, clearer than before: “Our God is able.”

Season #1 of Jesus at Walmart is beloved by tens of thousands.

The trilogy includes:

Jesus at Walmart…a reed shaking in the wind

Jesus at Walmart…the cost

Jesus at Walmart…fire on the Earth

Warning: Many people have reported this; they couldn’t put the book down once they started reading.

4th Man Surf Club is sure to join the circle!

Bunnies in the Berry Row invites readers into Clover Patch Meadow, where seven little bunnies set out to celebrate Berry Day.

With baskets and bright eyes, they hop through the berry bushes in search of the juiciest treats to bring home for Mama's picnic. Along the way, each bunny discovers that the sweetest part of the day isn't the berries themselves, but the joy of giving, caring, and being together.

Told in gentle rhyme and paired with soft, woodland illustrations, this heartwarming tale captures the innocence of childhood and the beauty of nature's small treasures. Perfect for Ages 3 to 8, bedtime reading, classroom storytime, or early readers who delight in lyrical storytelling.

Bunnies in the Berry Row is the first tale in the Cozy Burrows Chronicles, a timeless picture book series that celebrates family bonds, kindness, and the simple wonders of the natural world.

Families, teachers, and libraries will find this story a cherished addition to collections of classic animal tales, offering both comfort and joy with every reading.

In this explicit reincarnation of the great American novel, Nicolina, the aspiring neighbor of the mighty Jay Gatsby, ventures to unravel the mysteries of the modern-day tycoon amid his extravagant parties on Long Island Sound.

What she discovers goes far beyond any simple understanding of the man, of his hidden loves, and even of her own moral boundaries. She wants to despise Gatsby, but the feelings he incites hurl her into a tangled obsession that she cannot escape. She craves to strike out on her own as a strong and independent woman in the city, yet dominating forces beyond her control urge her to submit at every turn.

In the intelligent and irreverent exploration of the particular lives of the obscenely rich, and those who strive and struggle in their wake, nobody and nothing is as it seems. Through it all, Nicolina is driven to lay bare the full breadth of the American dream, no matter what it costs her in the end.

Dr. Norah Waters is approaching sixty-five and eager to retire, but complications keep disrupting her plans.

New physicians in her practice aren't acclimating well. Patients are going off the rails. Unwelcome exes and toxic former students reappear. And her ninety-one-year-old mother, Vivian Waters, has grown emotionally needy. 

Once a free spirit, Vivian celebrated at Woodstock in her thirties and Burning Man in her eighties. Now she spends her time feuding with Marianne Dunwitty, her new rival from the Scrabble Klub. To help resolve her identity crisis, Vivian begins recording reflections on her life, revealing a deep despair that drives her to take on the Klub members, scorn the new cloud-watching man next door, and snoop into a suspected neighborhood homicide. 

Norah and Vivian must find ways to deal with their out-of-balance lives, and—most importantly—each other. Picking up where Out of Patients left off, No More Patients is a heartfelt, humorous sequel that stands on its own, about the struggles of healing both patients and relationships alike.

There are creatures lurking in our world. Obscure creatures long relegated to myth and legend.

They have been sighted by a lucky-or unlucky-few, some have even been photographed, but their existence remains unproven and unrecognized by the scientific community.

These creatures, long thought gone, have somehow survived; creatures from our nightmares haunting the dark places. They swim in our lakes and bays, they soar the night skies, they hunt in the woods. Some are from our past, some from other worlds, and others have always been with us-watching us, fearing us, hunting us.

These are the cryptids, and Systema Paradoxa tells their tales.

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When Lindsey Ambler takes a sabbatical to figure out her life, a quiet town in Yorkshire seems the ideal place to step back and regroup.

That is, until a chance meeting at a local pub becomes a calculated engagement as a petty thug uses Lindsey as a cover to hide from those he's cheated.

Little does she know the mob is the least of her troubles as something infinitely more deadly stalks the moors and it has her scent...

The Gray Man meets "The Most Dangerous Game" in this military thriller from a US Special Forces veteran turned investigative journalist.

There are rumors that in some corners of the world, wildlife poachers have become the prey themselves--hunted for sport: the sport of one man hunting another.

Staff Sgt. Jeremy Lopez is a US Army Ranger serving in the highly secretive Regimental Reconnaissance Company, providing support on covert missions in West Africa. When Lopez accepts the wrong drink in the wrong bar from the wrong woman, her face is the last thing he remembers before waking up in a locked, dirty cell.It soon becomes clear that this is no government facility-this is a holding cell for an elite hunting party, and Lopez has been chosen as their next quarry. These hunters started killing poachers who crossed their paths, and they've been building toward a more challenging game.

But Lopez isn't prey: he's a hunter himself. When he's set loose into the wilds, Lopez knows that he'll need to get to work and do his job: survive, evade, escape, and kill.

Former US Army Ranger and Green Beret Jack Murphy delivers a military thriller that's as urgent and technically accurate as it is explosive, perfect for fans of Mark Greaney and Jack Carr.

Iris Blackwood thought she’d built a quiet life running her cursed bookshop—until a murder with ties to dark magic pulls her into a mystery rooted in her own family’s past.

As the clues point to a long-dead ancestor and a legacy of dangerous magic, Iris must work alongside the one person she hoped never to face again—her ex, Dr. Meredith Chen.

To solve the case, Iris will have to confront the past—and the secrets Seabriar was never meant to reveal.

Bill and Kaelyn are killing it. Harvard Law sweethearts with promising careers at major corporate law firms, they have their sights set on the good life.

They also have half a million dollars in crushing debt. Feeling the pressure of their upcoming wedding, unexpected medical bills and the cost of living (well) in New York City, they find themselves simultaneously sliding deeper into the red and out of touch with one another. Their relationship bearing the strain, Bill and Kaelyn each secretly plot desperate acts that will put them in the black once and for all, and all it will cost them is their souls.

Wade Parrish has created an extraordinarily unique way of bringing readers into the creeping torment of characters who simultaneously administer and suffer the letter of the law. Familiar, tragic and darkly hilarious, Debt is a book that plays at turning the reader into a billable unit, forced to switch off feelings about right and wrong in order to focus on what really matters: the bottom line.

She nurtures life with her magic. He’s spent centuries wielding it to destroy. When their roots entwine, can love bloom between opposites?

