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Bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Fable for the End of the World Ava Reid is back with a thrilling new duology unlike anything you've read before. This collector's edition features a color-swapped embossed cover, illustrated endpapers, foiled cover, and striking edges.

It's a game--until it's war.

• A disgraced politician from a powerful American dynasty.
• A coldly brilliant strategist who will sacrifice anything to win.
• A former pageant queen with a talent that could change the world.
• An expert female soldier with an enigmatic past--and a dangerous secret.

In an alternate future where the Cold War still rages, four precocious teenage criminals with dark skills and darker secrets are offered a fresh start at a secret military academy. But instead of training to end the war, they find themselves on a mysterious mission that will test loyalties, forge romances, and maybe end the world as they know it.
This deluxe limited edition features:

• Color swapped and embossed jacket
• Intricately foiled case design
• Custom designed edges
• Character portrait illustration endpapers

A moving personal narrative from Grey's Anatomy and Euphoria star Eric Dane, on the most impactful days--past, present, and future--of his life.

In 2006, Eric Dane guest starred on Grey's Anatomy as Dr. Mark "McSteamy" Sloan, a moment that would change his life. What was intended to be a one-time guest appearance, landed him a recurring role on the Emmy nominated show and would launch his acting career, leading to other roles in hit series like The Last Ship and Euphoria.

Years later, Dane experienced another life-changing moment: being diagnosed with ALS. The sudden diagnosis caused him to slow down and reflect on the moments that had shaped him. In My Book of Days, Dane shares these reflections and invites readers to do the same with their lives.

Told through a series of "days" that each illuminate a defining experience or emotional truth, My Book of Days captures everything from the grind of his early years in Hollywood and the hard-won peace of sobriety to the profound clarity that came with his ALS diagnosis. With his newfound perspective that our days are all we truly have, Dane reflects on the beauty and weight of each one--on the joy, the pain, the lessons, and the grace found in simply being present. Dane also looks beyond his lifetime to the "future days" that would come after he was gone--days meant for his daughters to read, to remember, and to carry forward. He leaves behind not just a record of his life, but a lasting guide to cherishing time itself: a reminder that while most of us don't think in days, we should, because each day is both a story and a gift.

Poignant, vulnerable and deeply human, My Book of Days is a profound meditation on the passing of time and what matters most when you're looking at life through the lens of a terminal illness.

Bromeliad House, once a sprawling heirloom estate on Florida's Treasure Coast, is now a crumbling relic of a family worn to its barest threads. Within its walls, Delphine began seeing the doppelgängers of loved ones before they died. A phenomenon known as a fetch.

Delphine Pembroke sees a fetch for the first time at ten years old in a mirror at her family's decaying subtropical estate. Soon after, she goes to live with her aunt and uncle and their two boys, who attempt to give her a normal life. Since childhood, she had witnessed the impending death of loved ones, creating a compulsion to never look in reflections. When Delphine becomes heir to Bromeliad House, she is ensnared in a sentient house desperate to keep her, and ghosts within set to keep her out.

As head architect on the property's renovation, Delphine battles both human and spectral foes, while falling in love with someone whose fetch she had seen years earlier. Someone who should be dead. Delphine must learn to manage her second sight. Even if each time she sets foot in Bromeliad House, she is pushed further towards the fate of her family members forever entombed within its reflections.

When everything she built came crashing down, she thought her life was over. In truth, it was just beginning.

All Rise tells the extraordinary true story of Rashmi Airan, a high-achieving lawyer, mother, and daughter whose picture-perfect world shattered when her choices led to a federal prison sentence. Stripped of her titles, freedom, and identity, she was forced to face the truth she had long avoided: The prisons we build within ourselves can be harder to escape than any with walls.

Inside those walls, Rashmi found what she had been searching for all along: clarity, courage, and connection. What began as a reckoning became a rebirth. In this deeply personal and profoundly hopeful book, Rashmi weaves her story with lessons on leadership, ethics, and resilience through her RISE Through It(R) process. Her journey invites each of us to confront our own hidden prisons and transcend struggle toward authenticity and purpose.

All Rise is a powerful reminder that even in our darkest moments, transformation is possible--and growth is not found in perfection, but in our messy, uncertain moments of struggle.

Welcome to the dark and secretive world of Ashthorn Ward, the kingdom's most brutal military academy-where weapons aren't forged of steel, but of people.

Nineteen-year-old Lory has spent her life surviving Dunai's alleys with blades, wits, and an iron will. Now, caught and conscripted, she must endure Ashthorn, where rivals are lethal, failure is fatal, and obedience comes at the cost of herself.

But Lory is not like the others.

