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Have you ever wondered if youd still be loved if you were a worm? This quirky, rhyming picture book for children ages 3-7 celebrates the unconditional love between parent and child. Features fun, full-color illustrations!Would you still love me if I was a worm?Id live in the mud--just look at me squirm!Join the young narrator in this humorous, quirky picture book that celebrates the unconditional love between parent and child. A child asks their parent if they will still love them even if they were a worm, a troll, a fungus, and more wacky animals and objects. And of course, Mom says yes every time!Charming, full-color illustrations bring this sweet story to life, while the rhyming text and question-and-answer format makes this the perfect book for reading aloud. Children who love to ask strange questions--and the adults who have to come up with the answers--will giggle at the humorous text and illustrations, which grow more outlandish by the page!

When a Midwestern high school is mysteriously transported to the middle of an alien wilderness, the students and faculty must build a fragile new society, but lurking forces threaten to unravel their chances of survival in the second book of the GLAAD Awardwinning young adult graphic novel trilogy.Its been over one year since the students and faculty of Bay Point Preparatory High School in suburban Milwaukee, Wisconsin, were suddenly transported countless light years away to the middle of an ancient, primordial wilderness. Despite the chaos of their first year, the students have begun to build a life in this new world, a burgeoning society out of the ruins of their past. But mysterious forces are conspiring to bring it all crashing down. . .Written by New York Times bestseller James Tynion IV (Something is Killing the Children) and illustrated by Michael Dialynas (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wynd), this volume collects the second installment of the critically acclaimed series Scott Snyder (Batman) calls a dark, epic read.Collects The Woods #1324.

Read the third book in the hilarious series that began with the New York Times bestselling The Dragons Apprentice! Adventure and laughs continue as Scorch the dragon and his human apprentice Ciara face the wrath of the Emperor, unravel new secrets and save magic itself.Citizens of the Draconic Empire! Thanks to your beloved Emperor, the criminal Ciara of Skael has been dealt with, in spite of summoning world-ending Revenants. He has also taken the dragon Scorch into his care, in order to free Scorchs mind of any remaining Revenant influence. The Empire is safe!Of course, there are still enemies out there. The Emperors son, Prince Aiden, seems to be acting suspiciously. Could you imagine if the prince was somehow working with Ciara of Skael to find her dragon, and overthrow the Emperor? Thankfully the Emperor would never allow such things to happen.No, instead he will turn his eyes toward an even bigger enemy: the Dragon Mages opposite, a monster masquerading as a human who could destroy magic once and for all. Will even the Emperor be able to defeat such an enemy? Of course, hes the Emperor ... but we might still hide in our beds until its over.

A nuns corpse leads beloved amateur sleuth Flavia de Luce to uncover decades-old secrets in this charming novel in the New York Times bestselling series.I love the Flavia de Luce novels! Flavia is the best female detective Ive ever read, full of realism, self-confidence, and emotion (in roughly equal parts), and her tales are hilarious, engaging, and occasionally heartbreaking.Diana GabaldonIn the cloisters of Golgotha House, a mere binoculars-squint away from Buckshaw, a nun lies dead. When her fellow Sisters prepare her corpse for burial, they discover that their companion has been living a shocking lie for years. The truth about her past, and the dark reasons she harbored for escaping it, are impossible to fathom.Charged with cracking this mystery is the firm of Arthur Dogger & Associates (Discreet investigations)consisting, of course, of the inimitable young Flavia de Luce herself and her faithful partner-in-detection Dogger.Working under the eye of a glowering Mother Superior, Flavia and Dogger must uncover a decades-old crime and a secret that lies an ocean awayalong with a trail of deception that lies closer to home.

A man paralyzed by love and fear. A woman always just out of reach. This time, he swears, he wont let her slip away.

