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In 2008, a serial killer known as the Cajun Cannibal brutally murders and consumes the flesh of eight people in a small Louisiana parish. With law enforcement closing in on him, he takes his own life before he can face the inside of a courtroom. Ten years later, when forensic psychiatrist Dr. Vincent Blackburn discovers he and the Cajun Cannibal are more closely connected than he realized, he begins a case study into the sociopathy behind the killer’s grisly deeds.

Emma lost her husband at thirty-six, and life without him feels impossible. A Hawaiian inheritance might be her chance to start over . . . but the Kealoha place is a mess. The roof leaks, the goats keep escaping, and the jungle is overtaking the orchard. It's more than she can manage on her own. Lani spent years trapped in a marriage that went from bad to worse. Finally, she summoned her courage and moved home to Hawai'i. Now she's starting over with her four year old in tow.

Maris, a rogue android with a mysterious past, infiltrates the Nexus, an underground organization promising liberation for her kind. Delving deeper into their secrets, she uncovers a sinister plot that threatens the future of both androids and humans alike. Joined by her loyal dog Hero and a skilled hacker named Spyder, Maris must navigate a treacherous landscape of rival gangs, powerful cyborgs, and her own haunting past.

Maris has dedicated her existence to unraveling the dark secrets that threaten the city of Nuevo Diego. Together with her human allies, hacker Spyder and scavenger Kenny, she navigates a treacherous landscape of corruption and deceit. Confronted by powerful enemies on all sides, Maris navigates a treacherous web of alliances and betrayals to expose the machinations of the cyborg mastermind Douglas Turing and his pawn, mayoral candidate Korneli Givi.

Having exposed The Veil's shocking corruption, she now pursues their most guarded secret: Project Olympus. Dodging assassins and enemies, Maris hunts for clues about Olympus. Hints about disturbing genetic experiments and advanced cybernetics surface. Each revelation pulls her deeper into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with The Veil's ruthless leader. With distrust and deception around every corner, the stakes have never been higher.

In the pulse-pounding third book of the C.O.R.P.S.E series, Maris is Public Enemy #1. A botched attack exposes her identity. Now C.O.R.P.S.E. manipulates the public against her, forcing her into hiding with Spyder. On the run with unlikely allies, Maris desperately counterattacks C.O.R.P.S.E. She's determined to clear her name and reveal their sinister plans. Dodging hovercopters through dystopian Nuevo Diego, she navigates sewers, back-alley deals, and an underground railway in a frantic race for the truth.

Mia Verick grew up on a remote homestead far from civilization. Most young women raised in the Kerrick Confederacy of Aligned Planets go to school. Mia had daily firearms practice, tactical exercises, and pilot training. She never cared about her life, only about living up to the expectations of her father. His mysterious job often takes him away on missions, leaving her to self-training until the day she can surpass him. Now she will never get the chance.

In life, high school classmates Caroline Davison and Kenny Zhou existed in separate universes-Caroline in one of softball practices and family dinners; Kenny in one of NASA photo books and late-night shifts at his parents' Chinese restaurant. But after their deaths, they find themselves thrown together as roommates in a mysterious white room-one that seems to exist outside of time and space, shows them their loved ones' lives on a large hi-def TV, and grants their wishes with a sardonic sense of humor.

What happens when the world's deadliest operative is activated with no target to take out? Tina Hutchinson was a member of the black ops team known as C.O.R.P.S.E.-until she was killed. But her death triggered a secret program, activating an android that was trained to kill, yet is now confused about its mission.

This story is about an independent woman in her mid-thirties who traveled halfway around the globe to trace her ancestry and how it was connected to World War II. She started out believing she had a plan on how to find evidence of her family’s ancestry only to discover that she had reached an impasse and was completely lost. About to give up, she encountered new information that kept her going.

Maybelline Chen isn’t the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May prefers hoodies over dresses and wants to become a writer. When asked, her mom can’t come up with one specific reason for why she's proud of her only daughter. May’s beloved brother, Danny, on the other hand, has just been admitted to Princeton. But Danny secretly struggles with depression, and when he dies by suicide, May's world is shattered.

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In 2021, women represented 54.3% of the US workforce but only held 35% of senior leadership positions. Of that percentage, only 2.7% of Asian women were seen in management roles. While there have been great leaps for women in the workplace in the last decade, women of color still fall behind. The Tao of Self-Confidence book sets a foundation to help Asian women start being seen as leaders in work and life rather than by our stereotypes. In order to move forward with true confidence, we must learn the lessons our challenges have taught us and heal our trauma.

Olivia Huang Christenson is excited-slash-terrified to be taking over her grandmother’s matchmaking business. But when she learns that a new dating app has made her Pó Po’s traditional Chinese zodiac approach all about “animal attraction,” her emotions skew more toward furious-slash-outraged. Especially when L.A.’s most-eligible bachelor Bennett O’Brien is behind the app that could destroy her family’s legacy....

Edie Falco, Sheryl Crow, Athena Jones, Heidi Heitkamp, and an inspiring array of other breast cancer survivors and "previvors" lend their voices to this collection of powerful stories.

And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again takes its title from the last line of Dante's Inferno, when the poet and his guide emerge from hell to once again behold the beauty of the heavens. In that spirit, the stories, essays, and poems in this collection - from beloved authors including Jhumpa Lahiri, Mario Vargas Llosa, Eavan Boland, Daniel Alarcón, Jon Lee Anderson, Claire Messud, Ariel Dorfman, and many more - detail the harrowing experiences of life in the pandemic, while pointing toward a less isolated future.

Chemistry for Breakfast is a perfect book for anyone who wants to deepen their understanding of chemistry without having prior knowledge of the science. With Mai as your guide, you'll find something fascinating everywhere around you.

Victorian era steam engines and particle physics may seem worlds apart, yet a new branch of science, quantum thermodynamics, reenvisions the scientific underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of today's roaring quantum information revolution. In her exciting new book, Harvard physicist Dr. Nicole Yunger Halpern introduces these concepts with what she calls "quantum steampunk," after the fantastical genre. Quantum Steampunk explores the field's aesthetic, shares its whimsy, and gazes into the potential of a quantum future.

In 2014, after fighting through yards of bureaucratic red tape, leaving her family, and putting her own health at risk in order to help suffering strangers, Kwan Kew Lai finally arrived in Africa to volunteer as an infectious disease specialist in the heart of the largest Ebola outbreak in history. What she found was not only blistering heat, inhospitable working conditions, and deadly, unrelenting illness, but hope, resilience, and incredible courage.

Our Voices, Our Histories brings together 35 Asian American and Pacific Islander authors in a single volume to explore the historical experiences, perspectives, and actions of Asian American and Pacific Islander women in the United States and beyond.