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Start speaking Italian today with this modern interactive beginner's course!A language steeped in history, culture and art, Italian is spoken by over 65 million people worldwide and is also one of the most widely studied Romance languages. Ideal for those new to Italian, learning at home or in the classroom, Beginner's Italian with Online Audio & Video teaches both written and spoken Italian using modern pedagogy and engaging audio and video. Follow the adventures of Chiara and Luca! Chiara is an American visiting Italy for the first time and Luca is the Italian guy she meets on her first day in Italy. Across the book's 14 chapters, they visit four Italian cities from Rome to Florence to Venice and down to Naples. Food, family, art, history, and fashion await them. Join Chiara and Luca for an Italian language and culture avventura!Includes:

• An introduction to the Italian language and basics of pronunciation
• Fourteen carefully-paced lessons, each one opening with dialogues about an everyday topic followed by vocabulary, grammar lessons, and exercises
• Free companion YouTube channel, @BeginnersItalian, with over 200 videos on topics like how to order a meal or shop at a store to reinforce using Italian in everyday situations
• 200+ audio files for streaming or free download featuring pronunciation by native speakers
• Easy-to-use QR codes that link to the audio and video
• Answer key to the exercises
• Italian-English glossary
• Lessons equivalent to two semesters of college-level Italian

Nio is an orphan who can't help dreaming of a better world. In this action-packed manga, he meets two men who show him how much a few swords can change history. This riveting samurai series from the acclaimed creator of Days shares its setting with Rurouni Kenshin and chronicles the founding of the Shinsengumi by handsome and volatile men fighting for justice...and for themselves!

In the aftermath of the battle against the Blood Risshidan, the experience weighs heavily on the Roshigumi, and perhaps no one has taken it harder than Nio. Fortunately, he'll have plenty of support from his companions--and on top of that, a trip to Osaka for a change of pace. But even outside of their duties in Kyoto, the Roshigumi are a group of rough and tumble men, and there is always a darkness within them that threatens to spill forth...

The action-packed samurai series from the creator of Days that inspired the hit anime Blue Miburo, streaming now on Crunchyroll!

What happens when your worst nightmare becomes your reality?

One sunny day in California, Jessie is hugging her nine-year-old son, Dylan, goodbye at the airport. He's travelling alone, all the way across the country, to visit his grandparents and father, Jessie's soon-to-be ex-husband. Her heart is breaking, but she puts on a brave face and gives her son one last wave as a flight attendant leads him away.

Several hours later, Jessie gets a frantic call from Dylan's grandmother in New York. Dylan is missing.

In a split-second, Jessie's world turns upside down.

The AirTag she'd put in Dylan's backpack says he's still at LAX. The airline insists that he was picked up at JFK by an elderly couple claiming to be his grandparents--but Jessie's in-laws insist they haven't seen him.

Dylan has disappeared into thin air.

At the same moment, miles away, in Toronto, a train operator loses control of a subway train, and the fiery crash kills five passengers and injures dozens of others. Was this a fatal human error or something more sinister? And how exactly is it connected to the disappearance of Dylan?

Because, somehow, it is.

A step-by-step workbook to overcome the trauma of your past, break the cycle of dysfunction, and unlock your full potential.

Did you grow up in a "dysfunctional" family environment? Perhaps your parents were emotionally absent, immature, or experienced their own mental health struggles. If these family dynamics feel all too familiar, you may have difficulty setting boundaries as an adult, or struggle with anxiety, depression, and profound feelings of shame and guilt. So, how do you cultivate the self-compassion needed to heal from the past and nourish healthy relationships?

This compassionate workbook offers proven-effective skills to help you gain a deeper understanding of how your upbringing has negatively affected your life, your relationships, and your ability to thrive as an adult. You'll learn how you adapted to the dysfunctional behaviors of your family, and how to break free from these destructive cycles.

Discover empowering skills to help you break free from the past:

• Conquer feelings of anger, resentment, and unworthiness
• Imagine and cultivate healthier relationship and family dynamics
• Learn techniques for coping with anxiety, depression and other mental health struggles
• Reconcile your traumatic history with your current struggles
• Avoid making the same mistakes with your children
• Reach your full potential and live a life of meaning and purpose

It's time to take charge of your life's story. If you're ready to let go of the past and embrace a future that's filled with hope and healing, this powerful workbook can help you get started now.

A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imagination

Current advocates of reparations for slavery and land back often fail to scrutinize racial capitalism and settler colonialism, instead accepting that their destinies will forever be tied to US empire. But as scholar Kyle T. Mays insists in When We Are Kin, we can and should demand a kind of repair that goes beyond a white supremacist idea of what justice can be.

