Collection: Adult

Do you step into your garden and feel overwhelmed by the task at hand? Or maybe you find yourself baffled by the sheer amount of gardening information and just want to know what needs doing right now?

Fear not, Mike Griffiths - @the_mediterranean_gardener - is here to give you some straight-talking advice, month by month.

The Easy Garden breaks down the year into jobs for each month, with simple step-by-steps showing you what to do. From how to prune wisteria to how to install a water butt, you will find straightforward guidance on gardening techniques, how to troubleshoot problems, and handy projects. Discover how taking small, consistent steps in your garden actually makes a big difference.

No jargon, no fluff, just good advice for a beautiful outside space, the easy way.

From Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eric Moskowitz comes the riveting story of the first true coast-to-coast automobile race in U.S. history, a fast-paced tale of the gritty and determined drivers who braved hostile terrain, mechanical failure, and, shockingly, sabotage, to take home the gold.

In 1909, America was home to 253 automakers, a landscape of visionaries, schemers, and would-be barons of the new century. But when playboy millionaire M. Robert Guggenheim announced an audacious "Ocean to Ocean" contest from New York City to the Seattle World's Fair, only three companies were brassy enough to show up at the starting line: Acme, Ford, and Shawmut.

Oddsmakers favored the Acme and Itala, a pricy import also joining the race, while dismissing the pint-sized Ford -- a homely little number called the Model T-- and the long-shot Shawmut, struggling to survive after a factory fire. In fact, many didn't believe any of the cars would reach Seattle at all, as they would need to forge a 4,106-mile course of mountain ranges, mud bogs, washed-out wagon bridges, and harrowing canyon trails, long before the era of asphalt highways, seatbelts, and service stations.

But Henry Ford was intent on proving that the Model T could go the distance and beat out the muscular luxury cars---and he didn't plan to leave it to chance. Indeed, a little over three weeks after the race began, a Ford crossed the line hours ahead of the Shawmut.

Except that victory was a fraud.

The Hardest, Longest Race is a colorful tale of ambition and subterfuge, but it is also a love letter to America at the turn of the Twentieth Century. As a seeming people's champion--a car for the masses--traverses the vast nation, Moskowitz brings to vivid life the diverse populace and landscape that it would soon transform.

Timed for the 20th anniversary of the critically acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning webcomic-turned-graphic novel, Mom's Cancer is a revised and expanded edition featuring 32 pages of all-new material.

With 22 additional comics pages and new essays from Brian Fies; nurse MK Czerwiec, cofounder of graphicmedicine.org; and editor Charles Kochman, this edition is a must-have.

Winner of the first-ever Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, Mom's Cancer was the reason the category was created, and has been hailed as one of the 10 most important Eisner Award winners of all time by Comic Book Resources (CBR).

An honest, unflinching, and sometimes humorous look at the practical and emotional effect that serious illness can have on patients and their families, Mom's Cancer is a story of hope--one that has changed the lives of readers worldwide, created new fields in the comics industry, and was the inspiration for Graphic Medicine, a field that explores and supports the interaction between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare.

Mom's Cancer first gained notice online as a webcomic. It was posted anonymously by Brian Fies, with the intention of sharing information and insights gained from his family's experience. Just prior to publication, Mom's Cancer became the recipient of the first-ever Eisner Award for Best Digital Comic, and went on to win the German Youth Literature Prize, the Harvey Award for Best New Talent, and the Lulu Blooker Prize, and received multiple nominations, including Best Book for Young Adults from the American Library Association.

It has also been translated into seven languages and counting (Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Slovenian, and Spanish). Twenty years later, Mom's Cancer continues to resonate with readers all over the world.

This revised and expanded anniversary edition features 32 pages of of all-new material, including 22 additional comics pages and essays from Fies and nurse MK Czerwiec, cofounder of graphicmedicine.org, that will provide readers and teachers and practitioners with context and resources for how to use this book, and an introduction by editor Charles Kochman.

La gran voz de la narrativa femenina de nuestro país vuelve con La casa de huéspedes. Una espléndida saga de mujeres tan reales como la vida misma.

Por la autora de Las herederas de la Singer y La niña del sombrero azul.

Más de 250.000 ejemplares vendidos

Madrid, 1937. En el preciso instante en que una bomba cae sobre un edificio del centro de la ciudad, cerca de la Gran Vía, las vidas de dos jóvenes vecinas cambian para siempre.

