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The critically adored, New York Times bestselling Deborah Underwood delights with a hilariously meta celebration of storytelling out of control. Every story needs a problem.But Panda doesn't have a problem.Unless . . . Panda is the problem. The New York Times bestselling author of...

Fans of Narwhal and Jelly will love this laugh-out-loud graphic novel: a pancake adventure with Weenie, Frank and Beans featuring wiener dog smooches, a huge pile of stinky brussels sprouts and a whole lot of syrup. Weenie loves his human, Bob. He loves his...

A thrilling tour of Earth that shows the search for extraterrestrial life starts in our own backyard. Is there life off Earth? Bound by the limitations of spaceflight, a growing number of astrobiologists investigate the question by studying life on our planet. Astronomer and...

The Oxford Book of English Verse brings together the best poetry in English. Part 1 offers the reader a surprisingly impartial cross section of British poetry from the 13th to the 16th centuries, including madrigals, ballads, devotional works, and much more. From the ornate...

Set in 1885, The Ox-Bow Incident is a searing and realistic portrait of frontier life and mob violence in the American West. First published in 1940, it focuses on the lynching of three innocent men and the tragedy that ensues when law and order...

They wanted Parker dead-and a late-night visit from a hitman proved they meant business. Now Parker plans to get even-dead even. Armed with a new face and his usual iron will, Parker is declaring a coast-to-coast war. In The Outfit, Parker goes toe-to-toe with...

Overthink much? . . . Our minds spiral out of control sometimes. . .often carrying on running conversations in our heads all day (and all night!) long. And when our thoughts become too much for us to manage on our own, God alone offers...

From the author of the global phenomenon Ranger's Apprentice! They are outcasts. Hal, Stig, and the others - they are the boys the others want no part of. Skandians, as any reader of Ranger's Apprentice could tell you, are known for their size and...

Author: Alejandro MurguíaPublisher: Not AvailPublished: 09/30/2025Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9798893750249Review Citation(s): Booklist 09/01/2025Kirkus Reviews 09/15/2025About the AuthorALEJANDRO MURGUÍA, the San Francisco Poet Laureate from 2013-2017, is the author of a poetry collection, Stray Poems (City Lights Books, 2014);...

Based on a remarkable true story Seven-year-old Chellamuthu's life--and his destiny--is forever changed when he is kidnapped from his village in Southern India and sold to the Lincoln Home for Homeless Children. His family is desperate to find him, and Chellamuthu anxiously tells the...

The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State: in the Light of the Researches of Lewis H. Morgan is an 1884 historical materialist treatise by Friedrich Engels. It is partially based on notes by Karl Marx to Lewis H. Morgan's book Ancient...

Discover the world's earliest known system of astrology - Explores ancient Mesopotamian astrology, which originated with those who created Göbekli Tepe, and details the system's eighteen zodiac signs - Shares the author's decades-long research to decipher the meanings and characteristics behind each of the...

Winner of the 2020 National Outdoor Book Award for Outdoor Classic! In this coming-of-middle-age memoir, Kim Heacox, writing in the tradition of Abbey, McPhee, and Thoreau, discovers an Alaska reborn from beneath a massive glacier, where flowers emerge from boulders, moose swim fjords, and...

"Dikkers' comedic voice, so integral to creating the distinctive Onion style, lends to a mixture of journalistic verve and an authentically confessional account of long nights and betting on your own talents. Fans of The Onion will relish revisiting some of its best stories...

"A sharp thriller to devour in a single sitting." --Jessie Weaver, author of Live Your Best Lie Be careful who you fall for...Robbie and Trevor Cresmont have a body count--the killer kind. Handsome and privileged, the Crestmont brothers have enough wealth to ensure they'll...

This is a book about genocide and Gaza. Gaza has become the moral compass of our world today. In this war, theology was weaponized against the Palestinian people by both Israeli politicians and Christian Zionists. It is a book inspired by Palestinian liberation theologies....

Dine like the kings, queens, knights, and guardians of the seven kingdoms with the first official cookbook to combine Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. The Westeros Cookbook enables you to recreate the mouthwatering meals enjoyed by your favorite characters in the...

Immerse yourself in the magical, immortal, and vibrantly colorful world of the bestselling WEBTOON Originals series Lore Olympus as you paint 20 preprinted scenes. In The Official Lore Olympus Watercolor Book, series creator Rachel Smythe takes you behind the scenes for an in-depth exploration...

Each of the birds has an egg...except for Duck. So when Duck finds a beautiful egg of his own he's delighted -- even though the other birds make fun of it. But everyone's in for a BIG surprise when his egg finally hatches! The...

The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine.Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well...