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Sold outChosen Family
An exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years.
Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls' high school during their first year there, both their lives are changed forever. From school, to university, to careers, Nell and Eve's relationship is a life raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.
When the passion, guilt, shame, and joy that perpetually twists and turns between them finally implodes, Nell abruptly walks away, leaving Eve alone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they've built with their seven-year-old daughter, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering: Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what's going on in someone else's head? And what's love got to do, got to do with it?
Written with Gray's characteristic big-heartedness and dark wit, Chosen Family is a queer modern classic that reminds us again and again that sometimes the most fulfilling and life-saving relationships are the ones that are the hardest to define.
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Now What?: You, Your Life, and the Truth You've Been Avoiding
The New York Times bestselling author of Unfu*k Yourself helps you get out of the past, focus on the future, and build the life you've always wanted.
There are countless self-help books telling you how to get the life you want--how to find your purpose, make your plan, follow your goals. Yet, too many of us are frozen in life, unfulfilled and stuck with what we have.
Too often, we only see our future through a lens of the past--our past beliefs, experiences, and circumstances. We desire lives that are "better," "more," or "different." But we need to focus on crafting a life of invention, completely free of the constraints of what has been, and Gary John Bishop has the answer.
Now What? is your guide to building the right mindset to reinvent not only your life but what you are devoting your life to. Be warned though: Gary's message isn't for the faint of heart. You will be confronted and unsettled, challenged and provoked. But on the other side is an invigorating, hands-on approach to living life. Your life. Maybe even a life you never believed you could have. Let's fu*king go.
- Reinvent Your Life: Gary John Bishop shows how to stop living through the lens of the past and start building a future shaped by intention and action.
- Motivation for a Fresh Start: If you feel stuck, unfulfilled, or frozen in place, Now What? offers a direct challenge to break out of old patterns and move forward.
- Mindset for Personal Transformation: Shift your thinking, confront the limits of your past beliefs, and create a life that is bigger, freer, and more fully your own.
- Bold Self-Help That Pushes You: Bishop's provocative, hands-on approach is designed to unsettle complacency and spark meaningful change.
- Purpose, Direction, and Action: More than inspiration, this book is a guide to redefining not just the life you want, but what you are willing to devote your life to.
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Breathe, Bunny, Breathe: A Book about Big Feelings
Bunny has Big Feelings. Good thing his mama taught him special tricks to help him understand them. Bunny can have a hard time controlling his temper. Luckily, his mama taught him some handy tricks to help him calm down when his big feelings get TOO big. Whether he's hopping mad at the pool closing early, furious his carrot cake doesn't taste like carrots, or overwhelmed when he forgets all his taps and twirls at his first recital, Bunny knows just what to do.Sold out -
On the Origin of Sex: The Weird and Wonderful Science of Reproduction
From split-gill mushrooms to duck-billed platypuses, the spectacular science of sexual reproduction and creation of biodiversity on Earth. "Smart, thoughtful, and witty, this book will make you rethink what you thought you knew about sex." --Cat Bohannon, author of Eve Let's talk about sex. Not boring, human sex, but the endlessly fascinating, varied, and complex forms of reproduction in the rest of the natural world. Biologist Lixing Sun has spent decades researching sexual reproduction and evolution using behavioral experiments, genetic testing, and mathematical and computer modeling. In On the Origin of Sex, he reveals the wild and weird world of how creatures reproduce. In slime molds, sex can involve dozens--or even hundreds--of mating types, or proto-sexes. Among certain algae, nearly every individual can mate with almost any other--a veritable free-for-all. Meanwhile, whiptail lizards and California condors are just two among the many vertebrate species capable of parthenogenesis. Clownfish sequentially change from male to female, and bearded dragons can undergo temperature-dependent sex reversal, all of which challenge the notion that sex is binary and fixed in the natural world. Assiduously researched and narrated with humor and verve, On the Origin of Sex offers an expert and entertaining investigation into the science of how our planet is populated.Sold out -
Sold outAll the Ways We Learn
An empowering picture book celebrating the many ways kids learn best. Not every child learns by sitting still and staying quiet. Some kids learn by jumping and tapping their feet. Others by building, drawing, or making a joyful mess. However they learn, all kids deserve to feel proud of and confident in themselves! This book celebrates the many brilliant and beautiful ways kids take in the world, helping them feel seen, supported, and loved. Created by a neurodivergent author and illustrator team, with back matter to learn more about neurodivergence and simple accommodations, this is an essential reminder that there's no one right way to learn.Sold out -
Sold outWild about Whales
Owen Davey's popular non-fiction series continues with a captivating and stunningly illustrated guide to whales for independent readers. Did you know that whales are the loudest animals in the world? Or that blue whales aren't actually blue? Do you know the differences between a toothed whale and a baleen whale? Immerse yourself in this beautifully illustrated guide to some of the world's most largest mammals, full of facts about whales, their diets, habitats and how they communicate (and yes, dolphins too).Sold out -
Secret Mission! (Disney Stitch)
Go on a super-secret mission with Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch in this fun Big Golden Book with seek-and-find activities on every page! Stitch's 'ohana has been so busy that they've barely had any family time lately! One day, Stitch decides to make Lilo and Nani a present to fix this. But he wants to keep his plans a secret! Join Stitch as he explores his town and beyond to accomplish his mission in this fun storybook for kids who love Disney's Lilo & Stitch! With simple seek-and-find activities on nearly every page, this book is perfect for interactive story times and repeat reading! -
Sold outMonique Escapes
When Édouard's mother reveals she is--not for the first time--enduring an abusive relationship, mother and son plot her next steps in what is at once an edge-of-the-seat escape narrative and a meditation on freedom and renewal.
