Warning! May Contain Nuts!For Maude Appleby, award-winning cupcake maker and bakery owner, the tragic deaths of a sugar-crazed juvenile delinquent and his victim spells the end of her livelihood. The British government steps in to restrict the sale of sugar, closing the oven door on her baking business. In retaliation, Maude forms the Granny Cartel, an underground criminal enterprise that smuggles illegal confectionery to the masses. With the notorious Baker’s Dozen as her muscle, ...

A Warhammer 40,000 AnthologyThe Imperium is at war with xenos, the servants of Chaos, and worse. Warriors, both human and post-human, fight on far-flung battlefields with no end in sight, selling their lives dearly for the sprawling domain of Humanity to hold on for just a moment longer. This collection of short stories and a novella tells just a fraction of their tales.READ IT BECAUSEThis anthology features stories from some of Bla...

'Look, you don't have to join the movement or whatever. You don't have to march or rally or call or write letters or even get fucking angry. I don't care about that. I don't. What I do care about is YOU.'Jesse, an introspective Black playwright, finds his choices challenged when his boyfriend, Neil, a white Black Lives Matter activist, calls him out for his political apathy.As passions and priorities collide, the two of them are forced to reckon with divisions of r...

Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 feet, this has been David Beckett's love, life, and work for all his adult life. He brushed with death on more than one occasion—such as when called in to assist when the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 and claimed 852 lives. Among the depths of despair, there are lighter moments, including treasure hunting in the Philippines, al...

Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 provides a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condi...

The explosive, meticulously reported narrative about the secret war to control artificial intelligence — told through the people who built it, the people who tried to stop it, and the people who blew it all open. Before ChatGPT changed the world. Before the boardroom coup that shook Silicon Valley. Before governments realized they were already losing the most consequential technological race in human history — a small number of people knew exactly what was coming. They tried to warn us. Mo...

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE WORLD'S GREATEST POWER STOPS BELIEVING IN ITSELF? From the marble halls of the Roman Senate to the corridors of Washington D.C., history has been whispering the same warning for two thousand years. The question is whether America is finally listening. Empire in Decline is the book that geopolitical analysts, history professors, and political insiders are calling the most urgent work of comparative history published in a generation. Drawing on the rise and fall of Rome...

What if the fog hadn't come?On the night of August 29, 1776, a fog rolled into New York Harbor so thick and so perfectly timed that it defied explanation. Without it, George Washington's trapped army would have been captured or destroyed before the Declaration of Independence was six weeks old. The American Revolution would have ended not in triumph but in a British prison. The United States of America would never have existed.That fog was only the beginning.How Americ...

The Mental ToolboxYour mind isn't broken—it's just overloaded. Stress, anxiety, brain fog, and overthinking? They're signs your brain has been pushed too hard for too long. The Mental Toolbox is your practical stress management guide for getting back in control and building real mental resilience—without having to overhaul your entire life.Look, we're all dealing with too much these days. This book gives you actual solutions that work in the real world. It's written by some...

David Harrison Horton's Necessary is a poetic exploration of time, place, and connection. Drawing on sources as diverse as Babylonian creation myths, Carolingian history, Marco Polo, Paul Éluard, Elizabeth Willis, and Xinran, Horton layers fragments and imagery into a contemporary meditation on how we come to understand our place within inherited and unfolding narratives.Structured in a fixed nine-line form, each poem places these elements in dialogue with the movements an...

Finally! A book for the corporate newbie that sheds light on the strange and mysterious world of Corporate America…Often the difference between the hot-shot “brand builders” who rise to corporate success and the “brand burners” who crash and burn early in their careers is seldom about intelligence or even hard work. That would be too straightforward.Corporate survival and ultimate success are more often about who understands the Unwritten Rules of Corporate...

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...