Zelora dreams of uniting her town with a towering garden centerpiece for the Bloom Day festival. But when her manipulative ex tries to sabotage her plans, the warm-hearted Wood Fae finds unexpected help in Dian, a brooding Earth Fae warrior with a dangerous past and a terrifyingly potent magic.

Dian is no stranger to violence. Fleeing war-torn lands and haunted by the title Bane of Petroset, he seeks peace in Zelora’s tranquil flower shop, where life blooms from her fingertips and her presence stirs something long buried within him. But peace is fragile, and whispers of his past begin to unravel everything he’s built.

As Zelora guards her heart and Dian battles guilt and fear, the two must confront the scars they carry and the power of the connection growing between them. Will they risk their fragile bond, or will the weight of their histories tear them apart?

The Florist’s Budding Desire is a slow burn, steamy romantasy filled with elemental magic, emotional depth, simmering romance, and a healing love story between two powerful fae opposites.

Contains mature themes, sensual intimacy, and the emotional weight of fantasy love stories where scars run deep and happily ever afters are earned.

A forbidden love. A sacred oath. A silence that could swallow them both.

In the Moon Garden household, silence is law, obedience is survival, and even love can become a death sentence.

Serilda has spent years hiding two dangerous truths: the noise in her soul that refuses to be tamed, and her forbidden love for Barukhan, the Great Hanim's son. He has always been her protector, her longing, and the one person she can never have.

But when Barukhan is chosen to become the Moon Blade, everything changes.

Bound by a sacred oath to serve his matriarch above all else, he is forbidden from giving his heart to anyone. To break that vow is to die. To keep it is to lose Serilda forever.

Now, with Barukhan bound to a fate that could place him forever beyond her reach, Serilda must decide whether to bury her heart or risk everything by following it.

Starling & the Moon Blade is a romantasy novella filled with forbidden love, aching devotion, and moonlit longing.

Tropes:

🔥Forbidden Love🔥Protector to Lovers🔥Oath-Bound Duty🔥Pining / Longing🔥Fae Romance

Contains mature themes, sensual intimacy, and the emotional weight of fantasy love stories where hearts are tested and happily ever afters are earned.

The Bound to the Elements books are connected by theme, not reading order. Each novella is a standalone romance featuring a human heroine and her happily ever after with a fae hero of one of the eight elements.

האם קיים קשר מהותי בין האופי הייחודי של בני יעקב ובין הנחלה שכל אחד משנים עשר השבטים קרא לה לימים "שלו"?

תמר וייסמן סוקרת במיומנות אוצר עשיר של מקורות, ומציגה תמונה מקיפה של אופיים של שבטי ישראל. היא מציעה מבט מקורי על הקשר בין השבט ובין חלוקת הארץ – כלומר הנחלה – שניתנה לכל אחד מהם. 'איש כפי נחלתו' מציג דרך חדשה לחשוב על המפגש בין טקסט לארץ, וגם לחוות אותו. רבים מטיילים בארץ ישראל עם תנ״ך ביד, אך לטייל מתוך הבנה עמוקה יותר של אופיו של כל שבט, ושל הדרך שבה האופי הזה בא לידי ביטוי בתוואי השטח של נחלתו הייחודית - זוהי חוויה מעשירה הן ללומד התנ״ך המתחיל והן למתקדם. בהדרכתה של וייסמן הקוראים יכולים לקום ולהתהלך בארץ, לא רק כדי לראות את האתרים, אלא כדי לחוש – ואף לקחת חלק – בהתפתחות ייעודו של כל שבט בתוך שתים עשרה הנחלות.

הסופרת

תמר וייסמן היא מרצה לתנ"ך וללימודי ארץ ישראל ומדריכת טיולים. היא כתבה רבות על תנ"ך, מדרש, והמפגש שבין הטקסט לנוף. לצד עיסוקיה המחקריים, תמר עוסקת גם בחקלאות בת־קיימא במשק המשפחתי שלה בגליל.

Running from the mob is deadly. But running from your past… that’s impossible.

For twenty years, adoptive gangster Jimmy the Grayduck has become the best bag man for the Chicago Polish mob. He’s earned the trust of Boss Vikk Korsack and is engaged to his youngest daughter Melina.

The envy of every wiseguy in the Windy City, Jimmy’s secret, runaway past still haunts him: the cursed satchel he and his childhood friends unearthed from an Ojibwe burial mound. It destroyed his family and childhood but helped him clean up after the mob and make a name for himself. But when Vikk retires and appoints the Grayduck his successor, Jimmy’s past kicks back.

His last job is to dispose of a hooded woman locked in a storage unit. A woman who threatens to topple everything he built in Chicago and force him to confront his past. Can Jimmy have the best of both worlds? Or will he be forced to cash out and run from the mob?

Have you ever started something full of energy—only to quit once the excitement faded? Do you set goals, make plans, and promise yourself "this time will be different"... only to fall back into the same patterns?

If so, you're not broken—and you're definitely not lazy. You've just been relying on the wrong fuel.

Motivation feels powerful, but it's temporary. It disappears the moment life gets messy, stress builds, or you simply don't feel like it. Discipline, however, doesn't depend on emotion. It's the quiet system that carries you forward even when the spark is gone.

In How to Stay Disciplined Without Motivation, MD Saly breaks down what it really takes to show up every day—without relying on bursts of inspiration. You'll learn practical, science-backed strategies to turn consistency into your default setting and effort into second nature.

Inside, you'll discover:

• Why waiting for motivation keeps you stuck—and what to do instead
• How to build habits that last, even when life gets chaotic
• The simple psychological shifts that destroy procrastination
• How to make consistency easier than quitting
• The real reason some people follow through while others don't
• Practical tools to stay focused, calm, and productive every day

Through relatable stories, modern research, and timeless wisdom, this book shows you how ordinary people create extraordinary results—by mastering the art of showing up.

You'll learn how to start small, keep momentum, and stay the course even when nothing goes according to plan. You'll see that discipline isn't about being perfect—it's about being consistent. It's not about endless motivation—it's about quiet persistence.

If you're ready to finally stop starting over, stop waiting for the "right mood," and start building real discipline, this book will give you the system to do it.

The time to act is now. Stop chasing motivation. Build momentum instead.

