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"Paced like lightning strikes in a summer storm, this story hooks you from the first scene and compels you with each revelation. Each page crackles with tension."-Bradley Somer, award-winning author of Fishbowl and We Are All of Us Left Behind Maeve Whitman has come a long way. As a teenage mom whod escaped an artists cult by sacrificing her best friend, shes created a safe and perfect suburban life.But when the former cult leader, who is now a renowned photographer and father of her daughter, tracks her down and threatens to force her child back to the farm she escaped from, Maeve is faced with a choice: take her children and flee or stay and fight for the life shes built for her family.With her daughter facing the chaotic and slippery monsters who almost destroyed Maeve, shes pulled back into a web of destruction she thought shed escaped for good. By confronting her past, shell need to find the strength to take back her future and change the path her mother once set for them.Just how far will the colony go to get her back in their clutches? Fans of "Ill Never Tell" by Catherine McKenzie, "This Might Hurt" by Stephanie Wrobel, and "An Honest Lie" by Tarryn Fisher will enjoy "Pretty Bird" by Hilary Faktor.

A cozy, magical, slice-of-life holiday romance set in a village adjacent to a magic schoolif the Dream Harbor series were set at Hogsmeade!I solemnly swear not to fall in loveSilas Birchwood wasnt sure what to expect when he joined Emberwind Academy as the schools first non-magical teacher. But he knows hes found his calling, even if his wand-wielding pupils struggle with the scientific method.Living in Hex Hollow, the quirky village adjacent to the magical school, certainly has its charmsmost notably Margaret Nettle, the witch proprietor of The Toasty Owl. Every night, villagers gather in the glow of the fireplace to sip her warming magical drinks.Margaret has devoted her life to running the pub left to her by her beloved mother and grandmother, even if it stings living so close to the magical school that rejected her.When a rival bar opens across the street, Silas is determined to help Margaret save her business. And despite herself, Margaret finds herself warming to the man who can fix anything in her pubwith a smile that melts her grumpy heart.When the secret to her magical drinks is stolen, Margaret fears shes destroyed her familys legacy. Can Silas help her see what hes always knownthat the magic was hers all along?Tropes: Grumpy x sunshine Small-town romance Found family Opposites attract Magical village Baby dragons Magic pub Fish out of water

Discover how to become a successful backyard chicken keeper and embrace the joys of the Chicken Lady lifeThe Chicken Ladies Guide to Life with Chickens introduces new chicken keepers to the practical knowledge and tools needed to build a strong foundation and keep a productive flock of laying hensenabling you to unleash your inner Chicken Lady! Holly Callahan-Kasmala and Chrisie DiCarlo, hosts of the beloved Coffee with the Chicken Ladies podcast, guide readers through the entire process, from sourcing chicks to caring for aging senior hens, along with information on basic chicken anatomy and nutritional needs, empowering you to make informed decisions about your birds. Chicken keeping is not one size fits all. Offering decades of experience and knowledge, Holly and Chrisie emphasize preparation and thinking ahead to avoid some of the most common chicken-keeping mistakes. They share tips, tricks, and insights for everyone interested in raising chickenswhether you have a backyard area, an urban rooftop coop, or a small farmstead.This book is also about celebrating the relationships between chicken keepers and their flocks as you discover just how special and rewarding this lifestyle can be. Chapters feature: Chicken FAQs The pros and cons of roosters Basic flock behavior and pecking order A 10-point chicken health exam and how to set up a chicken hospital Remarkable chicken ladies in history, from Queen Victoria to Lisa Steele to modern-day breed conservators Tips for chicken-themed decor 10 recipes for using your fresh eggs And more!

A standalone sequel to the popular graphic memoir, Penny, this vivid graphic novel centers on housecat heroine Pennys relationship with her sister, Pepperand the delicately solipsistic inner world they share with each other.As she is prone to do, Penny the housecat spends her days lazing around the apartment and musing philosophically. However, her peace is rudely disturbed when she is forced to contend with the existence of her little sister, Pepper. What follows is one part wry, immaculately watercolored cat gags, one part visionquest. Here, acclaimed graphic novelist Karl Stevens blends the quotidian life of a housecat with an epicly psychedelic journey of self-discovery and the profound art of making peace with yourself.