In a series of short essays, Mays traces the history of alliances between Black and Indigenous movements; outlines the limitations of certain demands for reparations, including cash payments, that do not fundamentally critique racial-settler capitalism; and interrogates contemporary land back initiatives that fail to fully address decolonization. Along the way, he asks, What does solidarity look like between Black and Indigenous peoples in the United States? Can we find ways to co-belong and co-resist on Turtle Island?

Drawing on the Anishinaabe philosophy of mino-bimaadiziwin (the good life), Mays argues that we can resist as kin only when we center the land in building our collective futures.

If you're a true crime fan, this book, and the entire Dark Places series, will leave you amazed and satisfied, and glad that you went along for the ride.

Welcome to Book 4, the fourth and final book in the Dark Places series. In this book, Special Agent Harry Trombitas details three of the last, but most interesting, cases that he worked in the FBI during his almost 30-year career.

Come along as SA Trombitas tells the story of "The Horror Tree: The Matthew Hoffman Case" and describes the efforts of law enforcement to quickly solve the disappearance of two women, a young boy, and a 13-year old girl, not knowing if they were dead or alive, but realizing the clock was ticking if there was any hope of bringing the victims home alive.

Find out the inside details of how "The Highway Shooter: The I-270 Shooting Investigation" unfolded and was eventually solved by a cooperative effort between law enforcement, the media, and the public, in holding the shooter accountable for causing the death of a beloved grandmother and panic among a city's metropolitan population of over 2.2 million people.

In "The Lynn Breakers: The Brink's Case," understand how a group of sophisticated burglars, led by a top-level mastermind, traveled over 700 miles to make entry into one of the nation's most secure facilities using sophisticated tools and almost made off with $100,000,00.00. Find out the intimate details of how investigators were able to identify and hold accountable the perpetrators and even recover some of the money.

All bets are off when the man sworn to hunt a runaway woman reverses course to protect her from the forces against them in this slow-burn sequel to Given.

The Giving Season has ended, but the onset of winter hasn't brought Wren peace. The king is still after her, and he has more reason than ever to want her dead. In possession of magic she shouldn't have, she's desperate to flee the capital.

And there's just one person who can help her: Gabriel Moreau, the Hunter who chased Wren across the country, duty-bound to bring her to justice. Forced to make the most difficult decision he's ever faced, Gabriel chooses to break his oath and vows anew to protect Wren. Now, he too will be hunted.

Together, Wren and Gabriel race across the kingdom to escape the king's wrath. But the cost of safety is steep, and life on the run is more dangerous than ever. Even with the Hunter by her side, their bond growing stronger with each obstacle, Wren is all too aware that everything, especially the notion of safety, is a lie.

This edition features a signed letter from the author and character art.

Love and revolution in a crumbling world order.

Roma has a steady job, a mortgage, and a surrogate family in Queens. But as she moves through her daily routines, the powerful Empire that rules her world bares its teeth elsewhere--crushing freedom movements across the planet, including the Punjabi farmers' uprising where her younger brother struggles on the frontlines.

Roma's life is upended when her older brother entrusts her with a strange gift: an ordinary-looking plant that manifests a sophisticated bioengineered technology. The 'cell' opens a portal for an extraterrestrial spirit-body bearing news of a liberated future-and the potential to hack AI warfare--propelling Roma and her family into the core of a rising resistance.

As dreams and dialectics converge, Roma meditates on the role of faith--ruminating on mystic poetics and anticolonial legacies while yearning for a bewitching woman whose heart will only ever belong to the revolution.

From farmers to pastors, teachers to sailors, and everything in between, the Black history of Hanover County reflects the dedication and values of the community.

Freedwoman Betsy Hogg Tinsley, in time, became one of the largest landowners in Ashland. Founded in 1870, Brown Grove Baptist Church has been the center of its neighborhood for more than 150 years.

During the time of segregation, Lucian Hunter of Mechanicsville worked to make sure that Black students could get to school. The Barksdale Theatre in the Hanover Tavern produced Virginia's first professional play based on the African American experience. Tracing their history back to 1796, the Brooks family boasts military service across five generations.

Author and local social studies teacher Joe Gorman celebrates the rich history and proud heritage of Hanover County African Americans.

A story set in The Amazing Digital Circus universe

When Pomni wakes up inside a surreal, candy-colored virtual world, she's told it's all fun and games under the rule of the digital ringmaster Caine. But nothing in the Amazing Digital Circus is what it seems.

