Collection: Adult

From a former Gonzaga basketball player and current University of Washington Dean and Vice Provost comes a memoir steeped in the universal truths and human pursuits of love, grace, forgiveness, and continued growth.

Ed Taylor takes readers on a journey from Lompoc, California through a childhood marked with loss but grounded in the love and support of family and community, to a singular moment that changed everything for a boy set up by the system to be a cog in the machine.

But Taylor's story is only beginning on the day Gonzaga University offers him a full ride: Faced with questions every young Black man on a basketball scholarship has heard-questions like "Do you even belong here?" and "Do you really think you can cut it?"-Taylor answers by examining himself, everything that brought him to this place, and all that he hopes to bring to the world, and by rising to the ever-increasing challenges he sets for himself.

In The Power of the River, Ed Taylor offers perspective on his journey as it relates to the larger, human one we're all on together, inviting us to celebrate the many individuals-family members, teachers, coaches, colleagues, friends, and chance acquaintances-who lifted him up and taught him along the way and reminding us that even while we are responsible for our impacts on those in our lives, we all deserve some measure of grace.

Dr. Edward Taylor has been a friend, a colleague a partner, a son, a father, a teacher, a student, and a fisher on the river of life, and here he shares what he knows of its power.

A través de una fábula, Orwell expone de forma magistral los horrores de los regímenes totalitarios.

Uno de los alegatos más potentes contra el totalitarismo de cualquier especie.

Cansados de sufrir abusos, los animales de la granja de los Jones deciden rebelarse contra sus amos. Tras echar al propietario, establecen un nuevo orden basado en la igualdad. Sin embargo, pronto surge entre ellos una nueva clase de burócratas, los cerdos, que, con astucia, codicia y prepotencia se imponen sobre el resto de animales.

Concebida como una sátira mordaz del estalinismo, el carácter universal de su mensaje convierte esta novela en un extraordinario análisis de la corrupción que engendra el poder, una furibunda diatriba contra los totalitarismos y un lúcido examen de las manipulaciones que sufre la verdad histórica en los momentos de transformación política.

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Through a fable, Orwell masterfully exposes the horrors of totalitarian regimes.

One of the most powerful arguments against totalitarianism of any kind.

Tired of being abused, the animals on the Jones' farm decide to rebel against their masters. After the owner is kicked out, they establish a new order based on equality. However, a new class of bureaucrats soon emerges among them, the pigs, who, with cunning, greed and arrogance, impose themselves on the rest of the animals.

Conceived as a scathing satire of Stalinism, the universal nature of its message makes this novel an extraordinary analysis of the corruption that power engenders, a furious diatribe against totalitarianism, and a lucid examination of the manipulations that historical truth undergoes in moments of political transformation.

The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers were always groundbreakers on the player-development front, and when MLB instituted an amateur player draft in 1965, the Dodgers were ready: by 1968, the disciplined front office and scouting department put together what is still considered today as the greatest draft class in pro baseball history.

That year, the Dodgers drafted six future All-Stars-Doyle Alexander, Bill Buckner, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Davey Lopes, and Tom Paciorek, who would be selected for a combined 23 All-Star games-plus Joe Ferguson, Bobby Valentine, and Geoff Zahn. Most of these draftees-joined at various stops by Tommy Hutton, Charlie Hough, and Bill Russell-would form the core of outstanding minor-league teams as well as Dodgers teams featuring a remarkably stable infield that would play together for eight years, highlighted by a 1981 World Series win. It's widely regarded as the best draft class ever, and the 1970 Spokane Indians-featuring most of that draft class, led by Tommy Lasorda-one of the greatest minor-league clubs ever.

How the Dodgers put together that legendary draft class and how they were developed by Lasorda is told in Before They Wore Dodger Blue: Tommy Lasorda and the Greatest Draft Class in Baseball History, Eric Vickrey's exhaustively researched history of the development of the 1968 Los Angeles Dodgers draft class. Key to the development of this draft class: Lasorda, who worked his way through the minors as the manager of virtually all these draftees at stops in Pocatello, Ogden, Albuquerque, and Spokane, culminating in his appointment as Walt Alston's replacement as Dodger manager near the end of the 1976 season.

