Collection: Adult

Experience the beginning of a thrilling epic fantasy series in RANGER'S OATH, where friendship fights failure - and the monsters thought to be only legends.

The barrier between worlds is broken. Only he knows the truth...

Magic has protected Tarsynium for a thousand years, shielding its people from being ravaged by bloodthirsty demons. When a young ranger's apprentice named Owyn Lund discovers that the Arc of Radiance has been breached, he tries to warn anybody who will listen.

But legends aren't supposed to be real.

When a village is mysteriously destroyed, rangers, mages, and rebels all point the finger, blaming each other for the demons' brutality. However, Zara Dennel, a mage's ward, has heard Owyn's tale--and she's inclined to believe him.

Together, they must prove that friendship is greater than intolerance, unity is more important than division, and that even the most powerful magic can sometimes not be enough.

Failure means the end of all things. A second--and lasting--Doom.

Experience the beginning of a thrilling Epic Fantasy series suitable for all ages.

Perfect for fans of: The Stormlight Archive (Brandon Sanderson), The Mistborn Trilogy (Brandon Sanderson), The Cosmere Universe (Brandon Sanderson), The Riyria Chronicles (Michael J Sullivan), The Shadow and Bone Trilogy (Leigh Bardugo), The Dragon Prince series (Melanie Rawn), An Ember in the Ashes series (Sabaa Tahir), A Court of Thorns and Roses series (Sarah J. Maas), The Wheel of Time series (Robert Jordan), the Ranger's Apprentice series (John Flanagan), and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.

A remarkable collection of the most personal aspects of Samuel Pepys' diaries, in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of their publication.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is the most celebrated personal journal in the English language.

Pepys's candid revelations as he forged his career as a civilian naval official in Restoration London have fascinated readers ever since the first selection was published in 1825. This book focuses on Pepys's controversial private life and is geared for a contemporary readership by charting his varied and complex relationships with women. These included his wife, Elizabeth--whom he both loved and treated abominably--their domestic servants, the mistresses whom he secretly visited in Westminster and Deptford, the great ladies of the court whom he ogled, and the actresses and other female friends whose company he delighted in and combined with casual flirting. All these he recounted in shorthand, often disguising the more salacious occasions in his own cryptic Franco-Latino polyglot or with a primitive system of extraneous consonants.

Most of these controversial entries were excised from nineteenth century editions, but all are featured here in completely new transcriptions--with Pepys's secret code translated--following fresh forensic examination from the original shorthand diary. The Confessions of Samuel Pepys also reveals how all previous transcribers of the diary, as well as many of his biographers, have deliberately avoided this controversial element of Pepys's reputation.

The first comprehensive survey in 40 years brings new scholarly attention and a feminist perspective to the Welsh painter with a singular vision of female interior life

Gwen John (1876-1939), best known for her portraits of women depicted in close tonal registers, was overshadowed during her life by her relationships with men, including her brother, the painter Augustus John, and lover, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. In recent years, leading art historians and curators have shed new light on John's significant contributions to British art, her connection to European modernism, and her serial process. Gwen John: Strange Beauties builds on this groundwork, bringing together the artist's distinctive oil paintings with rarely seen works on paper to illuminate the underexamined scope of her ambition, revealing lesser-known aspects of her practice--a vibrant use of color, plein air sketching and an interplay between figuration and abstraction.

Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales/Distributed by Yale University Press

Exhibition Schedule:

Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales, Cardiff
(February 7-June 28, 2026)

National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh
(August 1, 2026-January 4, 2027)

Yale Center for British Art
(February 18-June 20, 2027)

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
(July 30-November 28, 2027)

Find your joie or joy with this guided journal that brings a Parisian perspective to your everyday life and allows you to tap into the things that bring you gratitude and happiness, from the author of Joie.

While the French may have a reputation for grumpiness, they let nothing get in the way of their joie. They also know joy is not a feeling but something you cultivate. In fact, Parisian author Ajiri Aki reminds us that joy can be found anywhere--you only need to seek it out. Much like a gratitude or mindfulness practice, pursuing joy can put you in a calmer, happier state of mind, by helping you focus on the little things that make you happy in the moment.

Choose one of the twenty-five challenges, make a plan to follow through, and then use the prompts to reflect on the joy that activity brought you. Whether it's buying yourself flowers, hosting a small gathering, or taking a trip down memory lane, this journal offers small, actionable ways to bring more joy into your life. Once filled, it becomes a reminder of your own joie de vivre that you can look back on whenever you need a boost.

A history of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, from Revolutionary War allies to modern resurgence

How did the Oneida Nation of northeastern Wisconsin--stripped of nearly all its reservation lands by the early twentieth century--rise to become a powerful political and economic force in Native America and the present-day Midwest? Doug Kiel traces the journey of resurgence, adaptation, and nation rebuilding of the Oneida people, who navigated federal policies and socioeconomic shifts to chart their own future, transforming adversity into opportunity.