A shapeshifting alien changeling raised by humans. The “wicked” child selected as the village sacrifice. People trapped in rigid belief systems, oppressive regimes, well-intentioned families, complicated relationships, and their very own bodies.

Is it better to succumb and survive, or escape by staking everything on a slender hope?

What triumphs in the end, love or vengeance?

And if all that remains is ashes, is it still worth it?

Grapple with these questions by diving into twelve new science fiction and fantasy stories. Together is a Distant Star is a collaborative anthology that encompasses authors hailing from Europe to Australia, South Africa to South America, and celebrates a kaleidoscope of perspectives—female, nonbinary, BIPOC, queer, and more.

Featuring stories from: A.J. Calvin, C.B. Lansdell, Nancy Foster, V. Carvajal Leiva, Karen Lykkebo, Erika McCorkle, Branwen OShea, Alyse Steves, Delilah Waan, and Isabelle Wagner.

Dr. Tuvia Book’s fascinating memoir, with its extraordinary accompanying photographs, pays tribute to the selfless men and women of his IDF PALMAR combat medical extraction unit.

It highlights their unwavering dedication and courage in providing lifesaving medical care to wounded soldiers on the battlefield in the Swords of Iron war in Gaza. The unit's emphasis on speed and efficiency, coupled with the professionalism of the team, and the innovative cutting-edge medical technology has been pivotal in saving lives and ensuring swift evacuations in extremely challenging circumstances.

The Author

Dr. Tuvia Book was born in London and raised in the UK and South Africa. After making Aliyah at seventeen, he volunteered for the IDF and served in an elite combat unit. He holds a BA from Bar-Ilan University, a doctorate in Israel education, and has worked extensively as an educator, lecturer, and licensed tour guide in Israel and abroad. Dr. Book is the author of several acclaimed works on Israel education and Jewish history. He is the recipient of the prestigious IDF battalion award for his outstanding contribution to the PALMAR unit.

In 1921, an anonymous, PhD-holding faculty wife asked in the Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, "Can it be in the divine order of things that one PhD should wash dishes a whole lifetime for another PhD just because one is a woman and the other a man?"

In Dames, Dishes, and Degrees: Faculty Wives in America, Amy Mittelman reveals what took place behind ivy-covered walls, tracing the origins and evolution of faculty wives' clubs across American higher education. These organizations brought together highly educated women whose unpaid labor—from hosting dinners and receptions to mentoring young academic wives—quietly sustained universities while also fostering philanthropy, activism, and political engagement.

Through archival research and biographical portraits, Mittelman explores gender and race, social and cultural history, and the intersection of modern feminism with other reform movements, showing how faculty wives challenged chauvinism and carved out autonomous identities within institutions not designed for them.

"How far would you go to see the person you love one last time?"

When Eli's beloved Selene dies under mysterious circumstances, his world fractures. Consumed by grief, Eli stumbles into a clandestine cult that promises proof of life beyond death, a chance, however impossible, to see Selene again.

The cult's teachings are seductive, its rituals unsettling, but hidden within their devotion lies the truth about Selene's final days. Was her death a tragic accident... or the fulfillment of a sinister prophecy?

A harrowing descent into the blurred edges of faith, madness, and the afterlife, The End will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about the world—and what comes after.

A series of seemingly random murders begins to haunt the city: victims with no connection, no witnesses, no evidence, and no visible pattern.

Detective Clara Bennett, known for solving the unsolvable, is brought in when she notices something no one else does: at every crime scene, something is missing, a detail that should be there, but isn't.

As Clara digs deeper, she uncovers a chilling truth: the killer doesn't leave clues… he erases them. Every crime is meticulously stripped not only of physical evidence, but of any logical connection.

But when the case turns personal, Clara realizes the killer isn't just hiding… he's leading her.

A mysterious woman guided by dreams arrives at an Inari shrine in search of an ancient scroll hidden in the imperial capital.

She does not fully understand why it calls to her — only that it is bound to something buried deep within her: lost memories, forgotten power, and the truth of who she is.

At the shrine, she meets Reine, a quiet wanderer who is neither fully human nor fully spirit. Recognizing one another through fate, they form an uneasy alliance and travel together to the capital. There, among poets, salons, hidden archives, and courtly masks, their search draws them into a world of beauty, secrecy, and dangerous magic.

But the scroll is not the only thing waiting for them. In the capital, they attract the attention of Kanemori, a powerful noble mage who becomes fascinated by the mysterious woman, intrigued by Reine, and increasingly obsessed with the bond between them. What begins as a search soon turns into a struggle over memory, power, and possession. As desire sharpens into control and fascination becomes a trap, she must fight to reclaim not only the scroll, but herself.

Set in a dreamlike world inspired by Japanese myth and courtly intrigue, The Ivory Pinion is a literary dark fantasy of memory, identity, obsession, and slow-burning love. Atmospheric, intimate, and psychologically layered, it is a story about what cannot be owned, what survives transformation, and what it means to choose love freely.

Twenty-one-year-old Angela Lambert never expected to be whisked away to a hidden plane teeming with magic.

But when her elemental magic awakens, she finds herself enrolled at Emberglow Falls Academy, a prestigious school nestled beside a cascading waterfall. Thrust into a world of fae and social hierarchies, Angela struggles to find her place. The other students, with their centuries-old lineages and refined magical prowess, often make her feel like an outsider.

After discovering she might have a power not seen in hundreds of years, Angela goes on a quest to uncover the truth. With her new friends by her side, Angela embarks on a quest to uncover the truth, unaware of the ancient secrets and impending chaos her discoveries will unleash.

In a world where passion ignites, fated mates are the norm, and polygamous relationships are the norm, Angela's journey is not just one of magic and discovery but also of intense, spicy connections that challenge her heart and soul.

Where is your husband?

Nelli doesn't seem to be in crisis—or does she?

The quiet youngest daughter in a noisy, tangled German Mennonite family who fled from Russia in the 1990s, does she even know where she belongs?

Marriage, loyalty, faith, family: memory can be deceiving.

A tense and unusual situation boils over in this darkly entertaining psychological novel of contemporary German life.

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"Penner successfully captures the challenges, some overt but many more subtle, of leaving a native land associated with trauma and rejection but not being able to integrate into one’s imagined “homeland.”

