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"Stein's metafictive narrative is sidesplittingly funny, capturing with aplomb young children's endearingly exasperating tendency to speak up when it's least convenient." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

At her first ballet ever, can an excitable little Chicken resist helping the story along? Fans will cheer as their favorite interrupter puts her spin on a beloved holiday classic.

"Hi, Clara! Like my tutu?"
"Ahem," said the narrator.
"Chicken!" said Papa. "You can't go onstage!"

It's winter vacation for the little red chicken and, with promises of best behavior, she's on her way to see The Nutcracker with Papa. She can't wait! In fact, she's so excited that Papa is worried she might get a little carried away . . . Take your seats and get ready to giggle as a certain irrepressible audience member dances onstage at key moments, determined to save the nutcracker from that bully Fritz and the sword-wielding Mouse King. But what happens when a revered classic has its storyline turned on its head? In this special holiday tale for loyal followers and new fans alike, David Ezra Stein moves the meta from page to stage as Chicken gleefully breaks the fourth wall.

In what was at first meant to be a short essay about the influential Mexican writer Elena Garro (1916-1988), Jazmina Barrera's deep curiosity and exploration give us a singular portrait of a complex life.

Sifting through the writer's archives at Princeton, Barrera is repeatedly thwarted in her attempt to fully know her subject. Traditional means of research--the correspondence, photos, and books--serve only to complicate and cloud the woman and her work.Who was Elena Garro, really?

She was a writer, a founder of "magical realism," a dancer. A devotee to the tarot and theI Ching. A socialite and activist on behalf of indigenous Mexicans. She was a mother and a lover who repeatedly shook off (and cheated on) her manipulative husband, Nobel-laureate Octavio Paz. And above all, she wrote with simmering anger and glittering imagination.

The Queen of Swords is a portrait of a woman that also serves as an alternative history of Mexico City; a cry-out for justice; and an homage to the unknowable. It transcends mere biography, supplanting something tidy and authoritative for a sprawling experiment in understanding.

In How To Bake Everything, the most comprehensive baking book of its kind, New York Times bestselling author Mark Bittman offers the ultimate baker's resource--for beginners and pros alike!

Finally, here is the simplest way to bake everything, from American favorites (Crunchy Toffee Cookies, Baked Alaska) to of-the-moment updates (Gingerbread Whoopie Pies). The book explores global baking, too: Nordic ruis, New Orleans beignets, Afghan snowshoe naan. Bittman's recipes satisfy every flavor craving thanks to more than 2,000 easy baking recipes and variations: a pound cake can incorporate polenta, yogurt, ricotta, citrus, hazelnuts, ginger, and more.

New bakers will appreciate Bittman's opinionated advice on essential equipment and ingredient substitutions, plus extensive baking technique illustrations. The pros will find their creativity unleashed with guidance on how to adapt recipes to become vegan, incorporate new grains, improvise tarts, or create customized icebox cakes using a mix-and-match chart. Demystified, deconstructed, and debunked--baking is simpler and more flexible than you ever imagined.

This essential cookbook provides clear, flexible guidance for any baker:

• Baking for Beginners: Master the fundamentals with Bittman's opinionated advice on essential equipment, ingredient substitutions, and illustrated step-by-step techniques.
• Over 2,000 Recipes: Satisfy any craving with a massive collection of recipes and variations, from American favorites like Crunchy Toffee Cookies to Gingerbread Whoopie Pies.
• Global Baking: Explore a world of flavor without leaving your kitchen, with instructions for Nordic ruis, New Orleans beignets, and Afghan snowshoe naan.
• Creative Flexibility: Unleash your creativity with guidance on how to adapt recipes to become vegan, improvise tarts, or build customized icebox cakes with a unique mix-and-match chart.

A new adventure begins in Erin Hunter's #1 bestselling Warriors series

This hardcover edition also includes a double-sided jacket with a bonus poster!

For many moons, ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, and WindClan have lived in peace in their territories around the lake. But now they must decipher a mysterious prophecy--a message that will send one young medicine cat apprentice on a quest to determine the fate of all the warrior Clans.

Full of epic adventure and thrilling intrigue, the beginning of this fifth Warriors series is the perfect introduction for readers new to the Warriors world. And for dedicated fans, it's a long-awaited return to the era of Bramblestar's ThunderClan, after the events of Omen of the Stars.

