Collection: Adult

In the small coal camp of Jubilee, West Virginia, Phinnie "Skinny" Caldwell has been plagued with nightmares of the last time she ever saw her mama alive and the man responsible for stealing her away: Zell Dorsey.

When Zell Dorsey returns thirteen years later, alone, Skinny is determined to find out what really happened. As she uncovers disturbing truths about her mama's fate and Zell's sinister plan, she turns to Happy Walker, her school bus driver and the closest thing she has to a father. However, nothing can prepare them for what they find: Behind Zell Dorsey's charming veneer, is a creature both older and far more evil than any devil, and he's hellbent on turning everyone Skinny loves into oil-slicked monsters.

This book is a testament to the resilience of grieving mothers and the tenacity of the beautiful people of Appalachia, a place where the accents sing rather than talk and the tea is always sweet.

An inspiring story of adventure and endurance in a quest to rediscover the passions of youth.

At the end of 2019, Tom French retired from a four-decade career in business, determined to return to interests that had defined his youth and see what meaning they still held. One of these interests was mountaineering. Another was adventure travel, with a particular focus on Nepal. A third was cross-country ski racing. Having taken "gap years" between school and university, and again before he started work, he decided to take a gap year before settling into the expectations of retirement. One year turned into three as he rebuilt his athletic strength, competed in cross-country ski marathons, and climbed some of the world's highest mountains, including two expeditions to Mount Everest. On the first Everest climb, a cyclone forced him to turn around high on the mountain and descend the treacherous Lhotse Face in a blizzard. On the second, he approached the mountain through the remote Makalu Barun region, the first climber ever to do so, and climbed to the summit on a moonlit night.

But this is a book about much more than Everest. It is about beauty and joy found in wild places, about cross-country ski racing and mountaineering more broadly, and--most of all--about a journey to find meaning in life and reconnect with the passions of youth.

"The voice of a wise mentor comes through."--Kirkus Reviews

Elevate your sales expertise with advanced skills for top performers.

This powerful follow-up to How to Master the Art of Selling--with over 2 million copies sold--takes your selling capabilities to the next level. Perfect for evolving sales professionals, it provides the refined tools you need to stay mentally resilient, communicate with impact, and read the room like a pro. You will learn:

Strategic conversational leadership: Ask the right questions, guide buyer engagement, and manage pressure versus momentum.

Observational mastery: Recognize opportunity cues and know when to push forward or ease off.

Emotional connection: Spark excitement, build trust, and solve problems with empathy and authority.

The trusted advisor mindset: Shift from transactional pitches to respectful, service-oriented selling--be the professional clients welcome, not avoid.

Taylor McCarthy, a standout performer in door-to-door sales, closes in a single day what many average reps do in a year. His method? He reframes the salesperson role from the stereotypical Hollywood manipulator to trusted advisor, earning respect and trust, not just money.

Adapted from the principles of Tom Hopkins, whose training has shaped the highest-earning sellers on the planet, this book reimagines those time-tested techniques for today's high-stakes sales environment.

Timely and timeless, a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.

"To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is the new heroism of the woman writer, and Kavenna is in the vanguard of it."--Rachel Cusk

Who decides the rules of the games we play?

In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find the head of the Society of Lost Things, Theodoros Apostolakis. Fortunately Apostolakis isn't lost but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful ancient box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.

Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.

Why do some fights for justice hit a wall while others succeed? What does it take to win social change, especially now? It comes down to understanding one thing: the difference between presence and power.

Failing to do so is one way we got into this mess, but understanding how power really works is a big part of how we get out of it.

Rashad Robinson would know. A social change strategist, he's spent more than twenty years at the highest levels of leadership in two of the most significant social movements of our time: the fight for LGBTQ rights and the fight for racial justice. He's taken on tech giants and the criminal justice system, politicians in Washington and corporate executives in Hollywood. He's been on the front lines of protest and in the back rooms of negotiation.

Robinson argues that achieving presence--the visibility of marches, media fads, and making issues popular--is not the same as gaining the leverage required to change the rules for how society works or change the decisions that politicians, corporate executives, and other people in authority make.

This book offers a set of essential lessons about power for anyone who wants to understand it, gain it, and use it to win the progress we all deserve--and to defeat the forces trying to take our freedoms away. Robinson provides the tools needed to help everyday people build real leverage in systems designed to prevent them from doing so.

As someone who helped shape the resistance after the 2016 election, and continues to help leaders at every level find innovative ways to fight back and win progress today, Robinson offers a hopeful, practical guide to achieving positive impact in the most challenging times.

