Collection: Adult

★ " The Roots of My Hair is an engrossing graphic novel about the history and marginalization of Black women's hairstyles." - Foreword (STARRED review)

A bold, funny, and insightful graphic novel about hair, heritage, and identity.

The Roots of My Hair follows the coming-of-age journey of Rose, a mixed-race woman from Réunion Island who struggles to love her konyé ("kinky") hair in a world that tells her to tame it. As she moves to mainland France to study and later to work--experimenting with different hair-straightening techniques, visiting beauty salons, and adopting social camouflage--Rose explores her Black identity by questioning the deeper issues behind her hair: race, beauty standards, colonialism, and belonging.

With humor, honesty, and expressive illustrations, Lou Lubie's new graphic novel blends original research and fiction, not only to reveal what lies beneath the hair-care industry but also to speak to anyone who has ever felt pressure to fit in. It is a powerful reminder that identity starts at the roots.Winner of multiple French awards, now available in English for the first time.

A wonderfully illustrated history of geology from ancient times to the present day

The geological processes that underlie all life on Earth can seem intimidatingly vast, ancient, and sometimes even alien. Our planet's dynamics have fascinated humans for millennia, yet only recently have we developed a clear picture of how they work. This book presents the discoveries and critical scientific advances that inform our understanding of Earth's origins and the forces driving geological change. Each chapter tells a key piece of the story, focusing on a major aspect of geology that shapes how we experience our world--time, energy, processes, use, and the interplay between geology and life. Geology: An Illustrated History takes readers from antiquity to the Anthropocene, providing an essential introduction to the subject.

• Discusses how the ancient Greeks, medieval Islamic thinkers, and figures of the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution conceptualized geological time
• Profiles leading figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Nicolas Steno, James Hutton, Lord Kelvin, Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Louis Agassiz, and Inge Lehmann
• Covers topics ranging from the Santorini and Tambora eruptions to seismology, tectonics, erosion, mineralogy, and crystallography
• Looks at geology in art and its role in Chinese history, the Industrial Revolution, and the atomic age
• Explores how geology is guiding us to an understanding of life's origins and whether there might be life elsewhere in the universe

In the aftermath of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, everyday Americans took to social media to share stories of the challenges they'd faced trying to navigate the American health insurance system. Why did this event strike such a nerve with the American public? For a topic as central to the lives of Americans as health care, there is no book that examines the impact of coverage denial, whereby health insurers decide whether to cover health services that appear to be within the scope of a plan's benefits - not until now. In Coverage Denied, health policy professor Miranda Yaver offers a sobering account of the ways in which coverage denials damage patient health and exacerbate inequalities along income, education, and racial lines. Combining rich interview material with original survey data, Yaver draws critical attention to the tens of millions of medical claims denied by health insurers every year, shining a necessary light on our inequitable health care system.

Outsmart Wall Street: the proven crypto investing strategy that has beaten traditional portfolios by 65%

Crypto just crossed the tipping point, and everything you thought you knew about investing is about to change. The world's biggest institutions are pouring billions into bitcoin--while most mainstream investors are still sitting on the sidelines, frozen by fear.

That's where The Intelligent Crypto Investor comes in.

Backed by seven years of real-world results, this groundbreaking book shows how adding just a small slice of crypto (10% or less) to a balanced portfolio can dramatically improve long-term returns--outperforming traditional portfolios by more than 65%. Through the stories of legendary investors like Warren Buffett, Jack Bogle, and Cathie Wood, bestselling author John Hargrave unveils a clear, accessible strategy for adding bitcoin and other high-quality crypto assets to your portfolio--with minimal risk and maximum intelligence.

You'll discover:

• The simple 60/30/10 portfolio strategy that has crushed Wall Street
• How legendary investors would think about crypto today
• The 3 metrics that separate crypto winners from the wannabes
• How to safely earn interest on your crypto through staking
• Why Wall Street is quietly investing billions into crypto--and how you can do it better

The smart money is already moving. This is your proven playbook for building long-term wealth with global digital money--before the rest of the world catches up.

Godzilla heads to the heartland with Kansas City in its sights in four comic tales full of action and excitement!

Calling it "Kansas City" wasn't enough to throw Godzilla off the trail--the King of the Monsters knows it's really in Missouri, and it's on its way. You may have thought your city was too small to attract a kaiju...well, you shouldn't have stuffed it so full of incredible comics creators. So, join a star-studded group of Kansas City-based comics creators as Godzilla smashes its smallest city yet!

Includes stories by Buster Moody, Freddie E. Williams II, Kyle Strahm, Baldemar Rivas, and Jake Smith!

