The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this high-stakes second book in the highly illustrated middle grade Dungeoneer Adventures series following Coop and his friends as they face dangerous rivals looking to get revenge on the academy.Coop Cooperson thought he was settling into life as the only human at Dungeoneer Academy, but no one will even remember his Mushroom Maze victory if he keeps failing Riddles and Runes class. Adding insult to injury is the new ...

The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this third book in the highly illustrated middle grade Dungeoneer Adventures series following Coop and his friends as they sneak along on their professors’ quest to save Eem.Hero dungeoneer Shane Sandar has been missing for weeks, and the professors at Dungeoneer Academy fear the worst: that he’s met a terrible fate at the hands of the villainous exiles. When Coop Cooperson and his best buds on the Green Team discover ...

The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this exciting first book in a highly illustrated middle grade series about the adventures of a boy who’s the only human student at an academy for future explorers.Coop Cooperson lives in the Land of Eem, a fantastical realm where many different species live together and there is always more magic to be discovered by those up to the task. The Dungeoneer Academy trains future explorers with classes like Dungeons and Maze...

This excellent book, newly available in paperback, addresses the growing dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal post-Washington consensus. The concern of the contributors in writing this collection was that this consensus has established itself as a new orthodoxy, more powerful and widespread than its predecessor. This broad-ranging critique explains that without a much broader political economy the consensus is unlikely to provide a coherent framework for successful development policies.

The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this third book in the middle grade Dungeoneer Adventures series following Coop and his friends as they sneak along on their professors’ quest to save Eem.Hero dungeoneer Shane Sandar has been missing for weeks, and the professors at Dungeoneer Academy fear the worst: that he’s met a terrible fate at the hands of the villainous exiles. When Coop Cooperson and his best buds on the Green Team discover their professors ar...

The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this exciting first book in a highly illustrated middle grade series about the adventures of a boy who’s the only human student at an academy for future explorers.Coop Cooperson lives in the Land of Eem, a fantastical realm where many different species live together and there is always more magic to be discovered by those up to the task. The Dungeoneer Academy trains future explorers with classes like Dungeons and Maze...

The Last Kids on Earth gets a fantasy twist in this high-stakes second book in the highly illustrated middle grade Dungeoneer Adventures series following Coop and his friends as they face dangerous rivals looking to get revenge on the academy.Coop Cooperson thought he was settling into life as the only human at Dungeoneer Academy, but no one will even remember his Mushroom Maze victory if he keeps failing Riddles and Runes class. Adding insult to injury is the new ...

The final novel from Spain's most acclaimed writer, a novel about a charismatic half-Spanish, half-English man who is recruited by British intelligence • “Marías’s best work.” —El País“Compelling, hypnotic, and exciting at the same time.” —Los Angeles Review of BooksRetired spy Tomás Nevinson—once an agent for the British Secret Service, now living a quiet life in his hometown, Madrid—is approached by his former handler, B...

From the award-winning, internationally best-selling Spanish writer, author of The Infatuations, comes a gripping new novel of intrigue and missed chances--at once a spy story and a profound examination of a marriage founded on secrets and lies.When Berta Isla was a schoolgirl, she decided she would marry Tomás Nevinson--the dashing half-Spanish, half-English boy in her class with an extraordinary gift for languages. But when Tomás returns...

An awe-inspiring tour of bat world by the world’s leading expertWith nearly 1500 species, bats account for more than twenty percent of mammalian species. The most successful and most diverse group of mammals, bats come in different sizes, shapes, and colors, from the tiny bumblebee bat to the giant golden-crowned flying fox. Some bats eat fruit and nectar; others eat frogs, scorpions, or fish. Vampire bats feed on blood. Bats are the only mammals that can fly; thei...

“The Lack of Light is a novel that thrills you, the kind you can't put down. Nino Haratischwili grips you from the first page with an intensity that only great writers can achieve.” —Armando Lucas Correa, author of the internationally bestselling The German Girl“Readers will find [The Lack of Light] irresistible.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A page-turning epic of loss and redemption in the...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE“An intimate story from the family archive that is also the infamous history of our continent.”—Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children ArchiveAward-winning Peruvian journalist Gabriela Wiener delivers her stunning English breakthrough in this ""appealingly raw"" (NPR) and ""incisive"" (Publishers Weekly) work of autofiction that explores colonialism through one woman’s fa...