A zany and sexy romance about a woman who finds herself stranded on a far-off planet and mated to the warlord alien king, from USA Today bestselling author Kimberly Lemming.It’s not in Blair’s nature to just give up. Not when she’s beamed up to a spaceship and then dropped on an alien planet. Not even when she’s in the middle of a forest fire surrounded by dinosaurs. And definitely not when she’s captured by an arrogant alien king. If King Osid thinks he can break her, he’s in for a shock. Blair lives by one If you stay ready, you never have to get ready.But absolutely nothing could have prepared her for finding out that she’s that arrogant King Osid’s mate.Despite recent hiccups, the alien researchers are determined to get their breeding program back on track. With that in mind, Blair and Osid are bundled off to the research center for what they’re told is couples counseling. As they face a series of increasingly dangerous challenges, it soon becomes clear the research aliens may have confused an episode of The Bachelor with Survivor. Bonding over their common enemy, and shall we say...encouraged by love darts, Blair and Osid let down their walls (and take off their clothes). When they discover that there are—somehow—even more secret plans in the works, another hilarious, steamy, over-the-top adventure is in store.

A trailblazing conversation-starting history of women's health--from Ancient Greece to hormones and autoimmune diseases--brought together in a fascinating sweeping narrative In thirteenth-century Europe, Roman Catholicism decreed that menstruation was the curse of Eve, part of the punishment issued by God to all earthly women. In the 1860s, female circumcision was considered a respective cure for misunderstood diseases including endometriosis and epilepsy. At the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine, between 1950 and 1954, three women aged twenty-eight, thirty-two, and forty-three and identified only as housewives, underwent prefrontal lobotomies as cures for ulcerative colitis. Initial clinical trials of birth control were conducted in Puerto Rico, on some of the poorest residents of the United States. Of those who participated in the trial, many suffered debilitating side effects and three died--but their deaths were never reported in the subsequent release of the pill. In Unwell Women, Elinor Cleghorn explores this almost unbelievable history of how medicine has failed women, and shows how the legacy of disenfranchisement and discrimination is alive and well in the contemporary relationship between women and sickness. When Cleghorn was finally correctly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease after years of being told her symptoms were anything from psychosomatic to a possible pregnancy, she was inspired to unpack the roots of the perpetual misunderstanding, mystification, and misdiagnosis of women's bodies. The result is an authoritative and groundbreaking history of the relationship between women and medical practice, from the wandering womb of Ancient Greece to the rise of witch trials across Europe, and from the dawn of hysteria as a catchall for difficult-to-diagnose disorders to the first forays into autoimmunity and the shifting understanding of hormones, menstruation, and menopause. Packed with character studies and case histories of women who have suffered, challenged, and rewritten medical orthodoxy--and the men who controlled their fate--this is a revolutionary examination of the relationship between women, illness, and medicine. With these case histories, Elinor pays homage to the women whose bodies were sacrificed to make strides in this still-evolving area of medicine and to show how far we still have to go in terms of understanding the female body.

