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Cult Classic
Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK of 2022 by Glamour, W, Nylon, Fortune, Lit Hub, The Millions, TIME and more!One night in New York City's Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former colleagues when she excuses herself to buy a pack of cigarettes. On her way back, she runs into a former boyfriend. And then another. And . . . another. Soon nothing is quite what it seems as the city becomes awash with ghosts of heartbreaks past.What would nor...
Cultish
From one of the hosts of the hit podcast "Sounds like a Cult" Cultish is a great deep dive into the world of cults and just why they fascinate us.
“One of those life-changing reads that makes you see—or, in this case, hear—the whole world differently.” —Megan Angelo, author of Followers“At times chilling, often funny, and always perceptive and cogent, Cultish is a bracing reminder that the scariest thing about cults is that you don't realize you're in one till it's too late.”—Refinery29.comThe author of the widely praised Wordslut analyzes the social science of cult influence: how cultish groups from Jonestown and Scientology to SoulCycle and social media gurus use language as the ultimate form of power.What makes “cults” so intriguing and frightening? What makes them powerful? The reason why ...
Scott Cunningham's Encyclopedia Series
Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs
Expanded and revised, this comprehensive guide features magical uses of over 400 herbs and plants from all parts of the world. With over 500,000 copies in print, this reference book is a must for all who perform natural magic. It features illustrations for easy identification of every herb, in addition to common names, use, and rulership.
Curdle Creek
“Curdle Creek is a thoughtful, sinister tour-de-force.”―Tananarive Due, L.A. Times Book Prize-winning author of The ReformatoryFor fans of “The Lottery” and The Hunger Games, this novel set in a small town with a sinister tradition is chilling in the best possible way.Welcome to Curdle Creek, a place just dying to make you feel at home. Osira, a forty-five-year-old widow, is an obedient follower of the strict conventions of Curdle Creek, an all-Black town in rural America stuck in the past and governed by a tradition of ominous rituals. Osira is considered blessed, but her luck changes when her children flee, she comes second to last in the Running ...
Cyanide and Happiness
Cyanide and Happiness is the first-ever collection of the #1 comic on the Web. With 30 never-before-seen comics and appearances from fan-favorite characters like Seizure Man, SuperJerk, Captain Obvious, Prostate Man, and Obese Maurice, Cyanide and Happiness is a must-own for fans of the irreverent, hilarious cult comic from Explosm.net. In the best, sickest tradition of such cult favorites as The Book of Bunny Suicides and Should You Be Laughing at This?, the comic’s crudely drawn figures and the wildly inappropriate topics they cover—including cannibalism, murder, and incest—is most reminiscent of South Park, but offers a profane sensibility all it...
D&D Night
Come play a beginner-friendly start to a campaign with our incredible DM- Ben McFarland! Pregenerated characters available, homemade welcome (LVL 1) show up early if you have questions!
Dagger and Coin
"Rich in politics, intrigue, and betrayal, Dagger and Coin is a complex feminist fantasy featuring a tough and prickly ex-princess that I couldn't help but adore."―Heidi Heilig, author of The Girl from EverywhereThe sequel to Sword and Verse follows a familiar face―Soraya―as she attempts to rebuild a nation after the downfall of the monarchy. Readers who love Rae Carson and Kristen Cashore won’t be able to put this fantasy down.Soraya Gamo was meant to be queen of Qilara, until an Arnath slave rebellion upended the social order and destroyed the capital city. Now, improbably, she sits on the new ruling council beside Mati, Raisa, and Jonis from Book...
Daggermouth (The Heart Duology)
For the first printing only! This hardcover features sprayed edges while the special edition supply lasts.Set in a corrupt surveillance state ruled by the masked elite, this true enemies-to-lovers dystopian romance that’s Conform meets V For Vendetta follows a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son and ends up forced to marry him.The first thing you’ll learn in New Found Haven is that mercy doesn’t exist. The second thing is that, from the highest glass atrium in the Heart to the windowless slums of the Boundary, the Veyra are always watching.The last lesson is the hardest, but you must remember it: Love outside of your ring ...
