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...

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...

In Jean-Henri Fabre's keen-eyed world, a coin, a fossil, or a beetle's burrow can open onto the whole history of life. The Life of the Weevil begins with meditations on numismatics and ancient currency, where Roman, Greek, and Provençal coins become miniature records of power, commerce, art, and civilization. Fabre then turns to stone beds and fossils, reading the landscape near Apt as a living archive of vanished seas, lakes, crocodiles, tortoises, fish, plants, insects, and especially we...

**“The clear, step-by-step plan that will help you stop guessing, stop stressing, and start using your money with confidence.”—Mel Robbins“The playbook the personal finance industry should have written a generation ago.”—Bill PerkinsThe new roadmap to financial longevity, from longtime TODAY show financial editor and New York Times bestselling author, Jean Chatzky**You’ve been saving for retirement for decades. But what happens when you get to the ...

“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...

**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...

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...

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...

This ground-breaking volume demands a fundamental rethinking of how research is conducted with—and accountable to—communities. Moving beyond institutional compliance and procedural checklists, the work calls for an ethics grounded in responsibility, reciprocity, and knowledge sovereignty, challenging researchers to reimagine their relationships with research participants and communities.Bringing together Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and land-based perspectives, the contributors co...

One picture. One tabloid. Two lives changed forever.Nature photographer Hailey Summer is keeping secrets from her family—and not just about collaborating with her all-time biggest movie star crush who just stumbled into her sleepy Canadian town…Finian Alexander is one scandalous tabloid photo away from catapulting his acting career onto the A-list. Luckily, he's found a woman, a camera, and an opportunity. Sure, Hailey seems a bit too sweet to set ...