Collection: Adult

From the author of the beloved The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, an imaginative celebration of T. Rex from hatching to adulthood

Tyrannosaurus rex is a prehistoric celebrity. Exceeding 40 feet in length and weighing over 9 tons, the largest individuals of this dinosaurian species were intimidating predators capable of crushing bone and consuming more than a hundred pounds of flesh in a bite. But the last of the tyrant dinosaurs had a life beyond ripping and tearing. More than 66 million years ago, T. rex courted each other, nested, watched over their offspring, slept, drank, and explored ancient floodplains inhabited by a fantastic cast of impressive dinosaurs like the huge long-neck Alamosaurus and burly, three-horned Torosaurus. For the first time, the life story of this impressive, sensitive predator is told as if you were there to watch it unfold.

In her latest prehistoric nature walk, bestselling and award-winning author Riley Black follows the life of plucky T. rex Snaggletooth from the time she hatches through her tumultuous adulthood. The prehistoric forest Snag emerges into is full of danger, and yet, as Riley weaves the latest fossil discoveries into the story, the carnivorous dinosaur survives to play, court, fight, sleep, nest, and more as she grows up in Cretaceous North America. She tussles with rival tyrannosaurs, hunts for delectable prey, and finds soft moments of connection in the forest. Even the most die-hard dinosaur fan will come away with a new perspective and appreciation for the Tyrant Lizard Queen.

There's merry mischief aplenty in Donna Andrews' latest avian-themed Christmas mystery!

The Christmas season is underway in Caerphilly. The members of the Hollingsworth clan, Meg's mother's family, are beginning to arrive in force, and Mother has several special projects underway this year. One is the playhouse she's having built for Brynn, her two-year-old granddaughter. Brynn is a bright, lively child who loves animals, especially a wounded jay that she and Meg are trying to rehabilitate. She's also hoping to play matchmaker and set up her cousin with an old friend of hers who was recently widowed.

But all is not going smoothly in Caerphilly. Someone vandalizes the playhouse and sets a dangerous trap that injures and could have killed Mother. She reveals that she has been getting nasty anonymous letters, and it's obvious that someone is targeting her. Meg realizes she has to do something to figure out who could possibly have it in for her mom.

Meg juggles holiday preparations and celebrations while investigating these potential enemies - not to mention helping repair the damaged playhouse, taking her turn at nursing the wounded jay, and trying to coax Mother's elderly cousin into a reunion with his long-lost love. When one of Meg's suspects is found dead under suspicious circumstances, the family rejoices that Mother is out of danger. But Meg isn't quite sure they're out of the woods just yet.

DELUXE EDITION: featuring gorgeous sprayed edges, a foil case stamp, beautiful endpapers, a detailed map, and deliciously moody art throughout.

From New York Times bestselling author RuNyx comes the highly anticipated prequel to Gothikana: Arkana--a tale of lush, suspenseful, dark gothic romance.

A rumored sorceress. A ruthless lord of science. A cursed castle. What could go wrong?

A desperate woman, Lenore Emmeranne comes to the University of Verenmore--an elite institution of scientific learning perched high in the mountains--summoned by a mysterious offer of employment. On the run from misfortune and accusations, Lenore, who has always had a gift for healing, hopes Verenmore will provide her with a clean slate. She plans to keep her head down and blend into the shadows. But upon her arrival, she discovers it is not only the lord of the castle who is in need of help. It is Verenmore itself.

Lord Draven Constantine, dean of the university, is a man of science and discipline, revered by his studentsThe last thing he wants is someone like Lenore disturbing his ordered world, and the secrets he must keep buried. But her presence shatters his ennui, sparks a dangerous fascination, and their descent into doom begins.

Set in 1872 in a dread castle perched on a dark mountain where death and deceit stalk the unknowing, Lenore and Draven must navigate lies as they surrender to forbidden desire, cling to life, and to each other.

Some desires can end in ruin.

