Collection: Adult

A mysterious murder in present-day Milan intertwines with a cold case from the 1940s in this thrilling novel about film, freedom, censorship, and the persistent threat of fascism.

An acclaimed director, Manlio Parrini, decides to return behind the camera. Having abandoned cinema at the height of his success because he found the industry to be "a place without truth," he now, in his 70s, has a special story in mind: a film about Augusto De Angelis, a pioneer of Italian crime fiction in the 1930s. The violent death of De Angelis remains, for Parrini, an unsolved case marked by the stench of injustice and blind fascist censorship, a story that needs to be told now more than ever.

Yet just as Parrini finds a producer for his project and begins writing the screenplay with his friend and accomplice Sara De Viesti, another mystery bursts into his life: the murder of the elderly widow Bastoni, who owns the villa next door to his.

Following the Perfumer incident, Hinako and her friends switch things up by taking some time off. But their plans of relaxation are derailed when they run into Mimimi, who is searching for a missing girl who looks eerily similar to the subject of an artist's painting... As they begin their investigation, they learn of a rumor that one of the artist's models from long ago has disappeared...What punishment awaits those who have succumbed to depravity in the pursuit of their art?

Ainosuke is a gay man who spends his gloomy days full of regrets. He desperately wishes he could be as cute and gorgeous as Karen, the idol he adores. But one night, Karen herself, on the run from an exploitative producer, appears right in front of him! When a shocking series of events forces them both to become fugitives, a journey of self-realization and fleeting love begins...

In this chilling domestic thriller debut, a young woman working as a housekeeper--for the subject of a trending true crime podcast--finds herself in a deadly mess when the truth catches up to the hype.

Renee Beale is done settling for dead-end jobs and living on her parents' tree farm in rural Virginia. But just as her life starts to look up, personal tragedy knocks her back down. Desperate for an escape, her only prospect is working for a wealthy Richmond couple with a deadly backstory.

Ed Weatherup is a family man, successful, and the perfect employer--except for the fact that he may quite possibly be a murderer. He served five years for his wife's death before the Innocent Blood podcast helped overturn his conviction. Now he's back home with his second wife and blended family, vowing publicly to find the real killer.

With her past coming to collect, Renee has no choice but to become the Weatherups' new housekeeper. Suddenly privy to their family secrets and furtive phone calls, she turns to the podcast to learn more about her mysterious employers. But the details don't add up. And the closer Renee gets to the truth, the more sure she becomes that the killer will strike again.

This newly revised and updated all-in-one grammar reference is a quick and easy way to look up sticky punctuation questions for all style manuals including AP (Associated Press), MLA (Modern Language Association), APA (American Psychological Association), and Chicago Manual of Style.

These days, writers wear many different hats: they write college essays, magazine and news articles, sales copy, online newsletters, books, and reports. It's hard to keep the punctuation style rules for each one straight--until now. This comprehensive reference from grammar guru June Casagrande is organized by punctuation type to give writers quick answers no matter what style of project they're drafting.

The Best Punctuation Book, Period, Revised Edition provides clear, up-to-date answers to common questions about hyphenation, commas, apostrophes, numbers, and more; a Punctuation A to Z section addressing frequently confused terms in one master list; handy visual markers for usage rules; and rulings from an expert Punctuation Panel on gray areas. With this uniquely comprehensive resource in hand, writers will be able to craft polished prose in a flash.

Things can be much more than things.

Why do we love the things that we do? The old guitar, the champagne flutes, the miniature model car--and what happens when those objects change hands? In the buying and the selling of things, objects once loved but perhaps discarded or forgotten, we find a treasure trove of untold stories. . . stories of pain, joy, hope, dreams, disappointment.

What new purposes might unfold when these objects move from old owners to new? What spiritual, unseen things happen in that ordinary human transaction? Can love be passed on through pre-owned possessions?

New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes invites us to discover what her grandmother taught her--how there is value in the old and used, and how things are much more than things--they are stories of our humanity. Wise, thoughtful, and unsparingly candid, this unique and moving collection of stories-as-verse helps us on our journeys of letting go, rediscovering purpose, and experiencing redemption and renewal for the worn out and broken places in our hearts.

