Collection: Adult

Take your chess game to the next level with this exciting and approachable guide for intermediate players from YouTube's top chess teacher Levy Rozman (aka GothamChess).

Unlock the secrets to mastering chess and moving beyond the basics to dominate your matches with How to Win at Chess, Next Level. This comprehensive guide for midlevel players (1000-1600 Elo rating) teaches you everything you need to know to transform your approach to chess and elevate your gameplay as you face more challenging opponents.

How to Win at Chess, Next Level takes a deep dive into the crucial aspects of evolving into an advanced player: pawn play, piece play, tactics, attacking, defending, converting winning positions, endgames, and--most important--how to make a winning plan. Including over 500 instructional gameplay illustrations and exclusive bonus content on Chessly, Rozman's online teaching platform, this book is packed with practical advice and strategies. Rozman also shares best practices for how to leverage powerful tools like chess engines, game analysis, chess bots, and training puzzles, to help broaden your knowledge and secure more victories.

Whether you're aiming to defeat your friends or become a Grandmaster, How to Win at Chess, Next Level is guaranteed to enrich your understanding of the game and elevate your skills!

Life's a beach . . . until you die.

Fear is growing in sun-soaked South Florida. Hot on the heels of local resident Gil Shecker saving an heiress's cat from the jaws of an alligator, one of Norah McCarthy's misfit residents at her Florodora apartment complex finds a body on the beach.

It appears a serial killer is brutally strangling young blonde women. When Gil is stabbed in what seems to be a separate attack, Norah is persuaded to investigate his murder. But while Norah uncovers Gil's spine-tingling secrets, the beach body count is rising . . . At least one deadly critter is intent on terrorizing the local community, and this time it's no alligator.

This addictive, quirky crime series set in Florida is perfect for fans of Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey.

The queen of historical crime brings chariot racing to life in all its gruesome and glamorous glory. Murder in Purple and Gold features Davis' trademark sharp wit, memorable characters and a clever mystery.

When Flavia Albia stumbles upon the murdered corpse of a young man near Rome's famous Circus Maximus, she is about to embark on one of her most dangerous and complicated cases.

Rome and the Romans are obsessed with chariot racing. Lepo was the rising star of Purples, a new team created by the psychotic Emperor Domitian with big money backing. Suspicion immediately falls on Lepo's
greatest rival, Agathon, a young man emerging from a rival team, the Golds. Convinced of his guilt, a lynch mob is hunting them.

The Gold faction hire Flavia to clear Agathon's name, especially as he has an alibi for the night of the murder. But as Flavia soon finds out, nothing is at it seems in the dangerous and glamorous world of the charioteers in which fortunes can be won or lost in seconds and violent death is always just one race away.

Perfect for fans of Steven Saylor and Simon Scarrow, this is the fourteenth book in the beloved Flavia Albia series.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, from 28 February to 19 April, 2026, this book brings together leading authorities on Rose Wylie's work and many of her distinct images.

Rose Wylie OBE RA (b. 1934) lives and works in Kent. She paints from memory, frequently taking her imagery from mass media. Her large works on unstretched, unprimed canvas appear simple at first glance, but close inspection reveals them to be subtle meditations on the nature of visual representation. She regularly brings together apparently disparate images, creating visual rhymes and resonances that coalesce into unified compositions.

This new book, the catalogue of a large-scale exhibition at the Royal Academy, brings together leading authorities on Wylie's work and a host of her unmistakable imagery.

For the millions of home cooks who loved Ottolenghi SIMPLE, discover the pleasure of keeping things SIMPLE TOO.

It's a noisy world out there, and simple cooking is our solution.

Bring Yotam Ottolenghi's innovation to your everyday with 135 new recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert.

Every dish has simplicity at its core and can be made in under 30 minutes, cooked in one pot, or prepped ahead. Whatever your barriers to cooking, this book brings you into the kitchen with a promise that even the simplest of meals can be full of flavor and joy.

Attorney Devyn Payne is left navigating thin ice as her small-town community fractures in the wake of a shocking crime in River Deep, the second in the Bitterfrost thriller series from Edgar nominee and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bryan Gruley.

"Visceral, vivid, and suspenseful"--Meg Gardiner on Bitterfrost

Fighting for the cold, hard truth

Attorney Devyn Payne expects a quieter life when she returns to her hometown of Bitterfrost. Until the bodies of two eight-month-old boys are pulled from the icy depths of the local river. Was it a tragic accident or something more disturbing?

The twins' distraught parents survived the car crash, but their mother, Catriona Dulaney, was driving. Now she's charged with killing her babies, and her admission of guilt has leaked online. It should be the most straightforward case Devyn prosecutes all year. And yet, to her, it doesn't add up.

With time dwindling ahead of the trial, Detective Garth Klimmek questioning Cat's role in the tragedy, and a suspicious outsider loitering around town, this crime might just be the tip of an iceberg. Devyn's put two Dulaneys behind bars before. This time, whose side will she take--and what will it cost?

This suspense-drenched drama is perfect for fans of Dennis Lehane, the TV show Mayor of Kingstown, and small-town thrillers by Tim Johnston and John Sandford.

Dear American, No part of life in the United States has been untouched by Donald Trump's relentless weaponization of the Justice Department. This is a cautionary tale about how, once a president amasses such power, future presidents may never relinquish it.

