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In a time when there is access to more knowledge and resources than ever before, and the power of information is literally in the palm of one’s hand, a strange thing is happening: People still believe most of what they hear. Sadly, the idea that one has to feel worse and take more prescriptions as they age is just a lie, plain and simple.

In a world of mass consumption and busy schedules, taking the time to understand our own trash habits can be daunting. In Trash Talk, the ever-curious and talented Iris Gottlieb pulls back the curtain on the intricacies of the global trash production system and its contribution to climate change. From the history of the mafia’s rule of the New York sanitation system to orbital debris (space trash) to the myth of recycling, Gottlieb will help listeners see trash in a whole new way.

Wendy has been kidnapped and taken to Hook, which escalates tensions between Hook and Peter. As Wendy plans her own escape, Peter tries to figure out where she's being held and how he can rescue her without losing his friends, his allies, and Neverland itself.

A grown-up and depressed Peter Pan is fighting to protect Neverland from the realm-conquering Commodore Hook. When Peter's runaway shadow shows up at Wendy's workplace, she's eager for the chance to visit Neverland again, to help protect it—and sure, to see the Fae man she's been in love with for ten years. But Neverland is far different than Wendy remembers, with monsters both literal and human-shaped threatening everything Peter has tried to build.

In less than twenty-four hours—before Alexia Leighton is scheduled to return to Miami from spring break in Jamaica—a group of friends betray her in a grisly assault that stops a heartbeat away from murder. The seventeen-year-old prays for the mercy of death. She survives. While on the road to recovery, Alexia's attackers become victims of mysterious acts of violence, leaving authorities confounded and racing against time to prevent another deadly attack. Concern looms, as the perpetrator has proven to be two steps ahead of them at every turn.

Thanks to Callie and their friends, Helston seems to be changing for the better: Boys are allowed to explore their magic, and girls are permitted to train as warriors. Callie is an official Helston page, Willow in on track to become king, and Elowen and Edwyn are finally safe and free of their father. Everything is…perfect. Except it isn’t. Not in Helston, where every step forward is accompanied by a storm of opposition. Even Queen Ewella and Sir Nick are struggling against the wave of fear and anti-magical sentiment growing daily, while the encroaching threat from across the bridge looms.

Katrina the flirt, the coquette, the tease—so called by the Sleepy Hollow villagers because she hasn't given her hand to one of her eager suitors. Everyone expects her to choose the muscled, handsome Brom over lean, studious Ichabod—but Katrina has objections to both of them. One autumn night, a harvest party at the Van Tassel house ends in a violent confrontation, and Katrina comes face to face with the most horrifying myth ever to haunt Sleepy Hollow—the Headless Horseman himself.

It’s springtime in Oklahoma, and Ernie, an outcast in a group of outcasts, feels uneasy. Nerves at the abandoned summer camp where he and his fellow oddballs are crashing have been on edge since the arrival of a teenager named Coral, unceremoniously dropped off from her family’s minivan one afternoon. Adding to her aura of mystery, Coral doesn’t say a word. Ever.

Zeus, Athena, Apollo, Aphrodite, and the other denizens of Mount Olympus feel almost as present and larger than life today as they did when they were worshipped as gods. Humanity has been telling and retelling stories about the characters from Greek and Roman myth for centuries—heck, the Romans liked the Hellenic originals so much, they remade them faster than Marvel remakes Spider-Man movies. And from Virgil's Aeneid to Xena: Warrior Princess to Percy Jackson to The Song of Achilles, the obsession has never waned.

Abducted off the space station where I teach the standard galactic language, I'm imprisoned with two other women in a cold, dirty cell on an alien ship. We're destined for something worse than death until a fierce, blue-haired alien male rescues us. We recover on his ship with his group of Heveian pirates. There, the attraction that formed when he first carried me in his arms grows into a force neither of us can deny. But something else has taken up residence on the ship. Something that will stop at nothing to destroy us all.

Loki ya no soporta más las humillaciones de los dioses de Asgard. Su dignidad herida y un profundo rencor lo llevan a abandonar el mundo de los dioses. Ni siquiera los ruegos de su esposa Sigyn logran detenerlo. Loki adopta entonces la apariencia de un lobo negro y emprende una frenética huida que lo conduce a Jötunheim. Allí, en la tierra de los gigantes, ingresará en una vida salvaje en el Bosque de Hierro, en compañía de Angrboda, "la portadora de desgracias". Loki encontrará en ella un alma pareja y de la relación entre ambos surgirá una cadena de temibles sucesos.