When Colorado football hit rock bottom, Deion Sanders turned Boulder into the center of the college football universe.The University of Colorado has had a proud and successful football team for much of its 135-year history, including a national championship in 1990, but its 2022 season capped a seventeen-year stretch in which the team had posted only two winning seasons, relegating the program to irrelevancy. After 2022s 1-11 record, during which the Buffaloes endured a blow-out nearly every week, the schools leaders called a Hail Mary and offered a huge contract to the flamboyant and garrulous former two-way football wonder Deion Sanders, at the time head coach at Jackson State University. An enigma in the world of college football, in just three years Sanders had taken the Jackson State Tigers from a losing season to back-to-back Southwest Athletic Conference champions.When Sanders accepted Colorados offer the impact was immediate. Before even a down was played, CU quickly sold out its Spring 2023 game, which was broadcast live by ESPN. Season tickets sold out by April, and by the end of 2024 the chronically debt-ridden athletic department budget was running a $9 million surplus. Using deft use of the NCAAs transfer portal, Sanders managed to bring his best players from Jackson State to Colorado, notably his highly talented quarterback son Shadeur. While in his first season with the Buffs the team posted a 4-8 record, the 2024 team improved to 9-4, tied for first place in the Big 12, finished in the top 25 nationally, boasted a Heisman Trophy winner, and graduated two top-10 NFL draft picks. Prime Time in Boulder follows Sanders evolution as a coach, breaks down his time at Colorado, and answers the questions: Can he do it again in 2025? If so, will he be tempted to jump to NFL? Buffaloes beat writer Brian Howell tells the story through exclusive interviews with CU officials, players, and Coach Prime himself.

The definitive book on the Reagan-era defense buildup, written by a Washington insider.In Peace Through Strength, Zakheim examines the largest peacetime military buildup and how it helped defeat the Soviet Union and bring the Cold War to an end. Drawing from President Reagans own words, firsthand accounts from Washington insiders, and archival research, the book explores how sustained military investment, allied confidence, and strategic clarity altered Soviet behavior and restored US credibility on the world stage.Peace through strength became one of the defining strategic insights of the Reagan presidency. President Reagan pursued that strategy despite intense political, economic, and diplomatic oppositionarguing that rebuilding American military strength could help defeat the Soviet Union.This is the first book to tell the full story of how President Ronald Reagan rebuilt American military strengthenabling the United States to win the Cold War without firing a shot. As Zakheim makes clear, the Reagan buildup is not merely a chapter in history. In todays era of renewed great-power competition, Peace Through Strength offers important lessons for restoring deterrence, resolve, and strength.

An illuminating journey through Cherokee history and an ancient tradition that can change how we understand our world. The history of the Cherokee people is an epic story of survival and creativity. A tale usually told through the lens of Cherokee resistance to land-hungry colonists and the removal policy of Andrew Jackson, it is that and so much more. Cherokee history connects us to deep time, to Indigenous environmental knowledge, and the future of a continent.The Water Carriers or ama danhtsisi, in Cherokee is a journey into worlds formed in the mists of time immemorial. Award-winning historian Gregory Smithers transports readers back to forgotten epochs when Southern Appalachias mountains soared as high as the Alps of Europe, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, and ancient oceans receded to make way for rivers. In Southern Appalachia, rivers, which Cherokees called Long Person or Ganvhidv Yuhwee moved the earth and excavated mountains to reveal fertile valleys. Smithers highlights how Long Person drew Cherokees and their Indigenous ancestors to the waters edge where they nurtured an enduring bond with the river. From their first tentative steps in small hunting and gathering bands to bustling aquapelagos communities forged along rivers The Water Carriers is a deeply-researched and elegantly written history that that illuminates the importance of water carrier traditions in Cherokee history. Life is pulsing from the mountaintops to distant seas, and The Water Carriers that reminds us of a simple yet profound and urgent truth: ama gvnida water is life.

