Collection: Adult

«Una novela con agudo humor negro que mezcla el mundo de la magia rural con la psiquiatría moderna, planteando contrastes entre la herencia genética y la herencia cultural.»-Alaíde Ventura, Julián Herbert y David Toscana Jurado del Premio Mauricio Achar/Random House 2024

"No sé si estoy loca o embrujada", confiesa Gregoria, quien carga a cuestas con una herencia familiar que ningún amuleto de romero ha podido revocar: malos augurios que terminan casi todos en la tumba. Ahora este peligro invisible e inminente la persigue a ella. Decidida a huir de la ciudad, con muchas dudas sobre la enfermedad que la trastorna, vuelve con sus abuelos al pueblo Reforma de Pineda a buscar respuestas, entre limpias y ansiolíticos.

Con una técnica narrativa siempre en tensión, entre tragedia y humor negro, Berenice Andrade Medina logra en esta, su primera novela, un relato de contrastes que expone la frágil tela que divide al pensamiento mágico del científico.

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"I don't know if I'm crazy or cursed," confesses Gregoria, heir to a familial legacy of deadly premonitions that no spell or amulet has been able to lift. Finding herself the target of these invisible and imminent threats, she flees the city and takes refuge at her grandparents' house in the village of Reforma de Pineda. There, between exorcisms and doses of anxiety medication, she searches for answers to her questions.

Somewhere between tragedy and black humor, Berenice Andrade Medina's first novel is filled with narrative tension, a story of contrasts that exposes the fragile curtain between magical thinking and science.

«Guinea, la narradora -con sus relaciones rotas, sus recuerdos plagados de asco y el deseo de aplastar los olores de una casa podrida y macabra- tendrá que buscar la luminosidad de no hacerse más daño y poder gritar, romper, quemar, denunciar. Con esta novela, Santaolalla se atreve a nombrar lo que hemos callado y a proyectar, en un muro, el teatro de lo oscuro y lomacabro.»-Karina Sosa

En la casa nueva de Guinea, las paredes están tapadas con espejos de piso a techo; las cortinas, casi siempre cerradas, y los cuartos apestan a jabón y a desinfectante con olor a pino. El nuevo papá de Guinea se unta tantos aromas que a ella le pica la nariz cuando él se le acerca; y odia la luz, igual que los vampiros. Este papá vampiro dice ser sonámbulo y pasa el tiempo rondando a Guinea. Nadie más parece notar que es un vampiro, salvo su nuevo hermano mayor, Pascual, quien le cuenta historias para dar sentido a lo que no se puede entender. Mientras todo pasa, Guinea se refugia en un jardín, enorme y secreto, habitado por conejas y cubierto de niebla. Ahí, el tiempo pasa más rápido, y ella aprende que debe quedarse quieta, en silencio, casi sin respirar.

Una novela que recorre los espacios familiares que se fijan en la memoria por su naturaleza ominosa. Ximena Santaolalla, ganadora del premio Mauricio Achar-Random House 2021, nos entrega en esta, su segunda novela, una historia donde el juego es la traza del horror más íntimo, doméstico.

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In Guinea's new house, the walls are mirrored from floor to ceiling, the curtains are almost always closed, and the rooms smell of soap and pine-scented disinfectant. Guinea's new father wears so many scents that her nose tickles when he comes near and, like a vampire, he can't stand daylight. He claims he sleepwalks, and Guinea is always waking up to find him there. No one else seems to notice he is a vampire except her new older brother, Pascual, who tells her stories to explain the things she doesn't understand. Guinea's refuge is a vast secret garden, home to mist and a colony of rabbits. Time seems to pass more quickly there, and she learns to stay quiet, silent, hardly daring to breathe.

In this her second novel, Ximena Santaolalla, winner of the 2021 Mauricio Achar-Random House Prize, brings us an ominous tale about the most intimate kind of horror: family dysfunction.

2025 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

"Souto-Manning once again demonstrates that it is never too early to help our students understand the complexities of inequity. This is the text that early childhood educators need."--Gloria Ladson-Billings, author of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