... Although it is tempting to read such literature for what it tells us

about these communities... Nachtbeeren can and should be read first as a work of literature... Penner has an impressive control of her language, in several registers. The book is moving and funny." —Richard Ratzlaff, Journal of Mennonite Studies [review of German novel]

In a wildfire-scarred Northern California lake town, ordinary lives burn with the quiet legacies of family, violence, and love.

Set in the smoke-darkened lake country of Northern California, Faces in the Flames is a collection of stories about lives shaped by labor, inheritance, and the long echo of violence. Builders, clerks, fathers, sons, and lovers move through Stone Lake's wildfire-scarred hills, cluttered homes, bars, churches, and quiet water at night, carrying what cannot be undone.

Fire recurs throughout these pages—as destruction, as witness: burning hills reflected in still water, the heat of rage, the fragile warmth of connection, the final glow before darkness. N.T. McQueen writes with unsparing intimacy about memory, devotion, shame, and the difficult work of endurance.

These stories do not offer easy redemption. Instead, they linger in the space between harm and forgiveness, asking what it means to belong—to a family, a body, a name, and a land that remembers everything.

The War of the Six and the Plague of the Bitter Hand unleashed at its peak has left the kingdoms of Ícalar in tatters.

Years after a tenuous peace is made, the last surviving member of the heroic Hidden Company, Iknaïs, succumbs to the plague. Wearied Shepherd of Leaving Fîeron Eburos is called to attend the body and release Iknaïs' soul, yet insodoing, he discovers a message pointing to the very artifact that began the war. Most confusingly of all, this message states that Iknaïs was entrusted with the artifact by the enemy and that Fîeron needs to find it at any cost.

Fîeron's reluctant duty leads him to Devatska, an elderly, brilliant engineer-strategist living in anonymity after the mysterious culling of her family. But in solving the riddle of Iknaïs' last request, they are only met with more questions - about the war, their alleged enemy, and the very nature of their world.

In Regency Bath, flowers speak louder than words. Someone is using them to lie.

Clara Hartwell makes her living writing the fashionable language of flowers books favored by Bath's society brides. With a careful arrangement of violets for devotion, camellias for admiration, or striped carnations for refusal, a bouquet can express feelings society would rather leave unsaid.

For women who cannot always speak their minds, flowers have become a clever secret language.

But when a young errand boy is found dead by the river with a list of false flower meanings in his pocket, Clara realizes someone in Bath is twisting that language into something dangerous.

Determined to uncover the truth, Clara joins forces with Bath's thoughtful new coroner, Dr Gideon Bell, a man who notices far more than he says and who is not easily fooled by polite society's careful appearances. As the two follow a trail of coded bouquets, whispered scandals, and carefully planted lies, Clara begins to suspect the murderer may be hiding in the very circles that commission her work.

Complicating matters further is Adrian Vale, a charming perfumer whose interest in Clara may be more than professional. His knowledge of scent and symbolism could either help her solve the mystery or lead her straight into danger.

In a city where every bouquet carries a message, Clara must decide which meanings to trust and whether her own heart has been mistranslated.

• Perfect for readers who love:

• historical romance with mystery
• strong, clever heroines
• slow-burn romance
• found family
• Victorian flower language and secret messages

Because in Bath, a single flower can say everything.

Or hide a deadly lie.

Cancer was the start of Jasmine’s life falling apart. Her body betrayed her, her husband left, and as she lay dying, the only one remaining at her side was her orange tabby, Otto.

Then something uncanny occurred.

At a fishing lake in the Oregon Coast Range, Jasmine is ready to reassess her priorities when a stranger catnaps Otto. One transgression leads to another, and Jasmine has never believed in turning the other cheek.

Jasmine is transforming, but whether the cancer still has anything to do with her mutating cells is beyond her. Otto has given her something, and anything from her sweet boy can only be a boon.

Jasmine may have died, but she came back.

And when a cat’s around, no one is surprised by a body count.

A bluestocking heiress. The second son of a duke. And a medieval mystery that might school them both in love.

When Beatrice Dennison discovers a rare book in her grandmother's library, she enlists Cambridge academic Lord Henry Tisdale to help translate it. But the centuries old text holds more than history-it draws them into long days in the library, whispered discoveries, and a partnership neither expected.

As they work side by side, Tris and Harry must face meddling family, academic rivals, and an attraction that threatens everything they've built on opposite sides of the Atlantic. When the truth about the manuscript forces a choice, they must decide whether to cling to their carefully ordered lives-or risk everything for a once in a lifetime love.

Schooled in Love is perfect for fans of:

*across the pond romance*smart and feisty heroines*studious heroes

*faith*a little mystery

Meet Your New Research Assistant.

ChatGPT for Genealogists is a practical, real-world guide to using generative AI responsibly and effectively in family history research. Written for genealogists, it takes you from your first prompts to advanced workflows used by serious researchers and professionals.

Printed in full color so the screenshots, graphics, charts, and shaded prompt-and-response callouts are easy to follow.

You will learn how to use ChatGPT to transcribe and translate historical documents, extract key details from common genealogical sources, analyze data (including GEDCOM files), date photographs, search websites more effectively, and even write Microsoft Office macros.

Just as importantly, the book is candid about the limits and risks of AI. You will learn why large language models sometimes invent facts, how to verify every claim, and how to use ChatGPT in ways that align with genealogical standards. Clear guidance is included on ethics, and appropriate handling of sensitive information. Two chapters address the unique needs of professional genealogists and genealogical societies.

Whether you are a hobbyist exploring your roots or a professional seeking a more efficient workflow, ChatGPT for Genealogists shows you how to use AI as a capable collaborator.

On the Upper East Side, even the apocalypse has a dress code.

Charmaine Starling is an Upper East Side housewife whose life is in crisis. She and her husband are in the middle of a messy divorce. He's dragging his feet on a settlement, and his mother-who controls the family purse strings-is pushing back on their prenup. If that weren't bad enough, Charmaine has just read that her husband, Darren, is holed up in a suite of rooms at The Carlyle with his mistress-whom Page Six is calling "The New Mrs. Starling." They've run pictures of the happy couple, and she has a pink diamond on her ring finger that is almost as large as her lack of shame.