Kiel shows how Oneidas harnessed New Deal programs to advance their goals of self-determination; how urban migration, often seen as a marker of Indigenous displacement, became a tool of community empowerment; and how the Nation has reclaimed land and authority despite predictable backlash from neighboring towns. Drawing on extensive archival records, family photographs, and oral histories--including stories from his grandmother--Kiel highlights the everyday acts that have sustained the Oneida Nation across generations and offers vital insights into the broader fight for Indigenous nationhood in twenty-first-century America.

From Berlin to the Bronx, from Holocaust survivor to American success story, this riveting, fast-paced biography traces the extraordinary life of Gary "Pips" Phillips who defied the odds at every turn. With an Aryan mother and Jewish father, Pips could have escaped much of the Holocaust's horrors. Instead, he made a fateful decision at age 13 to become a bar mitzvah just as the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, effectively choosing to be labeled a Jew under Nazi rule. Pips's wartime experience is marked by daring escapes, improbable rescues, and survival while hiding deep within Nazi Berlin. Captured four times, he escaped thrice, choosing to remain in Nazi custody the fourth time as there was nowhere to run in bombed-out Berlin. At his place of confinement, he met his future wife, Olga Horvath, who had been imprisoned after surviving Auschwitz and the Death March to Bergen Belsen. After their marriage in chaotic post-war Berlin, they emigrated to the USA to start a new life.

Arriving in New York with nothing, Pips rose from waiter to co-owner of the world's largest photo agency--despite never owning a camera. Unlike Pips, Olga was unable to escape the shadow of her Holocaust experiences, and in a horrifying twist, she threw herself off the roof of their gleaming luxury high-rise after more than 50 years of marriage, leaving Pips grief-stricken, but also able to reinvent himself one more time. This cinematic life brims with chance, love, loss, resilience, and reinvention, culminating in a poignant exploration of Jewish identity, memory, and legacy. Pips's story is a tribute to the power of choice, endurance, and the human will to belong.

Set in the coldest, most inaccessible landscape on the planet, this is the story of a female scientist navigating Antarctica's extreme wilderness, revealing how nature can heal the human soul.

Where the Earth Meets the Sky is a chronicle of Louise's time working in the most isolated place in the world. With just one other human being and two thousand penguins for company, this remote Antarctic laboratory allowed her not only to advance the study of seabirds, but also to discover important truths about grief, loss, and the capacity of the natural world to help us heal.

Antarctica is a land of extremes. The coldest, windiest, and most inaccessible part of our planet, science and exploration there have long captured the public imagination. But while its hurricane force winds, tooth-breaking cold, and resident penguins have long been iconic, the perspective of a practicing female scientist is all but absent from modern day Antarctic accounts. Where the Earth Meets the Sky fills that gap.

At their base in a remote two-person research camp, Louise and her campmate David Ainley--one of the greatest Antarctic scientists on the planet--live in a world defined by hostile weather, breathtaking beauty, a continuous parade of avian visitors, and an occasional human visitor from a nearby research station. There she explores the lingering grief that has followed the untimely death of her sister, and presents penguins as a window into how climate change and other environmental impacts are altering what has been one of the most untouched corners of the globe.

While penguins and the awe-inspiring landscapes they inhabit provide the thread that runs through this story, a central theme is how the world's most unforgiving environment has shaped the psyches of Antarctica's human visitors, past and present. The story unfolds at the isolated scientific bases of Ross Island, where Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott launched their attempts at the South Pole. Dramatic stories of these and other early explorers are woven into the narrative, along with a cast of compelling modern-day characters who choose to spend long periods in extreme isolation.

As the globe lurches from one crisis to the next, Antarctica can be seen as a metaphorical place of sanctuary. Experiencing the Antarctic wildernesses has the potential to heal the human psyche and, perhaps, to give us the optimism to reimagine our relationship with the natural world.

MOVE OVER, BIG BANG! GET WRECKED, BIG CRUNCH! GALAXIES COME AND GALAXIES GO, BUT OUR PLANE OF EXISTENCE HAS NEVER FACED ANYTHING AS CONSEQUENTIAL AS . . . THE FIRST-EVER RICK AND MORTY COMICS EVENT!

From the deviant psyches of comics mastermind and multiple Emmy Award-nominee Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and artistic annihilator Jarrett Williams (Speed Force), this summer's seven-part countdown to the end of everything that was, is, and will be begins with . . . a bachelor party that gets a little out of hand?

