**Butterflies: Tiny Wings, Big Role in Biodiversity**What if the colorful butterflies dancing among flowers were much more than beautiful creatures?In this engaging children's ebook, young readers are invited to discover the fascinating world of butterflies and understand the important role they play in the balance of biodiversity.Through an accessible and captivating journey, children will learn how butterflies interact with flowers, contribute to pollination, serv...

Aislinn has spent most of her life invisible.Abandoned as a child and forced to survive in the trees of Liberty Park, she expects nothing from the world except cold nights, stolen food, and the ache of being overlooked. Then Toivo Austin sees her—really sees her—and in one impossible moment, her life begins to change.Toivo is a doctor with a rigid routine, a generous heart, and no shortage of people who need him. But Aislinn is different. She is brave in ways he do...

She was supposed to be dead.For ten years, Alpha Rhys Kavanagh has felt the ghost of a mate he believed he'd lost forever—until the woman carrying her scent walks into Blackridge alive.Marisol Reyes has spent a decade hunting the truth behind the fire that killed her parents. Now her investigation leads straight to Rhys's pack—and the dangerously irresistible Alpha who may be hiding the darkest secret of all.Their bond is undeniable.Her distr...

Still Humming - A Physician's Life in MusicAt the intersection of cutting-edge medicine and artistic sensibility, this book offers an intimate and poetic journey through an entire career as an oncologist. From radiation therapy suites to Caribbean lagoons, from snowy peaks to hospital corridors, music emerges not as mere background scenery, but as a vital load-bearing structure of existence. Across 25 chapters paced by musical counterpoints—from Bach to Ky...

Émile is Rousseau's landmark challenge to rigid, memory-based schooling, a radical vision of education that scandalized eighteenth-century France and was condemned and burned by church authorities. Yet the book's influence spread across Europe, inspiring reformers such as Basedow, Pestalozzi, and Froebel, and helping shape modern secular schooling and kindergartens. This volume presents selected extracts and translator's notes, preserving the parts of Rousseau most useful to parents and te...

“Echenoz is one of the contemporary literature's rare graceful magicians.” —BookforumJérôme Lindon is a genre-defying meditation on the friendship and working relationship between Jean Echenoz and his editor, the founder of Les Editions de Minuit, Jerome Lindon. Lindon published the work of Samuel Beckett, Marguerite Duras, and Robbe-Grillet, among so many other giants. This voice-driven ramble recounts in candid, understated, and hilarious glimps...

Fists of Glory provides a fascinating and intimate look at boxing from its origins in archaic Greece to its demise in late antiquity. Jean-Manuel Roubineau takes readers on a full sensory journey, replete with sights, smells, and percussive sounds, as he discusses all aspects of the sport, including rules and regulations, gear, weight classes, training regimens, cheating strategies, and boxing's relationship to other sporting contests like pankration. Roubineau's expertise as a pr...

Exiled from his community, a young Innu man finds himself adrift on the streets of Montreal.Released from prison after ten years spent behind bars for the murder of his violent, alcoholic father, Élie Mestenapeo finds himself out in the world again, but alone. Banished for life from his community, Nutashkuan, he heads south to Montreal, where he becomes part of a new community—Cree, Nakota, Inuit, Innu, Mohawk, and Atikamekw come together in Cabot Square. There, Él...

An exquisite meditation on the mysterious Fayum portraitsJean-Christophe Bailly’s A Silent Apostrophe is a lyrical interdisciplinary study of the Fayum mummy portraits from Roman Egypt. This “truly remarkable essay,” in the words of art critic John Berger, explores the ongoing fascination with these nearly 2000-year-old images and, in so doing, tells an origin story of portraiture as we know it today. Drawing on a wealth of historical materials, Bailly sho...

She’s a fashion model trying to prove she’s more than a pretty face.He’s a guarded cowboy who doesn’t believe she belongs in his world.City girl Laura Oakes wants more than photo shoots and shallow praise. When an inheritance brings her to Sweetheart Creek, Texas, she leaves the runway behind and leaps into small-town life — determined to prove she’s capable of more.Too bad the rugged, serious cowboy she once crush...

Fall in love with Blueberry Springs!This box set contains the first three Blueberry Springs favorites from NY Times bestseller Jean Oram's popular small town series. Get ready to stay up all night reading as you laugh your way through these three sweet & popular titles...Whiskey and Gumdrops: A Best Friends RomanceOne woman. One case of self-denial. One hunky best friend who wants a lot more.Watching the ma...

One woman. One case of self-denial. One hunky best friend who wants a lot more.Watching the man she thought she'd marry tie the knot to someone else spurs small-town waitress, Mandy Mattson, to finally pursue her dreams of opening her own restaurant.But she can't do it alone. . .Mandy's going to need the help of her sexy, long-time best friend, Frankie Smith. He has everything she needs--and more. She fell for him years ago, but has never a...