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Persona 4 Volume 10
Atlus • 2019
Exquisite Hunger
Emma E. Murray ▪︎ 2023
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Persona 5 The Royal Art Book
Shigenori Soejima
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Persona 4 Volume 11
Atlus • 2020
Persona 4 Volume 12
Atlus • 2020
Persona 4 Volume 13
Atlus • 2020
Persona 5, Vol. 15
Atlus • 2026
Assistant to the Villain
Hannah Nicole Maehrer • 2023
Doll Parts
Penny Zang • 2025
Painting Portraits of Everyone I've Ever Dated
Joseph Earp • 2025
Something Happened Here
Felicity Meadow • 2024
Blood Red
Gabriela Ponce • 2022
The exhilarating English-language debut from celebrated Ecuadorian author Gabriela Ponce, Blood Red centers the female body in a radical exploration of desire, choice, and consequences.<br/><br/>In a torrent of stream-of-consciousness fragments, the unnamed narrator of Blood Red recounts the aftermath of her failed marriage in explicit, sensual detail. She falls in and out of love, parties with her friends, skates around the city at night, does a lot of drugs, and gives in to her impulses. Her internal monologue is punctuated by bouts of trypophobia, an obsessive cataloging of holes that empty, fill, widen, and threaten to swallow her entirely. Blood courses through her every encounter from periods, fights, accidents, wounds, sex, streaming to and from her holey fixation. Blood is a vibrant reminder of her physicality, a manifestation of her interiority, a link to memories and sensations—until its abrupt absence changes everything.<br/>Provocative and raw, Blood Red is a fierce portrayal of a woman navigating the gray—or red—zones of her uncertainties and paradoxical urges. A subversive grappling with what it means to wrest power over one’s body, revels in the narrator’s autonomy to make choices and face the outcomes, no matter the scale.
Bloodwork: A Dark Rom-Com
Melissa Demirel • 2024
A LONELY SERIAL KILLER.<br/>A BORED VAMPIRE NURSE.<br/>WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DEVIL<br/>MAKES A DEAL WITH ANOTHER DEVIL?<br/>Timothy is a serial killer. He's also very lonely. He's a walking contradiction, and his psychological predicament doesn't escape him.<br/>Lynnette is a vampire. She's also a nurse. She, too, is a walking contradiction.<br/>When she unexpectedly answers his desperate call for company, they realize they could be perfect partners in crime, engaging in a few kinds of bloodwork at once, bringing out the worst and the best in each other.<br/>With Timothy, Lynnette starts to feel more like the dangerous bloodsucking demon she was always meant to be, without having to worry about saving lives. With Lynnette, Timothy's loneliness starts to feel like nothing more than a shadow from a distant and depressing dream, and he can savor the presence of someone so inhuman that they're not bound to disappoint him like other people have.<br/>The little deal the two outcasts make with each other should keep them both quite happy and satisfied with life-that is, assuming that Lynnette doesn't decide to make Timothy her dinner and Timothy doesn't decide to murder Lynnette for sport...<br/>And when they are both capable of being predator and prey to each other, that's a hell of an assumption to make.
Bluebeards Castle : A Novel
Anna Biller • 2023
Blueberries
Ellena Savage • 2020
Body Friend
Katherine Brabon • 2023
<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE <br> <br> <br> <br> SHORTLISTED FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND FICTION BOOK AWARD<br> <br> <br> <br> ''an illuminating reflection on what it means to live with pain.'' -<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br> <br> <br> <br> <i>''Body Friend</i> is a deeply intimate tribute to the fragile and porous self, written in prose of rare clarity and tenderness. I felt everything reading this book.''--Claire Thomas, author of <i>The Performance</i> and <i>Fugitive Blue</i><br> <br> <br> <br> <i>''Body Friend </i>is a novel that clings to the mind long after it finishes.'' <i>--ArtsHUB<br> <br> <br> <br> ''</i>a tender and raw novel about friendship, chronic pain and the healing power of water.'' <i>-- Harper''s Bazaar</i><br> <br> <br> <br> ''Katherine Brabon distinguished herself with her first novels, <i>The Memory Artist</i> and <i>The Shut Ins</i>, but she has surpassed these and reached an early career pinnacle with her enigmatically titled novel, <i>Body Friend.</i>''<i>--Books + Publishing</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> <i>Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women within a few weeks of each other and I saw both of them regularly, always separately, for some months afterwards. Summer did not give way easily that year, and even so we must force our bodies down to sleep in the heat, and even if experience does not give itself up easily to representation, I will lay it down anyway; frame the raw and exigent weeks, the untrustworthy months after the hospital, render it and them, Frida and Sylvia, as closely as possible to reality--or whatever is the feeling</i><i>of a life and mind lived inside a body</i><i>.</i><br> <br> <br> <br> A woman leaves the hospital after an operation and starts swimming in a pool in Melbourne''s inner suburbs. There she meets Frida, who is uncannily like her in her experience of illness. Soon after, she meets another woman in a local park, Sylvia, who sees her pain and encourages her to rest.<br> <br> <br> <br> The two new friends seem to be polar opposites: Frida adores the pool and the natural world, Sylvia clings to the protection of interior worlds. What begins as two seemingly simple friendships is challenged by what each woman asks of her, of themselves, and their bodies.<br> <br> <br> <br> <b>From the acclaimed author of <i>The Memory Artist</i> and <i>The Shut Ins</i> comes a new novel about the relationship between body and self, and how we must dive beneath the surface to really know ourselves.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>PRAISE FOR BODY FRIEND:</b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''<i>Body Friend</i> shows that pain can be a friend and a friend can be a mirror, but what they reflect is more than just a mirror image, and contains many possibilities.'' <b>--<i>Sydney Morning Herald</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> <b>''</b><i>Body Friend </i>is tender and expressive. Brabon''s writing is exquisitely constructed. Her prose holds quiet emotional weight - putting the reader in mind, particularly, of Elena Ferrante''s style - which is extraordinarily effective in capturing the lived realities of the body. <i>Body Friend </i>is a novel that clings to the mind long after it finishes.'' <b><i>--ArtsHUB</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''Its language is startling for its poetic tendencies - it is rhythmic and observant, and liltingly musical - as well as its clarity and sharp concision. Brabon''s prose is one of the deepest pleasures of the novel.'' <b><i>--The Saturday Paper</i></b></p> <p>''The plot unfolds artfully and with precision to surprise and exceed readers'' expectations.''<b><i>--Books + Publishing</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''Katherine Brabon''s <i>Body Friend </i>is a tender ode to the recursive mysteries of the body and the need to find ourselves in other people. The narrator''s pull between Frida and Sylvia, between effort and surrender, haunted and compelled me. This books speaks to you with a delicate, iron grace, endlessly returning.'' -<b>Alyssa Songsiridej, author of <i>Little Rabbit</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''At once a feverish investigation of the body''s limits and a hypnotic account of city walks, swimming, and friendship. I loved the intimacy of these pages.'' -<b>Ayşegül Savaş, author of <i>The Anthropologists</i> and <i>White on White</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''Never before have I read a book with such a compelling investigation of illness and pain, recovery and rest. Brabon writes with unwavering insight and intelligence; <i>Body Friend</i> inspires me to better understand my own friendships, my own life in a body. I tore through it. I will be thinking about this book for a long, long time.'' -<b>Anna Hogeland, author of <i>The Long Answer</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''An examination of a life in pain that isn''t at all painful to read. Fearless and clear-eyed. This book is a gift.'' --<b>Karen Havelin, author of <i>Please Read This Leaflet Carefully</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> ''An utterly absorbing, entirely one-of-a-kind novel, <i>Body Friend</i> is an acutely observed exploration of chronic pain, revealing an uncommon richness and resonance behind experiences that so often feel dull and deadening. Beyond that, it''s an insightful and fresh meditation on the dualities we all negotiate between mind and body, control and submission, devotion and guilt, hope and despair. The writing--insistent, rhythmic, immersive, sure--is a masterful marriage of content to form: writer as lap-swimmer circling the pool. Reading it feels like a plunge into cool water, both bracing and relieving, as intimately familiar as it''s surprising. The gift of this book will stay with me for a long time.'' -<b>Helena de Bres, author of <i>How to Be Multiple</i></b><br> <br> </p>
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk • 2014
<b>#1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller<br><br>“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society.” —Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies<br><br>A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing in this <b><b><b><i>New York Times</i> bestseller</b></b></b></b><br><br>Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In <i>The Body Keeps the Score</i>, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, <i>The Body Keeps the Score </i>exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.
Bookshop Dogs
Ruth Shaw • 2024
Heartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the author of The Bookseller at the End of the World.<br/><br/>Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, traveling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet.<br/><br/>Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hunza, the dog who worked with troubled teens alongside Ruth when she was a youth worker.<br/><br/>This is a window into the wonderful world of Ruth and her generous love of people, books and dogs. It's a must-read for dog fans, book fans and anyone who loved her first book, The Bookseller at the End of the World.
Boy Parts
Eliza Clark • 2020
Breathless
Jennifer Niven • 2020
Bride
Ali Hazelwood • 2024
The Brightest Light of Sunshine
Lisina Coney • 2023
Brutes
Dizz Tate • 2024
The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story about the crucible of girlhood, from a writer of rare and startling talent We would not be born out of sweetness, we were born out of rage, we felt it in our bones. In Falls Landing, Florida—a place built of theme parks, swampy lakes, and scorched bougainvillea flowers—something sinister lurks in the deep. A gang of thirteen-year-old girls obsessively orbit around the local preacher's daughter, Sammy. She is mesmerizing, older, and in love with Eddie. But suddenly, Sammy goes missing. Where is she? Watching from a distance, they edge ever closer to discovering a dark secret about their fame-hungry town and the cruel cost of a ticket out. What they see will continue to haunt them for the rest of their lives. Through a darkly beautiful and brutally compelling lens, Dizz Tate captures the violence, horrors, and manic joys of girlhood. Brutes is a novel about the seemingly unbreakable bonds in the "we" of young friendship, and the moment it is broken forever.
The C*ck Down the Block (The Cocky Kingmans)
Amy Award • 2023
Always the nerdy girl, never the girlfriend~<br/>Until her cocky best friend and his *ahem* rooster take charge.<br/>Look, I've had it bad for the girl with all the curves next door forever. She turned me down in high school and since I'm not a total douchecanoe, I lusted after her all by myself in my shower, and we stayed just friends for years.<br/>Now she's the adorkable librarian next door and I'm the star quarterback of the best pro football team in the league.<br/>So when she asks me to be her fake date to her all-girls school reunion I am totally down to show her off to the mean girls who bullied her back then so they can see just how incredible she is.<br/>I'll be the best boyfriend they've ever seen. The best fake boyfriend that is.<br/>Until I find out from her slightly-stalkery classmates that she still has her v-card. I don't see how that is even possible. Not with how sexy and sweet she is. Could it be because she knows she belongs with me?<br/>This curvy girl and football quarterback sports romance has a baddie plus-size woman who knows her own worth and a Bridgertons-meets-American-Football family you'll wish you were a part of.