Dark & Bitter
Intrigue! Mystery! Romance! Coffee! Find all this and more in "Dark and Bitter"."Dark and Bitter" is an anthology which contains eleven tales from writers in New York’s capital region and beyond. These stories feature suspense, complex characters, intense situations, and much more that will keep you on the edge of your seat. Join us on this journey through the amazing works that writers in this area have to offer and learn why we all love our Dark and Bitter tales.
Dark Age
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thebestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year)He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he ...
Dark Age
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Thebestselling author of Morning Star returns to the Red Rising universe with the thrilling sequel to Iron Gold. “Brown’s plots are like a depth charge of nitromethane dropped in a bucket of gasoline. His pacing is 100% him standing over it all with a lit match and a smile, waiting for us to dare him to drop it.”—NPR (Best Books of the Year)He broke the chains. Then he broke the world…. A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw. Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he ...
Dark Rise
* Instant New York Times Bestseller * Indie Bestseller *In this stunning new fantasy novel from international bestselling author C. S. Pacat, heroes and villains of a long-forgotten war are reborn and begin to draw new battle lines. This epic fantasy with high-stakes romance will sit perfectly on shelves next to beloved fantasy novels like the Infernal Devices series, the Shadow and Bone trilogy, and the Red Queen series.Sixteen-year-old dock boy Will is on the run, pursued by the men who killed his mother. Then an old servant tells him of his destiny to fight beside the Stewards, who have sworn to protect humanity if the Dark King ever returns. Wil...
Dark Shores
"Richly-woven, evocative, and absolutely impossible to put down ― I was hooked from the first lines! Dark Shores has everything I look for in a fantasy novel: fresh, unique settings, a cast of complex and diverse characters, and an unflinching boldness with the nuanced world-building. I loved every word." ― Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Throne of GlassThe Celendor Empire has set its sights on conquering the far side of the world. And the secret to transporting its legions across the treacherous seas is held by seventeen-year-old Teriana.Teriana has always been taught that east must never meet west, but when her closest frien...
Dark Skies
Unwanted betrothals, assassination attempts, and a battle for the crown converge in Danielle L. Jensen's Dark Skies, a new series starter set in the universe of the YA fantasy Sarah J. Maas called "everything I look for in a fantasy novel."Now a Kirkus Best Book of 2020!A RUNAWAY WITH A HIDDEN PASTLydia is a scholar, but books are her downfall when she meddles in the plots of the most powerful man in the Celendor Empire. Her life in danger, she flees west to the far side of the Endless Seas and finds herself entangled in a foreign war where her burgeoning powers are sought by both sides.A COMMANDER IN DISGRACEKillian is Marked by the God of War, but...
Dark Witch
With indifferent parents, Iona Sheehan grew up craving devotion and acceptance. From her maternal grandmother, she learned where to find both: a land of lush forests, dazzling lakes, and centuries-old legends. Ireland. County Mayo, to be exact. Where her ancestors’ blood and magic have flowed through generations—and where her destiny awaits. Iona arrives in Ireland with nothing but her Nan’s directions, an unfailingly optimistic attitude, and an innate talent with horses. Not far from the luxurious castle where she is spending a week, she finds her cousins, Branna and Connor O’Dwyer. And since family is family, they invite her into their home and th...
Dark Yonder: Issue 10
GOING OUT WITH A BANG…Getting old is not for sissies — but being young these days is no picnic, either. Join Dark Yonder in exploring the dark side of aging, motherhood, love, envy, and, of course, revenge through the stories of ten outstanding contemporary neo noir authors, including: * Competitive Advantage by Richard Dansky * Proper Understanding by Don Foster * No Evidence by Christina Hoag * Average American Housewife by April Kelly * To the Victor by Tom Larsen * Then When by Mike McCrary * Swamp People by Armand Rosamilia * To Be Contained In A Body by Tonya Simpson * Beautiful, Dangerous Things by Gabriela Stiteler * Grampy Dargle by Mike Zi...