"A timely and powerful reminder. We need this second edition more than ever before." --H. Richard Milner IV, Vanderbilt University
"This compelling new edition is a must-read for all early childhood teachers." -- Lester W. Young Jr., chancellor, NYS Board of Regents
This new edition of the bestseller Reading, Writing, and Talk responds to the urgent need for creating language and literacy pathways that are inclusive, intentional, and center wholeness and belonging.
The authors explain, show, and offer critical reflections on the development, teaching, and learning of reading, writing, and talk from preschool through the early grades--across language practices, dis/abilities, and contexts. This second edition troubles whose reading, writing, and talk belongs in schools, offering insights into and examples of fostering belonging in the classroom. It elucidates the racialization of academic language and analyzes school-sponsored language and literacy curricula to demonstrate the power of expansive literacies and linguistic justice in practice. Readers will enter classrooms where teachers learn from and alongside children, families, and communities about identities, practices, values, funds of knowledge, and more.
This thorough update of the popular text offers a wealth of knowledge and examples to help educators truly and fully teach reading, writing, and talk for equity and justice.
Book Features:

• Offers a warm invitation to shift mindsets and consider possibilities for furthering language and literacy development with young children.
• Brings to light powerful concepts like linguistic justice and communicative belonging through powerful classroom scenarios.
• Centers Black, Indigenous, and other children, teachers, families, and communities of color.
• Explains how oral language, reading, and writing develop and can be taught in the early grades across languages (bilingual, multilingual), abilities, and contexts.
• Focuses on constructing classrooms that foster belonging and on teaching for equity and justice.

A collection of ancient spells and incantations, translated and interpreted for today's reader, brings long-ago meanings closer for those engaged in magical practices of manifestation, prophecy, love, protection, healing, curses, and even vengeance.

Each page of Ancient Spells and Incantations holds verses adapted from text unearthed through extensive research--grimoires, letters, and trial transcripts from across the ages and around the world. Many of these were tucked away in university libraries not easily accessible even to one actively in search of them. Enid Baxter Ryce painstakingly researched this collection, finding fragments from across the centuries.

Translating some from Latin and Old English herself, Enid has made the spells accessible to today's witches. What was once whispered or chanted, spiraling in cursive, or carved in stone, still echoes like a song. The words that survived connect us to that ancient magic, and we can feel the truth and power.

As we marvel at these ancient magical words, we think of our ancestors. Thanks to them, scraps of papyrus, shards of pottery, secret books, and hissed recipes can, hundreds of years later, still show themselves to those who seek them.

Un libro de referencia sobre el TDAH escrito por una psiquiatra espacialista. Juncal Sevilla, presidenta de honor de la primera asociación de TDAH para adultos de España, te explica con rigor todo lo que tienes que saber sobre el Trastorno de Déficit de Atención en la edad adulta.

En el colegio te decían que eras inteligente pero vago. Te consideras perezoso, aunque te esfuerzas. Te despistas y no te enteras de lo importante en las conversaciones. Pierdes objetos y nunca recuerdas dónde aparcas el coche. Llegas tarde a todas partes y procrastinas mucho. Cambias de humor sin saber por qué y confundes horas, fechas y lugares. Te aburres con facilidad y dejas las cosas a medias. Haces gastos innecesarios. Interrumpes las conversaciones. Vives en una sensación de caos continuo. Padeces ansiedad o tendencias adictivas. Has visitado psiquiatras y psicólogos, pero sientes que no te entienden.

Si tú o alguien cercano a ti tiene algunos de estos problemas, puede que el problema sea un TDAH no diagnosticado. La doctora Juncal Sevilla explica en este libro de forma amena pero rigurosa, lo que es realmente el trastorno por déficit de atención e hiperactividad, más conocido como TDAH, y cómo afecta a los adultos.

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In this rigorous guide, Juncal Sevilla, a psychiatrist and honorary president of Spain's first ADHD association for adults, explains everything you need to know about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults.

Your teachers used to say you were smart but often distracted. You struggle with a sense of being lazy, no matter how hard you try to focus. You are easily sidetracked and miss the gist of conversations. You misplace things a lot and forget where you parked the car. You procrastinate and are always late. You have mood swings without knowing why and you mix up times, dates and places. You get bored easily and leave tasks unfinished. You spend on things you don't need. You interrupt conversations. You live in a state of constant chaos. You suffer from anxiety and have addictive tendencies. You've been to therapists, but you feel like they don't understand you.

If you or someone close to you fits this description, the problem could be undiagnosed ADHD. In this accessible but authoritative book, Dr. Juncal Sevilla explains the reality of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, better known as ADHD, and how it manifests in adults."

What If You Saw Your Hobbies as a Form of Worship?

Maybe you're an athlete or collector, a chef or film critic, a painter or video gamer. Your hobbies aren't arbitrary passions. The same God who formed your muscles and nervous system also formed the specific ways you love to play. He understands the delight you feel in your garden or your excitement as you open up a new board game. And he calls it good.

