Six teens murdered. A suspect behind bars. A desperate father. In a case this shadowy, the truth is easy to hide.Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives—predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the...

From USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw comes The Salt Grows Heavy, a razor-sharp and bewitching fairytale of discovering the darkness in the world, and the darkness within oneself.“Narrator Susan Dalian viscerally conveys the gruesome body horror while deftly capturing the lush imagery.” - Library Journal“This brilliant novella is not to be missed.” —Publishers Weekly, STARRED review

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of House of Leaves comes a magisterial novel about two friends determined to rescue a pair of horses set for slaughter.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Vulture, and Library Journal“This is an amazing work of fiction. I absolutely loved it. At the heart you’ll find a blood-drenched story of pursuit and two brave and resourceful children. But there’s so much mor...

Walk into just about any manufacturing facility right now, and the story looks good. Production is up. Quality is solid. The dashboards are doing exactly what they’re supposed to do.But spend a little time on the floor and you start to hear something different.The people who used to catch problems before they showed up in the data are retiring. The ones who knew the sounds, the smells, the subtle shifts in a machine that didn’t feel right. That knowledge isn’t being replace...

"Gear Up for Greatness" is a transformative guide to revolutionizing employee engagement and workplace culture through the power of strategic gratitude. This captivating business fable follows James Peterson, a CEO tasked with turning around the toxic work environment at SteelTech Manufacturing, a company struggling with low morale, high turnover, and disengaged employees."Gear Up for Greatness" doesn't shy away from the real challenges of cultural transformation. It addresses comm...

From the critically acclaimed and New York Times bestselling author of When No One Is Watching comesa riveting thriller about the new caretaker of a historic estate who finds herself trapped on an island with a murderer—and the ghosts of her past.Years after a breakdown and a diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder derailed her historical preservationist career, Kenetria Nash and her alters have been given a second chance they can’t refuse: a ...

Gratitude is a powerful force in our personal lives, and it can also be a "gateway drug" to creating a more empathetic workplace. Four simple words - "Thank you very much" can make all the difference.Research studies define APPRECIATION as "seeing the positives in events, experiences, or other people." However, GRATITUDE takes it one step further in that gratitude acknowledges that the good things that happen to us are often a result of forces outside of ourselves, mainly stemming ...

In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pickA demon. An angel. A city.The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered, married, and maddened the city and its people for generations, and built it into a...

“As poet, prophet, and priest, Thurman builds upon a powerful legacy of ancestral hope: belief in a liberating God who can always be found ‘in and among the struggling.’”—Yolanda PierceA universal beacon of hope and endurance for people of all faiths seeking to meet the challenges, uncertainties, and joys of lifeHoward Thurman’s Meditations of the Heart is a beautiful collection of over 150 prayers, poems, and meditations on...

This program features multicast narration.“A quick and entirely captivating listen, full of surprises and satisfying character portraits.”—Library JournalThe author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night shift workers who meet in the local cemetery to unearth the secrets lurking in an open grave.Every night, in the college’s ancien...

A poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, now available in a new edition featuring an introduction by Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage.“A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement.” —Ms. Magazine“My life suddenly made sense when I enc...

A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table and beyond—chronicling their passions and motivations, lessons learned and hard-won wisdom, personal recipes, and more.Chef and writer Klancy Miller found her own way by trial and error—as a pastry chef, recipe developer, author, and founder of For the Culture magazine—but what if she had known then what she knows now? What if she h...