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From beloved horror maven Alma Katsu comes a terrifying reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the internet age.Beauty doesnt fade. It feeds. Dorothy Wagner has spent her whole life wanting nothing more than to be seen. But after failing to make her mark (any mark, really) as an influencer, she takes a job at a company focused on cutting-edge deepfake technology. And there, in secret, is where she creates her salvation. Isabella. An impossibly gorgeous girl who takes social media by storm. Dorothys code is brilliant, and Isabella seems real. So real that she garners millions of followers. Brands beg to partner with her. Everyone wants to meet her IRL. The adorationand the cashflows in. Dorothy is finally happy. Shes getting all the attention she ever wantedisnt she? Then the cracks begin to show. Dorothy can barely stay ahead of the partnership requests, and love letters and the rabid fans filling her DMs trying to track Isabella down. All this time working in secret with all this pressure is getting to Dorothyshe cant tell where she ends, and her creation begins. And when someone gets a little too close to her secret, a violent confrontation sends Dorothy on the run, forcing her to confront what shes willing to sacrifice to keep her secrets. A modern reimagining of Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alma Katsus Incarnate is an illuminating, haunting tale of algorithmic worship and beauty that can kill.

Mabel and her imaginary friend, Mr. Elephant, are back in the second book of this delightful graphic novel series for early readers all about friendship, fun, and finding your place in the world.In this second story of the series, Mabel does all she can to resist joining the Lightning Bugs, a scout group that her parents insist means new friends, fun activities, and a shiny sash full of badges. But Mabel is skeptical and determined to dislike it. With Mr. Es boundless excitement and support, Mabel reluctantly gives it a try.Join Mabel and Mr. Elephant in this charming tale that explores the joys of friendship, the possibility of new experiences, and the courage to embrace change. Perfect for readers who love humor, heart, and a touch of magic!

A fun, fast-paced YA horror about a teen girl facing the horrors of misogyny, racism, an evil witch, and her horde of monsters.Thulasi is the perfect daughter: shes responsible, she never breaks the rules, and shes always willing to babysit her seven-year-old cousin. Even on Halloween night. But the night takes a horrifying turn when a simple playdate leads to accidentally summoning a horde of monsters out of a book of horror tales, along with her small towns most famous author, Addison GreerThulasis literary hero. Except Addison has a more sinister scheme planned for her miraculous return: revenge on the family that wronged her. Drawn into a bloodthirsty bargain with Addison, Thulasi will have to team up with Sam, the super cute quarterback in her class, and the only other teen stuck with babysitting duty on Halloween. They only have until midnight to foil Addisons planswhile keeping their seven-year-old charges safeor her monsters will destroy their town and everyone they love.

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life. For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity theyve both been waiting for. Theyre on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their livesin exciting, but also terrifying, ways.John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel follows Kai and Juniper from the first days on location to the movies premiere, brilliantly juxtaposing their story with the on-screen study of Warhols life at the dawn of celebrity culture.Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only John Green can tell it.

To save her best friend and lifelong crush from his familys deadly curse, Libby must team up with (and try not to catch feelings for) a handsome ghost only she can seeLibby Lakoski has two major problems. First, shes secretly in love with her best friend, Carter Coldwell, and second, hes marrying someone else. Carters the only person who has ever made Libby feel chosen, and sure, his fiancee is a British diamond heiress, but Carter and Libby have years of shared history and longing looks between them. Not to mention, Libby is the only person Carter trusted enough to tell about the dark magic that plagues his family.But then a third and related problem presents itselfor, himself. Trip Coldwell is Carters handsome, smart, flirtatious cousin who also happens to be a ghost. Trips unfinished business is to break the Coldwell curse, but the solution hinges on Libby encouraging Carter to allow his wedding to proceed. Unfortunately, Libby is the only person who can see Trip, and her objective is the exact opposite. Can Libby put aside her pining for Carter and work with his hot and not-quite-living cousin to save both men?As they follow a trail of clues across New York City, Libby finds herself questioning just how much Carter reciprocated her friendship, feeling perplexed by a growing attraction to Trip, and fantasizing about actually touching him. With the countdown to the wedding in full swing, Libby must choose between saving the Coldwells and holding tight to her own happily ever after.

