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Crochet with Leftover Yarn: Quick and Easy Stashbuster Patterns Using One Ball or Less
25 patterns which use ONE BALL OF YARN OR LESS, or which use up small amounts of different colors.
You can SUBSTITUTE SIMILAR YARNS you have for the ones used in the pattern--WE TELL YOU HOW. The 25 gorgeous patterns include projects for the home, such as a pillow cover, egg cozies, and mug warmers, and makes which are ideal as gifts, including baby hats and bootees, toys, and bunting. Some feature stripes, squares, or flowers, which offer the chance to use up little amounts of leftover yarn in different colors. Many are small, quick, and easy, so they are perfect for beginners. There's also a handy illustrated guide to every crochet stitch, just in case you need a refresher, as well as useful tips on choosing substitute yarns and checking your gauge. Now you can stop feeling guilty about your ever-increasing stash and be inspired instead. -
Bend Him Break Him
Colton has always walked the line of golden boy meets bad boy. It helped catapult his popularity as the starting pitcher in his first year of college and during the scandalous exposé when he came out as bi. But Colton struggles with the accolades he receives, balancing who he is versus who he was versus who he's expected to be. Because before Colton was a queer icon for star athletes, he was a closeted bully who made one guy's life completely miserable.
Isaac hates Colton. But to be fair, Isaac hates everyone-maintaining an icy distance from even his closest friends. Mostly, Isaac wants to shove Colton off the pedestal he's been placed upon. Just because he came out publicly doesn't mean he's some sort of hero. It doesn't help that Isaac once fawned over the closeted jock in high school. He cared deeply for Colton and did everything he could to please the star athlete, even keeping their private rendezvous a secret. Which meant Isaac paid the price of utter humiliation, taunting, and bullying as the weirdo loner gay guy with a creepy crush.
When Isaac catches Colton cheating on an exam, he plans to ruin his enemy by destroying his academic standing and costing Colton his baseball scholarship. Isaac wants nothing more than to see Colton kicked out of campus. But when the jock offers to do anything to keep this a secret, Isaac decides to test the lengths Colton is willing to go to make things right between them. Isaac's over secrets, but this is an opportunity unlike any other. He presents an ultimatum that'll push Colton to the edge of his limits. In this sordid hate-fueled lust, all Isaac wants is revenge and all Colton wants is redemption.
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Weathering the Storm: Navigating the Anti-Social Justice Wave
Transformative change is often met with intense opposition, but we will not back down from the fight for social justice.
In a nation caught in the crosscurrents of progress and backlash, Weathering the Storm offers both a wake-up call and a balm for the weary. Psychologist and educator Dr. Tiffany G. Townsend draws from her decades of leadership in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), blending personal stories, historical analysis, and psychological expertise to equip us with tools for resistance and resilience.
With compassion, Dr. Townsend unpacks the tactics used to stifle equity including microaggressions, tokenism, gaslighting, and the systemic dismantling of DEI efforts with a concept she calls the "redemptionist playbook." This is not a book about despair. It's a call to radical hope.
Grounded in psychological research and cultural history, Weathering the Storm offers a blueprint for navigating personal and professional spaces. Through strategies like self-care as resistance, spiritual grounding, collective action, and effective allyship, Dr. Townsend reminds us that well-being and activism are not mutually exclusive; they are intimately intertwined.
This guide is for anyone who has ever felt worn down by injustice, disillusioned by regression, or isolated in their advocacy. It offers validation, empowerment, and above all, the reminder that the fight for justice is a long arc that we will ultimately bend together.
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Fairy Tales of Appalachia (First Edition, Photographs by Jamie Sivinski)
While taking a graduate course in Appalachian literature at the University of Tennessee, Stacy Sivinski was surprised to discover that much of the folklore she had heard while growing up in Schuyler, Virginia, was rarely represented in popular published collections. In particular, they lacked the strong female heroines she had come to know, and most anthologies were full of Jack Tales--stories that focus on the adventures of the character from "Jack and the Beanstalk." Feminist critics have long discussed the gender inequalities and stereotypes that fairy tales often promote. With Fairy Tales of Appalachia, Sivinski asks whether such conclusions are inevitable and invites a fresh analysis of these regional tales with a contemporary sense of wonder. These tales, carefully and thoughtfully transcribed by Sivinski, have been passed down through Appalachia's oral histories over decades and even centuries. This wonderful selection was mainly drawn from the Archives of Appalachia at East Tennessee State University and special collections at Berea College. Drawing on the work of other regional archivists and folklorists, Sivinski grapples with issues of gender balance in Appalachian storytelling. The problem, Sivinski posits, does not rest with the fairy tale genre itself but in the canonization process, in which
women's contributions have been diminished as oral traditions become transcribed. Appalachian women have historically demonstrated resilience, wit, and adaptability, and it is time that more collections of regional folklore reorient themselves to make this fact more apparent. Stories are living, breathing narratives, meant not just to be read but to be read aloud. This timely selection of unique stories, along with beautiful, evocative illustrations, makes Fairy Tales of Appalachia an intriguing addition to the much-contested "fairy tale canon."
