She’s sworn off love…good thing he likes a challenge.When social media manager Chloe Conrad is hired to rehabilitate the image of Major League Baseball’s top center fielder, she’s determined to remain professional. She’s just as career-focused as he is and has resolved to never succumb to the notorious charmer no matter how handsome or quickly they click. But then Chloe lets her guard down one drunken night and confesses she’s cursed. All her boyfriends meet their ...

“Robin Hobb is one of our very best fantasy writers.”New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. AndersonWith Dragon Keeper, Robin Hobb, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling “master fantasist” (Baltimore Sun), begins a breathtaking new series about the resurgence of dragons in a world that both needs and fears them—the world Hobb’s readers most recently visited in her immensely popular “Tawny Man” trilogy. Volume One of the Rain...

When Navy firefighter Nick Palotay returns to Marietta to go on the bachelor auction block for a good cause, he expects it to be risk free. But when he needs someone safe to bid on him and his sister's best friend is coaxed into stepping up, Nick isn’t prepared for the effect Cassidy has on him. She sends his mind to all kinds of dirty places…places his battered heart can’t afford.Freelance photographer Cassidy Ware is in waaay over her head. She’s always been Nick’s other little s...

When the wife he believed dead calls from China, an ER doctor races to find her before her enemies silence her forever.Ethan Wright never recovered from the death of his first love.Six years ago, Mei Lin discovered evidence linking powerful officials to a human trafficking ring. She planned to smuggle the details out of China and join her new husband in America—but COVID sealed the borders before she could escape. Snatched by the men she'd been investigatin...

A woman vanishes into Faery.A husband stands accused of murder.And beneath the hills of Elphame, ancient powers begin to stir.Victorian England has never been kind to Elizabeth Merkova.Long whispered about for her strange beliefs and uncanny visions, Elizabeth has spent years trying to convince the world—and her husband—that she is perfectly sane. But when one of her infant twins is stolen and replaced with a changeling, the fragile peace of her life begins ...

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world.Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are now bigger than the stock market and rival even the global banking system in influence. They are also misunderstood—treated as mere debt, when in fact their form, fu...

A revival of the iconic anthology of best Southern short stories featuring eminent and emerging voices.This anthology marks the much-anticipated return of the annual story collection, New Stories from the South, gathering outstanding short stories written by Southern writers or about the American South. Stories were nominated by editors of literary journals and magazines, publishers of short story collections, and by prominent Southern writers who served a...

In Liberatory Research Teams, Labs, and Collectives, Phelps-Ward, Brown, and Bankole provide guidance for research team leaders and members aspiring to facilitate research teams from a liberatory, human-centered, equitable perspective.Whether leading a lab in chemistry and engineering, research team in the humanities or fine arts, or research collectives and collaboratives in the social sciences (e.g., psychology, social work, education, etc.), the authors provide rich exa...

Igniting connection with the forests of the Great Lakes region through Indigenous teachingsWhen an invitation arrives from the forest, what will you hear? What will you learn? How will you respond? Ishkode: A Story of Fire brings readers into a beautiful stand of ancient red pines where Aanikoobijigan, a grandmother red pine, guides a young woman, Animikiimiikanikwe, toward healing and renewal through fire. Embracing the power of memory, storytelling, and ...

JIM LONG SERIES – A relentless sweep of space-time, and quantum realities.Arriving at HQ, Jim is updated and trained, then thrust into the thrilling and enigmatic challenges of unexplored quantum realities that exist within the wormhole highway. His assistant, Gail, is kidnapped, leaving a trail that leads through several other mysterious and mind-boggling quantum dimensions, with the dark entity always one step ahead.Quantum Incept...

A gorgeously illustrated anniversary edition of the book that launched the epic Farseer Trilogy, praised by George R. R. Martin as “fantasy as it ought to be written” and Lin-Manuel Miranda as “an incredible series,” featuring a new foreword by Robin Hobb and ten illustrations.Twenty-five years ago, Robin Hobb’s first novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend the Fool struck like a bolt of brilliant lightning. Thus began a belo...

If you're ready to quit, this is the fast track to freedom.Allen Carr's Easyway method is a global phenomenon that has helped over 50 million people break free from addiction without willpower or substitutes. Clinically proven and recommended by health experts, the method is now available in a concise format specifically for vapers.Whether you use disposables, pods, mods, or pens, Allen Carr's Fast Track to Quit Vaping shows you how to stop: withou...