Elvira, cuyos padres regentan la casa de huéspedes ubicada en la tercera planta, se encuentra exiliada de la Guerra Civil en Francia en el momento de la explosión. Sin embargo, la desaparición del hogar al que tanto anhela regresar supondrá un punto y aparte en su destino.

Ángela, la hija de los porteros de la finca, sí está presente cuando el lugar donde ambas han crecido salta por los aires. Es entonces cuando toma una decisión de consecuencias imprevisibles: coge en brazos al bebé de unos huéspedes que acaban de fallecer bajo los escombros y huye adoptando una falsa identidad.

Nada hace pensar a Elvira y a Ángela que sus caminos volverán a cruzarse, ni que otra casa de huéspedes será el lugar de encuentro para una nueva generación de mujeres que, igual que ellas, deberán aprender a convertir el dolor en fuerza y a sobrevivir con la frágil esperanza de un futuro mejor.

La casa de huéspedes es una conmovedora historia de madres e hijas que vivirán los reveses del amor, la amistad, la traición y esos secretos que duran toda una vida.

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One of our country's leading voices in female-driven narratives is back with The Guest House, the splendid saga of a group of women as real as life itself.

By the author of The Singer Heirs and The Blue Hat Girls.

More than 250,000 copies sold

Madrid, 1937. At the precise instant a bomb falls on a building in the heart of the city, near the Gran Vía, the lives of two neighborhood girls change forever.

Elvira, whose parents run the guest house on the third floor, is living in exile in France to escape the Civil War. The loss of the home she's been yearning for will mark a before and after in her life.

Ángela, the daughter of the concierge, is there when the building is blown into smithereens. In that moment, she makes an impulsive decision: after rescuing the baby of couple that was staying at the guest house and died in the bombing, she flees with the child under an assumed name.

Elvira and Ángela have no reason to think that their paths will cross again, or that another guest house will be the meeting place of a new generation of women who, like them, must turn grief into strength while trusting in the fragile promise of a better future.

The Guest House is a moving story of mothers and daughters navigating the vicissitudes of love, friendship, betrayal, and secrets that last a lifetime.

She doesn't remember her past. But some memories come with a cost.

Eira Eckhart has spent years building a quiet life in a small town at the edge of a recently overthrown kingdom. Her memory is fractured, her past a blur--but with her shop, her loyal rabbit familiar, and practicing only the potions magic still legal under the watchful eye of the Iron Empire, she's managed to remain unnoticed by the empire's witch hunters.

Until Hugo Venton walks through her door.

Brash, clever, and infuriatingly handsome, Hugo is searching for something...and seems to know more about Eira than she knows about herself. But when a terrifying encounter with an unnatural, deadly new breed of soldier puts a price on her head, she has no choice but to join Hugo on his quest.

Their hunt for a missing princess pulls Eira across the continent--and deeper into a past she can't recall. As buried memories, mysteries in the Iron Empire's capital, forgotten feelings, and the truth behind her identity begin to surface, Eira realizes the forbidden magic simmering in her veins might be the very thing that could save them from the Iron Empire's forces as they draw ever closer...if she can remember how to control it in time.

FOR FANS OF:

• Yearning
• The guard that falls in love with their assignment
• Enemies to friends to lovers
• Forbidden magic
• Memory loss plotlines
• Spark of the Everflame and A Fate Inked in Blood
• Plus sized main characters (whose weight is the least important thing about them)
• Powerful women in romantasy

From social media's favorite vintage nana: warm, heartfelt advice on how to discover joy and beauty in your everyday life. Have a cup of tea and settle in!

"In times when unexpected disappointments seem lurking around every corner it's even more important to focus your attention on things that are beautiful."--Diane Shiffer

Known to her nearly 2M followers as @shifferdiane on TikTok and Instagram, Diane Shiffer is the internet's favorite nana. Her cozy, candid posts--featuring cups of coffee on the porch, cats on the countertop, and vintage treasures--have become a sanctuary for those craving softness and kindness in a divided and harsh time.