When the Ward uncovers a dangerous secret in her blood, she's offered an impossible deal: survive their trials, and she'll serve the crown as a weapon honed for war. Fail-and she won't leave Ashthorn alive.

Overseeing her transformation is Captain Khayrivven Falcrest. Cold, ruthless, and utterly untouchable, he's the last person she should trust-and the only one who seems to see the person beneath the monster the Ward wants her to become.

As war rises beyond the border and rebellion festers in the shadows, Lory must navigate Ashthorn's deadly games-and her forbidden gift-before both claim her.

Enemies. Rivals. Lovers.

At Ashthorn Ward, trust is a weapon, love is a liability, and the only way out is through blood.

Bright Burns the Flame is the first installment in a darkly romantic fantasyscape, perfect for fans of slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, morally gray heroes who fall first and hard, heroines who fight for their own power, and magical academies filled with secrets and danger.

Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, Quicksilver, and A Court of Mist and Fury.

This series is part of the ALCUNAIRE.

From the bestselling, award-winning master of uncanny fiction comes a defining work, twenty years in the making--a deeply moving, decade- and continent-spanning epic of personal grief, global tumult, and grim conspiracy.

Maur's life has been shaped by loss: an apparently ordinary tragedy. But in its aftermath arise deeper, stranger questions. Their answers may lie within the dark heart and darker history of an old soldier who shares Maur's obsessions and who is violently pursued by the same unknown, unquiet forces.

So begins a book unlike any other: at once an encyclopaedic and multitudinous saga of a bloody century and the intimate story of two lives, their loves, regrets, and secrets--and a terrifying journey into infinite mystery.

The hotly anticipated second book in Ryan Cahill's break out debut series The Bound and The Broken.

With an exclusive alternative colorway, stunning digital fore-edge, designed endpapers, sewn binding and acid-free paper - the North American Edition is a signed, limited, special edition hardback perfect for fans new and old.

Heroes will rise. Nations will fall.

Behind the towering walls of Belduar, Calen Bryer and his companions stand in defense of the city and its new king. In over a thousand years, Belduar has never fallen. It has stood as a bastion of hope. But the Lorian empire are at its walls once more, and the Dragonguard are coming.

In the North, with Faenir by her side, Calen's sister Ella arrives at the port of Antiquar. She holds no fear of the unknown. She will see this through, no matter what - or who - gets in her way.

Meanwhile, at the embassy of the Circle of Magii in Al'Nasla, Rist Havel hones his newfound powers in preparation for the trials. Unbeknownst to Rist, he is being watched, measured, and judged. He was not taken into the Circle by chance. There is greatness in him. But great men can do terrible things.

As Lorian forces land on southern shores and Aeson Virandr's letters of rebellion find their way to the right hands, only the Knights of Achyron see the true danger. The danger that stirs in the darkness. The coming shadow will not stop. It will consume all in its path. It wants for nothing but blood and fire.

A twenty-six-chapter journey through the history and working of the English alphabet by linguistic guru Danny Bate.

You'll never look at a keyboard the same way after reading Danny Bate's fascinating linguistic history' Sunday Times

'A wonderful achievement! A breath-taking adventure through the alphabet - each letter a hero with a remarkable story to tell. An absolutely delightful read, filled with jewels of lightly worn scholarship and dazzling insight. I just couldn't recommend it more highly.' Stephen Fry

Why does 'W' sounds like 'double U'?
What has the letter 'Q' got to do with monkeys?
Why are the 'C's in circus pronounced differently?
What's the point of the second 'N' in the author's first name, 'Danny'?
And why does 'Q' need to be followed by 'U'?

Every letter you're reading right now has a fascinating story to tell, having been on a long linguistic, historical, political and social journey.

In Why Q Needs U, linguistic expert Danny Bate takes readers on a fascinating odyssey through the English alphabet, diving into history, archaeology, politics and linguistics to discover where we get our writing from. Sharing fun facts and revealing the alphabet's hidden mechanisms, he explains where we get our letters from and why the English language uses them so strangely, including:

- why a silent final 'E' turns 'hop' into 'hope'
- how five English letters come from a single graphic grandparent
- why there is an 'L' in 'salmon' and a 'K' in 'know'
- how we may know the specific person who invented the letter 'G'
- why 'Z' is the sixth letter for the Greeks, yet the last letter for us

Explaining - and defending - the peculiar way English today uses our ancient letters, Bate's witty and entertaining book will help readers spot connections in languages across the world and inspire a newfound sense of wonder for the letters we use every day.

Embrace the changing seasons with this beautifully illustrated collection of folkore and myths of The North.

Have you ever wondered how snow came to be white?
Or why the elusive March hare hurries through the fields?