Cey, Russell, Lopes, and Garvey proceeded to form an All-Star infield that would play together for an unprecedented eight and a half consecutive seasons. That foursome, along with other homegrown stars and pieces acquired through trades involving the '68 draft class, carried the Dodgers to three National League pennants in the 1970s and a World Series title in 1981 under Lasorda.

"[Tommy] Lasorda developed into a master," said Bobby Valentine, the leading light in the draft class before injuries cut his career short, in an interview with the author. "His baseball acumen, his ability to manage a game is always overshadowed by his persona. He was a spectacular in-game manager. He knew when to put on a hit-and-run. When a guy was in a slump, he'd give him a high-five when he came into the dugout. That would boost the guy's confidence for the next at-bat. He knew when to take a pitcher out, when to leave him in, when to challenge him, when to take a kid out for a private dinner, and when to scold a kid in front of the entire team."

After being incarcerated for nearly killing his dad due to a psychosis-induced prophetic vision, Cohen Miles-Rath wishes to support others with their mental health challenges.

Cohen Miles-Rath, an elite runner and first-generation college student, attacked his dad with a knife. He thought he was saving humanity by killing Satan--the universe demanded it of him as the Prophet. However, he was deceived by mania and psychosis, and, soon after, was arrested at gunpoint.

Cohen's love for his dad couldn't stop mental illness from nearly destroying their lives. But effective intervention could have. He had been hospitalized twice. What went wrong? Since jail, Cohen has managed schizoaffective symptoms and substance misuse, confronted his painful past, and obtained a social work master's degree. Now, he's a mental health advocate.

Told through page-turning narrative, Cohen's transformational journey--having overcome a maniacal, reality-shattering illness--will inspire hope in those seeking insight with mental health.

In an Afghan village, a boy learns his letters under a mullah's stick and dreams of a life free of the Taliban; in Virginia, a cadet learns to read a map and lead a platoon into combat. Years later, on a wind-scoured ridgeline overlooking Zabul Province, helicopters roaring overhead, Afghan interpreter Abdulhaq Sodais and U.S. Army Lieutenant Spencer Sullivan must learn to trust each other if they hope to survive.

In 2021, when the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, the Taliban reassert their rule, disappearing, torturing, and killing U.S. collaborators, including Abdulhaq's fellow interpreters. Yet Abdulhaq's applications for asylum in America are repeatedly denied.

With the Taliban closing in, Abdulhaq embarks on a cross-continental trek toward freedom. Caught up in the global refugee crisis, Abdulhaq must surrender himself to safehouses and human smugglers while Spencer fights his own war back in the U.S. to honor America's promise.

Not Our Problem, a war memoir and refugee story revealed in alternating voices, follows an Afghan refugee and an American soldier across borders and continents, tracing the long distance between a promise and its keeping-interrogating a world in crisis while celebrating how friendship can outlast the war that created it.

An all-night campaign leads to a sleepover date in the seventh volume of the award-winning manga that inspired the anime My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999.

Things are starting to heat up for gamers-to-lovers Akane and Yamada. When Akane's gamer neighbors start keeping her awake for days on end, Yamada offers to not only switch apartments with her, but to dismantle the noisemakers from inside the game.

However, apartment-swapping hijinks lead Akane and Yamada to have to face the question of whether or not they are ready to take their relationship to the next level. With unexpected twists still to come in both their real and gaming lives, will the couple even get the chance to figure out how they feel?

Volume 6 includes Chapters 63-74.

What if the things you don't like about yourself aren't character flaws--but parts of you doing their best to protect you?

The inner critic. Anxiety. People-pleasing. Anger. That wall you've built around your heart.

What if you stopped fighting against these parts of yourself and moved toward them instead?

In this relatable and refreshingly real guide, best-selling author and therapist Jenna Riemersma shows you how. Drawing on Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy--an approach rooted in the belief that all parts are welcome--Jenna introduces a clear, three-step process for better understanding yourself, your relationships, and the way you move in the world.

