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Pit your favorite mythology heroes against each other in this book full of epic face-offs that comes with a Medusa medallion!

Immerse yourself in the world of ancient mythology with this beautifully illustrated book featuring all your favorite mythological figures! Compare gods, heroes, and ferocious monsters with battle scorecards and decide who's the winner in epic showdowns, and read about the real-world facts and locations that inspired the Greek and Roman myths. This book also comes with a Medusa medallion!

In this new translation, a world-renowned scholar brings out the metaphysical, moral, and poetic power of Laozi's classical Chinese text

Drawing on his extensive study of philosophy, religion, and literature across traditions, David Bentley Hart, with the help of Patrick Robert Hart, presents Laozi's timeless work and its paradoxical wisdom with clarity and grace.

Mesmerized by the Tao Te Ching's condensed and elliptical nature, and moved by both its generosity and restraint, Hart began his study of the text forty years ago. It is a work, he shows us, that abounds in paradox, telling us that true strength lies in yielding, true wealth in possessing nothing, true greatness in humility, true wisdom in apparent folly, true glory in hiddenness, and the highest victory in an indifference to struggles for dominance. Its essential vision is of a world charged with spiritual forces--a world always full because inherently empty of itself. This translation honors the text's enigmas, subtleties, and poetic graces but also strives for the purest clarity of meaning.

Why settle for nothing, when you can steal everything?

Forget banks, casinos, museums--society's most valuable treasure sits in the giant, anonymous data centers that power modern life. There, in endless rows of hard drives, lies the sum of our civilization's knowledge, all of the world's personal and private truths, uploaded and saved. They wait unseen, unexploited, and, most critically, unguarded.

Tim is a climate journalist disillusioned with chronicling the end of the world. Virginia is an evasive, paranoid, and technologically savvy con artist who has found an ingenious way to live off the grid in the heart of Manhattan. Joined by desire and desperation, they hatch a plan to steal secrets. But they have secrets of their own--secrets they can't tell each other, secrets that could destroy them both...

With their last few dollars and some dimestore wigs they set out for the outskirts of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the unlikely site of the world's largest repository of knowledge--a data center the size of a small city--to attempt a brazen heist that, whether they fail or succeed, will change their lives forever.

But the heist is only the beginning.

From the award-winning author Nathaniel Rich, Cloudthief is a heist novel for a new era, in which the most valuable things in life are virtual, privacy is a sick joke, and security is relative. After all is lost, what remains?

As the climate emergency worsens and biodiversity shrinks, we somehow get used to it. We struggle to remember what summers were like before the unrelenting heat, in those years before wildfires became an annual routine. We adapt, we normalize. Scientists call this "shifting baseline syndrome," and they warn that it's why we are increasingly sleepwalking toward disaster.

In this inspiring manifesto, environmental advocate and longtime editor-in-chief of Sierra magazine Jason Dove Mark offers antidotes that everyone can use to resist ecological amnesia and make lasting progress to repair and revive a livable planet. He puts forth four simple but powerful rules for a life lived in communion with the Earth:

Go outside
Bear witness
Make a record
Pass it on

From the mountains of California to the lakes of Wisconsin and across the lush forests of his beloved Pacific Northwest, Mark shares moving examples of citizen scientists, birdwatchers, mountain climbers, and fishermen who are putting these remedies into practice. And he makes the case for easy, everyday practices that can help us "remember the earth" and support environmental conservation, restoration, and rewilding. The Earth Said Remember Me is a hopeful, achievable prescription for protecting the planet, one citizen at a time.

Over three days in August 1945, a nation once morally opposed to the bombing of civilians killed 120,000 men, women, and children; doomed tens of thousands more to agonizing death in the weeks and months ahead; and annihilated two cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Empire of Ashes explores the final brutal months of the war in the Pacific, featuring the voices of never-before-heard victims of the atomic bombs. Through interviews with survivors and accounts gleaned from Japanese sources, New York Times best-selling author James M. Scott combines the attacks' heart-wrenching details with their causes and consequences, from debates within the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, Oakridge, and Hanford to the fallout that would alter decades of life in Japan. From "an exceptional writer with a keen eye for dazzling detail and gripping, suspenseful storytelling" (Henry Richard Maar III, Journal of Military History), Empire of Ashes illuminates the moral dilemma at the center of America's decision to inflict total war upon Japan with startling immediacy.

Some friendships don't need words - just wagging tails, open hearts, and shared adventures. Dive into the heartwarming world of Sascha, a lovable dog, and Loops, her human best friend. This is a charming tale about their incredible journey of friendship and finding joy in the little things. From the chilly fields of Montana to the sunny vasts of Texas, this duo's adventures are a reminder of how wonderful life can be with a friend by your side.

Perfect for young readers, this book captures the essence of childhood adventures and the unbreakable bond between pets and their owners. So, get ready to explore, laugh, and maybe even munch on a treat or two!

Ready for an adventure?

