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A comprehensive introduction to the natural history of ponds, small lakes, and other quiet or still bodies of water in the eastern United States

This richly illustrated guide introduces readers to the biology and structure of freshwater ponds, smaller lakes, and associated wetlands in the eastern United States, and to the natural life that thrives in and around them--the flora, insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fish.

Through photographs, illustrations, and detailed diagrams, Patrick J. Lynch brings ponds to life in their great variety, from freshwater marshes and swamps to vernal pools, bogs and pocosins, and beyond. He explains the natural and environmental history of these special regions: Why and how have they evolved? Why are they important to the larger ecological picture? And how are human activity and climate change defining the present and changing the future of these precious ecosystems?

Lynch's guide is concise yet comprehensive, an indispensable tool for natural history buffs, birders, anglers, boaters, canoers, hikers, and environmental educators.

Based on the bestselling bold-cute coloring trend, this adorable coloring book is part of Union Square Gift's Cozy Coloring series, filled with charming scenes inspired by the tranquil beauty and everyday warmth of Japanese culture.

Step into the serene and inviting world of Kawaii Japan! This book features super cute animals enjoying peaceful moments from traditional tea to strolling streets lined with cherry blossom trees. Discover scenes of cozy homes, bustling markets, and quiet parks. Get comfy, grab your favorite colors, and bring these gentle, heartwarming Japanese-inspired scenes to life!

This Kawaii Japan coloring book includes:

• 40 unique and adorable illustrations, each waiting for your personal touch.
• Delightfully charming pages for stress relief and mindful creativity.
• Single-sided pages to help prevent bleed-through (please place a protective sheet behind the page you're coloring if you're using markers!).
• A handy size of 7 4/5 x 7 4/5 inches perfect for coloring anywhere.
• Hi-resolution prints to ensure every detail pops with clarity.

Lydia has had a passion for climate issues for as long as she can remember.

After a fall at school, her well-meaning friends and family are against her getting out on the streets to protest, but Lydia is determined to challenge the ableism she sometimes encounters while she promotes climate action, no matter the risks.

Love on Planet A explores friendship, first love, and fighting for change. With its authentic representation of disability, a strong-willed protagonist, and a socially conscious narrative, this novel is perfect for teens who are passionate about activism and making their voices heard. This is a great selection for libraries, schools, and bookstores looking to expand their collection of engaging, inclusive fiction.

A practical, kid-friendly workbook to help children manage envy, jealousy, and "it's not fair" feelings

Feeling jealous or thinking "it's not fair" is a normal part of growing up, but when these emotions start to cause distress, conflict, or frustration, children may need extra support. This engaging workbook helps kids understand envy and jealousy, why these feelings show up, and how they can learn healthier ways to cope.

What to Do When It's Not Fair is a revised and updated edition of the best-selling workbook that guides children through proven, step-by-step strategies for managing envy and comparison. Using a playful pirate and spyglass metaphor, kids learn how focusing too closely on what others have can cause them to miss the positive things in their own lives--and how to "zoom out" to see the bigger picture. Through interactive exercises, approachable illustrations, and clear guidance, children build skills to handle disappointment, jealousy, and unfair feelings with greater confidence and perspective.

A dedicated section for parents and caregivers provides additional psychological insight and practical tools for supporting children as they practice new coping strategies at home and in everyday situations.

Key features:

• For Ages 8-9 Designed for children who struggle with jealousy, envy, or frequent "it's not fair" reactions
• Interactive Workbook Format Hands-on activities and illustrations keep kids engaged and motivated
• Evidence-Based Approach Introduces cognitive-behavioral techniques in a clear, child-appropriate way
• Emotion Regulation Skills Helps children manage comparison, build gratitude, and respond more calmly to frustrating situations
• Trusted Series and Publisher Part of the What-to-Do Guides for Kids series from Magination Press, the children's imprint of the American Psychological Association

What would it be like to travel back in time to see dinosaurs, or forward to meet your future self? Scientists have theories about how time travel might happen. Learn about these ideas and whether we could ever travel through time.

A tornado is a twisting storm that can destroy everything in its path. Scientists are looking for more accurate ways to predict when a tornado might happen, and how to tame a tornado's destructive power. Discover some ways scientists might make this happen.

The Aztecs built an empire on two swampy islands in Lake Texcoco. They thrived until Spanish explorers came and took control. From farming to warfare, learn about the daily life of the Aztecs.

Civilizations have existed around the world for centuries. Learn about ancient peoples in the Early Civilizations series--part of the Lightning Bolt Books(R) collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books(R) bring nonfiction topics to life!

NASA astronaut Victor J. Glover is the pilot for the Artemis II mission to the Moon, becoming the first person of color to travel beyond Low Earth Orbit.

As a child in Pomona, California, Victor J. Glover had a passion for speed. He planned to become a stuntperson or a race car driver. But at the age of ten, he was mesmerized by watching a space shuttle launch. In college, Glover began mentoring young people of color in STEM subjects. After finishing his engineering degree, he joined the US Navy, where he learned to fly military planes. Then at the age of thirty-seven, his application to NASA was accepted and he joined an elite group of eight astronauts-in-training. He later took multiple spacewalks at the International Space Station and was chosen for the 2026 Artemis II moon mission.

Explore Victor Glover's journey from adrenaline junkie kid to military pilot to the first Black astronaut to live and work on the International Space Station.

Walt Whitman's seminal poetry collection celebrating life, nature, philosophy, and spirituality, now repackaged for Union Square and Co.'s Signature Editions series.

