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Acapulco Nights

K.J. Gillenwater

A thirty-something woman has a secret husband in Mexico. A quick divorce will free her to marry her fiance. But her estranged husband has other plans...

Suzie finds herself trapped in a web of secrets and longing. With a long-lost husband somewhere in Mexico, she must secure a swift divorce to marry her devoted fiancé, James. But little does she know, her estranged husband has plans of his own, and time is running out.

Caught between her hidden marriage and her desire for a fresh start, Suzie must navigate treacherous waters. As James grows increasingly impatient with postponed wedding dates, Suzie grapples with the impossible task of revealing her shocking truth. Will she find a way to break free from her past and salvage her future?

Destiny takes an unexpected turn when Janice, Suzie's best friend, invites her on an unforgettable, all-girl getaway to enchanting Acapulco. Seizing the opportunity, Suzie embarks on a mission to untangle her complicated marital status. Armed with online research, she seeks out her elusive husband, Joaquin, and hopes to secure a much-needed divorce while abroad.

But fate has a different plan in store. Joaquin, fueled by a newfound hope for reconciliation, refuses to let Suzie go without a fight. With James unexpectedly arriving in Acapulco, Suzie's world spirals into chaos, and the love she cherishes hangs in the balance. Will she lose everything she holds dear, or will love conquer all?

Stars of the Show

Tom Leveen

Aspiring astronomer Ellie must put aside her dislike for drama king Jack as they reluctantly partner up for a Much Ado About Nothing scene that could change both their futures.

Ellie Anderson is the brainy, ambitious treasurer of her high school’s Astronomy Club, with dreams of winning the international Science Olympiad and working for NASA. Jack Dunn is the star of the drama department, used to standing ovations but craving approval from his parents, who aren’t supporting his dream of attending a prestigious theatre school.

Suddenly forced to act onstage with Jack to save her grade in Drama, Ellie is reluctant to work with Jack. But Jack’s passion for theatre sparks something in her, and soon their rehearsals are full of more than just lines  from Shakespeare.

As Ellie struggles with her fear of relationships, and Jack fights his feelings after a painful breakup, they both realize they might be perfect for each other—if they can just stop getting in their own way.

But when jealousy, insecurities, and family pressures threaten to pull them apart, Ellie and Jack will have to decide whether they’re willing to risk it all for love—or retreat before the curtain even rises.

From award-winning YA novelist Tom Leveen, a perfect novel for fans of heartfelt, swoon-worthy YA romance!

Omnihumans

Tom Leveen

Mutants. Superpowers. Mayhem. Carnage.

The world became aware of them sixty years ago: people with remarkable physical and sometimes psychic power, often with terrifying deformities. Most folks call them deviants or use slurs like “deev.”

They call themselves omnihumans.

For Sergeant Manic Cruce, hunting deviants isn’t just a job, it’s a personal calling. As an operator in the National Normative Policy Division, or N.P.D, he believes that deevs are a threat to the very fabric of society. He does his best to see to it that they’re rounded up and locked away to protect the average Joe.

Far as he’s concerned, every deev out there is a threat to mankind…and a threat to his only child, even if she is a naïve college girl devoted to protecting the very deviants Manic arrests.

Manic’s world — and identity — gets turned inside-out when a deviant he’s just eliminated turns out to be one of the good guys, using his supernatural powers to protect children from ruthless traffickers. Manic takes up the dead man’s cause, determined to be a guardian angel, but without the support of his usual team…

Deep in the concrete labyrinth the traffickers use as their base of operations, Manic’s clarity of purpose is thrown into chaos. Humans, he learns, can be far worse than any deviant.

And protecting those most innocent may not only cost him his life…but his own humanity.

Award-winning novelist, BattleTech author, former writer for Spawn, and Bram Stoker Award finalist Tom Leveen introduces you to a world far too much like our own in this gritty, supernatural noir novel.

Rebellion

Tom Leveen

When sentient giant scorpions rebel against human masters and take over her father’s military base, a stubborn army brat is the only one who can save her family.

Earth is in a horrific drought. To provide enough food for the nation, scientists engineer arachnids—spiders—to enormous sizes as a source of protein. Soon it’s discovered giant rachs can be trained by humans as beasts of burden; and eventually, with the advent of giant scorpions, as terrifying beasts built for combat in distant, arid lands long at war with the nation . . .

