Twenty-two years ago, Nora Vossane walked out of TOY H-U-S-H without her six-year-old brother.The flagship toy store closed after the disastrous event known as the Long Playtime. Nora's family never recovered, and the official story never explained what happened to Eli. She has spent her adult life restoring damaged memories for other people while refusing to examine her own.Then a pristine TOY H-U-S-H catalog appears outside her apartment.Inside is a photograph of ...

The meltdown over mismatched socks isn't about socks, and the defiance you see is usually a nervous systemthat hit its threshold before you noticed. Gideon Emerson's insightful book explores the exhaustion that ariseswhen your child's intensity overwhelms every standard parenting strategy.When a child's behavior crosses into full-body meltdowns and rigid refusals, the usual tools-time-outs,consequence charts, calm-down corners-often make things worse. Parent...

Can a young widow, long without the pleasures of a man, find true love…with two men?Though still only twenty-one, Olympia Whyte has been a widow for nearly two years.Just now returning to her social activities among London's haut monde, Olympia has an unplanned sexual encounter with a man whose face she never sees…setting off a series of events that leave her breathless and trembling in the arms of two men!Colby Beldon, the Duke of Tasley, is a notorious ra...

Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the 7th October and the ensuing devastation of Gaza. His clear-eyed analysis is a vital aperture into current events but he also brings essential historical and political conte...

Qualifications may open doors. Value creates lasting impact.Every person carries unique value—but too often, it remains undiscovered, undeveloped, or underused.Many spend years chasing opportunities, unaware that their greatest advantage is not something they must acquire, but something they already possess.Uncommon Value to the Marketplace is an invitation to discover, develop, and release that value using the structured, p...

At the Bab el-Mandeb, known as the Gate of Tears, power is the only law that matters. In the volatile waters of the Red Sea, where geopolitical tensions simmer and danger lurks in every shadow, Dr. Elara Vance finds herself stranded. A volunteer physician with Doctors Without Borders, she is evacuated from a conflict zone onto the USS Aegis, a destroyer patrolling the most dangerous maritime chokepoint on earth. She expects safety. She finds three men who view her as a liability, a risk, a...

The door wasn't there when Evelyn Cross took the photograph.But the camera saw it.Twenty years ago, Evelyn's parents and eight-year-old sister vanished inside Mourningglass House. Evelyn escaped with no memory of what happened—and built a career documenting old buildings, trusting measurements and photographs more than the broken pieces of her past.Then an impossible black door appears in one of her photographs....

Frankie Lidstrom was never supposed to be mayor. He's too charming, too honest, and far too lazy. Now that he is, can he save Middlechester from corruption, the onslaught of AI, and a zombie movie gone wrong?This is a witty and satirical look at the meaning and origins behind 347 common English idioms told through stories.Every day you take the bull by the horns, throw your hat into the ring, and eat a square meal.But wher...

Healing from a High-Control Group or Religion: A Guide Combining EMDR to Process Traumatic Experiences with DBT to Rebuild a Sense of Self and TrustLeaving an authoritarian group, cult, or high-control religious environment creates a disorienting psychological double exposure: external freedom arrives alongside internal instability. When every ordinary decision—from wardrobe and entertainment to career paths, friendships, and private thoughts—was previously governe...

Are you a university president struggling with messy, high-stakes decisions?University presidents rarely receive clean problems. A clean problem has a known objective, a manageable set of variables, and an answer that can be judged mainly by whether it works.Presidential problems are usually much messier. A decision can be financially sound and still damage trust. It can be compassionate and still weaken academic standards. It can respect faculty governance and still move t...

The Mortician's CompassionSomeone has died. And yet signatures are still required.Choices must be made. Clothes must be located. Dates must be coordinated.A person who has spent forty years calling a spouse by a pet name now has to spell that spouse's legal name for a death certificate.You meet families in the strangest administrative moment of their lives.WHY THIS WORK CARRIES DIFFERENTLYA florist can correc...

Communicating Your Needs to Your DoctorA medical appointment can make an articulate person suddenly forget how sentences work. You may have rehearsed your questions in the car, organized your symptoms in your head, and promised yourself that this time you would mention the side effect that has been bothering you for three months. Then the door opens. Someone in a white coat asks, "So what brings you in?" The clock seems to start ticking, and your careful plan collapses into, "I don...