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The New York Times bestseller, from the author of Powers and Thrones, that tells the story of Britain's greatest and worst dynasty--"a real-life Game of Thrones" (The Wall Street Journal)

The first Plantagenet kings inherited a blood-soaked realm from the Normans and transformed it into an empire that stretched at its peak from Scotland to Jerusalem. In this epic narrative history of courage, treachery, ambition, and deception, Dan Jones resurrects the unruly royal dynasty that preceded the Tudors. They produced England's best and worst kings: Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, twice a queen and the most famous woman in Christendom; their son Richard the Lionheart, who fought Saladin in the Third Crusade; and his conniving brother King John, who was forced to grant his people new rights under the Magna Carta, the basis for our own bill of rights. Combining the latest academic research with a gift for storytelling, Jones vividly recreates the great battles of Bannockburn, Crécy, and Sluys and reveals how the maligned kings Edward II and Richard II met their downfalls. This is the era of chivalry and the Black Death, the Knights Templar, the founding of parliament, and the Hundred Years' War, when England's national identity was forged by the sword.

This hilarious new picture book by New York Times bestselling author Alan Katz and Unicorns Are the Worst creator Alex Willan imagines what happens when a good-natured game of "got your nose" goes too far--and one little girl's nose runs free.

Becky loves Grandpa Max. When he visits, they have a lot of fun together. But when Grandpa Max pulls his favorite prank on Becky, he accidentally takes her nose--for real!

OH NO!

Now Becky and Grandpa Max have to chase Becky's runny nose all over town--or else, who nose what will happen?

With vibrant art and hilarious wordplay, children, parents, and grandparents alike will love the funny, fast-paced picture book tale that Today Show cohost Dylan Dreyer said "will leave you smiling."

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over fifty countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

A girl learns the hard way to be careful what she wishes for in this sweet and funny middle grade rom-com featuring a chaos-loving West African trickster god.

Birdie has big plans for eighth grade. This is the year that she gets a boyfriend, and since she and her best friend, Deve, do everything together, it makes sense that Deve will get a girlfriend. This is the kind of math Birdie doesn't find intimidating--it's Eighth Grade 101. (Birdie + Boyfriend) + (Deve + Girlfriend) = Normal Eighth Grade Experience. And normal is something Birdie craves, especially with a mom as overprotective as hers.

She doesn't expect Deve to be so against her plan, or for their fight to blow up in her face. So when the West African god Anansi appears to her, claiming to be able to make everything right again, Birdie pushes past her skepticism and makes a wish for the whole mess to go away. But with a trickster god, your wish is bound to come true in a way you never imagined.

Before long, Birdie regrets her rash words...especially when she realizes what's really going on with her and Deve. With her reality upended, can Birdie figure out how to undo her wish?

This gorgeous collector's edition of the seductive second novel in Alex Aster's #1 New York Times bestselling Lightlark Saga includes a suite of sensational features:

• Premium metallic slipcase
• Satin cover with foil stamping
• Map-illustrated endpapers
• Stenciled edges
• 8 pages of full-color character art and scene illustrations
• An 8-page bonus romance scene written in the POV of Isla's love interest

Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers.

Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself struggling to win respect as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms. Worse, her fellow rulers haven't ceded victory quietly, and there are others in Isla's midst who don't believe her ascent to power was earned.

As certain death races toward Lightlark and secrets from the past begin to unravel, Isla must weigh her responsibility to her people against the whims of the most dangerous traitor of all: her heart.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 75 family favorites get leveled up to be even bolder, saucier, cheesier, and crisper thanks to Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli and her highly opinionated chef-in-training daughter Ava!

A FOOD NETWORK BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR

From the time she was old enough to hold a fork, Ava has been at Alex's side in the kitchen, whether eating lusciously cheesy gnocchi at Alex's New York City restaurant, Butter, or making classic French omelets with her famous Iron Chef mom. While Alex turns to treasured cookbooks for inspiration, Ava scrolls through TikTok--and now as a teenager, Ava is teaching Alex a thing or two.

