Collection: Adult

This irreverent psychological thriller shows the humor and dark side of the life of an influencer - think And Then There Were None but with sponsored livestreams.

Michelle Monroe's fifteen minutes are almost up.

After ten years online, she is a master at her trade: scamming her fans. But her once-bright internet stardom is blinking into oblivion. The brand deals are drying up, the views are plummeting, and even her haters no longer care enough to snark.

When she spots an ornate, scarlet envelope sitting outside her high-rise condo, she realizes her luck is about to change. It's an invite to an exclusive brand trip for the new energy drink company, Excelsior. The answer is easy: Yes. Even if she has to tolerate hours with the peers that surpassed her.

The worst she expects is a blow-out fight or two (filmed, of course, from multiple angles). But no one anticipates joining a different kind of Mile-High Club: witnessing the death of their frenemy at 30,000 feet. Still, the most tragic news of all is that there's no internet on the island, no turndown service, and only each other and their shared grudges for entertainment.

As the backstabbing turns literal, and more influencers die in awful, strange ways, the dwindling group can no longer deny the obvious: someone gathered them there to die.

In this dark and sultry romantasy a mermaid battles hatred--and lust--for the wretched warlock who saved her life.

Mermaid Zephyra of the Syl dreams of freedom. On the run from a dangerous captor and years of abuse, she's shed her tail, grown legs, and hidden herself on land in the merrow-loathing kingdom of Mortia, left to steal and barter on the dirty streets. But her freedom is short-lived when she's caught and sentenced to death by the brutal warlock, Arion Stone.

Arion is as beautiful as he is cold and deadly, only interested in punishing the merrow he views as evil. He has grown as strong as any warlock might, but at great personal cost ... which can only be remedied by the heart of the God of Death, lost to a fabled kingdom beneath the ocean's treacherous depths.

So Arion offers Zephyra a deal she can't refuse; help him find the mystical heart, and he'll spare her life. With no other options, Zephyra agrees, entangling their souls and forbidden desires in a magical bargain until death do they part. But Zephyra's past is catching up to her, and the enemy she fled seeks vengeance. If Zephyra and Arion can't learn to fight together--and trust each other--there are worse things awaiting them than just death. Of course, in the wicked sea, everyone has secrets, and no one should be trusted.

Perfect for fans of:

• Enemies-to-lovers
• Magic
• Sensual Bonds
• Winged Romantic Leads
• Forced Proximity

Fill your life with flowers and discover the art of natural, seasonal arranging with celebrated florist Graeme Corbett of @bloomandburn.

Graeme Corbett of Bloom & Burn isn't your usual florist. Working from his studio in Kent, he uses locally grown flowers to create wild, loose arrangements with a modern feel. In Life in Bloom, he teaches you everything you need to know about growing and arranging flowers at home - including which rules to follow, and which ones to break - in a bid to find your own style.

Inviting you into his studio and garden, Graeme takes you through the seasons by way of his favourite flowers. Discover narcissi and ranunculus in spring; peonies and poppies in summer; dahlias and phlox in autumn; and dried honesty and forced blossom in winter. For each flower, Graeme gives advice on growing, choosing varieties, sourcing, and conditioning before teaching stunning arrangements. Play with colour, form and texture, and gain the confidence to go bigger.

You'll learn how to:

• Create stunning arrangements using bowls, vases, and moss bases.
• Build seasonal bouquets and showstopping centrepieces for tables and events.
• Experiment with colour, texture, and shape to find your own floral style.
• Apply simple, sustainable techniques that bring professional polish to your work.
• Develop the confidence to design freely, whether with garden stems or market flowers.

Beautifully photographed and filled with Graeme's practical advice and creative encouragement, Life in Bloom is a generous book for anyone wanting to learn more about growing, gathering, and arranging flowers.

Turn your garden into a year-round celebration of color with Ann-Marie Powell.

Whether you have a tiny yard or acres of land, your garden is the one place devoted to joy - and designer Ann-Marie Powell knows exactly how to fill it with color, whatever the season. In A Year of Color, she invites you into her own garden to share her absolute favorite planting combinations, and to show you how you too can have a bold and bright garden all year round.