Camera Chemistry (Holiday Shorts)
Chelsea Curto • 2023
Can You Just Die, My Darling? 1
Majuro Kaname • 2018
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • 2023
Chameleon on a Kaleidoscope : Anonymous
Anonymous • 2012
Cherry Beach
Laura McPhee-Browne • 2020
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir
Lidia Yuknavitch • 2011
This is not your mother's memoir. In The Chronology of Water, Lidia Yuknavitch<br/>expertly moves the reader through issues of gender, sexuality, violence, and the<br/>family from the point of view of a lifelong swimmer turned artist. In writing<br/>that explores the nature of memoir itself, her story traces the effect of<br/>extreme grief on a young woman's developing sexuality that some define as<br/>untraditional because of her attraction to both men and women. Her emergence as<br/>a writer evolves at the same time and takes the narrator on a journey of<br/>addiction, self-destruction, and ultimately survival that finally comes in the<br/>shape of love and motherhood.
A Cigarette Lit Backwards A Novel
Tea Hacic-Vlahovic • 2022
Clean My Space: The Secret to Cleaning Better, Faster, and Loving Your Home Every Day
Melissa Maker • 2017
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
Coco Mellors • 2022
Closer Baby Closer
Savannah Brown • 2023
In Closer Baby Closer the ancient phenomenon of love sits alongside a billionaire’s online pillow talk while a cam girl watches from her bedroom tomb.<br/><br/>In this dazzling third collection, poet Savannah Brown holds a magnifying glass to modern intimacy with a lens that burns as often as it illuminates. Moths, ex-lovers, Jeff Bezos, and other supernatural creatures flit through the pages as Brown charts her own cartographies through London and the world wide web seething in everybody’s pocket. These poems pinch and pull through the smallest moments, like someone trying to zoom in on a smartphone photo, or someone in the thrall of a bad, bad habit.
Come
Rita Therese • 2020
Come Out, Come Out (Haunted Hearts)
Alexia Onyx • 2023
She's creeping slowly toward death. He's determined to keep her alive.<br/><br/>Aiden<br/>My little wraith torments herself in a desperate attempt to escape from the pain that runs deep in her veins. I could be that escape if she'd only let me. I will own her pain, her suffering, and her pleasure. I just need her to see me.<br/><br/>Skye<br/>Every day is a burden that pushes me closer and closer to my end. I always found the notion of death romantic; I never could have predicted how right I would be.<br/><br/>Come Out, Come Out is a spicy paranormal dark romance with: A plus-size main character Depression representation Bi and pan main characters Please note that this book contains heavy themes, including depression, suicidal ideation, grief, and loss. A complete list of trigger warnings will be provided by the author before release.
The Complete Guide to Sleep Care: Best Practices for a Restful and Happier You (Volume 8) (Everyday Wellbeing, 8)
Kiki Ely • 2022
<b>The<i> Complete Guide to Sleep Care</i></b><b> features 75 accessible methods to improve your sleep that will make you feel refreshed and ready to face the world.</b><br><br> Scientific studies have shown that getting good sleep improves every area of our lives, giving us more energy, increased cognitive function, and better moods all day long. This book will help you <b>understand the importance of sleep</b>, <b>overcome stressful experiences</b>, <b>conquer negative emotions</b>, <b>develop positive thinking</b>, and <b>cultivate a healthy lifestyle</b>.<br><br><b>Learning about insomnia</b>, including <b>common types and primary causes</b>, will help you zero in on the areas in your life that need work, and a <b>daily sleep log</b> will help you discover your sleep patterns and troubleshoot your sleep issues.<br><br> To foster better sleep hygiene, the <b>75 effective, field-tested strategies include:</b><ul><li> eating better by avoiding caffeine after lunch and by chomping on cherries, which contain the sleep hormone melatonin </li><li> avoiding nighttime workouts </li><li> sticking to a consistent bedtime routine even on weekends </li><li> keeping your bed or bedroom cool, which signals your body to slow down </li><li> mindful meditation to lower your blood pressure and decrease your stress hormones </li><li> setting a bedtime alarm </li><li> banishing screens in bed (no TV, laptop, tablet, or smartphone) </li><li> and more </li></ul> These simple, achievable life hacks will help you create regular, restful self-care, and you’ll get out of bed feeling your best in no time.<br><br> Discover today’s top trending health and wellness topics with the <b>Everyday Wellbeing series</b> from Chartwell Books. From smart eating habits to personal growth advice, these engaging lifestyle guides give you the expert tips and life hacks you need to help you make good choices while practicing mindfulness and self-love. Whether you want to explore cooking with new ingredients such as adaptogens and CBD or incorporate self-care into your daily routine, these richly illustrated handbooks have all the tools you need to succeed.<br><br> Other titles in the series include: <i>The Complete Guide to Anti-Inflammatory Foods</i>, <i>Fabulous Food Boards</i>, <i>Quick & Easy Air Fryer Cookbook</i>, <i>The Witch’s Complete Guide to Self-Care</i>, <i>The Plant-Based Cookbook</i>, <i>The Air Fryer Instant Pot Cookbook</i>, <i>Adaptogens</i>, <i>The Complete Guide to Self-Care</i>, <i>The Celery Juice Book</i>, <i>The CBD Handbook</i>.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Thomas De Quincey • 2003
Consent Laid Bare: sex, entitlement the distortion of desire
Chanel Contos • 2023
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement.You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but you don't know how to say no. You really want him to like you. So you say yes, at least you think you say yes. You can't remember. What you do remember is the shame that follows.This scenario plays out across Australia, every weekend. We know, because in 2021, Chanel Contos invited girls and women to provide testimonials of their most negative sexual experiences. The nearly 7000 responses described behaviour that is, at best, chronically anti-social and, at worst, constitutes rape. Virtually none of these instances has been reported, let alone prosecuted, but as a result of Chanel's advocacy single-sex schools are going co-ed, laws have changed across Australia, schools have amped up their sex ed and politicians have been forced to act.Knowledge is power. Consent Laid Bare is a conversation starter that will help young women feel less alone, less likely to feel pressured into sexual encounters that they don't want, less ashamed if they find themselves in a tricky situation, and more inclined to hold their perpetrators to account in the moment and afterwards. It will help young men understand that there is a point where pressuring behaviour becomes criminal. It is the book we wish wasn't necessary, but that we know is absolutely crucial reading.
Corrupt (Devil's Night)
Penelope Douglas • 2015
From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new dark romance... Erika I was told that dreams were our heart's desires. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. His name is Michael Crist. My boyfriend's older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. He's handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. The star of his college's basketball team and now gone pro, he's more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. But I noticed him. I saw him. I heard him. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid...For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. Now, I've graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven't stopped watching Michael. He's bad, and the dirt I've seen isn't content to stay in my head anymore. Because he's finally noticed me. Michael Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. My brother's girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven't had her body, I know that I have her mind. That's all I really want anyway. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. In my city. Unprotected. The opportunity is too good to be true, as well as the timing. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they're out. We've waited. We've been patient. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true. *Corrupt is a STANDALONE dark romance with no cliffhanger. It is suitable for ages 18+.
Crushing
Genevieve Novak • 2023
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner • 2021
Cusp
Jane Hartshorn • 2021
"Ache asked writers to explore the ways in which illness and pain cause estrangement from one's own body - and Cusp was born. This is a daring collection brimming with feminist stories, essays and poems that are strange and surprising. Bodies grow and transform into new shapes, new beings and new identities. House and hospitals suffocate. A witch fights for suffrage. A doctor behaves cruelly. A patient is forced to commit strange acts. An angel checks her emails. Bodies bruise, bleed, overflow and misbehave. Featuring the absurd, the surreal, body horror and speculative fiction, Cusp articulates the experiences of transformation, shape-shifting, and border-crossing that are inherent in illness. Cusp asks what happens when our bodies become strange to ourselves and our world."--From back cover.
Dark Places: A Novel
Gillian Flynn • 2009
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NOW IN DEVELOPMENT AS AN HBO LIMITED SERIES From the acclaimed author of Gone Girl, “a riveting tale of true horror by a writer who has all the gifts to pull it off” (Chicago Tribune) “Sensuous and chilling . . . a propulsive and twisty mystery.”—Entertainment Weekly Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived—and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club—a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes—locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club—for a fee. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started—on the run from a killer.
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel
Satoshi Yagisawa • 2023
Dead Poets Society
N.H. Kleinbaum • 2012
Todd Anderson and his friends at Welton Academy can hardly believe how different life is since their new English professor, the flamboyant John Keating, has challenged them to "make your lives extraordinary! Inspired by Keating, the boys resurrect the Dead Poets Society--a secret club where, free from the constraints and expectations of school and parents, they let their passions run wild. As Keating turns the boys on to the great words of Byron, Shelley, and Keats, they discover not only the beauty of language, but the importance of making each moment count. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams? But the Dead Poets pledges soon realize that their newfound freedom can have tragic consequences. Can the club and the individuality it inspires survive the pressure from authorities determined to destroy their dreams?
Deadly Secrets
A.M. Acosta • 2024
ONE GIRL.<br/>THREE BOYS WHO WILL COMPLICATE HER LIFE.<br/>A SECRET WITH DEADLY CONSEQUENCES.<br/><br/>Since Sienna, the daughter of a pharmaceutical mogul, finished her final year at boarding school and returned to her hometown in New York, she has done nothing but party and actively avoid spending time with her parents. But before she starts her first year at Stanford University, a tragic event turns her world upside down, forcing her to confront a new reality.<br/><br/>Adjusting to her new life, Sienna reconnects with Ander, her first love, and meets his two best friends, Noah, and Zayn. Soon, she starts to have mixed feelings for all three of them, and things get complicated and wild.<br/>But when it seems her life is getting back on track, Sienna starts receiving threatening notes.<br/><br/>Secrets never stay buried for too long.<br/><br/>DEADLY SECRETS IS A WHY CHOOSE SUSPENSE ROMANCE.
Death of a Bookseller
Alice Slater • 2023
Death's Obsession
Avina St. Graves • 2023
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish
Katya Apekina • 2018
Deliver Me
Elle Nash • 2023
“To read the work of Elle Nash is to be restored to faith in the wildness, wetness, and visceral power of contemporary American fiction. Deliver Me is a barbed liturgy of bugs, babies, meat, the gospel, women lusting women, women lusting men, and the human body. Get saved.” —MELISSA BRODER, author of Milk Fed, The Pisces, and Death Valley<br/>“...an explosive ending that will stun readers… Readers drawn to gritty character studies should take a look.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY<br/><br/>“Haunting and at times relentlessly cruel, this novel will keep readers guessing.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,000 chickens in a single shift.<br/><br/>The work is repetitive and brutal, with each stab and cut a punishment to her hands and joints, but Dee-Dee’s more concerned with what is happening inside her body. After a series of devastating miscarriages, Dee-Dee has found herself pregnant, and she is determined to carry this child to term. Dee-Dee fled the Pentecostal church years ago, but judgment follows her in the form of regular calls from her mother, whose raspy voice urges Dee-Dee to quit living in sin and marry her boyfriend Daddy, an underemployed ex-con with an insect fetish.<br/>With a child on the way, at long last Dee-Dee can bask in her mother’s and boyfriend’s newfound parturient attention. She will matter. She will be loved. She will be complete. When her charismatic friend Sloane reappears after a twenty-year absence, feeding her insecurities and awakening suppressed desires, Dee-Dee fears she will go back to living in the shadows. Neither the ultimate indignity of yet another miscarriage nor Sloane’s own pregnancy deters her: she must prepare for the baby’s arrival.