From joyous tales of renewal and transformation for Spring, to hushed stories for long Winter nights, each season has a particular spirit which is celebrated in folktales from across the northern climes.

In these magical retellings of classic folktales, we journey from snowy mountain peaks to wild forests and stormy coastlines, as we observe the moon phases, find folkloric treasures and meet an array of strange and mysterious creatures. We'll encounter sprites, trolls, mythic beasts and monsters - from the bramble boggle (a mischievous member of fairy folk who is said to have given blackberries their thorns) to the sea witches and selkies who roam the Northern shores.

Each folktale is accompanied by stunning bespoke artwork by the author, Morvern Graham, who is a multi-award-winning illustrator, printmaker and storyteller. Her work celebrates the natural landscape and blends the ancient tradition of aural storytelling with playful visual artistry.

Through the power of stories we can light up our minds with a wild, child-like wonder, and reconnect our hungry souls to the natural rhythms of the shifting seasons.

From Jennifer Welch, the host of the widely popular "I've Had It" podcast and a trusted voice in new media, comes a piercing, incisive, no-holds-barred take on the rising threat of theocracy in America and a fresh vision for how we can take back our country

As a progressive atheist from a Bible Belt red state, Jennifer Welch has a unique perspective on the intersection of religion and politics in America. She has seen how the far right has used religion across denominations to coalesce power--in the executive branch, on the courts, in Speaker Mike Johnson--and also how their messaging, particularly the Evangelical prosperity gospel, re-enforces economic inequality. We know about Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Oil, but we rarely talk about Big Church, which is tax exempt. In Not Today, Fascists Welch explores how America is moving not only towards fascism, but also theocracy. She points out the similarities between authoritarian religions and authoritarian governments. The former primes the psychological soil for the latter. While the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle of America, rogue actors and institutions are seeking to dismantle it. The stakes could not be higher.

Like Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny and Madeleine Albright's Fascism, Not Today Fascists will show readers how the separation of church and state is not only essential to our democracy, but fundamental to the protection of our human rights. Welch offers a warning about what can happen if we continue down this path, while advocating for a new way forward, a vision that centers human decency, structural equality and a populist economics perspective that is the only proven position to resonate across the aisle in a world of otherwise entrenched partisanship. Not Today, Fascists will arms readers with the language and facts they need to discuss crucial politics issues, to win elections and to take back our country.

Fiercely witty and sharply narrated, VESPER is an anti-romance literary novel about independence, love, and self-discovery through the eyes of consultant Vesper. Blending the cultural zeitgeist of Sex and the City with the philosophical depth of Milan Kundera, it's perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton, Sarah Rose Etter and Adelle Waldman. Vesper Elsegood is in love. With being single.She can't understand why any of her friends would want to settle down. Because if she's learnt anything about New York's ruthless dating scene, it's that love is an ever-changing concept, a silly game, and there are rarely any winners.But when Caspian walks into her life, an enigmatic and ambitious entrepreneur with a vision for launching a prestigious global prize to celebrate philosophical thinking, Vesper is momentarily undone. And as the chemistry between them intensifies, she soon finds herself re-examining everything--her relationships, her career, her ability to rewrite her own story. In this restless city, where everyone seems fixated on either finding themselves or finding their perfect match, Vesper must decide whether she's met the one she wasn't looking for, or if she's the only one she really needs...A bold and unapologetic observation of what it means to be a single woman in New York City, Marks' debut novel is equal parts emotional portrait, cultural inquiry, and contemporary coming-of-age--a story about subverting gender norms, dismantling inherited narratives, and choosing a life that is wholly one's own.

A rich collection of plant-based Ghanaian recipes and some of West Africa's singularly iconic dishes--from the beloved creator of Eat with Afia

Afia Amoako grew up in a kitchen that was never quiet, never empty, and never boring. Food, she understood from a young age, was the essence of her family's Ghanaian culture. It was represented in the red palm oil that colored their stews; it was pounded into the plantain and cassava-based fufu they ate with soups; and it shone through in the indigenous spices that flavored kebabs and so much more. So, when her family immigrated to North America and Afia found herself drawn to a plant-based lifestyle, she worried that her connection to her home country would be lost. But happily, as she immersed herself more in West Africa's culinary traditions, seeking to learn about and replicate the recipes she grew up on, food offered that connection to Ghana. In Eat with Afia, Afia assembles a warm and ever-comforting blend of recipes that pay homage to Ghanaian cuisine from a plant-based perspective.

