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A funny and fresh holiday picture book from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jory John starring a rock-loving lizard who has no interest in being the hero of a Christmas story.This is NOT a Christmas book.Just so you know.Just so we’re clear.This is a book about rocks.But . . . wait. Hold on. Why is there an elf behind that piece of granite over there? And what are those reindeer doing? And who’s this guy with a twinkle in his eye? Santa?!Maybe this isn’t a book about rocks after all.Will a very serious, rock-loving lizard be able to find his holiday spirit?This laugh-out-loud picture book from #1 New York Times–bestselling author Jory John and award-winning illustrator Pierre Collet-Derby will bring some extra sparkle (and giggles) to the most wonderful time of the year.

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An exuberant picture book about a Black boy with big dancing dreams who learns the meaning of courage and community.It’s the weekend, first in June;speaker’s blasting out big tune!Cousins, aunties, uncles, friends,pack the house and fun begins.Shane is shy, but loves to dance―and all year long, he’s picked up cansto earn some money toward his goal:high-tops with a pump-up sole.But then the speaker blows―it’s done!Will this stop his family’s fun?Can Shane come through to save the dayand bring back Big Tune Saturday?Set a vibrant Caribbean-American neighborhood and told to a rhythmic beat, Big Tune is a story of Black-boy joy that touches on determination, the confidence to express who you are, selflessness, and community gratitude.

In this fifth installment in Allan Drummond’s picture book sequence about green living, a village in Japan takes a stand against its throwaway past and shows that it really does take a village to make sustainable change.Kamikatsu, Japan, is known worldwide for its sanitation innovations. This small community of 1,700 people is leading the way in recycling and upcycling, and has nearly achieved its goal of zero waste. Told in Allan Drummond’s energetic, informal narrative style, this is the story of a group of citizens who dared to break out of their comfort zone and make radical change for the good of their town and the planet. Through the eyes of two children visiting their grandmother, this inspiring addition to Allan's acclaimed series about everyday communities inventing exciting new approaches to green living shows that working together for a common cause has an impact that is lasting, meaningful―and fun

This funny and adorable picture book is a clever retelling of "The Three Little Pigs"―starring guinea pigs!A laugh-out-loud retelling of "The Three Little Pigs," perfect for fans of fairy tales and guinea pigs alike. This clever story by prolific children's book author Erica S. Perl makes a perfect read-aloud and includes nonfiction back matter with additional fun facts about guinea pigs.Our story follows three guinea pig sisters as they leave home to make it on their own, but their plans of living happily ever after are endangered by a hungry fox. However, these sisters won't give up so easily. They work together in a way only guinea pigs can to outsmart the fox and save the day.

A rollicking picture book that celebrates finding warmth and shelter during a springtime storm.This is the lair the bears shared. This is the hair that came from the lair the bears shared. This is the bird that borrowed the hair from the lair, to built a nest for its family, in a tall-tall tree in the big wide forest, with branches that thrashed in thunder that crashed . . . and the animals that find home, and each other, among it all!With rhythmic text by Kim Norman and adorable artwork by David Walker, The Bears Shared is a great read-aloud for animal lovers, nature enthusiasts, and children and grownups with love to share.

This joyful picture book by a Korean American author/illustrator shows a little girl sharing the fun customs of Seollal―the Koaren Lunar New Year―with her classmates.A fun and informative celebration of Seollal, the Korean Lunar New Year!Seollal is Mina's favorite day of the year. She can't wait to show her classmates her hanbok and make tteokguk in the cooking room. Even her little brother, who wants to wear his shark shirt, not his hanbok, eventually joins in on the fun. This sweet window into Seollal offers a fresh perspective on the holiday while celebrating diversity and cultural acceptance.With backmatter including a glossary of Korean terms with pronunciation guide, this book is perfect for the classroom. In addition, the United States. is home to the largest South Korean immigrant population in the world, setting up TOMORROW IS NEW YEAR DAY to be a backlist staple for the holiday season.

A contemporary YA debut, with magical realism elements, about an Afghan-Uzbek girl who confronts the ghosts of her immigrant family’s past, inspired by the Afghan-Uzbek author's own history.Sixteen-year-old Sara is reeling from her parents' impending divorce when she first stumbles upon a haunting apparition of her grandmother in a house her family is renovating. Except her grandmother is still alive, though as her beloved Bibi Jan's dementia progresses, it feels that she is less present with each day.As Sara desperately clings to the living memories in the house, her huge Afghan-Uzbek family's secrets and her grandmother's complicated history begin to rise to the surface. But she knows she’ll have to face the present eventually, no matter how much it hurts to leave her grandmother's younger self behind―that is, if the house lets her leave at all.

