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Darius wanted no part of his father's life in the Heavy Sinners Motorcycle Club until an enemy puts him on the road to revenge...Marcus Heavy is the founder of the Heavy Sinners Motorcycle Club. They specialize in the drug game, prostitution, blackmail, and murder. Marcus' son, Darius, was supposed to take up the mantle as leader of the club, but Darius doesn't want that life. He's seen the devastation it brings to his family and everyone arou...

A daring, category-confounding, and ruthlessly funny novel from National Book Award honored author Edmund White that explores polyamory and bisexuality, ageing and love.Sicilian aristocrat and musician, Ruggero, and his younger American wife, Constance, agree to break their marital silence and write their Confessions. Until now they had a ban on speaking about the past, since transparency had wrecked their previous marriages. As the two altern...

Use the expert advice and global case studies in this book to support employee health and wellbeing both during and after a health, economic or social crisis.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, almost half of Americans reported that the crisis had a negative effect on their mental health. In the UK, the financial crisis of 2008 resulted in a rise in stress and anxiety and a decline in physical health. When dealing with a crisis, a business will consider the resilience of its structures and processes or the impact on forecasts and budgets but what about their people? Without a supported, engaged and motiv...

Lana Lee returns for another delectable cozy set in a Chinese restaurant in Vivien Chien's Hot and Sour Suspects...

In AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK, Cullors charts a framework for how everyday activists can effectively fight for an abolitionist present and future. Filled with relatable pedagogy on the history of abolition, a reimagining of what reparations look like for Black lives and real-life anecdotes from Cullors AN ABOLITIONIST'S HANDBOOK offers a bold, innovative, and humanistic approach to how to be a modern-day abolitionist. Cullors asks us to lead w...

A compelling alternative view of the relationship between our politics and our economy.Throughout America, structural problems are getting worse. Economic inequality is near Gilded Age heights, the healthcare system is a mess, and the climate crisis continues to grow. Yet most ambitious policy proposals that might fix these calamities are dismissed as wastefully expensive by default. From the kitchen table to Congress, debates are punctuated w...

Alexa Tsoulis-Reay's Finding Normal is an author's up close tour of hidden sexual communities challenging our shifting notions of what's taboo and what it means to be normal.Based on a popular series of candid interviews conducted for New York magazine's human science vertical-"What It's Like"-Finding Normal traverses the country exploring the ways that real people are using the Internet to find community, forge connections, and create identit...

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In the warm and wonderful tradition of emerging reader series about friendship like Frog and Toad and Elephant and Piggie, comes Book Two in a series about a girl named Haylee and a cosmic friendship.Haylee and Comet are best friends. And as with all great best-friendships, the universe brought them together in the right place at the right time.In their new adventures, Haylee and Comet celebrate what it means to grow and change, and to take an...

Jake Burt's Cleo Porter and the Body Electric is a futuristic middle-grade novel about a girl who lives in a hermetically sealed housing development.In a future forever changed by a pandemic, a girl survives in total isolation. A woman is dying. Cleo Porter has her medicine. And no way to deliver it.Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get vis...

A 2020 Sydney Taylor Honor Book The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice, now a popular icon, with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with b/w archival photographs. Dramatically narrated case histories from Justice Ginsburg's stellar career are interwoven with an account of RBG's life-childhood, family, beliefs, education, marriage, legal...

Fragen nach Jesus werden gestellt, seitdem das Christentum existiert. Dabei können diese Fragen, die sich an die Person Jesu haften, ganz unterschiedlich beschaffen sein. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Buchs spüren den Fragen der Forschungsgeschichte, vor allem der historischen Jesusforschung, der frühen Christentumsgeschichte und der Systematischen Theologie, nach und zeigen auf, welche Antworten sich in den unterschiedlichen Zeiten und Milieu...

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Johnstone Country. Ready, Aim, Kill.Luke Jensen tracks down a deranged Yankee-turned-outlaw with a burning passion to torch the prairies, torment the townsfolks, and turn all he sees into a smoldering cinder... CAUTION: CONTENTS MAY BE FLAMMABLE In the darkest days of the Civil War, Neville Goldsmith set the world on fire. As Captain for the Union Army, he marched with General Sherman through Georgia, setting homes and cities ablaze with sadis...

In this laugh-out-loud early chapter book with charming full-color illustrations, best-selling author Jacqueline Davies follows the adventures of two best friends who chase their dreams, even through doubt and obstacles. Perfect for fans of the Mercy Watson and Owl Diaries series. When Taylor decides he wants to be the World's First Flying Hedgehog, there is little Sydney can do to stop him. Will Taylor realize his dream? Will he forgive Sydn...

This in-depth, beautifully illustrated biography of Mary Anning sings with the passion and perseverance of the woman herself, who from girlhood on scoured the shifting cliffs of her native Dorset to dig out prehistoric mysteries and make sense of them-altering forever our view of the past." - Joyce Sidman, Newbery Honor winner and Sibert Medal winner A fascinating, highly visual biography of Mary Anning, the Victorian fossil hunter who change...

Wutaryoo is tired of not knowing who she is or where she came from. Inspired by her friends' fantastical origin stories, she sets off on an adventure of a lifetime that will help reveal her true history. A heartwarming and relatable new picture book about telling your own story and finding your own truth, perfect for kids and recent graduates. "What are you?" "Where are you from?" These are questions this mysterious creature has been asked all...

As Alex and Elana try to make their home among the academics and young leftists in El Paso and Juâarez, they are pulled from each other by an affair with a lucha libre fighter, their struggles to define themselves, and the loud cry of home"--

From New York Times-bestselling and Eisner Award-winning creator Hope Larson comes All My Friends, the final standalone book in a middle grade graphic novel trilogy about friendship, family, and music. Perfect for fans of Real Friends by Shannon Hale.Middle-schooler Bina has everything she's ever wanted. She has new friends and a new band whose song is about to be featured on her favorite television show.But being in the spotlight is hard. Whe...