Rick's old buddy Dimension C-137 (where Rick and Morty Cronenberg'd Earth) has reached his UNIVERSAL HALF-LIFE and is getting MARRIED--to the female-presenting embodiment of the Parmesan Dimension! He's found true love and wants his old pal Rick to plan his bachelor party! WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Answer: Pretty much everything . . . and it is all Rick's fault! Now Rick and Morty are on the run from EVERY SINGLE UNIVERSE THEY'VE EVER MESSED WITH--meaning, no matter what dimension they escape to, the universe will literally be against them. And, to survive, Rick will be forced to something he hoped he would never have to do--a last resort of EPIC PROPORTIONS!

DON'T CALL IT A CRISIS! The FIRST RICK AND MORTY COMICS EVENT in one EPIC volume, featuring Rick and Morty vs. the Universe #1-4 alongside three event tie-in one-shot issues featuring Summer, Jerry, Beth, Space-Beth, and Morty! Wubba Lubba Dub DUB!!

Writer/artist Shawn Kuruneru (The Goddamn Tragedy) explores stories of double-crossing desperation--and hopeless humanity--set against a backdrop of the lawless West in this duology of wild tales.

In Cave Grave, the art of double-crossing is taken to a new extreme as three struggling thieves attempt to pull off the heist of a lifetime--only to realize they've stolen more than they bargained for.

In Poor Moon, a cowboy searching for purpose turns to bounty hunting. Catch, return, reward--it's simple, until he picks up a bounty that'll change his life forever. Until the hunter becomes the hunted . . .

From USA TODAY bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, comes WARSHIP, science fiction with an all-new vision of humanity's future.

In the 25th century humans have conquered space. The advent of faster-than-light travel has opened up hundreds of habitable planets for colonization, and humans have exploited the virtually limitless space and resources for hundreds of years with impunity.

So complacent has humanity become with the overabundance that armed conflict is a thing of the past, and their machines of war are obsolete and decrepit.

What would happen if humans were suddenly threatened by a terrifying new enemy? Would humanity fold and surrender, or would they return to their evolutionary roots and meet force with force?

One ship--and one captain--will soon be faced with this very choice. Against incredible odds, Jackson Wolfe is determined to save humanity-and in the process, might end up saving himself.

2015 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Science Fiction

From USA Today Bestselling author Joshua Dalzelle, author of the bestselling Omega Force series!

The Expanse meets Old Man's War
For fans of: The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, Honor Harrington, Starship Troopers, Old Man's War (John Scalzi), The Forever War (Joe Haldeman), The Lost Fleet (Jack Campbell), Terms of Enlistment (Marko Kloos)

From New York Times bestselling author Douglas E. Richards, comes SPLIT SECOND, a science fiction thriller with a stunningly unique take on time travel, where traveling fractions of a second back in time can change the fate of humanity.

"Richards is an extraordinary writer!"--Dean Koontz

"Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton." --SF Book.com

"Will keep you turning the pages all night long." --Douglas Preston

A stunningly original twist on time travel from the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author, Douglas E. Richards!

What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery.

Nathan Wexler is a brilliant physicist who thinks he's found a way to send matter a split second back into the past. But before he can even confirm his findings, he and his wife-to-be, Jenna Morrison, find themselves in a battle for their very lives. Because while time travel to an instant earlier seems useless, Jenna comes to learn that no capability in history has ever been more profound or far-reaching.

Now, as Jenna fights to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against her, nothing less than the fate of humanity hangs in the balance . . .

SPLIT SECOND is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering the nature of time, and of reality, long after they've read the last page.

Michael Crichton's Timeline meets Peter Cline's The Fold !

For fans of Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Lee Child, Douglas Preston, Blake Crouch (Dark Matter, Recursion), Gillian McAllister (Wrong Place, Wrong Time), Nick Jones (The Joseph Bridgeman series), A.G. Riddle (Lost in Time, Quantum Radio), Patrick Lee (the Travis Chase series), Jack Finney (Time and Again, From Time to Time), The Man Who Saw Seconds (Alexander Boldizar), Lightning (Dean Koontz), The Fold (Peter Clines), and The Third Rule of Time Travel (Philip Fracassi).

From the fringes, the unknown beckons. Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Special Edition contains secrets that any player or GM can use to reveal the paranormal lurking in their Pathfinder games, all updated to work perfectly with the remastered Pathfinder Second Edition rules! This spine-tinglingly secretive 224-page rulebook presents two new character classes perfect for delving into the unexplained: Unleash the untold power of your mind as the psychic or leverage supernatural secrets and mystic implements as the thaumaturge!

Beyond these new classes, eight secret case files each provide player options, GM tools, and lore into a different paranormal topic, including:

• Strange cryptids glimpsed in the night, gear to track them, and the powers you might gain by surviving an encounter with one.
• Cults and esoteric belief, with apocryphal divine magic and the secret of becoming a living vessel for an eldritch being.
• Temporal anomalies, with archetypes that skim along the surface of time and a new mystery for oracles unbound from causality
• Each file concludes with a short adventure to immerse players in the paranormal, spanning across Golarion--play all eight to uncover the inexplicable phenomena of the Age of Lost Omens!