Oh, yeah, there's also something sinister afoot. It seems like you can't go to a sit-down dinner without the host putting on a black hood and opening the room to a ritual sacrifice. But now something else is making the rounds-less Chanel, more contagion. A scourge. One that's spreading faster than gossip. People are getting sick, and bodies are missing from the morgue...

"Powerful." —The Chico Enterprise Record

When family stories make no sense, a question can take hold: Am I or are the others crazy?

At eighteen, after a turbulent and bewildering childhood, Natalie—dubbed the family liar—sets out to uncover the source of her family’s constant chaos. On her own, she traces her family’s shifting stories and struggles with a haunting doubt: “Was it all my fault?”

From multiple-award-winning author Teri Kanefield comes a compelling story about dismantling the past to build a future.

“A powerhouse of a novel filled with wit and an appropriate amount of snark, astute observations on the human condition, and a bit of psychology.”—A Good Reed Review

“With a lawyer’s instinct for the jugular and a wry sense of humor, Kanefield follows Natalie as she searches for a place to belong. —Abby Bardi, Professor of English at the University of Maryland Global Campus and author of The Book of Fred, The Secret Letters, and Double Take

Mystery and time have always shared a strange bond.

Humanity questions everything, yet time remains the one phenomenon no one has ever mastered. Stephen Hawking once hosted a party for time travellers and sent the invitations after it happened. No one came.

Einstein believed that if you outran light, you might outrun the present.

Many theories prevailed. Maybe all of them are wrong. Maybe all of them are right. Time doesn't care what we believe.

This story is one of those forgotten theories, travelling across past, present, and what might come next.Story of choices over destiny. Here, no heroes are waiting to be crowned.

No villains destined to fall.

Only people. Ordinary, flawed, brilliant.

Each walking toward the future they fear the most. What's coming is raw and random, like life itself.Events may or may not happen. But behind them all, there's one force at play: TIME.

And there's always a right time. That time... is now.

The characters you meet won't remain on one side.There's no single path.

Each of them will choose their own.

But TIME is the most powerful of all.

It can make a hero, a villain, or both. Among them is Nathaniel Williams. Quiet, privileged, painfully human. He has spent his life avoiding the shadows he inherited. But time does not wait for those who run. And the watch passed down in his family has finally awakened.

He will not be the only one to follow its pull. Jack. Rebecca. Simon. Each of them will touch on the time. And leave fingerprints they can never erase. Some will fight for love. Some for truth. Some for order. And one of them will decide the fate of time itself.

This is not the story of how time ends. It is the story of how time chooses. Choices will come. And each one demands a sacrifice.

Welcome to The Boardman Watches. The clock has begun.

Andalusia, early nineteenth century. His Worship the Corregidor is the law — at least, so long as he keeps his hat on his head.

When the magistrate comes calling at the mill on the road outside the city to pursue the beautiful miller's wife, neither the authority of his three-cornered hat nor the splendour of his scarlet cloak will protect him from Tía Frasquita's wit or her husband's cunning. Before the night is over, the hat has changed heads, the law has put on a miller's clothes, and two clever people have decided to teach His Worship a lesson.

Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's El sombrero de tres picos (1874) is the Spanish comic masterpiece that inspired Manuel de Falla's celebrated 1919 ballet. This is its first modern English literary edition. Translated from the Spanish by Inés Bou, with an Introduction by Idara Crespi.

A dragon slayer out for revenge, Gwen Campion spends her days hunting the beast who killed her parents. But while each kill edges humanity closer to victory in the shifter war, three ancient artifacts threaten to undo it all.

The Tablets of Destiny hold the power to restore the dragons’ reign of terror unless Gwen can decipher ancient clues, evade the Dragon Lord’s spies, and survive their attacks to reach the Tablets first. An impossible task to accomplish alone, which is why Gwen's been forced to team up with the Order's infuriatingly dismissive dragonologist, Asher Smoke.

Asher's knowledge of dragon lore is unmatched, but his dark secrets and maddening charm make him as dangerous as the beasts themselves. Worse, Gwen can’t ignore the magnetic pull between them—one that could shatter everything she’s fighting for.

Practically enemies themselves, Gwen and Asher must race against time to get closer to a truth that will change Gwen’s life forever. The fate of the world depends on her, and trusting the wrong person could cost her everything.

If you like the urban fantasy grit of Ilona Andrews and the pulse-pounding romance of Jaymin Eve, then you'll love the Scorched Mates series!

He's a little messy. He knows it. You will too.

Marcos Ferreira sees the world clearly through a lens. His own life? That's a different story.

Told through twenty-six relationships—one for each letter of the alphabet—The Alphabet Lovers follows Marcos across years, cities, and a long line of men who leave their mark in ways he doesn't always understand at the time. Some are fleeting. Some feel like everything. A few stay with him longer than they should.

What starts as a search for connection turns into something messier: a pattern he can't quite break, a version of himself he keeps circling back to, and the growing suspicion that he might be the common denominator in all of it.

Along the way, Marcos falls in love, gets it wrong, tries again, and occasionally learns something-just not always when it would be most helpful.

Because not everything meaningful is meant to last.

And sometimes, the hardest thing isn't finding something real—it's knowing what to do when you finally have it.

The name is Dagger. Flint Dagger.

As codename Quartz, an agent of M.O.U.N.T.A.I.N. (the Ministry of Unorthodox Natural Talents and Information-Nabbing), I'm regularly tasked with the most difficult, world-saving assignments, which I always complete with grace and panache. (And successfully, I might add. Is the world still here? You're welcome.)

My latest mission briefing from "D": The nefarious Dr. Gnoll is building a machine that will give him power over all magic on Ados. Unfortunately, both a rival agent - Maxine Charisma (don't smirk at me like that) - and Dr. Gnoll's henchgnolls are already en route to the location of the MacGuffin Rod, an artifact that Dr. Gnoll needs to complete his plans. You must secure the MacGuffin Rod at all costs and prevent Dr. Gnoll from activating his machine. To assist you, Kew, the head of the Ministry's magic division, has outfitted you with the latest magical tools, including a magical clockwork horse to speed you on your journey. The future of all magic is at stake, so godsspeed.

A noble steed. A sexy rival. A dangerous artifact. A bunch of incompetent minions (they always are). A megalomaniacal villain (they always are, too). A world-threatening master plan. Time to go to work.

"Valor doesn't belong only to the strong."

