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Signs and the Stars: A Pop Culture Journey Through the Zodiac
Discover your astrological sign through the lens of pop culture, with this fun, gifty guide from TikTok astrologer and W Magazine columnist Cole Prots Have you ever wondered why Aries are the way they are? Or which astrological sign is most likely to be the "final girl" in a horror film? Perhaps you're wondering if your sign is more pop, pop rock, funk, or classical? Astrology expert Cole Prots, known to millions as @jkitscole for his witty and wacky astrology videos, has all of the answers. In his first book, he takes readers on a journey of astrological discovery through a new lens: pop culture. The Signs and the Stars outlines the key principles of astrology, then builds on that understanding with examinations of the astrological signs in film, TV, and music. Cole helps you discover which iconic rom-com movie represents you, how likely your sign is to go on Love Island to find love, and more, then sends you off with words of advice to help you transform every area of your life. -
Fa'afetai Mama: A Samoan Children's Story of Gratitude and Love
Fa'afetai Mama is a Samoan children's picture book set in American Samoa. One child says fa'afetai, or thank you, to Mama throughout the day, from morning greetings to bedtime hugs.
Through simple Samoan words and scenes from daily island life, this story helps little ones connect with their culture, language, and family traditions.
It's a thoughtful choice for families looking for a Samoan kids' book that expresses gratitude and the love of mothers and mother figures during storytime.
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Spirited Supper at Dundoon Castle
When chef Bridget "Bunny" MacBride got a role on the reality show Food & Spirits, she thought "spirits" meant cocktails. Instead, she's cooking up dinners meant to tempt the departed to appear. And to her surprise, she's discovered abilities to connect with the beyond--and crack murder cases . . . Now that Bunny's entrées come with a side of the Other Side, it comes in handy to have a grandma who's friendly with the elderly owners of a haunted Scottish castle. During Bunny's childhood she heard all about Dundoon's bloody history and the "ghostly piper" who roamed the grounds--and soon she'll be visiting the ancient place with her ghost hunter and psychic co-stars. The annual bagpipe competition in the late piper's honor will make for some good footage as well. After Bunny serves a feast fit for a 17th century king, including lamb chops with plenty of fresh herbs, she heads outdoors for the ghost hunt. But in the dark, dense fog, someone fatally plunges from the clifftop over the loch. The sound that follows is a mournful, otherworldly bagpipe . . . and once the body of another perished piper is retrieved, Bunny is determined to solve this Highlands homicide--and prevent a killer from getting off scot-free . . . -
Global Casino: How Wall Street Gambles with People and the Planet
How everything from the price of food to energy and housing costs is fixed by remote, unregulated financial markets, and what can be done about it The global market in money - housed in the offshore 'shadow' banking system - holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation's taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world's savings for investment and manage them as they choose, unaccountable to politicians or the citizens who elect them. In this brilliant, accessible and incisive introduction to the murky world of globalized finance, Ann Pettifor links the activities of remote mobile financial markets to both the cost-of-living and climate crises. In an insane global casino, bankers are gambling with our future. When we foot the bill, no one but a few economists understands what has happened. The result is volatile, unpredictable and uncontrollable speculation in global commodities, pension, energy, and housing. Pettifor argues that societies and governments can take back control of the global financial system. We have done it before and can do it again. Indeed, it is imperative that we do so if we are to manage the twin threats of climate breakdown and biosphere collapse. -
Humboldt Cut: A Redwood Gothic
Jordan Peele and Chuck Tingle meet The Overstory in comedy writer Allison Mick's darkly humorous debut eco-horror novel, as a Black woman returns home to the redwood forests of northern California, only to unearth the monsters that lurk among the trees... Jasmine Bay is a nurse for an Oakland mental health facility, battling her own demons, caught in a spiral of suicidal despair. Estranged from her brother James and his wife Tilly, who was once her best friend, Jas has chosen self-isolation to protect herself--even if it means denying herself a hopeful future with co-worker and potential love interest Henry Lewis. When her godmother dies, Jas returns to Redceder for the funeral, a logging town where her grandfather William Whipple made a living deforesting the countryside, ripping and raping apart nature's very foundations for corporate profits. As trees fell to axes and chainsaws, so did dozens of lumberjacks, falling prey to the dangers of their job--and to the ecoterrorism of Jas's grandfather who was lynched for his crimes. And buried in the haunted woods are even more dark secrets perpetrated by Jas's family. Unnatural acts giving birth to entities made of human flesh and petrified bark, seeking to avenge the devastation that ravaged their land. It is an inheritance that threatens to consume the remnants of Jas's family, and her very sanity. . . Celebrated comedy writer Allison Mick's Humboldt Cut exposes the traumatic costs of environmental destruction in an energetic, darkly humorous horror adventure that combines the botanical terrors of VanderMeer's Annihilation and the psychological horror of The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones with a dash of Jordan Peele. -
