Collection: Adult

In this blend of police thriller and poignant autofiction, a writer revisits a tragic crime from his adolescence and reckons with a dark, underexplored side of Spain.

On Christmas Eve 1995, Miguel Ángel Hernández's best friend murdered his sister and took his own life by jumping off a cliff. It happened in a small hamlet in the Murcia countryside. No one ever knew why. The investigation was closed, and the crime forgotten.

20 years later, when the wounds seem to have stopped bleeding and the mourning died down, Miguel decides to return to the countryside and, putting himself in the shoes of a detective, tries to reconstruct that tragic night that marked the end of his adolescence. But travelling in time always means altering the past, and the investigation will awaken ghosts that he thought he had left behind: a childhood marked by the Church, by sin and guilt; the constant presence of illness and death; the oppressive, closed world from which he managed to escape.

This raw, moving novel about the collision of two worlds and two ways of life is a reckoning with the past and, above all, a subtle and incisive meditation on the ethics of literature, which makes us aware that "writing isn't always a triumph, that sometimes, we too may founder upon the pain of others."

Winner of the inaugural 2025 Stern Prize from The American Poetry Review, Michael Bazzett's astonishing Cloudwatcher is laced with wit and buoyed by a welcome eccentricity.

In Cloudwatcher, Michael Bazzett's poems reside in an otherwhere of missing rivers and bottled starlight, where the sea leaves cryptic letters for beachcombers on shore, where rain "wipe[s] the name clean off the mountain." Bazzett is a master at building a world slightly parallel to this one, a place of weirdness and mystery where a "cage of [one's] own desires" comes replete with cedar shavings, feed tray, and water bottle. With its evocative imagery and language crackling with energy, Cloudwatcher brings us to a place where the eternal rubs shoulders with the everyday, leaving us with a heightened sense of how absurd and wondrous it is to inhabit a temporary body in this world, and the life-affirming reminder that "until / you crack a bit, you can't be over-joyed."

The Stern Prize is an exciting new partnership from The American Poetry Review and Copper Canyon Press that addresses an often-overlooked category in book prizes: poets 50 years of age or older who are contributing innovative and dynamic works to the publishing landscape.

The heartachingly searching, irreverently wisecracking, and stubbornly uncompromising poems that walked a formal tightwire just before Young's death in 2022.

Creature Feature is Dean Young's first posthumous collection since his death in 2022. More feisty, hilarious, surreal, and heartbreaking than ever, Young and his tireless inventiveness are on full display in fierce poems that refuse to compromise yet are guided by love and amazement at living. These poems resound with risk-taking, mischief, and aching beauty. Young remains committed to the generative possibilities of poetry even as he writes his own elegy again and again.

Young envisioned Creature Feature to serve as the third and final installment in a trilogy that includes Shock by Shock (Copper Canyon Press, 2015) and Solar Perplexus (Copper Canyon Press, 2019). Together, these three books were imagined during the turbulent years following his successful heart-transplant surgery, and they demonstrate a vigorous recommitment to artistic recklessness and poetic inventiveness. Through all their painful genius, these poems reveal an abiding awareness that time is short and art in our time is more urgent than ever.

Witty, humorous, and oh so tender, Accidental Devotions reminds us that in the end, life is a brief devotion of moments--beautiful, accidental, and always--gone too soon.

Kelli Russell Agodon's latest collection, Accidental Devotions, seeks to find meaning in a world lit by screens and haunted by ghosts--both real and digital. Blending humor with vulnerability, these poems embrace the beautiful chaos of our relationships, of aging and being human. Here, explorations of desire, technology, and spirituality ring out like birdsong through a chapel. Sharp and playful, Accidental Devotions is for the quiet rebels and devoted readers--for those who carry ashes to the beach, ask Alexa for guidance, keep Emily Dickinson's book on the nightstand, or fall in love mid-sentence. With queer tenderness, and an ongoing devotion to desire, these poems make room for grief and joy, pleasure and struggle. The result: a dazzling, defiant field guide to staying human.

Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass explores poetry for what it is: a relationship between people and the land.

