In these 12 short stories, scurrying insects and luminous jellyfish reveal a predatory world of childhood fairy tales, lurking shadows, and unrelenting fevers. Individuals are swallowed up by cities and bogs in a celebration of nature and humanity, in all their terrifying glory. Throughout, Clerson draws—and blurs—the lines between man and beast, life and death, as characters strive to see out the night. PRAISE FOR TO SEE OUT THE NIGHT “David Clerson is one of the best-kept secrets in Queb...

Harlan Ellison, Richard Christian Matheson, Connie Willis, and many more contribute to a compelling psychological exploration of the many shades of love.World Fantasy Award–Winning EditorAn incubus disguised as a high school girl puts a disturbing spin on the teacher/student fantasy. An engineer creates a robot with unexpected consequences during the end of the world. A man becomes the pet of alien invaders. From stories of aliens in other ...

Did you know that Gorillas can catch human colds? or that cows from different regions moo in different accents? This fantastic quick-read eBook features 101 amazing facts split into categories such as record breakers, creepy crawlies, gross facts, primates and many more. So if you want to know what the fastest animal in the water is, or the disgusting thing a hoopoe bird does to scare away predators, then this is the book for you! Find the information you want, fast!

**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERTHRUST IS:“Epic.” –The New York Times“A triumph.” —Elle“Stunningly beautiful.” —The Daily Beast“Both of the moment and utterly timeless.” —Chicago Review of Books“A book to take in wide-eyed.” —Rebecca MakkaiNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POSTAs rising waters—and an encroaching police state—endanger her life and family, a girl with t...

Steve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures.Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including br...

Adventurous essays by Meghan Daum, Paul Theroux, Sarah Moss, and many more, selected by New York Times–bestselling author Padma Lakshmi."The beauty of good writing is that it transports the reader inside another person's experience in some other physical place and culture," writes Padma Lakshmi in her introduction, "and, at its best, evokes a palpable feeling of being in a specific moment in time and space." The essays in this edition of The Be...

OK, let's face it. Some things that animals do can be totally gross and disgusting. Here are some of the best, or should we say the worst, things that animals do.Find out how one lizard attacks its prey with blood.How do owls poop?What happens to roadrunner babies who don't gain weight fast enough?And why do cows lick their noses when they eat?Discover these disgusting facts, and more in this 15-minute book.LearningIsland.com believes in the valu...

Nineteen leading literary writers from around the globe offer timely, haunting first-person reflections on how climate change has altered their lives—including essays by Lydia Millet, Alexandra Kleeman, Kim Stanley Robinson, Omar El Akkad, Lidia Yuknavitch, Melissa Febos, and moreIn this riveting anthology, leading literary writers reflect on how climate change has altered their lives, revealing the personal and haunting consequences of this global threat.I...

How many lenses does a dragonfly's eye have?Which is bigger, an eagle's eye or a human's?How many eyes does a scallop have?How do lizards keep their eyes wet?Animal eyes can be really strange and wonderful. How much do you know about the eyes of your animal friends? Find out more in this book.LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices t...

The remarkable debut novel from Marek Šindelka, already the recipient of his country's major literary awards for poetry (Jiří Orten Prize) and prose (Magnesia Litera), Aberrant is a multifaceted work that mixes and mashes together a variety of genres and styles to create a heady concoction of crime story, horror story (inspired by the Japanese tradition of kaidan), ecological revenge fantasy, and Siberian shamanism. Nothing is what it seems. What appears to be human is actually a ...

Taking an adventure out into Mother Nature s a great way to relax and enjoy life. But before you can just go out for a twenty mile adventure into the great unknown you need to know what you are doing.Through these pages you will learn 18 of the best tips and tricks that you will need to take your adventure. You will learn the items that you need to pack, how you are supposed to pack your packs and how to handle yourself when you find yourself out in the middle of God’s Country....

Spawn is a braided collection of brief, untitled poems, a coming-of-age lyric set in the Mashteuiatsh Reserve on the shores of Lake Piekuakami (Saint-Jean) in Quebec. Undeniably political, Gill's poems ask: How can one reclaim a narrative that has been confiscated and distorted by colonizers?The poet's young avatar reaches new levels on Nintendo, stays up too late online, wakes to her period on class photo day, and carves her lovers' names into every surface imaginable. En...