Like a collection of letters from a wise and loving grandparent, this book offers warmth, wisdom, and encouragement for anyone seeking more peace, joy, and self-acceptance. Diane's signature blend of gentle humor, vintage charm, and heartfelt reflection invites you to slow down and reconnect with what matters most. When we treat ourselves with kindness, we often find that life flows more easily--and even joyfully.

THE SMALLLEST OF JOYS is an invitation to slow down, embrace self-love, and welcome a little stillness (maybe even silliness!) into your days. With short, heartfelt chapters, you'll discover how to:

• Embrace your inner weirdo
• Be patient with yourself through life's changes
• Keep a tidy home without overwhelm
• Develop a positive body image
• Heal from heartbreak
• Connect with others through gratitude
• Find everyday magic in the simplest moments

Whether you've been following Diane for years or are just meeting her now, this book is like a warm teacup in your hands and a soft blanket around your shoulders. A modern antidote to hustle culture and self-criticism, it's a reminder that kindness--especially toward yourself--can be a powerful way to live.

Here is the next generation vegetarian cookbook from America's Test Kitchen

500+ creative recipes that define vegetarian cooking today--fresher, fiberful, fantastic

Enjoy vegetarian meal-making at its best with 500+ recipes that showcase a wide variety of vegetables and non-meat healthier proteins that help to deliciously add more fiber to your diet. You'll find incredible flavors, new techniques, and hundreds of weeknight-friendly meals as well as stunning celebration-worthy centerpiece recipes.

A complete and essential resource, The New Vegetarian presents a wealth of satisfying main dishes of every kind, from mostly vegetables to burgers, noodles, savory tarts, and hearty soups and salads. You'll also find:

- Weeknight Recipes 350 freshly appealing and inventive recipes that are ready in an hour or less, including Eggplant with Black Bean Sauce, Creamy Broccoli Pasta with Crispy Panko, and Summer Squash Tart
- Hearty Protein Options with chapters and meals devoted to eggs, beans and legumes, and tofu and tempeh. Among the must-try recipes are Chickpea Shakshuka, Tofu Curry with Squash, and Cacio e Pepe Beans
- Simple Vegetables from A to Z a chapter covering everything from Asparagus Mimosa to Broiled Smashed Zucchini with Garlicky Yogurt
- Multiple Ways to Add Variety add variety and interest to recipes with collections of quick sauces and spreads, fast flatbreads, 10-minute salads, and more
- A Comprehensive Introduction includes how to build a balanced meal; the anatomy of bowl, salad, and sheet pan meals; and how to mix and match components into customized meals
- A Vegetable Cooking Primer covers prepping vegetables, scrappy cooking suggestions that use the whole vegetable, and how to fill an updated, global vegetarian pantry. Learn about heirloom beans and grains, getting the most from herbs and spices, and using next-level condiments.

Start the day with Kale and Black Bean Breakfast Burritos, lunch on Mushroom Taleggio Pizza or a big bowl of Green Gumbo, make an easy weeknight dinner of Crispy Gnocchi with Shredded Brussels Sprouts and Gorgonzola, and invite company over for Silky Roasted Eggplant with Tomato and Feta.

Vegetarians, vegans, and even meat eaters will all love these super-appealing vegetable-forward recipes.

From the earliest green shoots to dense tropical forests, discover how plants spread across the world to build our environment.

Plants first emerged on a very different looking Earth 500 million years ago. As land masses moved, plants were brought together in fierce competition with one another, or separated to continue their lives in very different conditions. On this evolutionary journey, they developed ingenious strategies to disperse and extend their range, and increase their diversity.

Plants have populated almost every part of Earth's land surface - from tropical zones to cracks in city pavements - and have fundamentally shaped Earth's natural regions. Mapping the changing conditions and continents of the ancient world and the biomes of the modern one, Atlas of Botany explores how plants have overcome the challenges of survival, and how they have interacted with pollinators and people along the way.

In the pages of this sumptuous botanical book, you will discover:

• A unique blend of information that brings plant science, geography, nature, and human history together for an unparalleled view of plant life on Earth
• The intricate and sometimes bizarre ways that plants have adapted to live everywhere
• A detailed understanding of where plants come from and the conditions they prefer to grow in

Produced in association with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh this beautiful book combines the best elements of gardening books, science books, and nature books - featuring botanical illustrations, detailed photography, and clear, concise explanations - to tell the story of how plants evolved and survived - and continue to thrive.