Through seventy-five witty and informative recipes, Alex and Ava share a repertoire of dishes that define their modern family meals: bold flavored, comforting, satisfying, and always supremely delicious. Side by side, they cook their way through family favorites like Blueberry Pie from Alex's mom, a legendary cookbook editor, and Nanny Ida's Crisp Potato Latkes. Tips and notes offer great cooking advice for achieving the fluffiest frittatas (add water, never milk) and how to season and mix meatballs so they always stay juicy (spread the mixture up around the sides of the bowl and then season). There's even a bonus recipe for dog biscuits, inspired by Alex and Ava's family dog, Leon!

Cooking with authority is learned and earned in this smart and joyous cookbook that celebrates a mother-daughter bond that's stronger than the even the most garlicky garlic bread (the secret is​--surprise--lots of shallots!).

This book uses the latest techniques in textual analysis to reveal the influence of a community of English playwrights on the celebrated works of William Shakespeare.

A beautiful, inspirational guide to keeping a sustainable home.

Are you ready to create a sanctuary of sustainability? In a world overflowing with consumerism, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. But Kate Jones (founder of The Natural Living Shop and creator of @my_plastic_free_home), is here to whisk away your climate worries with the ultimate toolkit for reducing your environmental impact, without sacrificing convenience.

Packed with tips, fresh ideas and attainable steps for reducing plastic waste in the home, this is the perfect guide for anyone looking to live lighter on the planet while creating a nurturing, natural haven.

Discover:

• Simple, nutritious snack recipes perfect for busy days.
• DIY cleaning products that are safe for your home and the environment.
• Low-waste play ideas to spark creativity for kids--without the clutter.
• Quick and easy guides to making your own plant-based milk.
• Eco-friendly seasonal decorations to celebrate sustainably all year round.

This panoramic novel about a family scattered across the Soviet Union and Europe during World War II is a monument of modern Russian literature by the Ukrainian-born writer hailed as "the Tolstoy of the USSR."

Suppressed by the KGB and years later smuggled out of the Soviet Union to be published, Vasily Grossman's novel is an unsparing story of ordinary Russians tragically caught between the fascism of the invading Nazis and the oppression of their own Soviet government.

The sprawling plot follows the travails of the extended family of Viktor Shtrum along the vast eastern front of the war. Shtrum is a brilliant nuclear physicist who faces rising anti-Semitism in Moscow while his relatives navigate the threat of camps and prisons on both the Soviet and the Nazi sides. Grossman's extensive wartime reporting, combined with his Tolstoyan narrative skills, allow him to portray with unprecedented detail and authenticity the human cost of the struggle between two freedom-denying powers.

In vividly rendered scenes that range from the dramatic battle of Stalingrad to the remote Siberian gulag, and encompassing characters ranging from a grieving mother to a woman in love and from a six-year-old boy on the way to a gas chamber to Stalin and Hitler, Grossman's masterpiece is a profound and moving reckoning with the darkness of the twentieth century and a testament to the stubborn persistence of kindness and hope.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

What happens when money becomes your wisest friend instead of just something to spend?

Alex Ryan's charming tale turns money-building blocks into golden moments of discovery, teaching children that true wealth comes from understanding the value of every dollar and the joy it can bring when used wisely. With delightful lessons about saving, sharing, and making smart choices, this story will have young readers dancing with financial knowledge.

Warrior Leadership: Lessons from the Battlefield to the Firehouse, is a powerful, no-nonsense guide to leadership forged in the fires of combat and the rigors of firefighting. Drawing from the experiences of a U.S. Army Ranger and firefighter, it distills decades of high-stakes decision-making into actionable insights that anyone can use to lead effectively-whether in their personal life, career, or community.

Readers will learn how to:

Lead with humility, prioritizing team success over personal glory. Take complete ownership of outcomes, embracing responsibility and growth. Build loyalty through trust, empathy, and genuine investment in others.

Packed with actionable lessons, compelling anecdotes, and a blueprint for cultivating confidence, Warrior Leadership equips readers to rise to the challenges of leadership with courage and clarity. Whether you're striving to inspire a team, strengthen personal relationships, or elevate your own potential, Warrior Leadership's timeless wisdom will guide you to lead with integrity and purpose.

In the vein of the Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, Sandie Jones's heart-pounding new novel The Blame Game will keep readers on the edge of their seats.

