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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes a standalone Cosmere novel of demons and destiny. Illustrated by Tran Nguyen.In a forgotten land sustained by colorful rivers of demon blood, a child was born in the last cold hour of the last cold day of the last cold month. Let us call her December.As an orphaned foundling, December grew up doing her best to fit into the roles society prepared for her. But after a transformative experience, she learns a cataclysmic plague is on the way, one that will curdle the blood rivers and ravage the kingdom.But who will believe her, a poor woman from a small town on the riverbank? Against impossible odds, she sets sail up the River Violet to warn the kings court, determined to stop a devastating destiny. Armed only with her wits and accompanied by her new friendsa chatty priestess and a fledgling fashion designerDecember must navigate incredulous royal officials, twisted court intrigue, and a roguish count who might hold the key to her quest . . . and her heart.In the cold days of her youth, society knew what to do with December. But now her eyes burn with wisdom beyond her years, and she will carve out whatever role she must to stave off disaster.

Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending? The outrageous, heartfelt conclusion to Jasper Ffordes New York Times-bestselling series, which began twenty-five years ago with The Eyre Affair, will have you, Dear Reader, laughing out loud.Swindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure, Dark Reading Matter, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make Dark Reading Matter not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday cant let that happen and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists.It wont be easy. The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealised literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantages Shakesmania, the nations second-worst Shakespeare theme park, and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked by Ultra Right Wing Nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfactory conclusion.Its a tall order, but Thursday has several secret weapons: her own adaptability, her husband, Landen, a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call uponher readers.

A woman reunites with her first love to the solve the mystery of the strange occurrences plaguing her familys pear orchardonly to discover the land holds more magic than she thoughtin this enchanting romance from the author of Racing Hearts.Ali Reid has luck so bad she might actually be cursed. The pear orchard she inherited from her late uncle is drowning in debt, her fiance and best friend have left her, and now, with picking season looming, she has no way to harvest all her fruit before it rots on the branch.Desperate, Ali turns to Logan Wrightthe towns stoic carpenter, her first kiss, and the one she left behind. Now, fourteen years later, Logan agrees to move into her farmhouse to help, wearing plaid and a steady gaze, even though the land holds memories hes not keen to revisit.As they work side by side, Alis feelings for Logan come rushing back, and the orchards troubles turn increasingly bizarre. Unnatural storms rage overhead. Jewel-toned rabbits take shelter in the barn. And, worst of all, the pears are crystallizing on their branches, like some kind of fairytale gone wrong. The deeper they dig into these mysteries, the more Ali and Logan begin to suspect the land actually does carry a curse, one thats persisted over generations and touches any visitor who lingers too long. And now, with the magic stirring once again, Ali must uncover the orchards secrets before she loses the one she loves all over again.

A behind-the-scenes, deeply reported window into Zohran Mamdanis campaign and early days as Mayor of New York, and the impact his socialist platform will have on a local and national scalefrom a New York magazine journalist with unparalleled accessOn October 23, 2024, Zohran Mamdani announced that he was running for mayor of New York City. In the year that followed, he went from anonymous political organizer to global celebrity, fundamentally shifting the landscape of local, national, and international politics. Galvanizing volunteers and voters across demographics with his unique approach to grassroots campaigning and governing, Mamdani has charted a new, populist path for an actual political revolution in America.Mamdani is the first mayor in modern New York history whose agenda is so explicitly at odds with the citys power elite and the first openly pro-Palestine politician to lead Americas largest city, earning him the support of younger voters and criticism from Democrats and Republicans alike. Will he be the hero Americans fed up with establishment politicians have been looking for or will he fall short of the enormous expectations set for him? Journalist Ross Barkan follows along as Mamdani steps into office to see if he can maintain the earnest, studied cool that won the hearts and minds of over one million New Yorkers.In sharp, keenly observed reporting, The Revolutionary documents an enormous political and cultural shift, taking the reader behind the scenes into Mamandis journey from grassroots activist to state assemblyman to mayor of the greatest city in the world.

Immerse yourself in the electrifying world of Ready Player One with this gorgeously illustrated graphic adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling sci-fi novel.A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when hes jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune and control of the OASIS itself.Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly hes beset by rivals wholl kill to take this prize. The race is on and the only way to survive is to win.Completely illustrated with breathtaking full-colour artwork, this stunning graphic novel adaptation brings you into Wades exhilarating quest like never before!

