A powerful family memoir about inheritance, identity, and the pull of the seaSurrendered as an infant in America, Maria “Mia” was taken in by Sicilian immigrants in Gloucester, Massachusetts—a gritty working-class town steeped in salt and tradition. She inherits a name that traces back to 19th-century Sicily, where her great-grandfather was abandoned as a newborn on la ruota dei proietti, the “wheel of the castoffs.” Christened Millefoglie, “a thousand lea...

**Essential, up-to-date guidance on consent and sex for anyone who’s having it—and everyone who wants to do it better.Empowered practices, embodied skills, and frame-changing advice for navigating consent, pursuing pleasure, and building connection in the real world.**Part practical guide, part cultural critique, this book offers braver, more creative, and more empowered visions of what sex can (and should) be. Essential reading for anyone having sex in the 21st century, Ho...

She’s the grump who hates Christmas. He’s the gentle cowboy who crumbles only for her.HadleyHating Christmas is not a crime. Accidentally setting a gingerbread man on fire is. Probably. Fortunately, the kind cowboy wearing the gingerbread man costume isn’t even a little crispy.But now I’ve caught his attention, and the look in his eyes tells me he wants to get into my cookie jar. Good thing I know better than to knead anyone. Nope, ...

She was the wood. He was the flame. After this, they would be ash.A cruel twist of fate leaves Jasmine Hennessy stranded in a remote cabin with her worst nightmare—her ex-husband, James Roth, who she hasn’t seen in five years. He isn’t acting like the man she married, but did she ever really know him?One night together kicks off a series of events that threatens her freedom as Roth seeks vengeance on those who ruined him seven years ago. He’s determined to ...

A year of captivity in the hands of a sadistic captor, followed by two years in a prison psychiatric hospital, has left Nigel Hopes little more than a shadow of the man Christopher Chase grew up with and loved like a brother. Determined to help Nigel find his way back to normal life, Christopher organizes a hiking trip in the mountains with a group of fellow university students, hoping that a change of scenery and a few peaceful days in nature might succeed where everything else ha...

A moving portrait of Yuri Kochiyama—an ordinary woman who became an extraordinary activist—and her bond with Malcolm XWhen Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama shook Malcolm X’s hand at a courthouse in 1963, it sparked a transformative friendship built on justice, solidarity, and hope. In Postcards from Malcolm X, Mia Wenjen and illustrator Keith Henry Brown trace Kochiyama’s remarkable journey from a small-town girl in California to a fearless advocate for human righ...

The Grin Protocol is a sweeping science-fantasy saga set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where reality itself was rewritten seventy years ago by an event called The Fracture. After The Fracture, human beings began manifesting unique supernatural abilities called Signatures — powers tied to their deepest emotional truths. No two Signatures are identical. Some manipulate fire, others bend time, some speak to machines, and a rare few can rewrite memories.The series follows Sable ...

Lyra Vane has spent her entire life feeling like a stranger in her own skin. When a camping trip to Blackwood Mountain sends her tumbling into a glowing underground world, she emerges three days later-changed. Her heart beats too slow, her blood runs too cold, and the water answers her call.Now, shadowy watchers circle her quiet town, ancient forces stir beneath the earth, and Lyra must descend into the Depth once more to face the truth about her vanished mother-and the impossible ...

**Root Survival** explores the rich history of Black healing traditions and the knowledge carried through generations of families, communities, elders, healers, gardeners, and cultural storytellers.From African botanical knowledge and traditional plant practices to the resourcefulness developed by Black communities across generations, this book examines how healing traditions became more than methods of caring for the body—they became ways of preserving identity, community, memory,...

Dante Fortemani’s family never takes his ideas seriously during business meetings, so he zones out. That is, until the agenda includes selling his late grandfather’s struggling vineyard. Desperate, he appeals to his mother and siblings, and buys himself two months to protect their legacy.Business consultant Morgan Forster is constantly connected to anything with a digital pulse. Her friends believe she’s a stressed-out workaholic in need of an intervention: a Galentine’s Day getawa...

When nurse Eva Shaw takes a post caring for a bitter invalid on a remote Pacific island, she expects loneliness, not the arrival of Maxime de Vaux — her employer's darkly attractive brother-in-law, a man whose every glance unravels her hard-won composure. Against her better judgment, Eva falls. But Estelle de Vere is a woman who feeds on ruin, and she has hidden one devastating truth: Max is not free. Betrayed and humiliated, Eva flees back to England, burying her heart beneath a starched ...

Dreadful winter cold gave way to ominous spring growth, and now the heat threatens to obliterate all: the third volume of the In the City series has arrived, and veteran editors R. B. Wood and Anna Koon have curated another impressive lineup of international talent in Summer in the City .The scorching sun heats concrete, glass, and steel nearly beyond human tolerance.The oppressive heat of Summer sits like a woole...