This adorable nonfiction picture book is about the language of dogs and how we humans can better understand them.If you watch very closely . . . you’ll see your pup talk! Dogs are communicating with us all the time―even without words, they can tell us that they want to play, get scritches, or say I love you! From sniffers and ears to muzzles and rears, from tail wags to tongue flicks and everything in between . . . what is your pup trying to say?This rollicking rhyming picture book by Kersten Hamilton, with lively illustrations from Lili Chin, explores all the ways that dogs express themselves, perfect for pup lovers of all ages.

Written by New York Times–bestselling author Dashka Slater, this is the third hilarious book in the award-winning Escargot picture book series, in which Escargot celebrates Snailentine's Day; perfect for―but not limited to―Valentine's Day!Bonjour! Escargot is back, with a magnifique beret and a special invitation.Today is Snailentine's Day, and Escargot is on his way to a party. Will his Snailentine be there? Maybe he will find another snail who also likes to read books and eat salad with a light vinaigrette.But when he arrives at the party, Escargot is greeted not by a snail, but by a vole. Mon dieu! This is not a Snailentine's Day party at all. It is a Volentine's Day party! At first, Escargot wants to hide in his shell, but in the end, he finds a surprising new friend.

In his author-illustrator debut, David Walker (illustrator of the If Animals Kissed Good Night series, with nearly two million copies sold) crafts a sweet and reassuring story about how the best place to be is always together.If you could be a different kind of you, what would you wish to be? A monkey in a tree? Would you be a fluffy fox? A slow-moving sloth? Or maybe, if you had the choice, you wouldn’t be different at all . . . because maybe, right here with the ones you love is the best place in the world to be.Written and illustrated in David Walker's beloved adorable style, this story about the everlasting bonds of love is sure to be a modern classic.

A cozy, heartfelt picture book about the search to find just the right books to gift loved ones on Christmas Eve―based on a real Icelandic tradition.The northern lights dance, snow blankets the ground, it’s the Christmas season―so the Book Flood begins!People plan and they dream, and they visit the shops for books to give loved ones, and families, and friends. And when Christmas Eve comes, they’ll share magical stories, curl up by the fire, and read, read, read, read . . .This lovely and lyrical picture book, based on a real Icelandic tradition, brings all the sparkle and anticipation of Christmas―and the joys of reading―to the page.

For fans of Elizabeth Wein and Ruta Sepetys, an absorbing, fast-paced YA debut novel about a girl’s determination to survive, and save her best friend, during the Nazi siege of Leningrad.In a city ruled by hunger, the black market is Liza’s lifeline, where she sells or steals whatever she can get her hands on just for enough food to survive. Morality, after all, has become a fluid thing during the brutal year her city has been under siege. But when Liza's best friend proposes that they go to the secret police, rumored to give young women food in exchange for "entertainment," Liza thinks there surely must be some other way. Then her friend disappears, and Liza devises a plan to find her, entangling herself with two dangerous young men―one a member of the secret police, the other forced to live underground―and discovering there are some lines that should never be crossed.

A real-life technological thriller about a band of eccentric misfits taking on the biggest cybersecurity threats of our time.Scattered across the world, an elite team of computer experts are working tirelessly on your behalf. If you’ve been lucky (or careful), you’ve probably never heard of them. But if you’ve downloaded a fraudulent email attachment or worked for a hospital or municipal government, chances are you’re familiar with the team’s sworn enemy: ransomware, and the shadowy networks of hackers and criminal gangs who use it to extort money from those whose computers they infect.The Ransomware Hunting Team is the incredible true story of a ragtag band of “white hat”―or good-guy―hackers who use their extraordinary skills to help victims of this fast-proliferating form of cybercrime. Working in their free time from bedrooms and back offices, they offer their services pro bono to people whom the FBI and other law enforcement agencies are unwilling, or more often powerless, to help.