From award-winning chef, author, television personality, and activist Melissa King comes an intimate, captivating memoir about family, food, and finding her voice as a queer Chinese American chefGrowing up, Melissa King lived for the moment she would come home from school, grab her prized meat cleaver, and call her mom at work for instructions on how to prepare dinner for her family. She already knew cooking was her future, but she didnt know just how much shed have to fight to make that dream a reality.Caught between two cultures growing up, King felt like she was stuck in a box that was only getting smaller. Her Shanghainese and Cantonese heritage meant that her immigrant parents had certain expectationsnone of which included going to culinary school or falling in love with women. American culture also dictated that restaurant kitchens were a mans world. But trying to live by these rules felt like no life at all. So King broke the mold, ending up in some of the most exciting fine dining kitchens in San Francisco and finding a home in its queer community. But after relentlessly working her way up from arranging cold appetizers to manning the meat station, and embracing her multilayered identity, she began to feel the culture she all but left behind begin to pull at her.When she entered Top Chef as a reluctant contestant, inspired by her grandmothers advice to follow her heart, her signature flavorsseasonal dishes melding California and Chinese cuisinesawakened and flourished as she looked to her heritage and hometown for inspiration. And being in the public eye connected her with her parents in a new way, allowing them to come to a loving mutual understanding of each others strengths and flaws.In this heartfelt memoir, King shows that empowerment comes from embracing all the different ingredients that make up who she is, and believing in herself against the odds.

An illuminating conversation between Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux and esteemed sociologist and educator Rose-Marie Lagrave offering invaluable insights from both their lives and work.More than a dialogue or a debate, these conversations between Ernaux and Lagrave touch on many subjects, from the feminist future to each womans class histories as seen through the prism of the socio-historic transformations of the postwar period. One an author and the other a sociologist, their conversations go back and forth between lived experience and analysis, and a richness emerges of care and mutual respect and mutual recognition.Acknowledging a debt to Pierre Bourdieu and his concepts of class transfuge (defection), domination and distinction, a frescoe emerges of the last 70 years in France, including references to Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Richard Hoggart, Raymond Aron, and Simone de Beauvoir.These conversations began as a round-table discussion on May 26, 2021. A follow-up conversation occurred on March 24, 2022. A Conversation amounts to an extraordinary expression in book form of solidarity and friendship between two legendary figures who rose above their working class origins while at the same time remaining true to them.

WINNER OF THE NERO NON FICTION AWARD 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2026LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON FICTIONA spectacularly original memoir thats at once an elegy for a beloved family member and a deeply moving meditation on what it means to be a mortal creature, from one of our greatest novelists.Death of an Ordinary Man opens on a charming, merry seaside scene in late August. Perry, her husband, and her father-in-law David are at the Yarmouth carnival theyve gone to every summer for decades. The day was fine, Perry tells us, and the shining tide was going out. The next time Sarah sees David three weeks later, watching him approach across the market, she knows instantly and with a certainty shes never had before: David is dying. Hell be dead in less than three months time from a rare and swiftly moving cancer.What follows is Perrys intimate account of sitting at Davids bedside across the final days of his life. She lays out in plain and scientific detail what the end of a human life looks like, and invites readers into the most mundane and extraordinary moments of a devastating stretch of days. Throughout, she interweaves her own experience with accounts of death throughout the ages, as well as the poetry and philosophy humans have created and turned to for comfort in the face of loss. Her trademark blend of the scientific and factual with the spiritual and artistic captures the fact that, ultimately, dying is the most human thing any of us will do. Perhaps most importantly, she tells us who David is and wasthe way he drank his tea and the sections of the newspaper he always read first, the things that made him laugh and the people and animals that he loved. She mourns all that will be lost forever with his passing, even as she celebrates that he was here in the first place.Written in Perrys inimitable style and riveting from its opening pages, Death of an Ordinary Man is both abundantly human and marvelously transcendent, and reminds us again and again that there are no ordinary men.

The Greers built their fortune on alligator bones. Dartrine Beaumont believes her mothers sudden death has left her alone in the worlduntil she learns of long-lost wealthy relatives living in Florida. Confused but delighted by the possibility of extended family, Dart travels to her grandmothers stately Gilded Age mansion on Amelia Island for answers, just in time to stake a claim on an unusual inheritance: an alligator farming empire.Her arrival at Greer House isnt everything she hoped. Without warning, Dart finds herself in fierce competition with her grandmothers arrogant heir apparent, and tensions rise as threats escalate on one of the farms. More unsettling is her hostile grandmothers fanatical belief that the danger stems from a curse; according to legend, a larger-than-life alligator hunted down by a bloodthirsty ancestor haunts the family. Yet Dart cant deny that the farms alligators hiss only at Greers, or that a shadowy figure creeps through the mansions halls.As Dart uncovers the truth about her violent birthright, she faces a terrible choice: accept her place in her familys grim legacy or forge a new path by slaying a different beast entirely.