Before she was an iconic feminist leader, Gloria Steinem was a curious child in Toledo, Ohio: going on road trips with her itinerant father, caring for her mother, and reading everything she could get her hands on. As a girl, she would never imagine the journey on which her life would take her.In An Unexpected Life, Steinem reflects on the unlikely experiences and pivotal moments - from a childhood rat bite that opened her eyes to the dangers of poverty to the landmark 1970 Womens March honouring the right to vote - that shaped the visionary woman she would become. Reflecting on her extraordinary experiences, she also honours the trailblazers who inspired her, and uncovers the most important lessons her life has taught her about love, solidarity and freedom.Intimate, funny, and rich with hard-earned wisdom, An Unexpected Life offers readers the rare opportunity to learn directly from one of the worlds most enduring voices, as we continue the work of building a better future.

The gripping, definitive history of the Hindenburg disaster, the rise of the Nazis, and the road to World War II as never before told.On the evening of May 6, 1937, the majestic German Zeppelin Hindenburg arrived before cheering crowds in Lakehurst, New Jersey, when suddenly, a titanic inferno lit up the sky. Thirty-four seconds later, the greatest aircraft ever to take flight was gone, destroyed in a ferocious blaze and seared into historical memory forever. The Hindenburg disaster is one of the 20th Centurys most iconic yet elusive eventsa moment everyone knows but few can place. Acclaimed historian Catherine Grace Katz unites ground-breaking research with thrilling narrative that situates this famous disaster squarely on the collision course between the decades two prevailing currents. The Hindenburg began as a symbol of hope and progress, a gleaming technological marvel in the nascent age of aviation. But soon the airship of dreams became a propaganda tool powering the rising Nazi regime. In this sweeping drama, Katz illustrates the story of the Hindenburg through the captivating passengers and crew caught up in the grip of fate: an adventurous heiress, a renowned Vaudeville star, a Chicago industrialist with German-Jewish roots, an esteemed Zeppelin captain, and a young cabin boy on his first voyage to America. Meanwhile, on the ground, two intrepid journalists reporting on the Hindenburg fundamentally changed breaking news, paving the way for modern media as we know it.In this rigorously researched, ticking-clock narrative, Shadow Before the Flame offers a portrait of an erawhen illusions of peace fueled by the hubris of invention hovered in suspended timeas the clouds of an inevitable war loomed on the horizon. Above all, it is a story of humanity and of lives forever changed by a moment that served as a harbinger for the global conflagration yet to come.

Chris Joe, creator of the beloved and reliable online platform @cj.eats, dishes out tried and true recipes for classic Asian dishesAs a third-generation Chinese-American, Chris Joe grew up in Los Angeles enjoying wontons, roast duck, crispy pork belly, and more Asian classics with his family. From a young age, Chris learned first-hand the essential cooking techniques required to make these classic dishes from his grandparents, who settled in California as first-generation butchers and grocery store owners. After they had passed, Chris continued to study and practice those techniques, eventually devoting himself to learning the secrets behind the beloved dishes he grew up eating. Soon hed perfected Egg Drop Soup (notoriously simple, but finnicky), hand-pulled noodles (intimidating, but do-able!), and even dishes inspired by his wife Kats Korean heritage like Korean Seafood Pancakes, or Haemul-pajeon. He mastered frying, velveting meats, folding dumplings, and more, and each recipe he conquered made him more confident and fearless in the kitchen. He wanted to inspire that feeling in others and began sharing his skills and his passion of Asian food on social media, and now has a huge and devoted audience of fans who love his approachable (and straight-forward) cooking style. In COOK ASIAN, Chris offers carefully crafted recipes and key tips (toss the noodles with oil before stir frying to prevent them from sticking! Salt the cucumbers for a crispier, crunchier texture!) to make sure readers not only know the how of each step, but also the why. From an authentic Wonton Noodle Soup and Chicken Karaage to Korean BBQ Beef (Bulgogi) and Pad Thai, Chris demystifies complex recipes with straightforward steps, and a no-advice-left-behind approach to inspire readers to build their own cooking muscle, and make these irresistible dishes part of their life, too.

Caldecott Honoree Jillian Tamaki lovingly explores the bond between a cat and its owner, illustrated in embroidery.Beautifully illustrated with embroidery and appliqué by Caldecott Honor–winning arti

The brand new Miss Marple novel from Lucy Foley, the No.1 bestselling author of The Guest List and The Midnight Feast.AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW *** High in the Swiss Alps, with glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, the Grand Alpine Hotel draws guests from far and wide. The notorious actress The high-flying politician The reserved political wife The reckless friend The shrewd doctor But when a guest enters a gondola alive, only to be found dead at the top of the mountain, its clear theres a killer in their midst. As dark histories simmer, and old grudges emerge like cracks in the ice, someone watches on from the shadows. An unassuming woman with an extraordinary mind: Miss Marple. She suspects everyone in the hotel, and shes right to. For it isnt just a question of who has a motive, but whos next Arriving 50 years after Agatha Christies last MISS MARPLE novel was published, Lucy Foleys Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel is a landmark event.Lucy Foleys book The Midnight Feast was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-06-30.

