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**“If I had to choose from all the world a writer to tell me a story—Andrés Felipe Solano would be at the top of my list. He's an enchanter, a journalist, and a seeker all at once. We've all been looking for the second coming of George Orwell. For some time it's seemed clear to me it happened in Colombia with Andrés Felipe Solano.” —John FreemanCentered around a real-life, historic concert at Madison Square Garden, this wide-ranging and nostalgic novel spans two continents and five...

Whether you're zip-lining through cloud forests, relaxing on a wellness retreat, or swimming with manta rays, discover the real pura vida with Moon Costa Rica. Inside you'll find:Flexible, strategic itineraries designed for backpackers, beach-lovers, adventure travelers, honeymooners, and more, including the best beaches for swimming, sunsets, and seclusionThe best spots for eco-friendly ou...

Forty thousand years ago someone hollowed a vulture's wing bone, cut five finger holes, and played it in a cave. This book follows that sound around the world.What did the ancient world actually sound like? In The Lost Sounds, Miriam Solano reconstructs the music and listening of vanished civilisations, one instrument, tradition, maker or acoustic place at a time: the gold Bull-headed Lyres buried at Ur, the 65 tuned bronze bells of the Marquis Yi of Zeng, Egyptian temple harps, Gr...

Every year, on the anniversary of her father's death, Cassia Brandt receives the same unsigned letter. Eleven years. Eleven envelopes in a shoebox, unopened since the first one.Then Wire Vance is transferred into her prison block. Fifty-two years old, president of the Deacon Row MC, serving six months. Cassia knows his handwriting before she knows his face.She should report it. She starts a chess game with him through the library cart instead, and loses on purpose to keep i...

Dr. Yuki Tanaka has revived plenty of patients. She has never revived one who told her he'd rather be dead. Four hundred years frozen, Vethian prince Soren wakes to a lab full of humans, a smiling woman offering a popsicle, and a family that plans to freeze him again. Yuki has other ideas. A grumpy sunshine sci-fi alien romance about the ice prince who learned to complain loudly.

The railroad wants her silenced. The marshal is the only man standing between her and a bullet.Hester Voss knows exactly where her father buried the money that got him killed. Marshal Dorian Kade knows exactly what happens to witnesses who talk to the wrong people — he watched it happen to his wife, fifteen years ago, and never forgave himself.When a blizzard traps them in a line shack above timberline, the warrant in his coat becomes a kindling problem. Eight days of stove...

Noor Bennett was sent to profile a hockey star. She left with a photograph she should never have taken.Kiran Voss has one rule: never get caught. He got caught in a parking garage with a camera in his face, and now he has a sportswriter locked in his lake house until he can figure out how to make her forget what she saw.He doesn't mean to keep her. He means to scare her.But the men who own his career are not interested in scaring her. They are interested in what she...

A compelling look at the contemporary art and artists that are transforming Detroit's physical landscape.Detroit's unique and partly abandoned cityscape has scarred its image around the world for decades. But in the last several years journalists have begun to view the city through a different lens, focusing on the wide range of contemporary artists finding inspiration amid the emptiness and adding a more complex chapter to the story of a city long labeled as a hau...

Welcome to Patchwork Town, a place where magic and nature intertwine, and where an 8-year-old gardening gnome named Rosie embarks on an enchanting adventure. Join Rosie and her best friend, Jasper the Earth Sprite, as they transform a simple windowsill into a vibrant fairy garden, filled with colorful flowers, fragrant herbs, and charming fairy houses.Throughout their journey, Rosie and Jasper are guided by a delightful cast of sprites, each bringing their unique magic and wisdom t...

If you're reading this, you're probably considering becoming a BDSM submissive or you're just curious about what it's all about. Congratulations! Taking the plunge into the world of kink can be a fascinating and rewarding experience. You have probably taken the best decision of your life.Just like you, many others want to explore the BDSM lifestyle as submissives. However, they don’t know where to start. Even something as simple as finding their first Dominant partner does seem cha...

If you're reading this, you're probably considering becoming a BDSM submissive or you're just curious about what it's all about. Congratulations! Taking the plunge into the world of kink can be a fascinating and rewarding experience. You have probably taken the best decision of your life.Just like you, many others want to explore the BDSM lifestyle as submissives. However, they don’t know where to start. Even something as simple as finding their first Dominant partner does seem cha...

Migration journeys are arduous, with migrants tormented by risk, abuse, threats, and xenophobia. Shelters, staffed by humanitarian workers and volunteers, provide safe spaces for those in transit. Shelter on the Journey examines how these sites, often faith-based civil society associations, create solidarity and help politicize migrants, giving them a sense of themselves as an empowered, rights-holding people.Solano, who volunteered at shelters in Mexico, chronicles the ac...