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Anne Leigh Parrishs latest poetry collection delves into the depths of grief, exploring the nuances of loneliness and loss with an elevated, thoughtful voice. Yet within its pages, there is also joya celebration of the worlds beauty, where art and nature rise to meet sorrow, challenging despair. Here, those who have wronged us and those we have wounded do not seek forgiveness, only remembrance. Accompanied by twenty stunning illustrations from Kathryn Gerhardt, these seventy-eight poems invite readers on a journey where emotion and observation intertwine, balancing passion with a keen eye for truth.

Viewpoint diversity is suddenly on everyones lips yet few agree on what it really means. Is it about political balance? Free speech? Academic inclusion? Or something far more vital the courage to engage across difference?In Viewpoint Diversity: What It Is, Why We Need It, and How to Get It, leading heterodox thinkers tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: how to keep open inquiry and constructive disagreement alive amid rising conformity on both left and right. Spanning essays on higher education, politics, culture, and the arts, this bold collection offers both sharp diagnosis and practical solutions for cultivating genuine pluralism.Timely, provocative, and refreshingly constructive, Viewpoint Diversity makes the case for a richer, freer, and more resilient public culture one that thrives not in spite of disagreement, but because of it.

Art is my life and my life is art . . .The story of the twentieth-century avant-garde is a story of resistance, of the outsider, of strangeness, of individual freedom, of rejecting the ordinary and overcoming marginalisation through self-invention. It is also a story that can be told through the prism of one of its most renowned figureheads: Yoko Ono.From her early life escaping aristocratic Japanese society and the horrors of World War II to adventurous and productive exile in New York, Onos work built upon the histories of Dada, surrealism, Zen Buddhism, and experimental music. A significant influence on the elusive Fluxus artistic network, she was connected to all its major personalities. Pursuing dreams of revolutionary liberation and aiming to recreate shattered post-war reality through performance, art and text, she established a legacy - despite her tumultuous personal life - as one of the most visionary artists and activists of her generation.Marking the intersection of biography, cultural history and artistic meditation, Love Magic Power Danger Bliss explores the deep history and vitality of the 20th century avant-garde movement and the inspiring, provocative figure who became its most celebrated, most misunderstood icon.

Three rockstars. One girl. A melody that could destroy them all.When Quinn Jones lands a job touring with the hottest band in the world, she expects chaos. She doesnt expect themChris, Vance, and Nico. Three men bound by fame, sin, and the kind of darkness that bleeds through every note they play.To the world, theyre gods with guitars.To her, theyre the storm she cant escape.Chris is the tortured frontman who hides his pain behind the mic.Vance is the golden-hearted bassist who wants to save her.Nico is the drummer she shouldve stayed away fromthe one who can ruin them all.On stage, they burn bright.Off stage, they burn each other.And somewhere between the music and the madness, Quinn finds herself tangled in a forbidden harmony of lust, lies, and love that can only end one wayin heartbreak, or in flames.Dirty Little Melody is a dark, emotional, and addictive reverse harem rockstar romanceperfect for fans of chaotic love stories, broken heroes, and the kind of heat that leaves scars.

A remote outpost. An alien life form. A mystery. Stella had her heart set on spending her work term as part of the second mission to the core of New Venus. Instead, shes assigned to a remote science outpost on a forgotten moon. To make things worse, shes stuck with Dizzyher chaotic, endlessly curious classmate who talks too much, breaks too many rules, and seems determined to actually enjoy their exile. But as the days pass, Stella starts to see a different side of Dizzy as their work at the outpost reveals strange, breathtaking secrets. A colossal fungal organism that might be sentient and is definitely growing. Mysterious, gravity defying particles. Fragments of research long buried. Then Dizzy stumbles across the biggest secret yeta previous student died at the outpost under suspicious circumstancescircumstances that are happening again.Now, Stella and Dizzy must rely on each other to uncover the truth of what happened at the outpostbefore whatevers growing out there comes for them next.