- Winner - The Golden Wizard Book Prize (UK, 2026)

- Distinguished Favorite, Independent Press Awards (2026) Children's > Animals/Pets

- 1st Place Winner, The BookFest Awards (Fall 2025) Children's Picture Books & Children's Animals

"Acevedo has written the impossible: an Odyssey for the Cuban 20th century."--Junot Diaz

A sweeping, choral portrait of a man as seen through the eyes of those who loved him, feared him, and were betrayed by him.

Cages is the story of Felix--a zookeeper in Cuba during the time of the missile crisis, an exile in swinging sixties London, and finally a dying man in 1980s AIDS-era Miami. In this daring novel, Acevedo's most personal and heartfelt to date, the fragments of Felix's story are put together like pieces of a puzzle by one knew him mostly as an absence.

Cuba, 1963. Felix risks everything for an illicit love affair with a co-worker. In a society where homosexuality is branded "counterrevolutionary," their tenderness unfolds in the shadow of danger, treachery, and political oppression. In London, Felix and his wife Anabel navigate exile and reinvention, while an aspiring actress named Claudia finds herself drawn into their orbit, her ambitions and desires colliding with Felix's own hunger for connection. Years later, Virgilio--Anabel's devoted brother--recounts the disintegration of Felix's marriage and his decision to step in and protect the family Felix abandoned. From Anabel, long silent about her complicity in the events that forced Felix's flight from Cuba, to Rita, the daughter born out of wedlock, each vivid character gives us a different version of Felix, and the result is a dazzling mosaic of longing, deception, survival, and reconciliation.

Spanning Havana, London, and Miami over a thirty-year arc, Cages explores exile, forbidden love, fractured families, the nature of truth, and the stories we tell to make sense of the people we cannot forget.

Want to create decorative wooden keepsakes without breaking a sweat? Expert designer Katja Falkenburger shows you everything you need to know about stamping wood by hand. The only tools you need are chisels, stamps, and a mallet.

Wood stamping is exciting because, unlike metal or paper, wood does not offer a uniform background; the natural design elements found in wood, such as grain, color gradients, cracks, or annual rings, can be incorporated into your stamped-wood creations. This book focuses on stamping techniques that will inspire you to make your own stamped creations that bring out the inherent beauty of your wood.

The book covers

• stamping tools;
• types of wood and how well they stamp;
• 10+ stamping techniques, including vertical, angled, cut, and press stamping;
• using templates and outlines for your designs;
• how the texture, grain, and color of your wood influences your designs; and
• finishing treatments and techniques.

By following the techniques outlined in this comprehensive volume, you'll be able to create your own stamped-wood craft and enhance the beauty of any wooden object!

Birch bark is a versatile natural material that has been used for millennia to create both practical and decorative crafts, but it remains popular due to its sustainability, and ubiquity. Using the amazing properties and unique aesthetic expression of birch bark, discover the basics of bark crafting--everything from where and when to find the best material in the forest to how to pick and store it. You'll learn traditional birch bark crafting techniques such as weaving and braiding, but also more-modern and unconventional techniques such as birch bark origami.

In this useful and informative volume, you'll find 14 bark craft projects with complete step-by-step instructions, photographs, and helpful diagrams. You'll make practical and beautiful bark pieces using weaving, joining, and folding techniques:

• baskets
• handbags
• backpacks
• wallets
• accessory cases
• lampshades
• beads for jewelry
• and more!

A must-have for any crafter who wants to branch out into exploring the fascinating world of crafting with bark!

A chunky touch-and-feel book that gets toddlers revved up and ready to explore the exciting wonders of fire engines.

The alarm is ringing! That means our brave fire engine is ready for action. Feel its shiny, smooth, red paint, then unroll its bendy water hose. But what do its wheels feel like as it zooms to save the day? Touch and discover as we read along!

This book is the perfect next step in your toddler's learning journey. While the different textures encourage their sensory development, the short, fun text is great for reading aloud and building early language skills. Not too big and not too small, this book is the ideal size for little hands to hold, explore, and turn the pages to experience the magic of fire engines.

Buckle up for an adventure! This engine-powered book will be an amazing addition to every toddler's first library.

¡Cinco en la tienda! Una excursión de camping con Maisy se vuelve una comedia de errores en este simpatiquísimo libro de aventuras ilustrado.

Five in the tent! A camping trip with Maisy turns into a slapstick comedy of errors in this hilarious picture-book adventure.

Cuando Maisy se va de camping en el campo, es natural que todos sus amiguitos también la acompañen. Pero pronto descubren que armar una tienda de campaña no es nada fácil. Aunque logran mantenerla montada, el reto es que todos quepan dentro -- Maisy, Charley, Cyril, Tallulah y, al final, Eddie, un elefante enorme. ¡A apretujarse todos! ¡Buenas noches, campistas! Oh, oh, ¿qué fue ese ruido?

When Maisy sets off to go camping in the country, it's only natural that all her friends come along, too. But they soon find that pitching a tent is not an easy thing to do. Even if they do manage to keep the tent up, there's the matter of fitting them all in -- Maisy, Charley, Cyril, Tallulah, and finally, the huge elephant, Eddie. What a squeezy squish-squash! Good night, campers! Uh-oh-what's that popping sound?

