Collection: Adult

Antonio "Ike" DeVargas-Norteño Warrior is the political profile of an activist whose life was dedicated to the pursuit of environmental and social justice in northern New Mexico, a distinct regional community that has long struggled for economic viability and autonomy. A colorful man with a head of premature white curls and blue eyes, born and bred in a traditional Hispano village, Ike, as everyone knew him, came of age during the Vietnam War where he witnessed firsthand American imperialism against a developing nation. Once home, he recognized that the same forces were at work against the Hispano and Native American communities in "el norte," under the rule of a despotic Rio Arriba County official. As a founding member of La Raza Unida Party he learned the organizing skills that would help topple a despot and prepare him for future battles: logging wars that pitted communities against corporate timber companies, the US Forest Service, and urban environmentalists; corruption and malfeasance by future county political machines; and tragedies within the criminal justice system. He was a man whose grounding in the cultural traditions of Hispano resiliency and resistance to the dominant paradigm prepared him for a life that left a lasting legacy. His story is the larger story of northern New Mexico.

A full color manga, featuring charming short vignette chapters. For anyone who loves witty will they/won't they romantic comedies.

"Will you go down the stairs with me?"
"It's okay. I won't let you fall."

Tender moments of everyday life are shared by he and she.

Fleeting, ordinary instants between them shine like jewels.

Laura Littlefield Kelley is a beekeeper allergic to bee stings-yet she has spent more than twenty years caring for backyard beehives on Cape Cod.

Her book, The Brilliance of Honeybees: How Bees Feed the World-And the Ways We Can Protect Them, is a stunning blend of nature photography, personal storytelling, and environmental insight that celebrates the remarkable relationship between bees and flowers.

Drawn to the mystery of how the same insects that could harm her also sustain life on Earth by pollinating the food we eat, Laura began documenting life in her own backyard. With her camera by her side, she uncovered how pollinators support the global food supply-and how their survival is deeply connected to our own.

This beautifully crafted nature book offers an up-close look at the hive, the role of honeybees in the environment, and how bees pollinate food crops. From the ingenious ways flowers attract pollinators to the hidden dangers in soil, water, and air, each colorful page brings awareness to the fragile balance of nature.

Through beautiful imagery and personal beekeeping stories, readers will discover simple, meaningful ways to support pollinator-friendly gardening, protect bees, and practice environmental stewardship-while recognizing the importance of saving bees.

Part love letter to the natural world and part educational guide, The Brilliance of Honeybees is a call to action to care for these small but mighty workers who play such a vital role in our lives.

Perfect for readers interested in:

• Bees and pollinators
• Nature photography and environmental books
• How to help bees in your garden
• Backyard beekeeping and conservation
• Sustainable gardening and protecting pollinators

A fresh start was supposed to be simple.
Open the doors. Welcome customers. Build a new life.
Fox Hollow, Texas, has other plans.

Sisters Emma Dawson and Sydney Givens arrive in town ready to launch their dream business-Stitches, Perks & Pages, a quilt shop and bookstore under one roof. But before they can even begin unpacking, they find a dead body sprawled across their delivery entrance. Welcome to Fox Hollow.

The victim, Evan Pritchard, had secrets-and someone is still searching for whatever he was hiding. With danger edging closer and another murder looming, Emma and Sydney realize they can't just shelve the problem and hope it goes away.

Luckily, Fox Hollow has a way of turning strangers into allies. With the help of a sharp-witted retired nurse, a determined Amish teen, an overachieving high school valedictorian, and steady-eyed Detective Noble Beck, the sisters may have a chance to catch a killer before their new beginning becomes their last.

Discussion questions included--perfect for book clubs.

From NYT Bestselling author Vannetta Chapman, Murder UnShelved is a charming cozy mystery about sisterhood, second chances, found family-and discovering that home can be built in the most unexpected places.

You have favorite baseball memories, games that live forever in your mind, ones you can still see perfectly. But could you recall every play? The exact sequence that made those moments possible? Now you can. Every play. Every game. Every season since 1871. For the first time in baseball history, it all exists in one place, and it's free for anyone to use. All thanks to Retrosheet.

