What if your only hope for saving your family meant stepping into a kidnapper's trap?Savannah school principal Deirdre Stephens seems to have it all until a family trip to finalize the adoption of an orphaned boy spirals into a nightmare. In a flash, her spirited four-year-old daughter is abducted, and days later, her husband vanishes without a trace.As Deirdre frantically searches for answers, she slowly uncovers shocking secrets surrounding her husband's ...

Jordan Peele's Nope meets True Grit in Nicholas Belardes’s Ten Sleep**, a supernatural modern-day western about a trio of young people on a 10-day cattle drive that leads them through a canyon haunted by ancient mysteries and savage beasts who existed long before humankind.**A young Mexican American woman detects uncanny creatures stalking her on ...

In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the "echoes" she inherited from her mother—visions which often distort her reality. One morning as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes.Attending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. And as Grace's echoes bring ghosts and ...

When I tell people who don’t speak Spanish what “prieta” means—“dark” or “the dark one”—their eyes pop open and a small gasp escapes. … How do I tell them that now, even after the cruelty of children, “Prieta” means love? That each time “Prieta” fell from my grandmother’s lips, I learned to love my dark skin. My Ita called me Prieta. When she died, she took the name with her.Yasmín Ramírez spent her twenties feeling lost—working an intensely taxing retail job and turning to bars fo...

This go-to guidebook helps agile practitioners overcome upskilling challenges in their organizations through effective Dojo coaching.Agile has changed the way we work in our organizations. But by demanding constant innovation and product delivery, individuals and teams struggle to find time to improve their skills. That's where the Dojo comes in. Dojo-style coaching encourages this kind of learn-by-doing form of skill development, one where guided breakthroughs and upskilling happe...

Drawing from over twenty years of activism on local and national levels, this striking book offers an organizer's perspective on the intersections of immigrant rights, racial justice, and prison abolition.In the wake of post-9/11 xenophobia, Obama's record-level deportations, Trump's immigration policies, and the 2020 uprisings for racial justice, the US remains entrenched in a circular discourse regarding migrant justice. As organizer Silky Shah argues in Unbu...

A passionate memoir about identity, resilience, and the healing power of forgivenessFrom her earliest memories, Minu felt like an outsider. It wasn't just her peculiar name, but also her light skin and cinnamon-swirl hair—so unlike the dark features of her Mexican family—that drew comments from neighbors and strangers.No one took her questions seriously, leaving her yearning for answers. Meanwhile, she had to endure her father's violence, her mother's negli...

A lovers-to-enemies lesbian romantic thriller which proves killing is hard, but falling in love might be a death sentence.Two elite, undercover, rival assassins are drawn to each other after meeting at a nightclub to unknowingly carry out a hit on the same man. For lone wolf American assassin Verity, their connection is so intense she thinks she might want to risk falling for gorgeous Mexican translator Reina. Too bad Reina's next contract is to kill Verity—a woman...

Ender: When I first met Gabe—a month after our best friends started dating each other—I expected awkward small talk and polite smiles. What I don't expect is the way he looks at me . . . like I'm important. Like he sees something worth knowing behind the walls I've built over the years. No one's ever looked at me like that before. Not my parents, who left me with scars deeper than silence. Not one person—except maybe my best friends, who taught me how to survive when love ...

Strength and sacrifice. Toughness and tenderness. Success and struggles. These elements—ever present in the world of sports—are also among the beautiful and challenging dichotomies at the heart of working motherhood.Tough as a Mother tackles motherhood in a whole new way, bringing all moms up close and personal with some of the biggest names in sports while showcasing the shared strengths—the Tough Mother Tenets—that empower us all.U.S. Soccer star Alex Morgan; Oly...

After Life is a collective history of how Americans experienced, navigated, commemorated, and ignored mass death and loss during the global COVID-19 pandemic, mass uprisings for racial justice, and the near presidential coup in 2021 following the 2020 election. Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on ...

Reading tarot will be as easy as talking to your best friend with this beginner-friendly guide to learning every card.A conversation once changed Samantha Rose Hicks's life—now she passes that experience on to you. She presents the conversational approach to tarot, which starts with getting to know the cards as real individuals. Once you relate to them, you create personal bonds with them. No longer will you have to rely on standard, impersonal meanings. You'll kno...