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In the small coal camp of Jubilee, West Virginia, Phinnie "Skinny" Caldwell has been plagued with nightmares of the last time she ever saw her mama alive and the man responsible for stealing her away: Zell Dorsey.

When Zell Dorsey returns thirteen years later, alone, Skinny is determined to find out what really happened. As she uncovers disturbing truths about her mama's fate and Zell's sinister plan, she turns to Happy Walker, her school bus driver and the closest thing she has to a father. However, nothing can prepare them for what they find: Behind Zell Dorsey's charming veneer, is a creature both older and far more evil than any devil, and he's hellbent on turning everyone Skinny loves into oil-slicked monsters.

This book is a testament to the resilience of grieving mothers and the tenacity of the beautiful people of Appalachia, a place where the accents sing rather than talk and the tea is always sweet.

An inspiring story of adventure and endurance in a quest to rediscover the passions of youth.

At the end of 2019, Tom French retired from a four-decade career in business, determined to return to interests that had defined his youth and see what meaning they still held. One of these interests was mountaineering. Another was adventure travel, with a particular focus on Nepal. A third was cross-country ski racing. Having taken "gap years" between school and university, and again before he started work, he decided to take a gap year before settling into the expectations of retirement. One year turned into three as he rebuilt his athletic strength, competed in cross-country ski marathons, and climbed some of the world's highest mountains, including two expeditions to Mount Everest. On the first Everest climb, a cyclone forced him to turn around high on the mountain and descend the treacherous Lhotse Face in a blizzard. On the second, he approached the mountain through the remote Makalu Barun region, the first climber ever to do so, and climbed to the summit on a moonlit night.

But this is a book about much more than Everest. It is about beauty and joy found in wild places, about cross-country ski racing and mountaineering more broadly, and--most of all--about a journey to find meaning in life and reconnect with the passions of youth.

"The voice of a wise mentor comes through."--Kirkus Reviews

Elevate your sales expertise with advanced skills for top performers.

This powerful follow-up to How to Master the Art of Selling--with over 2 million copies sold--takes your selling capabilities to the next level. Perfect for evolving sales professionals, it provides the refined tools you need to stay mentally resilient, communicate with impact, and read the room like a pro. You will learn:

Strategic conversational leadership: Ask the right questions, guide buyer engagement, and manage pressure versus momentum.

Observational mastery: Recognize opportunity cues and know when to push forward or ease off.

Emotional connection: Spark excitement, build trust, and solve problems with empathy and authority.

The trusted advisor mindset: Shift from transactional pitches to respectful, service-oriented selling--be the professional clients welcome, not avoid.

Taylor McCarthy, a standout performer in door-to-door sales, closes in a single day what many average reps do in a year. His method? He reframes the salesperson role from the stereotypical Hollywood manipulator to trusted advisor, earning respect and trust, not just money.

Adapted from the principles of Tom Hopkins, whose training has shaped the highest-earning sellers on the planet, this book reimagines those time-tested techniques for today's high-stakes sales environment.

Timely and timeless, a literary quest novel about trying to stay hopeful in hopeless times.

"To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is the new heroism of the woman writer, and Kavenna is in the vanguard of it."--Rachel Cusk

Who decides the rules of the games we play?

In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find the head of the Society of Lost Things, Theodoros Apostolakis. Fortunately Apostolakis isn't lost but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful ancient box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.

Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.

2026 CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL HOT OFF THE PRESS

Un libro de cartón de alto contraste lleno de animales de granja y diseñado por la artista Janna Steagall para los ojos en desarrollo de los bebés

A high-contrast board book full of farm animals and deisgned for babies' developing eyes by artist Janna Steagall

El bebé ve vacas.
El bebé ve cerdos.
El bebé ve gallinas.

Creado para los lectores más jóvenes y sus ojos en desarrollo, este libro de cartón de alto contraste presenta a todos tus animales de granja favoritos, ¡incluyendo caballos, perros y más! Con un texto sencillo e imágenes y patrones modernos de Janna Steagall, El bebé ve animales de granja es el compañero más dulce que un pastel de cerezas para los tiempos bocabajo.

Baby sees cows.
Baby sees pigs.
Baby sees chickens.

Created for the youngest readers and their developing eyes, this high-contrast board book introduces all your favorite farm animals, including horses, dogs, and more! With simple text and trendy images and patterns by Janna Steagall, Baby Sees Farm Animals is a tummy-time companion that's sweeter than cherry pie.

