#1 CrushTia Monroe was smart, sassy and successful. Sure, she could get a little crazy at times—life around Tia was never boring—but that was part of her appeal. And while she didn't see herself as 'classically beautiful', she had no shortage of options in the boyfriend department. She just hadn't found one who held her interest.Until she laid eyes on Eric Larsson, and then it was lust at first sight.He packed the perfect mix of smoldering sexy and unapologetic cool...

A comprehensive synthesis of the thought of Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty.Whitehead and Merleau-Ponty sets out to answer a simple question: "What kind of phenomenologist is Merleau-Ponty?" While debates regarding the status of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology typically fall along transcendental or existential lines, author Andrew Kirkpatrick shows how Merleau-Ponty's thought fails to fit neatly within either category. Drawing on Whitehead's process metaphysics,...

Cometa Minor is a 94-track album / novel:It is an American exploration of virtue, brutality, and the humanistic ideals necessary to the survival of a democratic republic.Vold Book’s Cometa Minor is a novel set to original music by the author. It is the third and final evolution of the briefly published Stara Detente (2026) and Oceans of Curtains (2025). The project first came into focus in 2018, though it is the culmination of a life spen...

The roguish charlatan Astarion will free himself from a centuries-long fate of servitude or die (a second time) trying—in this decadently dark fantasy adventure by award-winning author T. Kingfisher.You're too pretty to die.Astarion Ancunin was supposed to be a magistrate, not a vampire spawn. He was supposed to serve the law, not the vicious vampire lord Cazador Szarr. And he was supposed to drink fine wine, not rat blood. Alas—the city of Baldur's Gate ca...

The inspiring story of the Apollo 8 astronauts and their message of peace on earth from the edge of the universe.On one silent, starry night, Christmas Eve 1968, as wars raged across continents, three astronauts—Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders—became the first humans to orbit the Moon. From their tiny capsule they watched “earthrise,” our luminous blue planet rising above the gray lunar surface in a breathtaking vision that forever changed how we see ourselves....

*** TIME, Most Anticipated Books of 2026 ***THE WIRE MEETS COLSON WHITEHEAD IN THIS AUDACIOUS, DARKLY FUNNY AND DAZZLINGLY LITERARY CRIME MASTERPIECE'Endlessly entertaining'Attica Locke, author of Bluebird, Bluebird'Spellbinding and profanely funny'Publishers Weekly'Johnson asks big questions about identity, corruption and American id...

From Doctor Who to Tip Toe, Queer as Folk to Coronation Street, Britain’s foremost television writer and showrunner takes us behind the scenes of some of the nation’s most beloved programmes.This is the story of my life in TV.My life is my material. There is sadness in everyone's life. Everyone's got someone who's died. Everyone's sat in a hospital waiting room. Everyone's had a heartbreak. Every single person in the world...

The rise and fall of the Voting Rights Act, from the triumph of its passage in 1965 to its evisceration by the Supreme Court in their 2013 decision in Shelby County v. HolderThe Voting Rights Act of 1965 finally made good on the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment, which nearly a century before had granted Black Americans the right to vote. The Voting Rights Act was the crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement, which had battled for years against v...

Someone is holding this book right now who needs to know that they are not alone. Maybe you are sitting in a doctor's office waiting for a report that has the potential to change everything. Maybe you have already received that report, and you are trying to figure out how to take your next breath. Maybe you are not facing a health battle at all, but a storm has risen in your life that feels too big, too heavy, and too relentless for one person to carry.This book was written for you...

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...

In a moment marked by transnational gender, climate, health, and human rights crises, the question of how to build feminist solidarities across difference has never been more urgent. This book amplifies the rich genealogies and ongoing conversations that shape studies of transnational feminist rhetorics (TFR), asking what solidarity can mean and do under contemporary global conditions.With case studies from Africa, South Asia, China, Latin America, and Australia, among others, this...

In a moment marked by transnational gender, climate, health, and human rights crises, the question of how to build feminist solidarities across difference has never been more urgent. This book amplifies the rich genealogies and ongoing conversations that shape studies of transnational feminist rhetorics (TFR), asking what solidarity can mean and do under contemporary global conditions.With case studies from Africa, South Asia, China, Latin America, and Australia, among others, this...