Darling Girl
A Book of The Month Club pick In this beautiful dive into the world of J. M. Barrie’s classic, one woman must take on the infamous Peter Pan—who is not the innocent adventurer the fairy tales make him out to be—to save her daughter’s life. . . .Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy—yes, that Wendy. That is, until she gets a call that her daughter, Eden, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade, has gone missing from the estate where she’s been long tucked away. And, worst of all, Holly knows who must be responsible: Peter Pan, who is not only very real, but very dangerous. Holly is desperate to find Eden and protect her son,...
Dashing Through the Snowbirds
Dashing Through the Snowbirds is the next merry installment of Donna Andrews's New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series.Christmas in Caerphilly is wonderful! Unless you’re a Canadian whose inconsiderate boss is forcing you to spend the holiday there, far from family and friends, with only a slim chance of a white Christmas. Meg already has her hands full, trying to make the season festive for the dozen programmers who are staying with her and Michael while working on a rush project with her brother’s software company. At least it’s an interesting project, since the Canadian company is doing forensic genealogy and DNA analysis.When the ...
Daughter from the Dark
In this extraordinary stand-alone novel, the authors and translator of Vita Nostra—a "dark Harry Potter on steroids with a hefty dose of metaphysics" (award-winning author Aliette de Bodard)—return with a story about creation, music, and companionship filled with their hallmark elements of subtle magic and fantasy.Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this m...
Daughter of Blue City
*** The 2026 Independent Press Award: Distinguished Favorite for Cultural Heritage*** The 22nd Annual Best Book Awards: Finalist for Multicultural Fiction*** The 2025 Goethe Book Awards for Post-1750s Historical Fiction: Long-listedHow do you survive when the world you know is at war with itself?In the unyielding chaos of China's Cultural Revolution, young Lianlian's life is a constant battle against family violence, public shame, and brutal poverty. Raised by a resilient mother and anchored by her little sister, she learns to endure, but with a family fractured by divorce, a future seems impossible.When the political climate finally shifts and the ...
Day Hiking New England
Compact, carry-along guide to New England's best trailsFeatures: * 115 hikes, all rated for quality and difficulty--including many loop hikes * Detailed route descriptions with mileages for notable landmarks and junctions * Easy-to-use topographic maps and clear driving directions * Quick-reference icons for bird-watching, wildflowers, waterfalls, kid- and dogfriendliness, geologic features, and more * An at-a-glance chart to help you choose your adventure * Doesn’t overlap with the author’s 100 Classics Hikes: New England―together the two guides capture more than 200 unique hiking routes!New England encompasses natural breadth and diversity--from t...
Dead Fall: A Thriller
Lethal operative Scot Harvath is dispatched to avenge the killing of American citizens abroad in #1New York Timesand #1Wall Street Journalbestselling author Brad Thor’s pulse-pounding thriller.In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian mercenary unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield.With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village, committing h...
Deadland Rising
Winter has arrived.It has been nearly one year since the zombie hordes claimed the world. As the plague eats away at its victims' bodies, the Fox survivors search for a safe place to rebuild what they have lost.But a dangerous new threat has risen, hunting them from every direction. To survive, Cash, Clutch, and their small band of refugees must put their faith in a group of strangers and a new government with radical plans. It will take all of the Fox survivors' strength and courage to endure in this barren, hostile world. Even that might not be enough.Deadland Rising, the conclusion of the Deadland Saga, is a journey through Dante Alighieri's "Par...
