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  The Boy that walked from...

  Travis Lee Darden

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  It chronicles the adventures of an African American Boy who walks from Virginia to Texas in 1948. 

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  The Blood Countess - Murder...

  Shelley Puhak

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  A March Indie Next Pick • A Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 • A Barnes & Noble Reads Best Book of February 2026 
    
  From the author of the national bestseller The Dark Queens, an incandescent work of true crime and feminist history about Elizabeth Bathory, the woman alleged to be the world's most prolific female serial killer. 
    
  There have long been whispers, coming from the castle; from the village square; from the dark woods. The great lady—a countess, from one of Europe's oldest families—is a vicious killer. Some even say she bathes in the blood of her victims. When the king's men force their way into her manor house, she has blood on her hands, caught in the act of murdering yet another of her maids. She is walled up in a tower and never seen again, except in the uppermost barred window, where she broods over the countryside, cursing all those who dared speak up against her. 
    
  Told and retold in many languages, the legend of the Blood Countess has consumed cultural imaginations around the world. But despite claims that Elizabeth Bathory tortured and killed as many as 650 girls, some have wondered if the Countess was herself a victim—of one of the most successful disinformation campaigns known to history. So, was Elizabeth Bathory a monster, a victim, or a bit of both? With the breathlessness of a whodunit, drawing upon new archival evidence and questioning old assumptions, Shelley Puhak traces the Countess's downfall, bringing to life an assertive woman leader in a world sliding into anti-scientific, reactionary darkness—a world where nothing is ever as it seems. In this exhilarating narrative, Puhak renders a vivid portrait of history's most dangerous woman and her tumultuous time, revealing just how far we will go to destroy a woman in power. 
    
  "A feminist debunking of the myth of a monstrous Renaissance noblewoman … Through close reading of Bathory's many letters and various contemporary accounts, poet and writer Puhak uncovers a thoroughly pre-modern Renaissance woman, well bred and well read, from a distinguished ancient family … Admirably clear-eyed history related in crystalline prose."—Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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  Critical Thinking for Complex...

  Thinknetic

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  How to tell fact from fiction and build arguments no one can knock down, even in a world engineered to manipulate you. 
  Are you tired of being played by fake news and slippery arguments? Do you feel the pull of confirmation bias but can't quite catch it in the act? Have you lost a debate you knew you were right about, simply because you couldn't build the case? 
  Arm yourself with the ultimate defense: critical thinking. Critical Thinking For Complex Issues is your guide to cutting through the noise, discovering the truth, and reasoning your way to arguments built on logic and evidence. 
  Inside this bundle, you'll find three complete books: The Critical Thinking Effect, The Socratic Way of Questioning, and How to Argue With Anyone. 
  In this book, you will discover:How to spot logical fallacies: name the tricks hiding inside persuasive-sounding claims before they fool you.How to beat confirmation bias: analyze arguments objectively, even when you badly want one side to be true.The art of Socratic questioning: get to the heart of any issue with questions that expose what's really going on.How to build rock-solid arguments: construct a case grounded in logic and evidence that holds up under fire.Real case studies and exercises: apply every skill to the messy, real-world situations you actually face. 
  Even if you feel outmatched by louder voices. Even if you've fallen for false claims before. Even if you're sure critical thinking is dry and academic. This guide is built for real life, not the lecture hall. 
  Develop the wisdom to guide yourself and others toward the truth.Start seeing through the lies today.

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  Social Experiments in the 20th...

  Editors Charles River

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  The human psyche is one of the most complex, unpredictable, enigmatic, and therefore riveting phenomena in existence, one that psychologists have been working on deciphering since the dawn of modern science. To better understand the multifaceted intricacies of human behavior, and to unlock the secrets of the conscious mind and the subconscious, ambitious professionals in the field have conducted numerous groundbreaking – and at times, problematic – psychological experiments. The practice originated with German philosopher Wilhelm Wundt, one of the fathers of modern psychology and the creator of the world's first experimental psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig. He sought to measure the average speed of thought processes by assigning a range of reaction time tasks to his subjects.  
  	As the nascent, yet fast-developing scientific discipline took hold around the globe, psychological experiments simultaneously diversified. As revolutionary and eye-opening as many of these experiments were, they often danced on the fine line between ethical and unethical. There was, for instance, the now-infamous Little Albert Experiment, conducted at Johns Hopkins University in 1920, in which a nine-month-old infant was deliberately manipulated into developing an irrational fear for the purpose of studying classical conditioning, and the correlation between adult fears and childhood traumas. The Monster Study, carried out at the University of Iowa in 1939, attempted to convert orphans into stutterers, half of whom were subjected to positive reinforcements and the others to negative ones. Then, there was arguably the most notorious psychological experiment in history: the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, in which participants were randomly assigned the character of either prisoner or prison guard. That role-playing study quickly spiraled out of control.

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  Sex Addiction - A Guide for...

  Paula Hall

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  Sex Addiction: A Guide for Couples and Those Who Help Them is a practical book that provides empathic support, guidance, information and pragmatic strategies for couples who want to survive sex and porn addiction - whether that’s together, or apart. Sex and porn addiction devastates couple relationships, and unlike the impact of infidelity, there is no ‘before’ to get back to and no ‘after’. This book adopts the metaphor of a boat, presenting addiction as the tidal wave that devastates the relation-ship, leaving both crew members fighting for survival. There’s guidance to ensure each partner makes it safely back to shore and advice on surveying the damage to your relation-ship and deciding if you want to save it and set sail again. You’ll find practical advice for both the partner and the addicted partner, including first-hand accounts of couples that have already undertaken the journey.

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  Beyond Good and Evil

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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  "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee." 
   
  Expanding on his ideas from Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche's radical polemic Beyond Good and Evil undermines the assumptions of traditional morality and encourages us to think more critically about the world in which we live.In this famous text, Nietzsche considers past philosophers and religious leaders from Socrates to Descartes to Schopenhauer with a critical and pessimistic eye. Questioning the blind following of religious faith, he examines the deeper question of who is truly good or evil. 
   
  Beyond Good and Evil presents a unique perspective of the human mind offered through the words of one of history's most controversial philosophers.

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