In A Third Commonness, US Poet Laureate Robert Hass follows a literary river through time and topography--from Zen Buddhism to California ecopoetics, from Barry Lopez to Walt Whitman, and even through an unlikely fellowship between Kentucky poet-priests. Told through essays and lectures, A Third Commonness is as much a love letter to landscape as it is a sprawling exploration of poetic heritage. Hass weaves histories with the boundless hand of a passionate reader inseparable from literary vitality. Hass revels at genius, saying, Here it is, this stretch of it. Sometimes with a requiem, other times with romance or political reckoning, Hass returns to the amazements of a poetry that encounters itself over and again, beckoned into being by some "propelling force."

As technology and consumerism inch to the forefront of society, I Was Bonnie and Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death.

In Kasischke's newest collection, every moment contains an infinity: the mundane in the monumental, and the monumental in the mundane. I Was Bonnie and Clyde illuminates small collisions between life and death, from "that last suitcase circling / its last loop / for all of eternity" to "the mole / hauled out of the ground / by the dog / to die in the sun." Ghosts haunt and heighten these poems as they draw upon the independent weariness of women throughout history: Bonnie Parker, Lady Godiva, Amy Winehouse, a handbook's unnamed perfect hostess. Lovingly self-effacing, Kasischke evokes vulnerability, disbelief, and tragedy with a quiet, conversational reverence. With wordplay and exclamation, lament and ironic humor, these poems invite as they reflect, reaching out to a forbidding world.

IT'S TOUGH TO BE POPULAR

The Kazama Household grows when yet another girl forcibly moves in, kicking off another round of chaos! Hata Takafudo has just transferred to Fujou Academy and immediately sets her sights on Kenji! The other girls won't take this lying down, however. They immediately step in to get in her way! Who will win this new challenge?! Will it be Takafudo? Or Takao? Or Chitose? Or Roka? Or Tama? Or Tsutsuji? Or...or...just how many girls are into Kenji?!

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Un libro que invita a redescubrir el misterio, el sentido y la alegría de lo cotidiano de la mano de los grandes filósofos de siempre.

«Filosofar sobre lo cotidiano es descubrir que ahí reside la posibilidad de transformarnos y de cambiar nuestra visión del mundo».

Nuestra vida está llena de momentos y experiencias habituales: la comida que ingerimos, los olores que percibimos, las conversaciones que mantenemos o las personas con las que interactuamos. Y, sin embargo, preferimos centrar nuestra atención en aquello que consideramos único y singular. ¿Por qué pasamos por alto los pequeños detalles que conforman nuestro día a día?

En este originalísimo libro, y de la mano de los grandes filósofos de todos los tiempos, Tania Sánchez nos invita a mirar a nuestro alrededor de una manera distinta para redescubrir lo maravilloso que se esconde en las cosas y en los gestos más sencillos y afrontar así nuestras inquietudes más profundas.

Un apasionante viaje que revela la importancia de lo cotidiano.

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A book that invites us to rediscover the mystery, meaning, and joy of everyday life--guided by the great philosophers of all time.

"To philosophize about the everyday is to discover the power it holds to transform us and reshape our view of the world."

Our lives are filled with ordinary moments and experiences: the food we eat, the scents we notice, the conversations we have, and the people we interact with. Yet we often focus our attention on what we consider unique or extraordinary. Why do we overlook the small details that shape our daily existence?

In this refreshingly original book, with insights from the great philosophers throughout history, Tania Sánchez invites us to look around with new eyes--to rediscover the wonder hidden in simple things and gestures, and to face our deepest questions with clarity and curiosity.

An inspiring journey that reveals the profound value of the everyday.

A lost river, a lost aunt, a found literary life: from the cult-favourite poet and author of The Baudelaire Fractal comes a glittering and erudite new novel of Paris.

Some ruins are invisible.

Under the pavements of Paris there lies buried an ancient river, the Bièvre. For years, Lucy Frost has walked along these streets, unaware of the water and history under her feet, on her way to clean the apartments of Paris's academic class. As she begins to study and transcribe the inherited notebooks and papers of her great-aunt, a teacher and researcher who disappeared years earlier, she commits to continuing her aunt's youthful research on the Bièvre, mining the river's documentary traces in the works of Rousseau, Rabelais, Hugo, Chateaubriand, and the like. She uncovers a history of industry: paper mills, dyeing workshops, tanneries, and textile manufacturers - and laundries.