A selection of luminous, fiercely intelligent verse from Egypt's premier poet. Iman Mersal is Egypt's--and indeed the Arab world's--great outsider poet. Over the past three decades, she has crafted a voice that is ferocious and tender, street-smart and vulnerable. Her early work captures the energies of Cairo's legendary literary boh鋗e, peopled by "Lovers of hashish and awkward confessions / Anti-state agitators" and "People like me." These are poems of wit and rage, freaked by moments of sudden beauty, like "the scent of guava" mysteriously wafting through the City of the Dead. Other poems bear witness to agonizing loss and erotic temptation, "the breath of two bodies that never had enough time / and so took pleasure in their mounting terror." Mersal's most recent work addresses itself to the traumas of displacement and migration, as well as the pleasure of crossing boundaries, personal and political, in literature and in life. The Threshold gathers poems from Mersal's first four coll

A magical middle-grade debut about a Filipino girl who ventures into the land of the engkantos, or nature spirits, to save herself and her mother from a sinister fate, written by a Filipino author.Marikit is used to wearing recycled clothes. Her mother, the best seamstress in the barrio, has become an expert at making due ever since Marikit’s father and brother were lost at sea. But for her tenth birthday, all Marikit wants is something new. So when her mother gifts her a patchwork dress stitched together with leftover scraps from her workshop, Marikit vows to never wear it. That is, until the eve of her birthday, when shadow creatures creep into their home and upend the very life she knew.Marikit discovers that her dress is a map, one lovingly crafted to lead her to safety in the magical lands of the engkantos, where Marikit makes friends out of monsters and challenges the gods. With the help of her friends, including an exuberant firefly and a cursed boy, Marikit journeys through the

A laugh-out-loud picture book about a self-proclaimed picky eater of a raccoon―perfect for human picky eaters!Don't look at this raccoon and think she'll eat just anything. Oh, no. She is picky! She's been choosy forever―and listen, it's a tough life. It's not as though the perfect snacks just fall from the sky (except when they do). You've got to work to find the sourest milk, the crunchiest bumblebees, and the most delicious trash. Snacking while picky is a real challenge sometimes . . . but you never know where you'll find the tastiest treats to try!From the gross to the giggle-inducing, I Am Picky is sure to delight even the choosiest of eaters―and readers.

A haunting new book by a poet whose voice speaks of all our lifetimes.The 2020 Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück’s thirteenth book is among her most haunting. Here as in the Wild Iris there is a chorus, but the speakers are entirely human, simultaneously spectral and ancient. Winter Recipes from the Collective is chamber music, an invitation into that privileged realm small enough for the individual instrument to make itself heard, dolente, its line sustained, carried, and then taken up by the next instrument, spirited, animoso, while at the same time being large enough to contain a whole lifetime, the inconceivable gifts and losses of old age, the little princesses rattling in the back of a car, an abandoned passport, the ingredients of an invigorating winter sandwich, a sister’s death, the joyful presence of the sun, its brightness measured by the darkness it casts. “Some of you will know what I mean,” the poet says, by which she means, some of you will follow me. Hers is the sustainin

在詩集和散文之後，2020諾貝爾文學獎得主葛綠珂最不同以往的，精巧卻又恬靜的短篇故事。透過一對未滿一歲的雙胞胎女嬰，Marigold和Rose的感官，感知並探索這個世界。有趣的是，對世界尚無概念的兩人，想法看似迥異卻微妙地互補。葛綠珂藉嬰幼兒的雙眼，提供了一個認知和理解世界的可愛角度。Marigold and Rose is an enchanting, playful, and absolutely singular fable from the Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Louise Glück.“Marigold was absorbed in her book; she had gotten as far as the V.” So begins Marigold and Rose, Louise Glück’s astonishing chronicle of the first year in the life of twin girls. Imagine a fairy tale that is also a multigenerational saga; a piece for two hands that is also a symphony; a poem that is also, in the spirit of Kafka’s Metamorphosis, an incandescent act of autobiography.Here are the elements you’d expect to find in a story of infant twins―Father and Mother; Grandmother and Other Grandmother; bath time and naptime―but more than that, Marigold and Rose is an investigation of the great mystery of language and of time itself, of what is and what has been and what will be. “Outside the playpen there wer

In this middle grade contemporary fantasy by a critically acclaimed author, half-Japanese teen Eliot grieves the loss of her beloved grandma and attempts to contact her beyond the grave.Eliot is mourning Babung, her beloved grandmother who just passed way. She’s less than excited to move to her new house, which smells like lemons and deception, and is searching for a sign, any sign, that ghosts are real. Because if ghosts are real, it means she can find a way back to Babung.When Eliot chases the promise of paranormal activity to Honeyfield Hall, she finds her proof of spirits. But these ghosts are losing their memory, stuck between this world and the next, waiting to cross over. With the help of Hazel, the granddaughter of Honeyfield's owner, Eliot attempts to uncover the mystery behind the hall and the ghosts residing within. As Eliot fits the pieces together, she may just be able to help herself hold on to Babung's memory, while restoring the spirits' memories as well.