Choose from ready-made, tried-and-tested ideas that take you through the year, including: Golden Woodland Tapestry (early bulbs and perennials for dappled shade), Flame and Fire (border tulips with staying power), Early Summer Fireworks (naturalistic planting with punch), Sun Meets Shade (late summer color for bridging sunny and shady spots), Fiery Finale (rich textures and jewel tones for the garden's crescendo), Sparkling Performers (airy grasses combined with bold annual blooms), Woodland Keepsakes (layered planting to create a fall glow) and Beauty in Decay (a symphony of brown seed heads and stems).

With more than 40 combinations - each with plant profiles, color charts and expert tips - this is color made easy and achievable. You'll find rich and sultry tulips perfect for pots; glowing golden hues that light up dark corners; long-flowering perennials to maximise the season; and red-hot displays that work in sun and partial-shade. These are real planting ideas that work: joyful, personality-packed plantings that attract bees, butterflies, and birds - and make you smile on dreary Monday mornings.

Photographed by Julie Skelton throughout the seasons, this book captures color as a living, shifting performance. Each chapter ends with Ann-Marie's essential tasks and step-by-step tutorials - from filling gaps in borders and simple tricks for prolonging the season, to planting bulb lasagnes and creating forced displays for midwinter cheer.

If you want a garden that's bold, beautiful, and brimming with life, A Year of Color will show you how - and give you the confidence to start today. Perfect for gardeners who want more color and aren't afraid to get their hands dirty.

Silver RavenWolf's Complete Collection of Effective Spells

Bestselling author Silver RavenWolf presents more than one hundred of her best spells and mixtures for love, protection, and abundance--all in one powerful, easy-to-use book.

Open the door to personal wealth with spells for bringing prosperity into your life and invoking the elements for financial assistance. Deepen your relationships with spells for finding a new lover or reigniting passion with your spouse. Protect your home, career, and loved ones with spells for blocking sabotage and settling disputes. With Classic Spells for Modern Times, you'll be more magical and successful in everything you do.

How the rise of Wall Street in the 1980s lured a generation of young upstarts to New York, unleashing a political and cultural transformation whose national repercussions are still felt today.

Yuppies may have been a classic 1980s stereotype, but they were also a very real demographic: a wave of hundreds of thousands of highly educated young professionals that washed over New York during that decade. As Wall Street moved to the center of American life, it drew a generation of young people into its vortex. For the first time, banks recruited roughly one-third of graduating classes from top universities.

America's economy had a new main character. Young bankers extracted profits from waning industries, shattering the foundations on which stable middle-class employment had long rested. Yuppie lawyers devised deals and tax strategies that eroded workers' power and wages. As consumers, yuppies created new cultures of fitness and of excess, popularizing marathon running and fine dining as status markers. As city-dwellers, they were pioneers of gentrification. And as voters and political donors, yuppies engineered a takeover of local and national government, using their wealth to back candidates who would remake the country in their image.

Yuppies reminds us that we still live in the shadow of the greed-is-good 1980s: Our cities are playgrounds for the wealthy, and Wall Street and Washington remain locked in a tight embrace. Dylan Gottlieb's exquisite recounting leaves no doubt that the yuppie takeover of New York began a more unequal chapter in American life--one we continue writing today.

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.

Public infrastructure is as essential to our communities as it is easily overlooked. A case in point is the humble sidewalk: constantly taken for granted, yet linked to nearly every pressing issue of local governance in urban, suburban, and even rural areas. From commerce, taxes, and property rights to policing, homelessness, and surveillance; from free speech and socioeconomic equity to public health and climate resilience--sidewalks, surprisingly, are at the core of numerous major debates.

Sidewalk Nation offers a vivid travelogue spanning more than a dozen cities and towns across the United States to show how diverse communities are grappling with big challenges. Some are prosaic, if critical: How do we ensure that sidewalks facilitate mobility for disabled people? Whose job is it to clear snow from public space? And some touch on the most profound issues in law, including our rights under the First and Fourth Amendments. While traversing the country, Michael Pollack provides expert insight into the property, tax, and zoning laws that shape sidewalk management and land use more broadly. Offering a holistic vision for improving a vital resource, Pollack argues for reforms to ensure that local governments have both the obligation and the funding needed to give due attention to sidewalks and all that they offer.

