In Massachusetts, in the years between witchcraft delusion and Revolution, curious, intuitive Tamsin Bennett works with her Grandmother Cat, herbalist daughter of a healer-mystic jailed for witchery in 1692 Salem. One morning in 1750, Tamsin encounters ghastly visions of her Papa. That day, he is found dead under the wheel of his gristmill. Endangered, Tamsin leaves the farm, her grandmother, and the cousin she loves, to go with her mother, brother, and young sister to a place that may be safer – or perhaps not. Now keeping a tavern in a harbor town, Tamsin hides in plain sight to carry on the work of her grandmother’s Rowan lineage. She mixes extracts for the tavern’s ale, alters food with herbs, protects her family, and chooses her lovers with particular care. The Rowans is a magical realist historical novel, inspired by a woman who started her own business in 1752, of necessity.
Twenty-eight-year-old Marie Danvers struggles to find security in an insecure world. Then she meets Ian, a seductive conman who offers her apprenticeship in fleecing high-net-worth marks whose blind spots are ripe for exploitation. But instead of security, Danny’s initiation into art theft via private domestic service leads her into a romantic obsession with wild child Calista who's about to be married. When her fantasies end in disaster, Danny lands a dream job in Los Angeles, where tabloid celebrity Bebe Patten is about to take her on the joyride of her life. Against the backdrop of a cutthroat film industry where lust, desperation, and unhinged ambition collide, Danny is about to discover she’s nothing more than a pawn in a covert game that will have lethal consequences
Max Creed is a modern-day Robin Hood, bent upon bringing justice to those abused by the ultra-wealthy elites. He is bound only by the laws of humanity and not those of the legal system. When Sevyn Knight hires Max Creed and his disciples to right the wrongs done to her father at the hands of billionaire playboy Rupert Hastings, the game is afoot. Creed must enmesh himself in the world of the immoral tycoon in order to destroy him, but the temptations of sin and the allure of the pleasures of the rich and famous tease the very fabric of his being. Aided by his business manager, John Little, the former assassin, Scarlett, the tech wizard, Scads, the attorney, Marian, and the financial guru, Tucker, Creed races against time to stop Hastings from becoming all-powerful as murky figures appear on the darkest edges of his fiefdom.
A home state, love, and lore. An obsession pulls a scientist into a world not of her making. Like the tide she chases, she is drawn to depths past her imagination. Sandy is a Boothbay girl, born and raised. A Mainer, through and through. But a mystery haunts her, lures her, and she finds herself amid people and predicaments far beyond the way life should be. The Tide of Deception is a love story, a spy story, and a scientific who-done-it.
When Mary Newcombe dutifully returns to Cape Cod with her twelve-year-old son to celebrate Christmas with her adoptive mother, Birdie, the only part of the trip she looks forward to is digging beach clay for pottery to stoke her beloved kiln. But while she’s home, a suspicious fire destroys the town health clinic, and Mary becomes a leading suspect. As the days tick by and pressures mount to find the arsonist, Mary digs deeper into Wellfleet’s history, and more secrets start to unfurl. A cross-generational mystery told through the perspectives of four women living on the underbelly of Cape Cod, Hush Little Fire is the perfect read for fans of Bonnie Garmus, Dennis Lehane, and Adrienne Brodeur.
The Dialectic of a Philosophical Education: A New Phenomenology
This book provides an account, both theoretical and phenomenological, of the education offered by philosophy. Specifically, it examines the three distinct moments that make up the practice of philosophical study: reading, writing, and discussion. By considering each moment in turn, the author explores how philosophical learning creates opportunities for what Hannah Arendt described as “the gift of thinking poetically” and suggests that the dynamic and nonlinear relationship between these moments is what constitutes the dialectic of a philosophical education. Grounded in years of practice and offering scholarly commentary throughout, this shortform book will appeal to students and philosophers of education, as well as those with interests in teaching and learning more broadly.
Hysteriography: Poems about Uteruses, Menstruation, Pregnancy, Abortion, Loss, and Childbirth
Julia McDonald
The Good Listening Project
Hysteriography is a collection of listening poems and origin stories, birthed from intimate conversations and bound in a hand-screen-printed cover by Little Chair Printing. In conjunction with The Good Listening Project, physician poet Julia McDonald elevates lived uterus experiences with lyrical language and vivid imagery while spanning an emotional spectrum from heartbreak to grrrl power humor. Arriving into a divided and violent world at a critical time for people with uteruses and for those who love them, Hysteriography is a perfect antidote for these times: applicable, timely, and devastatingly beautiful. All proceeds after publication costs will be donated equally to The Good Listening Project, SisterSong, and National Abortion Federation.
"What a lush and complex world Meghan Sterling gives us. These remarkable poems mourn the passing of a way of life, while understanding the toll it has taken, especially on the women who quietly smolder with a sense of entrapment. Sterling’s language is stunningly rich, growing around a family secret that is never fully exposed. The figure of a fox haunts these poems, wily, observant, attuned to danger, watching like a child who only seems to sleep, but who senses the generational 'hurts like a tangle of thorns and no way through but through.' 'Words,' the poet says, 'the only way in and the only way out.' And Sterling’s words do just that, take us into a necessary dark, and then lead us back out, enlightened by the journey her beautiful, rich poems have given us" —Betsy Sholl, House of Sparrows: New and Selected Poems.
Lily, a newly minted fairy godmother who loves fancy dresses and easy magic, is stunned when she fails to cure Daniel, a thirteen-year-old boy who is wheelchair-bound due to a muscular dystrophy. Assuming that Daniel's life is frustrating and boring, Lily is surprised to learn of his love for statistics and that he has billed himself as The World's Greatest Expert on Baseball. Moreover, his deepest wish is to see the first National League night game played between the Reds and the Phillies at Crosley Field in 1935. The world is ripe for this fantasy celebrating the strengths of those with disabilities and rejecting the notion that a fairy godmother needs to concoct a "cure" to help individuals find fulfillment and happiness. Daniel, in fact, shows Lily what really matters to him and challenges her to produce some of her own best magic. An illustrated story in verse.
From acclaimed author George Jreije comes a new, high-stakes, middle grade fantasy chosen both for the Indie Next list as well as the Library Guild as a Gold Standard selection. Eleven-year-old Bashir Boutros dreads going back to America after an amazing summer in Lebanon. He’s always felt invisible back home, where he doesn’t have any real friends. Then, Bashir makes a lucky discovery—a long-lost ring containing a jinn whose magical aura brings power to those who wield it. But the ring’s untold power makes Bashir a target for monsters—including Ali Adin, the world’s most dangerous demon. When Ali Adin kidnaps Bashir’s parents, Bashir joins forces with an ancient society sworn to protect the world from supernatural beings. Together, they set off on a race to stop Ali Adin from conquering the world as Bashir attempts to harness the ring’s abilities. But great power comes at what cost?
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