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Death by Astonishment: Confronting the Mystery of the World's Strangest Drug (the Dmt Book)
AS FEATURED ON THE JOE ROGAN EXPERIENCE
For fans of the compelling, critical, and investigative style of best-selling authors Graham Hancock and Brian Muraresku, the first detailed account of the history and science of the world's strangest and most mysterious drug - DMT.
DMT is the world's strangest and most mysterious drug, inducing one of the most remarkable and yet least understood of all states of consciousness. This common plant molecule has, from ancient times to the modern day, been used as a tool to gain access to a bizarre alien reality of inordinate complexity and unimaginable strangeness, populated by a panoply of highly advanced, intelligent, and communicative beings entirely not of this world. In a story that begins in the Amazonian rainforests and ends somewhere beyond the stars, Andrew Gallimore presents the first detailed account of the discovery of DMT and science's continuing struggle to explain how such a simple and common plant molecule can have such astonishing effects on the human mind. The history of the drug involves many fascinating characters from the scientific and literary worlds -- including legendary ethnobotanist Dr. Richard Schultes; renegade beat writer and drug aficionado William S. Burroughs; philosopher and raconteur Terence McKenna; and the high priest of the 1960s psychedelic revolution, Dr. Timothy Leary. In the end, the story of DMT forces us to reconsider our most basic assumptions about the nature of reality and our place within it. -
Where There's Room for Us
#1 New York Times bestselling author Hayley Kiyoko brings us a young adult novel set in a reimagined 1880s Victorian England where everyone is free to love whoever they choose. Now in paperback!
When her brother unexpectedly inherits an English estate, the outspoken and infamously daring poet, Ivy, swaps her lively New York life for the prim and proper world of high society, and quickly faces the challenges of its revered traditions-especially once she meets the most sought-after socialite of the courting season: Freya Tallon. Freya's life has always been mapped out for her: marry a wealthy lord, produce heirs, and protect the family's noble status. But when she unexpectedly takes her sister's place on a date with Ivy, everything changes. For the first time, she feels the kind of spark she's always dreamed of. As Ivy and Freya's connection deepens, both are caught between desire and duty. How much are they willing to risk to be true to themselves--and to each other? Inspired by Hayley Kiyoko's own experiences and classic favorites like Little Women and Pride and Prejudice, Where There's Room for Us is a romance set in a world where society's expectations are everything--but love is so much more. -
After the Fall
Part alien invasion story, part buddy comedy, and part workplace satire, After The Fall by Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (inspiration for the film Mickey 17), asks an important question: would humans really make great pets?
All his life, John has tried to live by those rules. Most days, it's not too difficult. A hundred and twenty years after The Fall, and a hundred years after the grays swept in to pick the last dregs of humanity out of the wreckage of a ruined world, John has found himself bonded to Martok Barden nee Black Hand, one of the "good" grays. Sure, Martok is broke, homeless, and borderline manic, but he's always treated John like an actual person, and sometimes like a friend. It's a better deal than most humans get. But when Martok puts John's bond up as collateral against an abandoned house in the woods that he hopes to turn into a wilderness retreat for wealthy grays, John learns that there are limits to Martok's friendship. Soon he finds himself caught between an underworld boss who thinks Martok is something that he very much is not, a girl who was raised by feral humans and has nothing but contempt for pets like John, and Martok himself, whose delusions of grandeur seem to be finally catching up with him. Also, not for nothing, something in the woods has been killing people. John has sixty days before Martok's loan comes due to unravel the mystery of how humans wound up holding the wrong end of the domestication stick and find a way to turn Martok's half-baked plans into profit enough to buy back his life, all while avoiding getting butchered by feral humans or having his head crushed by an angry gray. Easy peasy, right?
Humans must be silent. Humans must be obedient. Humans must be good. -
Overdue
A sparkling adult debut from beloved New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Perkins, now in paperback!