¿De Qué Está Hecho El Amor? (What Is Love Made Of? -)
Tania García, autora de Educar sin perder los nervios, es una de las mayores especialistas internacionales en educación basada en el respeto, y creadora de la Educación Real(R) ¿De qué está hecho el amor?, le pregunta hija dragona una noche a su mamá. En un viaje muy especial, mamá dragona le mostrará a su hija que el amor está hecho de alegría, de lo que nos gusta hacer, de la amistad, pero también de los momentos en los que sufrimos y en los que nos equivocamos. Una fábula inspiracional que nos enseña que el amor es lo más importante. -
It's Important I Remember: Poems
An incantation of strength and solace for persisting in twenty-first-century America
"History doesn't repeat, it rhymes." In his sweeping third collection, Charleston brings a poet's ear for echo and rhythm to bear on American history and life after 2016. For Charleston, these rhymes cut two ways: the long tradition of American racism and fascism, and the steady pulse of Black persistence. The collection's titular invocation frames each poem, at times an oratory to rally a crowd, in other moments a private prayer whispered as the speaker gathers himself to face another day. Charleston insists that should we cede memory of our national biography--whether to repression or indifference--we will witness the country's dissolution into something unrecognizable to many, yet all too familiar to its most marginalized people. But with each reiteration and riff, he also invokes a tenuous hope--that if we summon an American history of Black resistance, we might still make a more perfect union. -
Cuddlebug Lane on the Farm
How do our friends on Cuddlebug Lane spend a day on the farm? By working in the garden, picking apples, painting the barn, and taking a dip in the pond! Join the little critters of Cuddlebug Lane as they enjoy life on the farm in this soft and snuggly board book, featuring tactile features with every flip of the page. This delightful rhyming story is paired with cheerful illustrations and touch-and-feel textures including faux fur, fleece, and more designed to encourage sensory exploration and help support the development of fine motor skills. Babies and toddlers will love exploring every interactive page filled with adorable animals laughing, playing, and having fun in every scene.
- Sturdy, thick board pages and durable flaps designed to withstand traditional wear and tear for curious little infants and toddlers.
- Lifting the interactive flaps encourages sensory exploration and helps support the development of fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination in developing children.
- Packed with new words and peek-a-boo surprises.
- Bright, cheerful illustrations and interesting facts in these sensory touch-and-feel books for babies and preschoolers keep them entertained and engaged.
- Perfect gift for birthdays, holidays, and curious toddlers!
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Sold outDeparture(s)
On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, one of our great novelists delivers a playful and profound work about memory, love and the writer's endgame. Shortly after our narrator, a writer named Julian, begins this compact book by discussing the workings of involuntary memory, he interrupts himself with a bulletin to the reader: "There will be a story--or a story within the story--but not just yet." Of course, whether Departure(s) is mostly a fictional story or not, there is a lot of its author in it, including Barnes's reckoning with the blood disorder he has been living with since he was diagnosed in 2020, his long preoccupation with dying and grief and his mordant sense of the indignities and lost opportunities we're prey to in love. The story he promises to deliver is a love story, that of two friends he met at university in the 1960s, that time of touted but rarely experienced sexual freedom. Julian played matchmaker to Stephen (tall, gangling, uncertain) and Jean (tart and attractive); as the third wheel, he was deeply invested in the success of their love and insulted when they broke up. Time is swift, and forty years later, he tries again, watching as their rekindled affair produces joys, betrayals and disappointments of a different order. Barnes uses both his novelistic memory and his (real?) personal diary entries to examine not just the quixotic relationship of Jean and Stephen but his writer's eye upon it, and how his efforts on their behalf add up in the end. Despite promising them he'd never write about them, he breaks that promise to fulfill another one, amply, to his readers, in this delightful and poignant novelist's game that only Julian Barnes knows how to play.Sold out -
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Celestial Lights
One of Vogue's Best Books of 2026
A beautiful, heartbreaking novel about ambition, love, and space inspired by The Odyssey and the triumphs and costs of the journey to greatness.
