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A riveting retelling of one of the great adventure stories of antiquity--when Greek philosopher-warrior Xenophon led a stranded band of the "Ten Thousand" mercenary soldiers on a treacherous escape from the Persians.

400 BC. The Persian prince Cyrus the Younger hires an army of Greek soldiers to oust his brother from the Persian throne. But when Cyrus dies in battle during the army's trek through the middle east, the army is stranded deep in enemy territory.

Led by Xenophon, a young Athenian philosopher turned solider, the Ten Thousand fought their way home through deserts and mountains, snowstorms, starvation, and relentless attacks, evolving into one of the most fearsome forces of the ancient world. Their journey, chronicled in Xenophon's Anabasis, is one of history's greatest military stories.

In Band on the Run, Robert O'Connell not only gives us an exciting and witty retelling of this story, but he has done so with a wise contemporary spin. For in his estimation, this was the battle that established the use of powerful mercenary forces. The attempted conquest of the Ten Thousand begins a historical line through Western history of the use of mercenary armies that has lasted up to our present day. And, as O'Connell shows, much misery and tragedy in human history has been due to this trajectory. This is a brilliant revisionist history with important lessons for our time.

A heartfelt story that highlights the ever-present love and comfort a family brings one another during a time of uncertainty and strife.

Set during the Cuban Revolution, this lyrical picture book for 6-to-9-year-olds balances the experience of upheaval and hardship with the hope of brighter days ahead.

When military violence erupts in the streets outside Lucinda's home, the family joins together, pushing furniture against doors, filling cracks with wet napkins, and lighting candles when met with darkness. Amidst the blasts and cries, Lucinda's heart taps against her chest. Mamá's spoon taps against her sizzling pan. How can she cook when so much is happening outside?

A Light for Lucinda honors the human instinct to provide order and stability during times of chaos and strife with poignant, uplifting storytelling.

Also available in Spanish as Una luz para Lucinda.

This deluxe hardcover storybook collection features ten illustrated tales that celebrate kindness confidence, creativity, and dreaming big--together.

When Barbie Roberts travels across the country to attend a prestigious performing arts school, she never imagines meeting another girl who shares her name! Barbie Roberts and Barbie Roberts quickly become best friends, sharing laughter, creativity, and unforgettable adventures.

This giftable collection features ten heartwarming stories:
-Big City, Big Dreams
-Shine Your Own Way
-A New Home for Barbie
-Mermaid Power
-Recipe for Friendship
-Happy Pet, Happy Vet
-A Purr-fect Halloween
-Snow Much Fun
-You Can Be a Teacher
-Happy Birthday, Betty!

Say good night to fire truck and other helper vehicles as they complete their missions and settle in for the night! A perfect bedtime board book for little truck-lovers.

Hush, little fire truck,
reach up high.
Extend your ladder to the sky.
As the tree begins to sway,
police car helps to save the day.

Set to the tune of "Hush, Little Baby," this bedtime book offers a fresh take for fire truck fans! Little readers will delight in seeing how each emergency vehicle completes its final task of the day and then rumbles off to sleep.

Tiptoe, glide, and spin through the night alongside a group of friendly neighborhood ghosts who just cannot stop giggling in this irrepressible, interactive picture book--BOO!

These ghosts love scaring! It's their favorite thing to do, because when they start scaring, they can't help but GIGGLE, too! They'd love if you could help them, so let's stretch from head to toe and shake out every arm and leg. Now, ready, steady, GO!

Packed with actions young readers can join in with, this interactive picture book is the perfect way to entertain energetic little ones this Halloween.

Written in both English and Spanish for little ones who are learning basic concepts, ¡Mira, Mira! Shapes is an exciting look into simple shapes via a city landscape.

Mira, mira!
What do you see?
Look for the shapes
across the city.

In this English and Spanish board book, little ones will learn to identify basic shapes whilst exploring a shape-filled, exciting city landscape! Each spread will highlight a shape that can be found in the city; triangular safety cones, rectangular windows, squared city blocks, and so much more! Just like Mira Mira Colors, each spread will include a shaped die-cut that offers a sneak-peek into the next spread and text that encourages the reader to mira, mira (look, look) at the upcoming shape they will learn about.

With sweet, welcoming art by award-winning illustrator Juliana Perdomo and Lourdes Heuer's bouncing, approachable English-Spanish text, this introduction to shapes is perfect for those seeking a little more in a primer board book.