Step in, look around, have a listen, and be twice blessed.

The Book of Wisdom: Volume I & II is a sacred initiation into the unseen architecture of reality.

There is a wisdom behind all things. Hidden, yet everywhere. Whispered, but never spoken aloud.

It lives in symbols, in cycles, in silence.
Some call it divine intelligence. Others feel it as an ancient knowing pulsing beneath the surface of life.
But most never recognize it at all.

This is not just a book.
It is a key.
The Book of Wisdom gathers the lost teachings, the buried codes, the esoteric principles once reserved only for the initiated.

Not to mystify you.
To awaken you.

Inside, You'll Encounter Truths That Speak Beyond Language:

✅ The hidden order beneath chaos, and how to walk in tune with it

✅ How forgotten spiritual laws silently shape the architecture of your reality

✅ The deeper currents behind suffering, truth, desire, and liberation

✅ How to dissolve illusion, drop the masks, and remember who you truly are

✅ A path to sovereignty that does not require control, force, or striving

✅ Ancient truths that echo through all authentic spiritual lineages

This is not surface spirituality or trendy self-help.
It is a deep initiation, crafted to shift your perception, activate your awareness, and return you to the Source within.

What awaits within these pages moves beyond explanation and touches something your soul already remembers.

Read slowly. Absorb deeply.
What you find here may change everything you thought you had to search for.

You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard to be happy.

So you start to make a list of everything that's brilliant about the world. Everything that's worth living for.

1. Ice Cream. 2. Kung Fu Movies. 3. Burning Things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me

You leave it on her pillow. You know she's read it because she's corrected your spelling. Soon, the list will take on a life of its own.

A new play about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love.

A hit man conspires with an unlikely new partner who has vengeance on her mind in a riveting and emotional novel of romantic suspense by the author of We Are the Match.

Contract killer Jack O'Sullivan has corrupt billionaire Cale Jacobson in his crosshairs--until a woman in red ambushes Cale first, ruining the biggest payday of Jack's career. To make matters worse, Ava Cavalcante, with her haunted eyes and nothing-left-to-lose fury, isn't even a rival assassin...she's just a vengeance-driven ex-librarian with a cute dress and limited impulse control. Jack should walk away. Instead, he recruits her to help him finish the job.

But Ava's grief and fury run deep, and her fire pulls Jack in fast. As they're forced to work together if they want any hope of finishing this job (or getting revenge), their bond turns from reluctant alliance to dangerous desire.

Between planning a murder, running for their lives, and hooking up in shady motels, they end up with more than either of them bargained for...and they also might be one kiss away from their own happily ever after. If they don't betray each other first.

Prophecies collide in this explosive finale to USA Today bestselling author Jayci Lee's epic romantasy series. Can one obstinate fox spirit save the worlds, even if it means destroying her heart?

Through every battle won and enemy defeated, Sunny thought she was the good guy--until now. The eternal darkness has breached the Realm of Four Kingdoms, threatening to consume all life, and her power may be the only hope for salvation. But what if she accidentally destroys the realm instead?

Sunny must return to the Realm of Four Kingdoms and face her destiny--for her friends, for Ethan, for everyone she's sworn to protect. Though no longer certain she's the hero they deserve, she will battle the darkness across the kingdoms, except for the one place she's forbidden: the Kingdom of Mountains where Ethan rules.

As ancient prophecies unfold and the gods' buried secrets emerge, Sunny and Ethan find themselves caught between duty and desire. Their fated love could be their greatest strength, or their ultimate downfall.

In this epic conclusion, they must choose: follow destiny's path, or forge their own way forward--even if it means watching everything they love burn in the flames of their defiance.

A highly requested title from Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, the in-demand manga Billy Bat is a historical conspiracy-thriller meta-manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese American comic artist's search for the truth regarding the origins of his character "Billy Bat."

This is the first thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.