Filled with real-life stories, exercises, and reflection questions designed for journaling, therapy sessions, or small group exploration, Move Toward isn't just a book--it's a deeply therapeutic experience that invites all parts of yourself to the table, even the ones you don't like.

(Turns out, they've been on your side all along.)

The early works of famed inventor Nikola Tesla, and a source of inspiration for generations of innovators.

At the time it was first published in 1893, The Inventions, Researches, and Writings of Nikola Tesla was considered the bible of electrical engineering and inspired generations of inventors. This volume, edited by Tesla's contemporary, Thomas Commerford Martin, includes extensive discussion of Tesla's early work and inventions and contains more than 300 illustrations that demonstrate the practical application of his ideas. Tesla, who was born in what is now Croatia, is best known for his research into the use of high-frequency alternating currents and wireless transmission. Many of his ideas have found practical application in the modern world, and he continues to be a source of inspiration and fascination to this day.

Take some time to relax with this brilliant collection of over 500 wordsearch puzzles, a real treat for word lovers and puzzle enthusiasts alike. Enjoy the satisfying challenge of finding the hidden words, while giving your powers of observation a serious test.

- REMOVES STRESS: Let all your stress melt away by working through these satisfying puzzles.
- EXPAND YOUR KNOWLEDGE: This wordsearch collection includes a variety of intriguing themes so you can pick up useful knowledge as you go along.
- GIFT EDITION: Designed with a stylish cover, this collection would make a brilliant gift for all puzzle-lovers out there.

El escritor imprescindible para entender el México contemporáneo.

Acompañada de tres hombres, una mujer llega a un pueblo en busca del panadero para cobrar venganza. Cuando lo encuentra, lo balacea y le prende fuego al lugar. Las investigaciones del crimen revelarán los oscuros secretos de las conocidas hermanas Baladro, dueñas de cantinas y prostíbulos.

Estafas, trata de mujeres, entierros clandestinos y asesinatos conforman el siniestro reino que las dos mujeres, Serafina y Arcángela, han construido a su alrededor.

Las muertas es la extraordinaria ficción de un caso real, el de las Poquianchis, y una muestra inigualable de la capacidad de Jorge Ibargüengoitia para retratar con humor la vida por el lado que más duele.

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The essential writer to understand contemporary Mexico.

Accompanied by three men, a woman arrives in a town seeking revenge on the baker. When she finds him, she shoots him and sets the place on fire. The crime investigations will reveal the dark secrets of the well-known Baladro sisters, owners of bars and brothels.

Fraud, human trafficking, clandestine burials, and murders make up the sinister kingdom that the two women, Serafina and Arcángela, have built around them.

Las muertas is the extraordinary fiction of a real case, that of the Poquianchis, and an unparalleled example of Jorge Ibargüengoitia's ability to portray life with humor from the side that hurts the most.

La historia de la única heredera de Moctezuma contada como nunca antes.

1521, el imperio azteca se derrumba. Tecuixpo, la hija favorita de Moctezuma, es hecha prisionera por los conquistadores españoles, quienes son responsables de la muerte de su padre y la sangrienta derrota de su pueblo. Ahora, bautizada como Isabel, se ve obligada a vivir según las costumbres y la religión de sus captores.

Inmersa en un mundo de intriga, traición y muerte, la vida le tiene reservado un golpe final: su primera hija le será arrebatada por Hernán Cortés, el hombre al que más odia. Décadas más tarde, Leonor, una joven huérfana y mestiza, tendrá que enfrentarse a todos los que a su regreso a la Nueva España quieren mantenerla sometida para ocultarle la extraordinaria herencia que le corresponde.

La otra Isabel es la monumental aventura de la hija del último tlahtoani, quien perdió su nombre, su imperio y su familia, pero jamás se dejó vencer. En esta extraordinaria novela, Laura Martínez-Belli entreteje a la perfección la ficción histórica con el suspenso del thriller político más revelador.

El destino de la sangre es irrefrenable.

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The story of Moctezuma's only heir told like never before.

