New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Abrams takes a deep dive into the lives and careers of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden, using their entangled paths as a lens to view the myriad facets of the player empowerment era.It's one of the greatest “what ifs” in sports – what if the Thunder had kept Durant, Westbrook, and Harden, three of the league’s young, exciting stars and future MVPs, together? Their departure from Oklahoma City beg...

The book for everyone thinking, ‘There’s got to be more for me than this’You’ve done everything right: you ticked the boxes and built the life you were supposed to. But instead of satisfaction, there’s a voice inside you asking, ‘Is this it?’Once upon a time, that feeling might have been labelled a midlife crisis. But it’s really just the voice of someone who’s been waiting for the right time, the right feeling and the right version of themselves to feel ready. You’ve been ...

Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes region as an ontological and epistemological project shaped by—and resistant to—Euroce...

For generations, women have been told to smile, forgive, stay quiet, or make themselves smaller. Rage, Well Spoken refuses every one of those demands.Across thirty-six stories, essays, and works of creative nonfiction, women transform their anger into testimony, resistance, and undeniable truth. They confront sexism, sexual harassment, discrimination, violence, unequal systems, and the countless everyday indignities that patriarchy asks us to accept as normal. They are a c...

Officially licensed with the estate of Nat King Cole and featuring a foreword by his twin daughters, this memoir provides an intimate and rare look at Nat King Coles' holiday songs and invites you to share in the spirit of the season with one of the most iconic artists in history.Nat King Cole was a Grammy winner and is one of the most beloved artists in history, but he was also dedicated to spending time with his loved ones, especially around the holidays. As his ...

Learning from Children in Early Childhood explores the social lives of preschoolers, delving into how they navigate friendship, conflict, and belonging throughout the school year. Through a collection of vivid stories children shared from their own perspectives, this book highlights the richness and complexity of children's relational pursuits, including how they both navigate tension and express deep desires for connection in the early years of school.Drawing from critica...

There one day.Gone the next.Thirteen years ago, Skylar Reed disappeared from my life, taking my heart with him... Or so I thought.Now he's back.He says he left to build a life for me... for us. Left to become worthy.But I never thought he was unworthy. I never stopped missing him, loving him.When trouble from his past returns, will that love be enough?Or are lost things not always meant to be found?

Citizenship in Shakespeare's England was not attached to nationality but rather to one's city and employment. In this study of urban citizenship, William Casey Caldwell explores the range of economic relationships which existed through a range of dramatic texts.Revealing how citizenship was defined along urban lines and controlled by early forms of corporations, Caldwell argues that playwrights at the time used this context to imagine new opportunities for non-citi...

CourtlandI swear I'm not deliberately avoiding telling my best friend I'm in love with him. Life just has a funny way of getting in the way… for the last fifteen years or so.Take prom. Buzz was my date, and I was planning on telling him that night. One week before, my mom and his dad dropped a bombshell—they've been having an affair. The aftermath destroyed two families.I moved away to Boston and pursued my medical career. Buzz stayed in Clovelly an...

A bold and timely exploration of queer joy as both an experience and a method, this book offers a powerful intervention in gender and sexuality studies by theorizing queer joy not as merely pleasure, but as a radical practice shaped by failure, contradiction, grief, risk, and repair.This book draws its argument from two major research projects: a study on queering sexuality education with over 80 in-service teachers in New Brunswick called SexualityNB and Pride/Swell+, a community-...

Shoreline Devotional contains motifs of sun, earth, and unbridled nature in poems about growing up and living in Southeast Texas; poems about vulnerable female bodies, decades of accumulated grief after deaths and hurricanes and pandemics, and the conflicts at the base of human existence and experience — the longing for religion and also its insufficiencies, the "seasoned hymn of the gulf" crashing upon its littered and polluted beaches, greed next to love, paradise next to hell, and the m...

In a game of gods . . . If you win, you lose. If you lose, you die.From the bestselling author of When Wishes Bleed comes a slow-burn fantasy romance set in a mythological world ruled by ruthless gods. The Mortal Trials is the epic first installment in a spellbinding new series perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and Percy Jackso...