A collection of spiritual teachings and guided meditations rooted in Toltec wisdom that encourages readers to transform fear-based beliefs, reconnect with their authentic selves, and live with greater love, freedom, and presence. Through practical exercises, reflections, and short essays, it offers tools to dissolve emotional wounds, release limiting stories, and cultivate inner courage and joy. The work emphasizes simple daily practices to foster personal freedom, clearer perception, and more harmonious relationships.

A disgraced investigative journalist teams up with a brilliant but troubled female hacker to solve a decades-old disappearance of a wealthy industrialist’s niece, uncovering a web of family secrets, sexual violence, corporate corruption, and a serial killer. Their collaboration exposes systemic misogyny and leads them into dangerous, personal confrontations as they piece together a violent history hidden by wealth and power.

A scholarly yet accessible exploration of the Orthodox understanding of Christ’s descent into Hades, tracing the doctrine through Scripture, patristic writings, liturgical texts, hymnography and iconography; it presents the descent as the decisive victory over death that liberates the righteous and inaugurates the cosmic transformation of the resurrection. The study examines historical development, theological nuances and pastoral implications, showing how this event is central to Orthodox soteriology and worship.

Marnie Sellick takes a job at the coveted beauty brand rytuał and is drawn into the glamorous world of its charismatic founder, Luna Peters. As she grows closer to Luna and the all-female staff, Marnie becomes entangled in the brand’s seductive, cult-like culture and must confront how far she’ll go for belonging, beauty, and identity.

A dark, intimate novel that follows a woman's obsessive, sometimes destructive relationship as it unfolds over recurring Januaries, using fragmented time and spare, lyrical prose to explore grief, memory, and how desire can warp identity; the story moves between past and present to reveal the emotional consequences of choices and the ache of trying to hold on to a person and a moment that won’t stay still.

A young Canadian journalist on assignment in Somalia is abducted by militants and held captive for over a year, enduring severe physical and psychological abuse while relying on memory, imagination and small acts of resistance to survive; the memoir traces her transformation from idealistic traveler to traumatized survivor and follows her difficult path toward healing, reconciliation and later advocacy.

A lowborn miner discovers his society’s ruling class has built its wealth on lies and violence, and undergoes a brutal transformation to infiltrate the elite and spark a revolution; what begins as a personal quest for vengeance becomes an expansive, bloody struggle for the fate of a color-stratified solar civilization. The series follows his rise through deadly academies and political intrigue, shifting alliances, and escalating wars across worlds, forcing him to confront the costs of leadership, the corrosive cycle of retribution, and the fragile hopes for a just future.

An insider account of how a once-marginal social-democratic party rebuilt its organization, message and campaign machinery to achieve a historic surge in support, chronicling strategic decisions on candidate recruitment, grassroots mobilization, voter targeting (especially the breakthrough in Quebec), message discipline, and the day-to-day management of a high-stakes federal campaign, with practical lessons and reflections for future progressive movements.

A young Japanese-American girl narrates growing up in a close-knit family that moves for low-wage factory work, learning to see the world through her older sister’s bright, optimistic phrase “kira-kira.” When her beloved sister falls ill and the family faces medical crises, discrimination, and financial strain, the narrator must confront loss, responsibility, and the limits of childhood innocence. Through grief and small acts of care, she comes to understand the ways love, memory, and resilience can continue to make life shimmer even after tragedy.

A lyrical, evocative celebration of the winter solstice that traces how people across cultures mark the year’s darkest day with small rituals of light — fires, candles, evergreens, music and gatherings — and reminds readers that in honoring these ancient practices we acknowledge nature’s rhythms and kindle hope as the days begin to lengthen.

On the eve of adulthood, every teenager in a tightly controlled society is suddenly snatched into a brutal, otherworldly landscape where ruthless, ancient creatures hunt for sport; the novel follows a small group of young people as they struggle to survive the nightmarish rules of that realm, confront the moral compromises made by their elders at home, and learn what courage, loyalty and sacrifice really cost when all the certainties of childhood are ripped away.

A sweeping, vividly told retelling of an ancient Indian epic that follows two branches of a royal family — the righteous Pandavas and the ambitious Kauravas — whose rivalry over a kingdom culminates in the devastating Kurukshetra war; through richly drawn characters such as Arjuna, Yudhishthira, Draupadi, Karna and Krishna, the narrative explores duty, honor, fate, betrayal and the moral complexities of power, while interweaving myths, philosophy and battlefield drama (including the spiritual counsel known as the Bhagavad Gita) to examine how personal choices and cosmic law shape human destiny.

A sharp-tongued high schooler with a troubled past meets a popular teenage actress who suddenly becomes unnoticed by everyone but him, and as he investigates he uncovers a series of strange supernatural incidents linked to the emotional struggles of his classmates; using blunt honesty, empathy, and stubborn determination he helps them confront guilt, loneliness, and identity, forcing both of them to face personal trauma while a slow-burning romance and a mix of mystery and psychological insight drive their coming-of-age journey.

After years of working her way up, Emily Desjardins lands a job at the kind of restaurant she hopes to one day own. Her classically trained, exacting new boss, Blake Chadwick, pushes her to improve while also distracting her with a growing attraction, forcing Emily to balance ambition and desire.

