Collection: Adult

"Women make up only 8% of Fortune 500 CEOs."

In the 21st century, women make up half of the workforce, have access to the same educational channels, and have proven that they are just as talented and capable as their male counterparts, yet women are barely moving the meter at the executive level. Why is that?

Women Mentoring Women addresses a primary issue that author Michelle Renaldo Ferguson believes holds women back: lack of mentorship. High-level leaders have the knowledge and expertise to assist and train lower-level professionals in business to prepare them to advance in their careers. While education plays a role in helping women land a job, understanding the business culture helps them climb the ladder of success. Women Mentoring Women lays out:

• The reasons mentorship is necessary, with real-life examples that have helped junior executives
• Explains types of partnerships and how to benefit from collaborations
• Why "selfish" mentoring should be a regular practice

If you are someone who wants to maximize your time with your company, wants to pursue a higher position, or believes you have the knowledge to help someone in a junior position, Women Mentoring Women is an invaluable resource for your library.

REVISED AND EXPANDED! FULL-COLOR SPECIAL EDITION!

Carrie Revisited: The Legacy of Stephen King's Girl with a Frightening Power is a remarkable anthology featuring essays from a distinguished group of writers offering their unique perspective on the novel's lasting impact on popular culture, the publishing world, and the horror genre.

Adding to the depth of this collection is an essay by Stephen King himself, sharing the fascinating story of how Carrie was written. King's personal insights provide an intimate look into the creation of his groundbreaking debut and its journey to becoming a cultural touchstone.

Rounding out this special project is a 40-page full-color artwork gallery with Carrie-inspired illustrations from 20 talented artists. Each piece vividly captures the essence of the novel, bringing new life to the haunting story of a girl with extraordinary powers.

Carrie Revisited is an essential volume for fans of Stephen King, horror enthusiasts, and art lovers alike. Discover the enduring influence of Carrie and experience the rich tapestry of reflections and interpretations that continue to shape our understanding of this unforgettable tale.

Are you carrying everyone else while your own healing goes undone? Are you carrying the silent ache of being misunderstood by the ones you love the most? Have you longed for the freedom to simply be, rather than a version of yourself shaped by others' demands? Are you ready to live fully, unapologetically, and finally with clarity?

In his debut memoir, UNMASKED: A Poetic Memoir through Trauma, Identity, and the Sacred Work of Healing, Ryan Patrick Parker invites readers into a story told with profound tenderness and unflinching clarity. As you turn each page, his words become a mirror, a guide, and a steady companion for anyone seeking peace, restoration, and a life of wholeness. With the pen of a poet and the hard-earned wisdom of one who has lived, wrestled, and risen, Parker carries readers through moments of unraveling, revelation, and quiet transformation. Through each page, he gives language to name your wounds, permission to speak hard truths, and courage to move from trauma to triumph.

The journey back to self is sacred, yet this book is gentle, intimate, and deeply human. It's more like a guided walk into healing than a traditional memoir. Each line invites reflection. Each reflection offers solace. And every moment opens the gate to renewal, courage, and unapologetic freedom. UNMASKED is meant to be digested slowly, breathed in, and felt in heartbeats... allowing space for resonance, release, and renewal.

At its core, this deeply personal memoir of healing and becoming is not only the author's story. It's an invitation for anyone ready to live the fullest version of themselves: healed, whole, powerful, and unapologetically free.

The choose-your-current guide for navigating career uncertainty instead of avoiding it.

School gave you structure. Then it disappears, and you're in open water. The rules you were given stop making sense. The next step isn't obvious. Everyone seems louder than the answers you're looking for.

Cue the Lifeboat is for anyone standing at that edge-unsure where to go but certain they can't stay put. Whether you're a recent graduate, navigating a career pivot, or facing a moment when the old roadmap no longer fits, this story begins there.

You're the main character. Each chapter drops you into a real adventure: midnight sailing regattas in Hawaii, business deals in Buenos Aires, meditation in Indian temples. The book's choose-your-current format means that at the end of every chapter, you decide which adventure comes next based on what you need most right now: finding your voice, dealing with setbacks, or changing course.

Every story springs from lived experience. Christiane Palpant spent two decades as a Fortune 500 executive and now teaches university students navigating their first career chapters. She once drove 45,000 miles in a van to paint the horizon in all 50 states because she needed to figure out what came next. She's lived with uncertainty.