REDISCOVER THIS BELOVED COLLECTION of James Thurbers best tales and drawings about dogs and their men, women, and children in 24 stories, profiles, and essays.Only a few books have stayed with me through all the moves and upheavals of adult life, but Thurbers Dogs is one of them, and it will stay with me to the end.Jonathan Yardley, The Washington PostThe dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals, writes James Thurber in the introduction to this collection of his best writings and drawings about the unpredictable and often inexplicable relationships between dogs and their men, women, and children. In two dozen stories and essays and six sequences of drawings, he honors the dogs, real and imaginary, that have populated his life and work. Included in Thurbers Dogs: Thurbers first published story features Josephine, the bull terrier that didnt seem to live up to a couples expectationsuntil they regretted giving her away and resorted to extreme measures to get her back. The Dog Who Bit People remembers Muggs the Airedale, a dog that gave Thurber more trouble than all the other fifty-four or -five put together yet somehow found an impeccable ally in Thurbers mother. Several pieces recall the Scottish terrier Jeannie, another troublemaker, who delighted in wandering off and implanting herself in the homes, parties, and picnics of other families. Rex, the noble pit bull from Thurbers childhood, developed the perplexing habit of bringing home large pieces of furniture and the gates from the gardens of neighbors yards. Blaze, an English mastiff, received preferential treatment on a military planeand the resulting scandal dominated headlines and hilariously plunged Franklin Roosevelts administration into crisis mode. Among the selections available only in this volume are essays defending the reputations of poodles and bloodhounds, two breeds Thurber believed were largely misunderstood and underappreciated. This iconic collection of Thurbers funniest and most delightful dog cartoons and writings is a must have for dog lovers.

An evil spirit from the past haunts a family during the holidays. A womans ghost watches her former friend take the wrong path. Two childhood friends are plagued by a sinister being. Presented with unspeakable danger and lessons learned at the cost of ones own soul, in The Heart of Elder Horrors:Holiday Edition, individuals will be tasked with using the lessons from the past to overcome the horrors of the present and future. Will they succeed? Or will the very answers they find unearth new and unspeakable dangers?

A meditation on race, technology, and the fight for equitable educationEducated citizens are the lifeforce of democracy. Across all aspects of modern life, and especially in education, AI is raising existential questions. Like any new technology, it is both transformative and problematic.In this smart exploration of tech, race, and society, Dr. Kamau Bobb meditates on the convergence of American memory and the promises of AI in education. At this critical milestone in American history, this book argues that enthusiasm and clamor for AI are a veil for the vacuous neglect of our nations racist past. Bobb encourages readers to pause and examine the actual foundation on top of which the grand claims of AIs potential in education are being built, raising questions like: How does AI change the fundamental structure of American education? How does the application of AI enabled tools affect educational outcomes in schools that are profoundly segregated? When the purveyors of these technologies claim that they will close gaps and improve the educational experience for all students, what does that really mean? American educational history is overflowing with abuse, segregation, substandard structures, and smoldering scorn. This book grapples with the challenges ahead in achieving equitable education as AI transforms and the nation retracts. At this convergence of technology and racial backlash in education, Bobb provides lessons from Americas past to light the path ahead.

A necessary and timely exploration of art activism today, informed by centuries of protest.How contemporary artists and activists are navigating and resisting the collapse of historical time in our uncanny present.The Radical Unpresent examines our disorienting contemporary moment, in which our experience of time has become profoundly disrupted. Building on his earlier work on dark matter in the art world, Gregory Sholette introduces the concept of the unpresenta condition in which everything appears the same yet is completely transformed, lacking both a past and a future.The book traces the emergence of this uncanny temporal state through Brexit, Trumps first election, and the COVID pandemic, culminating in the January 6th insurrection and the rise of MAGA 2.0 in 2025. Sholette analyzes how this temporal crisis manifests in both progressive and reactionary cultural responses, arguing that MAGA represents not simply regression but also a new kind of retro-vanguard that seeks to escape the unpresent by restoring an imagined past.Never one to be content with the status quo, Sholette reveals the inner workings of a phantom archivea surplus repository of activist practices, unrealized possibilities, and spectral histories that artists access through repair, repurposing, and reenactment. Through examples ranging from Dread Scotts slave rebellion reenactment to contemporary Belarus protest art, he demonstrates how artists are creating temporal interventions that acknowledge historical wounds while opening pathways to alternative futures.