The Diary of a Bookseller
Shaun Bythell • 2018
A WRY AND HILARIOUS ACCOUNT OF LIFE AT A BOOKSHOP IN A REMOTE SCOTTISH VILLAGE "Among the most irascible and amusing bookseller memoirs I've read." --Dwight Garner, New York Times "Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny..."—Daily Mail The Diary of a Bookseller is Shaun Bythell's funny and fascinating memoir of a year in the life at the helm of The Bookshop, in the small village of Wigtown, Scotland—and of the delightfully odd locals, unusual staff, eccentric customers, and surreal buying trips that make up his life there as he struggles to build his business . . . and be polite . . . When Bythell first thought of taking over the store, it seemed like a great idea: The Bookshop is Scotland's largest second-hand store, with over one hundred thousand books in a glorious old house with twisting corridors and roaring fireplaces, set in a tiny, beautiful town by the sea. It seemed like a book-lover's paradise . . . Until Bythell did indeed buy the store. In this wry and hilarious diary, he tells us what happened next—the trials and tribulations of being a small businessman; of learning that customers can be, um, eccentric; and of wrangling with his own staff of oddballs (such as ski-suit-wearing, dumpster-diving Nicky). And perhaps none are quirkier than the charmingly cantankerous bookseller Bythell himself turns out to be. But then too there are the buying trips to old estates and auctions, with the thrill of discovery, as well as the satisfaction of pressing upon people the books that you love . . . Slowly, with a mordant wit and keen eye, Bythell is seduced by the growing charm of small-town life, despite —or maybe because of—all the peculiar characters there.
Dirty Pretty Things
Michael Faudet • 2014
Disorientation: A Novel
Elaine Hsieh Chou • 2022
The Divines: A Novel
Ellie Eaton • 2021
Dog Songs Poems
Mary Oliver • 2015
<b>“The popularity of [<i>Dog Songs</i>] feels as inevitable and welcome as a wagging tail upon homecoming.” —<i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br><br>Mary Oliver’s <i>Dog Songs</i> is a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood through the poet’s relationships to the canines that have accompanied her daily walks, warmed her home, and inspired her work. Oliver’s poems begin in the small everyday moments familiar to all dog lovers, but through her extraordinary vision, these observations become higher meditations on the world and our place in it.<br><br><i>Dog Songs</i> includes visits with old friends, like Oliver’s beloved Percy, and introduces still others in poems of love and laughter, heartbreak and grief. Throughout this inspiring and accessible poetry collection, the many dogs of Oliver’s life merge as fellow travelers and as guides, uniquely able to open our eyes to the lessons of the moment and the joys of nature and connection.
Down the Drain
Julia Fox • 2023
A Dowry of Blood
S.T. Gibson • 2021
"Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death."--Publisher
Dress Rehearsals
Madison Godfrey • 2023
<b>A memoir made of poetry, <i>Dress Rehearsals</i> documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body.</b><br><br><b>'Unlike anything else you'll ever read. It's an ode to womanhood, performative feminism and deeply confessional. Godfrey has created a deeply intimate letter to their experience of the everyday through an autobiography of sultry poetry.' <i>InStyle Australia</i></b><br><br>My femininity is not a survival instinct, it is a song.<br><br>In their brilliant new poetry collection, Madison Godfrey documents a decade of performing womanhood, from teenage fangirl to tender femme. Godfrey's poems approach the autobiographical body as a site of the everyday and the surreal: experiencing first crushes, mosh pits, sharpened nails, gender euphoria, and the complicated colours of desire and memory.<br><br>Darkly witty and deeply confessional, <i>Dress Rehearsals</i> is a love story to the queer self. This coming-of-age memoir asks, what does it mean to wear femininity into the world, when it constitutes both a bullseye and a ballgown?<br><br>'I inhaled this book.' Dylin Hardcastle, author of <i>Below Deck</i><br><br>'Madison Godfrey wields words with exquisite precision and <i>Dress Rehearsals</i> is as taut, seductive and deadly as a femme fatale herself. These are poems to impale yourself on. A work of distilled genius.' Yves Rees, author of <i>All About Yves</i>
The Drifting Classroom: Perfect Edition, Vol. 1 (1)
Kazuo Umezz • 2019
Dykette: A Novel
Jenny Fran Davis • 2023
Echoes I: A Book of Poems
Ruth Stefano • 2019
At the tender age of ninety, my dearest wish has been to publish my remaining poems before I depart this world, and so register my name on the list of published poets, thus avoiding my life's work disappearing in the mists of time. My grandmother on my father's side wrote poetry so I guess I inherited from her this wonderful gift. Unfortunately she didn't publish her work so when she died her poems died with her. Sadly I didn't get the chance or opportunity to read any of her work. What a loss! So dear reader I trust you may enjoy the words of my heart, mind and soul - Happy reading!
Echoes Ii: A Book of Poems
Ruth Stefano • 2019
Eileen: A Novel
Ottessa Moshfegh • 2016
Either/Or
Elif Batuman • 2022
Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley • 1986
Emotional Female
Yumiko Kadota • 2022
Empty: A Memoir
Susan Burton • 2020
Erotic Poems
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • 2008
`a world without love would be no world' Elegy II This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790. Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in Italy and his love for the woman he took as his unofficial wife on his return to Germany.They are here presented as Goethe boldly conceived them together with the long-surpressed narrative poem known as The Diary. Superficially the story of a failed sexual adventure by a man of 60, at another level this is a profound study of the psychology of desire and the nature of fidelity, as well as being one of the most beautiful and good-humoured poems in the German language. Completing the edition is a selection from Goethe's more light-hearted and much censored cycle of erotica, the Venetian Epigrams. David Luke's translations do full justice to Goethe's aim of liberating German poetry and restoring sexual love to its central position in human life. Hans Vaget's fine introduction provides the background to these poems, as well as showing some of the profound and little-known connections between them. Johann Wolfgang Goethe was born in 1749, the son of a well-to-do citizen of Frankfurt. In the early 1770's he was the dominating figure of the German literary revival, his tragic novel Werther bringing him international fame. In 1755 he became a minister of state and director of the court theatre and in the 1790's he and his younger contemporary Schiller were the joint architects of Weimar Classicism, the central phase of German literary culture. Faust, written at various stages of his life and in a variety of styles, became a constantly enlarged repository of his personal wisdom and his creative energies never ceased to take new forms. In 1806 he married Christiane Vulpious, having lived with her for eighteen years. He died in 1832. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Eve's Hollywood
Eve Babitz • 2015
Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone • 2017
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead: A Novel
Emily Austin • 2022
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir
Dolly Alderton • 2021
Excavation: A Memoir
Wendy C. Ortiz • 2014
F**ked My Way Up to the Top: The Complete Biography of Lana Del Rey Using Her Own Words
Jared Woods • 2023
Falling Upwards
Darby Hudson • 2021
Fate of a Royal
Meagan Brandy • 2025
<p><b>Order now and receive the stunning DELUXE FIRST PRINT RUN while supplies last</b>―featuring gorgeous sprayed edges and special cover design features. This breathtaking collectible is only available as part of a LIMITED FIRST PRINT RUN in the US and Canada only, a must-have for any book lover.<br><br><i>There’s nothing more dangerous than a bored royal with dark magic and a new obsession. </i><br><br>The first mistake was expecting my obedience. Me, a Gifted, a prince to the people of Dark Magic. But while my royal parents can force me and my brothers to attend this university and “learn to coexist” with humans, we don’t have to like it.<br><br>And we don’t have to follow their rules.<br><br>Our appetites run darker—and hotter—than blood. Add in a little Fae Dust and the power of persuasion, and we find ways to <i>entertain</i> ourselves. But the minute I stepped into tonight’s party, there was the whisper of a warning deep in my mind. One I could hear, but couldn't reach.<br><br>One human stands out among the worthless mortals. With eyes like ice and a body begging to be bitten, she's a problem. And if the shadow circling my soul is telling me what I think it is...she belongs to it.<br><br>But there is no way the fates would give me, a Lord of Rathe, an heir to the throne of Dark Magic, a giftless girl.<br><br>I'll prove they got it wrong. That she's not mine. Even if I have to destroy her in the process...</p>
Fault Lines
Emily Itami • 2021
Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry. Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives-and in the end, we can choose only one. Funny, provocative, and startlingly honest, this is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and asked, who am I and how did I get here? A bittersweet love story and a piercing portrait of female identity, it introduces Emily Itami as a debut novelist with astounding resonance and wit.
Fiery Little Thing: A Dark Academy Romance
Avina St. Graves • 2024
<p>What's that saying? What goes around, comes around? You torch my house, I demolish yours?</p><p><br></p><p>Kohen Osman is a pyromaniac who keeps trying to steal my gig-which is... well, stealing. The difference is, he has sticky fingers because he's a spoiled brat who thinks he's better than the family of junkies that live down the block.</p><p><br></p><p>I thought life at reform school would be better with neither Kohen or my family anywhere in sight. But my freedom from them was short and not sweet. There's only so much a person can take before they turn into dust.</p><p><br></p><p>One day, he'll burn for everything he's done. They all will.</p><p><br></p><p>And I'll be the one who lights the match.</p>
Film for Her
Orion Carloto • 2020
Fix the System, Not the Women
Laura Bates • 2023
Forever Home: How We Turned Our House into a Haven for Abandoned, Abused, and Misunderstood Dogs—and Each Other
Ron Danta • 2022
Gag Reflex
Elle Nash • 2022
Dubbed a 2018 Debut Writer to Watch by Publisher’s Weekly<br/>Nudes on Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021 and an SPD Best Seller<br/>Through diaristic ellipses, Nash crafts an origin story of obsessional masochism.<br/><br/>Drawing on the nostalgia of a nascent digital age and grappling with an eating disorder, indie cult author Elle Nash paints a realistic and poignant portrait of a teenager’s quest for self-identification on both sides of the computer screen. Using Livejournal entries, we meet our protagonist, in her messy transition into adulthood in the midst of grappling with calorie counts, boys, and being honest with who she is only online. Following up her cult fiction debut Animals Eat Each Other, Nash shows she belongs in the same camp along with exciting feminist literary disrupters the likes of Melissa Broder and Alissa Nutting.<br/>It’s 2005. Lucy shambles through the last weeks of her senior year of high school, jonesing for a thinner body, desperate to connect with another human. Who is reflected back at her when she is sleeping with someone, when she is puking into the toilet bowl? Who is reflected back when she’s alone? Only the internet knows, where she muses on the concept of her “self” through her Livejournal, with a cadre of online friends who are definitely NOT pro-anorexic. Everyone's sick here, but at least they understand.
Gender Theory
Madeline Docherty • 2024
Ghost World
Daniel Clowes • 2001
Inspiration for the feature film and one of the most acclaimed graphic novels ever, following the adventures of two teenage girls, Enid and Becky, best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart.