(Alternate cover edition of ASIN B09418JQMK.) 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔, 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓 𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒎 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔... 𝑮𝒆𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒚!𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙔Marymount girls are good girls. We’re chaste, we’re untouched, and even if we weren’t, no one would know, because we keep our mouths shut.Not that I have anything to share anyway. I never let guys go too far. I’m behaved. Beautiful, smart, talented, popular, my skirt’s always pressed, and I never have a hair out of place. I own the hallways, walking tall on Monday and dropping to my knees like the good Catholic girl I am on Sunday.That’s me. Always in control. Or so they think. The truth is that it’s easy for me to resist them, because what I truly want, they can never be. Something soft and smooth. Someone dangerous and wild. Unfortunately, what I want I have to hide. In the locker room after hours. In the bathroom stall between classes. In the showers after practice. 𝑀𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑠𝑤𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑀𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝 ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑟𝑡. For me, life is a web of secrets. No one can find out mine. 𝙊𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙄𝘼I cross the tracks every day for one reason—to graduate from this school and get into the Ivy League. I’m not ashamed of where I come from, my family, or how everyone at Marymount thinks my skirts are too short and my lipstick is too red. Clay Collins and her friends have always turned up their noses at me. The witch with her beautiful skin, clean shoes, and rich parents who torments me daily and thinks I won’t fight back.At least not until I get her alone and find out she’s hiding so much more than just what’s underneath those pretty clothes. The princess thinks I’ll scratch her itch. She thinks she’s still pure as long as it’s not a guy touching her. I told her to stay on her side of town. I told her not to cross the tracks. But one night, she did. And when I’m done with her, she’ll never be pure again. *TRYST SIX VENOM is a standalone, new adult, bully romance suitable for readers 18+. It will release directly into Kindle Unlimited!

A reimagining of the life of Antonio de Erauso, a Basque nun who becomes a soldier during the 17th‑century Spanish conquest. Following Antonio as he reinvents himself across the Americas and hides in the jungle with two young Guaraní girls after escaping imprisonment, the novel explores conquest, colonialism, religious authority, and the treatment of women and indigenous peoples through a queer, magical‑realist lens.

An experimental, polyphonic novel that pieces together the history and ongoing aftermath of a Cold War–era eviction—tracing the forced removal of an island community and the ripple effects of exile across generations—by shifting between archival fragments, intimate reminiscences, legal and bureaucratic texts, and satirical political asides; the narrative interrogates colonial violence, memory, displacement, and grief while showing how storytelling, testimony, and ridicule can both reveal and resist the erasures of place and people.

Sterling Karat Gold follows Sterling, who is suddenly arrested despite having done nothing wrong, and — with three close friends — navigates a surreal, often absurd system of authority to clear their name. The novel examines the effects of state violence on gender‑nonconforming, working‑class, and Black people, and emphasizes community, creativity and refusal to be silenced as forms of resistance.

A writer traces the parallel lives of two young men who share a name and similar beginnings—one who becomes a decorated soldier, scholar and civic leader, the other who is convicted of murder and given a life sentence—using memoir and reporting to show how family, mentors, decisions, chance and systemic inequality converge to produce radically different outcomes and to explore responsibility, opportunity and the forces that shape young lives.

A raw, fragmentary first-person account of a man consumed by memories of a past lover, tracing the tender, violent, and often absurd moments that made up their life together in a small Appalachian town; the narrator weaves domestic detail, confessional rants, and hallucinatory digressions into a relentless meditation on desire, grief, addiction, masculinity, and the impossibility of reconstructing the past, producing a fiercely intimate, lyric, and sometimes brutal portrait of love’s aftershocks.

隣り合う底辺男子校・千鳥高校と由緒あるお嬢様校・桔梗女子。強面で物静かな千鳥高校２年の紬凛太郎は、実家のケーキ屋で桔梗女子の生徒・和栗薫子と出会う。彼女との時間を心地よく感じる凛太郎だが、薫子は千鳥を嫌う側の生徒で――立場の違いが交錯する青春ラブストーリー。

お嬢様校の和栗薫子と、底辺男子校に通う紬凛太郎。薫子と過ごす時間に心地よさを感じた凛太郎は、自分の中に芽生えた恋心に気づき、ふと彼女に「好きです」と伝える決意をする。近くて遠い二人の、一途で淡い恋の行方を描く物語。

A lyrical, reflective meditation on voluntary silence and solitude that interweaves personal experiments with longer periods of quiet, cultural and religious histories of silence, and encounters with wild places; the narrator examines how withholding speech reshapes perception, creativity, inner life and bodily awareness, and considers silence as both sanctuary and provocation in a noisy modern world.

戦場での過去を背負う元少女兵が、自動手記人形として手紙の代筆を通じて人々の想いを紡ぎながら、自分にかけられた「愛している」の言葉の意味を探り、失われた感情を取り戻していく姿を描いた物語。依頼主それぞれの悲喜や葛藤に寄り添う中で、言葉が人の心を癒し変えていく様子と主人公の内面の成長が静かに綴られる。