Pathfinder Dark Archive (Remastered) Special Edition is the perfect addition to the library of any player or Game Master who wants to add a touch of strangeness and mystery to their Pathfinder campaign.

This deluxe special edition is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.

The future of leadership begins with trust--and it starts within

In Whole Leaders, Wild Trust, leadership expert Dr. Rob McKenna redefines what it means to lead in a world fragmented by broken promises, disconnection, and low engagement. Backed by research with thousands of leaders and organizations, this book reveals how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt--and why whole leader development is the key to sustainable performance and well-being.

McKenna introduces his WiLD approach, a groundbreaking model that integrates personal growth, team dynamics, and organizational design. The result is a trust-building process that begins at the core of who we are and extends outward to reshape culture.

Inside, you'll discover:

• How to diagnose the trust fractures silently undermining your people, your teams--and even your own leadership--and quickly repair them
• Strategies to move your culture forward using the WiLD Trust Quadrant--from a Jungle of Trust to a Stronghold of Trust
• Ways to develop whole and trusted leaders with practical tools, measurable frameworks, and conversations that build real trust from the inside out

Whether you're a seasoned executive, a parent trying to raise a future-ready leader, an emerging professional, or someone simply trying to lead well in your corner of the world--this is your roadmap to becoming a whole and trusted leader. You'll learn how to build teams that don't just function, but lead movements.

It's time to stop reacting to broken trust--and start leading from it.

The first major biography on Anni Albers traces the complex personality and influential artistic career of the groundbreaking modern artist

Anni Albers (1899-1994) was a pioneer of twentieth-century modernism. As a textile designer, weaver, writer, and graphic artist, she inspired a reconsideration of fabrics as an art form, both in their functional roles and as wall hangings, and took the processes of printmaking into uncharted territory. This intimate biography draws on personal conversations with Albers from the 1970s up until Albers's death and on unprecedented archival research to tell a fresh and full story of Albers's life and the development of her unique and influential artistic vision.

Capturing Albers's extraordinary perspective about the world around her, whether the milieu she was observing was the wealthy bourgeois Berlin of her childhood or the Mexican villages where she came to feel remarkably at home, Nicholas Fox Weber brings the artist's pithy wit and imaginative mind to life. Weber presents a riveting narrative that follows Albers's trajectory from her time at the Bauhaus and at Black Mountain College to her later years in Connecticut. He considers her complex relationship with her world-renowned husband, Josef Albers, as well as her encounters with luminaries such as John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Louise Nevelson. He also describes her torturous, late-life obsession with film star Maximilian Schell, thirty-one years her junior. Weber foregrounds Albers's perpetual curiosity, originality, and humor, as well as her novelistic sense of the world around her.

A new perspective on renowned twentieth-century artist Paul Klee, revealing his enduring creativity in the face of darkness by foregrounding his lesser-known late work

Celebrated for his colorful, fantastical paintings, Paul Klee (1879-1940), a pioneer of modernism and expressionism, is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Though he is remembered for the chromatic style of his most famous works, Klee's late work reflects a dark and dramatic transformation, providing insight into the artist's psychological landscape.

Forced to flee Nazi persecution in 1933, Klee faced final years that were marked by exile, illness, and political upheaval. Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds takes the unsettling last decade of Klee's life as its subject, arguing that he accepted his vulnerability as a strength--one that enabled him to develop a personal rebuff of fascism through a lexicon of abstraction. With 120 illustrations highlighting works from throughout Klee's career, this catalog traces the evolution of his artistic practice and frames his late work in the context of his oeuvre. Essays by leading scholars and curators reexamine Klee's legacy and the importance of his late masterpieces as an artistic defiance against oppression.

Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York

Exhibition Schedule:

Jewish Museum, New York
(May-July 2026)

An internationally celebrated poet and critic translates Jagadish Chandra Bose's revolutionary writings on plant sentience and communication

Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858-1937) was a Bengali scientist and polymath who developed a theory of plant communication more than a century ago. Bose suggested that plants had their own vocabulary, an "unvoiced life" that he recorded as a "script" with a crescograph, a device that measured how plants respond to each other and their environments.

Inviting readers into the "resounding silence of the green plant kingdom," he described an underlying unity beneath the multiplicity of phenomena, and a world in which "endless music is sung everywhere." Dismissed as idiosyncratic and unscientific when he was alive, Bose provocatively challenged the hierarchy of living beings, which relegated plants to the bottom, and created a mesmerizing body of work on nonhuman intelligence.

Through her lyrical translations from Bose's essay collection Abyakta ("The Unsaid"; 1922), Sumana Roy reveals the revolutionary character of his mind, as poetic and philosophical as it was scientific.