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Color of Time
A science-fantasy inspired by Charles Perrault's fairy tale "Peau d'Âne," The Color of Time blends the whimsy of classic fairy tales with the sapphic romance of Fable for the End of the World and the large-scale politics of The Mercy of Gods.
Princess Cyrelle has always been faithful and true to her family, country, and Goddess. But now her brother, King Elias of Cicia, has asked for-no, commanded-her hand in marriage.
Desperate to avoid this incestuous union, Cyrelle requests a series of increasingly impossible gifts and petitions the Goddess for a sign to sway her resolute brother's proposal. As Elias persists undeterred, Cyrelle must risk everything to escape the only life she's ever known.
Soon, she becomes Green Scales, hiding and struggling to survive on her own, far across the galaxy. But Phau isn't the peaceful refuge Cyrelle had hoped for, and when the leader of its burgeoning rebel faction recognizes the runaway princess, she is forced to choose between safety and freedom. With the fate of two kingdoms on the line and nowhere left to run, Cyrelle must decide what it means to be true to herself, to her people, and to her heart.
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Woman's Guide to True Crime
A startling mix of True Crime, literary fiction, and noir, A Woman's Guide to True Crime captures one of America's best under-sung writers directly at the start of their ascent.
A collection unlike any other, each story in A Woman's Guide to True Crime features shocking historical events examined through the eyes of victims, killers, or the women left behind.
With emotional precision, an uncanny eye for fragility, and an all too grounded sense of unease, the sixteen stories in this collection explore what happens when the blood is washed away, examining everything from the after-effects of matricide in Milwaukee, to two cold, empty graves in Chicago, to a Missouri town where everyone witnesses a murder but keeps their mouths shut, to a Californian Christmas torn apart by a tumbling Cessna, to a small barn outside Hinterkaifeck, Germany, where the dead ask if you, too, heard that sound from behind the walls.
Featuring several award winning stories, including "The Book of Ruth" and "Casadastraphobia", both selections for the renowned The Best American Mystery and Suspense, A Woman's Guide to True Crime plunges readers into the lives of the women at the center of some of the most mysterious and well-known criminal cases in history, then dares them to ask if the present is really any different than the past.
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Murphy's Law for Kids: Essential Life principles and Funny Oops Moments for Children.
Every child dreams of achieving big things; from winning a race to building a treehouse or even learning a new skill. But what happens when things don't go as planned? What if they fail? The Resilient You is the ultimate guide to teaching kids how to bounce back when life doesn't go their way, with real-life lessons on perseverance, teamwork, and the power of a positive attitude.
This book is for every kid who has ever felt frustrated or defeated, but most importantly, for every kid who's ready to learn how to keep going and never stop. Packed with inspiring stories and helpful activities, it shows children how setbacks are just opportunities in disguise, helping them develop the mindset of a true goal-getter.
The Resilient You encourages kids to face life's challenges with courage, embrace their mistakes with humor, and always strive toward their goals, no matter how many times they fall. Whether it's tripping over shoelaces, forgetting a homework assignment, or messing up on the big stage, this book teaches kids that they can always rise up, learn, and keep moving forward.
The book takes kids through key concepts such as:
Mistakes are a chance to grow: With real-life examples, children see how even the biggest "oops" moments can turn into learning experiences. When something goes wrong, it's not the end, it's the beginning of a new opportunity.
Teamwork makes everything easier: Through fun illustrations and simple, engaging stories, kids learn that asking for help isn't a sign of weakness; it's the key to achieving bigger goals together. Teamwork builds not only stronger results but also lasting friendships.
Resilience is a superpower: The heart of this book lies in teaching children how to develop a "never give up" mindset. They'll learn to pick themselves up after a setback, stay patient, and keep putting in the effort, even when the going gets tough.
With a fun and conversational tone, The Resilient You is more than just a guide, it's a friend who teaches kids to trust in themselves and their abilities, even when things aren't perfect. It's about recognizing that life is full of challenges and uncertainties, but each of those moments is an opportunity for growth and triumph.
Does your child ever feel like giving up after a failure?