Calliope Turner is a colonel’s kid living on a military base where rockets are launched to the moon. Her brother Theo is a special ops soldier about to go on a deployment there, and Callie can’t wait to grow up just like him. On the day of the launch, though, every rach on base goes haywire, capturing soldiers and civilians alike. The only rach not participating in the uprising is Callie’s pet rach, Goliath.

Callie and a new kid at school, Jacob, find themselves the only humans left to save the base and rescue Theo. As Callie and Jacob race to defeat the mega-scorp behind the rebellion, Callie discovers that she has a unique She can communicate with the giant bugs in a way no human being should be able to do.

This shocking gift could be the key to saving Theo’s life . . . or it might be the one thing that dooms them all.

Can't Wait for Tomorrow

Tom Leveen

"Just the right amount of humor, angst, sadness and redemption."

~ 5-star Amazon reader review

There's good trouble, bad trouble . . . and this kind of trouble.

Bristling under the unforgiving scrutiny of the principal of his new private school, hopelessly attention-deficit sophomore Jon Matthew cobbles together a loose coalition of allies to help keep himself from getting expelled from his second school in a row: Molly, a skateboarding loner burdened by a tragic event in her past; Bill, who has an epic crush on Molly but doesn’t know how to talk to her; and Lauren, the girl who Jon will do anything for, but who's trying to become a Cool Kid instead of appreciating the real friendships she already has.

On the verge of finally escaping “Christ Almighty School for the Hopelessly Insane,” Jon tragically loses someone he loves. Faced with a sudden opportunity to return to the public school he’s been trying to get back into, Jon discovers his head and his heart have very different ideas about what matters most in a school, in a teacher, and in a friend.

Tom Leveen is an award-winning YA novelist published by imprints of Pengiun Random House and Simon & Schuster. Can't Wait for Tomorrow is inspired by oddly true events and people from his own childhood in a private parochial school.

Permission Granted

Maura McAdam

The traditional entrepreneurial narrative – shaped by male-dominated norms – doesn't fit the reality of many women's experiences. Common barriers for women include institutional bias, a psychological need for external validation, 'imposter syndrome', and practical difficulties in raising funding. They often combine to force women to think they need 'permission' before starting a business.

So, what if you stopped waiting for permission and started claiming your place in the entrepreneurial world? Permission Granted is not just another business book – it's a bold, practical guide for women who are ready to disrupt, defy, and rewrite the rules of entrepreneurship.

Drawing on over 30,000 hours of research and interviews with more than 300 female entrepreneurs across the globe, Professor Maura McAdam distils decades of evidence-based insights into eight powerful Calls-to-Action (CTAs), each designed to help women start, build, and grow thriving businesses. This is not theory for theory's sake – it's hands-on, actionable, and deeply rooted in real-world experience.

Structured in three parts – Permission to Start, Permission to Build, and Permission to Grow – this book meets you where you are, whether you're considering the leap, building your first venture, or scaling for growth. Each chapter combines research-backed strategies, pragmatic steps you can implement immediately, and 'Words from the Wise' from pioneering women entrepreneurs.

In this book:

· Silence the inner voice that says, "Wait for permission"

· Embrace your entrepreneurial identity

· Leverage your unique strengths to succeed on your terms

· Master the digital landscape

· Navigate funding challenges

· Build networks that work

· Cultivate a growth mindset

Wherever you begin, you'll find actionable insights to help you think bigger, act bolder, and embrace the permission you already have. Stop asking. Start doing. The time is now.

Pasiphaë

Jane Dougherty

'A vivid and beautifully written retelling' Eirinie Lapidaki
'A wonder of a novel' Kate Potter
'Beautifully and imaginatively written. A real page-turner' Jessica Mills
'Unputdownable retelling of the Minotaur myth' Fran Hill

A queen. A mother. A monster. A throne built on blood.

Princess Pasiphae of Kolchis is sent to Knossos to secure the throne, but she soon finds herself entangled in a brutal power struggle. As the Mother cult demands blood and Minos seeks to overturn ancient rule, she fights to protect her children; Asterion, her gentle son marked as a monster, and Ariadne, the ambitious daughter who rejects her.

