Staying home for the Holidays...Laura Holton had big plans for her winter break. None of which involved her staying home. But when her uncle gets laid up for a while, she's stuck running his veterinary clinic. Staying home for the holidays wasn't all bad, after all her uncle had just hired the sexiest veterinarian alive.Clay was a newcomer to Fairplay, Texas. Taking the new position in a small-town vet clinic hadn't been his parent's idea of utilizing his expensive educatio...

Selene never asked for the darkness that followed her all her life. It wasn't until her sixteenth birthday that something clicked, and she began to understand how to control it. She spent years jumping between foster homes, and the only steady person in her life was Scott, her foster-family brother. Finding out that she has an actual sister has been some of the only good news in her life. But when she finds out that she has a brother as well, things take a darker turn.Scott was a l...

The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven essays contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with this topic. An essay ...

A young woman with an extreme fetish for pain and sado-masochism answers an advert from another woman who is looking for a new sex slave. However, when she turns up for their first meeting she realizes that she is just one of five candidates, who are all put through their paces by their potential new master to discover who is the most obedient to her will.

A father and son team up to compete in an epic Minecraft tournament in this official novel!It’s a dream come true. Every year, only twenty-four kids in the entire state are selected to show off their Minecraft skills in the Southwest Regional Tournament. And Jett Warner just got his invitation.Here’s the catch: Nobody knows the rules ahead of time. Will it be Survival? Creative? A speedrun? Or maybe PVP? The only thing Jett knows is that he’ll need a partne...

Embracing Change and Diversity in Children's BooksEvery child deserves to see themselves in the stories they read. "I See Me" is more than a book- it's a mirror for the underrepresented. This touching story follows a young reader's search to find a book with a character who looks like them. It is a journey that many can relate to.This book is more than just a book for children; it's a tool for change and a spark for discussion. It underscores the importance...

A collection of more than fifty hard-to-crack medical quandaries, featuring the best of The New York Times Magazine's popular Diagnosis column—now a Netflix original series“Lisa Sanders is a paragon of the modern medical detective storyteller.”—Atul Gawande, author of Being MortalAs a Yale School of Medicine physician, the New York Times bestselling author of Every Patient Tells a Story, and an inspiratio...

Why I Hate Myself?: A Deep Look Into Self-Hate in the Black Community is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of the complex emotional and psychological struggles that have shaped the Black experience. Through a blend of urban philosophy, historical analysis, and cultural insight, this book dives deep into the roots of self-hate within the Black community — tracing its origins from slavery, through the pervasive effects of systemic racism, and into the present-day issues of media m...

A Children’s Book Council 2026 TEACHER FAVORITES AwardWinner of the TIL’s Jean Flynn Award for Best Young Adult BookA Booklist Starred ReviewA big-hearted coming-of-age debut about a tiger, a Russian, a model airplane, unexplainable disaster, and a bewildered twelve-year-old boy just trying to find his place in the world.It’s 1981 in Texarkana, Texas, and Noah Ellis is trying hard to remembe...

What If....the Watcher saved the Multiverse?Victor von Doom has scoured across time, space, and countless dimensions and yet has never been closer to the home he’s been searching for. At long last, he has found the reality with his son, Franklin, a boy who welcomes him with open arms.However, soon after they meet, Victor discovers the boy was never a von Doom, but a Richards; the son of his arch-nemesis Reed Richards. Blinded by the sting of this loss, Vict...

'This book is a pleasure and a treasure' TAYARI JONES, Women's Prize-winning author of An American Marriage and KinTHE DEAD ARE RELENTLESS GOSSIPS, OR AT LEAST THESE DEAD ARE...A year after her father’s death, Aubrey learns she has inherited a share of a farm on the sun-streaked plains of Tennessee. Seeking a way to erase a mounting pile of debt, she travels South to meet a family she barely knows.Watching her arriv...

Experience the fantastic adventure filled with magical objects, secret sects, and life as we know it on the line! Mixing magic and physics, Ted Sanders has created an epic story that has the feel of classic fantasy but twists it into something new and innovative.From the moment Horace F. Andrews sees the sign from the bus—a sign with his own name on it—everything changes. The sighting leads him underground, to the House of Answers, a hidden warehouse full of mysterious objects. But...