Games can be dangerous. But blame can be deadly.

As a psychologist specializing in domestic abuse, Naomi has found it hard to avoid becoming overly invested in her clients' lives. But after helping Jacob make the decision to leave his wife, Naomi worries that she's taken things too far. Then Jacob goes missing, and her files on him vanish. . . .

But as the police start asking questions about Jacob, Naomi's own dark past emerges. And as the truth comes to light, it seems that it's not just her clients who are in danger.

This novel "masterfully plays with the serial killer genre, walking a line between convention and invention and delving into the psychology of both killer and detective" (Publishers Weekly).

For more than eight years, a serial killer has been stalking the country, visiting towns with biblical names and leaving pairs of victims behind--one female and one male, their bodies broken and twisted to create the same gruesome scene over and over again.

In rural Nazareth, Texas, a Native American man suspected of shoplifting shoots and kills the local sheriff, then takes off running. Found in the trunk of the shoplifter's abandoned car? Two decaying bodies that match the serial killer's chosen prey. Seeking vengeance for the death of the lawman, Deputy Sheriff Jim Doe goes AWOL, embarking on a cross-country manhunt with the FBI following close behind.

From town to town, Doe finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of myth and mayhem, as a storm builds from the menacing clouds of both his--and the killer's--tragic pasts . . .

"Jones's writing betrays a huge intelligence, but he embraces the genre's conventions without sending them up or dumbing them down." --Texas Monthly

"It does what crime drama is supposed to do: scare the bejesus out of the reader. Eerie and engrossing, the novel is the sort of thing you have to shake out of your system when you've finished." --San Antonio Express-News

From the award-winning author, "the kind of collection that lodges in your brain like a malignant grain of an evil dream" (Laird Barron, author of The Imago Sequence).

Winner of the This Is Horror Award
Finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award
Finalist for the Bram Stoker Award

This is not your cookie-cutter horror collection. Stephen Graham Jones has taken nightmarish visions from his fevered imagination and crafted them into pieces of literary genius. If the absolute fear doesn't sweep you away, his lyrical and haunting prose will. As Joe R. Lansdale states in the introduction, "You need this book. If you like anything close to horror, and also like your stories to have elements other than just standing in the darkness with a bloody knife, you have the right book. Enjoy."

Does holding your breath for two minutes during the scariest part of a horror movie invite the terror in? Just ask the kids who go to the local theater in "Thirteen." In "Doc's Story," even the most beloved family tales have teeth--that's what happens when you're born into a werewolf pack. And a father doesn't have to think twice when he's given one chance to make the ultimate sacrifice in "Snow Monsters."

In these fifteen stories, Jones coaxes our greatest fears from the shadowy corners of our minds, and we can't turn away.

"With razor-sharp prose . . . he pummels us in a full-court press of discomfort, paranoia, and a desire to keep the lights on." --Pantheon Magazine

"Jones is a true master of the horror short story. Inventive, quirky, unexpected and masterful." --Jonathan Maberry, New York Times-bestselling author

A powerful call to arms to empower cisgender people to be better allies, blending memoir, detailed research, and interviews.

The trans experience is all too often the subject of fierce debate in the media and online. While we're having more and more conversations about the trans experience, the stark reality is that hate crimes against the trans community have quadrupled over the past five years and that two in five trans young people have attempted suicide.

But behind the shock headlines and the distressing statistics, what does it really mean to be trans?

In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal book, Kenny Ethan Jones, a trans activist and writer, offers an authentic and in-depth insight into the trans experience. From gender dysphoria to surgery, from being outed to finding love and considering parenthood, Kenny Ethan Jones draws on his own life and the stories of others from the trans and nonbinary communities to create discussion around the complexities and reality of the trans experiences in today's society.

Dear Cis(Gender) People is a powerful call to arms, equipping people of every gender with the tools to step forward as allies in order to bring about meaningful change. Through acting and speaking out, we can create a safer, fairer world for trans people--a world in which all of us can exist as our most authentic selves and celebrate who we are without fear.