Whether elected officials, civil servants, engineers, developers, or voters, everyone has a stake in the question of where sidewalks should be placed and how they should be used. Indeed, as Sidewalk Nation makes clear, what's under our feet should be at the front of our minds as we decide how to build, regulate, and protect our neighborhoods.

From philosophers Avishai Margalit and Assaf Sharon, an erudite yet approachable inquiry into political manipulation and the grave threat it poses to human freedom today.

Manipulation is as old as history itself, yet Aldous Huxley's paraphrase of Churchill rings truer than ever: "never have so many been manipulated so much by so few." Manipulation presents a clear danger to liberal democracy today. Demagogues undermine civic discussion, and propagandists and conspiracy theorists create cognitive traps that erode critical thinking.

What exactly is manipulation, and what sets it apart from other forms of influence? How does it differ from convincing, attracting, or nudging? Drawing on examples from mythology, literature, history, and politics, philosophers Margalit and Sharon argue that manipulation is not just a form of deceit and intellectual harm; it is, above all, an exercise of power. Manipulation exploits mental weaknesses and vulnerabilities with the goal of establishing control. Whereas liberal philosophers overlook manipulation, instead treating coercion as the primary form of political domination, Margalit and Sharon argue that manipulation should be seen as coercion's insidious counterpart in undermining human freedom.

Public support is fundamental to the legitimacy of government. Today, political manipulation is corrupting the formation and expression of public opinion, making manipulation a driving force of the global crisis of democratic decline. A timely work, but also a work for all times, Captive Minds stands as the definitive study of a pervasive threat to political freedom and the increasingly fragile institutions that sustain it.

From a leading historian, the story of how entrepreneurial Jewish immigrants transformed commercial banking and enabled the economic and social advancement of Jews in America.

What are immigrants to do when business opportunities abound in their new home, but banks refuse essential financial support? How could they make the journey in the first place without helping hands? In this lively history, Rebecca Kobrin chronicles the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Jewish immigrants who stepped up by doing the lending themselves. Arriving from the Russian Empire and settling primarily in New York, they made livelihoods by assisting fellow Jews so they could purchase passage to the United States and, after arriving, obtain credit that other lenders would not dare provide.

Credit to the Nation traces the novel practices of bankers who not only enabled the flourishing of American Jewry but also revolutionized the US financial industry. Drawing on previously unexamined archival materials in Russian, Yiddish, German, and English, Kobrin tells a story that is also crucial to the history of New York, as immigrant bankers' financing of real estate transformed wide swathes of the city. Lenders drove a boom in the prices of tenement buildings, but heavy speculation eventually precipitated the downfall of immigrant banking. Kobrin notes in particular the case of the Bank of United States--a private lender catering primarily to Jewish businessmen--which the Federal Reserve refused to bail out from bankruptcy in 1930.

Immigrants' grasping for credit, and the rise and fall of immigrant banks, gave way to a contemporary banking industry that, ironically, refuses credit to today's immigrants. Kobrin reminds us that now, as before, the denial of credit pushes entrepreneurial Americans into unregulated money-lending and the trap of endless debt.

Meet Greta Green: pint-size pioneer of the sea!

Greta Green adores the ocean and spends her time cleaning the shoreline with her trusty bird and hermit crab. She can only dream of diving below the surface to discover the wonders hidden beneath...until the day that Greta gets a big idea: She and her pals will build their own submarine!

And that's exactly what they do. But the underwater world brings both hidden treasures and dangers. What will Greta and her crew discover along their journey? And can they find a way to continue helping with ocean conservation?

With cheerful rhyming text and whimsical artwork, this is a story about dreaming big, protecting our oceans, and staying true to your heart. The book includes information on submersibles and submarines, famous shipwrecks, and real-life female pioneers of the sea.

If you want to discover the remarkable history of Mesopotamia, then keep reading...