She finds resonances of her own labour in the history of the river's laundresses. On stolen time at work, and in her insomniac hours of nightwriting, she fills notebooks with these woven stories and descriptions of obsolete sites, textiles, cosmologies, and voices, constructing her own forms of relation with the lost.

Riverwork unearths not just an urban river but also a philosophy of research and the archive, a politics of hydrology, an ontology of ageing and belatedness, and a consideration of the unrepresented labour of women, past and present. Along the way it brings to life, in pyrotechnic prose, a long-gone Paris and both its domestic workers and its writers.

An activist priest's sermons remind us that one of the first social justice frameworks was the Bible.

When lifelong activist and celebrated author Maggie Helwig became an Anglican priest, she brought both her hard-earned social justice wisdom and her incomparable literary prowess to the role. Where the homily - the weekly act of taking biblical texts and making them speak to one's time, place, and community - can easily become a rote exercise, Helwig takes the language and narrative very seriously. The homilies in this book, selected from those presented to her congregation over the last five years, talk about the Bible, and by extension, the world, through both an activist and a literary lens.

'Instructions for the End of the World' is how Helwig describes the gospels. As we live through the climate crisis and the rise of fascism around the world, Helwig's responses to the ancient texts feel urgent and necessary, reminders of hope and meaning during a time of great anxiety and fear. Whether you're religious or not, these homilies offer a basis for resistance and resources for building communities that may sustain us all.

THE DOUBLE DATE

Inspired by Sena's courage when put on the spot in front of the whole school, Aoi is determined to someday stand at his side and proclaim she's his girlfriend to everyone. But that kind of big change takes time, so Aoi practices becoming more comfortable around Sena little by little. A double date with Itsuki and Koto helps bring Aoi out of her shell, but when Sena proposes that their next date be at his house, it might be too much for Aoi to handle!

A physician's bold critique of medical rape culture--and her call for a new model of care that centers consent and empowers patients

Medical culture has a problem with consent--and it's not just a few bad doctors. That's the conclusion of Dr. Zed Zha in Consented, a groundbreaking look at how the healthcare industry ignores patients' agency and perpetuates violence.

Even the best and most caring doctors can fall prey to what Dr. Zha identifies as medical rape culture a system of beliefs and practices that enable and normalize the violation of patients' autonomy. Dr. Zha shows how this culture is historically entrenched--from the invention of the speculum to eugenics--and argues that we need a sea change in our healthcare system to stop repeating the same mistakes. She interlaces these hidden histories of medicine with first-hand patient stories and her own personal journey, identifying four key problems of consent within medical practice:

• Non-consent ("Doctors know what's best for the patient.")
  
• Forced consent ("If patients are noncompliant, their voices cease to matter.")
  
• Inadequate consent ("Doctors can decide what patients need to know.")
  
• Contractual consent ("Sign here, then forever hold your peace.")
  

This fundamental misunderstanding of consent robs patients of the right to control what happens to their own bodies, and can cause serious harm. Instead, Dr. Zha offers a radical new vision of medical consent culture--one that embraces collectivity, accessibility, and compassion. This provocative book will validate anyone who has felt ignored, gaslight, or violated in the doctor's office and inspire those working in the healthcare system to push for change.

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IS DESTINY WRITTEN IN OUR GENES?

Isahaya Ichi and Masaki Makuhito have infiltrated the University of Shukokan Medical Center to save Ichi's best friend who disappeared years ago. However, they soon discover that Edo Enami isn't the only secret Shukokan is hiding. Those known as "Insiders" are actually designer babies created through gene manipulation.

Things then take a turn for the worse when campus security suddenly captures Ichi because of an even bigger secret related to the younger Ichi--the girl with the same face. Will the two Ichis be able to escape the fate that Shukokan decided for them even before they were born?

The final volume!

A SHOCKING CLASH!

The world thrives thanks to humanity's newly manifested electrical powers, but Enlil now knows the horrifying truth behind this so-called utopia. Once a powerless outcast who dreamed of becoming a hero, he was killed and reborn as something far more dangerous.

Enlil joins the Human Orthodox Church, a shadowy organization fighting to dismantle the electric elite. As war erupts against the Electrical Police Department, he faces his former heroes and the terrifying reality of his own growing power.