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A charming and witty Passover story all about kindness, community, tradition, and forgiveness, that makes the perfect read along with family! A little mouse disrupts a town's preparations for the holiday when it steals a piece of leavened bread-or chometz-just as all the houses have been swept clean in time for the holiday. It's the morning before the start of Passover, and all the villagers have swept their homes clean of leavened bread, in keeping with the traditions of the holiday. Suddenly, a small mouse steals a piece of bread and tears through the town, spoiling everyone's hard work. But just when it seems as if the townsfolk will never be ready for their Seder, the little mouse's actions unwittingly bring everyone together, to work as a group to save the holiday. Jewish families at Passover will embrace this rollicking, funny, and ultimately inspiring story-based on an original tale from the Talmud-that weaves together the themes of community, kindness, charity, and forgiveness. It's sure to become a modern holiday classic that's shared year after year among the generations. An afterword discusses the story from the Talmud that the author used as her inspiration and includes a glossary of terms that will be useful to young readers. ★ "An excellent addition to the Jewish tradition."-Kirkus, starred review

Got a problem? Having a tough day? Maybe you need . . . EMERGENCY KITTENS!!!!!Who needs boring ol' superheroes who leap giant buildings and run faster than locomotives when your day can be saved by the cuddly, super-cute, full-on feline charm of Mimi, Twee-Twee, and Adorbs, aka EMERGENCY KITTENS!!!Meet the EMERGENCY KITTENS, a trio of furry, gentle superheroes who come to the rescue with their incredible cuteness when the going gets tough. When bullies steal Sheldon's ball in the playground, a pack of your usual, everyday, human caped crusaders leaps to the rescue. But when their showy feats of strength and agility fail to impress, some real heroes step in to save the day: EMERGENCY KITTENS!!! With their unending cuteness and unforgivably adorable purrs, this mighty trio of fluffy goodness turns any sticky situation into one of pure cuddles.Pages of silly, good-natured giggles await any kid who loves superheroes, cats, or really funny read-alouds. And parents and teachers will like the gentle way this story subtly teaches that kindness and cuddles can often solve a problem that strength and muscle cannot.And reviewers love the EMERGENCY KITTENS!"These kitties will win hearts with a glossy-eyed glance."-Kirkus"radiant preciousness. . . . Even hardened skeptics will fall to helpless babbling at each glimpse of the fuzzy felines gamboling through Mottram's bright suburban scenes."-Booklist"A winning, child-pleasing combo: superheroes and fuzzy kittens. In this Batman-meets-Fluffy tale of rescue, the Emergency Kittens bound off the page and come out victorious."-BookPage

"It's an incredible honor to be included in this amazing book of the greatest talent the Broadway stage has ever known!"-AUDRA McDONALD, six-time Tony Award-winning actressFrom Audra McDonald to Liza with a "Z," here is a showstopping alphabet book featuring your favorite leading ladies of the Broadway stage!Step into the spotlight and celebrate a cavalcade of Broadway's legendary ladies. Start with "A" for six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, then sing and dance your way through the alphabet with beloved entertainers like Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Lea Salonga, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O'Hara, and Liza Minnelli! Broadway fans and theater lovers everywhere will give a standing ovation to this one-of-a-kind tribute full of toe-tapping rhymes, with illustrations as bright and beautiful as the shining lights on any marquee.THE RAVE REVIEWS ARE IN FROM THE STARS THEMSELVES! A wonderful, enriching, enlightening book for theater lovers of all ages . . . and all that jazz!"-CHITA RIVERA, two-time Tony Award-winning actress (The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman)"A to Z-awesome to zany-I'm thrilled to be a part of such an illustrious group."-CHRISTINE EBERSOLE, two-time Tony Award-winning actress (42nd Street, Grey Gardens)"I'm so honored to be included among these fierce ladies-brought to life with such fun illustrations-in this wonderful book for little divas like my own!"-LEA SALONGA, Tony Award-winning actress (Miss Saigon)"A is for Audra turns the alphabet song into a show stopper! It is literally a love letter to Broadway's leading ladies, and I am so honored to be memorialized alongside all of my sisters!"-RENÉE ELISE GOLDSBERRY, Tony Award-winning actress (Hamilton)"I'm honored to be included in this illustrious group. A to Z, they are all incredible!"-KRISTIN CHENOWETH, Tony Award-winning actress (You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown)"What a fun and fabulous celebration of the females of Broadway! Imagine my joy just to be a part of it!"-KELLI O'HARA, Tony Award-winning actress (The King and I)"H is also for honored-because that's what I am to be included in this beautiful book. I can't wait to show my kids and tell them of all the brilliant leading ladies who have graced the Broadway stage." -HEATHER HEADLEY, Tony Award-winning actress (Aida)AND CRITICS LOVE IT TOO! "Women of the Broadway theater take center stage in this loving homage. . . . A lively introduction to a whole new cast of heroines."-Kirkus"this is a book all kids (and many adults) will enjoy as they learn about and fall in love with the theatre."-Playbill.com