Have they ever been frustrated by a mistake they couldn't fix right away?
Do they want to know how to stay motivated and keep working toward their goals, no matter how tough things get?The Resilient You is here to show them how. With every page, your child will learn how to laugh at their mistakes, stay strong in the face of challenges, and keep the fire burning, long after the race is over, the treehouse is built, and the homework is finished.
In a world where perfection is often the expectation, this book shows that the real magic lies in embracing the journey, learning from every mistake, and finding strength in the process. After all, it's not about how many times you fall; it's about how many times you rise.
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World After the Fall, Vol. 11
RAGE AGAINST THE GODSJaehwan's unprecedented actions are making waves in Metaverse and catching the attention of many...including some very powerful forces. The higher-ups have taken notice of him, and they've decided it's time to squash this upstart once and for all with overwhelming force. Things are looking dire for the awoken one, until an unexpected ally joins the battle... -
Wistoria: Wand and Sword 11
The new, magical dungeon-adventure fantasy series from the author of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Seeking to fulfill a promise to a childhood friend, Will Serfort enters Regarden Magical Academy with the goal of making it to the top of the magical world. There's just one problem: he can't use magic! Will his sword skills be the key to unlocking his true potential? After a monstrous battle between two formidable Magia Vander, Will's fate is finally decided and he proceeds to his new faction. However, while those advancing to the Tower expect a straightforward orientation for their new assignments, they instead receive a grave mission: find the traitor who aided in the Terminalia attack. The Grim Generation must tread very carefully if they are to sniff out suspects in their respective factions... -
Composition of Scars
Before Draven was the feared captain over one of Bathara's revered aggregates, he was merely a teenager learning how to better his magic, better his combat, and better himself. With his brothers by his side, Draven battles against a world that has carved out his identity with a ruthless blade-despite the wrath Tynan Dalmar brings down on him each time he falls short of his father's measure. But after a particularly cruel interaction where the fraying chords holding his family together officially snap, Draven's mother whisks him away in the middle of the night to finally put distance between them and House Dalmar.
It is in the unsuspecting city of Príth-where colors dance and streets thrum with a living heartbeat-that Draven's world expands far broader than he ever imagined. And as he watches his mother's smile return while confronting his deepest fears, Draven believes he has finally found his place in the world. Has discovered the true warmth of a family at last.
Until his father shatters that illusion into a million, serrated pieces.
A Composition of Scars is a novella in the Cadence of the Fallen series that tells the tale of how Draven received his deepest scars. The ones that always remain, alive and bleeding beneath his skin. It should be read after A Requiem for Fallen Stars.
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Brown/Trans/Les
How does one articulate a cohesive feminism when feminists themselves insist on decentering women?
In Trans/Rad/Fem, radical transfeminist Talia Bhatt attempted to provide a thorough, materialist framework for understanding the oppression of trans women particularly and all queer people generally as an indelible component of patriarchal misogyny. A key facet of that oppression is epistemicide, the totalizing erasure of knowledge, language, and history in order to prevent the marginalized from so much as being able to conceptualize, let alone articulate, the terms of their oppression.
Transmisogyny is far from the only force that is animated by epistemic injustice, however. Few cultures illustrate the truth of that assertion better than the land of Bhatt's birth, a nation dogged by internal contradictions and fractious violence along the lines of caste, class, religion, nationality, and more, before even considering the matter of sex.
In this text, Bhatt attempts to reckon with the questions that many feminists, of all identities and backgrounds, have long struggled to grapple with: Can feminism advocate for the plight of women without inevitable reinforcing the very category it seeks to interrogate? In a global hegemony with so many intersecting axes of dehumanization and marginalization, is feminism capable of advocating for the most vulnerable among us without rendering itself reactionary and absolute? Without holding the experiences of the most privileged above those of the least?
The answer, she hopes, is "yes".
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Big Jump: A Basketball Story
JOE ROOP was born in the coal-mining town of Martwick, Kentucky, but he didn't want to be a miner. He wanted to play basketball.
Combining his natural height and athletic ability with dedication and hard work, Joe played his way to a college degree and local legend status.