Celebrates 25 years of Buffett's focus investing strategy with fresh insights for today's investors

For more than two decades, The Warren Buffett Portfolio has guided investors toward mastering the art of focus investing--a strategy that concentrates on a select group of superior businesses rather than spreading resources thin across countless holdings. With the release of the 25th Anniversary Edition, Robert G. Hagstrom, one of the most respected interpreters of Warren Buffett's investment philosophy, offers fresh insights into why concentrated portfolios remain the key to long-term wealth creation, even in today's volatile markets. This updated edition addresses the limitations of conventional portfolio theory and challenges readers to rethink risk, diversification, and market efficiency through the lens of Buffett's remarkable success.

Hagstrom expands the original work with powerful new material that reflects what he has learned since introducing the concept of focus investing. New chapters explore the philosophy of focus investing including a deeper exploration of Charlie Munger's "Art of Achieving Worldly Wisdom." In addition, there are new chapters on the mathematics of focus investing, psychology of focus investing and how to think about the structure of markets.

Equipping investors at every level with the tools, models, and mental framework needed to build portfolios capable of outperforming the market over time, The Warren Buffett Portfolio, 25th Anniversary Edition:

• Compares modern portfolio theory with Buffett's alternative view of risk and portfolio management.
• Provides update analysis of "Superinvestors of Buffettville."
• Explains probability theory and how to apply to investing, Kelly Optimization Model, high active share investing, frequency versus magnitude, sideways markets, trends of the system versus trends in the system.
• Explores the psychology of investing through the insights of myopic loss aversion, the fallacy of risk tolerance questionnaires, System 1 and System 2 thinking, and the psychology of misjudgment models.
• Tutors readers on how to build a latticework of mental models explaining the core models of rationality, pragmatism, philosophy of language, self-reliance, physics model of equilibrium along the side the biological model of evolution and adaptation.
• Presents new frameworks for how to think about market prices and the changing structure of markets, patience premium, wisdom of crowds and diversity breakdowns.
• Offers a fresh, new approach to investing called "business-driven investing" designed for achieving and compounding long-term growth.

Combining rigorous analysis with practical guidance, The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy, 25th Anniversary Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in finance, economics, and investment management courses, especially within MBA and CFA programs. It also serves as a trusted reference for professional investors, portfolio managers, and financial advisors seeking to refine their strategies and achieve superior results

An expeditionary force will discover unfamiliar lands, fight deadly foes, and reveal secrets as they explore the mysterious new earth they now call home in this gripping alternate history adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.

Ever since the World War II-era destroyer USS Walker was marooned on a strange alternate earth, naturalist Courtney Bradford has been eager to fully explore the planet. Now that the war with the Grand Alliance's enemies has settled into an uneasy peace, he is given leave to organize the Corps of Discovery, a motley company formed of veterans of the Great War from all over the Alliance.

On board the rebuilt Walker, now a school ship, they set out to investigate reports of a region in the Pacific where ships have gone missing and a terrible bright flash of light on the horizon was witnessed. But what they find there is beyond anyone's imagination: a great battered fleet made up of strange ships. Courtney suspects the rusty armada may have been transported to this world from another, the same way the Walker was almost five years ago.

But the Alliance's enemies are already aware of these lost ships--and the deadly technology they can harvest from them--and are willing to go to any lengths to steal them. Courtney, a crew of inexperienced cadets, and a handful of lethal commandos are all that stand in the way of another global war--one that the exhausted Alliance simply can't win.

This colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people.

It was a summer like no one had ever experienced: in the four months from May to September 1945, the old world collapsed, and a new one opened up. The heinous Third Reich was over, ushering in an era of freedom, but also fresh conflicts.

With a gripping historical panorama, Oliver Hilmes offers insight into this unprecedented summer, from the perspectives of the victors and the vanquished, victims and perpetrators, celebrities and unknowns. The "Big Three"--Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--determine the course of history at the Potsdam Conference. German housewife Else Tietze fears for her son's safety. US soldier Klaus Mann tracks down Nazi criminals. And in Berlin Billy Wilder plans a comedy about life in the ruins. Cafés and restaurants reopen their doors, and Red Army soldier Vasily Petrowitsch is begged for bread by German children.

Through a series of scenes that lead from Berlin to Tokyo, from Munich to Paris, from Bayreuth to Moscow, Hilmes captures the unique atmosphere of this time of extremes: the great happiness and hope of the liberated; the misery, grief, and fear of the defeated; and the uncertainty that comes with freedom.

Bring you eras to life with inspiration and practical advice from the signature looks and glamorous wardrobe of Taylor Swift

Calling all Swifties! Pop legend Taylor Swift is known for her iconic style transformations for each album, both her lyrics and outfits are a beloved part of the performance.

From chapter to chapter, learn how to incorporate elements of Taylor Swift's wardrobe into your own style. From her teenage country days to her bejeweled bodysuits and notable red lip, Swift's silhouettes, color palettes, and aesthetics bring her eras to life.