Youngsters can discover a world beneath the waves, with graceful sea horses, darting tropical fish, electric eels, and humpback whales in this delightful, innovative picture book with peek-through holes that reveal details of life in the ocean with each turn of the page. Full color.

Wordy Birdy and her pals are back, in a hilarious new story with a truly ridiculous villain-from beloved author Tammi Sauer.Wordy Birdy and her pals are heading on a camping trip, and our favorite chatty bird is all ready for a big night under the stars. ("I brought pickles and bean burritos and more pickles and mashed potatoes and some pickles and . . .") But the friends soon find themselves in hot water when the dastardly Mr. Cougarpants stalks their campsite. Can Wordy Birdy talk them all out of this pickle? Grab your pack, grill up a s'more, and find out! Author Tammi Sauer (Chicken Dance, Nugget & Fang) will keep young readers and their parents giggling with this funny, chatty, boisterous adventure about the importance of listening AND the importance of speaking up for your friends!An ILA-CBC Children's Choice Book!Praise for Wordy Birdy Meets Mr. Cougarpants:"everyone can share a laugh."-Kirkus"Interspersing the narrative text with plenty of speech balloons and occasional questions for the audience, Sauer creates a story that's fun for reading aloud to young children."-Booklist Praise for Wordy Birdy:"laugh-out-loud funny . . . caregivers will certainly find this chuckleworthy."-Kirkus"amusing and entertaining"-School Library Journal"an entertaining approach to the topic of listening."-Booklist

Newitz's brilliantly speculative and hopeful work of popular science focuses attention on humanity's long history of dodging the bullet of extinction--and suggests practical ways to keep doing it.

"For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Growing up in the Colombia of the 1980's and 1990's in a house where "what did you dream?" was asked in place of "how are you?" her world was laced with prophecy and violence. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with the ability to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. As a young girl, Rojas Contreras eavesdropped on her mother's fortune-telling business from the stairs and waited eagerly for the moments when Mami appeared in two places at once. She was accustomed to "letting the ghosts in." So when Ingrid, now living in the U.S., suffered a head injury in her 20's that left her with amnesia-an accident eerily similar to a fall that had put her mother in a coma at the age of 8, from which she woke with not just amnesia, but the ability to see ghosts--the family assumes "the secrets" have finally been passed down to the next generation. But as Ingrid recovers her memories, they don't come with supernatural abilities. Rather, she is consumed by a powerful urge to learn even more about her heritage than she knew before the accident. Spurred by a shared dream among Mami and her sisters, wherein Nono communicates that he is unable to rest peacefully in the afterlife, Ingrid joins her mother on a journey home to Colombia to disinter her grandfather's remains. With her mother as her unpredictable, stubborn and often hilarious guide, Ingrid traces her lineage back to her indigenous and Spanish roots, uncovering the violent and rigid colonial narrative that would eventually break her family into two camps: those who believe "the secrets" are a gift, and those who are convinced they are a curse. Interweaving family stories more enchanting than any novel, resurrected Colombian history, and her own deeply personal reckonings with the bounds of reality, Rojas Contreras writes her way through the incomprehensible and into her inheritance. The result is a luminous testament to the power of storytelling as a healing art and an invitation to embrace the extraordinary"--

"The pieces in this work originally appeared in a slightly different form in The New Yorker"--Copyright page.