Un manto de desolación y tristeza cubre Asgard. Los dioses se marchitan sin remedio y la decrepitud carcome al mismísimo Odín. ¿Qué ha sucedido? Idunn, hija de los elfos y guardiana del bosque donde florecen las manzanas de la juventud, ha caído presa de Thiazi, un gigante abominable. Siempre caprichoso, el azar quiso que en el trágico rapto de Idunn estuviera presente Loki. Y esa presencia desencadenará una serie de acontecimientos donde este dios, atormentado por el indisimulado desdén que le profesan los demás dioses de Asgard, se verá zarandeado por un violento vendaval de emociones, pasiones y sentimientos encontrados.

Tras huir de Asgard, humillado por los dioses, Loki ha tenido tres hijos monstruosos con la giganta Angrboda en Jötunheim: el gran lobo Fenrir, la serpiente Jörmungand y Hela, la criatura medio viva y medio muerta. Odín teme que los hijos de Loki lleven el germen del caos y amenacen el equilibrio en los nueve mundos y por ello decide epararlos de su padre y confinarlos para conjurar el peligro que suponen.

Tras la primera guerra del mundo, entre los ases y los vanes, las defensas de Asgard no han vuelto a levantarse. La morada de los dioses recibe a un nuevo huésped, el joven Loki, un vástago de los odiados gigantes a quien Odín, por razones que mantiene en secreto, apadrina y protege. Un misterioso constructor se ofrece a reconstruir las murallas del reino, pero exige a cambio un precio desorbitado: el sol, la luna, y la mano de la bella diosa Freya. Es el momento que esperaba Loki para ganarse la confianza de los dioses, pero sus planes se tuercen y pronto se verá obligado a emplear sus singulares poderes para evitar el desastre.

La hermosa Freya, enviada por Odín al mundo de los enanos, queda prendada de un majestuoso collar que estos, los mejores herreros de los nueve mundos, están elaborando. Se trata de una joya única que contiene el fulgor y la hermosura de las estrellas del firmamento. Deseosa de poseerlo a toda costa, despliega sus dotes de seducción para que los enanos se lo entreguen. Cuando lo averigua, Odín, que desea a la bella diosa desde antiguo, enloquece de celos y urde su venganza.

Generous Press is a new kind of romance imprint. Someplace Generous—a vibrantly diverse and inclusive anthology of romantic short stories—can be described in one word: yes. Featuring stories by award-winning poets like Richard Siken, Rachel McKibbens, and Brionne Janae; acclaimed fiction writers like Temim Fruchter, Corinne Manning, and Max Delsohn; and popular thinkers like Jessica P. Pryde, Someplace Generous presents voices largely new to the genre of romance, each bringing a fresh take on what it means to tell a love story.

With his father’s mysterious disappearance and his brother Ronnie enlisting in the Vietnam War, 13-year-old TJ Crowley is left alone with his racist, unstable mother, Kate. The newly enforced Fair Housing Act results in the unthinkable for the Crowleys when a Black family, headed by the eminent Dr. Washington, crosses the racial red line and moves in next door. Kate is quick to warn TJ that their new neighbors are strictly off-limits and makes a panicked call to beg Ray, her old flame, to travel to their home in Wichita Kansas to help deal with “the problem next door.”

Welcome to Affinity, the hottest battle royale video game around! The Weird Ones—Josh, Hannah, Larkin, and Wheatley—have become four of the biggest stars in gaming. But a surprising twist to their first professional Affinity tournament leaves Wheatley in huge trouble . . . with Hurricane Games, the company that made the game they all love.

"El Morador de las Tinieblas" es un cuento de H.P. Lovecraft que narra la historia de Robert Blake, un escritor obsesionado con el estudio del ocultismo. Blake se interesa en una iglesia abandonada y maldita que ha sido escenario de rituales malévolos en el pasado. A pesar de las advertencias de los lugareños, decide explorar la iglesia y subir a la torre del chapitel. Allí, descubre la verdad sobre los oscuros secretos que la iglesia alberga, lo que aumenta el misterio y la intriga del lugar.

Ese lugar entre el sueño y la vigilia es el espacio donde queda la esencia de los sueños, ese sitio invisible salvo cuando a estamos punto despertar, pero aún permanecemos ligeramente dormidos y donde como en una red, quedan irremisiblemente atrapados nuestros anhelos a pesar de sujetarlos con las manos para llevarlos con nosotros. Pero igual que con los hermosos sueños, sucede con nuestras pesadillas cuando son ellas las que se nos aferran con la intención de no dejarnos escapar.