When the going gets tough, whats a wimpy kid to do?In Fight or Flight, Greg Heffley faces his biggest challenge yet as he becomes a target for the school bully. Luckily for Greg, his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, takes karate, so at least Gregs got someone in his corner. But an unexpected twist makes Greg realize hes facing an uphill battle.Will Greg step into the ring or throw in the towel? One things for sure Fight or Flight is a knockout!Collect all the books in the #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (#1) | Rodrick Rules (#2) | The Last Straw (#3) | Dog Days (#4) | The Ugly Truth (#5) | Cabin Fever (#6) | The Third Wheel (#7) | Hard Luck (#8) | The Long Haul (#9) | Old School (#10) | Double Down (#11) | The Getaway (#12) | The Meltdown (#13) | Wrecking Ball (#14) | The Deep End (#15) | Big Shot (#16) | Diper Overlode (#17) | No Brainer (#18) | Hot Mess (#19) | Partypooper (#20) | Fight or Flight (#21)See the Wimpy Kid World in a whole new way with the #1 bestselling Awesome Friendly books, told from the perspective of Greg Heffleys best friend Rowley Jefferson: Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jeffersons Journal | Rowley Jeffersons Awesome Friendly Adventure | Rowley Jeffersons Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories | Rowley Jeffersons Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories 2

Ashenborn: The Silent AshesIn a world scarred by war, one boy survives a night of fire and blood, holding onto a single promise: to live. Kaelions village is gone, his family taken by cruelty. His heart hangs between vengeance and hope.As he grows, trained by a mysterious mentor and tested by a world that seems determined to break him, Kaelion hears stories of a past war that still haunts the living. This was a war fought by heroes and monsters whose names have become legends. Shadows move in the corners of his world. Unseen forces pull at his fate, suggesting that the boy who survived might be the key to a war yet to come.But destiny is never kind. Every choice could lead him toward darkness or shape him into the hero the world desperately needs.In the first book of the Ashenborn Chronicles, a new legend begins and nothing will ever be the same.

They say that when you leave a haunted place, you leave the ghosts behind. They say that a closed door is a finished story. But for me, the exit from the Shingra valley was not the end of the loop; it was simply the beginning of a wider, more terrifying circle.I returned to the world of neon lights, high-speed internet, and crowded streets, thinking I had "unmasked" the mystery. I thought I had settled the debt of the past by burning the hat and leaving the killer, Karan, to rot in his own digital purgatory. I carried my scars like trophiesa broken shoulder, a haunted gaze, and a camera full of nothing.But the silence of the city is a liar.In the quiet hours of the night, the reflections in my windows dont show the Delhi skyline; they show a hint of purple mist. The water in my glass doesnt just sit; it ripples with a silver light I recognize all too well. And then, there is the Diary.My mother, Pinky, died sixty-nine years ago in a twisted wreck of steel and fire. Her breath left her body on a lonely mountain road before I was even old enough to remember her scent. And yet, every morning, I find new words on the pages of her notebook. Blue ink, fresh and wet, describing things she could never have seen. Answering questions I am too afraid to ask.How can a dead woman write? That is the question that keeps me awake. Because if the ink is real, then perhaps the "accident" wasnt the end. If the diary is still growing, then perhaps I never truly stepped through that portal.In Part 1, we fought to find the truth. In Part 2, we must fight to survive it. Because Karan didnt just want a bodyhe wanted a legacy. And as the ink spreads across the page, I am starting to realize that the most dangerous loop isnt made of space or time. Its made of blood.Welcome back to the Shingra. The gate is open again, but this time, the "Majesty" is coming to us.

If you are seeking a comprehensive reference for collectible gun values, the Gun Traders Guide is the only book you need. Included are extensive listings for handguns, shotguns, and rifles from some of the most popular manufacturers, including Beretta, Browning, Colt, Remington, Savage, Smith & Wesson, Winchester, and many more.The Gun Traders Guide is a one-stop manual to buying collectible firearms. For more than half a century, this guide has been the standard reference for collectors, curators, dealers, shooters, and gun enthusiasts. Updated annually, it remains the definitive source for making informed decisions on used firearms purchases.