It's 1949 Los Angeles, and Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American comic book author, is drawing his bestselling character, Billy Bat: a quick-witted detective who is, unsurprisingly, a cartoon bat.

Everything is going well for Kevin until he discovers an unfortunate truth: He may have unintentionally plagiarized his beloved character from a drawing he once saw in Japan. Devastated by the news, Kevin returns to war-torn Japan to find the drawing's original artist . . . but the character's origins turn out to be far older and more perplexing than he had ever imagined.

WHAT'S BURIED BENEATH THE EARTH...

It's the hottest year on record, with the drought stretching into its third month. When an environmental scientist is tasked with evaluating the impact of a controversial new wind farm on the West Yorkshire moors, she soon discovers signs of devastation. Camped out alone at the base of Turbine 34, which was built on an ancient peat bog, she begins to see things that shouldn't be there and hears unknown sounds howling in the night.

She has dedicated her life to protecting the moor, but will it protect her?

Exploring Frank Gehry's early career through five buildings he designed using scrappy materials and low-cost construction

This book presents five lesser-known buildings by Canadian American architect and designer Frank Gehry (born 1929) from an early stage in his decades-long career. Gehry is best known for his iconic building designs including the Vitra Design Museum in Germany, the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the Dancing House in Prague. Photographed by the renowned Swedish architectural photographer Johan Dehlin, this selection of lesser-known early works, built in the late 1970s and early 1980s, laid the foundation for Gehry's international breakthrough a decade later. During this early period in his career, Gehry experimented with low-cost construction and "off the shelf" materials in creating a series of highly inventive projects in the Los Angeles area. Johan Dehlin's previously unseen pictures of Gemini G.E.L. (1979), Spiller House (1980), Indiana Avenue Houses (1981), Benson House (1984) and Norton House (1984) are accompanied by newly reproduced drawings of the architect and a series of texts that provide fresh critical perspectives.

The award-winning romantic comedy about a country girl chasing her dreams in Tokyo-and don't miss the anime!

Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.

Nominada por los estadounidenses como una de las 100 mejores novelas en la serie de PBS The Great American Read.

En una ciudad del sur de los Estados Unidos, en la época de la Gran Depresión, una mujer blanca acusa de violación a un hombre negro.

Aunque la inocencia del hombre resulta evidente, el resultado del juicio es tan previsible que ningún abogado haría nada para evitarla... excepto Atticus Finch, el ciudadano más respetable de la ciudad. Su compasiva defensa le cuesta muchas amistades, pero le otorga el respeto y la admiración de sus dos hijos, huérfanos de madre.

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Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much.

One of the best-loved classics of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many dis-tinctions since its original publication in 1960.

It has won the Pulitzer Prize, been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. It was also named the best novel of the twentieth century by librarians across the country (Library Journal).

No es de extrañar que este sea el único libro dedicado 100% a las ventas que figura en la lista de los más vendidos de El New York Times.Esta obra clásica de Zig Ziglar está llena de historias entretenidas acerca de personas reales y abarcan desde la sicología en las ventas hasta los detalles prácticos a tener en cuenta durante el proceso de cierre. El autor comparte con sus lectores estrategias para dominar el arte de la persuasión efectiva, cómo proyectar calidez e integridad, aumentar la productividad, superar objeciones y tratar con efectividad a todos los prospectos -incluso a los más desafiantes.Esta edición revisada introduce conceptos innovadores y contribuciones de Kevin Harrington, uno de los hombres de negocios más exitosos de esta generación en los Estados Unidos, quien además, fue alumno de Zig Ziglar. En estas páginas, Kevin les da un giro moderno a las enseñanzas del gran maestro y nos ofrece una perspectiva fresca sobre cómo aplicar en la actualidad los métodos de venta del legendario Zig.

Bien seas un veterano en el mundo de las ventas o un emprendedor en tus comienzos, Secretos para cerrar la venta te brindará consejos prácticos, ejemplos y preguntas efectivas y útiles para persuadir a cualquiera a comprar lo que sea que estés vendiendo y a transformar prospectos en clientes.