This tome is the most comprehensive visual history of surfing to date, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half years of meticulous research, it brings together hundreds of images to chart the evolution of surfing as a sport, a lifestyle, and a philosophy.

The book is arranged into five chronological chapters, tracing surfing culture from the first recorded European contact in 1778 by Captain James Cook to the global and multi-platform phenomenon of today. Utilizing institutions, collections, and photographic archives from around the world, and with accompanying essays by the world's top surf journalists, it celebrates the sport on and off the water, as a community of 20 million practitioners and countless more devotees, and as a leading influence on fashion, film, art, and music.

An unrivaled tribute to the breadth, complexity, and richness of surfing, this book is a must-have for any serious player on the surfing scene and anybody who aspires to the surfing lifestyle. As one surfing scribe has declared, "There has never been a book like this, and there will never be another one again."

With the Heart of a Ghost is a debut collection of eight fantastical stories translated by Chi-Young Kim (Whale) that explore feelings unseen, unconveyed, unexplainable.

The funny, meditative characters who inhabit this book are pulled far from their ordinary daily routines to stare straight into their own sorrows, however they manifest. Ghosts and otherworldly occurrences are folded seamlessly into author Lim Sunwoo's quiet universe with stories buoyed by humor, warmth, and empathy for the lost and hurt among us.

A ghost who looks just like the narrator reflects her feelings back to her in a bun shop; mutant jellyfish take over the world and if you touch one you become one yourself; a heartbroken man becomes a tree in his ex's apartment; the ghost of a wannabe K-pop star stuck in a vacuum cleaner wants out; Jugyeong helps a man hibernate by burying him up to his neck; Huiae, in deep conflict with her husband, reconnects with her strange old friend; Jo has lost his best friend-a gecko-but won't give up the search; and Suyeong plots revenge on a wild dog that killed her cats by channeling her inner cat.

For a moment, a short period of your everyday lives, each sparkling story asks you to look within, to encounter all that is desired and strange and possible in life and death.

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"Indispensable"
- EMPIRE Magazine

Animation is a global artform, and The Animation Atlas is your essential guide to this exciting, expansive world.

From Michael Leader and Jake Cunningham, authors and hosts of the Ghibliotheque podcast, comes this whistle-stop tour through animated film history. A cartography of cartoons, The Animation Atlas takes in everything from titans of animation such as Disney, Pixar, Aardman and Studio Ghibli to pioneers, innovators and rising stars from the wider world of cinema.

A truly global history of animation - Each of the 30 chapters sets down in a different country to focus on local talent that has made a global impact on the form, from Spain to South Africa and China to Chile.

Box office hits and hidden gems - Features a dazzling selection of films, from hand-drawn Hollywood classics (Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) and award-winning CG masterpieces (Flow), to the works of revered artists such as Lotte Reiniger (The Adventures of Prince Achmed), Jan Svankmajer (Alice) and Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbour Totoro).

Dozens of gorgeous illustrations - Includes more than 150 photographs, artworks and stills from some of the most beautiful animated films ever made. A perfect gift for film lovers.

Riverdale meets The Queen's Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances.

Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to be a pawn in her wealthy family's web of deception.

But ever since Ruby's mother and aunt died in a car wreck, the battle lines drawn within the Vossen clan have ruled her life. Ruby's father and uncle became irreparably estranged, and within months, Ruby's cousin/BFF was banished from her life, her father remarried, and she wound up with a gold-digging stepmom who has two teens of her own--The Steps.

So when strange and dangerous things begin happening on the Vossen estate, Ruby sees only one logical explanation: The Steps are scheming to inherit the Vossen fortune. And as things get more and more intense, it seems like killing is in their playbook.

Luckily, Ruby has her own playbook, and she's not about to go down without a fight. She'll even break her dad's rules to get her cousin back on her side of the chessboard . . . It's time to check-mate The Steps before they can finish the Vossens off.

Secrets, lies, and lethal threats abound in this clever, quirky thriller by the award-winning, bestselling author of Flipped and the Sammy Keyes mysteries.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of the Year

Award-winning author Jeff Gottesfeld and #OwnVoices co-writer Michelle Y. Green introduce us to another important historical figure who deserves to be better known.

Along with illustrator Kim Holt, Gottesfeld and Green bring vibrant life to the story of Wilbert Tucker who grew up in the segregated South and became a lawyer who loved to read. In 1939, he organized a sit-down-in-the-library protest to fight for the right to read along with the rest of the public. It took many court cases and years of fighting, but Tucker fought with words and conviction until everyone could sit and read in the public library.