War comes to Elmhurst.After facing charges of treason and the threat of hanging, Taryn is gravely injured, and the biomatons narrowly escape with their lives. With the biomaton rebellion officially declared, Elmhurst is preparing for war. Freshly awakened from a weeks-long coma, Taryn must battle not only the outside forces that want to subdue her, but her own internal strife as she realizes the full cost of war. Shes learning new things about her past, losing friends, and worst of all, shes afraid she might be losing herself. Yet more pressing conflicts vie for her attention. While shes trying to run a rebellion and get her strength back, Erikkson insists an important player is missinghis third and most volatile construction: a clockwork assassin known as Petrichor, freshly returned after years in the United States. Taryn not only has to grapple with her own role and tenuous humanity in this war; shell also have to face a new threat from inside her own army. Is freedom finally within reach, or will the biomatons find themselves in chains once again?Petrichor is the heart-pounding conclusion to the Children of Erikkson trilogy.

Death. Eve can feel it in the frigid, icy air of the Unclaimed Wastes. She can see it in the treacherous blue eyes of a creature once believed to be myth. She can hear it echoing in the soul she had given to the grimoire for the promise of safety.But soon, Eve realizes that one should never trust what is cursed. And now there are other terrors that loom before her. Ones of legends and lore, nightmares and tales as old as the Blood of the Blackthorn itself.As the fallen goddess wakes from her centuries long slumber, the world of mortals and magic is rife with the wrath of her vengeance. The Age of Witchcraft has returned and with it a war that threatens all.

Forty years after it was first published, Ted Hughess Flowers and Insects, Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders is presented in a beautifully redesigned edition with a new introduction by the nature writer Tim Dee. The sixteen poems gathered here brim and bristle with the life Hughes generates from the absolute attention he commits to whatever it is he is looking at. His knack for finding a language to animate its subject, without a trace of sentiment or nostalgia, singles out Hughes as one of the truly great poet-interpreters of the natural world.This edition gives full justice to the subtlety of the original watercolour illustrations, produced by Hughess long-term collaborator and friend, the American artist, Leonard Baskin.

A soaring, heart-wrenching, and hopeful family memoir of a mostly-forgotten Middle Eastern Jewish community.After dwelling for centuries on the poverty-stricken fringes of Yemeni society, the desert nations proud Jewish community was forced to emigrate, en masse, to Israel soon after that nations founding. In this deeply personal and historically rich family memoir, Naomi Kehati Bronner opens a window into the unique world in which her parents grew upa Yemini-Jewish world whose ways remained virtually unchanged since the Middle Ages.Suddenly finding themselves forcibly thrust into the modern world, Kehati Bronners parents and their immigrant community struggle to adjust and assimilate, while still raising their children to remember and honor their ancient traditions. Her own deeply personal story of assimilation, reinvention, and self-discovery not only sheds light on the complexity of modern Israel, but mirrors the immigrant journey of countless people around the worldand in the case of Jews, Israels powerful role in providing a new sense of peoplehood.

Mei Tanaka cant remember what she didMei walks through the new village of Daak, Alaska, and ignores the whispers. The whispers are respectful enough. They call her the Mediator here. Shes the one you bring problems to. And a village of shifters and humans are bound to have problems.She likes being the Mediator, just fine.But there are other whispers when they think she cant hear. They call her La Loba, Mu Lang, Mesu Okami just words for a she wolf in Spanish, Mandarin and Japanese. Sometimes she hears bruja witch. But the names seem to mean something more than just descriptive. Theyre names, it feels like. Names of something they fear.What did she do?Book 13 in the Wolf Harbor series.

Three sisters join the hunt for a stolen magical artefact in the start of this Gilded Age fantasy duology. Perfect for fans of heists, skullduggery and stolen kisses, and authors such as Nghi Vo and M. A. Carrick.Ottilie Rushforth hides from the mighty Sorcerers Guild as secretary to a has-been detective. She is Entwined threads of magic run beneath her skin, and the Guild would trap her in service.But Ottilie has a plan to escape the Guild forever with her estranged fiance, the enigmatic poet, soldier and smuggler Lewis Illing. All she must do is track down a mysterious artefact, claim the bounty, and leave the city forever. But Ottilies sisters Pretoria, a quick-witted sorceress and thief recently emerged from exile, and Madge, a guild mage to the core, appear to make equally unwelcome offers. A new life at the cost of everything she has ever wanted, or prestige and safety in a gilded cage.With her life on the line, Ottilie must track down the artifact in a city torn apart by prejudice and violence, and choose between the two sides of herself the fugitive and the Entwined.