Black women are facing a systemic gynecological health crisis. This book gives them the tools needed to unlearn the medical normalization of their suffering and offers a path forward to healing--by a foremost physician, surgeon, researcher, and gynecological cancer expert.

When Dr. Kemi Doll first began training to be a gynecologic cancer surgeon, she quickly noticed that the level of care being offered to women was rarely equal. She started to ask herself: Whose pain was believed? Who was "high maintenance" vs. "angry and non-compliant"? Who died? White women's pain was doubted, but Black women's pain was often outright denied. And the locus of this crisis was the womb. Day by day, fibroids, bleeding, inflammation, and cancer struck Black women the hardest, yet the medical field cared very little about their fate. When student physicians would explicitly bring up these alarming disparities, Dr. Doll's teachers would reply: "Black women just don't do well with this," followed by, "We don't really know why."

Since then, Dr. Doll has made it her goal to give Black women the tools they need to unlearn what she calls "womb suffering." For all women navigating gynecologic care, and the medical professionals who care for them, this comprehensive, authoritative book of science-backed information and lived experience covers:

• The mechanisms behind the four primary conditions that affect the womb--often with fatal consequences--including Endometriosis, Fibroids, Heavy Bleeding, and Endometrial cancer.
• An overview of the research conducted on reproductive health outside pregnancy--the lack of which has caused healthcare inequity and obstructed access to care
• Gripping stories of smart, successful women struggling with and overcoming Womb Suffering
• What good gynecologic health looks like and why it is vital to reclaiming a full, healthy life; how to feel and respond to your body's signals; and the tools and vocabulary needed to help advocate and prepare for medical visits.

A Terrible Strength links women's health care to timely conversations on racial justice and healthcare inequity, arming women with the power to secure vibrant health and well-being for the rest of their lives.

HOW RUSSIA LOST ITS CHANCE OF FREEDOM: A landmark work of political history detailing the decline of modern Russia, taking us right up to Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Brilliantly told through the tumultuous life and brutal assassination of Boris Nemtsov (1959-2015).

When Russia emerged from the debris of 70 years of Communist party rule, the country offered signs of hope it would become a democracy and a respected player on the international scene. Instead, it turned into a dictatorship, one which has no respect for human rights, murders and imprisons its political opponents, and launched a war on a scale not seen in Europe since the end of World War II.

How did this happen?

The Successor explores recent Russian history through the life of the Russian liberal leader Boris Nemtsov, who started his political career in the late 80s--at the height of Gorbachev's Perestroika--and was assassinated in early 2015 beside his Ukrainian partner Anna Durytska, on a bridge near the Kremlin.

Nemtsov took part in or witnessed all the landmark events that shaped Russia and its political trajectory, from the first free national elections and the coup attempt of 1991 to the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Nemtsov's fate reflects Russia's fate. At the time of his assassination, Nemtsov was helping to organize a rally against the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the Russian financial crisis.

Drawing on vast numbers of archival materials and off-the-record interviews with figures such as Alexey Navalny, exiled Russian journalist Mikhail Fishman constructs a comprehensive, landmark work of political journalism. As engrossing as it is disturbing, The Successor is both a biography of Nemtsov and of Russia itself.

Foreword by the President of the National Funeral Directors Association.
Featuring professional commentary from funeral director Jess Wakefield.

Most estate planning books focus on documents.
Most end-of-life books focus on emotions.
Almost none connect the full picture.

In No Loose Ends, attorney, estate planning, and end-of-life educator Adam Zuckerman delivers a clear, plain-English guide to the entire spectrum of planning, from wills and trusts to caregiving logistics, funeral decisions, digital assets, and what actually happens after someone dies.

This book does not just explain paperwork. It explains the system your family will rely on.

With clarity, empathy, and a touch of dark humor, Zuckerman connects estate planning, end-of-life decisions, and post-death responsibilities into one understandable framework. Readers gain the high-level context most families only learn in the middle of a crisis.

Inside, you will learn:

• How wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives actually work together
• What executors and family members realistically face after a death
• The practical realities of probate, funeral planning, and settling an estate
• How to organize financial, property, and digital information so it can be found and used
• Where families commonly get stuck, and how to prevent loose ends

Designed to give readers confidence before meeting with an attorney, financial advisor, or funeral professional, No Loose Ends helps you ask better questions and make informed decisions.