Each day is a performance. Each "player" is a trapped soul who no longer remembers their real name. And each glitch could unravel the fragile line between simulation and madness.

Driven by flickers of memory and a growing resistance to the system, Pomni begins to question everything-her past, her companions, and the truth behind the Circus's impossible rules. What she discovers could be her only path out... or the final act in her descent.

Because in the Digital Circus, the curtain never truly closes.

It just resets.

Riley Mitchell has everything he could ever want.

He's a back-to-back Stanley Cup champion. He has great friends, a fun life, and he's living out his dream of playing hockey in the NHL.

Except one night, everything changes.

After a car accident leaves him with an amputated right leg, he struggles with his identity. Who is he away from the ice? How is he supposed to live without the sport that means everything to him?

Enter Lexi Armstrong, the DC Stars athletic trainer assigned to Riley's rehabilitation.

Independent, proudly single, and a sarcastic ray of sunshine, she's determined to help Riley feel better not just physically, but mentally too.

And the friends with benefits arrangement they fall into?

Definitely not part of the rehabilitation plan.

It was supposed to be one night, but when just once turns into something much deeper than a romp in the bedroom, they have a decision to make.

Do they fight their feelings and keep things purely physical? Or can they pull off a Hat Trick and find something that lasts forever?

Hat Trick is a spicy friends to lovers sports romance with professional athletes, friends with benefits, injury rehabilitation, he falls first (and hard), and a guaranteed happily ever after. Please check content warnings as some material might be sensitive to readers.

TERADA KATSUYA'S THIS AND THAT
Covering a 42-year career as an artist, this collection features recent illustrations drawn for exhibitions by the illustrator and manga artist Katsuya Terada, who is popular both in Japan and internationally. This book is filled with Katsuya Terada's latest works, created using everyday art materials such as pencils, ballpoint pens, the iPad and more, and includes commentary by the artist on those materials, which are a must-read for anyone who is interested in art even just a little bit. Known for making full use of analog art materials while also continuously incorporating new gadgets, Katsuya Terada's work always offers new surprises and inspiration. This collection offers the latest from this prolific master artist whose creative work continues to inspire.

"Find the equipment that best enables you to explore in search for your own style. All you really need to start is a pencil and a sheet of paper, of course. From there, as you grope around in the darkness, try out different tools."
― from the afterwords

Return to Elkins Creek combines a series of fishing stories, descriptions of changing cultural norms, and the peculiar history of freshwater fishing gear. Beginning with subsistence fishing in very rural Mississippi at a time "when the poorest among us in the Deep South still took our water from holes in the ground and high school was considered an optional step along the career path," the stories continue chronologically, with descriptions of learning to fish with rod-and-reel combos and artificial lures; coming-of-age angling misadventures with dubious backwoods characters; swapping fish for toilet paper during the Pandemic; a cheerfully inept expedition to a Florida bay where things were enlivened by a hurricane; and a return to where it all began, alongside a small creek in the hills of the Choctaw County backwoods, cane pole and bait jar in hand.

Part memoir, part cultural history, and part historical vignette, Return to Elkins Creek is held together by the common thread of fishing as a touchstone in changing times. One need not be a fishing enthusiast to appreciate the stories or descriptions of the many colorful characters therein, including the clever and eccentric inventors of modern fishing gear.

NAMED ONE OF LITERARY HUB'S "MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2026"

A poetic study in magical modes of connection over distance--how both friendship and reading are similar ways of being together while being alone.

Written over several years of solitude, study, and transformation, the poems in Perennial Counterpart trace an evolving, self-questioning practice of thinking-in-poetry where long, reflective lines--evoking both prose and photography--brush against elliptical, fractured modes of film and literary criticism. Anchored by the author's obsessive reading life, this is a book where lyric inquiry becomes its own form of company. Here, the poem is written to remake its writer through glittering connections to a personal lineage of thought.

Exuberant, playful, and evergreen, The Game at the End of the World revels in the grass-stained highlights of a sport without borders or boundaries.

Soccer (née football) fans will rejoice at this all-new volume of crackling essays from the author of God Is Round. Here, Juan Villoro explores the sport through the elements that make it the world's favorite pastime, from its ancient origins, near-mythic players, exhilarating matches, endemic rivalries, and the unlikely moments in which football has changed history.

As a prolific writer and chronicler of World Cup games around the world, Villoro draws on a rich cultural mosaic to inspire readers, players, and fans long after the final whistle blows. With a journalist's ear and a philosopher's outlook, he has produced a collection for curious newcomers and lifelong football buffs alike.

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