A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing
Eimear McBride • 2014
Girl Like a Bomb
Autumn Christian • 2024
GIRL MESS: a Katabasis in verse
Kim Rashidi • 2024
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen • 1994
<b>30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION <b>• </b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a "poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). <br><br><b>WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR <br></b></b><br>The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysen's memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a "parallel universe" set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. <br><br><i>Girl, Interrupted</i> is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery.
girl, isolated: poems, notes on healing, etc.
Trista Mateer • 2021
Girlfriends
Emily Zhou • 2023
Girls Against God: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2020
Girls of a Certain Age
Maria Adelmann • 2021
The Girls of Summer: A Novel
Katie Bishop • 2023
Girls on Fire: A Novel
Robin Wasserman • 2016
Gleipnir 1
Sun Takeda • 2019
Gleipnir 2
Sun Takeda • 2019
Gleipnir 4
Sun Takeda • 2019
Gleipnir 5
Sun Takeda • 2019
Dark, disturbing, sexy, and shameful, this new sci-fi action manga stars a dominating teenage girl searching for a sister who became a monster, and a submissive boy with the strange power to turn into a ragged but powerful beast, with a zipper down his back and a compartment on the inside just big enough to hold a human body.<br/><br/>DO OR DIE<br/><br/>Claire and Shuichi venture into the mountains with their new allies in search of coins, but are they too late? A powerful rival group is out hunting, not just for coins, but for other collectors, and they will use any means necessary to get what they want. With their lives on the line, Shuichi is forced to make a choice. To what lengths will he go to protect himself, his friends, and Claire?
GO LIGHTLY
Brydie Lee-Kennedy • 2024
Goblin Mode Guide to Life: Embrace Your Feral Side and Thrive in Imperfection
Editors of Chartwell Books • 2023
Good Grades & Mystery Games (North University Series)
Janisha Boswell • 2023
A Good Happy Girl
Marissa Higgins • 2024
Gothikana
RuNyx • 2024
The Grace Year: A Novel
Kim Liggett • 2019
<p><b>The Instant <i>New York Times </i>Bestseller! </b><b>Kim Liggett's<i> The Grace Year </i>is a speculative thriller in the vein of <i>The Handmaid’s Tale </i>and <i>The Power</i>. <br></b><br><b>Survive the year.<br></b><br>No one speaks of the grace year. It’s forbidden. <br><br>In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That’s why they’re banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. <br><br>Sixteen-year-old Tierney James dreams of a better life—a society that doesn’t pit friend against friend or woman against woman, but as her own grace year draws near, she quickly realizes that it’s not just the brutal elements they must fear. It’s not even the poachers in the woods, men who are waiting for a chance to grab one of the girls in order to make a fortune on the black market. Their greatest threat may very well be each other. <br><br>With sharp prose and gritty realism, <i>The Grace Year</i> examines the complex and sometimes twisted relationships between girls, the women they eventually become, and the difficult decisions they make in-between.<br><br>“A visceral, darkly haunting fever dream of a novel and an absolute page-turner.” – Libba Bray, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author</p>
Green Dot
Gray Madeleine • 2025
Green Girl: A Novel (P.S.)
Kate Zambreno • 2014
Grocery List Poems
Rhiannon McGavin • 2021
A Guide to the Serbian Mentality
Momo Kapor • 2021
Belgrade author and painter Momo Kapor has spent many years studying the mentality of his countrymen. The fruit of this literary research is this book, a book that will help you grasp the essence of the Serbian people and their way of life. This longtime columnist for the distinguished Serbian daily Politika and the monthly magazine JAT Review, published by JAT Airways, has compiled the best and most interesting of his articles for this book, which is richly illustrated with his own drawings. This book"s readers will learn, through a self-ironic and humorous tone typical of books by George Mikesh, Efraim Kishon and Art Buchwald, what Serbs like and dislike, whom they admire and despise, what they eat and what they drink, how they spend their free time, what they dream about and what they believe; in a word, book is about what constitutes a Serb from the inside.
Hail Mary An Enemies-to-Lovers Roommate Sports Romance
Kandi Steiner • 2023
Happy Hour
Marlowe Granados • 2020
Heartless Heathens: A Why Choose Gothic Romance
Santana Knox • 2022
Heartstopper: Volume 3: A Graphic Novel (Heartstopper #3)
Alice Oseman • 2021
Heartstopper #4: A Graphic Novel (4)
Alice Oseman • 2022
"Shy and softhearted Charlie Spring sits next to rugby player Nick Nelson in class one morning. A warm and intimate friendship follows, and that soon develops into something more for Charlie, who doesn't think he has a chance. But Nick is struggling with feelings of his own, and as the two grow closer and take on the ups and downs of high school, they come to understand the surprising and delightful ways in which love works"--
Heartstopper #5: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman • 2023
Heartstopper #6: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman • 2026
Hell Gate
Veronica Eden • 2022
Hideaway (Devil's Night)
Penelope Douglas • 2017
Hit Parade of Tears: Stories (Verso Fiction)
Izumi Suzuki • 2023
A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom<br/><br/>Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to the laws of physics, or the laws of the land. In this new collection, her skewed imagination distorts and enhances some of the classic concepts of science fiction and fantasy.<br/><br/>A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.<br/><br/>Wryly anarchic and deeply imaginative, Suzuki was a writer like no other. These eleven stories offer readers the opportunity to delve deeper in this singular writer's work.
Home
Whitney Hanson • 2023
Honeybee
Trista Mateer • 2018
Honor & Heresy
Max Francis • 2023
Northgard has known war for far too long, but the city's plight has just begun.Roy Dawnseve, heir to Dawnseve Manor, cares more for philosophy than battle. In a society that shuns literature and thrives on violence, his luck is wearing thin. But Roy is given a choice: he can join the frontlines and fight the mysterious soldiers invading Northgard's shores-or he can search for answers to the enemy's identity within an ancient, abandoned library: the Orphic Basilica.The Basilica isn't without its horrors, though. Strange voices echo down the halls. The scent of mildew and death lingers in the air. And Roy's only companion is Percival Atherton, a cruel, manipulative scholar who has no qualms about belittling Roy.As a fierce snowstorm sinks its claws deeper into the city, Roy must grapple with the shadow of his trauma, an age-long conspiracy... and a war he wants no part in.
House of Psychotic Women: Expanded Hardcover Edition: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films
Kier-La Janisse • 2022
In 2012, a book debuted that would go on to canonical status and usher in a new way of writing about film. Kier-La Janisse’s HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films that examines hundreds of films through a daringly personal lens. In this pioneering work, anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and a consideration of female madness, both onscreen and off.<br/><br/>To mark its 10th anniversary, Kier-La Janisse and FAB Press have reteamed to produce an expanded edition the book, featuring new writing on 100 more films – many of which were inspired in part by the book itself – and hundreds of new images. This first pressing of the Expanded Edition has been issued as a large format hardcover.<br/><br/>Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.<br/><br/>This sharply-designed book, including a 48-page full-colour section, is packed with 680 rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork throughout, that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more!
How to Be Eaten: A Novel
Maria Adelmann • 2022
How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers)
Sarah Nooter • 2024
An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love<br/><br/>Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again,<br/>that bittersweet, implacable creature.<br/>—Sappho<br/><br/>The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between women, and between humans and gods, in lucid and lively new translations. Filled with enthralling stories, this anthology invites readers of all sexualities and identities to explore writings that describe many kinds of erotic encounters and feelings, and that envision a playful and passionate approach to sexuality as part of a rich and fulfilling life.<br/><br/>How to Be Queer starts with Homer’s Iliad and moves through lyric poetry, tragedy, comedy, philosophy, and biography, drawing on a wide range of authors, including Sappho, Plato, Anacreon, Pindar, Theognis, Aristophanes, and Xenophon. It features both beautiful poetry and thought-provoking prose, emotional outpourings and humorous anecdotes. From Homer’s story of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus, one of the most intense between men in world literature, to Sappho’s lyrics on the pleasures and pains of loving women, these writings show the many meanings of what the Greeks called eros.<br/><br/>Complete with brief introductions to the selections, and with the original Greek on facing pages, How to Be Queer reveals what the Greeks knew long ago—that the erotic and queer are a source of life and a cause for celebration.
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing
KC Davis LPC • 2022
How to Kill Men and Get Away with It
Katy Brent • 2023
How Was It For You?
Eve Smith • 2024
Hysteria
Jessica Gross • 2020
I Fear My Pain Interests You
Stephanie Lacava • 2022
I Hope This Doesn't Find You
Ann Liang • 2025
I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up
Kodama Naoko • 2019
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki
Baek Sehee • 2024
The Idiot A Novel
Elif Batuman • 2018
Idol, Burning
Rin Usami • 2022
In the Miso Soup
Ryu Murakami • 2006
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
Hadley Vlahos R.N. • 2023
Innocents
Cathy Coote • 2002
Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, <i>Innocents </i>is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of <i>Innocents</i> decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher; together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, <i> Innocents</i> permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power, and suggests that we all are culpable.
Iron Widow
Xiran Jay Zhao • 2021
It
Alexa Chung,Alexa Chung • 2013
Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu
Junji Ito • 2015
Journals
Kurt Cobain • 2002
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 8 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 8)
Homura Kawamoto • 2019
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 9 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 9)
Homura Kawamoto • 2019
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 10 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 10)
Homura Kawamoto • 2019
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 11 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 11)
Homura Kawamoto • 2019
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 12 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 12)
Homura Kawamoto • 2020
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 13 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 13)
Homura Kawamoto • 2021
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 14 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 14)
Homura Kawamoto • 2022
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 15 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 15)
Homura Kawamoto • 2022
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 16
Homura Kawamoto • 2023
Kakegurui, Vol. 17
Homura Kawamoto • 2024
Kakegurui, Vol. 18
Homura Kawamoto • 2024
Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, Vol. 19 (Kakegurui - Compulsive Gambler -, 19)
Homura Kawamoto • 2025
Kill For Me Kill For You
Steve Cavanagh • 2024
Kilt Trip
Alexandra Kiley • 2024
The Kitchen Witch
Skye Alexander • 2023
Know My Name: A Memoir
Chanel Miller • 2019
Universally acclaimed, rapturously reviewed, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography, and an instant New York Times bestseller, Chanel Miller's breathtaking memoir "gives readers the privilege of knowing her not just as Emily Doe, but as Chanel Miller the writer, the artist, the survivor, the fighter." (The Wrap). "I opened Know My Name with the intention to bear witness to the story of a survivor. Instead, I found myself falling into the hands of one of the great writers and thinkers of our time. Chanel Miller is a philosopher, a cultural critic, a deep observer, a writer's writer, a true artist. I could not put this phenomenal book down." --Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior and Untamed "Know My Name is a gut-punch, and in the end, somehow, also blessedly hopeful." --Washington Post She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford's campus. Her victim impact statement was posted on BuzzFeed, where it instantly went viral--viewed by eleven million people within four days, it was translated globally and read on the floor of Congress; it inspired changes in California law and the recall of the judge in the case. Thousands wrote to say that she had given them the courage to share their own experiences of assault for the first time. Now she reclaims her identity to tell her story of trauma, transcendence, and the power of words. It was the perfect case, in many ways--there were eyewitnesses, Turner ran away, physical evidence was immediately secured. But her struggles with isolation and shame during the aftermath and the trial reveal the oppression victims face in even the best-case scenarios. Her story illuminates a culture biased to protect perpetrators, indicts a criminal justice system designed to fail the most vulnerable, and, ultimately, shines with the courage required to move through suffering and live a full and beautiful life. Know My Name will forever transform the way we think about sexual assault, challenging our beliefs about what is acceptable and speaking truth to the tumultuous reality of healing. It also introduces readers to an extraordinary writer, one whose words have already changed our world. Entwining pain, resilience, and humor, this memoir will stand as a modern classic. Chosen as a BEST BOOK OF 2019 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, TIME, Elle, Glamour, Parade, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, BookRiot
Lana Del Rey: Her Life In 94 Songs, The Early Classics
F. A. Mannan • 2020
The Last Sane Woman
Hannah Regel • 2024
Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes
Travis Baldree • 2022
Legs Get Led Astray
Chloe Caldwell • 2017
Let's Spend the Night Together
Pamela Des Barres • 2007
Consisting of Pamela Des Barres' revealing interviews with and profiles of other supergroupies, this book offers first-hand glimpses into the backstage world of rock stars and the women who loved them.
Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined
Stephenie Meyer • 2016
Life of the Party: Poems
Olivia Gatwood • 2019
Life with Picasso (New York Review Books Classics)
Françoise Gilot • 2019
Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.<br/><br/>Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought up in a well-to-do upper-middle-class family, who had sent her to Cambridge and the Sorbonne and hoped that she would go into law, the young woman defied their wishes and set her sights on being an artist. Her introduction to Picasso led to a friendship, a love affair, and a relationship of ten years, during which Gilot gave birth to Picasso’s two children, Paloma and Claude. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses; she was also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.<br/><br/>Life with Picasso, written with Carlton Lake and published in 1961, is about Picasso the artist and Picasso the man. We hear him talking about painting and sculpture, his life, his career, as well as other artists, both contemporaries and old masters. We glimpse Picasso in his many and volatile moods, dismissing his work, exultant over his work, entertaining his various superstitions, being an anxious father. But Life with Picasso is not only a portrait of a great artist at the height of his fame; it is also a picture of a talented young woman of exacting intelligence at the outset of her own notable career.
Limelight
Daisy Buchanan • 2023
A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing
Jessie Tu • 2020
Love and Fuck Poems
Koraly Dimitriadis • 2012
Love is a Dog From Hell
Charles Bukowski • 2002
Love Language
Linda Marigliano • 2023
Love Redesigned (Lakefront Billionaires, 1)
Lauren Asher • 2023
The Lover
Marguerite Duras • 1998
Lucky
Marissa Stapley • 2021
SOON TO BE AN APPLE LIMITED SERIES STARRING ANYA TAYLOR-JOY REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A thrilling roller-coaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers’ hearts. What if you had the winning ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn’t cash it in? Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity—when things go sideways. Lucky finds herself alone for the first time, navigating the world without the help of either her father or her boyfriend, the two figures from whom she’s learned the art of the scam. When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, her elation is tempered by one big problem: cashing in the winning ticket means she’ll be arrested for her crimes. She’ll go to prison, with no chance to redeem her fortune. As Lucky tries to avoid capture and make a future for herself, she must confront her past by reconciling with her father; finding her mother, who abandoned her when she was just a baby; and coming to terms with the man she thought she loved—whose dark past is catching up with her, too. This is a novel about truth, personal redemption, and the complexity of being good. It introduces a singularly gifted, multilayered character who must learn what it means to be independent and honest...before her luck runs out.
Luster
Raven Leilani • 2021
MADK, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)
Ryo Suzuri • 2021
Makoto has long been ostracized because of his odd hobbies and a sexual kink others would see as disgusting. One day he finds a book on summoning demons and manages to summon the intimidatingly beautiful and rather chatty Archduke J. The demon offers to grant Makoto’s deepest twisted desire in exchange for his life. Once Makoto has sated his demented appetites, he fulfills his end of the bargain, only to find he’s been reborn as a monster...in hell! -- VIZ Media
Marlena: A Novel
Julie Buntin • 2017
Mary
Nat Cassidy • 2022
Mary Jane: A Novel
Jessica Anya Blau • 2021
Meeting Millie
Clare Ashton • 2023
The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel
Ann Claycomb • 2017
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka • 2009
Midnight Sun
Stephenie Meyer • 2020
Mild Vertigo
Mieko Kanai • 2023
Mimi’s Tales of Terror
Junji Ito • 2023
Misbehaved
Charleigh Rose • 2017
The Modern
Anna Kate Blair • 2023
A Mountain Of Tiny Courages
Darby Hudson • 2022
MURCIELAGO T01
Yoshimura KANA • 2018
The Museum of Broken Relationships
Olinka Vistica • 2017
My Body: Emily Ratajkowski's deeply honest and personal exploration of what it means to be a woman today - THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Emily Ratajkowski • 2021
*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* - November 2021<br/><br/>A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.<br/>_______________<br/><br/>'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand her impulses. It left me much changed' - Lena Dunham<br/><br/>'I read these pages, breathless with recognition, and the thrill of reading a new voice telling it like it is' - Dani Shapiro<br/><br/>'Emily Ratajkowski's first essay collection needs to be read by everyone [...] both page-turning and moving as hell' - Amy Schumer<br/><br/>'A slow, complicated indictment of a profession and the people who propel it [...] it will deliver a more nuanced and introspective rendering of her interior than those who come to it with those surface interests might expect' - Vogue<br/><br/>'Dazzling' - Observer<br/><br/>'Ratajkowski brings nuanced insight to questions about empowerment versus commodification of women's bodies and sexuality. Blending cultural criticism and personal stories, My Body is smart and powerful' - Time Magazine<br/><br/>'Raw, nuanced and beautifully written. A moving and enlightening experience to join a woman openly exploring such deep parts of her physical self via the written word. A truly impressive debut' - Emma Gannon<br/><br/>'Excellent [...] Ratajkowski writes with curiosity, intellect and acute awareness' - Harper's Bazaar<br/><br/>'Superb [...] it feels revolutionary' - Telegraph<br/><br/>'I admire and envy her artistry' - Guardian<br/>_______________<br/><br/>Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. The subsequent evolution in her thinking about our culture's commodification of women is the subject of this book.<br/><br/>My Body is a profoundly personal exploration of feminism, sexuality, and power, of men's treatment of women and women's rationalizations for accepting that treatment. These essays chronicle moments from Ratajkowski's life while investigating the culture's fetishization of girls and female beauty, its obsession with and contempt for women's sexuality, the perverse dynamics of the fashion and film industries, and the grey area between consent and abuse.<br/><br/>Nuanced, unflinching, and incisive, My Body marks the debut of a fierce writer brimming with courage and intelligence.
My Husband: A Novel
Maud Ventura • 2023
My Last Innocent Year: A Novel
Daisy Alpert Florin • 2023
The Nakano Thrift Shop
Hiromi Kawakami • 2017
Nana, Vol. 1
Ai Yazawa • 2005
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk • 2023
The New Me
Halle Butler • 2019
"Nightshift"
Kiare Ladner • 2021
NINETEEN CLAWS AND A BLACKBIRD
Agustina Bazterrica • 2023
No. 91/92: a Parisian Bus Diary
Lauren Elkin • 2021
Nobody, Somebody, Anybody: A Novel
Kelly McClorey • 2021
Nocticadia: A Dark Academia Gothic Romance
Keri Lake • 2023
None of This Is True: A Novel
Lisa Jewell • 2023
Nostalgia Has Ruined My Life
Zarah Butcher-McGunnigle • 2021
Nothing But My Body
Tilly Lawless • 2021
Nothing Much Happens
Kathryn Nicolai • 2020
Notice
Heather Lewis • 2024
A classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation. The reason it’s never just once is the same reason money’s only a part of it. Most anyone can take or leave that, though they don’t think they can. The cover story of all time, that’s what money is. The excuse of excuses no one will question because they so much need to use it themselves. Published by Doubleday in 1994, Heather Lewis’s chilling debut novel took place on the northeastern equestrian show-riding circuit, to which Lewis herself belonged in her teens. Expelled from boarding school, its fifteen-year-old narrator moves numbly through a world of motel rooms, heroin, dyke love, and doped horses. Kirkus Reviews found it “brutal, sensual, honest, seductive … a powerful debut,” while the New York Times found the book “grating and troublesome … it’s difficult to imagine a more passive specimen.” Almost immediately, Lewis began writing Notice, a novel that moves even further into dark territory. The teenaged narrator Nina begins turning tricks in the parking lot of the train station near the Westchester County home of her absent parents. She soon falls into a sadomasochistic relationship with a couple. Arrested, she’s saved by a counselor and admitted to a psychiatric facility. But these soft forms of control turn out to be even worse. Writing in the register of an emotional fugue state, Notice’s helpless but all-knowing narrator is as smooth and sharp as a knife. Rejected by every publisher who read it during Lewis’s life, Notice was eventually published by Serpent’s Tail in 2004, two years after her death. The book, long out of print, emerged as a classic queer text of trauma, written by one of the most talented novelists of her generation.
Nudes
Elle Nash • 2021
Okay Days
Mustard • 2023
On Love
Charles Bukowski • 2016
A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us. Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power. Bukowski is brilliant on love—often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. “My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,” he writes, “as the same cat crouches.” Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.
On Love and Death
Patrick Suskind • 2006
Susan Sontag On Women /anglais
SONTAG SUSAN • 2023
On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most fearless and incisive writing on women, a crucial aspect of her work that has not until now received the attention it deserves.<br/><br/>For the most part written in the 1970s during the height of second-wave feminism, Sontag's essays are strikingly relevant to our contemporary conversations. At times powerfully in sync and at others powerfully at odds with them, they are always characteristically original in their examinations of the 'biological division of labour', the double-standard for ageing and the dynamics of women's powerlessness and women's power.<br/><br/>As Merve Emre writes in her introduction, 'They offer us the spectacle of a ferocious intellect setting itself to the task at hand: to articulate the politics and aesthetics of being a woman in the United States, the Americas and the world.'
