Collection: Adult

Set against the vibrant backdrop of the South African bush, this heartfelt story follows the journey of a rare elephant. Amid towering acacia trees, winding rivers, majestic mountains, and an array of wild animals, Gwee'Nola stands out as an unexpected wonder. As she seeks acceptance in the herd, her path unfolds as a powerful testament to courage, faith, and the unshakable truths of God's love.

This inspiring tale blends storytelling with real-world education, immersing readers in the beauty of South Africa's landscapes and wildlife. From the graceful giraffes to the watchful wood owls, every detail is crafted to transport readers to the heart of the bush. Biblical values shine throughout, as lessons of unity, forgiveness, and embracing God's creation are gently woven into the narrative.

Will Gwee'Nola, with her unique spirit and unwavering faith, find her place among her family? Or will her differences become the key to showing the herd the power of compassion and divine purpose? Join this unforgettable journey that not only entertains but enlightens, bringing the wonders of God's creation to life.

The everyday realities of financial and work insecurity that drive right- and left-wing populism

In Insecurity Politics, Lorenza Antonucci examines the lived, everyday experiences that underpin political disaffection. Countering the reductive portrayals of populist voters as left-behind outsiders, Antonucci focuses on the ordinary, yet increasingly precarious, realities of work and financial instability as key to understanding the surge in populist support in both right- and left-wing politics. Drawing on robust comparative quantitative and qualitative analyses across nine European countries, Insecurity Politics describes the microlevel material and cultural dynamics that drive anti-establishment politics. It finds that dissatisfaction with work and a growing sense of financial insecurity fuel populist sentiments.

Antonucci maps the evolving landscape of insecurity in contemporary Europe, tracing its roots to structural transformations of welfare states and deep-seated cultural shifts. Proposing an original framework that combines cultural and economic explanations, the book shows how economic, social, and political factors shape receptivity to anti-establishment politics. Moving beyond conventional wisdom that attributes today's populism to cultural backlash or globalization, Antonucci addresses a critical blind spot in current research. But Insecurity Politics offers more than a mere diagnosis; it also argues that a nuanced understanding of populist attitudes could inform a renewed political agenda--one more attuned to the complex realities of people's lives.

A novel that captures the collective pain of a nation through the stories of four Lebanese women.

Only songs are able to comfort the soul in its darkness--but can anyone hear them?

Iman Humaydan's saga recalls the voices of four generations of women from one family in the imaginary village of Kasura, in Mount Lebanon. Its narrator, Asmahan, named after the beloved Syrian singer, has devoted her adult life to recovering the stories of her ancestors, who persisted in the shadows of male supremacy, war, military occupation, and impoverishment.

Her mother, Layla, disappeared when Asmahan was still a teenager. Her grandmother, Yasmine, died giving birth. And her great-grandmother, Shahira, struggled through two world wars, famine, and suffocating gender norms to win an education for her children and eke out a better life for her family. Asmahan is determined to protect her daughter and break out of the cycle of intergenerational violence and wounds that the women who came before her suffered. She packs up her daughter to emigrate after a divorce, when her husband takes their son away from her on his seventh birthday, during the darkest days of the 1982 Israeli invasion.

These women's legacies span and echo the scarred history of an abused homeland, from the eve of the first World War to the 1982 Lebanon War. In honoring their unfulfilled lives, Iman Humaydan insistently preserves intimate stories of abundant tenacity, generosity, sacrifice--and songs, provisions sorely needed for dark times.

Alicia, Alicia... ¿de quién es el cadáver que he dejado en tu cama y por qué lo he puesto ahí?
En un pueblo donde la lluvia es perpetua y la luz nunca llega, Alicia no vive en el país de las maravillas. Su realidad es una casa, seis sospechosos y un motivo.

El Sombrerero Loco no es un amigo, sino la clave de un retorcido juego, diseñado para hacerla perder la cabeza.
Puede que te hayan contado la historia equivocada, o quizá yo tenga una versión más interesante.

¿Descubrirás, antes del final, la identidad del Sombrerero Loco?

Un retelling de Alicia en el país de las maravillas para los amantes del misterio, thriller, las novelas de Agatha Christie y los cuentos de hadas oscuros.

En un pueblo costero pequeño, un viejo pescador hace ya mucho tiempo que intenta, en vano, pescar un gran pez. Un día se hace a la mar, y tras mucho esfuerzo, consigue que este pique su cebo. "Todo en él era viejo, salvo sus ojos; y éstos tenían el color mismo del mar..." Ernest Hemingway El viejo y el mar es uno de los textos más notables de Hemingway. Escrito con un lenguaje de gran fuerza y sencillez, narra la historia de un viejo pescador cubano a quien la suerte parece haber abandonado, y el desafío mayor al que se enfrenta: la batalla despiadada y sin tregua con un pez gigantesco en las aguas del golfo. Aquí Hemingway retoma, en un estilo remarcable, el clásico tema del valor ante a la derrota, del triunfo personal sacado de la pérdida.

The new, magical dungeon-adventure fantasy series from the author of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Seeking to fulfill a promise to a childhood friend, Will Serfort enters Regarden Magical Academy with the goal of making it to the top of the magical world. There's just one problem: he can't use magic! Will his sword skills be the key to unlocking his true potential?