Is it time to renew love or start a new chapter? Ingrid Dahl, a cheerful twenty-nine-year-old librarian in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina, has been happily dating her college boyfriend, Cory, for over a decade without ever discussing marriage. But when Ingrid's younger sister becomes engaged, Ingrid and Cory feel pressured to consider their future. Neither has ever been with anybody else, so they make an unconventional decision. They'll take a monthlong break to date other people, then they'll reunite and move toward marriage. It doesn't matter that everyone else thinks the idea is foolish; Ingrid is confident it will work. She even has someone in mind: her charmingly grumpy coworker, Macon Nowakowski, whom she's secretly pined over for years. But plans go awry, and when the month ends, the experiment doesn't--leading Ingrid into a messy, challenging, exhilarating reevaluation of her entire life over the course of a year. And through it all remains Macon, the harmless crush that is turning into something much more complicated. A slow-burn romance full of lust and longing, Overdue is about choosing the life--and love--your heart truly desires. -
Edge of Darkness: A Gripping and Unforgettable Persis Wadia Thriller from the Award-Winning Author of Midnight at Malabar House
India, 1951. After wilfully ignoring orders from her superiors, Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective, has been exiled from Bombay to the wild and mountainous state of Nagaland. As India's first post-Independence election looms, and tensions rise across the country, Persis finds herself banished to the Victoria Hotel, a crumbling colonial-era relic, her career in ruins. But when a prominent local politician is murdered in his locked room at the Victoria Hotel, his head missing - a case appears quite literally on her doorstep. As the political situation threatens to explode into all-out havoc, Persis has only days to stop a killer operating at the very edge of darkness... The sixth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House novels and a perfect entry point to the series. -
Fury in Death
In the new crime thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, Lt. Eve Dallas journeys into the darkness where murder is born...
The victim's corpse is so mangled and damaged it's hard to believe a lone, unarmed assailant could have managed it. The killer was clearly unnaturally strong--and smart enough to find a way into Chu's highly secure building. Most of all, whoever did this was very, very angry. The excessive violence leads Dallas to conclude that this was a deeply personal act, born of a rage that she can't excuse but can understand thanks to her own traumatic past. And though the motive seems rooted in heated emotion rather than cold hard cash, she can't ignore the suspicious bank account in the Cayman Islands, or the shadowy, profit-hungry company Chu worked for. The mystery only grows when it turns out Chu isn't the only victim--and Dallas will need to tear through one layer of secrecy after another to reveal what lies behind this explosion of fury...
NYSPD lieutenant Eve Dallas never knows what to expect when she gets word of a body. It could be an elderly man who made the mistake of climbing a ladder in slippery footwear. And the next call could be a wealthy biotech executive beaten to death in his home office--but what was Larry Chu's mistake? -
Good Animal
"A stunning, unforgettable, and deeply American novel." --Julia Phillips, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author of Bear and Disappearing Earth
In the farm country outside Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan--a border town where life moves slow and dreams run fast--most kids want out. Not Everett Lindt. He's set on staying put, rebuilding his family's sheep farm, and carving a future from the land he loves. Then he meets Mary, a new girl in town with restless energy and bigger plans. When their relationship reaches a crossroads, Everett sees a life together. Mary, however, is desperate to find a way out. Together, they make an impulsive choice--one that could change everything. Tense, lyrical, and deeply felt, Sara Maurer's unforgettable debut breathtakingly captures the ache of first love, the beauty and brutality of rural life, and how one decision can echo through generations and shape who we become.
"Maurer's prose is undeniably beautiful and evocative." --Kirkus Reviews
A heart-wrenching coming-of-age debut novel by a stunning new voice in fiction, for readers of Barbara Kingsolver and Ann Patchett.
Staying is his dream. Leaving is hers. One secret threatens them both. -
Crown of War and Shadow: Kingdoms of the Compass
An instant New York Times and USA Today bestseller!
"J.R. Ward is a powerhouse in the genre and never disappoints!"--Rebecca Yarros "Absolutely unputdownable!"--Jennifer Armentrout Crown of War and Shadow is a slow-burn romantasy from #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward, perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas and Jennifer Armentrout. A one-night bargain forges a fated bond, and an outcast discovers the darkness did not choose her by accident. The Fulcrum is failing, and demons are slipping into the mortal world. No one is safe, least of all Sorrel, an orphan and an outcast feared by her village for the strange magic stirring inside her. She has one desire: to be ordinary. But Fate has other plans. Sorrel has been chosen. Or cursed. Now, she must travel across the monster-ridden Badlands, return the Crown of War and Shadow, and face a queen who shows no mercy. To survive the journey, Sorrel makes a dangerous bargain with Merc, an infamous hired blade known only by the name of his trade, a man with secrets darker than the road ahead. The price is one unforgettable night in his bed in exchange for safe passage. But Merc's secrets run deep, and the hotter the desire burns between them, the more dangerous the truth becomes. Beasts and betrayal surround them, and Sorrel may be exactly what the demons are hunting. Crown of War and Shadow is the first book in the Kingdoms of the Compass series. Crown of War and Shadow
*Forced proximity/Only one bed
*Chosen mates
*Dark mercenary
*Who did this to you?
*Touch her and die
*I'll die for you
*Hidden magic