Deadland's Harvest
(Part 2 of the Deadland Saga:The seven deadly sins with a shambling twist.) It has been one hundred days since the zombies claimed the world. Cash, along with forty-two survivors, have found safety in the secluded and well-guarded Fox National Park. The leaves are changing colors, a beautiful, brutal reminder that winter is coming. As the survivors prepare for freezing months without electricity and not enough food, they learn of massive zombie herds several hundred miles north...and headed their way. To save the park, Cash must find a place for the survivors to hide from the migrating herds. If Cash and her small band of volunteers don't succeed by...
Deaf Republic: Poems
Finalist for the National Book Award • Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award • Winner of the National Jewish Book Award • Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award • Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize • Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionIlya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political unrest. When soldiers breaking up a protest kill a deaf boy, Petya, the gunshot becomes the last thing the citizens hear―the...
Death by Chocolate
When gourmet cook Lady Eleanor, a.k.a. "The Queen of Chocolate," is murdered under the watchful eye of curvaceous P.I. Savannah Reid, Savannah, with her reputation in tatters, must sift through a vast array of suspects to catch a killer with a sweet tooth. 15,000 first printing.
Death on the Lanai
The New York Times bestselling series that began with Murder by Cheesecake continues with an all-new Golden Girls cozy mystery!When the Girls accept a very strange invitation to a lavish party on a remote island estate, they find that murder has a way of ruining even the most glamorous of evenings.The invite delivered to 6151 Richmond Street was short on details, only promising to celebrate “the greatest artist of the century” and accompanied by a jewel-encrusted brooch—the whole package a brand of mysterious opulence that another Saturday night of gin rummy just can’t match.Blanche Devereaux’s passionate dalliances are as plentiful as hot Southern ...
Deep Delta Justice
The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou2021 Chautauqua Prize FinalistThe "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver).In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood on...
Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast
This beginner-friendly guide for gardeners in the Northeast addresses two of the biggest concerns a gardener has: keeping out deer and adding native plants."For Northeastern gardeners―all of whom battle the serious problem that is deer browsing―this is definitely one for the library.” ―GardenRantThe benefits of native plants are plentiful―less upkeep, more pollinators, and a better environment. In Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast, Ruth Rogers Clausen and Gregory D. Tepper provide a list of native plants that have one more benefit―they are proven to help prevent your garden from becoming a deer buffet.From annuals and perennials to gras...
Defend the Dawn
In the eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Defy The Night author Brigid Kemmerer continues her electrifying series with more royal intrigue, more sizzling romance, and shocking twists that will leave readers breathless.What will they sacrifice to save their kingdom?Their honor?Their love?Their lives?Tessa Cade has gone from masked outlaw to palace advisor, but even with her newfound power, she can't stop the sickness still raging. And the kingdom's supply of Moonflower elixir dwindles all the while. Prince Corrick is trying to find a new way to lead, but it isn't easy to repair the rift between the royals and the people--or t...
Defend the Dawn
In the eagerly anticipated sequel to the New York Times bestseller Defy The Night author Brigid Kemmerer continues her electrifying series with more royal intrigue, more sizzling romance, and shocking twists that will leave readers breathless.What will they sacrifice to save their kingdom?Their honor?Their love?Their lives?Tessa Cade has gone from masked outlaw to palace advisor, but even with her newfound power, she can't stop the sickness still raging. And the kingdom's supply of Moonflower elixir dwindles all the while. Prince Corrick is trying to find a new way to lead, but it isn't easy to repair the rift between the royals and the people--or t...
Defiant (The Skyward Series)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson comes the final book in an epic series about a girl who will travel beyond the stars to save the world she loves from destruction.Spensa made it out of the Nowhere, but what she saw in the space between the stars has changed her forever. She came face to face with the Delvers, and finally got answers to the questions she's had about her own strange Cytonic gifts.The Superiority didn't stop in it's fight for galactic dominance while she was gone, though. Spensa's team, Skyward Flight, was able to hold Winzik off, and even collect allies to help with the cause, but it's only a matter of t...