You'll get action steps, honest reflection, and the confidence to navigate uncertainty one choice at a time. Start at the beginning or jump to what you need right now. Equal parts guide, companion, and permission slip to chart a course that's truly your own.

Big Tech is banking on you not reading this book. Literally.

Intellectual property (IP) and patent law in the US and globally is overwhelmingly in favor of large corporations who have spent billions lobbying for preferential treatment. For decades, individual creators and inventors have discovered that their dreams of having patents granted eventually end in nightmares of financial ruin and personal trauma.

But change is possible. After more than twenty-five years navigating the pitfalls and learning the hard lessons of IP and finance, Matt Moyers is on a mission to transform how the invention system works. The Venture Capital Alternative explores the nuances of technology, IP, and patent financing, and provides a modernized solution to balance the system and enable startups and innovation.

Through a detailed convergence of financial theory, regulatory frameworks, and financial astuteness, The Venture Capital Alternative charts a path for a better, revolutionary IP capital system-one that both empowers innovators and brings balance to the global economy.

Most people are afraid to admit the role of luck in their lives.

It feels better to be "self-made" - the kind of person who boldly declares that if you drop them in the middle of New York, penniless and naked, they'll emerge a millionaire thirty days later.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

John Morgan is not afraid to acknowledge the tremendous role luck has played in his life. There's been plenty of good - like deciding to attend Mass on a whim and meeting the love of his life - and plenty of bad - like being raised by an alcoholic father who couldn't keep a job. But the bundle of good and bad luck we inherit doesn't mean we're helpless.

This book will show you how to find luck, get return on luck, enhance luck, and turn bad luck into good luck.

Unflinching, honest, and sometimes raw, Life is Luck looks at the remarkable life of the man who built the largest personal injury law firm in American history, along with an enterprise of attractions, hotels, apartment buildings, and shopping centers.

LIFE. LUCK. LEGACY.

I wrote this book to tell the truth about life and success. And the truth is, I can trace everything back to a paperboy in Lexington, Kentucky who borrowed money from his grandmother at eleven years old and had no idea that luck was already doing most of the heavy lifting. And today, looking back at the remarkable journey that paperboy would take, gratitude stands as the most important part of my life.

I wrote this book for my wife, who is by far the luckiest break in my life, and my children and grandchildren. And I wrote it for anyone who has ever been dealt a bad hand and wondered why or caught a lucky break and didn't recognize it until it was in the rearview mirror. If this book does what I hope it does, it gives people an honest framework for accepting the role luck plays - finding the opportunity buried in the bad and being ready when the good eventually comes around.

-John Morgan

When the ground shifts beneath an entire planet, only Superman can rise above it. Eisner Award-winning writer Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man) and artists Lucas Meyer (Titans) and Mike Norton (Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton) deliver the latest chapter in a charged, character-driven saga that reimagines the world around the Man of Steel.

With Smallville under a supernatural siege, the new Steelworks facility constructed in Superman's hometown stands at the center of the conflict. Could it be a possible solution, or a potential cause?!

And just as tensions begin to ease, Superman and guest star Guy Gardner must join forces to save Simon Stagg's space yacht launch--and Lois--from a deadly cosmic threat!

Then, the new, mysterious Prankster was the DC Universe's deadliest assassin, with a perfect kill record...until Superman saved a target. Now Superman is his next mark. This story redefines the Prankster as a top-tier rogue--no joke!

Plus, after Livewire's prison release, an unholy alliance and unexpected romance with the Creeper ignites in a super-villain battle. Witness the Wiretap's rise in Superman Chains of Love Special!

Collects Superman Unlimited #7-10 by Dan Slott, Lucas Meyer, and Mike Norton; and Superman: Chains of Love Special by Leah Williams, Slott, Ig Guara, and Rosi Kämpe.

Steamy yet wholesome, this full-journey rom-com nails the sugar-rush thrill of an office crush at a sweets company. Can these lovebirds keep their secret romance under wraps? Now an anime! A Kodansha Print Club series.

SWORN TO SECRECY

Yui Mitsuya and Masugu Tateishi aren't just any coworkers--they totally have the hots for each other. His helpful yet humble attitude makes her giddy, and her cuteness leaves him grinning like a fool. Problem is, they're trying to keep their new relationship under wraps to avoid making things awkward at work. But seeing how they can't keep their hands off each other, they run the risk of spilling their little secret with each passing day at the office.