From afar, in Athens, Édouard swiftly sets a plan in place for Monique; the next morning, she departs the apartment she has been sharing with the man. What takes shape over the next weeks, over phone calls and informal Internet tutorials, on video chats and train rides, is a powerful and transformative shared experience for mother and son as they navigate the aftermath of male brutality, confront the limitations of class and society, and lay bare the pain of their past. With characteristic insight into society's underpinnings and oversights, and with exquisite and tender portraiture, Édouard Louis's Monique Escapes is a profound story of a woman, a mother, and a family's search for more.
Late one night, Édouard receives a telephone call from his mother. In tears, she tells him that her partner, her first since her abusive marriage with Édouard's father, has been insulting, degrading, and humiliating her. I thought this would be a new life for me and now it's starting all over.Sold out -
Sold outMcKenna's Guy
From Edgar, Barry, and Shamus Award finalist Mike Lawson comes McKenna's Guy, a fast-paced thriller full of secrets, lies, and betrayal.
When an intruder with murderous intent breaks into Roger Smith's modest home one night, the big brute gets more than he bargained for, ending up a bloody corpse staining Roger's carpet.
Washington, DC, Detective Grace Lillinthal is summoned to the crime scene and marvels at the outcome. Why would anyone want to kill gray-haired Roger Smith? He's the picture of respectability--a widower devoted to his family, an amateur painter, and a civil servant who works at the Government Publishing Office. When asked why he'd be a target, a clearly shaken Roger claims to be baffled.
But instinct tells Grace there's more to Roger's story, and when she learns that Roger--after killing his home invader and before calling the police--phoned John McKenna, she knows she's onto something. John McKenna is a disreputable character of the first order. He's the gregarious, larger-than-life owner of a local bar that's a notorious den of thieves.
After one hired assassin fails, another's bound to show up. The clock is ticking for Roger and McKenna to find out who wants Roger dead and why--and suspects abound. Stubborn Grace is as determined to dig up Roger's secrets as he is to keep them hidden, and soon the investigation becomes a relentless game of cat and mouse. Even if Roger doesn't consider himself a criminal, as chaos takes hold of his world, survival requires that he think like one.