And so begins a gripping tale of the gothic and the grotesque. An unusual and deeply passionate story about a love that blossoms in the unlikeliest of places.

Praise for Gothikana:

"An erotic and dark love story." ―Entertainment Tonight

"RuNyx immerses her readers in the dark worlds she builds and then injects life into them in the most hauntingly beautiful way. Her work is unique and addictive―she really is one of a kind."―Hannah Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Icebreaker

"Original, innovative, and unlike anything I've read before."―L. J. Shen, USA Today bestselling author

"An absolute must-read for anyone interested not just in big tech, but in what it takes to not lose your soul in modern-day America." --Naomi Fry, staff writer at The New Yorker

A whip-smart, darkly funny, and timely memoir of one woman's twelve years inside Google and her transformation from insider to dissenter as the company's ideals begin to unravel from within.

When Claire Stapleton joined Google in 2007, it felt like stepping into a worldview as much as a job. The company offered not just a career, but a moral project. In the heady early years of Big Tech and when Google's in-house slogan was "Don't be evil," it was easy to believe that technology wasn't just changing the world--it was going to fix it.

Stapleton quickly became known as the "Bard of Google," pulled into the rooms where the company narrated itself--writing speeches, blog posts, and executive communications for leaders including Larry Page. As she rose through increasingly rarefied roles, from the storied Creative Lab to YouTube marketing, she helped shape the myth from the inside.

But as the gap between Google's ideals and its reality widened, the dissonance became impossible to ignore. In 2018, amid outrage over the company's handling of sexual harassment, Stapleton helped organize the 20,000-employee Google Walkout--a defining rupture in Silicon Valley's self-image that The New York Times called a "watershed moment in tech." Overnight, she became a public face of employee revolt--and no longer someone the company could neatly fold back into its story.

Sharp, witty, and unsparing, Don't Be Evil is an insider's account of how power actually works--and a deeper reckoning with the stories we tell about work, purpose, and ourselves. In a culture that collapses identity into work, and as tech elites blur the line between private authority and public life, it asks: how much can you change from within--and when is it time to walk away?

Part riveting love story, part coming-of-age tale, Everything to the Sea is a breathtaking debut novel spanning years and shores after a sudden tsunami devastates the island of Hawai'i and cuts short a young couple's budding romance--a deeply moving testament to the catastrophes love can endure.

This is how the story goes: Jane will fall in love. And then all of this will vanish.

Home for one final summer, Jane is working and saving cash for her senior year of college before she leaves her island town behind forever. At first, she doesn't remember Kenji, but he quickly becomes someone she can't forget: square jaw, a dimple in his cheek. A Hilo boy. To Kenji, she's Janie, nose perpetually buried in her old high school sketchbooks. Jane tells herself it's only a fling--one perfect, carefree summer, on her way to achieving her dream of becoming an architect and moving to the continent.

Then a tsunami sweeps their families out to sea, and their all-consuming affair breaks with the weight of grief, pulling them in opposite directions. Kenji remains in Hawai'i, bound by duty to rebuild their hometown. Jane, shattered by the loss, follows her best friend to California. For seven years, an ocean lies between them, until Jane and Kenji meet on another coast . . .

In prose that sparkles like sun on the water, Upano's debut novel tells the unforgettable story of two young people as they come of age, fall in love, forge new families, and try to find their way back together, again and again. Everything to the Sea is a moving portrait of our ability to overcome even the most devastating tragedies, when everything else is washed away.

From the author of The Natural Mother of the Child, an exquisite memoir about an amateur home cook's hard and fast descent into an obsession with food celebrities, including Dessert Person Claire Saffitz, Smitten Kitchen's Deb Perelman, Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond, and Ina Garten, the Barefoot Contessa

When the pandemic sends Krys Malcolm Belc and his young children home to live their lives on laptops, he turns to internet chefs for comfort and inspiration. It begins with Stella Parks and her 46 YouTube videos in which she teaches viewers how to make classic, nostalgic American treats like Cheez-Its, Klondike Bars, and Texas sheet cake. But the recipes aren't enough--Belc needs to watch her showcase each ingredient, explain its importance, and weigh each item on a scale. His fixation on recipe videos, and the women who produce them, start to feel like the only thing that makes sense.