The true story of the bloodiest and most dramatic march to victory of the Second World War: the battlefield odyssey of a maverick U.S. Army officer and his infantry unit as they fought for over five hundred days to liberate Europe - from the invasion of Italy to the gates of Dachau.
From July 10, 1943, the date of the Allied landing in Sicily, to May 8, 1945, when victory in Europe was declared the entire time it took to liberate Europe no regiment saw more action, and no single platoon, company, or battalion endured worse, than the ones commanded by Felix Sparks, who had entered the war as a greenhorn second lieutenant of the 157th Eager for Duty Infantry Regiment of the 45th Thunderbird Division. Sparks and his fellow Thunderbirdsfoughtlongest and hardest to defeat Hitler, often against his most fanatical troops, when the odds on the battlefield were even and the fortunes of the Allies hung in the balance and when the difference between defeat and victory was a matter of character, not tactics or armor.
Drawing on extensive interviews with Sparks and dozens of his men, as well as over five years of research in Europe and in archives across the US, historian Alex Kershaw masterfully recounts one of the most inspiring and heroicjourneysin military history. Over the course of four amphibious invasions, Sparks rose from captain to colonel as he battled from the beaches of Sicily through the mountains of Italy and France, ultimately enduring bitter and desperate winter combat against thediehardSS on the Fatherland s borders. Though he lost all of his company to save the Allied beach-head at Anzio and an entire battalion in the dark forests of the Vosges, Sparks miraculously survived the long bloody march across Europe and was selected to lead a final charge to Bavaria to hunt down Adolf Hitler.
In the dying days of the Third Reich, Sparksand his mencrossed the last great barrier in the West, the Rhine, only to experiencesome ofthe most intense street fighting and close combat suffered by Americans in WWII. When they finally arrived at the gates of Dachau, Hitler s first and most notorious concentration camp, the Thunderbirds confronted scenes that robbed the mind of reason. With victory within grasp, Sparksconfronted the ultimate test of his humanity: after all he had faced, could he resist the urge to wreak vengeance on the men who had caused untold suffering and misery?
Written with the narrative drive and vivid immediacy of Kershaw s previous bestselling books about American infantrymen in WWII, "The Liberator"is a story for the ages, an intensely human and dramatic account of one of history s greatest warriors and his unheralded role in America s finest achievement the defeat of Nazi Germany."

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that "will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course" (BuzzFeed) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

"Some girls just don't know how to die..."

Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary master" by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and "one of our most talented living writers" by Tommy Orange.

Alma Katsu calls My Heart Is a Chainsaw "a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre." On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies...especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges...a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. My Heart Is a Chainsaw is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.

** MÁS DE 500.000 EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS **
Número 1 en ventas en Amazon durante más de DOS AÑOS!

Me llevé a casa más en un año que los directores ejecutivos de McDonalds, IKEA, Ford, Motorola y Yahoo....combinados....cuando era un chaval de veinte años....utilizando el método de la oferta de 100 millones de dólares. Funciona. Y funcionará para ti.

Sin embargo, no hace mucho, mi negocio había empeorado tanto que, literalmente, ni siquiera podía ofrecer mis servicios gratis. Al final de cada mes, miraba mi cuenta bancaria esperando ver progreso (pero no lo había). Sabía que algo tenía que cambiar... pero qué?

En los 48 meses siguientes, pasé de perder dinero a ganar 36 dólares por cada dólar gastado. En ese periodo de tiempo, generamos más de 120 millones de dólares en cuatro sectores diferentes: servicios, comercio electrónico, software y tiendas físicas.

Pero, a diferencia de todos los demás, no teníamos grandes embudos, grandes anuncios, o un nicho rico. De hecho, ni siquiera enviamos correos electrónicos hasta que superamos los 50 millones de dólares en ventas. En cambio, fuimos capaces de hacer una cosa realmente bien: .... creamos ofertas tan buenas, que la gente se sentía estúpida diciendo que no.

Esto es exactamente lo que este libro le mostrará cómo hacer:

* Cómo Cobrar Mucho Más De Lo Que Cobras Actualmente...

a- El Proceso de Pequeño Mercado y Gran Dinero que usamos para enfocarnos con láser en nichos de mercado rebosantes de dinero.

b- La fórmula "injusta" de fijación de precios....cómo multiplicamos por 100 nuestros precios (y conseguimos que más gente diga que sí....de verdad)

c- El Value Flip...para que nunca más te vuelvan a comparar precios (es una promesa)

d- El ciclo virtuoso del precio... utilízalo para superar a tu competencia (para bien) mientras utilizas tu producto para atraer a los mejores talentos.