Whose votes get counted and whose get tossed out? Who gets prosecuted and who gets protected, like Jeffrey Epstein's friends? Who gets to run our colleges and schools? How do citizens protest without getting killed? For generations, the Justice Department has sought to enforce the law fairly, without fear or favor. But Trump came into his second term with one obsession above all. "I was the hunted," he said. "And now I'm the hunter."

In this shocking exposé, the three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Devlin Barrett reveals the systematic way the president's men and women have dismantled the department as it once existed and retooled it to hunt Trump's enemies.

This time around, the president and his team have been far shrewder about getting what they want: revenge against the people who investigated and prosecuted Trump; revenge against a legal system he believes was set to ruin not just his career but also his life; and, ultimately, revenge against the parts of America he despises.

In a book filled with bombshells, Barrett describes how Trump's adviser Stephen Miller drives the department and the FBI on a daily basis; how the White House decimated the justice divisions that protect civil rights and punish tax cheats; how prosecutors deploy a "charge first, ask questions later" approach against those they don't like; and how lawyers are hired for the purpose of going after Trump's personal targets, such as James Comey, Jerome Powell, Chuck Schumer, and even the mayor of Newark.

Most concerning, Barrett shows how the Trump administration has shut down a program used to monitor and react to election security threats, raising concerns that future elections could be chaotic and that the Justice Department, rather than ensuring the integrity of the results, may instead serve as a megaphone for unfounded claims of fraud.

This is the inside story of the damage--and a road map for putting our justice system back together.

Hooray, it's Christmas! Celebrate the season with this collection of stories crafted for reading in five minutes or less, perfect for fans of the wildly successful animated series Bluey, as seen on Disney+.

Celebrate Christmas with Bluey, Bingo, and their family and friends! Play Veranda Santa, go for a Christmas Swim, and even take a trip to the beach. This collection includes 6 special holiday stories perfect for reading together during the festive season. It's ready to be picked up at bedtime, when you're on the go, and any time in between!

This storybook includes: Veranda Santa, Christmas Swim, The Beach, Swim School, Camping, and Cricket.

A spinoff of the smash-hit JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series featuring everyone's favorite manga artist, Rohan Kishibe!

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga famous for its outlandish characters, wild humor, and frenetic battles, and this spin-off featuring the popular Rohan Kishibe continues the tradition!

Rohan Kishibe has seen his share of bizarre adventures during his career as a superstar manga artist. Keeping an open mind is key to surviving life, and having a Stand like Heaven's Door helps keep life strange. Enjoy three exhilarating stories about the greatest artist alive!

This is a guide to learning kanji for non-native Japanese speakers. It is intended for those who have already learned hiragana and katakana. It explains the basic meanings, readings, stroke order, and idioms of kanji in English. To help memorization, illustrations depicting the character's origin and form are provided for every character. It covers a total of 1,000 kanji, including those equivalent to Japanese Language Proficiency Test levels N2 to N5, plus additional characters.

The Little Frog returns once more! Discover love, wisdom and beautiful affirmations for keeping hope in your heart, as told by the internet's beloved mushroom frog

On life's hardest days we all need a friend to lean on. Let the Little Frog be your light in darker times with this guide to hope. Filled with tender advice and soothing affirmations to uplift your spirit, this gentle volume is a hug in a book that will bring you comfort when times are tough.

Created by the Minnesota-based artist Maybell Eequay, this book is the perfect compassionate gift for yourself or others. Inside you will find:
- Over 40 hand-drawn illustrations of the Little Frog
- Thoughtful affirmations to help you find solace and resilience when life is challenging
- Uplifting reminders that, in a tough world, it's brave to hold on to the parts of you that are soft, and that somehow, someday, everything will be okay

This little book is a balm for the soul and will help you kindle self-love and hope when you need it most.

King of heroic fantasy and New York Times bestselling author John Gwynne returns with a blockbuster epic fantasy inspired by Slavic mythology and packed with ancient magic, heroic sacrifice, and thrilling adventure.

In this gripping and dynamic thriller, former FBI agent Ryan Tapia finds himself ensnared in the complex interplay of power, politics, environmental degradation, and resistance at a cobalt mine in Maine.

While building his career as a private investigator in the Maine countryside, Ryan Tapia takes the case of Dr. Ed Healey, a local physician suffering from an acute case of cobalt poisoning. A mine has recently opened in Pushaw county, extracting the valuable minerals needed for batteries in electronic devices and electric cars. But a deadly "Fan" of poison is seeping out . . .

But there are dark legacies in Pushaw that go back to the Salem witch trials and the community on nearby Witch Island, where the Thornfoot family is turning the tables and exploiting the vagaries of modern life for their own ends.

On the cusp of finding his personal happiness once more, Tapia is caught in the middle of this vortex of manipulation and money, desperation and deceit. Neighbors turn on one another and the people of Pushaw risk becoming as deadly to one another as the industrial poison simmering beneath the surface.

In Big Money, Small Town, Thomas Ricks has crafted a nuanced and enthralling novel that challenges our understandings of money and influence in every facet of modern life.

Hugo Vickers has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the royal family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man. There have been a number of books about the duchess, but this book brings a new perspective on the story by focusing on the later years of exile.