Love and duty are thrown to the treacherous deep sea in the next Ever Seas book from bestselling author and TikTok sensation LJ Andrews.She is the life of the party. He is the villain you never wish to meet alone. Tait Heartwalker may be the cousin of the Ever King, but royally good company he is not. Hes ill-tempered and unapproachable, sharpened by the hard responsibilities of life and loyalty. But to the dismay of Mira Sekundar, princess of the glamour fae, hes also intoxicating to look at.Despite doing their best to avoid each other, fate has other plans when an otherworldly storm shipwrecks Tait and Mira far beyond the boundaries of the Ever Kingdom. They are forced to break through the thorny barriers between them and work together to find their way home. One wrong step and theyll never return alive Yet as their feelings deepen, a new threat rises from the waters. And this enemy is so dangerous, even the history books tried to forget their existence.The Stolen Crown can be read as a standalone set in the Ever Seas world.

This deluxe, first-edition trade paperback of Cursed City will feature beautifully stenciled edges and captivating interior cover art!Welcome back to Harker Academy for Deviant Defense, where the line between hunter and hunted has never been thinner.To rescue someone close to her, Viv Abbot must team up with Reids violent, unpredictable older brother, Deacon. Her uneasy truce with him offers Viv something Reid never could: the chance to embrace her darkness.Vivs mission takes her to the center of Asteras seedy underbelly with none other than the White Stag as her guide. But when a bounty on Vivs head puts those she cares about in danger, Viv will be forced to go to lengths she never dreamed in order to protect them.With enemies closing in from all sides and a ticking clock on her life, Viv must save the Half City from destruction while surviving a betrayal that strikes at the heart of everything shes fighting for. Because in a world where monsters wear familiar faces and temptation cuts deeper than any blade, making it through her second semester at Harker will take more than skillit will take everything Viv has left to give. Who can she really trust in a city that thrives on lies?

A profound exploration of the ache for quiet in a chaotic, noisy time of overstimulation and distractionand the transformative effects of solitude, silence, and stillnessfrom the New York Times bestselling author of Practicing the Way and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.Modern living is inundated with noise, busyness, and a digital cycle fueled by outrage and fear. We are anxious, overstimulated, exhausted, and bone-dry in our souls. We ache for God yet can barely pay attention. Drawing on the wisdom of the contemplative tradition and spiritual practices that date back to the earliest centuries of the church, Comer invites readers to rediscover an ancient path of quiet, peace, and serenityto step out of the chronic noise and constant motion of the modern world into the still, silent presence of the God of peace.What The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry was to the speed of the modern world, this book is to the noise of it. As with the pace of modern living, the volume of the modern world can cut off our hearts from God, colonize our minds, and make practicing the presence of God virtually impossible. It can damage our bodies and degrade our spirits. Comer is convinced quiet is the antidotenot just the quiet of a retreat or a morning hour, but an intentional quest to de-noise your overall life.And in doing so, to live just a little slower and softer before God.

Shes serving.Shes eating.Shes . . . Carrying.In this electrifying horror debut thats equal parts funny and harrowing, a stealth trans woman desperate to maintain her picture-perfect life discovers that shes seeminglyimpossiblypregnant.Everything Marthas wanted, shes made for herself.Meet Martha: perfect wife, perfect stepmother, perfect woman. Shes got an adoring husband who wants more kids with her, a loving stepdaughter who looks up to her, and a body to die for. Shes an absolute pro: Salon-quality blowouts at home? Done. Perfectly plated meals on the table every day? Effortless. Meticulously faked miscarriages so her husband wont suspect the truth? Just hand over the Oscar now.Martha is trans, so stealth even her family has no idea. She carved the woman she is out of the marble of a boy, and shell do whatever it takes to protect what shes built. When a mysterious chronic illness and its debilitating symptoms threaten to upend her existence, she starts experimental treatments and gives in to her new, unsettling cravings. Shes even more shocked to discover that shes undeniably, impossibly pregnant.With her body changing rapidly outside of her control and her choices dwindling, Martha struggles to maintain the life shes fought so hard to live while preparing for the motherhood she never thought shed have.