Hazelnut the squirrel's nest was in a hole in a tree, and she had everything ready for Winter: a warm bed made of leaves, a pantry full of nuts, and hundreds of seeds hidden in secret places all over the forest ...

Winter is just around the corner, and Hazelnut has worked hard to get ready. In her cozy nest high up in a tree, the little squirrel watches the last leaves of the fall flutter past, when suddenly the tree trunk crashes to the ground. Oh no! The beavers have chomped it down! Hazelnut is heartbroken. What will she do now? Luckily, the beavers realize their mistake and quickly offer her their home. The squirrel makes an effort, working hard to carry logs across the river, but soon abandons the idea of spending her days in the water. Later, while searching for a new place to shelter, she meets the bats, who kindly offer her their cave for the winter, but...

The first snowflakes are falling... Will Hazelnut find a comfy home in time?

An exciting adventure through the forest that will invite readers to discover the importance of tolerance and respect for living together, and how generosity and solidarity flourish in the face of adversity.

Cascabilla la ardilla tenía su nido en el hueco de un árbol y todo preparado para el invierno: una cálida cama hecha de hojas, una despensa a rebosar de frutos secos y cientos de semillas escondidas en lugares secretos del bosque...

Ya falta poco para que se instale el invierno y Cascabilla ha trabajado duro para estar preparada. En su apacible nido, en lo alto del árbol, la ardilla ve caer las últimas hojas de otoño cuando, de repente, el tronco cae al suelo. ¡No puede ser! ¡Los castores lo han talado! Cascabilla está desconsolada. ¿Y ahora qué? Por suerte, los castores reconocen su error y rápidamente le ofrecen su hogar. La ardilla hace un esfuerzo, trabaja duro transportando troncos a través del río, pero pronto abandonará la idea de pasar los días en remojo. Más tarde, en la búsqueda de un nuevo lugar donde guarecerse, se encontrará con los murciélagos que, amables, le ofrecerán su cueva para el invierno, pero...

Ya caen los primeros copos... ¿Encontrará Cascabilla un verdadero hogar a tiempo?

Una emocionante aventura a través del bosque que invitará a sus lectores a descubrir la importancia de la tolerancia y el respeto para la convivencia, y cómo en la adversidad, afloran la generosidad y la solidaridad.

On the banks of a river walks a crocodile . . . and he's looking for trouble!

Crocodile has woken up with a frog in his throat. He heads out on a walk and asks the same question to every animal he meets: "Are you looking for trouble?" No one is up for the challenge--that is, until he comes across an enormous elephant.

A fantastically funny picture book, Are You Looking for Trouble? is the perfect read-aloud story to share with your little one. With bold illustrations by Delphine Durand and a hilarious twist to look forward to, this is a book to come back to again and again.

From two of the world's leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive--and most unsettling--account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky.

Exiled from the Soviet Union and living under constant threat, Leon Trotsky believed that by 1937 he had found sanctuary in Mexico City. What he did not see was the vast clandestine machinery Stalin had already set in motion--one that beyond Europe and, crucially, into the United States itself. Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, this book reveals the previously untold role played by Stalin's agents operating in America who helped make the assassination possible.

At the center of the plot stood Ramón Mercader, a disciplined Soviet assassin using multiple false identities. Guided by his formidable mother, Caridad Mercader, he avoided overt violence in favor of patience, manipulation, and emotional infiltration. His most powerful weapon was not the ice axe he ultimately wielded, but trust--carefully cultivated through friendships, sympathies, and a romantic relationship with Sylvia Ageloff, a Brooklyn-born social worker whose true role in the assassination is reassessed here with startling clarity.

Based on unprecedented access to classified documents in Mexico, the United States, and Russia, as well as unpublished correspondence from Trotsky's personal guards, Nigel West and H. Keith Melton expose the fatal blind spots in Trotsky's own security and thinking. His lifelong faith in personal loyalty, his dismissal of internal betrayal, and a measure of revolutionary hubris proved decisive in the final hours of his life.

More than merely the story of how Leon Trotsky was murdered, this is a sweeping history of espionage, ideology, love, betrayal, and fatal miscalculation; it is the complete, never-before-told account of an assassination that changed the course of modern history.

Moral victories don't solve public health crises. Money does.

After years of poor water quality, Gavin fears his town, Pondville, is one burst pipe away from losing access to safe drinking water forever.

Demoralized, Gavin and his best friend MacKenzie turn to his estranged father, a board member of the infamous water company CrispFlow. CrispFlow is known for giving out grants to improve public facilities, but they've also been buying and privatizing cities' failing water systems, often leaving those towns' situations worse than they found them. Gavin wouldn't trust CrispFlow to privatize their water, but with his father on the board and Gavin and Mack interning at town hall, he might just be able to walk away with the grant money instead. Gavin's dad agrees to rig the grant process if Gavin and MacKenzie sabotage the competition to help Crisp-Flow win an infrastructure bid. It's not above board, but everybody wins, as long as no one gets caught . . .