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, 1)
Rachel Gillig • 2022
One Day We're All Going to Die
Elise Esther Hearst • 2023
Only Alive on Sundays: A Novella
Kim Rashidi • 2023
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast (Penguin Little Black Classics)
Oscar Wilde • 2016
Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2
Kazuo Umezz • 2022
Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 3 (3)
Kazuo Umezz • 2022
Orochi: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 4
Kazuo Umezz • 2023
Paradise Rot: A Novel
Jenny Hval • 2018
Parallel Hells
Leon Craig • 2022
People From My Neighbourhood
Kawakami Hiromi • 2021
Phantasma (Deluxe Limited Edition)
Kaylie Smith • 2025
<b>LIMITED PRINT EDITION</b><b>―this gorgeous deluxe hardcover of Kaylie Smith's bestselling gothic romantasy includes a seductive new cover, </b><b>two-colored stenciled edges, a stamped foil case, and designed endpapers. Available for a limited time and while supplies last.</b><br> <br> <br> <br> <b>THE BOOKTOK SENSATION AND COMPANION TO #1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER <i>ENCHANTRA</i>!<br> <br> <br> <br> <i>Welcome to Phantasma. There are only two rules to the game: Stay alive. And don't fall in love.</i></b><br> <br> <br> <br> When Ophelia's sister disappears, there is only one way to save her. Ophelia must enter Phantasma, a deadly contest inside a haunted mansion, and claim its prize--a single wish.<br> <br> <br> <br> Phantasma is a maze of twisting corridors and lavish ballrooms, of demons and temptations. Ophelia will face nine challenges, each more dangerous than the last. There can only be one winner, and the other contestants will stop at nothing to eliminate their rivals.<br> <br> <br> <br> Every day the house creates new monsters. But just as Ophelia's fears threaten to overwhelm her, a mysterious stranger offers her a bargain.<br> <br> <br> <br> Charming, arrogant and infuriatingly attractive, Blackwell claims he can guide her through the lethal trials ahead. All he asks in return is ten years of her life.<br> <br> <br> <br> Ophelia knows she shouldn't trust him. Blackwell doesn't seem dangerous, but appearances can be deceptive. Worse still, she feels a dark and irresistible attraction drawing them closer and closer.<br> <br> <br> <br> Her life is on the line. But in Phantasma, the only thing deadlier than losing the game is losing your heart . . . <br> <br> <br> <br> <b>Check out the deluxe hardcover of <i>Enchantra</i>, publishing simultaneously in December 2025! </b>
The Piano Teacher
Elfriede Jelinek • 2004
The Pink Hotel
Anna Stothard • 2013
Plastic Monsters
Daniel J Volpe • 2022
Platinum Blood
Mor Ichigaya • 2023
Post-traumatic: A Novel
Chantal V. Johnson • 2023
Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems
Megan Fox • 2023
Punk 57
Penelope Douglas • 2016
From New York Times Bestselling Author, Penelope Douglas, comes the latest standalone love-hate romance..."We were perfect together. Until we met." MishaI can't help but smile at the lyrics in her letter. She misses me.In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed.It didn't take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever...And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us.Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there's one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She's the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it?Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name's Ryen, loves Gallo's pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances?F*ck it. I need to meet her.I just don't expect to hate what I find.RyenHe hasn't written in three months. Something's wrong. Did he die? Get arrested? Knowing Misha, neither would be a stretch.Without him around, I'm going crazy. I need to know someone is listening. It's my own fault. I should've gotten his phone number or picture or something.He could be gone forever.Or right under my nose, and I wouldn't even know it.*Punk 57 is a stand alone New Adult romance. It is suitable for ages 18+.
The Rachel Incident: A novel
Caroline O'Donoghue • 2023
Released
Gypsy-Rose Blanchard • 2024
Rental Person Who Does Nothing
Morimoto • 2023
Rest and Be Thankful
Emma Glass • 2020
Reverend Jen's Really Cool Neighborhood
Reverend Jen • 2003
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights
Molly Smith • 2018
Ripe A Novel
Sarah Rose Etter • 2023
A Room of Ones Own
Virginia Woolf • 1975
Ruby
Francesca Lia Block • 2007
Sad Janet
Lucie Britsch •
salt slow
Julia Armfield • 2019
The Saltwater Curse
Avina St Graves • 2025
Sankarea: Undying Love - Vol.1 (Shonen Magazine Comics) Manga
Mitsuru Hattori • 2010
Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism)
Per Faxneld • 2017
The Savior's Book Cafe Story in Another World Vol. 1
Kyouka Izumi • 2021
Scorpion
Avina St Graves • 2024
<p>Three days is all it took for everyone I love to die.</p><p><br></p><p>The fall from grace hurt.</p><p><br></p><p>I was one of the few specialist snipers in the military who is a woman. I made a name for myself. Set records.</p><p><br></p><p>But death has a way of changing everyone.</p><p><br></p><p>The descent from Special Forces, to dirty fighting pits, to becoming a bodyguard for the man whose heart I broke, I never thought I'd stop drowning.</p><p><br></p><p>One night is all it took for everything to change.</p><p><br></p><p>One shot is all I need.</p><p><br></p><p>My name is Zalak Bhatia. They call me Scorpion.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>*This book is set in a shared world with authors Lauren Biel, Dana LeeAnn, Harleigh Beck, Amber Nicole, Willow McQuerry, Jenn Bullard, Kinsley Kincaid, and Ann-Marie Davis.*</p>
The Seas
Samantha Hunt • 2019
Sedating Elaine
Dawn Winter • 2022
Self-Help
Lorrie Moore • 2007
From the national bestselling author of A Gate at the Stairs—and a master of contemporary American fiction—comes “a funny, cohesive, and moving collection of stories" (The New York Times Book Review).<br/><br/>In these tales of loss and pleasure, lovers and family, a woman learns to conduct an affair, a child of divorce dances with her mother, and a woman with a terminal illness contemplates her exit. Filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language Moore has become famous for, these nine glittering tales marked the introduction of an extravagantly gifted writer.
Send Nudes
Saba Sams • 2023
September Love
Lang Leav • 2020
Servo
David Goodwin • 2024
Seventeen
Joe Gibson • 2023
She and Her Cat
2017
She Is The Poem: sapphic poetry on love and becoming
June Bates • 2022
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner An Eclipse Novella
Stephenie Meyer • 2022
Shy: A Novel
Max Porter • 2023
Sirens & Muses: A Novel
Antonia Angress • 2022
Skin of a Sinner
Avina St Graves • 2023
Slashed: A Horror Romance Novella
Thalia Sanchez • 2023
Slaying the Vampire Conqueror
Carissa Broadbent • 2023
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, The Flesh, and L.A. (New York Review Books Classics)
Eve Babitz • 2016
Sociopath: A Memoir
Patric Gagne • 2024
Soft Core
Brittany Newell • 2025
Soft in the Middle
Shelby Eileen • 2017
"there are so many words I've left unsaidso instead of going another year or five or tenin brutal, crushing silencedon't waste this opportunitydon't be scared when the full weight of my hearttests the strength of your handsI'm trusting you with something I barely trust myself withthis knowingthis tellingthis momentous uprootingI'm hereI amI am right here in these words"A debut poetry collection about love, heartbreak, body image, how absolutely breathtaking girls are, flower blooms and starlight.
Soichi: Junji Ito Story Collection
Junji Ito • 2023
A Song to Drown Rivers: A Novel
Ann Liang • 2024
Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
Marie Kondō • 2016
Sputnik Sweetheart: A Novel
Haruki Murakami • 2002
Still and Still Moving
Katie Scruggs Galloway • 2023
Stitches (Junji Ito)
Hirokatsu Kihara • 2024
Strange Weather in Tokyo A Novel
Hiromi Kawakami • 2017
Strong Female Character
Fern Brady • 2023
Submit
Sonnet • 2024
Sugar
Mia Ballard • 2024
Love, betrayal, murder, and witchcraft.<br/>When 35-year-old Satara Stratton discovers her husband Dean’s treacherous affair with her best friend, Lilah, she plunges into familiar territory: deceit and death. Having disposed of men before without a hitch, she finds a new thrill in this betrayal. But with Lilah on a crusade to expose her guilt, Satara must outpace everyone to keep her secrets safe. Her fate intertwines with a Love Witch whose tempting spells seem a perfect solution to Satara’s woes. With newfound power at her fingertips, she gleefully manipulates the affections of those around her. Yet, Satara's lust for love proves her ultimate vulnerability. She soon learns that while it’s easy to bend others to her will, controlling her own heart is a perilous art indeed. Prepare for a darkly compelling journey where the boundaries of desire and devastation blur, and the quest for love becomes Satara's most lethal game.<br/>For fans of A Certain Hunger, step into the twisted, psychedelic world of SUGAR, a story about a femme fatale hooked on love and acid in this gripping tale of 1970's suburban chaos where nothing is as it seems.
Sugar, Baby
Celine Saintclare • 2024
Suicide Blonde
Darcey Steinke • 1992
The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1 (Volume 1)
Mokumokuren • 2023
The Summer of Naked Swim Parties
Jessica Anya Blau • 2008
Sunbathing
Isobel Beech • 2022
A powerful debut that explores life, death and the restorative power of friendship under the warm summer sun of Abruzzo. 'Sweet and deep, sad and funny - like life.' Peggy Frew, award-winning author 'Isobel Beech writes like a skipping heartbeat; loss carves out her love language.' Mahmood Fazal, Walkley Award-winning writer Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each other, learning about cherry worms. Strange how badly I could punish myself for abandoning you once, then go and do it again. After weeks of grieving, a woman books a plane ticket, bound for an old villa in the mountains of Abruzzo. Invited to stay with her friends Giulia and Fab - in the weeks before they marry in a village orchard - she lives for a summer in the house's Birthing Room, where generations of women once had their babies. More often, though, she lives in her head: in the past, trying to make sense of her grief and wondering how to go on, or if she can. As her inner and outer worlds spar and converge, she passes the time helping with the household chores, walking in the sunshine and plucking fruit from the nearby orchards, all while dwelling on the moments with her father that might have warned her something was wrong. This spare, stunning novel explores the workings of the self in the wake of devastation and deep regret, and reveals the infinite ways that the everyday offers solace and hope.
Sunburn
Chloe Michelle Howarth • 2025
Sweet Bean Paste: The International Bestseller
Durian Sukegawa • 2017
Sweetbitter
Stephanie Danler • 2017
Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep...but we Don't Mind
Victoria Richards • 2023
Talia
Daniel J Volpe • 2021
Tampa
Alissa Nutting • 2014
Terminal Boredom: Stories
Izumi Suzuki • 2021
That Ex
Rachelle Toarmino • 2020
There Are No Saints: Illustrated Edition (Sinners Duet)
Sophie Lark • 2022
There's A Tale To This City
Jay Khan • 2021
These Witches Don't Burn
Isabel Sterling • 2020
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes
Eric LaRocca • 2022
Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories
Mariana Enriquez • 2017
Things We Say in the Dark
Kirsty Logan • 2019
Thirst for Salt
Madelaine Lucas • 2023
This Is Me Trying
Racquel Marie • 2024
Toil and Trouble: 15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft
Tess Sharpe • 2018
Topics of Conversation
Popkey Miranda • 2021
The Torn Skirt
Rebecca Godfrey • 2002
<p>I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for sixteen years. . . . And then as I turned sixteen and stopped smiling, the fever returned though my skin stayed pale and sure, showing no sign of the heat inside me.</p><p>At Mt. Douglas (a.k.a. Mt. Drug) High, all the girls have feathered hair, and the sweet scent of Love's Baby Soft can't hide the musk of raw teenage anger, apathy, and desire. Sara Shaw is a girl full of fever and longing, a girl looking for something risky, something real. Her only possible salvation comes in the willowy form of the mysterious Justine, the outlaw girl in the torn skirt. The search for Justine will lead Sara on a daring odyssey into an underworld of hookers and johns, junkies and thieves, runaway girls and skater boys, and, ultimately, into a violent tragedy.</p><p>One of the most provocative and original coming-of-age novels to appear in a long time, The Torn Skirt is a lyrical story that soars with an honest understanding of the teenage condition.</p>
A Touch of Jen
Beth Morgan • 2023
Tragedy Queens
Lisa Marie Basile • 2018
The Trauma Cleaner
Sarah Krasnostein • 2017
Truthfully, Yours
Caden Armstrong • 2024
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath • 2000
The Unfortunates: A Novel
J K Chukwu • 2023
An edgy, bitingly funny debut about a queer, half-Nigerian college sophomore who, enraged and exhausted by the racism at her elite college, is determined to reveal the truth about The Unfortunates—the unlucky subset of Black undergrads who Just. Keep. Disappearing.<br/>Sahara is Not Okay. Entering her sophomore year, she already feels like a failure: her body is too much, her love life is nonexistent, she’s not Nigerian enough for her family, her grades are subpar, and, well, the few Black classmates she has are vanishing—or dying. Sahara herself is close to giving up: depression has been her longtime “Life Partner." She believes that this narrative—taking the form of an irreverent, no-holds-barred “thesis” addressed to the powerful University Committee that will judge her—may be her last chance to document the Unfortunates' experience before she joins their ranks...But maybe, just maybe, she and her complex community of BIPOC women aren't ready to go out without a fight.