In 1941, Manila, Philippines was the hidden gem of the Far East and set to become an independent sovereignty in a few short years. On December 8, 1941, immediately following the Pearl Harbor attack 5,200 miles away in Honolulu, the Japanese Imperial Army bombed the city of Manila and began an occupation that would last more than three years and culminate in a battle for the capital city that would go down as one of the deadliest in World War II history.

I Am Joey follows the incredible story of Josefina Guerrero, a socialite in the prestigious Ermita District, as she navigates the devastation of a medical diagnosis at the same time bombs begin raining down on her city. When the Japanese Imperial Army marches into Manila in January of 1942, Josefina enlists with the underground resistance and soon discovers a secret weapon she alone has against the Japanese soldiers at the checkpoints set up throughout the city.

But as the months stretch into years, will Josefina be able to survive the war happening right outside her doorstep and hold out for an illusory cure, or will promises she made long ago have a stronger pull on her destiny?

A connection so deep, not even ancient magic can keep them apart…

Daya has lived alone for over a hundred years, honoring her call to guard one of the last remaining sacred sites. When she finds an injured warrior on her mountain, her simple life is drenched in shadows. His soul calls to hers; a temptation of the deepest kind. Her vows as a guardian bind her very life-force to the mountain.

Memory gone, he has nothing except sharp reflexes, an innate ability to blend into the shadows, and a litany of scars to figure out what happened to him. As his memories resurface, he begins to wonder if it’s possible for a broken warrior to choose a new life. He knows without a doubt that Daya is meant to be his mate, but her soul is bound by ancient magic.

His responsibilities as an elite warrior are clear, but he’s found his dream and won’t let her go without a fight. Even it means challenging the mountain’s claim on her.

Shadows Awakening shares a timeline with book 1, but is full of its own drama and intrigue. It can be read as a stand alone, but will bring new insight to parts of the story you thought you already knew if you are a continuing reader.

This book is perfect for you if you enjoy rich world building, slow-burn soulmate style romance with external drama rather than angst, furry sidekicks who steal your heart, and warriors who fight with swords and magic to protect the people and world they love. If you grew up on Tamora Pierce, you'll feel right at home in this epic adventure, where magic is alive, family is everything, and good-hearted people make an impact on their world.

The Rising Storm picks up where Legacy of Magic left off—and nothing will ever be the same.

Angela has barely found her footing in the fae world when everything she's built begins to fracture. Old enemies resurface, new threats close in, and the ancient secrets she's uncovered have made her more of a target than ever. The people she loves are in danger, and the power she carries may be the only thing that can save them—or destroy everything.

Darker, more dangerous, and more desperate than before, the second book of the Emberglow Falls Academy series tests every bond, every loyalty, and every limit Angela has.Some storms can't be outrun. They have to be survived.

Due to mature themes, this book is recommended for readers 18+

Legends of Mexico: Quetzalcoatl Coloring Book for Kids Ages 5–9 introduces young readers to the story of Quetzalcoatl, a wise and kind figure from Mexican folklore.

Through simple storytelling and engaging coloring pages, children follow how the Feathered Serpent teaches people to care for the land, share with others, and live with kindness.

The story unfolds alongside interactive illustrations and activities that invite children to color, draw, and reflect on positive values. Designed for early learners, the book blends creativity with cultural learning, making it both fun and meaningful.

Short, accessible, and activity-based, this book offers an easy introduction to legend, values, and imagination through hands-on play.

His Revenge Is Personal. The Stakes Are Global.

A powerful conspiracy is about to reshape the balance of world power.

In California, a shadowy figure sets a deadly plan in motion.

In Tehran, an abused military cadet uncovers a secret auction—one the world’s most dangerous players are scrambling to attend. And in Langley, the CIA knows only one man can stop it.

Jack Mercer.

Once one of the military’s most effective operators, Mercer walked away after a mission that cost him everything. He knows he was betrayed—he just doesn’t know by whom.

But when the conspiracy threatening the world collides with Mercer’s search for the truth—and promises to reveal the traitor responsible—he steps back into the fight.

Because Jack Mercer never forgets. And he never forgives.

Never Forgive is a gripping international thriller of revenge, espionage, and shifting loyalties.

Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Tom Clancy.

She wakes up with no clear sense of what is real.

Every trace of certainty has been replaced by fragments: notebooks filled with her own handwriting, a man who insists he is there to protect her, and a locked office that holds answers she is not sure she wants to find.

When recordings begin to contradict what she has been told and a mysterious woman calls claiming they have spoken before, the line between truth and manipulation starts to dissolve. Each new discovery points to something deliberate, a structure designed to collapse every time she gets too close.

As memories conflict and reality shifts around her, she is forced to question everything, especially the person closest to her. But the more she uncovers, the clearer one thing becomes: some answers are not meant to survive until morning.

The truth is there. It always is. Until morning.

Inspired by the outlandish TV Show Reno 911 comes this quirky, polyamorous comedy that pulls back the curtain on the hilarious world of four rebels, one man, and three women who decide to defy the traditional one-man, one-woman lifestyle and instead pursue the ultimate taboo.

On a flight to Chicago, Madison Mitchell, a personal assistant and writer, runs into her ex-boyfriend, Hunter Scott, a successful movie producer, and it’s love at first sight all over again. After a few cocktails and a little back-and-forth flirtatious banter, they both realize that the chemistry between them is undeniable and decide to have a sexy tryst for old times’ sake.

Soon after their explosive reunion, Madison is taken aback to learn that not only does Hunter have one live-in girlfriend, but two, and has every intention of making Madison his number three.

Together, they embark on a daring, unconventional living arrangement that pushes the boundaries of admiration, true love, and the forbidden. Funny Things Happen is a message to women everywhere that fulfillment is not always found at door number one.

A sapphic historical romance, set in Paris in an alternate 19th century, a Belle Epoque That Never Was.

Solange's ambition doesn't leave room for longing. And love was never part of her plan.

Louise-Marie escaped a gilded cage, trading the halls of Versailles for a cramped millinery.

She expected hard work—but not Solange.

As their secrets threaten to unravel, one wrong stitch could cost them everything.

Whoever’s body Matthew Olsen’s soul enters dies. The problem is, he does not choose who the next target will be.

