This is a book of letters, written to the reader's inner child by who they needed, when they never felt seen or heard. Each letter is intentional, uneasy, emotional, and sometimes seems impossible. The expectations, the societal views, that are put onto a child at such a young age, all while being told to "be a child." This is not a book to be read in one sitting. You will feel uneasy at times. Take it in stride and sit with it. Your inner child does have a safe place, and can now feel see...

COVID-19 is a big deal--but with all that adults have to worry about, it's easy to overlook the pandemic's impact on children. This book provides a great way for parents and caregivers to introduce and reinforce the importance of safety measures to children while giving kids the opportunity to ask questions and share their feelings. Embracing the latest science, The Teensy Weensy Virus pairs simple, kid-friendly explanations with bright colorful illustrations, while offering addit...

American Isolationism Between the World Wars: The Search for a Nation's Identity examines the theory of isolationism in America between the world wars, arguing that it is an ideal that has dominated the Republic since its founding.During the interwar period, isolationists could be found among Republicans and Democrats, Catholics and Protestants, pacifists and militarists, rich and poor. While the dominant historical assessment of isolationism — that it was "provincial" and...

Asher made a deal with the Devil and is now serving in Hell doing Lucifer's bidding. Becs is determined to get Asher back and is making plans to do so, relying on a tiny loophole in Asher and Lucifer's agreement to set Asher free. Gregory observes from the sidelines as Becs schemes, determined to support her no matter what, even if it means he helps rescue the man she loves.Jemma makes a grave error, Oded comes out of retirement, and the wee elves are, as usual, in the middle of th...

**“A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino’s “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,” Nabokov’s “Pale Fire”, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.” — Michael Dirda, The Washington PostA collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form …Perfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales.**Welcome to the fictional un...

Pornography is seen as morally problematic for a variety of reasons: coercion, exploitation, harm and the promulgation of inequality. The book looks at various ethical and political discussions concerning the production, exchange and consumption of pornography to propose a radical new approach centering on the concept of objectification.

WINNER OF THE 2025 GOLDSMITHS PRIZEA wickedly smart, Borgesian novel that explores the boundaries between art and life, vision and reality, beauty and commerce . . .When visitors to a famous conceptual artist's installation start mysteriously disappearing, the aftershocks radiate outwards through twelve people who were involved in the project, changing all of their lives, and launching them on a crazy-quilt trajectory that will end with the...

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—a period that marked the emergence of a global modernity—educated landowners, or “gentlemen,” dominated the development of British natural history, utilizing networks of trade and empire to inventory nature and understand events across the world. Specimens, ranging from a Welsh bittern to the plants of Botany Bay, were collected, recorded, and classified, while books were produced in London and copies distributed and used across Britain, Continent...

In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of events. One factor that was essential, Kenneth D. Rose here argues, was the presence of a large number of well-organized women promoting repeal.

In the tradition of G. G. Simpson's classic work, Kenneth D. Rose's The Beginning of the Age of Mammals analyzes the events that occurred directly before and after the mysterious K-T boundary which so quickly thrust mammals from obscurity to planetary dominance.Rose surveys the evolution of mammals, beginning with their origin from cynodont therapsids in the Mesozoic, contemporary with dinosaurs, through the early Cenozoic, with emphasis on the Paleocene and Eocene adaptiv...

My name is Rebecca, but everyone calls me Becs.Years ago, a mark appeared on my inner wrist—the Kiss, they call it—and it makes me a summoner. I can summon, well, things ... entities of power, including demons. Which, I did, until recently. I quite, because I summoned a demon on behalf of a client and things went south. I fixed it, but now I owe that demon a favor and I don't know what he's going to call it, or, what he's going to ask.Now I work in a fae bar, trying to stay...

When Lady Moira Brennan leaves her home at Brennan Castle for the wilds of her own homestead claim in the Montana territory, she had no idea that a husband awaited her. Sold into marriage by her uncle, she arrives to find a bleak landscape of scarce farmers, all desperately trying to scratch out a living on their claims.Pryor MacAteer came to Montana himself only three years ago, and his farm has prospered. All that he needs to make it complete is a wife and family, one whose passa...