In the latest from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Klavan, retired assassin Cameron Winter is drawn back in for one last job.In the wilderness bordering Afghanistan, an American soldier dies in a devastating explosion. Across the world, in a withering Pennsylvania factory town, his father is stabbed to death and left in the surrounding woods amidst colonial ruins known as Nowhere. The Recruiter wants Cameron Winter to find out why.All Winter wants now is a quiet, happy existence. He has met the woman he plans to marry. He has beaten the depression that sent him into therapy. Hes enjoying a job at a midwestern university, teaching the poetry he loves. Then his old boss, the hunted former leader of a group of US government assassins, suddenly reappears and asks him to set that life aside and return instead to the work he did as a government agent: the work of turning bad men into dead men.Winter journeys into Americas aching heartland, to a small town called Kinnecombe, abandoned by business, betrayed by the government, and left to suffer through a triple plague of poverty, drugs, and crime. His assignment is to solve a murder, and all that stands in his way is a deceptively soft-spoken gangster, a mob of local thugs, an American spy as crazy as she is beautiful, and a well-trained killer who can make himself invisible right up until the moment he puts a bullet in your brain. If Winter wants to reclaim his dream life, hell first have to remember how to be an assassin, or else find himself in Nowhere, just as dead as the town that wants him gone.

What if all the legends are true?Retired monster hunter Bridgette McGuire knows that they are. And when a group of Nationalists uncover the fabled scabbard of Excalibur in order to bring King Arthur back from the dead to reclaim England, she will be the only one who can stop them. In order to do so, shell need to pull her unsuspecting academic grandson, Duncan, into a deadly world of myth and prophecy. Their quest will lead them to confront the complicated history of their family, face the deadly secrets of Englands past, and throw the Otherworld into shambles, allowing for new legends and characters to make their appearanceand bring a world of trouble along with them.At last, the full Eisner Awardnominated series arrives in its first omnibus edition for the ultimate reading experience, uniting the complete story by New York Timesbestselling author Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine) and Russ Manning Awardwinner Dan Mora in one monumental volume!Collects Once & Future #1-30.

Journalist Kylie Cheung delivers an urgent, incisive look at how abusersfrom empires to intimate partnersuse the same gaslighting playbook to oppress victims, silence their voice, and stay in powerWho has the right to their own body? Who has the right to self-defense? Who gets to walk away? From the genocide in Gaza to the state-sanctioned control of womens bodies, Kylie Cheung confronts the most urgent moral and political crises of our time through an incisive, illuminating lens: DARVODeny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. While DARVO originated in the psychology of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence, Cheung shows how its deployed en masse, at every leveland how it can become the blueprint for empire itself.From the spectacle of Depp v. Heard to horrors perpetrated by Israeli prison guards, Cheung exposes how abusers both individual and institutional flip the script and perform victimhood to justify domination. With unflinching clarity, Playing the Victim traces how these tactics shape everything from media propaganda and imperial warfare to anti-feminist backlash, transphobic legislation, and racialized state violence. Each chapter peels back another layer of the mirror-world machine that distorts oppressors into victims and twists resistance into crime.Essential for anyone seeking to understand how power works in the 21st centuryand at whose costthis book is piercing, clear-eyed, and rigorously researched. Unpacking how domestic abuse, intimate partner violence, colonial violence, and capitalist cruelty function as interlocking systems of control, Cheung helps readers understand how power hides behind ersatz victimhoodand how this plays us all.

Whether you call them mug rugs or coasters, these decorative table savers are fun to make, perfect for gifts, and a terrific way to try out different soft craft techniques without investing a lot of time, money, or effort. Since a set is the way to go, youll have learned and mastered a new technique by the time you complete all four. Make the set identical or change each one up a bit for a coordinated appeal, your choice. Start with your favorite technique youll find more than a dozen here from patchwork to fabric weaving or try something completely new! This is the perfect book for creatives looking to land on a crafting technique that suits their style, taste, and skill-level. It lets them dabble before jumping in with both feet.Youll love... Lots of techniques in different soft craft categories More than 30 different projects Easy-to-follow stepped out visuals and written instructions Fun ideas for using scraps, left-over materials, and repurposed textiles