In 1989, Dave Smith had a problem. He'd gathered 7,000 games in his Delaware basement, but over 130,000 more were scattered across the country: moldering in team archives, stacked in sportswriters' attics, at risk of being thrown away forever. No funding. No institutional support. Just one fan with an impossible vision: save baseball's history before it disappeared.What happened next changed how we understand the game. Smith recruited a volunteer army that tracked down scorebooks, decoded Allan Roth's revolutionary scoresheets, and digitized millions of plays. All that while refusing to charge a dime. Their work now powers your favorite websites like Baseball Reference and Fangraphs.

This is the story of Retrosheet: how baseball's greatest preservation challenge became its most democratic achievement, and connected you to every game ever played.

The Moon Tavern takes the reader on a romantic and culinary journey through the Islands of Croatia, where dark family secrets are revealed, quirky friends and relatives are found, and love is discovered.

Vesna, or Ves, is a cookbook writer from Minneapolis who travels to the remote, exotic island of Lastovo off Croatia's Mediterranean coast to reconnect with her biological grandmother. She'd been adopted as a young child after her parents died in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. Ves is also fleeing a frayed relationship with her live-in partner, Reed.

In Lastovo, she meets Dinko, a single, handsome, and wealthy vineyard owner, and his cute daughter Mia. With his help with the translation, Ves discovers her biological family's history and the dark secrets of what happened during the war. Romance, travel, and cooking ensue. She ultimately learns what matters most to her: simplicity in life, closeness with family, and someone to share love with. And, of course, food!

The Moon Tavern is a delicious hybrid - a historical novel . . . a contemporary romance . . . a travelogue . . . a celebration of food and wine! With humor and joie de vivre, Stephanie Hansen and Kurt Johnson bring to zesty life both the characters and setting, giving readers a book to savor, as well as the bonus recipes. - LORNA LANDVIK, bestselling author of Patty Jane's House of Curl, Your Oasis on Flame Lake, and The Tall Pine Polka

Drowning In Paper Flowers

Maeve Okafor builds beautiful things for other people's most important days. Paper flowers by the thousands, installations so precise and breathtaking that no one ever thinks to look at the woman making them. She prefers it that way.

When Dara, her younger sister and the dreamer to Maeve's architect, fails to appear at a bridal fitting three weeks before her wedding, Maeve does what she has always done. She drives to Dartmouth. She looks at what was left behind. A coat on the hook. A cold cup of tea. A passport that is no longer in its drawer.

And one small paper flower, hidden where only Maeve would think to look, with an address folded inside it.

What begins as a search becomes a reckoning. Because Dara did not vanish. She walked away deliberately, quietly, and with a plan she had been building for eight months, inside a relationship designed to make her believe she was not capable of building anything at all. She did not tell Maeve because she knew her sister too well. Maeve would have arrived with answers. Dara needed to find her own.

Tracing her sister's path from the back streets of Dartmouth to a women's shelter in Moncton to a farmhouse outside Fredericton, Maeve begins to dismantle more than a mystery. She dismantles the careful distance she has kept from everyone who has ever needed her, the wall she built from competence and called love, and the version of herself she has been constructing, like all her most beautiful work, so that no one could see the frame underneath.

Drowning in Paper Flowers is a novel about sisters and silence, about the slow violence of control and the slower courage of leaving it, and about what it means to finally let someone see you mid-build, unfinished, honest, and still worth looking at.

For readers of Liz Moore, Miriam Toews, and Ann-Marie MacDonald.

This book presents a clear and engaging introduction to the Ethiopian Bible and its unique 88-book canon preserved by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It explains the historical background of the Ethiopian scriptures, summarizes the books contained within the canon, and highlights their spiritual themes and teachings. The book also explores the significance of texts such as Enoch and Jubilees, while offering practical insights on how the wisdom of these ancient scriptures can guide faith, prayer, and daily Christian life today.

By the late 1990s, General Motors realized that its old Detroit Diesel engine, which had been designed 20 years earlier, was due for a major update. The Detroit Diesel engine was never intended to be a serious horsepower or torque monster. It was just a steady and reliable workhorse that made credible power, met emissions standards, and achieved decent fuel economy. As Ford and Dodge released new designs of their Power Stroke and Cummins engines, respectively, General Motors needed to follow suit.