A quiet life shattered by secrets, gold, and a man she says she doesn't want.

Rue Conway values one thing above all else: stability. Between running the family antique store, a reliable fiancé, and providing her daughter with the best life possible, she has it. But Rue's carefully structured world is thrown into chaos when she's simultaneously hit by financial ruin, her mother's unexpected illness, the emergence of a treasure-hunting father she never knew . . . and the truth about a man she's spent years trying to forget.

Desperate and out of options, Rue makes an impulsive decision to travel to Charleston and find the gold her father has been searching for.

But the more time Rue spends dealing with the past, the more she questions her future. With bills piling up and foreclosure looming, Rue must decide between a life of stability and one filled with unpredictable love.

What if healing didn't mean being "fixed," but finally feeling safe enough to live your life?

Many trauma survivors believe healing should eventually make everything feel normal again. But for those living with complex trauma and dissociation, healing often looks very different. It can be slow, confusing, and deeply lonely.

At twenty-two, Chelsey Valeri believed she understood pain. But when life asked more of her than she knew how to give, her body began responding in ways she couldn't explain. Fear, exhaustion, and dissociation slowly took hold, leaving her feeling disconnected from herself and unsure how to move forward.

What followed was not a neat recovery story or a checklist for healing. It was a gradual and honest reckoning with what it means to live after trauma. Complex trauma does not only live in memory. It shapes the nervous system, relationships, identity, and the quiet choices we make every day just to get through.

In Healed Enough, Chelsey Valeri shares her personal journey through trauma recovery with clarity, compassion, and candor. As both a complex trauma survivor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker trained in trauma therapy, she weaves together lived experience and professional understanding to illuminate what healing can actually look like.

This book does not promise perfect healing. Instead, it offers something far more honest.

Inside you'll discover:

• an intimate look at living with complex trauma and dissociation
• how trauma affects the nervous system, identity, and relationships
• the emotional reality of trauma recovery that many survivors quietly carry
• compassionate insight from both personal experience and trauma therapy practice
• reassurance for those who feel disconnected from their own mind and body
• different way to think about healing, one that allows room for imperfection

You may recognize yourself in this book if you:

• live with the lasting effects of childhood trauma or PTSD
• struggle with dissociation or feeling disconnected from your body
• feel exhausted trying to heal the "right way"
• wonder why recovery sometimes feels harder than expected
• are searching for language that finally describes your experience

Written with warmth, honesty, and deep respect for the complexity of trauma, Healed Enough speaks directly to readers who are learning to live alongside their healing rather than waiting for it to be finished.

Because healing is not a finish line.

And you may already be further along than you think.

A spicy Small Town, Single Mom, Forbidden romance from USA Today bestselling author Willow Aster

Waking up in a gorgeous man's lap definitely wasn't on this year's bingo card, that's for sure.

Flying halfway across the country, exhausted and on an empty stomach, is a lot. Having to do all that while realizing I'll be away from my little girl while she's at her dad's is an even worse feeling.

Enter Dylan. The irresistibly gorgeous man whose lap I collapsed in on my flight home. He is handsome, charming, and manages to sweet-talk me right into bed with his beautiful smile and twinkling hazel eyes. This is sooo unlike me, but I couldn't help myself.

Dylan and I don't really know each other. Plus, I live in Minnesota, and he lives in California, and anything long-term would never work. Yet the chemistry between us can't be denied.

But then the real problem between us comes to light, and it's a big one. A forbidden one. There's no way we can ever be together...but how do we give up on each other when our fiery connection feels like a once-in-a-lifetime love?

All for Love is book three in the interconnected, standalone Windy Harbor series.

We are all connected. Like all growing things, we want to be seen, to be recognized. Not because we are special but because we are ordinary, even common. Wildflowers and Weeds is a collection of real stories with real people. Through real life and authentic experiences, unapologetic life lessons are revealed. In this time of instant gratification, there is a deep soul yearning for something that seems to be slipping away. Wildflowers and Weeds invites us to remember where we came from and the real truth of what we bring with us.

This collection of stories and drawings, like the wildflowers and weeds growing, most times unnoticed, can catch you off guard. In the stories, you might see something you already know, whether from living it or by simply being human.