His story proves that when you make the most of your natural gifts, there is no limit to what you can do.
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Pelourinho
El acarreo de negros traídos como esclavos desde África, al continente americano, constituyó un acto sistemático de barbarie y es uno de los genocidios más grandes en la historia de la humanidad.
Al llegar a San Salvador de Bahía, los negros eran muchas veces castigados y azotados en un poste, al que se le dio el nombre de "Pelourinho".
Allí, algunos morían, otros simplemente eran marcados para siempre.
Los pelourinhos se multiplicaron como la esclavitud por todas las latitudes de Brasil.
Este libro de Marcelo Fabián Monges es un homenaje a la memoria de las víctimas y a la resistencia de un pueblo que supo mutar el dolor en alegría, la sangre propia en insignia, la injusticia en conciencia para toda la humanidad. -
Rituals for Heretics
For millennia, religious rituals helped people process grief, fear, and change by turning inner experience into physical action and spoken words. They help humans make sense of what cannot be easily named. When people step away from religion or start being unsure of what they believe, they can lose access to this accumulated human knowledge. This book reclaims the beautiful and helpful parts of religious ritual. It preserves the psychological power while leaving thoughts about the divine open, inviting readers to bring whatever they believe, or don't believe, into practices designed for healing and integration.
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Queer People: A Madcap Jazz Age Satire of Hollywood's Scandalous Eccentrics
The lost Hollywood novel that scandalized an industry - back in print after 50 years.
"Queer" is used in its 1913 Webster's Dictionary sense - strange, eccentric, unconventional - a celebration of the gloriously oddball characters of 1920s Hollywood.
First published in 1930, Queer People was the insider takedown that set Hollywood's hair on end: a wickedly funny roman à clef by two journalists who actually worked inside the studio system. Irving Thalberg, John Gilbert, Louella Parsons, and many more, appear thinly veiled in a satire so accurate that when Howard Hughes bought the film rights, no actor would agree to play themselves.
This carefully restored scholarly edition includes the complete original text, a new foreword by noted film historian Chris Yogerst, a vintage map of the book's Hollywood locations, and a publisher's afterword providing full historical context. The direct ancestor of The Studio, The Player, Sunset Boulevard, and contemporary Hollywood satire.
"About as funny as anything I've ever read." - Graydon Carter, former editor of Vanity Fair, in The New York Times (2025)
"Satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms... set Hollywood's hair on end." - TIME Magazine (1931)
"The best work that has appeared in this field... an extremely entertaining one." - New York Times (1930)
Course adoption potential for Film Studies, American Literature, and Cultural History programs.
Available in paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook.
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Damon Dickson Story
Born prematurely and brought back to life by faith and determination, Damon Dickson's journey begins with struggle and never lets go. Raised between Texas and Minnesota, Damon navigates poverty, abuse, loss, and systemic injustice-yet fi nds refuge in movement, music, and the unbreakable bond of family. From neighborhood basketball courts to the electrifying stages of Minneapolis, Damon's life takes an unexpected turn when dance opens doors he never imagined-eventually leading him into the orbit of Prince and a front-row seat to music history. But success does not erase pain. Th rough heartbreak, betrayal, fatherhood, and profound loss, Damon learns that survival is not about escaping the past, but carrying it forward with purpose. -
Still, We Are Sacred
"I have been a devotee of Emanuel Xavier's poetry since his legendary debut, Pier Queen, and his 7th and newest collection, Still, We Are Sacred, only strengthened my admiration for his artistry. These poems, ruminant at times with memories and dreams, mournful or sparkling with joy at others, blaze with a poetic force, sharpness and realness that have always been among the hallmarks of Emanuel's poetry. They also possess a truthfulness and intimacy that draw you into the heart of the poet's experiences, never sacrificing humor or an unforgettable turn of phrase, showing how a true literary artist lives, survives, and thrives as a brown, queer man in the 21st century." -John Keene
In Still, We Are Sacred, Emanuel Xavier gathers poems of queer survival, memory, and belonging. Moving through faith and doubt, family and chosen kin, love, grief, and joy, these poems honor lives shaped by resistance and care. At once elegy and affirmation, the collection insists on tenderness as a radical act and on the holiness of those who remain.