The New York Timesbestselling adventure for young readers that redefined the genre comes to a close in this heartfelt finale!The end of summer is nigh and Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are determined to make every moment count! Unfortunately, its not all completing badges and party planning as the scouts embark on a final adventure to stand against the mysterious force cryptically known as the Grey. But nothing can prepare them to face their greatest challenge yetsaying goodbye to Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpets Camp for Hardcore Lady Types once and for all. From GLAAD and Eisner Awardwinning creators Shannon Watters and Kat Leyh, with Alexa Bosy, Kanesha C. Bryant, returning series co-creator Gus Allen, and contributions from Holly Black, Brittney Williams, Seanan McGuire and more, this collection brings one of the most important comics of the century to an unforgettable conclusion, proving that maybe camp really is the friends we made along the way. Collects Lumberjanes #73-75, Lumberjanes: End of Summer #1, Lumberjanes: Farewell to Summer #1, Faire and Square 2017 Special, and Lumberjanes: Campfire Songs.

From the author of Queen Sugar, a piercing examination of friendship and loyalty as two best friends find themselves at odds over their beliefs on race, identity and allyship, especially when it comes to their teenage childrenBabs and Nora became friends thanks to their kids. Now, the desire to protect their children might tear them apart.Babs and Nora have spent a decades worth of morning walks sharing family secrets, local drama, and adviceeverything from tips on lingerie choices to Babss suggestions to Nora, a white woman, on how to raise Nathan, her adopted Black son.But their worlds are turned upside down when the cops are called on their kids while theyre home alone, leading to a traumatic police encounter for Nathan. In the aftermath, Babs and Nora find themselves divided as never before, and Nathan looks for refuge with Babs and her family, where, unlike in his own home, race, identity, and culture are always up for discussion. Babs can see that Nathan is a young Black man without community trying to find himself. Torn between respecting Noras boundaries and embodying the values so important to her own family, Babs will make a choice that will shape their lives forever.Set in a tight-knit enclave in the Bay Area, Friends and Family is an eye-opening exploration of friendship and privilege, race and community, and what it means to truly be a good friend and ally.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Dear Martin series comes a spin-off novel written in prose and letters-in-verse about a thirteen-year-old girl. As she navigates cancer, family challenges, and newfound friendship during her initial chemo treatment, she discovers that hope can bloom in the most unexpected places.Absolutely incredibleI read it in one sitting and finished in tears. Stone shows so much care and nuance here. Dasia will stay with me forever. Andrea Beatriz Arango, author of Newbery Honor book Iveliz Explains it AllUnflinching, fearless, and strikingly original. Soman Chainani, author of the bestselling School for Good and Evil series and Young WorldAfter nineteen days of induction chemotherapy, Dasia Monae Riley knows no one else should be in her hospital room . . .But there she is: Jameson Jimmy Jeffs. Another cancer patient whos seemingly everything Dasia is not: rich, well cared for, and a smidge childish (in Dasias opinion).However, Dasia soon discovers that their commonalities go beyond a random, incurable disease . . . like older brothers who are gone, baby brothers who need them, and struggles with friends at school.As Dasia and Jimmy chat, Dasias memories unfold in the unsent letters (read: poems) Dasia wrote to her incarcerated older brother. And over the course of one life-changing night, two girls who are at their lowest fight to keep each other uplifted. When you hit rock bottom, what does it take to survive and allow yourself to hope again?In a spin-off to the Dear Martin series, New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone delivers a heart-wrenching story of resilience, connection, and the fight to stay alive when battling illness and bearing the weight of difficult circumstances.