Indigenous artist and storyteller Andrea Fritz tells the tale of a Salish woolly dog who goes on an adventure over land and sea to gather natural fibers to keep his human family warm.

Sqwiqwmi' the young Salish woolly dog has a nice warm coat, and he wants to help protect his people from the cold and wet West Coast winters too. He sets out to pick the cozy fluff that grows on the nearby fireweed, but the plants are bare this time of year. Guided by a friendly shrew and a wise eagle, Sqwiqwmi' journeys across the Salish Sea and into high mountains, collecting goat's wool and nettle stalks--and even some of his own fur!--that his family will spin and weave into beautiful, warm blankets.

In this original story set in Coast Salish Traditional Territory, author and artist Andrea Fritz uses Indigenous storytelling techniques and art to share the culture and language of the Hul'q'umi'num'-speaking Peoples.

Why do some fights for justice hit a wall while others succeed? What does it take to win social change, especially now? It comes down to understanding one thing: the difference between presence and power.

Failing to do so is one way we got into this mess, but understanding how power really works is a big part of how we get out of it.

Rashad Robinson would know. A social change strategist, he's spent more than twenty years at the highest levels of leadership in two of the most significant social movements of our time: the fight for LGBTQ rights and the fight for racial justice. He's taken on tech giants and the criminal justice system, politicians in Washington and corporate executives in Hollywood. He's been on the front lines of protest and in the back rooms of negotiation.

Robinson argues that achieving presence--the visibility of marches, media fads, and making issues popular--is not the same as gaining the leverage required to change the rules for how society works or change the decisions that politicians, corporate executives, and other people in authority make.

This book offers a set of essential lessons about power for anyone who wants to understand it, gain it, and use it to win the progress we all deserve--and to defeat the forces trying to take our freedoms away. Robinson provides the tools needed to help everyday people build real leverage in systems designed to prevent them from doing so.

As someone who helped shape the resistance after the 2016 election, and continues to help leaders at every level find innovative ways to fight back and win progress today, Robinson offers a hopeful, practical guide to achieving positive impact in the most challenging times.

Celebrates 25 years of Buffett's focus investing strategy with fresh insights for today's investors

For more than two decades, The Warren Buffett Portfolio has guided investors toward mastering the art of focus investing--a strategy that concentrates on a select group of superior businesses rather than spreading resources thin across countless holdings. With the release of the 25th Anniversary Edition, Robert G. Hagstrom, one of the most respected interpreters of Warren Buffett's investment philosophy, offers fresh insights into why concentrated portfolios remain the key to long-term wealth creation, even in today's volatile markets. This updated edition addresses the limitations of conventional portfolio theory and challenges readers to rethink risk, diversification, and market efficiency through the lens of Buffett's remarkable success.

Hagstrom expands the original work with powerful new material that reflects what he has learned since introducing the concept of focus investing. New chapters explore the philosophy of focus investing including a deeper exploration of Charlie Munger's "Art of Achieving Worldly Wisdom." In addition, there are new chapters on the mathematics of focus investing, psychology of focus investing and how to think about the structure of markets.

Equipping investors at every level with the tools, models, and mental framework needed to build portfolios capable of outperforming the market over time, The Warren Buffett Portfolio, 25th Anniversary Edition:

• Compares modern portfolio theory with Buffett's alternative view of risk and portfolio management.
• Provides update analysis of "Superinvestors of Buffettville."
• Explains probability theory and how to apply to investing, Kelly Optimization Model, high active share investing, frequency versus magnitude, sideways markets, trends of the system versus trends in the system.
• Explores the psychology of investing through the insights of myopic loss aversion, the fallacy of risk tolerance questionnaires, System 1 and System 2 thinking, and the psychology of misjudgment models.
• Tutors readers on how to build a latticework of mental models explaining the core models of rationality, pragmatism, philosophy of language, self-reliance, physics model of equilibrium along the side the biological model of evolution and adaptation.
• Presents new frameworks for how to think about market prices and the changing structure of markets, patience premium, wisdom of crowds and diversity breakdowns.
• Offers a fresh, new approach to investing called "business-driven investing" designed for achieving and compounding long-term growth.