Including stories of Ghanaian foodways, culture and family traditions, Eat with Afia is an irresistible invitation to explore with Afia as she cooks her way through Ghanaian classics and her favorite dishes. From quick bites like Kebab Mushrooms and Roasted Plantains to hearty meals like Groundnut Soup and Garden Egg Stew, and, of course, Afia's recipe for Jollof Rice, this is a collection of recipes to delight all of your senses. Bursting with vibrant photography, Eat with Afia is a heartfelt plant-based journey into an exciting cuisine.

A rollicking, beautifully illustrated adventure through the history of the English language--from social media star Olivia Swarthout

English is, by many measures, the largest language in the world--and doubtless the unruliest. Over the last millennium, we've borrowed, stolen, conquered, and invented our way to a massive lexicon (a million words by some counts), filled with numerous untold stories.

Enter The Wordspotter's Guide, a delightful tour through our etymological past. Did you know that the term silhouette comes from 18th century French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette, whose austerity measures caused his name to be associated with any low-quality work, such as the black paper cutouts that were a cheaper alternative to traditional portraits? That the word unfriend actually dates to the 17th century? Or that robe and robbed share an etymological root, dating to a time when constructing clothing was so labor-intensive that it was the most valuable thing in most people's homes and thus likely to be stolen?

Olivia Swarthout tells a deeply-researched, authoritative story about the history of the English language--without losing sight of the fun. If you've ever wondered which meaning of cardinal came first (the direction, then the Church figure, then the bird) or lamented that we no longer give people names like John the Wifeless, Ralph the Haunted, and Hugh the Ass (all citizens of 11th century Britain), this is the book for you.

Fool's Gold gives you the money-making hindsight that accomplished angel investor Henry Fiorillo wished he had when he was first starting out.

Angel investing--putting your own money into early-stage startups in exchange for equity--is a high-risk, high-reward endeavor that blends entrepreneurship with speculation. While stories of striking it rich have glamorized the industry, the reality is that most startups fail, founders can dissemble, and investors are often left with tough lessons and empty pockets. Yet for those willing to learn--and to learn from the best--there is a shot at winning.

With over 60 years of real-world experience, Henry Fiorillo takes you behind the scenes of startup investing. He guides readers through a digestible series of lessons that blend evidence-based financial models and psychological theories with personal insights drawn from his own wins and losses. This book reveals what you truly need to evaluate when considering startup investments--and spoiler--it's not just the business idea. Fool's Gold shares lessons, red flags, and essential questions that other startup manuals hesitate to disclose; it's essential reading for anyone curious about angel investing or already in the game.

Avoid being blinded by the shimmer of FOMO, polished performers, or overconfidence that lead to fool's gold investments. Instead, take advice from an investor behind storied startups as he teaches you the fine art of losing money, so you can master the finer art of making it.

What happens when the butterflies fade?

Butterfly Love is real-but it takes more than feelings to make it last.

In this honest and hope-filled book, Ken and Tabatha Claytor invite you into their journey-one filled with passion, pain, laughter, and grace. From falling in love to nearly falling apart, they share how God met them in the middle of their mess and taught them how to rebuild from the ground up.

This isn't just a love story. It's a guide for every couple who wants more: More connection.

More joy. More of the love they dreamed about in the beginning.

Whether your relationship is thriving, struggling, or somewhere in between, Butterfly Love will help you rediscover the beauty of choosing each other again and again-with God at the center.

Cruise through the colorful world of collectible kicks with this giftable pocket-sized celebration of sneaker culture.

From classic Air Jordans and Chucks to new and exciting designer collabs, Small Luxuries: Sneakers explores one of the world's most expressive and accessible forms of fashion, tracing how athletic shoes evolved into cultural symbols of identity, creativity, and status. Across five richly illustrated chapters, discover the design breakthroughs, subcultures, and collaborations that reshaped the global market--spanning early canvas classics to futuristic 3D-printed designs.

Featuring over 80 photographs and illustrations, this compact yet luxurious volume spotlights:

• Icons like Nike, Adidas, Puma, Converse, and New Balance
• Streetwear partnerships and limited-edition releases that define today's sneaker economy
• Sustainability and resale culture
• The growing influence of women in sneaker design

Both a crash course and a collector's keepsake, Small Luxuries: Sneakers celebrates the personal style, global trends, and stories behind the world's favorite shoes. Whether for a collector, dreamer, or everyday admirer, this book is a "small luxury" every sneakerhead deserves.

Small Luxuries celebrates the artistry of the everyday objects that shape our style and stories. Each volume explores the craft, culture, and character behind these beloved obsessions, revealing how they evolve into lifelong passions. Richly illustrated and insightfully written, the series is a tribute to the makers, materials, and memories that turn familiar belongings into extraordinary icons of personal expression and style.

Also available from the series:

• Small Luxuries: Watches
• Small Luxuries: Film Cameras
• Small Luxuries: Vinyl