National Book Award winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, reveals how Californias Gold Rush forged the modern United Statesand lit the long fuse to civil warIn January 1848, a carpenter spotted flecks of gold in a shallow stream at Sutters Mill in Californiatriggering the greatest voluntary migration in U.S. history and jolting a fragile republic already sliding toward crisis. In The Rush, Nathaniel Philbrick transforms the Gold Rush from a tale of sudden riches into the origin story of Americas modern contradictions: capital consolidated at dizzying speed, democracy in thrall to private power, xenophobia weaponized in the name of libertyand a stubborn belief in the American experiment that refuses to die. This is the story of a nation tearing at the seamsa republic tested by its own ideals.From the feverish gold-mining camps of the Sierra Nevada mountains to the wharves and vigilance committees of San Francisco, Philbrick renders a combustible, all-world society: Chilean brothers reinventing themselves to outrun prejudice; Native communities navigating dispossession and violence; the merchant-showman Samuel Brannan, drawn into the center of early vigilantism; and the politicians vying for control of Californias futurethe ambitious free-soil political boss David Broderick, who squared off against William Gwin, the Southern power broker intent on tilting the state toward slavery and the Confederacy. Not until a year after the outbreak of the Civil War, when President Lincoln signed legislation that would unite the nation east to west by building a transcontinental railroad, was Californias loyalty secured.Philbrick follows the gold as it moves from riverbed to countinghouse to the halls of power, revealing how vigilantism hardened into law and how debates over slavery in the West tipped the balance in Washington. The result is a clear, human story of how a scramble for wealth reshaped ideas of freedom, labor, and belongingand how Californias rise helped push a fractured nation toward war. The Rush is alive with characters whose choices still reverberate: a searing, panoramic epic that captures both the fury and the promise of America.

As the first book on terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons, this is an essential, supportive and informative guide to breaking this taboo.Terminating a pregnancy for medical reasons is one of the most common forms of baby loss yet it is still taboo. Open this compassionate book to break that silence, find a home for complex feelings and rediscover hope.Rosanna Brown made the hardest "choice" a parent can make when she had to terminate the pregnancy of her son William for medical reasons. Here, she tells her own story, and weaves in case studies of other TFMR parents, before sharing information from healthcare experts and offering compassionate, practical advice.This book also includes advice for parents who decide to carry their pregnancy to term once they have been told their baby is unlikely to live; for medical professionals on how to manage appointments with compassion; for friends and family of TFMR parents; and for employers supporting someone returning to work following TFMR. Structured chronologically through the process, the book explores:Diagnosis for you and your baby: the 12- and 20-week scans, plus later-stage diagnoses The choice to end your babys life: going through the medical process and saying goodbye Dealing with the aftermath: emotionally and physically, returning to work and receiving the post-mortem Grieving together: parenting your other children, handling big dates, finding your community, handling other pregnancies and returning to a happy, fulfilling life. This book will be the best friend or counsellor that readers may not have the confidence, capacity or finances to access in person.

A comforting and tender picture book starring an adorable mom and baby otter pair for children ages 3-7 to reassure them that they can always count on their parents love.Oh, Miko, said Mom softly. I could count on and on and never reach the end of my love for you.Adorable mother and baby otter pair Mom and Miko love each other hundreds and thousands and millions! As much as the flowers in the meadow, the silvery fish in the river, the shiny stones on the beach, and all the stars in the sky. Thats a whole lot of love! This is a sweet, heartwarming story about the enormous love between grown-up and child.

Unsettling and racially charged, Shelter Is Necessary for Existence is equal parts psychological thriller and social satire that explores the disquieting qualities of a privileged familys mundane cultural assumptions."A vicious critique of what constitutes values, both spiritual and superficial and everything in between, among the upper middle class of New York City. Dumbfounding, unique, relentless and wholly satisfying."Paula Bomer, author of The StalkerSue, her husband, Luke, and their children, Caroline and Wheatley, present as a picture-perfect family living the American dream of ascendancy and affluence in their Brooklyn neighborhood. They purchase a brownstone at auction on a coveted tree-lined street with the intention of renovating it and moving in. At once avoidant and consumed by the renovation, Sue is torn between her aspirations to have what those around her seem to possessfrom her therapist, Diana, to her alluring, insufferable neighbor Chantaland her urge to escape the grip of their influences. Sues obsession and paranoia grow while the neighborhood becomes a hotbed of pulsating antagonisms.It is only after moving in that Sue becomes aware of the mysterious deaths of the brownstones former residents, a mother and daughter whose voices echo in the silence. The house begins manifesting disturbing signs, such as wounds that bleed, just as Caroline and Wheatley exhibit their own troubling symptoms. Sues nightmares proliferate and a vacuous stupor overcomes the family as they struggle to settle into the rhythms of life in what should be their dream home. When information arises that threatens to devastate her family, Sue must finally confront the explosive charge of personal and social reality once laid bare.With exacting psychological detail and a trenchant atmosphere, Shelter Is Necessary for Existence is a darkly comic and piercing social critique that examines the troubling territory of awareness, the lengths some go to avoid it, and what must be confronted for change to occur.