Collection: Adult

An undead orc knight leaves battle behind for a new kind of afterlife--one with good food, good friends, and maybe even fatherhood.

Rottgor is worn out. Literally. Barely held together by dark magic, he has protected the necropolis for centuries. When he's forced into retirement, he's faced with a new challenge: to forge a future guided not by obligation, but by passion.

Following his heart (and stomach), he decides to open a restaurant where the city's undead and living residents can share food and community. He's helped in his quest by an unlikely assortment of neighbors, including elves, skeletons, vampires--and a young orphan girl named Astra, whose ancestry, if discovered, could put her and the entire necropolis in danger. To protect Astra and the life he's building, Rottgor must face his past and form new alliances built on friendship, loyalty, and love. As comforting as warm pumpkin bread, this gentle fantasy traces how even a dark history can rise into a bright future.

He's my monster now.

The Crocodile, the Devourer of Men, has devoured something he shouldn't: a Myth Maker Witch. Now, with the witch's dark power swirling inside of him, he's losing control of his monster and quickly making his way through my ship and my crew. It's only me and Wendy Darling who can pull him back. But even we know time is running out.

We steer my ship to Neverland where Vane, Roc's little brother and one of Peter Pan's Lost Boys, reveals there's a way to fix Roc, but it requires a trip to Darkland.

With Vane and Winnie in tow, we set sail to Roc's home island. But not everything is as it seems on Darkland. Roc has allies and enemies lurking in the soot-stained streets, but it might be his past that catches up to him first.

Roc can no longer run from who he is. But where does that leave Wendy and me?

I may have lost my hand to the Crocodile, but I'm not willing to lose my heart too.

Devour the Dark is a MMF romantasy fairytale retelling. For a full list of content warnings, please visit the author's website.

I have few friends and fewer allies on the island of Everland. What I do have is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they're unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead.

Now, not only do I have to save myself, I have to save the two men who I swore I would murder with my bare hands if I ever set eyes on them again considering they abandoned me.

Unfortunately for me, Roc and Hook have other plans, and when I find myself caught between them, I have to make a decision: risk my heart or risk my life?

"I only take what's owed me, and you, my little swan, owe me blood."

A single kiss from a masked vampire has left Shane with an obsession and a mission: uncover the secrets of the black-market blood trade and find his mystery vampire in the process. But one knock at the wrong door and he could have fangs at his throat instead of lips.

Andres is trying to forget his kiss with Shane Crowley by drowning himself in his work as a thief for the blood trade. When his boss seizes an overcurious Shane to drain his blood, though, Andres's only option is to buy him for every drop he'll ever produce. This new ownership awakens thoughts of glittering collars-thoughts Andres knows are the desires of a monster.

But Andres needs blood to live, and he's going to have it from Shane, even if that means donning a mask once more and demanding Shane bare his neck during nightly excursions.

Soon, Shane feels pulled in all directions, between the strange desires his role as Andres's part-time blood slave is stirring in him, his investigations into the cycle of injustice that so many fanged citizens face, and a new friend whose mouth seems strangely familiar. Little does he know, every path leads back to the same vampire...

How to Bare Your Neck and Save a Wreck is the third book in a series of gay paranormal romances with vampires. This book features a hidden identity, cat-and-mouse T4T relationship between a transmasc human and a he/they vampire who engage in light power dynamics, as they learn to express their desires for gilded collars and sensual obedience through healthy role play. While it can be enjoyed as a standalone, this book will contain minor spoilers for prior books in the series.

Avalon Academy rules: spy on your enemies, resist temptation, and try not to die in the process.

As a bookseller and caregiver, I saved up years for my dream vacation--drinking champagne on a beach with my favorite books. But my dream turns into a nightmare when I'm kidnapped by a muscular, tattooed jerk of a fey named Raphael.

Yes, kidnapped.

Turns out I have the power he needs to get revenge on the king who killed his family. And Raphael thinks I have it in me to become an elite spy. But in the ancient and gothic halls of Avalon Tower, competition and bullying are among the oldest traditions.

Asthmatic and out of shape, I'm in way over my head. I'll be lucky to get out of this place alive. I can't escape, because Raphael is watching my every move, and boy, does he have some moves. And the more I learn, the more I want him. But touching him is playing with fire. Am I ready to get burned?

"If you love Fourth Wing and Throne of Glass, you will LOVE this book."

--Goodreads review

In Mermaids of Albuquerque, Cohen leaps off a trope of geological time, a past sea in the basin of Albuquerque, and finds there a fresh trough of poetry. These poems come to us flush with magic, with an imagined past, and a love for the city of her origin.

Reading Mermaids of Albuquerque feels like stumbling upon a Chachalaca three hundred miles north of its usual range-a magical and unexpected treat. Cohen's world, though familiar, is seen through a lens that makes everything just a little different, odder, brighter, bolder, and further afield, allowing us to see the world with marveling eyes.

