**Finalist for the Washington State Book Award and the Lambda Award in Bisexual Fiction****"Sexy, fun, serious and unputdownable." —Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post“Brazen, brawny, sexy . . . full of unforgettable characters and insatiable appetites. I was riveted. Painstakingly researched and pulsing with adrenaline, Carrasco’s debut will leave you thirsty for more.” —Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of GothamA vivid, sexy ba...

Gaelic of Arkum is dying.The only thing the ne'er do well smuggler and ex-junkie wants to do with the little time left him, is drop off his last load, get paid and hole up in his favorite cathouse for a week before shoving off back into space for a final flight into oblivion. Unfortunately for Gaelic, his long buried past comes a calling, gumming up his plans and luring him back to the source of all his miseries, the only woman he has ever loved; the only woman he ...

Luis Carrasco lives and writes in Gloucestershire. His debut novel, El Hacho, was published by époque press in 2018. Ghosts of Spring is his second novel.About Ghosts of Spring:A young girl, anonymous and ignored, sits through a cold, hard west-country winter, scrounging for change and a warm place to sleep. Ghosts of Spring explores one girl's desire to transcend the limits of her environment and forge a new life against all the odds.

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Have you ever considered celebrating failure, rather than fearing it? Failure can be the route to success.Pity Partiers: Celebrating Your Failures to Achieve Your Biggest Wins teaches readers to embrace the “suck” of getting fired from a dream job, not reaching goals, experiencing break-ups, or being rejected. It is full of stories of wildly successful women who have used failure as their driving force to build accomplished careers, relationships, and lives. The exciting t...

Enter a future of defiant vitality in GLEEMImbued with cyberpunk attitude and in the rebellious tradition of afrofuturism, GLEEM is drawn with a fierce momentum hurtling towards a future world. Carrasco’s distinct cinematic style layers detailed panels and spreads, creating a multiplicity of perspectives, at once dizzying and hypnotic. Vignettes unspool in proximity to our own social realities and expand into the outer layers of possibility. Wheth...

New Orleans, city of music, mystery, and murder!A kidnapped girl, slated to be sacrificed. A cop and a priest and an inner-city erupting into a race-fueled gang war. The blood moon is rising — and La Bruja is ready to kill.When the severed head found in the city's landfill is identified as having belonged to the brother of one of New Orlean's most notorious gang leaders, Detective Gustavo Guerrera's investigation leads him to the darkest re...

You’ve tried cleansers that sting, creams that over promise, and routines that leave your skin even more irritated. The breakouts keep coming back—whiteheads that pop up overnight, zits that refuse to heal, and scars that won’t fade. It’s exhausting, and worse, it chips away at your confidence. Here’s the good news: there’s a smarter, gentler way to manage acne. Hydrocolloid patches aren’t just a social media trend—they’re backed by science and designed to support your skin’s natural heali...

Nova never thought much about her dreams—until the night she dreamed of a dinosaur and woke to find it roaming the city streets. As the line between sleep and waking blurs, she realizes she isn’t just dreaming; she’s opening doors. Every night, new creatures, objects, and people slip through, rewriting reality itself.But something is watching. Something ancient. And if Nova doesn’t learn to control her power, she won’t just reshape the world—she might destroy it.

* PROTOCOL* PRACTICAL ADVICE* USES AND CUSTOMSFor the Ambassador as well as the members of the diplomatic entourage, formal procedures and their correct application can be a source of anguish, torment or entertainment, depending on the level of familiarity with and adherence to the spoken an unspoken rules at play. In my years of diplomatic exercise in government positions, at the head of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic missions, or even as a simple observer at ...

This book aims to elucidate the divergent institutional trajectories of lithium policies in Latin America, shedding light on how industrial development of mining activities can emerge in specific extractivist contexts. While focusing primarily on Chile's lithium policy, the study is further enriched by shadow case analyses of Argentina and Bolivia, reinforcing the robustness of the findings. The research introduces an original typology of industrial policies associated with lithium and arg...

Book Summary: When the People Rise. The Democratic Insurgency Behind Nicolas Maduro's Electoral Defeat in Venezuela When the People Rise offers a comprehensive and strategic analysis of the forces that led to the historic electoral defeat of Nicolás Maduro on July 28, 2024. This book is the culmination of a trilogy that began with Evilness Cahoot, which exposed the oppressive tactics of Maduro’s regime, and continued with National Conciliation, which laid out the strategic framework for Ve...