A bestselling author’s innovative history of the civil rights movement, stressing its unexpected affinities with military strategy and lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world.When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, she set the struggle for racial justice in America on a new and momentous course. Why did the civil rights movement in its heyday succeed in expanding rights and galvanizing a nation? And what lessons can today’s nonviolent activists learn from its practitioners’ strategies, tactics, and decisions made at key junctures?In Waging a Good War, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Thomas E. Ricks presents new insight into America’s defining social justice campaign, using the unlikely prism of military history and thought. He deftly follows Martin Luther King Jr. and other key figures from one campaign to another, demonstrating that the philosophy of nonviolence was an active and even aggressive method of confronting foes and achieving victory. I

A warm, inspiring picture book biography of author Madeleine L’Engle and the making of A Wrinkle in Time, a household favorite for over sixty years!When Madeleine L'Engle was very small, she marvelled at the stars. They guided her throughout her life, making her feel part of a big and exciting world, even when she felt alone. They made her want to ask big questions―Why are we here? What is my place in the universe?―and let her imagination take flight. Books, too, were like stars―asking questions and proposing answers. Books kept Madeleine company, and soon, she began to write and share her own. But would other people see the wonder she found in the world?Written by Madeleine's granddaughter Charlotte Jones Voiklis and bestselling picture book author Jennifer Adams, A Book, Too, Can Be a Star follows the life of one of the world's greatest creators―and gives children encouragement to lead a creative, inquisitive life.

For fans of I Am Golden, an empowering picture book about a South Asian girl who recognizes the beauty of her own brown skin as she finds and collects beautiful brown things during a walk in the woods―by an award-winning South Asian author!Brown is beautiful.On a hike with her grandparents, a young Indian-American girl makes note of all the things in the wilderness that are brown, too. From a nurturing mother bear, to the steadiness of deep twisting roots, to the beauty of a wild mustang, brown is everywhere! On her way, the girl collects the beautiful brown things she encounters as mementos for a scrap book to share with a very special new addition to her family―a baby brother.Brown is you.Brown is me.Here is an uplifting, tender exploration of beauty, joy, and self-love, with playful illustrations by rising star and South Asian illustrator Noor Sofi.

With more than 150,000 copies sold, this award-winning chapter book series starring a spunky Japanese American heroine returns with four new standalone books set on a family vacation in Japan!Toothbrush? Check. Her special journal? Check! Eight-year-old Jasmine is ready to dive into a new adventure on her family vacation to Japan. There are so many things to see in Tokyo: Ramen Street, which she learns is not a whole street made of ramen; old temples with fancy gates; and Tokyo Tower, where you can even spot Mount Fuji on a good day.But Jasmine is distracted by her older sister Sophie’s crabby attitude. Plus there's so much about Japan she didn't know, and she seems to be getting in trouble right and left. Will Jasmine be able to cheer up her sister AND find her footing in a new country?With her trademark humor and warmth, Debbi Michiko Florence weaves family drama and a fun introduction to Japanese culture into this delightful next chapter in Jasmine's world.

An unconventional, searching, and intimate conversation with the revered musician Nick Cave.Nick Cave is a singular artist whose music contains multitudes―from the boozy pop punk of his early years, to the swaggering goth rock that brought him global acclaim, to some of the most moving love songs ever written. Following the tragic death of his fifteen-year-old son five years ago, he stopped doing longer interviews, retreating into the persona he’d spent a lifetime crafting. But in March 2020, when his international tour was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, he made an exception―agreeing to speak on the record to his longtime friend the Observer journalist Sean O’Hagan.Faith, Hope, and Carnage is the outcome of these conversations. Intimate, profound, and ruthlessly honest, it takes a long look at the subjects that haunt Cave, and so many of us: love, violence, art, aging, terrible loss, and the divine. It is more than an interview―it is a philosophical reckoning, a revelatory p

A propulsive, gripping new novel about fate, art, exploitation, and intimacy by the award-winning author of Where Reasons End.Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised―the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story.As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they’d built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves―until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic trajectory through fame, fortune, and terrible loss.A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where Agnès can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li.