We often view play as a distraction from life's serious responsibilities, but in Created to Play, Brianna Lambert reveals the ways God blesses your hobbies and uses them to form and pull you into worship. Lambert explores ten different titles you may inhabit in your play: Beholder, Curator, Maker, Herald, Restorer, Connecter, Nourisher, Mover, Caretaker, and Historian.

This book helps you view your hobbies as opportunities not just for individual expression but also for communal enjoyment. Withwinsome practicality and theological reflection, Lambert draws you to glory in the God who loves and teaches you through play.

With Created to Play, you will:

• Explore how hobbies shape your spiritual formation, offering a fresh perspective on the theology of hobbies and leisure.
• Identify yourself among ten unique roles we take on through hobbies, uncovering how play shapes your identity in Christ.
• Learn to embrace rest and joy through hobbies, reenvisioning leisure as life-giving rather than wasteful.
• Challenge your guilt around play by learning how hobbies can form you spiritually, draw you into worship, and help you reflect God's character.

You can experience how God is already participating in your hobbies with you, sharing in the joy they bring. If you are seeking a biblical perspective on your hobbies or struggling to enjoy leisure amid the demands of a busy life, this book can help you reclaim play as a vital part of spiritual formation.

Play isn't about what you get or achieve but about who you become in the process.

The next book in the New Haven series, interconnected standalones featuring second chances, fiery passion, and Black heroines who get their happily ever afters. This is part one of a trilogy.

Mallory

The first time I kissed Christopher Johnson, I knew he would be my biggest mistake. It didn't stop me from wanting him though, and when the ghosts from my past came barging into the present, it didn't stop me from agreeing to let him help.

It was supposed to be a simple business arrangement, a few months of playing a role that came far too easily to the both of us, but it wasn't long before it became more.

Love. Devotion. Heartbreak in its truest form.

Some people say life is for the living, but I say life is for the prepared. For the planners who know that controlling every piece on the board is the only way to get the result you want.

To avoid unfortunate complications like having your heart broken by a man past experiences taught you, you never should have trusted in the first place.

Christopher

There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do for Mallory Kent.

I think I knew it the first time I laid eyes on her, and it's remained one of my unspoken truths for the two years that I've known her. But I never thought I'd get the opportunity to do anything about it because Mallory is one of those people who doesn't need anyone.

She's strong, serious, and always in control of every situation around her, which is why the second I see her looking panicked and uncertain in the arms of a figure from her past, I don't think. I just act.

I had no idea that one small decision would lead to this. A fake relationship--designed to solve her problems and mine--turned real. An earth shattering love torn apart by the very forces that led to its conception. Forces that turned me into the source of our destruction.

There's nothing in this world I wouldn't do for Mallory Kent, including break her heart to save her soul.

She's sworn to protect the realm. Her heart has other plans.

Lady Ammalie Avington, Baroness of Faebarrow, knows it's not safe to pine after the son of a demon. Especially not the blood mage who threatened and abducted her and now intends to bring ruin to the realm. The very realm she is sworn to serve. It's just a terribly inconvenient fact because, well...he's rather cute.

Despite her best efforts, Amma can't seem to get him out of her mind, not whilst locked up in a tower surrounded by infernal beings, nor trapped below ground in a den of beguiling vampires, and definitely not in the heart of a wild jungle under the tutelage of esoteric witches. She just can't help herself around Damien Maleficus Bloodthorne, danger be damned. And what danger is there? Damien's heart, the one he swears to not have, has been softening right before her eyes. Perhaps with her guidance, Damien won't rain chaos and destruction down on the world. Perhaps she can even save them both as Damien searches for a way to magically unlink them on their quest to fulfill their destinies.

So, when Amma learns she may have ancient, innate magical powers of her own, why not use them to do exactly as she pleases?

From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history, painting the brutal and captivating empire of gods and men, and the one queen destined to rule them all.

A common woman. The governor she married. The king who loved them both.

Babylonia across the centuries has become the embodiment of lust, excess, and dissolute power that ruled Ancient Assyria. In this world you had to kill to be king. Or, in the case of Semiramis, an orphan raised on the outskirts of an empire:

Queen.

Nothing about Semiramis's upbringing could have foretold her legacy. But when she meets a young representative of the new Assyrian king, a prophecy unfolds before her, one that puts her in the center of a brutal world and in the hearts of two men - one who happens to be king.

Now a risen lady in a court of vipers, Semiramis becomes caught in the politics and viciousness of ancient Assyria. Instead of bartering with fate, Semiramis trains in war and diplomacy. And with each move, she rises in rank, embroiled in a game of power, desire, love, and betrayal, until she can ascend to the only position that will ever keep her safe.