A woman retreats from academic life in New York City to manage a family goat farm in New England, a novel that Richard Russo calls "splendid and provides what I crave from all stories: vividly drawn characters worth spending time with and a richly rendered place for them to inhabit."

Lucy Richard has enjoyed a two-decade-long, successful career in public relations in New York City when she feels compelled to move back to rural Massachusetts to try to save her father's farm. Returning to her childhood home at age 47 is hard enough, but the difficulties multiply once she's settled in: her determination to raise dairy goats and make cheese is hampered at first by her total inexperience, and then by the sudden loss of her farming mentor. To make matters worse, her husband, Michael, who followed her to the farm reluctantly and who has made a disastrous financial decision, is suddenly in severely declining health.

Lucy finds solace in Sandy, a girlhood companion who quickly becomes more than a friend, but their new intimacy places the Richard farm in the crosshairs of Sandy's employer, a solar energy company. How Lucy contends with the precariousness--at once financial, physical and emotional-- of her new life, and with the competing passions and obligations that grow within and around her, is at the heart of this intimate drama of love and loss, of desire and friendship, and of the alluring possibilities of second acts.

Make every mealtime a breeze with over 100 simple, "fancy yet frugal" recipes and household hacks from LORAfied's Lora McLaughlin Peterson

Do you have salt and pepper in your kitchen? Are you looking for quick and easy recipes that don't cost a fortune to make? Then this book is for you!

Cooking trends may come and go, but the appeal of recipes promising a quicker, easier route to dinnertime never grows old. Lora McLaughlin Peterson has been feeding her family balanced meals daily for over thirty years, so she knows all too well how a seemingly simple "30-minute one-pan wonder" can still leave us exhausted by not accounting for hidden tasks, such as chopping, rummaging through cabinets, or clean-up afterward. This is why she created LORAfied, a digital media company that helps people do life better on a budget.

Her cookbook shares simple, quick, "fancy yet frugal" recipes, like Lemon Chia Pudding, Waldorf-Inspired Chicken Salad, Crunchy Garlic Butter Chicken Cutlets, and Potato Chip Cookies, and recipe hacks for making french toast, mashed potatoes, corn, and more with ease. With low-hassle recipes, household hacks, and lifestyle tips, this book makes life easier, brighter, and more delicious--all without breaking the bank.

The Windy City versus the King of the Monsters! Godzilla takes aim at Chicago!

Join a star-studded crew of Chicago comics creators through four epic stories across the Windy City. The L train experiences its worst delays yet, Godzilla interrupts a major sporting event, and a new Chicago-based superhero reaches the end of her rope!

Features a superstar lineup of creators including Tim Seeley (The Local Man, Grayson), Mike Costa (God is Dead) and Ryan Browne (Eight Billion Genies, Curse Words), Caroline Cash (PeePee PooPoo Comics), and Ezra Clayton Daniels (Upgrade Soul, BTTM FDRS)!

A chronicle of intrigue and influence in the Iran-US entanglement

Ironic plot twists and colorful characters abound in Afshin Matin-Asgari's accessible history of relations between the United States and Iran. The missionaries and educators who descended on Iran in the early nineteenth century made way for the next century's oilmen, CIA agents, scholars, and arms dealers in the assertion of US imperial priorities. Whether Iran resisted or succumbed to US interests, it couldn't fail to be shaped by the superpower.

Matin-Asgari offers fresh takes on familiar topics: America's rise as a Middle East hegemon during the Cold War; the special relationship between Washington and the shah; the Iranian Revolution and hostage crisis; the Iran-Iraq war; the Islamic Republic's peculiar anti-imperialism; the decades of onerous American sanctions; Israel's intervention in Iran-US relations; the ascendance of Trump; and the 2025 attempt by the United States and Israel to bring regime change to Tehran.

A labyrinthine tale of American imperial misadven­tures, Axis of Empire incorporates and challenges scholarly narratives while offering a sophisticated yet highly readable account of Iran-US history.

The true story of the world's largest art heist, as told by the FBI agent who investigated the case.

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art were plucked from the walls of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston by two subjects posing as police officers. They rang the night bell, claiming they were responding to a call of a disturbance. After incapacitating the guard and his partner with handcuffs and duct tape, the subjects spent the next eighty-one minutes inside the museum, leisurely removing some of the world's most valuable pieces of artwork from the walls, including a rare Vermeer and Rembrandt's only known seascape. The total loss associated with this robbery has been estimated at over $1 billion.

