**IACP Cookbook Award WinnerA groundbreaking cookbook celebrating the distinctive cuisine and culture of Oaxaca, from one of Mexico's most revered chefs. With a foreword by Enrique Olvera.**In The Food of Oaxaca, acclaimed chef Alejandro Ruiz shares the cuisine of Mexico’s culinary capital through fifty recipes both traditional and original. Divided into three parts, the book covers the classic dishes of the region, the cuisine of the coast, and the food Ruiz serve...

THE RISE OF THE UGLY LUNAA Shunned Wolf Shifter’s Dark Paranormal RomanceWhen the pack spits you out under a blood moon, you can either fade into the forest — or learn to burn.Palmer Riley was supposed to be invisible: a convenient mistake the pack could sweep away. Instead she becomes the one thing her enemies feared most — a pulse in the night, marked by moonfire and shaped by choice. This is a story about getting up when everything that ...

You open the cover and the world exhales with you.The first pages pull you into rain-slicked alleys and a palace that remembers how to keep secrets. You meet Kailani Romero—exiled, fierce, and unbroken—and the child she hid from a kingdom that chose fear over truth. You stand beside them in a hidden glade as ancient magic hums through the trees, and you feel the sting of every sacrifice that forged this family. This is not a distant fairy tale. This is a kingdom at its breaking poi...

Saints of the Household is a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--beautifully told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer--that will take your breath away.Max and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads d...

Imagine the lights dim, the first page opens, and you’re already halfway through the night—heart racing, pulse synced to two people who should never belong together, and yet can’t imagine a future without one another. That’s the pull of ALPHA’S EXILED MATE — a dark, sensual, and relentlessly emotional werewolf shifter romance that lingers long after the last line.What you hold in your hands is more than a story. It’s a slow-burn journey through exile and redemption...

What if the one you were destined to bond with… abandoned you?She was marked by the Moon, chosen by fate, and bound to an Alpha whose silence became her greatest punishment. Rejected publicly, cast out of her pack, and forced into exile, she believed her life—and her future—was over. Every step she took was measured in survival, every breath a struggle to reclaim the strength that had been stripped from her.But fate is never quite finished.Years later, she returns—n...

She thought rejection would break her. Instead, it remade her.When the Shadow Alpha cast Selene aside under the weight of prophecy and power, the rejection did not just end a bond — it shattered a future she had been raised to believe was already written. Cast out from the packlands she once called home, she learned to survive beyond authority, beyond expectation, and beyond the identity others tried to define for her.But shadows have long memories… and bonds formed in trut...

Award-winning author Mark Oshiro (Anger is a Gift) returns with a new contemporary coming-of-age novel laced with a twisty, dark mystery you’ll have to read to believe.Hidden Secrets Always Come to Light.Manny lives by the rules—the rules that have kept him moving, kept him alive, and have helped him survive being thrust into adulthood long before he was ready. It’s been a year since breaking the rules got him cast out of his family. But the existence of an unidentified bod...

Some young hackers receive an encrypted message from friends who entered an Arab rebel group, alerting them to an attack on New York and London. Helped by a former FBI agent, they join them to prevent the attack from taking place. The young arrive in Syria and after several violent incidents, are kidnapped and circumventing all security systems, are forced to reach both cities with the terrorists. They connect with encrypted messages with the agencies and after a series of violent clashes ...

The true chronology of the strange, violent and dangerous incidents in which a young woman is involved, leader of an armed revolutionary group and an American spy, facing the terrible and bloody underground group the Componte. The ideological passion and impossible love, which moves them to collect key information that convinces secret military strategy changes to General Miles, thereby altering the course of the Spanish-American War and the history of the Caribbean.

***My name is Kaitlyn Fellows and I'll never be the same.******The Fire stole everything from me.***My home...my family...even my beauty...The right side of my face is normal--even pretty. But the left side, I hide in shame. That's where The Fire marked me...scarred me forever.At Nocturne Academy I'm nothing--just a little Norm girl with no supernatural powers and a disfigured face.Which is why it's so strange that a big, Handsome Drake like A...

Immerse yourself on an interstellar journey through "A Story of More than 5000 Worlds'' as it explores the fascinating story of celestial discovery and the enduring quest of researchers and scientists to find life beyond Earth. This comprehensive book navigates the intricacies of star and planet formation, shedding light on the enigmatic life cycle of stars like our Sun to pulsars and black holes and the dynamic processes that define the fate of planets.Marvel at the ingenuity of e...