The wildflowers and weeds are inspired by the author's home nestled in the forested mountains of western North Carolina. These stories are cut from a lifetime of experiences. They offer glimpses of absurd, wide-eyed stupidity laced with a splinter of wisdom. Wildflowers, weeds, and words bear witness to the tenacity of creation that runs through us all.

Into the Light: Ten Songs and Stories Transforming Trauma to Triumph is the musical companion to award-winning artist/songwriter Aliza Hava's #1 charting album, Into the Light. Part memoir and part guidebook, the author draws from her own experiences healing from severe childhood abuse. She shares a deeply personal journey of navigating pain, uncovering buried wounds, and slowly rebuilding a sense of safety and self.

Through ten lyrically insightful songs and the stories behind them, Aliza guides readers through a series of reflections, psychospiritual insights, and practical tools exploring how trauma can be released from the body and subconscious mind. It offers readers gentle guidance for understanding their own patterns and suggests ways to begin moving from pain to empowerment - offering hope, healing, and inspiration for anyone ready to reclaim their life after abuse.

This book invites you on a unique journey - to experience the music, explore the narratives, and discover how your own wounds can be transformed into strength, sovereignty, and triumph.

Step into The Enchanted Highlands for the holidays with the nationally bestselling author of Love's a Witch and A Taste of Magic, in which a Christmas wish casts a spell on the Highlands--and on two hearts.

Maisie Barron is over it. A small-town girl with big dreams, she never expected that a single wish at Loren Brae's ancient standing stones would stir up so much trouble. Little does she know, the magic found there will set off a chain of events that threatens the town's beloved Christmas Book Festival.

Weston Smith needs a break. Burnt out from his tenure-track professorship, he decides that a trip to Loren Brae is the perfect way to recharge his batteries. But nothing could have prepared him to find the woman he's been waiting for his whole life for. With the town's spirited book club nudging him into all sorts of schemes, Weston is determined to win Maisie's heart--even if she's feeling a bit frosty on love.

When a fierce snowstorm blankets Loren Brae, Maisie and Weston find themselves drawn together in ways they never expected. And as the magic grows between them, their love may be the only thing that can save the town this Christmas.

"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." --John Cottingham, The Tablet

In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, individually and as a society. The Language Animal examines the foundation of this generative process.

For centuries, philosophers have been divided on the nature of language. Rational empiricists--Hobbes, Locke, Condillac, and their heirs--assert that language is a tool to encode and communicate information. Yet this view neglects language's crucial role in shaping the thought it expresses. Taylor argues that language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning. Nor is linguistic capacity innately possessed. We learn language from others, and our individual selves emerge from the conversation.

Taylor expands the thinking of the German Romantics Hamann, Herder, and Humboldt into a theory of linguistic holism. Language is intellectual, but it is also enacted in artistic portrayals, gestures, metaphors, tones of voice, and the shifts of emphasis and attitude that accompany speech. Language recognizes no boundary between mind and body. In illuminating the full capacity of the language animal, Taylor sheds light on the very question of what it is to be human.

One of Barack Obama's 10 Favorite Books of the Year
One of the New Yorker's Best Books of the Year
Finalist for the Financial Times Best Book of the Year

A vivid account of the past, present, and future of economic growth, showing how and why we must continue to pursue it while responding to the challenges it creates.

Over the past two centuries, economic growth has freed billions from the struggle for subsistence. Yet prosperity has come at a price: environmental destruction, desolation of local cultures, the emergence of vast inequalities. Many respond that now is the time to shrink our economic footprint. But Daniel Susskind argues that such "degrowth" would be folly. Instead, we must keep growth but redirect it, making it better reflect our values.

Growth: A History and a Reckoning shows how policymaking in the second half of the twentieth century came to revolve around a single-minded quest for greater GDP. The growth obsession has been met with the assertion that "we cannot have infinite growth on a finite planet." Susskind shows, though, that growth is a product not of resource exploitation but of new ideas. In that sense, growth really can be infinite.

Still, he says, critics are right to insist that we can no longer focus on upsides alone. We must confront tradeoffs: societies will have to deliberately pursue less growth for the sake of other goals. These will be moral decisions, not simply economic ones, demanding the engagement not just of politicians and experts but of all citizens.