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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.

The definitive biography of the last living link to the Chicago blues titans, and the man who shaped the sound of modern rockrevealing how a sharecroppers son from Louisiana became the mentor, muse, and musical north star for generations of blues and rock stars, while dedicating his life to keeping the blues alive for the future.Buddy Guy is the final living bridge between the Chicago blues and the global explosion of rock music that followed. When Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and Little Walter ruled Chess Records, Buddy was thereabsorbing and pushing the music forward. And he would become the blues oracle to some of the greatest guitarists in history, directly influencing Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Carlos Santana, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and countless others.Drawing on years of research, interviews, and deep access to Buddys inner circleincluding Clapton, George Benson, Elvin Bishop, Greg and Vicky Guy, and moreacclaimed music biographer Sandra B. Tooze delivers the most complete portrait ever written of this towering figure. Readers step into London in 1965, where Buddys performances changed the trajectory of British rock overnight; into Chicago clubs where his fearless playing redefined the electric blues; and onto global stages where, even in his late eighties, Buddy continues to perform with full-throttle intensity.Tooze also captures Buddys struggles with racism and industry indifference, alongside his humor and relentless commitment to mentoring younger musicians. At the heart of the book is Buddys lifelong promise to Muddy Waters: that the blues would not die on his watch. Through his club, Buddy Guys Legends; his collaborations and his tireless advocacy, Buddy Guy has spent decades honoring that vow.Buddy Guy: The Life and Music is an intimate biography and a sweeping history of American music, showing how the blues shaped rock, and how one man became its greatest living guardian.

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.

A Christmas-hating recluse goes head-to-head with her holiday-obsessed neighbour in this clever, laugh-out-loud rom-com, perfect for fans of B.K. Borison and Julia McKay.Its the most perilous time of the year...Devras family is cursed. Theres simply no other explanation for the catastrophes that have tormented them every December for the last thirty odd yearsa house fire from exploding string lights, severe burns from spilled hot cocoa, breakup after breakupalways in the lead-up to Christmas. So, she does what anyone with a family curse would do: She goes into hiding and scorns the holidays. But when Bradley, "Mr. Christmas" himself, moves in next door and ruins her perfectly un-festive space with every twinkling, shimmering, blaring decoration imaginable, Devra is certain hes been sent by the curse to upend her quiet life.Bradleys days are looking up. Hes one year sober, with a new home, and what better way to celebrate his fresh start than by honouring his familys tradition of extravagant holiday decorating. The only problem: His festive spirit has somehow offended his prickly new neighbour, sparking a feud that just might end in attempted snowman murder.But while Devra seems hell-bent on driving Bradley away, Bradley becomes fixated on solving the riddle that is Devra. And somewhere along the way, their over-the-fence antics spark something deeper: feelings.Except was Bradley sent by the curse? Or is he the answer to finally breaking itonce and for 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

Lessons from a hospital chaplain on family, trauma, and loveWorking with the ill, injured, and dying at a level 1 trauma center, J. S. Park has seen it all, from shocking confessions to deathbed reconciliations. One thing hes noticed: When it comes to family, even the most well-adjusted person can fall into unhealthy patterns. Secrecy, guilt, and fear can make changing our family dynamics feel impossible. But we are not doomed to repeat the same cycles over and over. We can rewrite the next chapter of our family history.In We Are Made of Us, Park weaves together stories from his chaplaincy and upbringing with evidence-based research and trauma-informed care principles. And as the son of Korean immigrants who has provided counsel to people from all walks of life, he brings to bear diverse cultural perspectives on healing, community, and liberation. The book explores three concentric circles of family: family of origin (the family we were raised in) chosen family (the community we surround ourselves with) family beyond (the people were connected to from beyond the grave, across oceans, or by ancestry) No matter who you are or how complicated your family is, We Are Made of Us is here to provide the comfort, insight, and strength you need to decode your origins and come home to yourself.

A joyful celebration of the small routines and transitions that shape a toddlers world.A toddlers day is filled with new discoveries, from greeting an older sibling to playing the piano to watching the pet turtle eat his lunch. Each moment is an adventure worthy of celebration as toddlers explore the world around them, creating new connections with people and objects. But its what lies between those moments that can bring challenges.Written as simple greetings and farewells by acclaimed poet Mar Benegas that are paired with charming illustrations by Neus Caamaño, this board book gently guides the youngest readers and their caregivers through the natural transitions of daily life.A comforting, curiosity-sparking read for little ones and the grown-ups helping them find their rhythm.

Grimsby, a junior Auditor in the government-sanctioned, magical Department of Unorthodox Affairs, must do all he can to fight for the innocent in this riveting urban fantasy.When a magical illness begins to afflict children in Boston, the Department of Unorthodox Affairs tasks junior Auditor Grimshaw Griswald Grimsby with uncovering the source andtogether with his partner, the grizzled veteran Huntsman Mayflowerputting a stop to it by any means necessary.But their efforts to determine the origin of the spreading malady are soon complicated by the emergence of ancient and strange beings that Grimsby and Mayflower have never encountered before. To uncover the truth, they will have to turn to old acquaintances and allies and delve deep below Boston, into the city of monsters that lies beneath, and travel to the unfathomable reality of the Elsewhere.Burdened by his own troubles, both past and present, it will take all Grimsbys skill, iron, and no shortage of magic to stop this apparent plague and save those who have been afflicted.Assuming its not already too late.