* Cómo hacer que su producto sea tan bueno que los clientes potenciales encuentren la forma de pagarlo

a- La ecuación del valor imbatible....para que lo que vendas valga más de lo que tus clientes potenciales hayan recibido nunca

b- El Cubo de la Entrega....para hacer que la entrega de sus productos y servicios cueste menos pero proporcione más

c- The Trim & Stack Hack....para maximizar los beneficios utilizando los mejores métodos de entrega.

* Cómo mejorar tanto tu oferta que los prospectos compren sin dudar

a- La Pila de la Escasez....cómo utilizar los tres tipos diferentes de escasez en cada oferta que hagas (sin mentir) para conseguir que la gente compre en el momento en que se lo pidas

b- El Plano de la Urgencia "Cotidiana"... para conseguir que los prospectos compren AHORA MISMO, utilizando la vida cotidiana para crear una presión de tiempo real y ética

c- Bonificaciones insuperables... y observa cómo se disipan las dudas de tus prospectos mientras comienzan a leerte sus tarjetas de crédito antes de que termines!

d- Garantías como Dios manda... tan buenas que hacen que cualquiera diga que sí (incluso gente que normalmente nunca consideraría comprar). Le mostraré cómo apilar y superponer los 4 tipos de garantías. Incluso le daré mis 13 garantías favoritas palabra por palabra para que las use usted mismo.

e- Fórmula Mágica de Nombres para obtener las más altas tasas de respuesta y tasas de conversión de todo lo que haces para conseguir nuevos clientes y mucho más...

Si quiere conseguir que más prospectos respondan a sus anuncios por menos dólares de publicidad y conseguir que digan SÍ a precios que quitan el aliento...entonces AGREGUE AL CARRITO, utilice su contenido y compruébelo usted mismo.

*The instant New York Times bestseller*

The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II--all Medal of Honor recipients--from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler's own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave

"Pitch-perfect."--The Wall Street Journal - "Riveting."--World War II magazine - "Alex Kershaw is the master of putting the reader in the heat of the action."--Martin Dugard

As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice "Footsie" Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWII, Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded, a baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europe, each would gain the ultimate accolade, the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be--and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?

A CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS NONFICTION FINALIST

The "gripping and astonishing story" (Douglas Preston) of the Cinta Larga, a tribe that had no contact with the West until the 1960s and came to run an illegal diamond mine in the Amazon.

Growing up in a remote corner of the world's largest rainforest, Pio, Maria, and Oita learned to hunt wild pigs and tapirs, and gathered Brazil nuts and açaí berries from centuries-old trees. The first highway pierced through in 1960. Ranchers, loggers, and prospectors invaded, and the kids lost their families to terrible new weapons and diseases. Pushed by the government to assimilate, they struggled to figure out their new, capitalist reality, discovering its wonders--cars, refrigerators, TV sets, phones--as well as a way to acquire them: by selling the natural riches of their own forest home. They had to partner with the white men who'd hunted them, but their wealth grew legendary, the envy of the nation--until decades of suppressed trauma erupted into a massacre, bloody retribution that made headlines across the globe.

Based on six years of immersive reporting and research, When We Sold God's Eye tells a unique kind of adventure story, one that begins with a river journey by Theodore Roosevelt and ends with smugglers from New York City's Diamond District. It's a story of survival against all odds; of the temptations of wealth and the dream of prosperity; of an ecosystem threatened by our hunger for resources; of genocide and revenge. It's a tragedy as old as the first European encounters with Indigenous people, playing out in the present day. But most of all, it's the moving saga of a few audacious individuals--Pio, Maria, Oita, and their friends--and their attempts to adapt and even thrive in the most unlikely circumstances.