The River’s DaughterA dark romantic fantasy of forbidden love, feminine rebellion, and river magic—rooted in South Asian folklore.She let the river take her fully, blue markings blooming beneath her skin as ancient waters whispered of memory and change. There was no ribbon in her hair now—only loose strands, wild in the breeze…In the town of Jaraan, women are bound by trained to be silent, obedient, and contained. Nineteen-year-old Sahira Raazaan has always been the perfect Covenant daughter. Silent. Still. Her future arranged, her desires contained. She's betrothed to the town's golden boy, expected to fulfill the life laid out for her. But when she meets the gaze of a forbidden stranger, a river-marked musician from the Mehr’an people, something ancient stirs. Water moves at her touch. Blue markings bloom beneath her skin. The river begins to speak to her. Sahira begins to unravel the truth about her mother’s disappearance, and about the long-suppressed power hidden in her own blood. With her marriage ceremony fast approaching and her family’s honor on the line, Sahira must the life she was raised for, or the truth buried in her blood. The river’s pull, and the stranger’s touch, promise a freedom she never dared imagine. Some currents cannot be contained forever... Inspired by the legend of Mirza Sahiba, The River’s Daughter is a lush, spellbinding tale of forbidden love, feminine rebellion, river magic, and reclaiming your voice.Perfect for readers who ✔ forbidden love and arranged marriage tension✔ morally gray, river-marked outsiders✔ sensual awakening and high-stakes romance✔ Punjabi folklore, cultural fantasy, and magical realism✔ mythic retellings, coming-of-age rebellion, and feminist themesThis is a story for readers who crave slow-burn romance with rich emotional payoff, forbidden attraction between soul-tied strangers, and heroines caught between duty and desire.With elements of magical realism, river-based elemental magic, and a mythic retelling of South Asia’s (Punjabi) tragic love story Mirza Sahiba, this novel blends cultural fantasy with feminist awakening.This standalone romantic fantasy is steeped in atmosphere—moonlit rituals, haunting river dreams, and the pulse of a love that defies tradition.If you enjoy the lush prose of Erin Morgenstern (The Night Circus), the romantic ache of Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife), or the mythic atmosphere of Madeline Miller (Circe, The Song of Achilles), The River’s Daughter belongs on your shelf.Fans of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Power, The Wrath and the Dawn, and South Asian folktales will be swept away by this lyrical, emotionally rich debut.The River’s Daughter is a dark romantic fantasy—filled with magic, myth, sensuality, and revolution. A perfect read for fans of forbidden love stories, coming-of-age journeys, and lyrical feminist fantasy.

When Azul awakens in a foreign world, she's already trapped as a pawn in a royal conspiracy whose rules she doesn't know. Her only ally is Ragnar Valthorne, a warlord whose curse marks him as 'blessed' by death, and whose need for her political acumen matches her need for his protection. But conspiracies, once started, rarely end as planned. When a forgotten power left by a nameless god emerges from the wreckage of the royal family's ambitions, Azul will claim it—no matter the cost. For she shall either find a way or make one.

DEN OF PARADISE is a standalone MM non-shifter omegaverse romance with mpreg, mating bonds, and marriage of convenience. It features a morally grey Alpha whose ruthless past has tainted his perception of love, and a feisty omega forced into signing away his freedom for the sake of his daughter’s future.

All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood. She offers a rethinking of self-love (without narcissism) that will bring peace and compassion to our personal and professional lives, and asserts the place of love to end struggles between individuals, in communities, and among societies. Moving from the cultural to the intimate, hooks notes the ties between love and loss and challenges the prevailing notion that romantic love is the most important love of all. Visionary and original, hooks shows how love heals the wounds we bear as individuals and as a nation, for it is the cornerstone of compassion and forgiveness and holds the power to overcome shame. For readers who have found ongoing delight and wisdom in bell hooks's life and work, and for those who are just now discovering her, All About Love is essential reading and a brilliant book that will change how we think about love, our culture-and one another.

This explosive book of history and cultural criticism argues that white feminism has been a weapon of white supremacy and patriarchy deployed against Black and Indigenous women and all colonized women. It offers a long-overdue validation of the experiences of women of color. Taking us from the slave era—when white women fought in court to keep "ownership" of their slaves—through the centuries of colonialism—when they offered a soft face for brutal tactics—to the modern workplace, White Tears/Brown Scars</i< tells the story of white women's active participation in campaigns of oppression. Examining subjects as varied as The Hunger Games, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the viral BBQ Becky video, and nineteenth-century lynchings of Mexicans in the American Southwest, Ruby Hamad builds a powerful argument about the entrenched systems of white supremacy that we are socialized within, a reality that we must apprehend in order to fight.

This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanity’s heritage. Now, with a new introduction and full-color artwork, this passionate and important text shows even more clearly that the religion of the Goddess—which is tied to the cycles of women’s bodies, the seasons, the phases of the moon, and the fertility of the earth—was the original religion of all humanity.