Combining rigorous analysis with practical guidance, The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy, 25th Anniversary Edition, is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in finance, economics, and investment management courses, especially within MBA and CFA programs. It also serves as a trusted reference for professional investors, portfolio managers, and financial advisors seeking to refine their strategies and achieve superior results

An expeditionary force will discover unfamiliar lands, fight deadly foes, and reveal secrets as they explore the mysterious new earth they now call home in this gripping alternate history adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series.

Ever since the World War II-era destroyer USS Walker was marooned on a strange alternate earth, naturalist Courtney Bradford has been eager to fully explore the planet. Now that the war with the Grand Alliance's enemies has settled into an uneasy peace, he is given leave to organize the Corps of Discovery, a motley company formed of veterans of the Great War from all over the Alliance.

On board the rebuilt Walker, now a school ship, they set out to investigate reports of a region in the Pacific where ships have gone missing and a terrible bright flash of light on the horizon was witnessed. But what they find there is beyond anyone's imagination: a great battered fleet made up of strange ships. Courtney suspects the rusty armada may have been transported to this world from another, the same way the Walker was almost five years ago.

But the Alliance's enemies are already aware of these lost ships--and the deadly technology they can harvest from them--and are willing to go to any lengths to steal them. Courtney, a crew of inexperienced cadets, and a handful of lethal commandos are all that stand in the way of another global war--one that the exhausted Alliance simply can't win.

This colorful post-World War II history brings to life a crucial yet understudied period, through the eyes of both major figures and ordinary people.

It was a summer like no one had ever experienced: in the four months from May to September 1945, the old world collapsed, and a new one opened up. The heinous Third Reich was over, ushering in an era of freedom, but also fresh conflicts.

With a gripping historical panorama, Oliver Hilmes offers insight into this unprecedented summer, from the perspectives of the victors and the vanquished, victims and perpetrators, celebrities and unknowns. The "Big Three"--Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--determine the course of history at the Potsdam Conference. German housewife Else Tietze fears for her son's safety. US soldier Klaus Mann tracks down Nazi criminals. And in Berlin Billy Wilder plans a comedy about life in the ruins. Cafés and restaurants reopen their doors, and Red Army soldier Vasily Petrowitsch is begged for bread by German children.

Through a series of scenes that lead from Berlin to Tokyo, from Munich to Paris, from Bayreuth to Moscow, Hilmes captures the unique atmosphere of this time of extremes: the great happiness and hope of the liberated; the misery, grief, and fear of the defeated; and the uncertainty that comes with freedom.

This field guide has 44 entries highlighting a variety of North American waterfowl. Readers will gain a greater understanding about these creatures and will be able to identify them in the wild. Features include a helpful introduction to the topic, a glossary, and additional resources. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Field Guides is an imprint of Abdo Reference, a division of ABDO.

Do you like bird-watching, hiking, or camping? A nature hobby may be right for you! Learn how to get the tools, skills, and space necessary for a new hobby. Then complete fun projects designed to explore each hobby. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Enter Mary Gillham, Isobel Bennett, Hope Macpherson and Susan Ingham, four scientists who successfully petitioned to be the first women to join an Australian research expedition to Macquarie Island, a remote subantarctic island with a unique ecosystem.

Marine biologists Isobel and Hope explored the coast, finding chitons, sea stars and Giant kelp. Mary climbed cliffs to observe nesting seabirds like Black-browed albatrosses and White-headed petrels. Susan counted herds of Southern elephant seals and Antarctic fur seals.

When their research trip ended, the scientists returned home with their field notes to find that the media was more focussed on what they wore rather than the research they were there to undertake. Despite this, the scientists left an incredible legacy that led to efforts to remove invasive species from the island--and forged a new path for women in science.

As a young child, Phymean Noun dreamed of learning to read and write. But growing up during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia in the 1970s made that dream impossible.

Formal education was not only forbidden at that time but also could result in a death sentence. When the Khmer Rouge government was eventually overthrown, Phymean was finally able to go to school and fulfill the promise she made to herself as a young girl.

Years later, when Phymean was working in Phnom Penh, she met several unhoused and hungry child laborers who were unable to get an education because they had to work to feed their families. Like Phymean, their greatest dream was to go to school. Phymean knew she had to help. She left a stable job and salary behind to start the People Improvement Organization (PIO) in 2002, an NGO that educated, fed and also housed children in need. Since its founding, PIO has helped 8,000 children accomplish their dream of receiving an education.

The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.