The first Duramax engine made its debut in 2001. Over the last 25 years, several versions were introduced, all displacing 6.6L and all producing ever-increasing horsepower, torque, and efficiency. As with any engine that is more than two decades old, many now need a complete overhaul. In GM 6.6L Duramax Diesel V-8 Engines: How to Rebuild and Modify, all aspects of a rebuild are covered in simple step-by-step fashion with more than 375 color photos. A brief history is provided, followed by diagnosis, engine removal, and disassembly procedures, which include the special tools that are required. Next are inspection and machine work, which are followed by reassembly and reinstallation. Finally, a performance chapter is included with commentary by Gale Banks.

Whether you want to tackle this project yourself or just want to know how it all works, this guide will help you along the way.

"Darker Days is a meticulous work of terror, a harrowing drop into a moral nightmare. If you can imagine the philosophical oomph of Bergman's The Seventh Seal joined to the rustic shocks of Midsommer, and all of it transported to America's suburbia, you'd have something like Darker Days. It's a scream."--Joe Hill, #1 New York Times bestselling author of King Sorrow

"One of the most vital and exciting voices in modern horror."--Film Director Mike Flanagan

From the author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller HEX comes a modern horror story with echoes of Paul Tremblay, Joe Hill, and Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," about a gilded street in a small Pacific Northwest town where the charmed residents have made a frightening bargain . . . with devastating consequences.

Sometimes you think you can see things behind the fence. Bad things. So it's better not to look. . . .

In Lock Haven, a quiet little town in Washington State, Bird Street is a special place. The residents of this pretty cul-de-sac on the edge of the woods are all successful, healthy, and happy. Their children are prodigies: well-mannered, unnaturally smart, and enviously talented.

But come November, the Darker Days descend, bringing accidents, bad luck, conflict, and illness. Luana and Ralph Lewis da Silva prepare for this, and so do their children, Kaila and Django. It is in November when a stranger appears to collect on a longstanding debt. A price must be paid for the good fortune the Bird Street community enjoys the rest of the year. A sacrifice must be made.

So it has been for more than a century. To assuage their guilt, the residents of Bird Street choose carefully who will be sent into the woods. Usually, it is an elderly or terminally ill individual who wishes to enter the void with dignity.

But this year, things don't go to plan and events take a terrifying turn. . . .

From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb Light series--a gripping tale set on the eve of World War II, as nations race to find and control an elusive substance critical to building atomic weapons.

Europe, 1934. British journalist Owen Crisp-Upjohn is dispatched to Moscow, where his assignments quickly escalate from cultural reporting to international espionage. Before long, Owen finds himself pulled into the orbit of the enigmatic Earl of Suffolk, a maverick aristocrat, and Aurora, a curiously compelling woman with a shadowy past rooted in Soviet intelligence.

Their mission soon becomes clear: secure the earth's only supply of deuterium--"heavy water"--before it falls into Nazi hands. The high-stakes pursuit takes them from London's plush drawing rooms to Barcelona, ravaged by the Spanish Civil War; from far-flung Soviet aerodromes to the perilous, icy landscapes of occupied Norway. Over time, Owen evolves from a detached observer into a man forced to confront profound questions of honor, love, and moral responsibility as loyalties are tested and allegiances shift in an ever-tightening web of science, intrigue, and deceit.

Rich with historical insight, emotionally complex characters, and a relentless sense of urgency with a world on the edge of cataclysm, D: Heavy Water is a suspenseful and wildly entertaining tale of courage and consequence in which humankind's future is shaped by decisions made in the shadows.

"And what is your destiny, Little Bird? Who will you be?"

Sixteen-year-old Wren Vesper is just like every other kid she knows: trying to survive high school and figure out what she wants to do with her life. But when news of her grandmother's death reaches her, she discovers she is not like everyone else, and that question about what to do with her life may no longer be hers to answer. Wren and her mother return to Sedgwick Cove, the tiny coastal Maine town where her mother grew up, and there she learns the truth about the family she barely knows: the Vespers aren't just a family: they're a coven.

Centuries ago, a bargain was struck and a powerful spell cast: As long as three Vesper witches lived in Sedgwick Cove, the town would be safe from the dark forces that threatened its borders. Wren's mother reluctantly agrees to take her own mother's place as the third Vesper witch, but when she disappears under mysterious circumstances, it falls to Wren to navigate the dark and winding world of witchcraft she never knew existed.