After the quiet precision of The Squaring of a Heart and The Quiet One, Cameron Lane returns with a novel of rare restraint and control a story set within a world where nothing appears broken and everything works.Zeb and Vivienne share a life of rare fluency. Their glass-walled house by the sea hosts dinners that unfold with seamless grace, conversations calibrated to ease, and a social world that rewards elegance, discretion, and control. Within it, nothing appears broken. Everything works.Zeb knows this world well. He moves through it with quiet competence, attentive to what sustains it and to what it quietly consumes. Vivienne, its natural architect, understands how to make rooms hold, how to manage motion, how to ensure that no moment asks more than it should. Together, they function beautifullyadmired, coherent, sufficient by every visible measure.But beneath the surface of this shared life, another reckoning is underway. One that notices cost before crisis. Labor before failure. Weight before it becomes visible. As Zeb begins to recognize what the room cannot registerand what Vivienne does not need to seetheir relationship enters a state of exacting clarity, where nothing is argued, nothing is refused, and everything is understood.Inside the House of Glass is a novel of stayingof devotion without spectacle, fracture without conflict, and the quiet realization that staying does not always mean remaining. Written with restraint and moral precision, it is a study of intimacy, fluency, and the consequences of worlds that work too well.

Hes a craftsman, not a killer. Now he has to prove it.Cal Merrick is good with his hands. He can fix a sagging porch or restore a hardwood floor, but he cant fix being the prime suspect in a murder investigation. After moving to the small town of Briarhaven for a quiet life, he finds himself at the center of a crime that has the whole town talking.His new home, a sprawling Victorian with a mind of its own, isnt helping. With doors that vanish and visions of the past appearing in the living room, Cal is already on unsteady ground. Add in a skeptical sheriff watching his every move, and his only allies are the houses permanent residents: a crew of chatty ghosts with their own secrets.Forced to become the detective the town needs, Cal must piece together a puzzle of old secrets and new lies, following a trail of clues that stretches back generations. The real killer is still out there, and they know hes getting close.

Be at home in yourself and recreate your living space as a cozy sanctuary of peace and calm during stressful times with this mindfulness meditation book by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh.Hailed by TIME magazine as "the monk who taught the world mindfulness," Thich Nhat Hanh developed practices for people to be able to feel at home in themselves and in the world, especially during times of transition and change.Designed to be both inspiration and guidebook for those new to mindfulness practice, Making Space offers easy-to-follow instructions for: Setting up an area in your home for mindfulness practicea literal breathing space Listening to a mindfulness bell to bring you home to yourself Breathing and sitting meditations The "cake in the refrigerator" practice for households to consciously steer their conversations in a harmonious direction Walking meditation Cooking and eating a meal in mindfulness Whether you live alone or with your partner or a family, this beautifully illustrated book can help you create a sense of retreat and sanctuary in yourself and at home.

Babies everywhere need this how-to guide in order to know just how to love and care for their new mom!This fun tongue-in-cheek picture book is perfect for 2 to 5 year olds who want to take care of mom, and new moms who need a laugh.New moms are a lot of work. When do they eat? Sleep? Play? Having a mom is a major responsibility, but little babies have been preparing for this since they were the size of an avocado. If anyone can take good care of a mom, its a baby! With playful humor and wildly relatable motherhood moments, this how-to picture book flips the script.Beneath the playful tone and humorous moments, Its a Mom gently illuminates the deeper truth that while motherhood is filled with love and joy, its also layered with exhaustion, self-doubt, and sacrifice. By facing these challenges through the innocent eyes of a baby, the book offers empathy and affirmation, reminding moms that they are seen, valued, and doing an extraordinary jobeven on the hardest days.

If youre craving a simpler, more sustainable way to garden, Low-Maintenance Eco Gardens is your perfect starting point. This beginner-friendly guide embraces the principles of permaculture to help you design and maintain self-sustaining gardens that require less effort and fewer inputs while delivering more joy, nourishment, and ecological benefit.Authors Fred Meyer, a certified permaculture designer and founder of the nonprofit EarthMind Practice, and Jen Kardos, a licensed mental health therapist and wellness coach, combine their expertise to present a fresh, accessible approach to eco-conscious gardening. Their method is rooted in working with nature rather than against it, using a holistic strategy that promotes biodiversity, natural pest and weed control, and year-round abundance. Inside, youll discover how to select and grow 60+ productive, low-maintenance plants suited for urban lots, small yards, and larger spaces alike. The book also includes detailed guidance on building practical garden systems, such as high-yield mini orchards, edible borders, and low-effort irrigation solutions. Meyer and Kardos also explore how gardens can nurture both physical and mental health, emphasizing the therapeutic benefits of connecting with nature. Whether youre growing food for your family, trying to reduce your environmental impact, or simply looking to spend less time weeding and watering, Low-Maintenance Eco Gardens will show you how to create a beautiful, resilient garden that thrives in harmony with the land and your lifestyle.