Most of life has been put on pause, but food is the one thing that continues to change day to day, season to season. Belc captures the joy and pleasure of cooking for a large family, as well as the mundane reality and occasional frustrations that come with simply getting food on the table. In the midst of it all, he feels a spark of inspiration to carry a second baby, a decision that forces him to confront how he has used both the internet and cooking to cope and distract.

Following a trans man whose life is largely structured by keeping the family household running, What I Made for Dinner asks the question we all might ask ourselves while elbow-deep in a roasting chicken: Is having the opportunity to cook meals for your family every day a blessing or a curse?

When 13-year-old Aubreigh Wyatt died by suicide after enduring relentless bullying, her mother, Heather Wyatt, was left shattered-but not silent. Told through Heather's courageous and unflinching voice, The Aubreigh Wyatt Story is a heartbreaking, raw, and ultimately empowering account of unimaginable loss and one mother's journey to reclaim her daughter's voice, dignity, and legacy.

From the moment Heather discovered Aubreigh's body to the countless hours spent navigating a system that failed her child, this book chronicles the depth of a mother's grief and the fire of her resolve. Determined to bring awareness and accountability, Heather began sharing Aubreigh's story publicly, only to be met with gag orders and slander lawsuits intended to silence her. But silence did not win. When Heather found herself voiceless and facing an uphill battle, millions of women and men across the world rallied behind her online, sharing her story, vowing to be her and Aubreigh's voice, and raising legal funds to keep the fight alive. Suddenly, Aubreigh's name was everywhere. Her story echoing in classrooms, courtrooms, and conversations around the world.

She founded the Aubreigh Wyatt Foundation and launched legal battles against school districts and social media platforms in search of accountability and reform.

This is more than a memoir of loss-it's a call to action, a testament to the strength of a mother's love, and a voice for every child silenced too soon.

In the high-stakes sequel to Maxym M. Martineau's "enthralling" (Publishers Weekly) House of Blight, Edira must decide if the world is worth saving... and if she has enough power left to save herself too--perfect for readers of Rachel Gillig's The Shepherd King series and T. Kingfisher.

Edira Brillwyn is not enjoying retirement. She's traumatized and heartbroken by Orin and the battle at Fernglove Manor. Although her brothers are safe and financially secure at home in Willowfell, she fears wasting away her dwindling lifethreads. It's a welcome surprise when Seville comes knocking at her door--at least until she reveals that the blight has returned to the Ferngloves.

Edira has had a taste of the power her heartbond with Rorik provides, and she's certain there is a way to cure the blight for good... with Rorik's help. But Rorik doesn't think his life is worth saving, at least not worth Edira's few remaining years, or months. He's more concerned about keeping her alive than saving the world.

But other powerful Ever families have caught wind of Edira's talents and are desperate for a cure. As those families begin circling, centuries-long conflicts rise to the surface and, once again, Edira finds herself at the whims of power-hungry Evers fighting for their lives. Before she runs out of time altogether, Edira and Rorik will have to face the source of the blight: Death himself.

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An industrial designer and former Global Creative Director at Nike delivers a sharp critique of the consequences of a world built by and for men, and offers an optimistic look at how we might build a better world for us all.

Women and men inhabit the same world, yet it does not suit them both equally.

Women are 73% more likely to be injured in a car crash than men. In the military, women suffer pelvic fractures at a much higher rate than their male counterparts. In construction, 90% of women are unable to find proper fitting safety gear.

These outcomes are not a coincidence--they are a result of products where the female population is an afterthought at best. Automobile crash test dummies used for safety tests are designed based on male anatomy, as is firefighting gear and personal protective equipment. Using a "shrink it and pink it" strategy, sneakers for women are scaled down versions originally designed for a man's foot, and colored a stereotypical feminine color - like pink. In the design of products and places, the female body is often invisible and ignored. The result is a world less hospitable and more dangerous for women.