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
Anna Bogutskaya • 2023
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
Devon Price PhD • 2022
Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
Florence Welch • 2018
Valley of the Dolls 50th Anniversary Edition
Jacqueline Susann • 2016
Vampireology
Nicky Raven • 2010
Venus and Aphrodite
Bettany Hughes • 2019
Through Ancient Art, Evocative Myth, Exciting Archaeological Revelations And Philosophical Explorations Bettany Hughes Shows Why This Immortal Goddess Endures Through To The Twenty-first Century, And What Her Journey Through Time Reveals About What Matters To Us As Humans. Charting Venus's Origins In Powerful Ancient Deities, Bettany Demonstrates That Venus Is Far More Complex Than First Meets The Eye. Beginning In Cyprus, The Goddess's Mythical Birthplace, Bettany Decodes Venus's Relationship To The Greek Goddess Aphrodite, And, In Turn, Aphrodite's Mixed-up Origins Both As A Cypriot Spirit Of Fertility And Procreation - But Also, As A Descendant Of The Prehistoric War Goddesses Of The Near And Middle East, Ishtar, Inanna And Astarte. On A Voyage Of Discovery To Reveal The Truth Behind Venus, Hughes Reveals How This Mythological Figure Is So Much More Than Nudity, Romance And Sex. It Is The Both The Remarkable Story Of One Of Antiquity's Most Potent Forces, And The Story Of Human Desire - How It Transforms Who We Are And How We Behave.
The Villainess and the Demon Knight (Manga) Vol. 2
Nekota • 2023
Waif
Samantha Kolesnik • 2021
Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
Marina Abramovic • 2016
wanderers, witch-talkers
Najia Khaled • 2016
Watching Women And Girls
Danielle Pender • 2022
The Water Cure: A Novel
Sophie Mackintosh • 2019
We Can't Do Just Plain Love, Volume 1
Mafuyu Fukita • 2023
Devoted office worker Sakura Yuino has been transferred to work under a new supervisor: the handsome, gentlemanly Tatsuki Kiritani. From the outside, the two of them seem very put-together — but they’re both hiding troublesome personal issues. Sakura has a scent fetish, and Tatsuki can’t be around women without... getting aroused. <br><br> To help him out, dedicated subordinate Sakura proposes "special training" to help Tatsuki get over his issues with women (bonus: she can indulge her scent kink). What could possibly go wrong?<br><br><i>"If you can handle the spiciness, We Can’t Do [Just] Plain Love offers up complicated and sometimes kinky office romance [...] If you’ve been looking for something that’s “not just plain love,” then this series might be just what you need to read next."</i><b>— Ilgın Side Soysal, The Comics Beat</b><br><br><b><i>This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for an audience aged 18 years and up.</i></b>
We Do What We Do in the Dark: A Novel
Michelle Hart • 2022
We Have Always Been Here
Samra Habib • 2019
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Shirley Jackson • 2006
<b>Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret</b><br><br>Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i> is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Weaver
Melanie Kanicky
Wednesday's Child
Yiyun Li • 2023
Weird Fucks
Lynne Tillman • 2015
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
Hwang Bo-reum • 2023
What a Time to Be Alone: The Slumflower's Guide to Why You Are Already Enough
Chidera Eggerue • 2018
What About Men?
Moran • 2023
One of Britain's most distinctive voices, Caitlin's writing has been described as 'exceptionally brilliant and powerful' (Marina Hyde) and 'superbly funny' (Guardian).
What You Are Looking for is in the Library
Aoyama Michiko • 2024
When Marina Abramovic Dies: A Biography (MIT Press)
James Westcott • 2010
Whores on the Hill: A Novel
Colleen Curran • 2005
The Whores' Asylum
Katy Darby • 2013
Wicked Mind: A Forbidden Dad's Best Friend Romance (Wicked Book 1)
Bianca Mov • 2023
The Wiener Across the Way (The Cocky Kingmans)
Amy Award • 2024
Witch
Rebecca Tamás • 2019
The Witch in Every Woman: Reawakening the Magical Nature of the Feminine to Heal, Protect, Create, and Empower
Laurie Cabot • 1997
The Witch's Complete Guide to Crystals: A Spiritual Guide to Connecting to Crystal Energy (Witch’s Complete Guide)
Sara Hadley • 2022
The Witch's Complete Guide to Tarot: Unlock Your Intuition and Discover the Power of Tarot (Volume 2) (Witch’s Complete Guide, 2)
Wigington Patti • 2022
The Woman Destroyed
Simone De Beauvoir • 1987
Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda • 2022
"Lydia is hungry. She's always wanted to try sashimi, ramen, onigiri with sour plum stuffed inside - the food her Japanese father liked to eat. And then there is bubble tea and the vegetables grown by the other young artists at the London studio space she is secretly squatting in. But Lydia can't eat any of this. The only thing she can digest is blood, and it turns out that sourcing fresh pigs' blood in London - where she is living away from her vampire mother for the first time - is much more difficult than she'd anticipated. Then there are the humans: the people at the gallery she interns at, the strange men who follow her after dark, and Ben, a goofy-grinned artist she is developing feelings for. Lydia knows that they are her natural prey, but she can't bring herself to feed on them. If Lydia is to find a way to exist in the world, she must reconcile the conflicts within her - between her demon and human sides, her mixed ethnic heritage, and her relationship with food, and, in turn, humans. Before any of this, however, she must eat."--Publisher.
Women: A Novella
Chloe Caldwell • 2024
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés • 1996
Y/N
Esther Yi • 2024
You Exist Too Much: A Novel
Zaina Arafat • 2020
<b>A “provocative and seductive debut” of desire and doubleness that follows the life of a young Palestinian American woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities as she endeavors to lead an authentic life (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>).</b><br><br>On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12–year–old Palestinian–American girl is yelled at by a group of men outside the Church of the Nativity. She has exposed her legs in a biblical city, an act they deem forbidden, and their judgement will echo on through her adolescence. When our narrator finally admits to her mother that she is queer, her mother’s response only intensifies a sense of shame: “You exist too much,” she tells her daughter.<br><br>Told in vignettes that flash between the U.S. and the Middle East—from New York to Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine—Zaina Arafat’s debut novel traces her protagonist’s progress from blushing teen to sought–after DJ and aspiring writer. In Brooklyn, she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship. But soon her longings, so closely hidden during her teenage years, explode out into reckless romantic encounters and obsessions with other people. Her desire to thwart her own destructive impulses will eventually lead her to The Ledge, an unconventional treatment center that identifies her affliction as “love addiction.” In this strange, enclosed society she will start to consider the unnerving similarities between her own internal traumas and divisions and those of the places that have formed her.<br><br>Opening up the fantasies and desires of one young woman caught between cultural, religious, and sexual identities, <i>You Exist Too Much</i> is a captivating story charting two of our most intense longings—for love, and a place to call home.
Happiness 1
Shuzo Oshimi • 2016
PTSD Radio Omnibus 1 (Vol. 1-2) (PTSD Radio 2-in-1)
Masaaki Nakayama • 2022
Warmer, Colder (Haunted Hearts)
Alexia Onyx • 2024
Priest
Sierra Simone • 2022
The Power of the Heart
Baptist De Pape • 2014
Haunting the Hunter
Hanna Harp • 2025
Persona 4 Volume 9
Atlus • 2019
Persona 4 Volume 8
Atlus • 2018
Persona 4 Volume 7
Atlus • 2018
Persona 4 Volume 6
Atlus • 2017
Persona 4 Volume 5
Atlus • 2016
Persona 4 Volume 4
Atlus • 2016
Persona 4 Volume 3
Atlus • 2016
Persona 4 Volume 2
Atlus • 2016
Persona 4 Volume 1
Atlus • 2016
Persona 3 Volume 11
Atlus • 2019
Persona 3 Volume 10
Atlus • 2019
Persona 3 Volume 9
Atlus • 2019
Persona 3 Volume 8
Atlus • 2018
Persona 3 Volume 7
Atlus • 2018
Persona 3 Volume 6
Atlus • 2017
Persona 3 Volume 5
Atlus • 2017
Persona 3 Volume 4
Atlus • 2017
Persona 3 Volume 3
Atlus • 2017
Black Swans: Stories
Eve Babitz • 2018
Black Leather
Lisa Lou • 2013
Having Worked As An Escort All Over The World, Experiencing Every Extreme Of Sexuality And Desire, Lisa Lou Finally Meets Her Prince Charming.having Worked As An Escort All Over The World, Experiencing Every Extreme Of Sexuality And Desire, Lisa Lou Finally Meets Her Prince Charming. After A Chance Meeting In Copenhagen, Her Rich And Enigmatic Prince Whisks Her Away To Sydney, Where She Becomes His Plaything In Every Sense Of The Word. But As Lisa Falls Deeper Into A Seductive World Of Sex, Drugs And Money, And Struggles To Find New Ways To Please Her Sugar Daddy, She Begins To Wonder If True Love Really Has Found Her Or If She Will Ever Escape Her Past. In Black Leather, Lisa Lou Continues The Sexy, Funny And Incredible True Story She Began In Red Velvet. Told In Her Unique And Intimate Voice, Her Erotic Memoir Exposes The Secret Life Of A Kept Woman.
Black Girl, Call Home
Jasmine Mans • 2021
Birthday Girl
Penelope Douglas • 2018
From New York Times Bestselling author Penelope Douglas comes a new forbidden love story...JORDANHe took me in when I had nowhere else to go.He doesn't use me, hurt me, or forget about me. He doesn't treat me like I'm nothing, take me for granted, or make me feel unsafe. He remembers me, laughs with me, and looks at me. He listens to me, protects me, and sees me. I can feel his eyes on me over the breakfast table, and my heart pumps so hard when I hear him pull in the driveway after work. I have to stop this. It can't happen. My sister once told me there are no good men, and if you find one, he's probably unavailable. Only Pike Lawson isn't the unavailable one. I am. PIKEI took her in, because I thought I was helping.She'd cook a few meals and clean up a little. It was an easy arrangement. As the days go by, though, it's becoming anything but easy. I have to stop my mind from drifting to her and stop holding my breath every time I bump into her in the house. I can't touch her, and I shouldn't want to. The more I find my path crossing hers, though, the more she's becoming a part of me. But we're not free to give into this. She's nineteen, and I'm thirty-eight. And her boyfriend's father. Unfortunately, they both just moved into my house. *BIRTHDAY GIRL is a stand-alone, contemporary romance suitable for ages 18+.