Based on meticulous investigations conducted to the standards required of an FBI special agent, Thirteen Perfect Fugitives offers author Geoffrey Kelly's insights and theories about the infamous heist.

Una novela deliciosa y conmovedora sobre la familia, el amor, el duelo y una planta de interior precoz que nos recuerda la belleza de vivir la vida en su máximo esplendor.

Morris Warner se está marchitando. Después de la repentina muerte de su marido, Fred, se ha aislado del mundo. Nada de ver pelis con amigos, o de nadar en el lago Michigan, prefiere ver episodios de Jeopardy! y que su gato sea el único testigo de sus respuestas.

La hijastra de Morris, Sloan, siente que no tiene espacio para florecer. Está a punto de casarse con el hombre de sus sueños, si tan solo su madre le deja planear su propia boda y confiar en ella para que construya su vida tras la muerte de su padre.

Jade se está secando. Literalmente. Como planta en la casa de Morris, ella y sus compañeras plantas se han echado a perder poco a poco, hoja a hoja, desde la muerte de Fred y dada la falta de atención de Morris. Necesita trazar un plan para devolver a la vida a su nuevo amo, cueste lo que cueste.

Bloom, del autor best seller de The New York Times, Robbie Couch, es una novela asombrosa donde la familia, el amor, la amabilidad y sí, la madre naturaleza, triunfan.

From the New York Times bestselling author of If I See You Again Tomorrow comes a delightful and heartwarming novel about family, love, grief, and one precocious houseplant, that reminds us of the beauty of living a life in full Bloom.

Morris Warner is withering away. After the sudden death of his husband, Fred, he has shut himself off from the world. No more going to movies with friends, or swims in Lake Michigan, instead preferring the quiet loneliness of his history books and Jeopardy episodes with only the cat to hear his answers.

Morris's stepdaughter, Sloan, feels like she has nowhere to grow. She's about to get married to the man of her dreams, if only her mother will let her actually plan her own wedding and trust her to build her own life after her father's death.

Jade is drying out. Literally. As a plant in Morris's home, she and her plant housemates have been slowly wasting away, leaf by falling leaf, since Fred's death and Morris's lack of care. She needs to come up with a plan to make her new owner come back to life, no matter what it takes.

New York Times bestselling author Robbie Couch's Bloom is a wondrous novel where family, love, kindness, and, yes, Mother Nature, triumph.

A young woman returns to the prairies, where she revisits her immigrant childhood and confronts a haunting guilt, in this debut novel by a brilliant new talent.

Anne Kim is a lawyer in New York, her success built on forgetting the past. When her father dies, she returns to Edmonton for the funeral and is shocked to discover he was from North Korea and left his brother behind.

As she reads the undelivered letters her father wrote to his brother about life in Canada, she is transported back to her childhood in the 1980s and 90s. She recalls the struggles her parents faced as immigrants who ran a grocery store in a rural prairie town. Anne and her brother, Charles, felt the weight of their father's expectations: Anne was driven to excel and overachieve, whereas Charles rebelled, determined to pursue his own dreams. His rebellion created a rift that culminated in a devastating act, irrevocably shattering their family and leaving Anne overwhelmed by an inescapable guilt.

Inheritance explores the immigrant experience, the sacrifices made by both parents and children, and how trauma transfers to the next generation. As Anne journeys to the past, she emerges to finally define life on her own terms, and her story will resonate long after the final page.

A stunning work of natural history, science and polar travelogue, Where the Earth Meets the Sky chronicles one woman's journey to study penguins in Antarctica, the most isolated place on the planet.

Antarctica is a land of extremes. It is the coldest, windiest, and most inaccessible part of our planet--and now one of the places most affected by climate change. In this moving and personal narrative, conservation scientist Louise K. Blight recounts her time researching Adélie penguins with one of the world's great Antarctic scientists.

Surrounded by hostile weather and the hypnotic splendour of Antarctica's Ross Island, Louise and pioneering penguin biologist David Ainley embark upon their research--documenting how the Earth's largest-ever iceberg is affecting the tens of thousands of breeding penguins rushing to mate and rear their young. She records details of penguin courtship, incubation, and chick-rearing against a backdrop of transcendent beauty. The narrative is interwoven with stories of early explorers and modern-day Ant­arcticans, and poetically conveys the isolation and the endless silence that ultimately allow Louise to explore the grief that has lingered since the untimely deaths of her father and sister.

Blending polar travelogue, science, and natural history, Where the Earth Meets the Sky is an unforget­table story about how the world's most unforgiving environment has shaped the psyches of Antarctica's human visitors, past and present--and how an immersion in nature can provide solace and renewal.