In Mermaids of Albuquerque, Cohen's poetry celebrates the ordinary, a testament to her joy in the natural and human landscapes of New Mexico. Her joyful and richly grounded poems capture the essence of birds, flowers, and the 'Land of Enchantment, ' turning them into 'diamonds of shiny, invincible sand.'

Through nuanced figurative turns, Cohen transforms her connection to the natural world into profound observations about the complexity of human nature. Morning glories become "beautiful love letters," leading the poet to meditate on loss and resilience, highlighting how nature continues its beauty despite human violence. Yet, her poetry's subtext of joy transcends any hint of bleakness. In every poem, we sense Cohen's genuine joy for nature and wildlife-the Chachalaca's "raucous" song, dancing honey bees, the Albuquerque desert, and mourning doves. These elements congregate in her pages to remind us that "the world is just dying to do better than yesterday."

Elizabeth Cohen's Mermaids of Albuquerque invites you to build an altar to all things ending and beginning again. Read these poems and experience a journey where joy and profound observation intertwine beautifully.

Set in early 1900s Italy and England, A Room with a View offers a humorous critique of Edwardian-era society. The novel begins in Florence, Italy, where Miss Lucy Honeychurch, who is chaperoned by her spinster cousin Miss Charlotte Bartlett, arrive at the Pensione Bertolini to find that instead of rooms with a view of the Arno, as promised, theirs face a drab courtyard. Another guest spontaneously offers to swap the rooms that he and his son have to remedy their distress. Thus ensues an unlikely acquaintance and a series of unforeseen, if not fateful, events that upend the lives of the eccentric cast of characters who vividly animate this enduring and delightful tale. Widely recognized as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, A Room with a View is one of Forster's most celebrated works.

This Warbler Classics edition includes a thought-provoking and historically interesting essay about E. M. Forster's work by legendary contemporary critic and American public intellectual Lionel Trilling along with a detailed biographical timeline.

A deathly magic. An arranged marriage. A curse in the blood.

In the glittering city state of Volun, Lorelei Steddart never thought she'd be anything but an office drone--until her family all die under mysterious and likely magical circumstances, leaving her to inherit everything. To figure out what's happened, her uncle marries her off to the city state's top War Alchemist, Nephele Corisande, an intimidating older woman who might just be able to save her.
But what starts as a marriage of pure convenience becomes something deeper. Soon Lorelei and Nephele must untangle a terrible magic that has metastasized into something new and unstable, born in Lorelei's blood.

Part of the Neon Hemlock Novella Series.

The ideal companion for everyone who loves crossword puzzles!

Thousands of entries were added to the Third Edition from the worlds of art, literature, sports, politics, history, science, movies, television, and more. Based on actual crossword puzzle clues, this book is comprehensive and easy to use.

• Over 335,000 clues and answer words
• Comprehensive coverage of "crosswordese," the words most commonly encountered by puzzlers
• Answers grouped together alphabetically and by the number of letters they contain
• Large, easy-to-read type

Created in cooperation with the editors of Merriam-Webster, America's leading provider of language information.

This Instant Pot cookbook makes it easier than ever to eat a Mediterranean diet with 95 one-pot meals that can be made in less than 60 minutes!

Eat more vegetables, grains, beans, and seafood with the help of everyone's favorite kitchen gadget.

APPROVED BY INSTANT POT: America's Test Kitchen brings together the #1 diet and the #1 most popular kitchen appliance! This Instant Pot cookbook shows busy cooks how the beloved kitchen gadget can prepare healthy, flavorful, one-pot meals inspired by the Mediterranean diet.

With the Instant Pot, cooking becomes a hands-off affair that takes just 60 minutes or less! Make succulent meals such as Chicken Tagine, Lamb Meatballs with Couscous, Shrimp and Asparagus Risotto, and Gigante Bean Soup. Discover how to turn vegetables into the perfect main (Braised Whole Cauliflower with North African Spices) or side (Marinated Artichokes and Baba Ghanoush). And cook dried beans and sturdy grains in no time!

All 95 Instant Pot recipes embrace the tenets of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, translating its less-meat-and-more-vegetables approach into vibrant, healthy one-pot meals that take the guesswork out of balancing portions and multiple dishes.

"Wounds into Wisdom is for anyone who has suffered trauma, either directly or in a family whose generational trauma is buried. It helps readers uncover suffering and use it to help others―the final stage of healing. We may not be able to control what happens to us, but we can control what happens next." -Gloria Steinem

• 2020 Nautilus Book Award--GOLD/Psychology


• 2020 Book Award from the Jewish Women's Caucus of the Association for Women in Psychology


• 2019 Book of the Year Award Finalist in Religion and Self-Help categories

Our past does not simply disappear. The painful history of our ancestors and their rich cultural wisdom intertwine within us to create the patterns of our future. Even when past trauma remains unspoken or has long been forgotten, it becomes part of us and our children―a legacy of both strength and woundedness that shapes our lives.