Will Serfort dreams of keeping his promise to a childhood friend by becoming a Magia Vander, one of the mighty magicians who sit atop the Wizard's Tower. However, he is unable to cast even the simplest of spells, leaving him to fight dungeon monsters to earn credits at Regarden Magical Academy. As if that weren't enough, he finds himself putting his sword skills to the test against a bullying professor!

For fans of sexy modern romance and contemporary coming-of-age stories, this WEBTOON comic adaptation of a worldwide phenomenon novel follows two opposites who form an unlikely bond after a memorable encounter involving a red dress.

Star basketball player and college heartthrob Caleb Lockhart is the last person a girl like Veronica Strafford should be involved with. Ambitious and fiercely independent, Veronica refuses to be the campus player's next conquest--even after a chance encounter sparks an undeniable attraction between them.

But when she's evicted with nowhere else to go, Veronica finds herself leaning on someone else-Caleb-for the first time. Caleb has never felt this way about a woman before and he's determined to pursue her, even as the secrets of their pasts threaten to break them apart.

Being secret roommates with a heartthrob isn't ideal for Veronica--especially when there are feelings involved. Caleb and Veronica juggle the hidden aspects of their relationship from their peers, but things begin to spiral when a certain someone finds out the truth.

Maintaining their agreement is the priority, but when matters of the heart clash with Caleb and Veronica's carefully constructed images, their connection threatens to collapse around them.

This volume collects episodes 19 to 39 of the sensational WEBTOON comic Chasing Red, based on the bestselling Wattpad novel by Isabelle Ronin with over 260 million reads.

Master craftsperson, renowned feminist poet and activist Robin Becker explores a number of themes in this bountiful selection of new and selected poems.

Midsummer Count collects the best work of Robin Becker, considered by many to be the foremost feminist poet of her generation. With selections from each of her previously published books and nearly thirty new poems, readers enter Becker's lifelong exploration of childhood, animals, cherished places, complex friendships, and romantic intimacy. A life-affirming current yokes these narratives across time, even as a sister's early suicide haunts the decades. In blank and free verse, in couplets, quatrains, and sonnets, the poet wrestles formal tensions, creating a present-day idiom for beauty, grief, and compassion. Lovers of Becker's work and those new to it will find in Midsummer Count a master class by one of today's most dynamic poets.

In this entertaining, thought-provoking detective graphic novel set in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a fictional Ilan Stavans seeks to solve a murder and locate a lost manuscript by a prominent 16th-century Crypto-Jew burned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition.

When young Rolando Perez falls to his death from a cliff outside Santa Fe, New Mexico, the mysteries immediately begin to accumulate. Was he pushed or did he jump? What might Rolando have been so desperate to protect that he would sacrifice himself? And what does a colorful concha pastry have to do with any of this?

In the midst of the investigation, Professor Ilan Stavans arrives in Santa Fe to give a lecture about the area's long-buried Jewish history. He's looking forward to relaxing afterward with an evening at the opera, but his presentation on "crypto-Jews" attracts unexpected attention, and soon Ilan is drawn into a desperate race to find the long-lost documents that might hold the key to Rolando's death. His amateur sleuthing leads him to taco joints, desert ranches, soaring cathedrals, and, finally, deep into the region's past, where he encounters Luis de Carvajal, also called "El Iluminado." In a sixteenth-century tale of martyrdom that eerily echoes Rolando's, Carvajal fled Spain for colonial Mexico at the height of the Spanish Inquisition, searching for his religious heritage--a hunt for which he, like Rolando, would pay the ultimate price.

In El Iluminado, esteemed literary critic Ilan Stavans and author and illustrator Steve Sheinkin present a secret history of religion in the Americas, showing how thousands of European refugees have left a trail of ghostly footprints--and troves of mysteries--across the American Southwest. This paperback edition includes a new afterword recounting the amazing events that occurred after the original publication, including the real-life discovery of the long-lost memoir of Luis de Carvajal and its restoration to Mexico.

Birth Story is a graphic memoir about pregnancy, birth, postpartum depression, and new motherhood as an artist. It explores the physical and psychologically altering birth process: pain, transformation, trauma, healing, and the window of time around the birthing body. Struggling to find representations of birth and postpartum depression in popular culture and art, the author interweaves other's stories, friendship, and travel to help make sense of it all. This personal birth story is an effort to remember and contribute to sharing strength in all women's voices.

A vital framework for understanding embodied trauma and helping clients heal--a trauma-informed guide for somatic practitioners, movement therapists, bodyworkers, and personal trainers

Guided by the principle that if trauma happens to the body, healing happens through the body, Trauma-Informed Bodywork offers an inclusive, consent-driven, and mutually empowering approach to trauma-informed healing.

Authors Chelsea Haverly and Emily Young explain how trauma is stored in the body--and how this makes movement-based practices an essential tool for trauma recovery. Haverly and Young cover key concepts--like complex trauma, vicarious trauma, body-related trauma, and nervous system regulation--and explore how they present when working with clients.