Defining America
Defining America is different. It’s not meant to persuade you to believe what the author believes. There are no answers here, only questions. Defining America is both a challenge and an opportunity. It challenges every American to define just what America is all about, regardless of what we see on television or read on social media. It’s also an opportunity because the reader has a chance to start from scratch and decide what he or she wants for our country, from choosing leaders to determining how decisions are made by the government. What rights and responsibilities does each citizen have? What should our role be in the world? How do we settle dis...
Deja Brew
In this spellbinding rom-com about a wish gone wrong, two opposites might just get a second chance at love, perfect for fans of New York Times bestsellers Payback's a Witch and The Ex Hex.Ex-celebrity chef Sirena Caraway has had the wackiest October ever. Her cooking powers are on the fritz, she failed to land a career-saving job, and she embarrassed herself at the town’s Halloween party. Just before midnight, she makes a desperate wish for a second chance to fix her life. The next morning Sirena wakes up and realizes that she’s repeating the entire pumpkin spice-flavored month. Even sweeter, she runs into Gus Dearworth, whose magic leaves her spell...
Delicious in Dungeon, Vol. 1
When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!
Demons of Good and Evil
Rachel Morgan will learn that the price of loyalty is blood in the next Hollows novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison.Rachel Morgan, witch-born demon, suspected that protecting the paranormal citizens of Cincinnati as the demon subrosa would be trouble. But it’s rapidly becoming way more trouble than even she could have imagined.While Rachel and her friends may have vanquished the trickster demon Hodin, his mysterious associate known only as “The Mage” is eager to finish what Hodin started, beginning with taking down Rachel’s power structure piece by piece.With her world falling apart, Rachel desperately needs help. But with a...
Denied Access
“[A] callback to what makes Rapp such a special character, and a white-knuckle reminder of why this series remains the gold standard of the political thriller genre.” —The Real Book SpyDon Bentley completes the trilogy begun with American Assassin by taking Mitch Rapp back to his fledgling assassin days, picking up where Kill Shot ended, on a mission to save the woman he loves amid a CIA showdown with the Russian intelligence services in a new thriller from the author of Vince Flynn’s #1 New York Times bestselling series.The Central Intelligence Agency is in crisis.Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Congress is questioning the organization’...
Denithor the Librarian
In the Kingdom of Cesstria, where magic is reserved for the elites, a common soldier like Den never had a chance as a Mage Apprentice. However, as the new Assistant in the Mage Guild Library, the secrets of the arcane are literally at his fingertips. He should do the smart thing, the safe thing: embrace life as a Librarian, make peace with his chaotic, undead mentor and try to live a normal life; perhaps with the alluring half-elf girl from the Adjutant’s office at his side. Fate, however, has other plans for Denithor the Librarian. With one seemingly harmless decision, Den finds himself racing headlong down a shadowy path of forbidden magic, grueso...
Desire Sensibility
* Kosugi is a part-time worker and his boss, Ogata, is nothing but nice. He's always unapproachable, mean, and strict. Meanwhile, his coworker, Kaminuma, has his eye on Kosugi, and somehow that seems to bother Ogata. Ogata plays his game too well, and he seems to be abusing his authority too much. Would this be considered a sexual harassment, or does he care about Kosugi?
Desperate Measures
SPECIAL LUXE COLLECTOR'S EDITION WITH STAINED EDGES, FULL-COLOR CHARACTER ART, AND MORE.Once upon a time, I was a sheltered princess. Now he owns me, body and soul.One night, and my entire life went up in flames. All because of him. Jafar. As my world burned around me, he offered me a choice: walk away with nothing but my freedom…or rise to his challenge and win my fortune back.I bargained.I lost.Now Jafar owns me, and even as my mind rails against him, my body loves the delicious punishments he deals out. It's almost enough to believe he cares. But a gilded cage is still a prison, and I'll do anything to obtain my freedom.Even betray the man who ca...