A hypnotically original and lush speculative novel from award-winning author Tanais about technology, sex, spirituality, family secrets, and the motherdaughter bond across generationsultimately blurring the boundary between past and present, human and machine. Qamar is a musician living in a futuristic metropolitan city. Struggling to pay rent and heartbroken after a terrible breakup, she decides to return to the island ashram of her childhood. Its time to finally settle the rift she has with her estranged mother, Vedaa brilliant scientist, actress, and one of the leaders of a now-dissolved cult called the Endless Temple.But when Qamar arrives, the land is as verdant as she remembers, but neglected, and, most troubling, there are no signs of her mother or sister. Behind a retina scanlocked door, Qamar encounters a machine consciousnessVEDA (Virtual Experiences, Dreams and Afterlife)that her mother made in the image of herself. VEDA is her mothers last opus, an artificial intelligence that allows her to finally tell her daughter the story of her life. The descent into VEDAs technoscape forces Qamar to confront the taboos and tragedies of their past, while bracing herself for the wild, unexpected possibilities that await.

A spicy, angsty, slow burn F1 academy romance about fast cars, forbidden attraction, and family secrets from USA Today bestselling author Piper Lawson.Shay MacDonald was raised to avoid two things: race cars and the Ashford family. But when an injury puts her mechanic father on bedrest, she vows to save his career by covertly covering his shifts at the Ashford garage and enrolling at Ashford Academyan elite school that trains aspiring drivers and engineers, like herself, for the lucrative F1 circuit. Keeping a low profile is out of the question when she has a run-in with the Ashford brothers on day one. Theo and Jameson are racing royalty who know they can get away with anything. Theo, the charming and reckless playboy, tempts her to break every rule, while Jameson, the brilliant prodigy, unsettles her with a cold intensity that cuts deeper than she expects. Shay will always be the adopted daughter of a mechanic, trying to survive unnoticed in a world that was never meant for her. But Theo and Jamesons only reprieve from their fathers sky-high expectations is Shay. Shes a shiny new pawn in their old rivalryor a prize worth risking everything for.When a competition to work on the F1 circuit brings her further into their orbit, Shay is forced to work harder to protect her secrets. But the deeper shes pulled into the world of the rich and famous Ashfords, the more she realizes everyone is keeping secrets.Secrets that could shatter her past, her futureand her heart.

A goblin changeling caught between the human and fey worlds must find a way to save her home in this warm and heartfelt fantasy from the author of Toto and the Hells Library series.Being a changeling is hard enough, but Toast was older than most changeling children when her goblin parents stole her back from her human family and returned her to the harsh, bustling world of the Goblin Market, where anything from your fondest dream to your strongest talent can be boughtor sold. Nearly a decade later, Toast has grudgingly cobbled together a life there as the Markets guide for mortal visitors. But when the next arrival is her long-lost sister and the ancient beast whose magic the Market depends on disappears under strange circumstances, everything starts falling apart.Now the Market itself is dying. With the Summer Court of noble fey plotting to claim the weakened Market for themselves, Toast, her friends, and an infuriatingly charming fey knight with an agenda of her own must negotiate their differences to make the trade of a lifetime and win back the Markets future. To do so, Toast will have to decide what home--and the flawed community within--is ultimately worth.

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.

From the author of Cold and Motorcycles & Sweetgrass, a razor-sharp and darkly funny tale of ambition, greed, and Indigenous sovereigntywhere the biggest gamble isnt at the tables, but in the human heart.Welcome to Sucker FallsAbandon hope all ye who enter here.Ladybug LaFlesche is a hurricane of a womana powerfully persuasive con artist plowing through people, places, and even her two sons, Donnie and Reeper, if necessary. On the run with police hot on their trail, Ladybug and her boys set their sights on Sucker Falls, the reserve where she was born and raised, and where she swore shed never return. But that was in another life.Now, Sucker Falls represents a place of rebirth and refugea reserve she hopes to turn into its own sovereign nation. Ladybugs hopes for grandeur have her constructing the greatest casino in the land, but things quickly get out of hand leaving her family and her home in piles of debt and in search of a miracle. And when the miracle arrives in the form of three strangers with deep pockets, Ladybug and her boys have no choice but to lean in to the storm and manipulate their own moral compasses in order to maintain everything theyve worked for.Full of thrills and deception while also showcasing Drew Hayden Taylors stylish and always-hilarious voice and teeming with a cast of characters that will haunt and infuriate readers, Sucker Falls is a modern take on a classic crime caper, showing us the pitfalls of power and how it can create monsters far scarier than those of legend.

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.