January 28, 1986: Soon after launch, the Challenger shuttle falls out of the sky and into the sea. At the same time, Oliver Ines is born. Celestial Lights is his story. Ollie spends his childhood in an English village where his bedroom is covered in glow-in-the-dark wallpaper bearing the planets and stars. Decades later, he has become one of the most renowned astronauts of his time. When an enterprising billionaire taps him to lead a landmark mission to the distant moon Europa, Ollie makes a choice that will send his whole world spinning. As the mission advances deeper into unchartered territory, Ollie finds himself retreating into the past: his university days in London and years in the navy, relationships found and lost, becoming a husband and father. But will the world he remembers still be waiting for him ten years later when he returns? A portrait of a complicated man and a breathtaking tale of memory, personal choices, and the relationships that define us, Celestial Lights is an unforgettable story that questions what we owe ourselves and our loved ones when our ambitions and loyalties collide. -
Star Is Reborn: The Most Filmed Hollywood Story of Love Found and Lost
Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the 1976 classic film version starring Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, a riveting, juicy exploration of the history and popularity of Hollywood's favorite story about itself, from its 1937 technicolor drama starring Janet Gaynor and the 1954 version with Judy Garland, through 2018's blockbuster Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper remake. A Star is Born is one of the most popular entertainment legends of all time--the story of a fading male star who falls in love with an ingénue whose fame quickly eclipses his own. It's been a showcase for some of the most talented female artists of their time--Janet Gaynor, Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand, and Lady Gaga--yet it is also a fascinating rumination on the nature of fame and the fragility of the male ego. Now, Robert Hofler offers a riveting behind-the-scenes journey through the movie's history, starting with 1932's What Price Hollywood?, based on the rocky real-life Hollywood marriage of silent movie star Colleen Moore and producer John McCormick. That storyline was reworked by producer David O. Selznick into 1937's A Star is Born, starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in the first of four versions. From Cary Grant's refusal to star opposite Judy Garland due to her substance abuse (a problem that would cause the 1954 musical to go wildly over-schedule) to attempts to woo Elvis Presley to star in the 1976 blockbuster that eventually paired Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, How a Star is Reborn delves into the juicy tales behind the scenes. Hofler also traces the evolution of the story itself, as successive versions pivoted away from Hollywood and towards the world of rock music, culminating in 2018's wildly successful Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga remake. Captivating and superbly researched, How a Star is Reborn combines shrewd insights, little-known details, and Hofler's storytelling flair in this must-read for every fan of modern cinema. -
Wild Women for Good: Stories of Conservation in Texas
Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are rarely told. Women played an invaluable role in the establishment of parks, protection of wildlife, developing policies that value nature, and defending communities against pollution and destruction of habitat. Their efforts enriched and reinforced the natural heritage of Texas. Wild Women for Good: Stories of Conservation in Texas celebrates those who dared to step forward to make a difference and to tell the complex story of conservation in the Lone Star state.
Wild Women for Good spans a century and a half of conservationists--rural and urban--and the differences they made. Opening with the first conservation movement in Texas and the effort to stop the millenary industry's slaughter of birds for their plumage, the book shows how early advocates broke down barriers and opened doors for other women to save and protect species, land, and water for future generations. Author Jennifer L. Bristol then highlights innovative women who championed the establishment of the state park system, preservation of prairies and forests, grappled with pollution, protected water systems, and dedicated their private lands for public purposes--significant because 94 percent of Texas is privately owned. Wild Women for Good concludes with an eye toward the future as the next, more diverse, generation is called upon to shape and define the conservation movement in Texas.
