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Get ready for back-to-school season with the Bedtime Math mission: to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives!"We want kids to feel about math the way they feel about dessert after dinner." --Laura Overdeck, Time magazine We all know it's wonderful to...

Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place. In...

A NATURAL DISASTER SHEDS SOME LIGHT ON A DECADES-OLD MURDER IN THE LATEST THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR LINDA CASTILLO. When a tornado tears through Painters Mill and unearths human remains, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is tasked with the responsibility of...

In this now classic biography, reissued in a new edition for the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter's birth, Linda Lear offers the astonishing portrait of an extraordinary woman who gave us some of the most beloved children's books of all time. Potter found freedom...

Playing off the meme expression "Netflix and Chill," this saucy collection is perfect for a relaxing night in (maybe with someone special). It features: - 200 easy to hard Sudoku puzzles- Introduction by puzzlemaster Will Shortz- A portable package that's perfect for solving on...

Steadfast Fortitude and curious Patience are waiting every morning to greet visitors of the Library. That is until, one early morning, when Fortitude finds Patience is missing. The city is about to awake, and the lions absolutely must be in their places before the...

Named to Most Anticipated and Must Read lists by Huffington Post, W, Nylon, Elle, Buzzfeed and Chicago Reader Written by one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists, Catherine Lacey's The Answers is a "novel of intellect and amplitude that deepens as it moves forward"...

This time, Torte's pastry chef and amateur sleuth finds herself coming out of the oven and straight into the fire in Ellie Alexander's Nothing Bundt Trouble: A Bakeshop Mystery. Spring has sprung in Ashland, Oregon, and everything at Torte seems to be coming up...

A 2020 National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) Winner! An irresistible chapter book series from the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose Puppy Tales featuring Lily, a rescue dog who rescues other animals! Lily lives with her girl, Maggie Rose. Once a...

"A serious, frequently brilliant novel with a sustained intensity that is rare in fiction. It's the most promising first novel that I've encountered this year." ―Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal "[A] searching, emotionally resonant first novel . . . [Nobody Is Ever Missing]...

Fridays are curious! Finish your week strong by challenging yourself to complete 100 deviously difficult crosswords straight from New York Times Games. Featuring: - 100 Friday New York Times Games crosswords- Challenging puzzles for difficult-level puzzlers- Perfect size for on-the-go solving Crafted by top...

Author: Linda CastilloPublisher: Minotaur BooksPublished: 05/29/2018Pages: 400Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.89dISBN: 9781250380302About the AuthorCastillo, Linda: - Linda Castillo is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Kate Burkholder mystery series, set in the world of the...

Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates a gruesome murder that reveals a little-known chapter of early Amish history in this riveting installment of the Edgar award-winning series by Linda Castillo. Newlywed Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is awakened by an urgent midnight call summoning...

The war against the thinking machines The betrayal that turned House Atreides and House Harkonnen into mortal enemies The discovery of spice--the most valuable substance in the known universe The birth of the Sisterhood, Suk Doctors, Mentats, and Spacing Guild The origins of the...

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the CIA's secret drug and mind-control experiments of the 1950s and '60s.The visionary chemist Sidney Gottlieb was the CIA's master magician and gentlehearted torturer--the...

From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady...

Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch, the bestselling authors of The First Conspiracy, which covers the secret plot against George Washington, now turn their attention to a little-known, but true story about a failed assassination attempt on the sixteenth president in The Lincoln Conspiracy. Everyone...

Terry Goodkind's bestselling, epic fantasy series Sword of Truth continues with the eleventh book Confessor--the basis for the Legend of the Seeker tv show.Descending into darkness, about to be overwhelmed by evil, those people still free are powerless to stop the coming dawn of...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER Truth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in the Noumena series from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis. The human race is at a crossroads; we know that...

California Book Award WinnerOne of NPR's Best Books of the YearA teen girl navigates friendship drama, the end of high school, and discovering her queerness in Ophelia After All, a hilarious and heartfelt contemporary YA debut by author Racquel Marie.Ophelia Rojas knows what she...