• Are you feeling FEARLESS in cowboy boots and a sundress?
• Are you feeling like a LOVER in pastels and soft silhouettes?
• Are you feeling RED in a bold lip and retro sunglasses?
• Are you feeling EVERMORE in a cozy cardigan and braids?

Style Codes: Taylor Swift is filled with practical tips, anecdotes, and inspiration to not only incorporate elements of Swift's fashion legacy into your own wardrobe, but how to be fearless and tell your own style love story.

From the founder of LogoLounge comes a definitive guide to creating timeless visual identities.

The LogoLounge Guide to Iconic Branding blends decades of trend forecasting and practical insight to help designers build logos that last. Known for his annual trend reports and top LinkedIn Learning courses, author Bill Gardner, founder of Gardner Design, reveals the principles, patterns, and processes behind enduring brand marks.

This book goes beyond just inspiration--it shows you how to understand trend trajectories, when to evolve or break tradition, and how branding is shifting with emerging technologies like AI, AR, and sonic identity. With more than 500 images, case studies, and a comprehensive look at branding elements, this is a must-have resource for any brand designer.

Features include:

• Expert insights from trend forecaster and LogoLounge founder Bill Gardner
• Case studies from visionary designers worldwide
• Frameworks for understanding trends and projecting future visual languages
• A global perspective from industries, cultures, and design eras
• Explorations of future brand environments, including AI, the metaverse, and sensory branding
• 500+ visuals, including logos, identities, timelines, and more

This visually rich, idea-packed volume is perfect for professional designers, brand strategists, students, and anyone who wants to better understand how branding evolves--and how to build marks that last.

Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated

Today, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we confront both the enormity and the intimacy of the contemporary service sector.

Do these jobs have anything in common? Who is doing this work? And what kind of labor politics does it generate?

If service work has often been treated as a footnote to modern capitalism, Beneath the Wage reveals it as crucial to understanding how exploitation functions today. Uncovering a history that runs from eighteenth-century servants to present-day gig workers, Annie McClanahan retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated.

Assembling a diverse set of sources for understanding and reimagining service work--from reality television and conceptual poetry to novels and workers' own descriptions of what they do--McClanahan explores three paradigmatic types of contemporary service labor: superexploited tipwork, deskilled clerical microwork, and informalized gigwork. She shows how work done "beneath the wage" depends on racialized and gendered forms of economic domination, is often excluded from labor organizing and regulation, and yet has begun to generate a new politics of social reproduction and solidarity.

Robert Cooper--deputy assistant attorney general for counterintelligence in the DOJ's National Security Division--has built a storied career distinguished by high-profile arrests and prosecutions of enemy spies. One morning, he's approached by a Russian sleeper agent looking to defect. The agent offers Cooper alarming information: Russian operatives have infiltrated the US government at its highest levels, including a mole in the senior ranks of the FBI. Cooper's investigations lead to the discovery of a clandestine Russian plot involving deep-cover agents in senior government positions. As Cooper and his team at the DOJ race to uncover the Kremlin's plans and unmask the traitors, a coup in Russia brings to power a militant extremist regime seemingly intent on sidelining the US on the world stage while Russia retakes its former Soviet territories. In Robert B. McCaw's fast-paced novel, high-stakes political intrigue mixes with riveting moments of international espionage.

Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." From its ashes the city reemerged to reach new heights, whether in stock averages or the gleaming pencil towers punctuating Midtown. But at ground level the city's basic institutions were cracking. The city was rebuilt on a foundation of deep inequality.

This elegant history traces the making of contemporary New York over the half-century from the fiscal crisis of the 1970s to the Covid pandemic. The focus is on city life in three of its key dimensions: housing, schooling, and policing. With finance and real estate driving the city's growth, each of these areas became more exclusive, less democratic. Affordable housing grew scarce, with the homeless population surging and working New Yorkers paying rents well above the 30 percent standard of affordability. Underfunded public schools were crowded out by better-resourced charter schools and academies, magnet schools, and gifted-and-talented programs. Policing was the most volatile flashpoint over this fifty-year period. Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Broken Windows strategy of attacking crime by cracking down on minor offenses escalated into Michael Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk policy, which targeted young Blacks and Latinos and yielded relatively few arrests. The city's deepening inequality was heavily racialized, one of many connections between this New York story and those of cities across the country.

The rich cast of characters ranges from mayors, governors, and headline public figures like Al Sharpton, to behind-the-scenes reformers like the progressive educator Deborah Meier, to the everyday New Yorkers who organized to support rent guidelines or local control of the schools. It is in a widespread civic engagement that the city's progressive traditions continue to thrive.