Big Swiss: A Novel
Jen Beagin • 2023
Between You and Me
Joanna Horton • 2023
Between Love and Loathing (2) (The Hardy Billionaire Brothers Series)
Shain Rose • 2023
Being Lolita: A Memoir
Alisson Wood • 2021
Before the Forest A Tor Original
Kell Woods • 2024
<p>Kell Woods returns to the world of her bestselling novel, <i>After the Forest</i>, weaving a dark and lyrical standalone, spoiler-free backstory for a young witch at the siege of Breisach, years before she became notorious for her gingerbread cottage... and her appetite.<br><br>Author's Note: This story contains descriptions of domestic violence, sexual assault, animal harm, and cannibalism.<br><br>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>
A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing but Using the Bathroom as an Escape
Joe Pera • 2021
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!<br/><br/>The cozy comedy of Joe Pera meets the darkly playful illustrations of Joe Bennett in A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape, a funny, warm, and sincere guide to regaining calm and confidence when you're hiding in the bathroom.<br/><br/>“Nothing says ‘class’ to your dinner guests more than a Joe Pera book next to the can.” ―Seth Meyers<br/><br/>Joe Pera goes to the bathroom a lot. And his friend, Joe Bennett, does too. They both have small bladders but more often it’s just to get a moment of quiet, a break from work, or because it’s the only way they know how to politely end conversations.<br/><br/>So they created a functional meditative guide to help people who suffer from social anxiety and deal with it in this very particular way. Although, it’s a comedic book, the goal is to help these readers:<br/><br/>1. Relax<br/>2. Recharge<br/>3. Rejoin the world outside of the bathroom<br/><br/>It’s also fun entertainment for people simply hiding in the bathroom to avoid doing work.<br/><br/>A Bathroom Book for People Not Pooping or Peeing But Using the Bathroom as an Escape will be waiting in the bathroom like a beacon for anxious readers looking to feel calm, confident, and less alone.<br/><br/>“Nothing says ‘class’ to your dinner guests more than a Joe Pera book next to the can.” ―Seth Meyers<br/><br/>“A beautiful and funny book about something I have done all my life. Thank you, Mr. Joseph Pera.” ―Aidy Bryant
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Carson McCullers • 1958
The Art of Howl's Moving Castle
Hayao Miyazaki • 2005
Shortly after reaping the rewards from his movie Spirited Away, a project that earned him an Academy Award in 2003, director Hayao Miyazaki set his sites on his next film, Howl's Moving Castle.Based on the novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle gave the internationally renown director an opportunity to bring to life a fantastical time in 19th century Europe when science and magic defined the popular zeitgeist.Veering slightly from its source material, the new Miyazaki movie nonetheless retains all the novel's principal characters. There's a foppish wizard named Howl, a vain witch from the wastelands, an anthropomorphic chimney fire and a young girl who carries a most unusual curse. And, of course, there's the moving castle…a towering, omnipresent structure that dominates the landscape. Already a smash success in Japan, Howl's Moving Castle finally comes to U.S. theatres this spring. To coincide with its Stateside release, VIZ is proud to present The Art of Howl's Moving Castle, a hardbound, prestige format book which acts as an essential companion to the film. A generous collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawings, paintings and cell images, The Art of Howl's Moving Castle brings the movie into your library. Along with the stunning visuals, the book also presents interviews and comments with the production staff, including key points directly from the director.There's more than one way to book passage on the moving castle. See the movie, but don't forget to reserve a copy of the book, as well. The Art of Howl's Moving Castle is a great way to preserve the magic of the next great anime classic from Hayao Miyazaki. Shortly after reaping the rewards from his movie Spirited Away, a project that earned him an Academy Award in 2003, director Hayao Miyazaki set his sites on his next film, Howl's Moving Castle. Based on the novel by British author Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle gave the internationally renowned director an opportunity to bring to life a fantastical time in 19th century Europe when science and magic defined the popular zeitgeist. Veering slightly from its source material, the new Miyazaki movie nonetheless retains all the novel's principal characters. There's a foppish wizard named Howl, a vain witch from the wastelands, an anthropomorphic chimney fire and a young girl who carries a most unusual curse. And, of course, there's the moving castle…a towering, omnipresent structure that dominates the landscape. Already a smash success in Japan, Howl's Moving Castle finally comes to U.S. theatres this spring. To coincide with its Stateside release, VIZ is proud to present The Art of Howl's Moving Castle, a hardbound, prestige format book which acts as an essential companion to the film. A generous collection of concept sketches, fully rendered character and background drawings, paintings and cell images, The Art of Howl's Moving Castle brings the movie into your library. Along with the stunning visuals, the book also presents interviews and comments with the production staff, including key points directly from the director. There's more than one way to book passage on the moving castle. See the movie, but don't forget to reserve a copy of the book, as well. The Art of Howl's Moving Castle is a great way to preserve the magic of the next great anime classic from Hayao Miyazaki.
The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More
Annie Raser-Rowland • 2017
It sounds too good to be true. You can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels? Preposterous!<br/>Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art Of Frugal Hedonism has been designed to help you target the most important habits of mind and action needed for living frugally but hedonistically. Apply a couple, and you’ll definitely have a few extra dollars in your pocket and enjoy more sunsets. Apply the lot, and you’ll wake up one day and realise that you’re happier, wealthier, fitter, and more in lust with life than you’d ever thought possible.
Ariel: The Restored Edition: A Facsimile of Plath's Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement (Modern Classics)
Sylvia Plath • 2018
Archive Sofia Coppola
2023
Aphrodite Made Me Do It
Trista Mateer • 2019
<b>Voted one of the best poetry collections of 2019 by readers on Goodreads! Bestselling and Goodreads Choice Award winning poet Trista Mateer takes a magical approach to self-care with her new collection, <i>Aphrodite Made Me Do It</i>.</b><br> <br> In this empowering and feminist retelling, Mateer transforms the mythology of the goddess into 224 pages of modern poetry and full-color artwork. Broken into sections alternating between the perspective of The Poet and Aphrodite herself, the work within tackles the timeless topic of love--romantic, platonic, and self-love. The collection addresses issues like heartbreak, sexuality, womanhood, trauma, and the restorative power in taking control of your own lore, speaking your truths, and rewriting your origin story. If you let her, by the end of this book, Aphrodite will make you believe in the possibility of your own healing.<br><br><b>"If you were only made to be beautiful, we wouldn't have put you down here in the dirt."</b>Perfect for fans of Amanda Lovelace, Nikita Gill, Rupi Kaur, Elizabeth Acevedo, Rick Riordan, and Madeline Miller; or anyone interested in Greek myths, tarot, and Instagram poetry.<br><br> This is the first book in the <i>Myth & Magick</i> series, which also includes <i>Artemis Made Me Do It </i>and<i> Persephone Made Me Do It.</i>
Annie on My Mind
Nancy Garden • 2017
A landmark in LGBT fiction, this captivating story of two teenage girls who fall in love is a “classic of the genre” (Publishers Weekly). When Liza Winthrop first lays eyes on Annie Kenyon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she knows there’s something special between them. Soon, their close friendship develops into a deep and intimate romance. Neither imagined that falling in love could be so wonderful, but as Liza and Annie’s newfound sexuality sparks conflict in both their families and at their schools, they discover it will take more than love for their relationship to succeed. One of the first books to positively portray a lesbian relationship, Annie on My Mind is a groundbreaking classic of the genre. The subject of a First Amendment lawsuit over banned books and one of School Library Journal’s “One Hundred Books that Shaped the Century,” Nancy Garden’s iconic novel is an important story for anyone discovering who they’re meant to be.
Annie Bot
Sierra Greer • 2024
<p>WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD</p><p>Named a Best Book of the Year by Scientific American, Harper's Bazaar and NPR. Named a Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year by the Washington Post and Elle. Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award in Science Fiction.</p><p>"Provocative...a Frankenstein for the digital age...a rich text about power, autonomy, and what happens when our creations outgrow us." — Esquire</p><p>"Unexpected and subtle...delicious and thought-provoking." — New Scientist</p><p>For fans of Never Let Me Go and My Dark Vanessa, a powerful, provocative novel about the relationship between a female robot and her human owner, exploring questions of intimacy, power, autonomy, and control.</p><p>Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she’s not the greatest at keeping Doug’s place spotless, but she’s trying to please him. She’s trying hard.</p><p>She’s learning, too.</p><p>Doug says he loves that Annie’s AI makes her seem more like a real woman, so Annie explores human traits such as curiosity, secrecy, and longing. But becoming more human also means becoming less perfect, and as Annie’s relationship with Doug grows more intricate and difficult, she starts to wonder: Does Doug really desire what he says he wants? And in such an impossible paradox, what does Annie owe herself?</p><p>"Annie Bot is a book to hold close to your heart when the walls start closing in." — Washington Post</p>
Animals Eat Each Other
Elle Nash • 2017
All the Lovers in the Night
Mieko Kawakami • 2022
Acts of Service: A Novel
Lillian Fishman • 2022
Acts of Desperation
Megan Nolan • 2022
The Abandoners: On Mothers and Monsters
Begoña Gómez Urzaiz • 2024
<b>One of NPR's "Books We Love" in 2024<br> <br> An incisive collection about motherhood and creative life through the lens of mothers--in history, literature, and pop culture--who have abandoned their children.</b><br> <p>What kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz became fixated on artistic women who overcame both society's condemnation and their own maternal guilt to leave their children--at will or due to economic or other circumstances.</p> <p><i>The Abandoners</i> is sharp, at times slyly humorous, and always deeply empathetic. Using famous examples such as Ingrid Bergman, Muriel Spark, Doris Lessing, and Maria Montessori as well as fictional ones like Anna Karenina and the many roles of Meryl Streep, and interrogating modern trends like "momfluencers," Gómez Urzaiz reveals what our judgement of these women tells us about our judgement of all women.</p>
100 Points Of ID To Prove I Don't Exist
Darby Hudson • 2021
Paperback, poetry.<br/><br/>Independently published 2021.<br/><br/>Like the best kind of philosopher, Darby Hudson shrugs off pretence and formality to wander (and wonder) into the heart of things, into the restless ache of emptiness and its surprising consolations. It's all here – a bird's nest found in a bluestone alley, accidental text messages, the sky “like a skeleton of stars”, a magical dream crow, transformative and intimate grief. These poems “drive the car through the front window / and loot the place”, but always with tenderness.<br/><br/>Andy Jackson, author of Music Our Bodies Can’t Hold<br/><br/>As a Laureate of the brilliantly mundane, Darby Hudson transmutes the droll, the greyscale, and the humanly everyday into an epiphanic, technicoloured poetry. These ‘accidental prayer[s]’ not only register but also homage the birds, strangers, cats, non-strangers, normative social practices, stars, et al. These poems are an essential account, worshipfully crafted, and Hudson’s methodologies – charm, humility, insistent curiosity – deliver a book of careworn magic.<br/><br/>Dan Disney, author of Either, Orpheus
How (Not) To Raise The Dead
Rachael Chadwick • 2026
