Soloists dives into the fierce, high-stakes world of professional dance, where the line between ambition and obsession blurs and passion fuels every step. Maggie is a dancer with something to prove—to herself and to the world. When she makes the cut for an elite dance company in Warsaw, it feels like a dream come true. But intense training, competition, and relentless pressure are only the beginning. She soon meets Gabriel, a talented but complicated dancer whose confidence and al...

AUTHOR OF 2024 INT’L LATINO BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION, VOLCANIC INTERRUPTIONS • CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL RECOGNIZED ESTABLISHED ARTIST FOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA REGION“This poetry collection is heart-led, a feast for the eyes, ears, and soul.”—Odilia Galván Rodríguez • “Myths and loss, yearnings and magic”—Cristina GarcíaThe poems in Variations in Blue

An Inspirational Memoir of a Latin Jazz Singer and Mental Health TherapistFrom the thrill of the stage to the quiet strength of the counseling room, Adela's life is a testament to resilience, reinvention, and the power of second chances. A world-traveling vocalist turned therapist, she's faced heartbreak, rediscovered love, and returned to music with renewed purpose.Told with honesty, humor, and heart, this memoir follows her traveling journey from spotlight to self-discove...

A world where Socialist insects fear the police. And the only trace of humans is a mysterious ruin in the forest, plus mind-boggling tales told by a janitor beetle where architecture, anatomy and hierarchical corporations become one. Written over a century ago by a woman at the top of the Andes mountains in the heart of South America, "Vertigo" by Adela Zamudio (1854-1928), Bolivia, forms part of the global origins of science fiction. Translated from the Spanish for the first time by Lynet...

Rose Williams had a job to do, but Aaron Light wasn't making it easy for her. Aaron had to survive and to survive he had to protect himself from the law. However, now that they live together, will they overcome their differences and work together and realize that they have the same enemy? What of the growing attraction between them when they don't want to drop their guard down in front of one another?

Fairy tales told around the fire on Christmas Eve—including "The Light Princess," "The Shadows," "The Golden Key," and "The Giant's Heart."Reminiscent of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, MacDonald's attempt to package a collection of short stories in the guise of a novel is built around a group of snowbound travelers attempting to pass the time in a country house by sharing stories in hopes of distracting young Adela Cathcart from her illness. Early in his care...

Step into the magical and rich world of Chinese mythology with tales of gods, goddesses, the Monkey King, the White Snake, and more in this gorgeous, fully illustrated collection of myths and fairy tales.Do you know how the world began? Or why there is wind and rain? Have you ever felt lucky and wondered where luck comes from? Are you curious about the unseen and unknown?People have been asking these questions for thousands of years, with different cultures...

WINNER, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL PRIZE, MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATIONWe tend to feel that works of fiction give us special access to lived experience. But how do novels cultivate that feeling? Where exactly does experience reside?The Location of Experience argues that, paradoxically, novels create experience for us not by bringing reality up close, but by engineering environments in which we feel constrained from acting. By excavating the history of the ...

What would your life look like without procrastination? According to the latest scientific research, you'd be less stressed, more productive, healthier, and statistically live longer.A global bestseller, The End of Procrastination offers science-based, practical tools to overcome postponement and live a fulfilled life. The book provides everything you need to change how you manage your time, pick priorities, and tackle your daily tasks. With 8 simple tools,...

First published in 1962, this is the biography of American journalist, novelist and screenwriter Adela Rogers St. Johns' father, Earl Rogers, a renowned Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer in the early 20th century.St. Johns draws on a succession of her father's well-known court trials, including the trial that centered on perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal history: those that developed between Clarence Darrow, indicted for attempted jury bribery i...

Could a scholarly bluestocking ever win the heart of a duke?Ambrose Thorne, Duke of Huntsford, is intrigued when Miss Adela Swift, bluestocking and amateur archeologist, barrels over him while chasing the thief who stole her research papers. What starts out as a harmless diversion to assist her in reclaiming her stolen papers manages to embroil them in scandal, and Ambrose realizes he must do the honorable thing and marry Adela. But she's stubborn and not so quick ...

Observed in Mexico and parts of the United States, El Día de Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a celebratory holiday. Los Muertos is the first anthology of fiction relating to or inspired by this bicultural tradition. Each of the two dozen Mexican and Mexican American writers featured here has a unique affinity for the myriad ideas connected closely to the El Día de Muertos—some in less obvious ways. The stories connect to the metaphors and connotations related to m...