In this book, Tirzah Firestone brings to life the profound impact of protracted historical trauma through the compelling narratives of Israeli terror victims, Holocaust survivors, and those whose lives were marred by racial persecution and displacement. The tragic story of Firestone's own family lays the groundwork for these revealing testimonies of recovery, forgiveness, and moral leadership.

Throughout, Firestone interweaves their voices with neuroscientific and psychological findings, as well as relevant and inspiring Jewish teachings.
Seven principles emerge from these wise narratives―powerful prescriptive tools that speak to anyone dealing with the effects of past injury. At the broadest level, these principles are directives for staying morally awake in a world rife with terror.

In her debut novella, Rios de la Luz examines the lives of a small family of water witches living near the US-Mexico border. Exploring issues of race and trauma along with beauty and magic, Itzá is a powerful reclamation of body and identity.

"Rios de la Luz is among the most important emerging writing of our time, or any time, because she is inventing a new language without limits that explodes all walls and borders meant to keep us small and quiet. Weaving fabula with domestic trauma and sexual becoming, Itzá restories a girl's life and identity up and through the violence of a culture that cannot contain her. Like a new species facing off with death heads. Like myth rupturing the lies we are told about who we are. Like a Xicana gender fluid voice and body ready to rearrange your reality, gloriously and without apology." - Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Thrust and The Chronology of Water

"Itzá is full of magic, death, water, memories, beauty, and pain. This is a narrative about womanhood that's packed with blood and multiculturalism. This bilingual scream of resistencia is exactly what frontera fiction should be, and Rios de la Luz is a word bruja of the highest order." -- Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home

"[Itzá] rejects the cultural cliché of brown women's bodies as a site of pity and pain. Instead, Itzá shows the ability for these women to flourish. Though the women are fictional, they have real potential to reach out to readers and say, "You are not alone; you deserve to exist." - World Literature Today

"Itzá is not censored, nor does it hold itself back. It follows generations of water witches, shifting through time and narration while doing so. The book itself is a difficult read-not only because of its subject matter, but also because the language is deliberately poetic. The narrative moves around, and with short chapters, the focus jumps from one anecdote to another in rapid succession. It's difficult to parse what is lyrical embellishment, what are fantastical elements, and what is 'real' to the story. But the result is wonderfully organic, beautiful, and heart-aching." - Book Riot

"American Hardcore sets the record straight about the last great American subculture"--Paper magazine

Steven Blush's "definitive treatment of Hardcore Punk" (Los Angeles Times) changed the way we look at Punk Rock. The Sony Picture Classics-distributed documentary American Hardcore premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. This revised and expanded second edition contains hundreds of new bands, thirty new interviews, flyers, a new chapter ("Destroy Babylon"), and a new art gallery with over 125 rare photos and images.

The best of Hong Kong cuisine, from AM to PM.

A Day in Hong Kong is a culinary journey through one of the world's most vibrant cities--a place that's bursting at the seams with incredible food and the people who love to eat it. Experience the city through its most iconic dishes, then recreate your favorites at home.

From bustling wet markets to fine-dining restaurants, this book takes you on a delicious food adventure from breakfast through to dinner, showcasing the diverse tastes and ingredients of Chinese cuisine. Start the day with a traditional Hong Kong breakfast: congee (rice porridge) and yau cha kwai (oil fried bread sticks). As the day progresses, street-eat recipes include Sichuan-style chāo shǒu (wontons), fresh and steaming har gow dim sum (steamed shrimp dumplings), and ngau lam mein (beef brisket noodles). There are plenty of sweets, too, including "pineapple" bread, alongside a cup of HK-style milk tea.

Capture the delicious flavors of Hong Kong at home with 70 recipes and insider tips on where to find the best local eats. A Day in Hong Kong is the ultimate book for food and travel enthusiasts alike.

Delight guests with unique drink recipes, clever entertaining tips, and inspiring tricks from TikTok's queen of cocktails.

Hannah Chamberlain, the sensational mind behind the popular TikTok account @spiritedla, brings her cocktail knowledge, playful humor, and timeless vintage flair to her debut book, How to Be a Better Drinker. Chapters include:

• Cocktail Making Essentials
• How to Be a Better Host
• How to Be a Better Guest
• Good Bar Behavior
• What to Do When You Overdo It

Readers will enjoy discovering the best ways to entertain guests while making get togethers both personal and delicious. Recipes for cocktails include:

• Surprise Par-tea
• Cider Chai Tequila Toddy
• Sparkling Lilac Gin Punch
• Architectural Digestif

A little proper host's preparation will have guests sipping their way to a truly ravishing affair! The book also includes contributions from notable influencers: Dani Dazey (HBO's Trixie Motel), Paul Feig (Freaks & Geeks, Bridesmaids, and A Simple Favor) Stacie Flinner (travel and design expert), Jordan Hughes of @highproofpreacher, Elliott Clark of @apartment_bartender, Saeed "Hawk" House of @cocktailsbyhawk, and more!