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"A book that's a feast, an occasion and a celebration. Randy Boyagoda delightfully skewers the industrial-academic complex but also creates moving characters who seem to have walked in from the dorm and faculty meeting next door. The result is as moving as it is hysterically funny." —Gary...

What if women could get rid of their guilt? Maya Patel has it all—her own start-up, a sexy, doting husband, influencer status, and now, a new baby. But behind closed doors, Maya's drowning.Her newborn is taking a toll on her marriage, her best friend won't return her calls, and her company's...

Love Island meets Jurassic Park meets Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle in this twisted, thrilling satire about a group of influencers looking for love . . . only to find horrors awaiting them in paradise, and a group of producers plotting a wicked finale. They're dying for a chance at...

Amrapali Anna Singh is an historian and analyst capable of discerning the most cryptic and trivial details from audio recordings. One day, a mysterious man appears at her office in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, having traveled a great distance to bring her three Type IV audio cassettes that bear the stamp of a library in Buenos Aires that may or may not exist. On the cassettes is the deposition of an adventure journalist and his obsessive pursuit of an amorphous, legendary, and puzzling "City of Dreams."

Triple Compounding For Dummies helps beginning and seasoned investors and business owners alike take advantage of compounding interest, compounding continuity, compounding dividends, as well as other methods of compounding that can be used to create a wealth ecosystem. This book breaks down...

Matches are made in heaven...Except mine was custom-made in hell. Scorched in the flames of hate, sown in the seed of deception, and cursed with a life of doom. A piece of paper I signed at sixteen and I was betrothed to him. Nova D'Cruz. The Heir to the Cruz Empire. The son of my family's biggest rival and enemy. Now, my arranged husband. Villainous. Manipulative. Vindictive. He vowed to make me burn for eternity. Little does he know, I've been burnt long before he touched me.

High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity—plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. In these living cities, architects are revered above anyone else. If not for their ability to psychically manipulate the architecture, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic, powerful, mystical, Iravan is one such architect. In his city, his word is nearly law. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his wife, they are a way for survival to be reliant on the privileged few.

Merle Oberon made history when she was announced as a nominee for the Best Actress Oscar in 1936. Her nomination marked the first time the Academy recognized a performer of color. Oberon, born to a South Asian mother and white father, broke through a racial barrier—but no one knew it. Oberon was "passing" for white. In the first biography of Oberon in more than forty years, Mayukh Sen draws on family interviews and untapped archival material to capture the life of an oft-forgotten talent.

Two months have passed since Ahilya and Iravan learned the devastating truths behind the earthrages. As the cosmic creatures struggle to break into the world, and Nakshar’s architecture disintegrates, the desperate council summons their sister ashrams to a Conclave, to discuss the future of life in the skies. Ahilya, now a councillor, is determined to share the truth about the cosmic beings and the nature of Ecstatic trajection so she can liberate ordinary citizens and save the condemned architects. Her conviction has alienated her allies and created dangerous enemies.

When thinking about the work of caring for others, we often neglect the human cost borne by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid work, particularly performed in the home, is habitually undervalued by society; but the work of caring for people...

In the mold of Arabian Nights, this groundbreaking YA anthology—featuring seventeen Muslim women writers—links together fantastical stories that a group of refugees tell one another within a riveting frame story. On her way across the desert, fleeing the soldiers who have destroyed all she...

"A compelling true story that will have readers cheering out loud while the pages fly by." —School Library Journal (starred review) In this riveting true story of courage and resilience during the coronavirus outbreak, a bold girl on a bicycle races against time across India to save her father...

Lizbeth Dreyfus is a modern woman with a classic problem—perfection is exhausting. As sorority president, an honors student, and a relentless overachiever, she expects nothing but the best—from herself and everyone around her. She certainly doesn’t have time for a man who challenges her at every turn, especially not Wil, who seems determined to find fault in everything she does. So when he confesses his feelings (flaws and all) Lizbeth is forced to confront a truth she’s been avoiding: maybe she’s the one who needs to change.

Neurodiversity for Dummies is your essential guide in understanding neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and more. This quick and easy guide is perfect for anyone needing to know more about neurodiversity. And that's all of us-because recent estimates say that 15-20% of the world's population have some form of neurodivergence.

“Sensual and thought-provoking, a romantic fantasy unlike any other.” — Shannon Chakraborty “Utterly intoxicating . . . whisking you off to a dreamlike world where every corner glitters with magic, and the sensual and the sacred collide.” — Thea Guanzon Seduction is her weapon. Love...

A spicy and hilarious opposites attract romantic comedy. Raine I haven't spent much time with Sophie since we were kids. When we started high school, we headed in different directions and never looked back. She invited me to her wedding this weekend. I don't want to go because despite all our...

For Long Island native Humaira Mirza, it’s always been about love – and she has the matchmaking track record to prove it. Having successfully found ‘the one’ for both her aunt and her sister, the twenty-three-year-old is ready to claim a bit of romance for herself. The perfect candidate? The gorgeous Rizwan Ali. But as Humaira employs her unique skills to obtain the perfect match with Rizwan, she’s forced to endure the disapproval of family friend Fawad Sheikh who she’s known forever. 

A smart, engaging investigation of the show that brought real teens to TV My So-Called Life lasted only 19 episodes from 1994 to 1995, but in that time it earned many devoted viewers, including the showrunners who would usher in the teen TV boom of the late ’90s and the new millennium. With its focus on 15-year-old Angela Chase’s search for her identity, MSCL’s realistic representation of adolescence on TV was groundbreaking; without her there would be no Buffy or Felicity, Rory Gilmore or Veronica Mars.

Despite hard-won victories, the revolutionary forces known as the Red Hand are more endangered than ever: the Planetary Alliance Commission—the PAC—has branded them public enemy number one, ramping up their efforts to eliminate the Red Hand’s remaining members even as the pandemic rages on. In order to protect the progress they have made, the team must adopt new tactics. Ashiva, armed with a new bionic upgrade, leads a team back into the fray on a dangerous mission across a toxic wasteland wracked by storms.

Study Break, a collection of interconnected contemporary Young Adult short stories written by Gen Z authors, explores different parts of "the college experience," from questioning your major to questioning your identity.