A former mayor recounts the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans and uses that episode to examine the deeper history of racism, civic memory, and the politics of public symbols. Blending personal memoir, historical context, and policy prescription, the book argues that confronting uncomfortable truths about the past is necessary for racial justice, democratic renewal, and healing, and offers practical guidance for leaders and communities seeking to build more inclusive public spaces.

A candid memoir by a former White House foreign policy adviser that recounts his experience shaping and defending the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts — from the Iran nuclear deal and the Cuba thaw to interventions in Libya and the complex responses to Syria and Russia — offering behind-the-scenes accounts of policy debates, strategy, and presidential decision-making. It blends detailed storytelling of negotiations and crises with reflections on the challenges of diplomacy, the limits of power, and the consequences of choices made, while chronicling the team’s efforts to communicate American values and interests. The narrative also confronts the administration’s mistakes and the political currents that culminated in a populist backlash, arguing for the importance of principled, pragmatic engagement in a turbulent world.

Dream City traces two centuries of downtown Detroit’s rise, decline, and renewal. Conrad Kickert explores the stark contrast between a recently revitalized core and surrounding blight, showing how repeated reinventions—driven by the automobile, suburbanization, land consolidation, and powerful local actors—reshaped the urban fabric. Through original morphological maps and historical vignettes, he explains how competing visions and economic forces produced Detroit’s distinctive downtown and suggests its patterns resonate beyond the city.

A searing diagnosis of national decline that argues corporate capitalism, militarism, and a corrupt political class have hollowed out democratic institutions and civic life; through reporting from deindustrialized towns, veterans, addicts, and displaced workers, it portrays social fragmentation, cultural decay, and the rise of authoritarian impulses, and calls for moral resistance, community rebuilding, and radical dissent to avert further collapse.

After a devastating childhood trauma, a young girl is taken to live with her reclusive grandmother on a remote Australian flower farm where she learns the secret language and healing power of plants; as she grows, she uncovers family violence and buried secrets, confronts grief and loss, and ultimately seeks belonging, strength and renewal through her deepening connection to the land, its flowers and the people who tend them.

In 1914 Oxford, twin sisters Peggy and Maude work in the university press bindery—Peggy yearning for education and Maude content with the steady work. As World War I brings Belgian refugees to the city and upends daily life, Peggy's hopes, relationships and responsibilities are tested. The novel follows the sisters' bond and examines who has access to knowledge in a changing society.

A moving collection of portrait photographs and candid first‑person stories gathered from people around the world that captures intimate moments, personal struggles, humor and everyday life; the images and brief narratives reveal shared humanity, resilience and vulnerability, connecting readers to diverse lives through powerful, often surprising glimpses into ordinary people’s experiences.

Ein phantastischer Roman, in dem ein auf einer geheimnisvollen Insel voller Leuchttürme gestrandeter Erzähler auf skurrile Bewohner, seltsame Kreaturen und rätselhafte Geheimnisse trifft; in surrealen, oft humorvollen Episoden entfaltet sich ein labyrinthartiges Geflecht aus Geschichten, Intrigen und metafiktionalen Wendungen, das Fragen nach Sprache, Erinnerung und Identität stellt und zugleich Gesellschaftssatire mit fantasievoller Abenteuerlust verbindet.

A fresh, YA reimagining of the Robin Hood legend that follows a fiercely independent young woman who rejects the limited life laid out for her and becomes a force in Sherwood’s outlaw world. Trained in archery and deception, she stages daring raids, navigates shifting loyalties and romantic tension, and confronts what leadership, identity, and justice truly demand. The novel mixes action, political intrigue, and emotional stakes as she transforms from a sheltered life into a symbol of resistance.

A consolatory letter addressed to his mother that reframes exile and misfortune through Stoic reason, arguing that external hardships are small compared with the inner freedom of virtue; it counsels patience, courage, and acceptance of nature’s course, rejects dependence on fame, wealth, or pity, and offers philosophical perspectives to transform grief into steady endurance and moral dignity.

After surviving crushing personal loss, a vengeful warrior rises from exile to unite outcasts and lead a brutal campaign against the aristocratic system of ritualized warfare that created his suffering. As he wages incendiary battles and forges uneasy alliances, supernatural forces and ruthless politics complicate his quest, forcing him to confront whether his pursuit of revenge will save his people or consume him. The story blends relentless action, moral ambiguity, and epic stakes as the protagonist struggles to break a cycle of violence while battling the corrosive power of his own rage.

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 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.

(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.

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。

SMA Chidori, yang bersebelahan dengan Akademi Kikyo yang berkelas, dikenal sebagai sekolah murid-murid nakal. Rintaro Tsumugi, siswa kelas dua bermuka sangar, bertemu Kaoruko Waguri, siswi Kikyo yang sering mengunjungi toko kue keluarganya; kedekatan mereka berkembang, tetapi Rintaro takut Kaoruko akan berubah pandang jika tahu asal sekolahnya.

お嬢様校の和栗薫子と、底辺男子校の紬凛太郎。薫子と過ごす中で自分の淡い恋心に気づいた凛太郎は、彼女の誕生日に手作りケーキを贈ろうと決意し、父に教えを乞いながら奮闘する。夏を背景にした、初々しい想いと成長を描く短編。

千鳥高校の紬凛太郎と桔梗女子の和栗薫子は、付き合い始めた夏休みを過ごしている。夏休み終盤に開かれる友人・夏沢朔の誕生日会のため、凛太郎は感謝の気持ちで初めてケーキ作りに挑戦する。友人や恋人との距離感や成長をやさしく描いた、心温まる短編。

Mallory Viridian's talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to take refuge on a sentient space station. At first the new existence is peaceful and devoid of homicide, offering a break from the suspicion that followed her. When the station allows human guests and the first Earth shuttle arrives, aliens and humans begin to die; Mallory is stuck in the center of an extraterrestrial whodunit and must solve the crime quickly or risk more victims aboard.