Seven captivating manuscripts in one book:

• Sumerians: A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilization
• Gilgamesh: A Captivating Guide to Gilgamesh the King and the Epic of Gilgamesh
• Ur: A Captivating Guide to One of the Most Important Sumerian City-States in Ancient Mesopotamia
• Assyrian History: A Captivating Guide to the Assyrians and Their Powerful Empire in Ancient Mesopotamia
• Babylon: A Captivating Guide to the Kingdom in Ancient Mesopotamia, Starting from the Akkadian Empire to the Battle of Opis Against Persia, Including Babylonian Mythology and the Legacy of Babylonia
• Hammurabi: A Captivating Guide to the Sixth King of the First Babylonian Dynasty, Including the Code of Hammurabi
• The Persian Empire: A Captivating Guide to the History of Persia, Starting from the Ancient Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian Empires to the Safavid, Afsharid, and Qajar Dynasties

Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include:

• The Ancient Sumerians In a Nutshell
• The Social Structure of Ancient Sumerians
• The Religion and Mythology of Ancient Sumerians
• The Sumerian Kingdoms Chronology
• The Everyday Life of Ancient Sumerians
• And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include:

• The History of the Epic
• All Eleven Tablets
• Sumerian Poems About Gilgamesh
• And much, much more!

In part 3 of this book, you will:

• Get a sense of how Ur came to existence, how it grew, reached its zenith, fell, re-rose, and ultimately perished until it reemerged a little over a century and a half ago
• Learn of its history, laden with wars, trade, divine worship, political corruption, and entertainment
• And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 4 of this book include:

• The Assyrians Arrive in Mesopotamia: The Early Assyrian Period
• The Birth of a Civilization: The Old Assyrian Empire to the Middle Assyrian Empire
• The Beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
• Imperial Expansion and the Golden Age of the Neo-Assyrian Empire
• The Fall of the Empire
• Assyrian Government
• And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 5 of this book include:

• The Land of the Babylonians
• Life, Culture, and Gender Roles Throughout the Years
• Where Superstition Met Science
• Babylonia Before the Babylonians
• The Amorite Dynasty or the First Babylonians
• The First Fall of Babylon and the Rise of the Kassites
• Assyrian Domination and Rule, 911-619 BCE
• And much, much more!

Some of the topics covered in part 6 of this book include:

• Babylon Before Hammurabi: Position of the City in Mesopotamia, Early Rulers
• Rise of Hammurabi: Wars and Achievements Chronology of Hammurabi
• Hammurabi's Character: Physical Appearance, Relations with Other Rulers, Glimpses of His Personality
• The Code of Hammurabi and Early Mesopotamian Law
• And much, much more!

So if you want to learn more about Mesopotamia, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button!

This sumptuous and deeply personal cookbook featuring 70 recipes opens the door to Hong Kong's vibrant food culture, offering a flavorful mix of iconic dishes, everyday comforts, and modern twists.

Born in Hong Kong and raised between cultures, Davina Chang spent years abroad before realizing that her connection to home was rooted in taste: the texture of congee, the smell of pineapple buns, the clink of milk tea in a café. French native co-author Ada Deschanel has spent years studying Hong Kong's food culture as a lens to understand the city, from its markets and cha chaan teng to its haute cuisine and street snacks. Through her work as a researcher, photographer, and writer, she documents how flavors, spaces, and gestures reveal the city's layered identity.

Structured around the rhythm of a Hong Kong day, this beautifully illustrated book follows a "journey through meals"--from bakery breakfasts and dim sum brunches to noodle-shop lunches, street snacks, and family-style dinners. With 70 recipes, it offers everything from silky tomato-egg stir-fry and curry fish balls to sweet red bean soup and egg tarts. The dishes reflect the rich culinary heritage of Hong Kong and its Cantonese foundations, shaped by migration, colonial influences, and a distinct culture of adaptation.

Woven between the dishes are personal essays about identity, memory, and belonging--stories that ground the food in lived experience and cultural insight. Part cookbook, part coming-home story, A Taste of Hong Kong is an invitation to cook, connect, and rediscover a city through its flavors.

From one of North America's most influential public space experts comes a powerful treatise celebrating Black people's audacious, complex, and universally embraced public joy expressions.