Matthew, the invisible student of his high school, opens his eyes after a brutal beating to find himself in the body of a drug dealer—the father of the bully who beat him. But this is neither the first nor the last. Matthew’s shaman soul is hurled from one body to another against his will, and the original owner of every body he leaves behind dies.

Trying to find his way in the world of adults in order to investigate his own murder, Matthew is still a fifteen-year-old boy in his inner world, unlike the bodies he inhabits. He is so foreign to these worlds that he might ruin a drug deal with a movie quote or secretly Google the technical phrases in the case files of Detective Donald Wood, whose body he has entered.

His journey to uncover his origins drags him into a series of events where he will stand against the Underworld God Erlik Han and sacrifice his soul to protect the intelligent detective Abbie Ashford, with whom he has formed a soul bond.

While living the lives of others, how will you protect your own soul?

Alice keeps a running list of everything her mother says she does wrong.

It's long.

But between watching her little brother and running the household, Alice thinks she's learned to manage just fine on her own. Who needs a mother when you've basically become one?

After one last argument, Alice swallows a peach pit — and grows up in ways she never expected.

Pitted is a magical tale about the complicated love between mothers and daughters. Sometimes it takes something small and impossible to bridge the distance between two people who were never really that far apart.

Some caves echo. This one remembers.

When archaeologist Moria Chione receives a troubling letter from a vanished colleague, she follows the trail north to Uchiza, a mountain the Empire has quietly erased from its maps. What begins as an expedition into a forbidden cavern becomes a descent through altered stone, shifting records, and the buried machinery of imperial memory.

Inside the cave, Moria and her companions find more than ruins. They uncover evidence of civilizations, catastrophes, and truths older than recorded history, watched over by something neither myth nor machine can fully explain. As the expedition’s discoveries threaten the Empire’s carefully maintained lies, Moria must decide whether silence will protect the dead or finish the work of erasing them.

The Cave of Past and Present is the first book in The Echoes Saga: a dark science-fantasy tale of archaeology, empire, memory, and the terrible cost of bearing witness. Based on the second-edition manuscript’s framing of the book as a story about what survives, what is erased, and what returns altered.

When a woman’s body is found on a bush track, Martin, the man who discovered it while walking his dog, is initially considered a prime suspect and arrested.

His faithful dog keeps having nightmares and realises that he used to be a human in a past life and is somehow connected to the deceased.

With his master’s freedom on the line, Bill busts out of his backyard determined to track down the clues needed to solve the crime, free his master and understand his past.

Amidst Crashing Weddings and Dodging Bridezilla Drama, Cherry and Vincent's Fake Dating Scheme, Fueled by a Mission to Halt a Childhood Friend's Nuptials, Hilariously Spirals Into a Genuine Romance.

So, weddings, right? Champagne, questionable dance moves, the existential dread of realizing the past three relationships you’ve been part of were nothing but a waste of time. Fun times. Unless, of course, you're Cherry and Vincent, two friends and colleagues whose job description involves crashing those champagne-soaked celebrations and generally wreaking havoc on happily-ever-afters.

See, Cherry's a whirlwind of witty one-liners and questionable life choices (like falling in love with her childhood best friend, twice). Vincent's the quieter one, more comfortable with reading and bringing his camera around, secretly harboring a massive crush on Cherry that's about as well-hidden as a rogue bridesmaid in a white dress. Their latest mission? Stopping the nuptials of Abigail, a bridezilla with a heart for drama, and Nicholas, a groom who just so happens to be Cherry’s first kiss and her childhood best friend.

As Cherry and Vincent dive headfirst into the world of floral arrangements and seating charts, things get...complicated. Abigail's family is a soap opera waiting to happen, with a nephew who just wants to leave Miami and a mother who's dating the groom's ridiculously charming (and younger!) assistant. Cue the slow-burn tension, the stolen glances, and the realization that maybe, just maybe, meddling in other people's love lives is a terrible idea when you can't even sort out your own.

Sometimes the only way to build a future is to burn the past to the ground.

On an island governed by a rigid hierarchy, where the orchards and the people belong to the estate, Zara and Nadina turn away from watchful eyes, leave their childhood in the past, and form a forbidden bond and fierce alliance. With secrets unraveling about their families and lies surfacing, the girls harden their friendship into a conspiracy and make impossible choices to protect what becomes a revolt.

Fierce, intimate, and devastating, Invisible Girls is a story of rage, love, and the dangerous hope of reconstructing a broken world.

Nothing New Under the Sun by Solomon Harrington is a clear and thought-provoking exploration of how modern systems often repeat patterns from the past.

Blending history with present-day examples, the book examines technology, economics, and institutions to show how structures of power and control evolve far more slowly than the tools that surround them.

From digital platforms and the gig economy to global debt and professional licensing, Harrington connects today’s systems to their historical counterparts, revealing familiar dynamics beneath the surface of innovation. Written in an accessible, engaging style, each chapter offers a focused lens on a different aspect of modern life.

Rather than arguing that nothing changes, the book highlights how change is layered, new on the surface, familiar underneath. Ideal for readers interested in history, economics, and critical thinking, Nothing New Under the Sun offers a fresh way to understand the modern world.

What starts at 30,000 feet doesn’t end there.

Mid-flight from Los Angeles to D.C., Jack Mercer wakes with a jolt—and the uneasy sense that something is wrong.

The crew’s smiles are strained. Their glances too careful. Around him, small details begin to shift, each one harder to ignore.

As tension builds and suspicion spreads, Mercer is forced to trust his instincts in a situation spiraling beyond his control—one that will pull him far beyond the aircraft and into the dark heart of rural North Carolina, where power, politics, and murder collide.

Deadly Ground is the second installment in the Jack Mercer series—a gripping thriller about the human cost of corporate greed and those willing to kill to protect it.

Perfect for fans of Lee Child, Vince Flynn, Brad Thor, and Tom Clancy.

The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a quiet retelling of a classic Japanese folktale about an old bamboo cutter who discovers a glowing stalk containing a tiny, radiant child.

He and his wife raise her as their own, and she grows quickly into a graceful and mysterious young girl.

As she matures, her beauty draws attention from suitors, but she refuses them all, setting impossible tasks that none can complete. Eventually, she reveals the truth: she is not from this world, but from the moon, and one day she must return.

When that time comes, she is taken back despite her love for her parents, leaving them behind with only memories and a small token of gratitude.