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Sold outTo Drown a Witch
A criminal and a royal guard are drawn into the hunt for a dangerous witch--and an unexpected romance--in this YA enemies-to-lovers romantasy, the first in a duology. Perfect for fans of Heartless Hunter. This gorgeous first edition features stunning, flower-patterned stenciled edges and designed endpapers! In Gadore, the Witch is feared above all else. Reborn into each generation, she is the only person with magic running innately through her veins, able to wield that magic with a single thought. So when guards across the city begin to drop dead, gruesomely murdered by violent and vicious magic, everyone knows the Witch has returned--and no one will be safe until she's killed. Toran is the Prince's Crown, the most highly skilled fighter in the King's Guard. Tasked with the responsibility of leading the hunt for the Witch, Toran tries to focus on his assignment to forget the ghosts of his past. And after he learns of Nes, a thief with an uncanny ability to sniff out magic, he forcibly recruits her into joining his hunt. As the two face deadly magic and otherworldly threats, their mutual dislike soon turns to something more electric, and they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they'd never imagined. But the Witch is always a step ahead of them, and with bodies piling up, secrets threaten to come to light--secrets that could destroy everything from the fragile trust between them to the very city of Gadore itself.Sold out -
Sold outNovel Detective: A Detective Novel
A twisty, genre-bending metafictional mystery set in Cuba past and present about a writer returning to her long-lost hometown to seek the buried truth about two suspicious deaths at her Havana high school, perfect for fans of Chanel Cleeton and Jean Hanff Korelitz 2020: Teresa, a Cuban-born mystery writer now living in America, gets an unexpected call from her childhood best friend, Estrella, inviting her to Havana. Estrella is determined to get answers about a case that has haunted them both for decades: the purported dual suicides of a teacher and student at their high school. Though Teresa doesn't quite understand why Estrella is taking the story so personally, she's along for the ride--as she always wanted to write a novel about this case. 1980: Fourteen-year-old Teresita, bespectacled, awkward and mystery novel-obsessed, is "nosy, but not a tattletale." She knows who's been skimming off the top of the amphetamine stash in her mother's pharmacy, which teacher keeps cyanide in his cabinet at school and that their classmate Yoyi is sleeping with their English teacher. Over the course of one fateful day, Teresita gets closer than ever to learning the "Truth of Life"--her catchall term for the intricacies of adult existence--even if it means coming face to face with death. Drawing upon the tradition of Latin American magical realism and directly inspired by the author's own childhood in Cuba and adult life in the United States, this resonant tale is at once personal and universal, full of nostalgia, candor and danger.Sold out -
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Sold outPip & Pals #1: Otter Space!
Pip, the otter, and her pals are ready to make a splash in this otterly endearing early graphic novel series! When a swim leaves Pip covered in mysterious green fur, her friends brainstorm the only explanation that makes sense--she must be from space! Pip is a playful otter who loves adventure and exploring in her seaside cove with her friends. One day, Pip emerges from the water to find her fur has turned GREEN!? Herman, the hermit crab thinks it's something she ate, but TJ, the tern, knows it can mean only one thing...Pip isn't from the seaside cove, but from Otter Space! So, hilarious hijinks ensue as the friends figure out how to get Pip back home, only for Pip and her pals to realize that home is wherever her friends are. Dive into this early reader graphic novel series featuring irresistible Pip who is an otter like no other, perfect for emerging readers.Sold out -
Hyphenated Life: Bridging the In-Between Spaces of Intersectional Identities
For readers of Permission to Come Home, Minor Feelings, and Pleasure Activism, an insightful guide for "hyphenates" seeking to better understand themselves and help others understand them, too. What does it mean to live a hyphenated life? So many folks are forced to toggle across the multiple layers of who they are, and across the diverse spaces they occupy. They may be children of immigrants, 1.5 gen, of color; they may be disabled, neurodivergent, or queer. Regardless of how they identify, they exist in an in-between space while also trying to fit into the dominant culture. With a foot in multiple worlds, belonging fully to none, it can be hard to figure out where they fit in. Dr. Han Ren, licensed psychologist and a hyphenate herself, seeks to offer solutions for those with intersectional identities to fully express who they are in any and every environment. The Hyphenated Life is an intersectional, inside out excavation of how existing in marginalized bodies affects the ways folks show up in dominant culture and predominantly white spaces. Offering tools, stories, conversations, solutions and insights, this book will resonate with anyone who is navigating the intricacies of their multicultural identity development.Sold out -
Children of Abraham: The 1,400-Year History of Jewish-Muslim Relations
From the prize-winning author of The Ottomans, a myth-busting history of Muslim-Jewish relations, tracing fourteen centuries of cooperation and conflict. "A revelatory picture of both coexistence and conflict." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography Today, the dominant narrative of the relationship between Jewish and Muslim peoples assumes a long history of violent hostility. In Children of Abraham, historian Marc David Baer lays this myth to rest, showing how Jews and Muslims lived together in the Middle East and Europe, more often in cooperation than in conflict, for more than a millennium. When Islam emerged in the seventh century, Muslims and Jews were bound by shared religious tenets and common cultural practices, and for centuries afterward, they were often allies. Baer introduces readers to Muslim warriors fighting for a medieval Turkish Jewish kingdom on the Caspian Sea, Jewish viziers leading the Muslim sultan's troops in Spain, and Jewish literary lights and political party leaders in modern Egypt and Iraq. But Baer resists the alluring fable that Jews and Muslims ever lived in interfaith utopia, and he shows how European colonization and nationalism fed the emergence of modern antisemitism and Islamophobia and helped to drive these two peoples further and further apart. Traversing the full spectrum of Jewish-Muslim relations, this is an urgent, essential history for understanding today's unending conflicts in the Middle East and beyond.Sold out