1521, the Aztec empire collapses. Tecuixpo, Moctezuma's favorite daughter, is taken prisoner by the Spanish conquerors, who are responsible for her father's death and the bloody defeat of her people. Now, baptized as Isabel, she is forced to live according to the customs and religion of her captors.

Immersed in a world of intrigue, betrayal, and death, life has a final blow reserved for her: her first daughter will be taken away by Hernán Cortés, the man she hates the most. Decades later, Leonor, a young orphan and mestizo, will have to face all those who, upon her return to New Spain, want to keep her subdued to hide the extraordinary inheritance that belongs to her.

La otra Isabel is the monumental adventure of the last tlahtoani's daughter, who lost her name, her empire, and her family, but never gave in. In this extraordinary novel, Laura Martínez-Belli perfectly weaves historical fiction with the suspense of the most revealing political thriller.

The destiny of the blood is unstoppable.

Part of the Comfy and cute Coloring Series (15 Books) by Fairyland books.

With 43 adorable pages, this coloring book is filled with familiar everyday activities brought to life by super cute animal characters. As you flip through the pages, you'll uncover charming little stories - from cooking and cleaning to laundry day and more. Ordinary tasks become fun, delightful, and extra cozy when you do them with your Furry & Cozy friends!

So get comfy, grab your favorite colors, and bring these heartwarming scenes to life.

This "Furry & Cozy" Coloring Book includes:

• 43 hand-drawn pages ready for coloring
• Super cute designs perfect for stress relief and relaxation
• Single-sided pages to prevent bleed-through
• (If using markers, place a protective sheet behind your page.)
• A convenient 8.5 x 8.5-inch size for easy, comfortable coloring
• High-resolution, crisp illustrations for clean and beautiful results

Makes a great gift for all seasons, spreading cheer and creativity year-round

Is it appropriate for a therapist to be politicized? Can you be anti-oppressive as a psychodynamic therapist? What are the clinical implications of working with clients who request you as a queer or racialized therapist?

Practice & Politics: An Essential Reader for Social Workers and Therapists is a conversation-in-book form that explores these questions with depth and nuance. Edited by Rahim Thawer, MSW, RSW, this collection brings together the voices of queer and racialized clinicians who examine the intersections of identity, politics, and care within the fields of psychotherapy and social work. This first volume foregrounds the political nature of clinical and community practice. It emphasizes that therapeutic work never occurs in isolation but is continuously shaped by systems of power, privilege, and oppression, including colonial histories, racial hierarchies, capitalism, heteronormativity, and ableism. Readers are invited to reflect on how these forces influence both their clients and their own professional choices. Through essays, case examples, and critical conversations, Practice & Politics helps practitioners develop the vocabulary and conceptual tools to identify how systemic dynamics show up in therapeutic, organizational, and community settings. It encourages readers to move away from neutral or depoliticized approaches and toward more ethically engaged, reflexive, and socially attuned practices.

A Classroom With Purpose: A Guide to Teaching Social Studies Today is a roadmap for new social studies educators navigating the early stages of a teaching career. Drawing on the wisdom of experienced educators and field experts, this book offers practical strategies, thoughtful resources, and real-world insights to help build confidence and resilience. From lesson planning to building an inclusive, culturally responsive classroom, this book provides the knowledge, tools, and skills needed to foster a meaningful and effective learning environment.

Twenty-five famous Mainers share humorous stories of everyday life in and about the state of Maine. It's homegrown humor laced with folksy wisdom in the tradition of John Gould and Marshall Dodge. Mainers are born storytellers and they have perfected the art of telling a joke with Down East understatement. These wits recount tales of growing up and growing old in times when politics was more fun and Maine people seemed to know how to better cope with the demands of life and times on the rugged coast, the vast inland forest, and the places in-between.

The twenty-five contributors include well-recognized political names-Maine's current governor, a senator, a former senator, and a former governor-so there's a healthy dose of political stories mixed into the collection of wicked Maine wit. They are illuminating, bittersweet, and laugh-out-loud funny-and they capture the gritty, independent spirit Mainers are known for.