"But...it feels illegal to get rid of it!" If you said that, you might be one of the gajillion people saving mountains of stuff "just in case." Forget magazine-worthy homes: even beginning to declutter after midlife can feel insurmountablewhich is why everyone approaching fifty (or well beyond) should read this step-by-step organizing plan for the real world.Did you know the average household contains 300,000 items? No wonder it feels like a monumental task to deal with: we are drowning in stuff, and no one more so than todays midlifers. Their kids have left behind all their sentimental childhood stuff, compounded by dealing with the heirlooms from their own parentswhere do you start? This book is not about minimalism or achieving some magazine-worthy home; it will help you change your mindsets about stuff so you can save sentimental things without drowning in them.Author, professional organizer and decluttering coach Carrie Powell shares her step-by-step secrets to achieving freedom from stuff, so you are set up for success in senior years.

From Governor Generals Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a stunning new collection of poetry about the natural world and our place in it.The Volcanos High Held Snow Note is a collection preoccupied with a small mountain called SAE (Snow Mountain) in the language of the WSANE people on the Saanich Peninsula and the Gulf Islands. The time is the days of early Covid and the multiplying signs of violent climate alteration in burning northern forests. Elsewhere, an uncanny holy child wishes to swim through matter and find healing substances deep under the earth, Marguerite Porete has some ideas for how to deal with Master Reason in a crisis, and hummingbirds take in half-frozen sugar slush as anagogic liquid.

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story that brilliantly confronts the private cost of a public life. For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity theyve both been waiting for. Theyre on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their livesin exciting, but also terrifying, ways.John Green artfully blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy. Told through dual points of view, the novel follows Kai and Juniper from the first days on location to the movies premiere, brilliantly juxtaposing their story with the on-screen study of Warhols life at the dawn of celebrity culture.Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and finding your safe someone to hold onto. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only John Green can tell it.

From veteran Financial Times journalist Robin Wigglesworth, an epic history of the debt that built the modern world.Long considered the "boring" corner of finance, bonds are anything but. They have funded everything from the Crusades to climate tech, Netflix series to AI data centers. They are now bigger than the stock market and rival even the global banking system in influence. They are also misunderstoodtreated as mere debt, when in fact their form, function, and impact are radically different.In A Fabulous Debt, Robin WigglesworthThe Financial Times Global Finance Correspondent, and author of the acclaimed Trillionsoffers a sweeping, affectionate history of the bond market. From the dyke-builders of 17th-century Holland to the trillion-dollar portfolios of BlackRock, this is a peoples history of finance: rich in drama, full of colorful characters, and bursting with insight. With clarity and wit, Wigglesworth takes readers from medieval Venice to modern Wall Street, tracing how bonds evolved from obscure financial instruments into the invisible architecture of the modern world. Along the way, we meet warlords and water boards, merchant princes and mathematicians, financiers and fraudstersall of whom helped build the most powerful machine in global finance.This isnt just a book about the past. Its a guide to the present and future of the financial systemand a love letter to the engine that keeps it running.

A hands-on, JavaScript-based introduction to WebGPU for real-time 3D graphics and GPU computing in the browser.The Book of WebGPU is a hands-on introduction to modern browser-based 3D graphics and GPU computing with WebGPU and JavaScript. Readers learn how to use the WebGPU API and the WebGPU Shading Language (WGSL) to render interactive 3D scenes, implement lighting and texturing, and tap into the GPUs compute pipeline for non-graphics workloads.The book walks through the full pipeline of creating 3D graphics in the browser, from buffers, shaders, and render passes to camera transforms and physically inspired lighting. Along the way, it reinforces core graphics concepts like coordinate spaces, projections, and materials, while also covering modern JavaScript features such as modules, promises, and async/await.Every chapter includes guided, browser-based projects and challenging exercises, from fractal visualizations and interactive lighting demos to exploring medical CT data in 3D and experimenting with GPU-accelerated computations. As of 2025, WebGPU is officially supported across Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari, so readers can run these projects in all major browsers without special plugins or native installs.The result is a complete on-ramp for developers who want to create high-performance, visually rich experiences on the web, whether for games, data visualization, design tools, or emerging AI workflows.