Betrayals, sacrifices, and shifting allegiances shape the kingdom’s fate. When Theseus arrives to claim his prize, Knossos falls, leaving Pasiphae to face the ghosts of all she has lost.

Featured by the Historical Novel Society.

Letters From Elena

Anne Hamilton

'A captivating and gorgeously written tale of nostalgia and renewal' Sophie Hannah
'A warm and heartfelt examination of what attracts us to others and what keeps us connected over the years' Catherine Simpson
'A perfectly woven story of past and present friendships' Valerie Griffin

April Zarney was ten when her best friend, Elena, disappeared. It was July 1974 and rumour was that Elena’s family had headed back home to war-torn Cyprus.

Thirty years later, with two failed marriages behind her and her career as concert pianist in jeopardy, April decides to run away to Cyprus to find out what really happened to her friend.

Letters From Elena is a love story exploring family, identity and displacement through the faulty memories of three generations of women, each on a journey to make sense of their lives and the world around them.

Movie Rogue

William Coles

'I haven't read a funnier book all year' The Wall Street Journal

The world’s hottest movie couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, are enduring a year-long film shoot with the world’s most pernickety film director, Stanley Kubrick. Unfortunately the super-secret film set of Eyes Wide Shut has been invaded by Kubrick’s worst nightmare: Kim the tabloid reporter, complete with his trusty spy-pen camera.

Based on a true story, Movie Rogue details how in 1996 a Sun reporter became an extra on one of the most searingly graphic scenes in movie history. Along the way – it’s said – he also befriended both Tom Cruise and Kubrick. But this reporter is so much more than a mere scum-sucking tabloid hack. He is also a matchmaker, and with a wave of Kim’s pixie dust, even the most far-fetched couples can fall in love.

White Thinking

Lilian Thuram

'Profound' The Sunday Times
'Truly Significant' The Independent
'Ambitious' The Conversation

What does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?

In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white thinking, how it divides us and how it has become ubiquitous and accepted without challenge. He demonstrates how centuries of white bias and denial justified slavery and colonialism, and have reinforced norms and structures of oppression, limiting the roles and horizons of both non-whites and whites alike.

Crucially, while White Thinking is a critique of ingrained structural inequities, it calls for an inclusive approach to solving the problem, and aims to raise awareness and imagine a new world in which all of humanity is given equal weight.

Spiritual Currency

Karren Brooks

The objective of this book is to stimulate your awareness of Spirituality and Consciousness.

The analogy of currency to our basic life’s capital is a representation of the wealth of our spirit and the height of our consciousness. The book will take you on a journey to explore your belief systems regarding a variety of topics, including Trust, Gratitude, Acknowledgment, Relationships, Sex, Energy, Presence...

Included is the bonus compilation The Book of Y.O.U. (Your Own Universe), which is designed to track and compound your Life’s Capital. We have conceived this book of contemplations to assist in the growth of your Spirituality and Consciousness. You will find contemplations which may assist you in evaluating your personal development and increasing and maintaining your spiritual performance.

Woman Up

Carrie Dunn

From the author of ´Unsuitable for Females´, shortlisted for The Sunday Times Football Book of the Year 2023

With the triumph of England's Lionesses at Euro 2022, the women's game has been in the spotlight like never before. But this is the result of decades of struggle to get women's football, banned by the English FA for fifty years, on a more equal footing to its male counterpart. And while the current professional players are starting to reap the rewards of their success on the pitch, their personal journeys have often involved fighting against the odds.

So that a new generation of girls getting involved in football all over the world don't face the same obstacles as their predecessors, football journalist Carrie Dunn shines a light on the evolution of women's football and the gender gaps that persist.

Packed with practical advice and first-hand accounts from leading female players, Woman Up is an inspirational, informative, and entertaining account of women's football's painful past and its exciting future.

'One of the most talented and considered minds working in women's football today' Carl Anka, bestselling author

'Shedding light not only on generations of struggle and often unheard of victories and success, but on the issues that women still face today' Christy Lefteri

'It may reflect on some of the most irritating traditions of the game – like disrespect for its female Olympians and World Cup winners and the absence of suitable kit for girls – but you still leave feeling uplifted and optimistic about the future of the sport' Kate Mason