Can Wren step into her own power before it's too late?

Daughters of Sea and Storm: The Vesper Coven Book 1, is the first in a thrilling new series set in the World of the Gateway by E.E. Holmes.

Growing up, I learned two things early: how to take a joke (even when I was the joke) and how to stay out of trouble (mostly) by telling a joke. This book is a collection of stories from a childhood where discipline was creative, money was scarce, and laughter was often the only thing that kept everything from falling apart.

Told with humor that doesn't apologize and honesty that doesn't waver, these stories find comedy in the chaos and truth in the mess. Some moments will make you laugh out loud. Others might make you wince, then laugh.

This is a feel-real story. For anyone who grew up fast and learned sarcasm before self-confidence, and figured out early that humor is a survival skill, this book will feel like home.

A riveting book club novel of secrets, redemption, and unexpected connection. Perfect for fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Kristin Hannah, and Jojo Moyes.

Her father died in prison. She's hidden her identity for most of her life. Until now.

Scarlett vowed she'd never step foot in Brackson prison again. Yet here she is, back in her hometown, dragging disgruntled dogs into the hell her father once called home.

The Pups in Prison rehabilitation program is her uncle's passion, but his recent heart attack means he's laid up and she's filling in. She's surrounded by inked necks and barbed wire...and awful memories she can't shake.

She didn't expect to find solace in an unexpected prisoner.

Emery is intense yet kind. Strangely intuitive. She shouldn't look forward to their dog-training sessions, even if this alluring inmate shines a light on parts of herself she thought she hated.

But when she discovers why he was incarcerated and violence hits too close to home, Scarlett's forced to face that forgiveness is more than spoken words and that coming undone is the first step to stitching yourself back together.

Three months, two friends, and one chance to see if "just one time" can turn into more.

Quinn Riley loves three things in this world. The city of Rome, whose complicated history rivals her own; her career counseling job at Billings College, despite toxic campus dynamics; and her best friend, Colton-even if she's fighting a nagging thrum of attraction between them.

When she has the chance to combine all three loves-working on the same study abroad program that Colton's set to teach in-she can't pass it up. Unfortunately, the professors have turned what should be the summer of a lifetime into a test. If she fails, they plan to pass a new policy that will ruin her beloved job. It's an uphill battle, but Quinn's too stubborn to fail.

Colton Miller has never failed at anything. But when Quinn is being decimated by his colleagues, he can't help but stand up for her, even when it lands him in the middle of the ongoing faculty vs. staff feud. Now, in order to secure the tenured position he desperately needs, this summer has to go perfectly. That means ignoring how devastatingly in love with Quinn he's been for over a decade.

But when the two get to Rome, everything shifts. Their shared apartment feels smaller with each charged moment. Those casual touches that have defined their friendship don't feel so friendly anymore. And that "just one time" is anything but. With delectable food, flowing wine, and enough PDA around to turn anyone's mind to romance, the two question if finding forever with their best friend is worth the things they could lose in the process.

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig returns with What Happens at Nightfall, a delightfully Gothic romantic adventure, complete with a little bit of demon-hunting.
In the sprawling Gothic expanse of Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery, some secrets refuse to stay buried.
Recently laid off and searching for purpose, Jess reluctantly joins her best friend on a supposedly fun nighttime cemetery tour. Separated from her group by accident, she discovers a bunch of terrified boys and a strange, ancient key. Both lead to Green-Wood's surprisingly handsome resident arborist, Adam Chervinsky.
Recently widowed, Adam has more to protect than the leafy residents of Green-Wood. His children, still dealing with the loss of their mother, are acting strangely. A haunting is afoot, and Jess seems to know more than she's letting on. Sparks fly between Jess and Adam--and the unquiet spirits of Green-Wood rise from their century-long slumber.
As Jess and Adam delve deeper into the cemetery's haunted history, they uncover a Gilded Age curse, a ghostly socialite, and a demonic pact that stretches across generations. What lies hidden in the Green-Wood's splendid Vanderwilt mausoleum? As the line between the living and the dead blurs, and the shadows of Green-Wood begin to stir with malevolent intent, Jess must confront not only the supernatural forces but a shocking connection to the past if she and Adam truly want to live happily ever after.