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Higher Call, Spearhead, and Devotion comes Tidal Wave, a sweeping new epic set in an untold arena of World War II.Its summer 1943, and the world is on fire.Lieutenant Ernie Poulson, a 22-year-old outdoorsman from Utah, finds himself at the controls of Americas most advanced bomber, the B-24, brought to North Africa for a top-secret mission.On the far side of Europe, Lieutenant Constantin Cantacuzino, Romanias most daring ace, duels Soviet fighters on the Eastern Front while searching for purpose in an unwinnable war.In Nazi-aligned Romania, Princess Catherine Caradja walks a razors edge between loyalty to her country and quiet defiance, as German forces dig-in around the oil refineries in her backyard.And in the royal palace, 22-year-old King Michael of Romaniamocked and sidelined by a Nazi-backed dictatorquietly plots to seize his nations destiny before it is lost forever.In Tidal Wave, Adam Makos brings these lives together in a sweeping saga of courage and survival, set against historys most audacious air raid: the tree-top assault on Hitlers gas station at Ploesti, Romania. What begins in disaster on August 1, 1943, sparks bonds no one could have foreseenalliances between enemiesthat will decide whether these men and women are consumed by war, or seize their chance at escape and redemption.Drawn from years of extensive research and told with Makoss signature cinematic intensity, Tidal Wave will remind you that even in wars darkest hours, humanity has a way of breaking through.

Witchy bookseller + grumpy professor = the perfect romance Lucy Ansari has a magical life. Literally shes a witch, managing a perfect little bookshop. And whenever shes a little lonely, she turns to Charles her beloved, ageing boss to keep her company. Disaster strikes when Charles breaks his hip: his prickly (and gorgeous) grandson Grayson arrives. The English professor from Dublin has never bothered to visit before, but now hes determined to look after Charles and his bookshop, and Lucys ideal life is thrown into disarray. But Grayson is as stubborn as he is handsome, and hes set on winning Lucy over, one way or another. As sparks fly between them, Lucy and Grayson may find themselves spellbound by more than just magic The perfect spicy witch romance to have you hexed this spooky season!

A stunning, soul-stirring, philosophical and political treatise on what liberation for Palestineand all peoplewill look like in the twenty-first century.Palestine is a litmus testthe repercussions of which will go beyond the Middle East, extending outward across the world, argues writer Tareq Baconi. There are only two possible outcomes to the ongoing apartheid and genocide: justice or annihilation. Drawing from Baconis extensive academic and organizing work with Palestinian and international activists, and from decades of long-standing strategies, What Now distills three strategic principles for a free Palestine to guide activists and allies: refuse the prospect of a divided homeland, resuscitate the revolutionary politics of the Palestinian commitment to freedom and justice, and decompose Zionism. Imagining a Free Palestine is not the same as turning back the clock to pre-1948, Baconi writes, but a new struggle for a just future in the aftermath of Zionism--not by fighting Jewish presence in Palestine, but by ending Jewish political exclusivity. A free Palestine would heal the wounds left in the wake of the second world war, by challenging and upturning the colonial and genocidal mindsets that continue to animate Western thoughtthe ramifications of justice would therefore extend far beyond the shores of Palestine. Palestine is the epicenter. The outcome of Palestines fight for freedom will determine the future of the Middle East, and even America: whether the second wave of international decolonization will succeed or fail, whether our world order will move further toward collective freedom or fascism. In the literary tradition of Frantz Fanon, Angela Davis, and Edward Said; perfect for readers of Omar El-Akkad, What Now is a rousing literary manifesto on Palestine and our collective future.

With a wit to rival Matt Dinnimans Dungeon Crawler Carl, action on par with Pierce Browns Red Rising, and the scope of Tamsyn Muirs Gideon the Ninth, Cellos Gate is a rollicking, edge-of-your-seat sci-fi fantasy epic about a ragtag crew of rogues on the hunt for mythic treasure. They did not, however, sign up to save the world.One crew of sky pirates. Seven mythological stones. A race to find them all.Captain Grey and his crew of sky pirates have a reputation for doing the impossible. From breaking into high-security military research facilities to conning the iCity elitethere isnt a lock they cant pick, a safe they cant break, or a hidden treasure they cant find. Until now.Returning from a harrowing heist involving a neon battery and a trash chute, Grey and his crew are approached by Dalia, the immortal daughter of the infamous ArchGovernorand she has an offer.The job? Locate and steal the Stones of Indigoseven fabled rocks invested with godlike power. The search for the first stone is a bona fide treasure hunt, guided by an ancient map to a deadly, uncharted island thats protected by a mysterious guardian. The score? One million credits per crew member, per stone. The catch? Well, thats where things get a little complicated.The stones dont exist. Theyre a myth. A bedtime story told to little pirates to make them believe that power and wealth are attainable if you just work hard enough.And to make matters infinitely worse, Greys never trusted immortals, and Dalias definitely hiding something. Something bad. And if they dont figure out what it is, it might cost them their lives.