A vibrant, charming celebration of personal style from one of the fashion world's brightest stars

'Part scrapbook, part sketchbook, part sartorial manifesto...A fashion book that feels, refreshingly, like something made by hand.' - Vogue

Jenny Sais Quoi: Adventures in Vintage & Personal Style is a peek inside the mind and imagination of a modern-day style icon. Jenny Walton - artist, designer, writer, and Vogue vintage shopping columnist - weaves together illustrations, paintings, candid snapshots, collages, and essays to reveal her journey from fashion student to street style darling to global tastemaker.

Known for her impeccable styling of vintage fashion, Jenny approaches personal style with both grace and delight. Here, she shares how embracing her interest in clothing from eras past led to confidence, joy, and self-expression. Readers will discover inspiring stories from Jenny's life in fashion, along with insightful advice on cultivating one's own sense of style, shopping vintage, color paletting, curating a wardrobe, and more. Jenny's distinctive voice shines throughout, offering encouragement, expertise, and a welcome touch of levity.

Reflecting Jenny's boundless creativity, Jenny Sais Quoi takes the form of a multi-dimensional visual diary, with a gorgeous trompe-l'oeil cover design, a 'mini journal' insert, and a cleverly-designed split page that allows you to mix and match illustrated tops and bottoms to create outfits.

Take wing with red-crowned parrots in this inspiring true story of animals adapting to an urban environment far from their native habitat, perfect for animal lovers and anyone who has ever needed to find a new home.

They squawk.
They screech.
They swoop from palm trees to power lines.

In sunny California, the chatty red-crowned parrot is a part of daily life. Every day, thousands of parrots soar above city streets, cackling and clamoring. They swipe fruit from gardens. They flap over pools and parking lots. They alight on branches where parrots did not always belong.

How did these urban parrots, native to the rugged slopes and wooded canyons of Mexico, find themselves so far from home? How did they form new communities and find new ways to thrive? This true story of animal adaptation and finding new places to belong is an inspiring example of resilience and resourcefulness in the natural world--and within us all.

This playful, gently spooky picture book about back-to-school jitters features a mischievous group of ghosts and is perfect for fans of Gustavo the Shy Ghost and Little Ghost Makes a Friend.

It's time to go back to school, but...

What if classes are too tough
with loads of tests and tricky stuff?
The question troubling you the most . . .
What if--yikes!--your school's got ghosts?

What's a kid to do when a mischievous crew of ghosts starts hoarding hula hoops and levitating lunches? Be brave! And work with classmates to help the playful spirits understand how school works. As students model manners, they'll see these spooky newcomers might be just the thing to liven up the learning day. After all, every school needs a little spirit!

A heartwarming fantasy inspired by the Icelandic sagas about a girl and her friends who must save their found family when a swarm of terrifying undead invade their village, perfect for fans of Kelly Barnhill and Rick Riordan's Magnus Chase.

The undead are up to no good.

Helga doesn't know where she comes from. All she knows is life with Goat-Thigh, who found her as a baby in the highlands and gave her a home. Goat-Thigh used to be plagued with fits of berserk fury--a battle rage that made him dangerous to everyone around--until he took in Helga. Now, Helga won't ever leave his side, even if their neighbors shun him.

But their lives are disrupted when a nearby haunted mountain cracks open and a mob of vengeful undead invades the land. In the chaos, Goat-Thigh's berserk fits are triggered...and he's unable to break free.

To save her adoptive father, Helga will need the help of some unlikely friends to banish the undead--from mischievous ox tails to rowdy house crashers and frightening monsters with family secrets. Can Helga and her allies outsmart these specters and confront the deep wounds from their tangled pasts?

A sweeping history of America's first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world's first information superpower.

"Takes us beyond the familiar New York papers and editors to a whole continent bursting with the thirst for news. A wonderful read." --Andrew Pettegree, coauthor of The Library

No society had ever generated so much ink and paper in so little time. Between the Revolutionary War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the number of American newspapers increased five hundredfold. In Empire of Ink, Alex Wright tells the story of how an unruly young democracy found its voice--shaped by the interplay of new technologies, bold public policies, and a distinctly American zeal for free expression that unleashed the greatest outpouring of print the world had ever seen.

It was a wild, boisterous time--populated by gunslinging editors, tramp printers, zealous reformers, brilliant inventors, and literal snake-oil salesmen. Together, they transformed journalism, built a new industry, and helped forge the nation's character. By century's end, this freewheeling press had begun to give way to news syndicates, wire services, and corporate interests. Wealthy media barons seized on new technologies and economies of scale to consolidate power--shaping the mass media that would define the twentieth century.

Vividly bringing a pivotal chapter in American history to life, Empire of Ink reveals how the nation's age-old struggles over truth, technology, and power continue to echo into today's digital age.