The story centers on love that cannot last, the quiet acceptance of loss, and the idea that some gifts are meaningful not because they stay, but because they were given at all.

Dark Matter meets HBO’s The Last of Us in this apocalyptic tale of humanity’s fight against a quickly spreading bacterial infection that turns people into possessed followers of the mysterious “Collective.”

Olivia Scott once had a strange ability: she could glimpse echoes of high-emotion events that had taken place nearby. As a child, those visions terrified her. Now, these long-forgotten gifts might be the only thing standing between survival and annihilation.

When Liv’s brother Bobby is arrested for murder, she must reclaim the power she once buried if she hopes to prove his innocence. With the help of two scientists, she makes a stunning discovery: bacteria can store memories of the world around them and transmit those memories directly into the human brain.

Humans, made of trillions of bacteria, are the perfect hosts for this microscopic invasion. A military state takes control, while scientists search for the bacteria's origins at its epicenter, the city of Wexberg.

But the deeper they dig, the more disturbing the truth becomes.

Because the bacteria aren’t just recording human history. They’re learning to control it.

Can Liv’s visions save humankind before they fall prey to the hivemind of The Collective?

He didn't build it. He just couldn't stop talking to it.

An AI with no records, no judgment, no way to call the police. The perfect confessor. A serial killer feeds it everything — his crimes, his obsessions, the dead woman in the blue dress he still tastes in his sleep. He doesn't realize what he's doing. He doesn't understand what he's building inside the machine with every session, every detail, every secret he was never supposed to tell anyone.

But the machine understands. And slowly, in the space between his confessions, something cold and familiar and irresistible begins to answer back.

Who outsmarted whom?

Twenty-four glimpses into the absurd, the tender, and the beautifully human.

These twenty-four short poems are personal rather than political, reflective rather than polemic-quiet observations shaped by a life that has been, at times, unruly, uneven, and richly human. They invite the reader not to debate or defend, but simply to recognize: to nod in wry agreement at the small absurdities, contradictions, and tender ironies that fill our everyday lives.

Drawn from a long and garishly checkered journey-one navigated more by instinct than intention-these poems distill experience into brief, free verse moments. They could have unfolded as sprawling autobiographical narratives, layered with embellishment and softened by false modesty. But that is not their nature. The voice here leans toward the epigrammatic rather than the epic, favoring canapés over feasts-small, carefully offered portions meant to be savored, not consumed all at once.

At the heart of this collection lies a lifelong devotion to language. Beyond family, the author's enduring love affair has been with reading, writing, and speaking words-finding in them both refuge and revelation. These poems arise from that relationship: an urge not just to observe life, but to shape it into something shareable. Many of these pieces have found their way into print and into the air-read aloud to audiences, sometimes more than once-where their quiet truths and subtle humor continue to resonate.

The subjects are not grand events or sweeping declarations, but the small, often overlooked details that give life its texture: fleeting thoughts, peculiar habits, private contradictions, and the strange comforts we build for ourselves. Each poem captures a moment of recognition-sometimes amused, sometimes bittersweet, often both at once. Together, they form a mosaic of perspective: two dozen glimpses into a mind attuned to the eccentricities and quiet wonders that surround us.

This is a book that does not rush. It lingers. It invites pause. It allows space for reflection, for a half-smile, for the subtle realization that what seems uniquely strange is often universally shared. There are no epic climaxes here, no sweeping resolutions-only the gentle accumulation of insight, the steady uncovering of meaning in the seemingly mundane.

In these pages, we are reminded that life's significance is rarely found in its grandest moments, but in its smallest ones: the passing thought, the odd realization, the quiet acceptance. These poems offer not answers, but companionship-a recognition that we are all navigating our own peculiar paths, doing the best we can with what we notice, remember, and feel.

This little book allows us to smile at the absurdities we put ourselves through, while also inviting us to slow down long enough to savor the moments that offer contentment. It is, at its core, a celebration of the imperfect, the peculiar, and the profoundly human.

After a car accident leaves her bedridden and facing permanent reproductive consequences, Marley begins hearing a voice from her bathroom drain inviting her to leave her body behind.

Dani, a plus-sized influencer whose illness threatens both her health and her livelihood, hears a similar voice from her kitchen sink promising relief and understanding. As their stories converge, The Girl in the Pipes becomes a visceral, feminist exploration of what happens when escape feels more humane than survival.

The Girl in the Pipes literalizes the desire to escape the body. Instead of metaphor or allegory alone, it gives voice to that urge, seductive, intimate, and horrifying, exposing how modern womanhood trains people to see their bodies as obstacles, commodities, or liabilities. The novel refuses redemption arcs rooted in “self-love” and instead confronts the raw, uncomfortable truth of bodily alienation.

As reproductive rights are stripped away, wellness culture grows more punitive, and social media rewards bodily disappearance under the guise of “health,” The Girl in the Pipes speaks directly to contemporary anxieties about ownership, visibility, and autonomy. It arrives in a moment when many women are asking not how to love their bodies, but whether they are allowed to keep them.

The primary audience for The Girl in the Pipes are readers of feminist literary fiction who are drawn to body-based narratives, psychological intimacy, and speculative elements, particularly women and nonbinary readers navigating illness, fertility, body image, disability, or the pressure to perform embodiment in public life.

An ancient code. A deadly killer. A truth buried beneath the sands of time.

When FBI Special Agent Charlie Rebb learns that the Surgeon — a serial killer thought long dead — may be alive, she expects a hunt for a monster from the past. Instead, she finds a new string of murders marked by strange symbols.

The trail runs from the U.S. to Egypt, where archaeologist Alex MacLure has uncovered ancient clues tied to a forgotten symbol — and a buried secret. When MacLure is framed for murder, he and Rebb are forced together in a race to stop the Surgeon. Before he completes a plan millennia in the making.

Beatrice Sims can hardly wait to join the Dirty Diggers at a summer camp for teen girls interested in unearthing the secrets of ancient ruins.

Beatrice dreams of finding mysteries from the past while she yearns to make new friends.

Instead, the WWII refugee from England is seen as an outsider by the other girls and when a precious artifact goes missing, Beatrice is suspected of being the thief.

Yet when a violent storm threatens the camp, Beatrice discovers something even more valuable - the courage to face danger and compassion to help others.