The moon base commander has gone missing and Dash Gibson is on the case in the second mind-boggling mystery of the Moon Base Alpha series from the New York Times bestselling author of Belly Up and Spy School.

There's nowhere to hide on the world's first moon base. After all, it's only the size of a soccer field. So when Nina Stack, the commander of Moon Base Alpha, mysteriously vanishes, the Moonies are at a total loss.

Though he may be just twelve years old, Dashiell Gibson is the best detective they've got. But this confusing mystery pushes Dash to his limits. Especially since Dash accidentally made contact with an alien and has to keep it a secret. With the fate of the entire human race hanging in the balance, will Dash be able to solve the mystery of the missing Moonie?

A romping, rhyming, onomatopoeic tale of Simon the Sabertooth Tiger!

Join Simon the Sabertooth on his first hunt through the Ice Age. What prehistoric animals will he meet? What sounds will he hear? What places will he visit? Most importantly, can he save his pack from the terrible dire wolves?

A rhyming, immersive read-aloud experience, Tiny Tooth explores the awesome world of the Ice Age through one tiny sabertooth's eyes. With a message of bravery and working together, readers will root for Simon, the runt of the pack, and his friends! Back matter about the Pleistocene epoch, prehistoric animals, and common pack behavior included. A great story for any school or home library.

This book is the second book in a series, following STOMP, SOAR, DINO ROAR!

Adictiva, trepidante y absorbente, Javier Castillo, autor del exitoso thriller El día que se perdió la cordura, nos introduce de nuevo en una historia frenética cargada suspense y amor a partes iguales.

«A veces el amor te pone en el camino equivocado para que sepas cuánto duele.»

A las doce de la mañana del 14 de diciembre, una joven llena de magulladuras se presenta desnuda en las instalaciones del FBI en Nueva York. El inspector Bowring, jefe de la Unidad de Criminología, intentará descubrir qué esconde una nota amarillenta con el nombre de una mujer que horas después aparece decapitada en un descampado. La investigación lo sumirá de lleno en una trama en la que el destino, el amor y la venganza se entrelazan en una truculenta historia que guarda conexión con la desaparición de una chica varios años antes y cuyo paradero nunca pudo descubrir.

Un año después de los sucesos ocurridos en Boston, Jacob y Amanda intentan comenzar una nueva vida juntos en Nueva York, pero la aparición de una enorme espiral pintada en la pared del salón de su casa dilapidará para siempre sus planes de futuro.

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Addictive, fast-paced, and captivating, Javier Castillo, author of bestselling thriller El día que se perdió la cordura / The Day Sanity Was Lost, takes us back to a story filled with suspense and love. Detective Bowring, head of Criminology, will try to unearth what is hiding behind a note with the name of a woman who hours later is found decapitated in an abandoned field. This investigation will plunge him into a plot in which fate, love, and revenge intertwine with a bizarre account about a girl who disappeared years earlier and whose case he was never able to crack. A year after those events in Boston, Jacob and Amanda try to start anew in New York, but the sudden appearance of a huge spiral painted on their living room wall will forever squander their plans for the future.

Grownups say, "Be on your best behavior." But in the animal world, rudeness sometimes rules the day!

Scarlet kingsnakes lie; they pretend to be venomous coral snakes to scare off predators. And hippos make a mess; they spray waste to defend their territories. For these animals and many others, being rude can be a matter of survival. Author and science educator Jessica Fries-Gaither introduces seven human behavior rules and the animals that break them!

People passing by call this land the big empty. / But I call it home.

In spare, poetic text written from the point of view of big sagebrush, readers are transported to the vast landscape of western North America. This incredibly resilient plant, which can live as long as one hundred years, provides food and shelter as well as shadows to conceal both predators and prey. After a wildfire passes through, it grows again and will thrive once more. Author and illustrator Kirbi Fagan captures the beauty of this essential plant in her lyrical words and richly detailed illustrations.

Squirrel and his best friend, Pock the mushroom, sit on the old stump, watching birds fly by. When they're tired of this, they take the path to the yellow meadow to listen to the blackbird sing. But today, the bird's not there. The friends look everywhere. Finally they find it on the path, all stretched out and quite still. It must be sleeping. They sit down quietly and wait for the bird to wake.

This true-to-child story of a natural encounter with an animal that has died is both dryly humorous and a profound example of how to manage the comings and goings of life.