Leaves of Grass is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892). Though the first edition was published in 1855, Whitman spent his entire life writing and re-writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death. This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades--the first a small book of twelve poems and the last a compilation of over 400 poems. We are reissuing the complete 1892 text, known as the "deathbed edition," which Whitman personally stated should be used for all future reprintings.

The poems of Leaves of Grass are loosely connected and each represents Whitman's celebration of his philosophy of life and humanity. This book is notable for its discussion of delight in sensual pleasures during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous poetry, especially English, relied on symbolism, allegory, and meditation on the religious and spiritual, Leaves of Grass (particularly the first edition) exalted the body and the material world. Influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalist movement, itself an offshoot of Romanticism, Whitman's poetry praises nature and the individual human's role in it. However, much like Emerson, Whitman does not diminish the role of the mind or the spirit; rather, he elevates the human form and the human mind, deeming both worthy of poetic praise.

Your Autonomic Nervous System has the strongest shaping force of any biological system over your moment-to-moment experience of wellbeing, yet most people do not understand anything about it. In this practical skills development handbook, learn to understand your Autonomic Nervous System, and how it governs your felt experience in response to your moment-to-moment detection of safety, danger, or lifethreat.

Using clear and down-to-earth analogies- understand autonomic state as water wearing each of her three faces, your neurology as an inward forest, and the spectrum of autonomic states as a palette of colors that can combine in unique ways- you will learn to understand the range of functions your Autonomic Nervous System governs, how it works, and how you can work with it to grasp and then move the deepest levers that govern your wellbeing in the direction of thriving.

Learn the foundational autonomic fluency required to grow your ability to notice, be informed by, and support the needs of your deepest survival systems, which are always shaping your interactions with the world, whether you are aware of it or not. With awareness practices to engage them, and reflective exercises so that you can explore them, you will learn to engage directly with the deepest layers of your nervous system, which communicate not in words but in the language of the felt (sensation, emotion, embodied memory).

Open the door to the original language of the body in its ancestral awareness, a way-of-knowing that has been systematically suppressed, overlooked, and negated in the modern world, yet is a primary doorway to sovereign embodiment. A practical, action-oriented handbook to build autonomic awareness, fluency, and agency, Autonomic Compass will give you a whole new set of tools to locate the truest coordinates of your thriving.

Romance! A crazy, overprotective brother! And...spies?!

Taiyo Asano has been on his own ever since his parents died. The only one who seems to care for him is his childhood friend and classmate, Mutsumi Yozakura. But Mutsumi has a secret--she is the head of a family of spies!

Kyoichiro, Hifumi, and Alpha head to the North Pole! On an uninhabited island, they finally find Nanao, stuck inside one of Dr. Mozu's labs. Kyoichiro declares the lab to be the "Nanao Dungeon" and gives Hifumi and Alpha a quest to rescue "Princess Nanao"!

"I am not a victim. I am a survivor."

It's time to free yourself from the Narcissist! In FEEL, artist S.M.Wells shares her two-year healing journey following a lifetime of narcissistic abuse.Through vivid storytelling, she opens up about her experiences with emotional trauma and abuse. Beginning in childhood and continuing into adulthood, she uncovers the destructive patterns that kept her in abusive cycles. Most importantly, this is a journey of self-discovery and healing through art.

More than a memoir, FEEL is a powerful reflection on healing, survival, and self-reclamation. Through honest storytelling and lessons drawn from CBT therapy, meditation, and inner work, Wells offers guidance for survivors, young adults, and anyone working to break free from toxic cycles. This book sheds light on narcissistic personality disorder (NPD), raises awareness about Tourette's Syndrome, and challenges mental health stigmas. Above all, FEEL empowers readers to recognize red flags, trust their instincts, and reclaim their identity.

Your truth matters.

S.M.Wells explores the impact of narcissism in interpersonal relationships, patterns of alcohol addiction, and how to break generational cycles by reclaiming identity through self-discovery.

Foreword by Miguelina Felix, M.Ed., M.S.

Paired with the Visual Companion booklet, this completes S.M.Wells' healing journey through both visual and written storytelling.

About the Author:

S.M. Wells is an Artist, Live Wedding Painter, and Founder of SHANPAINTS. Based in New England, she is known for her expressive, vibrant oil paintings and emotionally charged work. With a BFA in Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) from Massart Boston, she traveled across the country pursuing her creative dreams, by transforming pain into purpose and using her art as a form of healing.

About the Foreword Author/Editor

Lina is a dedicated education leader with over 12 years of experience working closely with students, families, and school communities. She currently serves as the Operations Manager for Special Education In-District classrooms, and is also pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine arts (Oil painting) and two Masters degrees-one in Public Relations with a focus in Crisis Management, and the other in Special Education (K-12)

Lina blends creativity, empathy, and leadership in everything she does. She is a dynamic leader in district-based education models, and her work reflects a deep understanding of the healing power of human connection.

AI with feelings doesn't yet exist. If created, could it feel emotions like people? Explore the history of AI, different types of AI, and how an advanced AI with emotions might someday exist.

The gigantoraptor was a birdlike dinosaur that we can compare to today's ostrich. Interesting text and photorealistic images bring this fast and fierce-looking dino to life.

The ancient Greeks were great warriors, artists, and learners. Discover the polytheistic religion, many forms of art, democratic government, and common warfare of ancient Greece.

Civilizations have existed around the world for centuries. Learn about ancient peoples in the Early Civilizations series--part of the Lightning Bolt Books(R) collection. With high-energy designs, exciting photos, and fun text, Lightning Bolt Books(R) bring nonfiction topics to life!