Im gonna tell you how its gonna be: a rip-roaring, kaleidoscopic deep dive into the mythos and songs of the Grateful Dead, with over one hundred vibrant, original paintings. A wildly original, audaciously funny tour of the Grateful Dead and the mythical world they built . . . Alexander Pappademas and Joan LeMay brilliantly explore the Deads genius.Rob Sheffield, author of Love Is a Mix TapeFriends of the Devil invites you to plunge headfirst into the dreamworld of the Grateful Dead, where music and myth intertwine and history dissolves like a tab on your tongue. This captivating exploration brings to life not only the songs that have enchanted Deadheads for generations but the stranger-than-fiction stories behind them.The gangs all here: An anonymous female convict in Americas notorious prison and Playboy bunnies on acid. Joseph Campbell and the Zodiac Killer. College revolutionaries lost in the desert and Bob Dylan wandering in out of the cold. In these pages, the abstract epic Dark Star gives shape to a movie gone mad, and Terrapin Station winds its way to Robert Hunters brain from sixteenth-century France via the hollers of Kentucky.With Joan LeMays original paintings breathing fresh new life into the ramshackle, blacklight-ready aesthetic of the Grateful Dead, Friends of the Devil is a rich and rollicking journeya gift for longtime fans and a delightful, informative, and often moving treat for anyone new to the bands wild magic. Join us in revisiting the past, where every page is a step back in time and a ripple in still water, and every story shines like a glimmering stone on the golden road.

The Timber 2 Table Wild Game and Fish Cookbook is a Realtree-branded cookbook created from popular recipes on Realtrees website. The book contains over 80 recipes chosen from the more than 900 recipes published on the Realtree website. Realtree is the worlds leading camouflage and fishing lifestyle designer, marketer, and licensor, with over 1,000 licensed manufacturers utilizing their hunting camo and fishing lifestyle patterns on their products. Thousands of outdoor and lifestyle products are available in Realtree patterns, and their partnerships extend beyond the outdoor hunting and fishing markets. On the lifestyle side, theyve licensed and collaborated with leading brands such as Chevrolet, Nike, Under Armour, Crocs, Skullcandy, Groove Life, GUESS, Vans, Harley-Davidson, Coors Brewing Company, Supreme, Filson, ASRV, and many more. Additionally, they work with some of the countrys leading retailers, including Amazon, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Walmart, Scheels, Sportsmans Guide, Sams Club, and Costco, along with hundreds of department store chains and independent outdoor retailers nationwide. They also sell directly on their website.

Futures imagined by writers at the outer limits of science and storytellingfrom the depths of time to the limits of life.Vaster than Empires is a global anthology of original science fiction stories that explores the philosophical and scientific frontiers of life, intelligence, and temporality. Edited by Jonathan Strahan, this collection gathers award-winning authors to imagine what it means to be alive in futures shaped by synthetic biology, climate change, interstellar migration, and artificial intelligences. These speculative fictions expand the boundaries of both science and story, treating narrative as a tool for planetary thought.The anthology is more than a literary projectit is a companion to an intellectual movement. From Afrofuturist visions of posthuman ecology to eerie meditations on immortality and loss, these stories are unified by an ambition to fuse rigorous speculation with emotional depth. The collection includes original contributions by globally recognized authors like Adrian Tchaikovsky, Wole Talabi, and Aliette de Bodard, alongside rising voices.Commissioned by the Berggruen Institute through its Future Humans initiative

The highly anticipated first book of The Wicked Powers, the final Shadowhunters trilogy! #1 New York Times bestselling author Cassandra Clare brings the saga that began in The Mortal Instruments to a stunning conclusion.Its Drusilla Blackthorns fourth year at Shadowhunter Academy when a chance encounter at a nightclub turns into a kidnapping. Dru finds herself held prisoner by Prince Ash Morgenstern in the land of Faerie, a place that proves just as dangerous as it is beautiful. Despite herself, Dru is drawn to Ash and the darkness that seems to surround himbut one false move could cost her life. Meanwhile, a shocking disappearance rocks the foundations of the Shadowhunter world. Kit Herondale and Ty Blackthorn must set aside the bitterness that lingers between them and join forces on a perilous quest to save everything they cherish.The first installment of the long-awaited concluding trilogy to the Shadowhunter Chronicles has all the nail-biting adventure, heart-pounding romance, and trademark humor that makes Cassandra Clare the reigning queen of YA romantasy.