It doesn't have to be this way. A designer for over 40 years at some of the world's top corporations, including Reebok and Nike, Karen Korellis Reuther has witnessed the way women continue to be excluded from critical product design decisions. But Man-Made, isn't a patriarchal lament; it is a rousing call to action drawn from research-backed insights, market analyses, and expertise from leading designers, executives, and economists.

From the simply insulting and uncomfortable to the dangerous and deadly, the effects of exclusively man-made designs are wide-ranging. Rethinking and expanding product design and architecture, Reuther contends, will not only create a world that better fits women, but a world that better fits everyone.

From popular Instagram artist Bill Crisafi (@Billsafi), an irreverent and uplifting illustrated guide to slaying your inner demons, with the fan-favorite and wickedly funny Glam Reaper and her fabulous friends.

When we're plagued with self-doubt, we need someone to remind us that we put the "bitch" in "obituary." Enter the Glam Reaper, our guide to killing negativity and becoming a certified diva.

As the Glam Reaper moves through the world beyond, she finds her friends are dealing with problems we've all faced:

Miss Phillip, a demon with her own inner demon, grapples with negative self-talk.Orange Frog doesn't feel confident after her friends mocked her outfit.Miss Rotten tears down the other pumpkins in the patch because she's afraid of rejection.Sexy Ghost is being haunted by the embarrassing mistakes in her past.Babushka Toad struggles to tend to her garden and give each flower the care it needs.

The Glam Reaper, with her trademark wit and sass, helps each of them overcome their troubles with practical tips ("Tell those voices in your head to drop dead") and uplifting mantras (Look in the mirror and say, "I'm a hot bitch," three times).

Written and illustrated by Instagram artist and fashion designer Bill Crisafi, The Glam Reaper's Guide to Slaying is a funny, cheeky, and insightful handbook to self-love and self-acceptance for any ghouls gone wild.

From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, a groundbreaking new lens on human history arguing that information has always been the seed of power, for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

Long before writing existed, at the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, rulers pressed marks into clay to keep track of land, people and grain. To rule, they had to keep count. It is no accident, then, that the first written name in human history was neither a god nor a king, but an accountant.

As ships and navigation expanded our horizons, a new age of European empires took control of more than 80 percent of the world's surface using censuses, maps and ledgers to decide who belonged, who owed, and who could be sacrificed. Today, we live in the third great era, when trading our information for access can feel harmless or inevitable - yet from targeted advertising to border policing and mass surveillance, data shapes the course of our lives.

With our earliest tools like ancient cave markings and knotted strings, to colonial record-keeping and the algorithmic state, Data Empire reveals how data has always been the seed of power: a technology of control that has shaped civilizations and upheld empires. Empire was never just about weapons or ships. It was built on collecting information on us, to rule us. Both a sweeping history and a sharp critique, Data Empire is a call to recognize the power data holds--and to imagine what resistance looks like in an age defined by it.

Get Ahead - Even When You Lose!

What if you could learn to profit from nearly every loss or misstep in your life, and get a return on it--like an investment?

The most successful people get ahead because they deal with failure positively. Since they know they can't avoid failure, they make the best of it and gain from it. People who adopt this approach learn to build more substantial and significant success in their lives.

In his new book How to Get a Return on Failure, John Maxwell teaches readers how to turn misses into wins and losses into gains. He creates a positive roadmap anyone can follow during these difficult times and shows how changing your perspective on failure can transform your ability to grow, improve, and move forward.

Failure will always be a part of our lives. We cannot avoid it. But we can leverage it to create a better future for ourselves and others. When we do that, it separates us from the people who let failure stop or defeat them. Follow Maxwell's advice and you'll never look at failure the same way again.

