Five years after surviving the world's worst terror attack and being hunted for her potent blood. Living Vampire Lauren Cortez has fully embraced her new life and finds her place in the Circle, the shadowy vampire collective. Her new job is to seek out and find new vampires like herself as they are turning and bring them under the protection of the Circle before their own blood lust exposes them. But soon after she starts her new job, she finds herself pulled into the FBI investigation of a group of savage serial killers, who prey upon lone hikers on the scenic trails in northern Maine. As she is pulled deeper into the investigation of the mysterious blood thirsty group, she finds herself drawn to Daniel, one of the FBI Agents on the case. Sparks fly as they work together to unravel the mystery behind these horrific attacks.
What Your Comfort Costs Us: How Women of Color Reimagine Leadership to Transform Workplace Culture
What Your Comfort Costs Us builds on and moves beyond existing literature centering the experiences of women of color by identifying oppressive workplace patterns, addressing the need for structural and systemic change in workplace cultures, and articulating ways for transformative leadership to thrive. Through an intentional cross-sector focus, Your Comfort moves beyond books that suggest that toxic cultures and experiences are exclusive to any one sector or community and facilitates an understanding of patterns of workplace toxicity and possible solutions across contexts. Dr. Alcalde invites us to learn beyond our experiences as she shares her stories and the stories of dozens of other women of color leaders in nonprofit, philanthropy, and higher education. What Your Comfort Costs Us delivers engaging and accessible personal stories, lessons, and recommendations. Each chapter foregrounds stories highlighting a theme and connecting lessons for a healthier, more inclusive, supportive work environment.
Sweet and Deadly: How Coca-Cola Spreads Disinformation and Makes Us Sick
Sweet and Deadly details the ever-growing body of research showing that sugar-sweetened beverages are the single item in the American diet that most contributes to obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, which kill millions of Americans annually. But most Americans have still not gotten the memo, because Coca-Cola—the soda industry leader by a long shot—has spent decades developing a highly effective disinformation campaign designed to discredit and hide the science. Coca-Cola's sophisticated shadow network has masterfully spread disinformation for decades to hide the health risks of its product from consumers—risks disproportionately borne by Black, brown, and low-income communities. Murray Carpenter is the author of Sweet and Deadly (MIT Press, March 2025), and Caffeinated (Penguin USA, 2014). As a journalist focusing on science, health, climate, and environmental stories, he has reported for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, National Geographic, NPR, and Maine Public Radio.
Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy
Alias Agnes reveals the previously unknown story of Maine-native Jane Tucker, a stenographer scrabbling to get by when she took a job as an undercover detective. Her target: Madeleine Pollard, former mistress of Congressman W. C. P. Breckinridge, whom she had sued for breach of promise when he failed to marry her as pledged. The trial was a national sensation and Tucker worked quietly behind the scenes. Tucker, alias Agnes Parker, was so successful that no one discovered her secret task or her real identity for over a century until historian Elizabeth DeWolfe’s deep research in archives in the US and UK uncovered Tucker’s work and Pollard’s amazing post-trial life. Written in engaging prose with all the intrigue and suspense of a detective tale, Alias Agnes chronicles the lives of two women at the cusp of the twentieth century—the opportunities that beckoned and the challenges that thwarted their dreams.
Benedicaria: The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Medicine
Gail Faith Edwards
Bertha Canterbury/Rosina Publishing
Benedicaria: The Blessing Way of Southern Italian Folk Medicine, by Gail Faith Edwards, is a groundbreaking exploration of Old World European spirituality, healing, and mysticism. This book revives the sacred traditions of Southern Italy, offering readers a rich tapestry of folklore, animism, plant medicine, and devotional practices. Through immersive storytelling and meticulous research, Edwards bridges the wisdom of Mediterranean ancestors with modern life, ensuring these traditions endure. More than a historical account, Benedicaria is a living, breathing practice—one that invites readers to reclaim their heritage, deepen their spiritual connection, and preserve a fast-disappearing but still vibrant tradition. With its blend of cultural anthropology, spiritual guidance, and practical knowledge, this book is an essential addition to any personal, bookstore or library collection.
The Girl Who Flew Over the Honeysuckle Hedge: Her Lifelong Journey of Coping and Healing with C-PTSD
J. Lauren Sangster tells her personal story of surviving childhood sexual abuse, family dysfunction and violence. Trying to escape her past with a new identity as Lauren in New York, the author discovers love and heartbreak with a man of Hungarian nobility and his whirlwind, high society life in Newport, Rhode Island. She then endures abuse and torture while held captive by a philatelist deep in the French Alps. Amid the darkness, and still haunted by childhood trauma, Lauren manages to survive and finds support from a circle of trusted friends back in New York. She even finds love again. Writing with humility, compassion, and a sense of humor, she provides an unfiltered examination of how her traumatized mind works while finding joy in friends, love, music, silly jokes, a pet dachshund, and learning to live authentically as she discovers new ways to heal more deeply. This story offers readers hope of triumph over trauma.
In her debut poetry collection, What Had Happened Was, Dr. Therí Alyce Pickens investigates the complex structures of Black storytelling. Addressing topics ranging from Black life, popular culture, and history to individual encounters with emotion, love, and chronic disability, Pickens crafts and questions the stories we tell ourselves about who we are and who we want to be. Throughout, Pickens mines the formal structures and the play of Black English within the lives and afterlives of Harriet Tubman, Mary J. Blige, Lil' Kim, Breonna Taylor, and figments of our collective imagination. Her singular poetic voice effortlessly flows between what she knows and what she’s heard and between everyday Black conversation and her work in cultural criticism and disability studies. Traveling at the speed of thought, Pickens explores a praxis of storytelling governed by the places where truths and fables kiss.
Set in rural Michigan, tether & lung embraces a level of honest sensuality and vulnerability as a heterosexual woman grapples with the needs of her own body while her closeted homosexual husband seeks solace in the animals he loves—his horses—directing the othering he feels within himself towards his wife and children. These poems probe the nature of relationships where emotional extremes are often held in tension and betrayals are not easily healed or resolved. Here, compassion and contempt face one another, asking difficult questions concerning gender, alienation, child-rearing, domestic violence, and divorce.
The Joker’s Revenge tests seventeen-year-old Darci Miller’s resolve in this 1972 young adult mystery/romance. She strives to be an ideal daughter to her widowed father but finds his over-protective ways challenging. There is a dark family secret involving her late mother that she is determined to uncover. When an opportunity comes up to work as a secretary at the Maine summer camp where her mother worked back in the fifties, Darci jumps at the chance. But when the head chef creates a groundbreaking machine that removes fat and calories from food, chaos erupts. A malicious joker playing evil pranks wants something, and innocent children are getting hurt. Someone is trying to steal the innovative machine, intent on settling a score for past wrongdoings. Amidst the mystery, young love flourishes, making this an engaging and captivating story.
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