"A harrowing narrative of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-understood stowaway--Covid-19--days before the world shut down in March, 2020. In early 2020, the world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading on different continents, and no one knew what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the cruise ship Zaandam, owned by Holland America, was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires, Argentina, loaded with 1,200 passengers--Americans, Europeans and South Americans, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over the age of 65. There was concern about the virus on the news, and it had already killed and sickened passengers on other Holland America ships. But that was oceans away, and escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line had said the voyage (three weeks around the South American coastline to see some of the most world's most stunning natural wonders and ancient ruins) would carry on as scheduled, with no refunds. And it would be safe. Cabin Fever is a riveting narrative thriller, taking readers behind the scenes of the ship's complex workings, and below decks into the personal lives of passengers and crew who were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. There is a retired American school superintendent on a dream vacation with his wife of 56 years, on a personal quest to see Machu Picchu. There is an Argentine psychologist taking this trip to celebrate her 64th birthday with her husband, though she finds herself fretting in her cabin on Day One, trying to dismiss her fears of what she's hearing on the news. There is an Indonesian laundry manager who's been toiling on Holland America cruise ships for thirty years, sending his monthly paycheck to his family back home. Within days, people aboard Zaandam begin to fall sick. The world's ports shut down. Zaandam becomes a top story on the news and is denied safe harbor everywhere. With only two doctors aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat Covid-19, and with dwindling food and water, the ship wanders the oceans on an unthinkable journey"--

"A wise old dog contemplates the limitless world of imagination through a window."--

"[O]riginally published in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by George H. Doran Company, New York, in 1922"--Copyright page.

The bestselling Hello, World! board book series expands into picture books, for Hello, World! kids who are ready for the next step.Kids who love sharks will enjoy this lively, fact-filled, illustrated tour of the world's oceans, with engaging information on every page:  •  Fascinating details about favorite sharks, from whale sharks to mini sharks, plus information about prehistoric sharks, shark relationships with other animals, and careers helping sharks that kids can aspire to.  • Statistics about each shark, with information about size, location, swimming speed, lifespan, and more.  •  A question on each page that asks the reader to think about sharks in relation to themselves, such as "If you were a shark, what kind of tail would you want?" and "What ways can you think of to help protect sharks?"Hello, World! readers who have moved up to picture books and any kids who love science and ocean creatures will find many captivating hours of learning and inspiration in the launch of this exciting new series.

"A kids' guide to the planets in our solar system"--

"The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation, by a groundbreaking journalist at the New York Times Magazine"--

"This celebration of twins posits the magical idea that twins are made of stardust, floating sweetly in the celestial heavens until they find each other and are called to Earth to meet their family"--

Books are signed and numbered, with printed endpapers, foil stamping, a cloth slipcase, and a ribbon marker.#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham returns to Mississippi in his most gripping thriller yet. Grisham takes his powerful storytelling to the next level, his trademark twists and turns will keep you tearing through the pages until the stunning conclusion.

"A bunny tries to convince a wolf there are no bunnies around, while bunny after bunny hops into the scene"--

"An economist takes on the most urgent social issue of our time, exploring the evolution of the global loneliness crisis, the sweeping impact of social isolation during the coronavirus, and the opportunities a post-Covid world presents to reverse these trends-by finding new ways to reconnect with each other, our communities, and even our democracy"--

"In the newest entry into the Nero Award-winning Parker & Pentecost Mystery series ("my new favorite sleuthing duo"-- Sarah Weinman, The New York Times Book Review), Lillian and Will are hot on the trail of a serial killer whose murders are stranger than fiction. New York City, 1947: For years, Holly Quick has made a good living off of murder, filling up the pages of pulp detective magazines with gruesome tales of revenge. Now someone is bringing her stories to life and leaving a trail of blood-soaked bodies behind. With the threat of another murder looming, and reluctant to go to the police, Holly turns to the best crime-solving duo in or out of the pulps, Willowjean "Will" Parker and her boss, famed detective Lillian Pentecost. The pair are handed the seemingly-impossible task of investigating three murders at once without tipping off the cops or the press that the crimes are connected. A tall order made even more difficult by the fact that Will is already signed up to spend her daylight hours undercover as a guileless secretary in the hopes of digging up a lead on an old adversary, Dr. Olivia Waterhouse. But even if Will is stuck in pencil skirts and sensible shoes, she's not about to let her boss have all the fun. Soon she's diving into an underground world of people obsessed with murder and the men and women who commit them. Can the killer be found in the Black Museum Club, run by a philanthropist whose collection of grim murder memorabilia may not be enough to satisfy his lust for the homicidal? Or is it Holly Quick's pair of editors, who read about murder all day, but clearly aren't telling the full story? With victims seemingly chosen at random and a murderer who thrives on spectacle, the case has the great Lillian Pentecost questioning her methods. But whatever she does, she'd better do it fast. Holly Quick has a secret, too and it's about to bring death right to Pentecost and Parker's doorstep"--

"Banwo's When we were birds is a mythic love story set in contemporary Trinidad & Tobago about two young outsiders brought together by their connection with the dead."--