Bristol covers more than sixty individuals and groups: environmental policy makers, famous first ladies, early land trusts champions, and educators. These are women whose stories are as integral to the state's history as the natural landscapes they worked to preserve.
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Books of Slaughter Deluxe Edition
From the bestselling world of Something is Killing the Children comes a deadly new chapter, collecting Maxine Slaughter's entire journey for the very first time and uncovering brand new secrets of this hidden society of monster hunters. Three iconic chapters from the world of Something is Killing the Children are assembled for the very first time, charting the entire journey of Maxine Slaughter. From Chicago, to New Orleans, London, and beyond... Maxine's saga will take her around the world as we uncover what led her to abandon the White Mask... and embrace the Black. This special collection also includes in-world guidebook sections revealing hidden secrets from the world of monsters, and the ones who hunt them... Collects Book of Slaughter #1, Book of Butcher #1, and Book of Cutter #1. -
Pathfinder Lost Omens Draconic Codex (Special Edition, Special)
Dragons! The very name invokes power beyond reckoning, fire that can melt mountains and fangs the size of swords. To face a dragon is to face the ultimate challenge of any adventurer's career. The reward for victory: gold, enough to twist any mortal's heart into a bigger monster than the one they just slew. Inside this tome lies the secrets of dragonkind, as well as those mortals who look upon them with awe or with bitter envy. Research a fearsome foe or summon the courage to make an ally of these primordial beings and put your strength and wisdom to the test. Success will see triumph beyond measure, while failure leads to an ignominious end within the dragon's maw!
Inside, you'll find:
- Statistics for over 20 types of dragons, including expansions on the dragons found in Monster Core and Monster Core 2!
- Statistics for the ferocious archdragons, the oldest and mightiest dragons of their kinds!
- Expanded background and lore for dragons, including information on dragon physiology!
- Nine draconic deities for dragons and adventurers alike to worship!
- Ancestry and heritage options to play a draconic character of your own, from expansions to the dragonblood and kobold to a brand-new dragonet ancestry!
- Draconic pacts for those brave enough to tie their fates to these dangerous and magical beings.
- Character options for characters of all types that wish to claim the power of dragons, including the draconic acolyte archetype to take on the physical features of your draconic benefactor!
Written by Joshua Birdsong, Chris Bissette, Jeremy Blum, Alyx Bui, Hiromi Cota, Katina Davis, Caryn DiMarco, Dana Ebert, Sen H.H.S., Laura Lynn Horst, Michelle Y. Kim, Letterio Mammoliti, Jonathan "Ryomasa" Mendoza, Jacob W. Michaels, Matt Morris, Collette Quach, Mikhail Rekun, Erin Roberts, Simone D. Sallé, Rodney Sloan, Kendra Leigh Speedling, Isabelle Thorne, Ruvaid Virk, Andrew White, Shan Wolf, and Brian Yaksha.
This limited edition deluxe hardcover is bound in faux leather with metallic deboss cover elements and a bound-in ribbon bookmark.
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Harvey Girl
This thrilling historical mystery sees a young female Pinkerton detective take on the lawless American frontier of the 1890s.
WELCOME TO THE GILDED AGE. WHERE NOT EVERYTHING GLITTERS. 1890. The New Mexico Territory is a lawless frontier where criminals steal money and land alike with impunity. Everyone wears a six-gun and is ready and willing to draw it. In the new city of Montaña Roja, Fred Harvey's growing empire is threatened by the robberies plaguing his newest Harvey House restaurant. To get justice, he needs a skilled detective to go undercover and procure answers to questions the law will not ask. The assignment falls to Clare Wright, a young Pinkerton agent. Disguised as one of Harvey's famous hostesses, Clare travels west where she risks being exposed at every step of her investigation. To get answers - and to get out alive - there are only two things she can trust: her instincts, and her derringer. Reviewers love The Harvey Girl 'Smooth writing, interesting characters, and a mystery to boot... I love this book' Joe R. Lansdale
'An absolute gem - a gripping story with great characters and fascinating history' C.J. Box
'A richly researched, masterly plotted historical mystery' Sara Donati
'I adored this novel' Douglas Preston