From "modern Agatha Christie" (The Sunday Times, London) Janice Hallett, a follow-up to her blockbuster debut novel The Appeal, featuring the Fairway Players as they put on Agatha Christie's play The Hollow and find themselves embroiled in murder, blackmail, and betrayal once again.

Welcome back to Lower Lockwood. The Fairway Players return with Sarah-Jane and Kevin MacDonald as committee cochairs. This year, they have chosen to stage Agatha Christie's The Hollow. But auditions aren't their only problem: Sarah-Jane's sister, Nicky-Rose, is suddenly back in town under mysterious circumstances, having sold her home in Barbados, left her business providing entertainment on cruise ships, and moved back into their mother Carol's house.

As always, they're short on men, and new Player Fran Elroy-Jones enlists a young married couple and the husband's cousin to join. But no one wants to play the part of the hated Gerda, leaving Kevin and Sarah-Jane with no option but to reach out to an old member they know would be happy to perform in any role.

As with any production, tensions run high, and our intrepid lawyers Femi and Charlotte are tasked with uncovering exactly what happened on the opening night of The Hollow--and whether the correct person has taken the blame.

A brilliant girl risking it all to infiltrate a secret society of enchanters gets unexpected help from one of their victims--now a vengeful spirit--in this historical dark academia novel by New York Times bestselling author S. E. Grove.

In a world where magic is drawn from the realm of the dead, enchanters--always men--go to great lengths to steal it. Voyaging to the spirit realm, an enchanter will claim a dead woman's spirit as his own and make her a servant, a tool for his own magical ends. Enchanters maintain great secrecy around their practices, so only a wealthy elite have access to this power: members of a secret society shrouded within Commonwealth University, the nation's premiere institution for the study of enchantment.

When Sam--the son of islander immigrants of modest means--dared to use magic to blend into the blueblood world of Commonwealth, it cost him his life. Now a spirit, he's determined to avenge his murder and uncover the secrets of the Cisneros Society from beyond the grave.

When Sam encounters Clementine Quinn, a young woman disguised as a male student at Commonwealth, he quickly sees that Clem is putting herself in grave danger at the school. But as he tries to warn her of the peril, it becomes clear that his past and her fate are inextricably entwined. To avenge his murder and prevent hers, they'll need to help one another and thereby prove, ultimately, that friendship and love can transcend everything, even death.

The remaining members of a ghost hunting show return to the haunted manor that may have killed their friend in this atmospheric, contemporary gothic debut perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting and Delicious Monsters.

Four teens went into the manor, three came out.

In July, Georgia Perry and Jules Park--secret girlfriends, covert art thieves, and cohosts of a popular YouTube ghost hunting show--step into a haunted house to steal a priceless painting. A few short hours later, there's a knife in Jules's chest and Georgia is waking up in a pool of blood with no painting and no memory of how she got there.

Now it's October, and Georgia is underwater. She hasn't been to class in weeks, and she's avoiding her old crew--and only friends--like the plague. But when the three remaining thieves get a call from the man who paid a hefty sum to keep them out of jail, demanding that they return to finish the job, Georgia has no choice but to return to her old life.

As the estranged friends scramble to steal the painting with no cover story and no leader, they quickly realize that something is very, very wrong, and it's not just the suffocating memory of Jules or the prying eyes of their viewers. Between the strange shadows that begin to trail them and the nightmares plaguing Georgia's sleep, only one thing is certain: something followed them home from De Lys manor, and it will do anything to keep them from going back.

Meet Miles Bacon, the truck-driving, box-hauling, big rig pig! Written by the New York Times bestselling duo who brought you Cupig, Big Rig Pig is perfect for fans of Little Blue Truck and Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site.

Got a truck stuck in a ditch?
Or a hot dog cart that needs a hitch?
Miles Bacon's the one to call,
There's not a thing that he can't haul!

When Miles spends the whole day helping out others, hauling boxes, five tons of apples, and even an entire circus, he learns that maybe he doesn't have to do it all. And that sometimes, it's okay if he's the one who needs help; good friends will always be there to lend a helping hand, or truck!

With bouncy, rhyming text and comically expressive art from New York Times bestselling duo Claire Tattersfield and Rob Sayegh Jr., Big Rig Pig is a sweet and funny story about Miles Bacon, the determined and dependable truck-driving pig. Perfect for little ones who love Things That Go! Includes two special fold-out pages.

Praise for Big Rig Pig:

"Clever and fun . . . lively rhymes and lots of fun details int eh art make this a story to pore over." --Kirkus reviews