A hot-blooded, sinuously plotted novel by a nineteenth-century master of melodramathe story of a stifled woman reckoning with the costs of following her heart.Beautiful and vivacious, Julie is not yet thirty when she becomes infatuated with Victor dAiglemont, a handsome young aide-de-camp in Napoleons army. Nor is she yet thirty when she becomes Madame dAiglemontand discovers she has made a great mistake in marrying a careless, insensitive boor. When Julie falls in love with the Englishman Arthur Grenville, a chance at happiness seems to be within reach. But Julies conscience as a wife and her duties as a mother forbid her from pursuing and consummating her love, and Arthur dies, leaving her with a broken heart.Now, at thirty, with nothing to look forward to and only the rest of her life ahead of her, Julie is at a loss. Then the dashing Charles de Vandenesse enters her life, whereupon Julie realizes that she is still capable of loving and being loved, but that her relationship with her children, with her daughter Helene, in particular, may never be the same againFull of serendipitous encounters, twists and turns as delicious as they are unexpected, A Woman of Thirty is one of Balzacs finest novels, at once a moving tale of passion and regret and a sensitive portrait of female psychology, rendered here in Jeanine Hermans exquisite new translation.

A hilarious, scathing, and absurdist critique of contemporary culture set in a fictional university town in the near future where a contagious "twinning" trend has swept across the student bodyAt Northwick Author Development Academy, an elite incubator for the creative class, originality is both fetish and mandate. Its candidates arrive ravenous for distinctiononly to discover, after a year of carefully engineered disorientation, that their work has converged into something eerily uniform. When a student in the sophomore cohort, Carl Sample, announces his intention to provoke a stranger into punching himan act pitched as both personal exorcism and artistic experimentthe action seems grotesque, comic, and vaguely prophetic. Before Carl can enact his plan, another student is assaulted in town. This emerging crisis of coincidence binds the cohort in a tightening web of surveillance and mythmaking, as intention and event fall fatally out of sync. Watched constantly by the Academys hidden media unit, the students begin to resemble copies of one anothertwinned in fear, ambition, and aesthetic drift.Doppelganger is fiction at its most clever, most engaging, and most self-reflective. The reader embarks on a quest with an uncertain outcome, and Riviere keeps us on our toes throughout with his wit, his stylistic brilliance, and his matchless mind. Is this a scathing critique of contemporary culture or a virtuoso game of cat and mouse? Whos to say? A bit of both, probably.

Unmistakably Hanawalt, the Tuca & Bertie and Bojack Horseman visionary has returned to her comics rootsFrom the creative mind behind some of the most inventive and genre-expanding animated shows on TV comes a long-awaited collection of honest, silly, horny, and vulnerable comics. Intimate and emotionally layered, I Cant Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex is a collage-like collection of comic strips and artwork that blurs genre lines. This is a fragmented memoir of a horse girl, now in her forties and reflecting back on a lifetime of obsessions.Whether Lisa Hanawalt is confronting large life issues like whether or not to have children, being an anxious lil freak, caring for a sick horse, or dealing with a major breakup and the ensuing lustfulnessshe delivers a reading experience thats relatable and affirming. In lush colors and kinetic lines, she charts the strange terrain of life, one bumpy, dusty horseback ride at a time. Like peeking into Hanawalts diaryI Cant Stop Thinking About Horses and Sex is an unbridled exploration of platonic and romantic fixations, traumas, and a send-up to interspecies friendship, told with her trademark candid humor.

A generational talents old cartooning soul returns for a second roundEdward Steed continues his winning streak as the most exciting cartoonist in The New Yorkers pages in the 21st century. Hailed as the last great hope of the single panel gag strip, the sole saving grace of a print media taking its last dying breaths, Steed brings a deftly scrawled lacerating sense of humour that alludes to classic New Yorker cartoonists like Charles Addams, William Steig, and Sol Stenberg as well as modern cringe alt-comedy. With Happy Hour out hot on the heels of his best-selling and critically-lauded debut collection, Forces of Nature, Steed proves hes no flash in the pan but an enduring comedic talent. Every page in this collection is a hilarious master class on how to tickle a funnybone.