For fans of Dana Spiottas Wayward and Katie Kitamuras Intimacies we follow Lora, a wildlife refuge worker in South Texas who gets tangled up in a romantic relationship with a much younger male intern.Lora has worked at the wildlife refuge in South Texas for seven years, trapping and studying the elusive Texas ocelot. Interns come and go, but when Ben arrives, something is awakened in Lora that has long been dormant.As Lora and Ben track the beautiful, almost mystical animal, tensions arise on the refuge. Loras boss strategizes about how to turn part of the refuge into a hunting destination; an eccentric artist and rancher pitches an unconventional scheme to help the ocelots; and Lora and Ben make a series of impulsive, inappropriate choices. Along the way, the reader learns about Loras professional and romantic historythe story of a woman dedicated to her careerand is immersed in the world of the ranchlands just above the Texas-Mexico border, home to a distinct mix of species: animal, plant, and human.With sharp prose and subtle humor, critically-acclaimed writer Karen Olsson mines the gulf between youth and middle age and reckons with the ecological disaster of species loss. Her novel illuminates how the things we do to wild animalsisolating them, reducing their habitats, disconnecting them from other groupsare all things we seem to do to ourselves. Brainy, elegant, and deeply engrossing, Dear Thorns is a portrait of a womans idealism in a compromised world.

He was one of the most famous politicians in Americauntil he became one of its most famous prisoners.Once, Rod Blagojevich was governor of Illinois: a creature of headlines, a natural showman, and a man with, by his own telling, a fucking golden political future. Then came the fallan FBI raid at dawn, a national media spectacle, and a one-way trip from the governors mansion to federal prison.What follows is not a quiet tale of disgrace, but a vivid, darkly comic, deeply personal odyssey through power, punishment, and survival.In these pages, Blagojevich takes readers behind bars and into a world at once brutal and bizarre: a world of gang politics, prison hustles, absurd rules, strange codes of honor, unexpected kindness, and men with nicknames like they stepped out of a fever dream. There are bank robbers with better manners than politicians, correctional officers with broken hearts, chow halls run like war zones, and enough gallows humor to make you laugh when you know you probably shouldnt.But at the center of this story is something more intimate and enduring: a fathers longing for his daughters, a husbands devotion to his wife, and the daily struggle to hold on to dignity, faith, and hope in a place built to strip them away. For all its swagger and wisecracks, this is the story of a man measuring time not in years served, but in missed birthdays, prison visits, letters home, and the memory of one last wave goodbye.By turns outrageous, indignant, hilarious, and deeply moving, Framed, F*cked, and Freed is an unforgettable memoir of a political life shattered, a family held at a distance, and a man determined to keep fighting, keep loving, and keep his voice to the very end

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If Gollum, Caesar and Ulysses Klaue could hear Andy Serkis tell his story, would they choose him to play them? This is the question at the heart of his long-awaited memoir.Beginning in a childhood split between Ruislip and Baghdad, Andy Serkis takes us and his characters on a journey through the early influences that shaped him: acting mentors, early roles at a regional repertory theatre, a passion for mountaineering, a desire for film-making and the love story with Lorraine Ashbourne that became the foundation of his life. Then, the call arrives in 1999 that changes everything. Peter Jackson is preparing to make The Lord of the Rings and Andy is asked to audition for the voice of a certain animated character.What follows is an extraordinary behind-the-scenes journey through the fantastical worlds Andy has helped shape The Lord of the Rings, Planet of the Apes, Black Panther, Star Wars and more as he pioneered a new form of performance that would forever redefine the possibilities of cinema.In this book, Andy invites us into a genre-defying conversation between actor and character, imagination and reality, and provides an answer to the question: what would Andys most iconic characters make of the man that brought them to life?