In her second novel, Costanza Casati brilliantly weaves myth and ancient history together to give Semiramis, the only female ruler of the Assyrian Empire, a voice, charting her captivating ascent to a throne no one promised her.

Sloane

Dominic Alexander is my late husband's best friend and the last man on Earth that I should want. He's arrogant, dismissive, and up until recently has only ever used those dark eyes of his to look right through me. For the last twelve years, he's taken a sick pleasure in making me feel paper thin, like my entire existence is of no consequence to him at all.

But now, things are different.

After one drunken night and a surprisingly sexy act of heroism, he's started to be...nice. Treating me like something other than the physical embodiment of his annoyance, which would be nice if it didn't make me feel all the things I swore to never feel for another man after my husband died.

Dominic

Sloane Kent is going to be my undoing.

What's worse: I think I'm going to enjoy being unraveled by the gold flecks in her hazel eyes and the adorable little way she scrunches her nose up when we're arguing, which we've done a lot of over the past decade. She thinks it's because I hate her, and I've always let her think that because the alternative is...untenable.

But something is changing between us, and I don't know how to stop myself from breaking every promise I've ever made to myself regarding my best friend's wife. Promises that include never telling her that there's a long list of things I feel about her, but hate isn't one of them.

One week. No drama. And absolutely no dating each other.

After graduating college, five friends make a pact. Every summer, they'll meet for one week at the same beach house on the California coast to relive the golden days of college. There's just one rule: no dating within the group.

Simple enough, except Everett and Sutton already broke the rule before summer even began... and couldn't seem to stop. What started as a one-time fling turned into an annual habit neither of them could quit, until the night everything fell apart.

Five years later, Sutton has no interest in seeing Everett ever again. Until one of their friends, newly divorced and looking for an escape, calls everyone back to the beach house. She expects awkward silences and forced smiles, but nothing could prepare her for Everett--still infuriating, still magnetic, and still capable of unraveling her with a single glance.

As the week stretches on and every re-lived tradition, shared meal and outing bring a flood of sun-soaked memories that feed the spark between her and Everett, Sutton begins to wonder if the promise that broke them apart was worth keeping in the first place... and if breaking it again will ruin the delicate balance their friend group has finally started to reclaim.

**Selected for 2026 Doody's Core Titles in Anatomy/Embryology**

The Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy contains unparalleled, world-renowned illustrations that emphasize anatomic relationships that are most important to the clinician in training and in practice. Unique among anatomy atlases, with illustrations created by clinicians, for clinicians, the fully revised 9th Edition illustrates the body, region by region, in clear, brilliant detail from a clinical perspective, providing more than 550 exquisite plates plus dozens of carefully selected radiologic images for common views. This masterful, foundational content empowers readers with vital anatomy knowledge-whether studying anatomical donor gifts in a dissection lab, visualizing living anatomy through clinical imaging, performing a physical exam, or observing a surgical procedure.

• Presents world-renowned, superbly clear views of the human body from a clinical perspective, with paintings by Dr. Frank Netter, Dr. Carlos A. G. Machado, and other artists working in the Netter tradition
• Offers region-by-region coverage, including muscle tables at the end of each section and quick reference tables on major nerves and structures with high clinical significance
• Contains new illustrations throughout, including the inguinal canal and round ligament; a unique view of the cavernous sinus; axial cross sections through the midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata; Morison's pouch; auditory ossicles; and the maxillary nerve
• Features content guided by expert anatomists and educators: Martha Johnson Gdowski, Virginia T. Lyons, R. Shane Tubbs, Paul E. Neumann, Jennifer K. Brueckner-Collins, Peter J. Ward, Brion Benninger, and an international Advisory Board
• Uses updated terminology based on the second edition of the international anatomic standard, Terminologia Anatomica, and includes common clinically used eponyms
• An ideal resource for students and clinical professionals who are learning anatomy, participating in a dissection lab, sharing anatomy knowledge with patients, or refreshing their anatomy knowledge
• Provides access to extensive digital content: every plate in the Atlas?and over 100 bonus plates including illustrations from previous editions?is enhanced with an interactive label quiz option and supplemented with plate descriptions that provide quick key points of the major themes of each plate. Digital content also includes new video guided tours of over 100 of the illustrated plates, over 300 multiple choice questions, several 3D models, and other learning resources
• An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the figures and text, with the ability to search, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud

Also available, alternative versions of the 9th Edition:

• Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: A Systems Approach-Same content as the classic regional approach, but organized by organ systems.
• Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach-hardback Professional Edition with downloadable image bank for personal use.
• Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach with Latin terminology

All options contain the same table information and same 550+ illustrated plates and radiologic images.