Explore the irresistible town of Poppyville, where midnight is morning, and a cheerfully quirky cast of characters that will have you giggling to no end!"A beautiful dream of a book. For those children who wonder what goes on at night long after theyve closed their eye." --Raul the Third, award-winning creator of the World of Vamos and New York Times bestselling illustrator"Mind blowing."--Matthew Forsythe, award-winning creator of Pokko and the DrumSet in a fantastical world, two travelers arrive to Poppyville, a town where midnight is morning, milk is blueberry flavored, and the residents are wonderfully strange. Its Busy Town meets Adventure Time in this hilarious and quirky picture book adventure brimming with oddball charm.Its the grand opening of Delilahs toy shop and everyone has come, near and far, including two travelers who are in search of a dragonwagon. But what the travelers discover is that the journey is just as magical as the destintion.With playful sensibility, unique art style of cut paper and limited palette, Wake Up, Poppyville!, will have readers eager to join this bustling community that only wakes up at night.

My girlfriend doesnt know how cute she really is, and that makes her even cuter!Daichi and Akira have been best friends since childhood, and now theyre dating while attending different high schools. As far as Daichi is aware, Akira is a total tomboy who loves martial arts and masculine clothesso imagine his surprise when he drops by her school for a festival, only to find her wearing cat ears and a maid costume! What other charms is his boyish girlfriend hiding?

The biggest and best collection of American flash fiction ever assembled reveals the very big imaginative possibilities of very short storiesFeaturing 100 genre-spanning and form-bending stories, spanning 160+years; includes literary fiction, speculative fiction, noir, satire, surrealism, humor, horror, parables, fables, and more.This landmark Library of America anthology presents the best of a century and a half of American storytelling and literary innovationin 100 bite-sized pieces, from 100 wildly diverse and distinguished authors.Celebrating the artful brevities of flash fiction from Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, and Zora Neale Hurston to Donald Barthelme, Lydia Davis, and Diane Williams, it recovers some of the little-understood history of the very short story before flash fiction was invented, and it gathers the brilliant work of a score of emerging contemporary writers, too. Here are: Winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Award (Ernest Hemingway, William Carlos Williams, John Steinbeck, Alice Walker, Tim OBrien) Hard-boiled crime writers (Dashiell Hammett, David Goodis) Speculative fiction writers (H.P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Damon Knight, Sofia Samatar) Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West, Langston Hughes) Surrealists; prose poets; memoirists; experimental writers; and many more, all of them with stories that reveal worlds and startle the imagination in the space of a few pages. Introduced by acclaimed writer, critic, and anthologist David L. Ulin, who explores the origins and creative range of the form, the collection also includes notes on the stories and contributors, and an index.

From two of the most acclaimed and beloved picture book makers today, Mac Barnett and X. Fang, comes a hilarious trickster tale like no other. A sneaky sheep has a proposal for an innocent boy that will change both of their lives forever: a brain swap!Farmers son Felix knows that Tom Nancy is a clever little sheep. Still, Felix is surprised to learn that not only can this sheep talk, he also has a marvelous machine stowed away in the barn that will allow them to switch brains for the day. Felix agrees to Tom Nancys idea of a swap, and it works! Felix finds that life in the pasture as a sheep is interesting. But Tom Nancy discovers that being a boy who wrestles and eats sandwiches is simply stupendous! So when Felix tells him hes ready to switch back, Tom Nancy has another idea . . . A deliciously subversive story that delivers some just deserts, Tom Nancy will have readers of all ages laughing out loud and on the edge of their seats.

Gloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the worlds most influential activists and storytellers, alongside a clear-eyed, urgent message for new generations about what the next chapters of the fight for equality will demandBefore she became a feminist leader, Gloria Steinem was a curious child: going on road trips with her itinerant father, caring for her mother, and devouring every book she could find. In An Unexpected Life, Steinem reflects on the unlikely experiences and pivotal momentsfrom a childhood rat bite that opened her eyes to the dangers of poverty to the 1970 Womens March honoring the right to votethat shaped the visionary woman she would become.She shares her years living in India, learning from the nonviolent movement there, and her travels around the world advocating for womens rights. Along the way, she honors the people who influenced her most, including trailblazers, writers, and thinkers who expanded her understanding of power, community, justice, and solidarity.Moving between past and present, Steinem examines the progress and setbacks of six decades of activism. As she reflects on the movements she helped build and the victories won for womens and human rights, she also looks ahead, urging new generations to imagine bolder, more inclusive paths forward.Intimate, funny, and rich with hard-earned wisdom, An Unexpected Life offers readers the rare opportunity to learn directly from one of feminisms most enduring voices as we continue the work of building a better future for all.