How much safety, belonging and delight do you feel when you walk through a park? Hang out in a coffee shop? Ride the subway to work? Explore a new neighbourhood? Now, how much do you know about how history, urban planning, culture and even your personal upbringing impact those feelings, and overall access, to public joy? For well over a decade, Jay Pitter has been thinking about public space and the ways it can be designed to not only contribute to social equity but also inspire joy for everyone. Her award-winning work helping cities navigate complex issues such as reimagining Confederate monument sites, the creation of cultural districts and the adoption of gender-responsive street design compels her to ask: "How can I ignite public joy?"

Pitter acknowledges egregious place-based violations faced by her community--historical and contemporary--while unapologetically bending the book's narrative arc toward public joy. Declaring that Black public joy is so powerful that even the auction block could not extinguish it, Pitter guides the reader through an under-explored placemaking journey. In addition to unearthing historical rituals, the book builds on the current groundswell of Black-led initiatives highlighting hiking, dining, cycling, and frolicking punctuated by hashtags such as #BlackJoy and #BlackOutdoors. Pitter draws upon her practice expertise and research, delving more deeply to situate these moments and online conversations within the phenomenon that is Black public joy.

Along the way, she introduces us to beloved colleagues creating public joy in their communities, and also reveals vulnerable personal stories as ground for the book's narrative. Black Public Joy's themes--our collective desire for safely taking up space, feeling belonging, and freeing ourselves from fears of judgement--are universal. Pitter's work calls on all of us to become better stewards of each other's public joy, as well as to claim our own.

A massive cultural phenomenon, made even bigger by the hit anime based on it. To this day, "Ashita no Joe" remains one of the most important manga of all time, and now it will finally see the light of day in English for the first time!

TO KEEP ON FIGHTING, NO MATTER WHAT

While Joe is punching below his weight on the traveling sideshow circuit just to keep a hand in, Carlos Rivera is turning the world of Japanese boxing upside down--but is he really the happy-go-lucky clown he presents to the public...? Only Joe sees him for what he truly is, which just might present the young drifter with the greatest challenge of his career, on the biggest stage imaginable!

From popular copycat recipe developer and bestselling author Todd Wilbur comes a brand-new book of favorite dishes readers can recreate right in their own homes--and learn the secrets to creating delicious dupes of their own!

America's #1 food hacker is here to help anyone looking to recreate their favorite drinks, dishes, and desserts right at home. Todd Wilbur is a one-man culinary cover band who identifies and decodes America's favorite restaurant dishes and beloved brand-name foods, so you can make perfect copies at home.

No matter what you're craving--from fast food breakfast staples to fast casual meals to sweet treats from the candy aisle--you won't have to leave home or break the bank to satisfy your appetite. Todd's got you covered with step-by-step recipes for favorites such as:

-McDonald's Bacon Egg & Cheese McGriddles
-Chick-fil-A Spicy Deluxe Chicken Sandwiches
-Maggiano's Mozzarella Marinara
-On The Border Enchiladas
-Crumbl Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunk Cookies
-And so much more!

With Todd's expert advice and entertaining experiences figuring out how to recreate all of these foods, you'll learn how to hack dishes on your own. The secret's out and you'll be whipping up all your favorites at home in no time!

Find happiness and comfort in life's everyday moments with this insightful visual volume of prose and poetry.

In our busy and stress-filled world, it's easy to miss the smaller moments that can provide happiness and fulfilment. Small Wonders is your invitation to slow down and savor the minor miracles of everyday living. With her insightful prose and evocative poetry, author Jennifer Shoop celebrates the little moments that connect us to each other and to the world around us. Dreamy photography brings the text to life, showcasing the beauty found in the often-overlooked, mundane details all around us.

Author Jennifer Shoop (@magpiebyjenshoop), creator of the literary lifestyle publication Magpie, encourages you to find joy and replenishment in the small stuff, such as:

• A long phone call with a friend
• The dance of backyard fireflies
• The well-worn charm of a beloved hand-me-down
• And more.
  

Wherever you are on your path, life's small wonders can nurture your soul.