A whip-smart and entertaining work of narrative history that shows how an unlikely partnership borne of necessity spawned a lucrative marijuana industry that changed the world

California's homegrown weed industry helped launch the solar power industry, and that's not all. Mendocino county--or Mendo--sits within California's Emerald Triangle, a sprawling, sparsely populated region that has produced billions of dollars' worth of weed, and since the 1970s, virtually every inhabitant has either been involved in the pot trade or been a beneficiary of it--including the government.

Mendo was formed by the confluence of back-to-the-land hippies fleeing San Francisco and longtime locals who held more traditional, conservative beliefs. These two groups shared little in common beyond a strong antiauthoritarian streak and a need to create new opportunities after the logging industry retreated from the region. A tight-knit, backwoods, outlaw culture arose from this uncommon alliance. Mendo tells the fascinating and often humorous story of how, for over fifty years, this cabal of iconoclastic characters not only sustained the county through the illegal cultivation of marijuana, but also developed a legal framework that has been adopted in decriminalization efforts across the United States.

Today, Mendo is again on the precipice of economic ruin as the weed industry emerges from the shadows, mirroring challenges faced across the nation where traditional industries that have long sustained working-class communities are in decline, causing suffering, economic strife, and political divisiveness. Mendo, just like the nation, is fighting to find itself in the twenty-first century.

Journey through legendary moments in soccer history with this unique clash of comic art and iconic players, from Maradona to Messi and beyond.

Watching the best players on the field--with laser passes that slice the defense in two or the ability to stop an attack dead in its tracks with one pinpoint tackle--you can only wonder if they aren't blessed with superpowers...

League of Soccer Legends reimagines 80 of the greatest ever soccer stars as superhuman heroes, each with exceptional abilities that elevate them beyond mortal status. Packed with stunning illustrations inspired by classic comics, and featuring cult players both past and present, this is a riveting dose of soccer nostalgia that walks fans through the biggest games, the best goals and the brightest stars.

A sumptuously illustrated, comic-inspired homage to the greatest soccer superheroes:

• Celebrate soccer icons across generations, from the legendary Pelé to contemporary icons including Messi and new-generation superstar Lamine Yamal
• Features 80 soccer players with their own superhero profiles alongside stunning, full-page comic book-inspired imagery of players - approved on social media by the likes of Ronaldo and Franck Ribéry
• A high-quality coffee table book with a luxury finish and a bonus poster, making this a must-have gift for soccer fans, comic art enthusiasts or as a one-of-a-kind gift for dad

Just in time for the 2026 Men's World Cup, illustrator and graphic designer Mahamadou Traoré offers us an immersive, image-rich dive into the league of soccer legends. From young prodigies to cunning strategists, intrepid attackers, "bad boys," or goalkeepers with "iron gloves," rediscover more than 80 soccer legends, imagined in their superhero guises.

Reluctant lawyer Andy Carpenter helps a desperate sister investigate the widely publicized murder of a gubernatorial candidate in Bark Humbug, the latest Christmas mystery in David Rosenfelt's bestselling series.

This time, Andy is serious about retiring. Besides, he can't hear the sound of his phone ringing over the football game. But when the local newspaper asks him to participate in their Christmas spread of local celebrities and their dogs, he pauses the game and brings Tara along for the ride.

When the photographer comes to take pictures of him and the dogs, he instead opens the door to Sharon Lowery, who devised the newspaper story just to get Andy's attention and beg him for help. Her brother, Jon, is wanted for murder and is on the run. However, if Andy agrees to hear Jon out, he'll turn himself in with the hope that Andy will represent him and reunite him with his dog.

It's a dangerous situation, and between the media circus surrounding the murder and Jon's volatile position, Andy knows that when Jon is found, someone could get hurt. But Andy respects Sharon's dedication to her brother, and in an effort to keep Jon--and the public--safe, Andy agrees to talk to Jon. Andy decides to help Jon and slowly uncovers a web of conspiracies. Determined to keep Jon out of jail, Andy gathers the crew to investigate.

David Rosenfelt returns with Andy Carpenter's classic disdain for Christmas but love for dogs and justice.