Outdoor entertaining is one of the great joys of home ownership, but it shouldnt have to break the bank. In Building Outdoor Kitchens for Every Budget (2015), co-authors Steve Cory and Diane Slavik shared their best wallet-friendly tips for building or renovating your outdoor eating space. Now, Diane Slavik and technical editor Dave Toht have updated the second edition of Building Outdoor Kitchens for Every Budget with fresh materials, detailed how-tos, and photographs to help steer home renovation enthusiasts through the entire process. From backsplashes and pizza ovens to grills and awnings, there are enough tips here to transform your outdoor space into a functioning modern kitchen. Best of all: youll learn how to keep it all within a limited budget. With over 300 photographs and plenty of comprehensive DIY projects, youll combine professional aesthetics with self-built costs. Its a detailed update of one of the most essential books for anyone who loves outdoor kitchensan update you cant afford to miss.

In the final book of Andrew Knightons epic trilogy, the war for Estia has begun and the fate of its people hang in the balance. Prince Raul Warborn has led his rebellion to the brink of victory. His army has doubled, with new allies and old magic joining the fight. But the path to freedom has never been easy. In the wake of every success, betrayal follows. The nobles of Estias past question Rauls authority and his right to lead. Loyal rebels clash with new supporters. And while Raul struggles to keep the rebellion from sudden collapse, the Dunholmi forces are gathering in the shadows. The fate of Estia will be decided one way or another, with a king emerging victorious. And Prince Raul is determined to be that king, no matter what it takes. After all, this is his destiny.

Overcome parenting challenges and avoid miscommunication with compassionate questions and conversation starters designed for couples and co-parents alike.More than just a parenting book, Same Page Parenting helps parents, caregivers, extended family, and co-parents create a shared vision for their unique family unit. Whether you are preparing for parenthood, in the thick of raising little ones, or co-parenting across different households, this book provides insights that will help you stay connected and aligned. The questions and conversation prompts in this book are essential for intentional parenting and will help you raise children with confidence. Topics include:Reclaiming Your Voice as a Parent: Setting boundaries, breaking free from people-pleasing, and trusting your instincts in a world full of conflicting adviceParenting in the Digital Age: Creating healthy screen-time habits, fostering digital literacy, and preparing kids for social media in a mindful wayPostpartum Mental Health for Both Partners: Understanding postpartum anxiety, rage, and depression, and how to support each other during major transitionsSharing Mental Load and Emotional Labor: Addressing the invisible work of parenting, redistributing responsibilities, and making sure both partners feel supportedRethinking Gender Roles and Family Structures: Moving beyond outdated parenting norms and cocreating a dynamic that reflects your shared valuesRaising Socially Conscious Kids: Helping children develop empathy, curiosity, and an awareness of privilege and social justiceTrauma-Informed Parenting: Recognizing how our own upbringing shapes the way we parent and how to break intergenerational cyclesWith a mix of clinical expertise, honest storytelling, and powerful discussion questions for couples, Same Page Parenting is an essential resource for anyone looking to approach modern parenting with greater confidence, clarity, and compassion.

This previously self-published debut is a charming and spicy dark romance featuring a plus-size, body confident nurse and the dangerous, tattooed man who becomes obsessed with her. Now with an all-new cover and a never-before-seen chapter.After a traumatic event at work, plus size ER nurse Lexie West decides to get away from it all and house sit for a friend in New York City. Callum Russo is a fixersomeone who solves problems for powerful people by any means necessary. Not much can shock himuntil he returns to the city and finds a vivacious blonde standing in his kitchen. These two very different people strike a deal that allows Lexie to stay as long as she minds her own business. But its not long before shes being pulled into his world, and Lexie uses her nursing skills to get Callum and his men out of a jam. As Lexie navigates the dark world Callum lives in, mutual attraction begins to grow but is their newfound love strong enough to survive?