Throughout the book, readers are guided to practical tools and additional resources from Buried in Work, bridging education and action.

Because estate planning isn't just about documents. It's about clarity, preparation, and making life easier for the people you love.

"Gripping...Ackerman and Stavridis stage a harrowing global conflict that pits military might against an appetite for justice... equal parts haunting and entertaining." --Publishers Weekly, starred review

A gripping drama and chilling prophecy about the possible path to war for a planet devastated by climate change

In their novel 2034, decorated military officers and award-winning authors Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis imagined a war between the US and China. In their follow-up novel, 2054, they envisioned a breakdown in American politics fueled by a radical advance in AI. Now they make their boldest, most astonishing, and arguably most necessary leap--imagining the consequences of a climate war.

By the year 2084, the world is divided into the equatorial countries that bear the brunt of the climate crisis--led by Nigeria, Brazil, and Indonesia--and wealthier countries like China and the US, beset by their own problems after a series of civil wars. Tensions between the two sets of countries have reached a breaking point, until finally the so-called Reparationist nations of the equator decide that only military force can bring them justice.

A fascinating and disturbingly plausible extrapolation from current realities, 2084, like other classics of the genre such as Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future and Neal Stephenson's Termination Shock, deploys a global cast of characters, all protecting their interests as the fate of human civilization hangs in the balance. Individuals often seem small in the face of the forces that drive global change, but in the end human agency proves surprisingly decisive. Big doors can swing on small hinges. We have it within ourselves to write a different destiny, if only we can imagine it.

An insider's view exposing the most urgent issue in US big giving--and how to address it

With Americans increasingly concerned about billionaires controlling our public funds and everyday lives, Glen Galaich--social impact expert, nonprofit leader, and Stupski Foundation CEO--delivers his personal conversion story from believing in strong, consolidated donor power to advocating for more community engagement in foundation funding decisions. In Control: Why Big Giving Falls Short, Galaich offers an incisive critique of the United States' approach to charitable Big Giving and its systems and culture that, he argues, encourage excessive donor control.

Most people don't realize (or don't want to talk about) why today $2 trillion in US charitable funds are essentially stockpiled by big donors and foundations too focused on growing endowments through for-profit investments rather than the timely, vital disbursement of these funds back to our communities and nonprofits. Galaich introduces us to the system-wide "Mindset of Control" that allows continued, outsized influence of major donors over charitable assets legally and ethically no longer their money. He discusses how financial and legal systems, combined with outdated traditions, have given big donors a false sense of ownership over effectively public assets, and kept private foundations and donor-advised funds from comprehensively engaging communities. It's a role in the system that Galaich questions if many big donors even want to play.

Inside the book:

• Revealing examples of how excessive donor control maintains an ineffective culture of Big Giving and limits community engagement
• Storytelling that holds a mirror up to the sector's behaviors, myths, and "fake rules" that impede social progress for working-class and perennially under-resourced communities
• A rare peek into the inner workings of private foundations and how grantmaking decisions are made behind the closed doors of nontransparent institutions

Galaich says the good news is that we created this system, and we can change it. Control offers first steps toward a game-changing shift in this massive sector that affects everyone, showing new roles we can play and fairer mindsets. Challenging and principled, Control is essential reading for anyone interested in this country's socioeconomic trends or in changing our world.

A brilliant and entertaining deconstruction of the most popular sport in the world, just in time for the 2026 World Cup in North America, from the bestselling author of How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius

After reading this fun book, you'll never look at soccer the same way again.

In How to Watch Soccer Like a Genius, Nick Greene calls on a turf manager, an expert on color theory, and a landscape historian to understand the field itself, a paleoanthropologist to talk kicking, and an Anglican priest to explain schisms--how American football, soccer, and rugby could all develop from the field games of rowdy 19th-century British schoolboys.

Greene delves deep into what defines the game, how it developed, and what happens during a match's 90 minutes (and then some). His expert commentators include a domino toppler, a developmental neuroscientist, an art historian, a civil engineer, and more.

On the surface, soccer seems like the simplest of games: one ball, two teams, two goals, and (preferably) some grass. There's a reason it's the first team sport little kids learn to play. But the closer you look, the more you dig into the game's history, the more infinitely complex and complex the picture becomes.