"A remarkable novel" (The New York Times) about America's first female soldier, Deborah Sampson Gannett, who ran away from home in 1782, successfully disguised herself as a man, and fought valiantly in the Revolutionary War.At a time when rigid societal norms seemed absolute, Deborah Sampson risked everything in search of something better. Revolutionary, Alex Myers's richly imagined and carefully researched debut novel, tells the story of a fierce-tempered young woman turned celebrated solider and the remarkable courage, hope, fear, and heartbreak that shaped her odyssey during the birth of a nation. After years of indentured servitude in a sleepy Massachusetts town, Deborah chafes under the oppression of colonial society and cannot always hide her discontent. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to escape the only way she can, rejecting her place in the community in favor of the perilous unknown. Cutting her hair, binding her chest, and donning men's clothes stolen from a neighbor, Deborah sheds her name and her home, beginning her identity-shaking transformation into the imaginary "Robert Shurtliff"--a desperate and dangerous masquerade that grows more serious when "Robert" joins the Continental Army. What follows is a journey through America's War of Independence like no other--an unlikely march through cold winters across bloody battlefields, the nightmare of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the elation of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. As The Boston Globe raves, "Revolutionary succeeds on a number of levels, as a great historical-military adventure story, as an exploration of gender identity, and as a page-turning description of the fascinating life of the revolutionary Deborah Sampson."

In a series of genre-blending essays, Entwined tells the story of Alex Alberto's decade-long polyamorous journey towards a new kind of family.

In these essays, Alex attempts to build two committed relationships at once when no one involved has done it before; develops a powerful bond with the woman their partner loves; sits through a tense Thanksgiving Dinner with religious in-laws; questions the need for rules and hierarchy in their relationships; experiences the intensity of a triad; wrestles with the fragility baked into the nuclear family after their father's stroke; and explores their queerness and gender identity in English, in New York, while struggling to reconcile their newfound self in their native French-Canadian language and culture.

Entwined explores the fuzzy lines between friendship, romance, and family with various essay forms, including a play, an advice column, and a love letter. Rather than wallowing in the throes of jealousy, this collection celebrates the hard work of creating a love life that resists conventional narratives.

"Entwined is a goddamn bible for poly-curious people."

-Chloe Caldwell (she/her), 37, questioning

"For Alex, polyamory is about creating a family. By getting to know them and their reality you gain entry to a world that might otherwise seem intimidating."

-Sofia M. (she/her), 64, mother of a polyamorous person

"Entwined is about the desire to create a life outside of capitalism, heteronormativity, and the patriarchy."

-Samantha Paige Rosen (she/her), 33, queer and monogamous

"Entwined had me captivated from start to finish. It will no doubt influence my approach to romance and family."

-Rio C. (she/her), 21, queer, trans, and curious about polyamory

"The variety in content and structure makes it a quick read. Entwined deepened my understanding of polyamory's possibilities; it's not all swinging and sex parties."

-Melissa Gopp-Warner (she/her), 43, queer/questioning and monogamous

"I laughed, cried, and felt my heart fill the fuck up."

- Dan D. (they), 36, queer and newly navigating non-monogamy within a lifelong partnership

Everyone's best friend just happens to be your best therapist

Move over, Socrates and Plato! In this heartwarming guide to living your best life, award-winning photographer Alex Cearns shares the sage advice of our four-legged furry gurus. Their profound insights and goofy enthusiasm will remind you to cherish friendship and love, celebrate our differences and respect the need for a good nap. So sit, stay and enjoy the wisdom of dogs!

In his debut chapbook of poetry, Saeed Jones walks on the periphery of the South, those places on the outskirts of town, in bars after midnight, and on dangerous backroads where most people keep their heads down or look the other way. Through Texas and Tennessee, Alabama and the riverbeds of the Mississippi, these poems wrap themselves in cloaks of masks and comfort; garments we learn are flammable if we stand too close to flames. D. A. Powell says of Saeed's work, "Like Aeneas carrying his father from the ruined city of Troy, Saeed Jones brings all of his beginnings--the roots and tendrils of the kudzu vines, the 'sky burned to blazing, ' the lore and pain and wisdom of salvation--into a new space where art and beauty stagger the mind; where the story of transformation becomes part of the cultural body of who we are. I get shout-happy when I read these poems; they are the gospel; they are the good news of the sustaining power of imagination, tenderness and outright joy; they are the birth of a new poetry that baptizes with the Holy Spirit and with fire."