Haverly and Young walk you step-by-step through insightful guidance on
topics like:

• What movement professionals need to know about trauma and nervous system dysregulation: different kinds of trauma, how they're experienced, and how they show up in the body
• Embodiment in the face of stress: how trauma disrupts our ability to inhabit our bodies--and how movement can facilitate healing and release
• Letting the body lead: a practical guide for implementing trauma-informed personal training (TI-PT) principles
• How to facilitate coregulation with clients, nurture a "brave space," expand clients' windows of tolerance, and offer support through somatic releases
• Trauma-informed business frameworks: decolonial, whole-heart principles for values-driven, person-first care
• What's next: practical guidance for applying and embodying the work

From the national bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Drunk Mom, a powerful and transformative memoir exploring the intersection of addiction and shame.

It's been over a decade since Jowita Bydlowska published her bestselling lightning rod of a memoir on overcoming alcohol addiction as a young mother. Both hailed and criticized for its no-holds-barred transparency, Drunk Mom was--and continues to be--refreshing and revelatory in its gritty exploration of addiction and relapse in the context of new parenthood, specifically from the experience of a woman. But what happens after the last page is turned, after the "happy ending" of an addiction the world assumes is safely in the rearview?

When Bydlowska relapses after the success of her book, her overwhelming sense is one of shame. She struggles to reconcile the knowledge that she's helped bring comfort and hope to countless readers with her own frustration and mounting fear that the truth will only let others down. In prose that is by turns harsh and beautiful, tender and devastating, she writes about her ensuing spiral into alcoholism--and the climb back up and out.

Unshaming is a raw, unsparing navigation of the intricacies of shame. With the same generosity and grim humour that made Drunk Mom such a standout, Bydlowska uses her own story as a vehicle to interrogate and challenge the narrative surrounding addiction, exploring the ways in which the conversation has both evolved and stayed the same over the last decade. Told with breathtaking narrative immediacy, Unshaming transcends the typical self-help memoir and punches through every expectation about what the perfect woman, mother, and writer in recovery should look like.

A revised and updated edition of The Art of Coloring: Disney Animals, featuring over 100 pages of art, now in paperback!

Whether a skilled artist or an everyday dabbler of drawings and doodles, fans of all ages will enjoy these stunning pen-and-ink illustrations of beautiful landscapes, elaborate patterns, and memorable characters from Disney's hit animated feature films themed to cute and cuddly animals. The new "lay-flat" paperback is filled with 100 pages of patterns, portraits, and scenes, including updated art!

Woodstake

A blood-soaked mashup of vampire myth, rock history, and the counterculture of the late 1960s

Woodstake is a wickedly clever spin on the Dracula legend, reimagined against the backdrop of the iconic Woodstock festival of 1969. When a vampire descends on the summer of love, a generation of hippies is forced to survive three days of peace, music, and blood in this darkly funny, genre-bending thrill ride. A razor-sharp blend of satire, horror, and '60s nostalgia, Woodstake offers a wildly original story brought vividly to life through the bold, evocative artwork of Felipe Kroll. It is a must-read for fans of classic rock, genre mashups, and blood-soaked storytelling.

With its unique blend of Woodstock-era atmosphere and vampire horror, Woodstake stands out as a wild, cult-horror crossover that feels both nostalgic and fiercely original. This gripping graphic novel delivers a character-driven narrative paired with a bold visual style that brings the late '60s to life, complete with period-authentic detail, psychedelic flair, and sharp dark humor. Ideal for readers of horror comics, supernatural thrillers, and music history, Woodstake bridges genres in a way that is fresh, immersive, and unforgettable.

School life meets underground crime in this quirky action comedy that's like Assassination Classroom meets Nisekoi! The "knight in shining armor" and "heroes vs villains" dynamics take on new variations in this story about a reluctant bodyguard protecting his oblivious charge from assassins hired to kill her. Filled with suspense, secrets, and romantic tension, this manga is a surefire recipe to keep readers ravenous for every volume!

They have only one goal--to kill Honeko Akabane! One day, Arakuni Ibuki learns that his childhood friend, Honeko Akabane, is being targeted by assassins! Both of them are in Class 3-4 at Sosoji High School, and Ibuki is ordered to protect Akabane for one year. His goal is to ensure that she graduates safely, but he must do so without her realizing it. And so begins his secret life as a bodyguard at school! However, there seems to be more secrets within the so-called "Class 3-4"...?!

The epic conclusion to the hit crossover trilogy!

The Rangers and Turtles face their deadliest showdown yet when two of their greatest enemies--Lord Zedd and Shredder--unite for an all-out assault on Earth! With the relentless attacks on innocent civilians and a shocking new breed of Evil joining the fray, even the combined strength of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles might not be enough to stop the chaos.

And when one of their own is lost and alliances begin to fracture, the road to victory suddenly grows darker than ever. Can they find a way to work together again before the villains claim total victory--or will this be their final fight?

Fan-favorite veteran writer Ryan Parrott (Vicarious) joins forces with acclaimed artist Vincenzo Federici (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation) for the final chapter in the blockbuster event series!

Collects Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III #1-5.