Caldecott Honor-winner Rachel Isadora’s stunning oil paintings illustrate this delightful bedtime tale, set on the African plains. The sun has set and the moon is rising, and that means it’s bedtime. But not if Lala has a say—because she’s not ready to go to sleep! First she needs to say good n..
A taut and beautifully written debut novel by an exciting and accomplished new author.Motherless, rootless and unprotected, Jude Williams' childhood is fractured by the horror and experience of sexual abuse, forcing her to exist somewhere and nowhere in-between childhood and adulthood. Caught within..
In Priya Huq’s middle-grade graphic novel Piece by Piece, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crimeNisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grad..
Philadelphia, 1825: five young, free black boys fall into the clutches of the most fearsome gang of kidnappers and slavers in the United States. Lured onto a small ship with the promise of food and pay, they are instead met with blindfolds, ropes, and knives. Over four long months, their kidnappers ..
The Anguish and Vigilance of Things is Richard Ali’s long-awaited debut. The collection deals with a range of ideas and issues, playing with form and structure. At the center of them, all is the image of a poet in a penultimate space, at an angle to the stairs of this world in the sense of Jame..
A modern look at a stunning assortment of blooms and the art you can create with a simple flower press.A contemporary look at flowers, flower pressing, and floral arranging, The Modern Flower Press is a vivid collection of pressed flower techniques and the art you can make with them. Explo..
The New York Times bestseller“A clear and concise account of the history, diplomacy, economics, and societal forces that have molded the modern global system.” —Foreign AffairsAn invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone, expert a..
The more than 400 puzzles in this book will give your brain a workout!Modeled after questions on real IQ tests, the puzzles in What’s Your IQ? will test your mental mettle and push your brain to think faster and smarter. Quizzes include topics such as logical deduction, spatial reasoning, ..
Welcome to the biggest race of the year! To the hotshot rookie racer Lightning McQueen, it was everything he had ever worked for. Once McQueen won the Piston Cup, he would get all the fame and fortune he had always dreamed of. To McQueen, this race was all about winning. What is more important, frie..