Evolve Instructor site with slide decks of the bulleted plate descriptions are available to instructors through their Elsevier sales rep or via request at https: //evolve.elsevier.com.

Explore your emotions through creativity in this essential mental health journal

We all experience a range of emotions throughout our lives, from joy and excitement to sadness and frustration--and they're all completely normal. This journal offers creative prompts, imaginative practices, and evidence-based exercises to help you dive into your feelings with compassion so you can connect with how you truly feel and find ways to thrive.

• Reflect on your emotions--Thought-provoking journal prompts help you explore your mental health, increase your awareness, and acknowledge your feelings.
• Engage your imagination--Creative exercises like drawing your emotions and writing letters to yourself to help you overcome challenges, think more positively, and feel better about yourself.
• Shape your experience--Reduce stress and anxiety with practices you can implement in your everyday life, from breath work to nature walks.

Discover how a little creativity can boost your well-being with The Mental Health Relief Journal.

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.

Our lives are increasingly governed by automated systems influencing everything from medical care to policing to employment opportunities, but researchers and investigative journalists have proven that AI systems regularly get things wrong.

Auditing AI is a first-of-its-kind exploration of why and how to audit artificial intelligence systems. It offers a simple roadmap for using AI audits to make product and policy changes that benefit companies and the public alike. The book aims to convince readers that AI systems should be subject to robust audits to protect all of us from the dangers of these systems. Readers will come away with an understanding of what an AI audit is, why AI audits are important, key components of an audit that follows best practices, how to interpret an audit, and the available choices to act on an audit's results.

The book is organized around canonical examples: from AI-powered drones mistakenly targeting civilians in conflict areas to false arrests triggered by facial recognition systems that misidentified people with dark skin tones to HR hiring software that prefers men. It explains these definitive cases of AI decision-making gone wrong and then highlights specific audits that have led to concrete changes in government policy and corporate practice.

The Marquand House Collective: Marc Aidinoff, Lena Armstrong, Esha Bhandari, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios, Nate Matias, Danaé Metaxa, Alondra Nelson, Christian Sandvig, and Kristen Vaccaro.

From New York Times bestselling author K.M. Moronova comes a new biting, suspenseful dark romance set inside the elite special ops world of the Dark Forces.

He was built to be bulletproof. She's the one thing that can break him.

Briar Thornton has spent months outrunning her past, but when she's drawn to the small Montana town of Bane Falls with the death of her late uncle and his estate to handle, she runs straight into a new nightmare--and a man more dangerous than the one who tried to kill her.

Roman Syxx isn't a savior. He's a weapon--cold, precise, and programmed by the Dark Forces to destroy anything and anyone. As the lieutenant of the covert Icarus Squad, he's in Bane Falls on orders: infiltrate, eliminate, disappear. But the new girl that randomly shows up in the small town fractures his control in ways no enemy ever could.

Drawn together by their traumas, they burn through each other's defenses until love feels as lethal as war. And when Briar's hidden connection to Roman's mission is exposed, both will learn that freedom always comes with a body count.

*The limited deluxe edition will include sprayed edges*

The next book in the New Haven series, interconnected standalones featuring second chances, fiery passion, and Black heroines who get their happily ever afters. This is part two of the Revive Me trilogy.

Mallory

The day Christopher Johnson decided to kill me, I already knew what it was like to die. I had already experienced it once. Having the life leeched from my body, blood stolen from my veins, oxygen pulled from my lungs.

When he decided to walk back into my life, I was in the middle of my third resurrection, healing from the loss of my brother when I was still raw from losing him.

It wasn't going well.

I guess the human heart can only stop so many times, can only take so much damage before it questions whether it's worth it to be revived. My heart is on its last leg, but even that can't stop me from seizing the chance to have him again.

Even if it's just for a little while.

Chris

Walking away from Mallory Kent is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

The devastation that marred her features that night still haunts me. Refusing to let me forget that the knife I plunged into her heart to protect her had pierced mine as well. Dogging my steps as I walked through my miserable life without her.

Coming back had always been a part of the plan. Even as I gave in to the forces hellbent on tearing us apart, I knew we weren't done. I just didn't know we'd come back together like this: under a cloud of unexpected grief with the pain of our stolen future lingering just beneath the surface.

This time together was never supposed to happen. I hadn't accounted for it when I started working to clear a path back to her, but I'm thankful for it. For the opportunity to comfort her in a way no one else can. For the chance to hold her until the demons in my life force me to walk away again.