Emanuel Xavier is a queer Latinx poet whose work emerged from New York City's ballroom culture and the Nuyorican arts movement. An unexpected literary voice shaped outside traditional institutions, he writes toward survival, faith, sexuality, and chosen family. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Pier Queen, Americano, If Jesus Were Gay, and Love(ly) Child. He lives in New York City.
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Another Havana Hangover: A Tanner Ford Thriller
From the award-winning author of Havana Hangover comes the pulse-pounding sequel, Another Havana Hangover.
Tanner Ford never meant to become a spy. He became one because Richard Swift-a Washington powerbroker with a talent for finding weakness-gave him no other choice. Swift doesn't rule through force. He rules through leverage, fear, and systems designed to decide outcomes before anyone realizes they've lost.
Now Swift's reach is global. His power nearly untouchable. And Tanner is the man who helped him build it.
To escape, Tanner must destroy the very machinery he once believed might redeem him. That means returning to Havana-the city that shaped him, scarred him, and still holds the people he left behind. As old loyalties resurface and long-buried betrayals demand payment, Tanner is forced to confront the cost of trust-and whether it can ever be earned again.
Another Havana Hangover is a gripping story of espionage and reckoning, where the most dangerous lie isn't the one you tell others-but the one you tell yourself about who you've become.
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Queenslander
Farms collect broken things. Things awaiting resurrection.
Since getting out of juvie, Ronnie Madonna has built a tentative life in Lionheart working as a farmhand for Nev at Upsend Downs, but one thing is still missing: her daughter Rainbow.
When she realizes she has a chance to get Rainbow back, she must prove she is a responsible adult and a good mother. Her quest will take a village, and will force her to confront demons from her past. Will she follow her football dreams to Brisbane or put down roots on the land that holds a mysterious power over her and her boss?
Ten years ago, jaded former war photographer Nev Bickerman woke to a pregnant teenager smashing the family room with a cricket bat. Now, Nev is far too professional to admit she's falling in love.
"This extraordinary debut from Laura Garden is so many things: a lyrical ode to Queensland and its people, an exploration of love in all its many forms, a double portrait of two women who only appear to be perfect opposites to one another, but in fact share a bond deeper than blood. Queenslander, like its protagonists Ronnie and Nev, never gives up its secrets easily, but the rewards along the way are well worth the journey. Lush and transportive, tender and fierce, this is a novel that lives on well after the last page."
-Hesse Phillips, author of Lightborne
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Hot Flashes & Homicide
Meet your new favorite amateur sleuths: three delightfully unbothered retirees who refuse to age quietly and absolutely will not mind their business.
If you love cozy mysteries, female amateur sleuths, and small-town secrets, welcome to Conch Key, a sun-soaked Florida beach town where the gossip travels faster than the tide. It's all palm trees and porch swings until a very dead real estate developer in designer loafers washes up and turns this seaside mystery into a full-blown scandal.
Daisy Picklesworth planned to spend her retirement reading cozy mystery novels, not solving one. But when a suspicious charm surfaces, the victim's past gets murky, and the local police chief insists she stay out of it, Daisy does what any self-respecting nosy amateur detective would do: dive in headfirst.
Good thing she has backup. Her inner circle includes a glamorous best friend with sharp instincts, a no-nonsense skeptic who trusts no one, and a sweet-but-sneaky observer who misses nothing. Together, they sip mimosas, chase clues, and unravel a twisty whodunit filled with secrets, lies, and a few very stylish suspects.
Expect humorous cozy mystery vibes, found family friendships, and a cast of quirky characters in a charming coastal setting. This is a lighthearted mystery packed with small-town intrigue, beachside drama, and just enough danger to keep things interesting.
Perfect for fans of:
- Cozy mystery series with strong female leads
- Beach reads with a murder mystery twist
- Senior sleuths and retirement-age detectives
- Clean mysteries with humor and heart
If you like your mysteries sunny, snarky, and served with pastries, this Florida cozy mystery is ready to sweep you away.