Four neurodivergent dogs go to a mystical school and rescue strays in Rio.Dumped at a shelter because their owners don't want "crazy" dogs:● FILBERT, the book nerd basset hound with autism. He's smart and resourceful, but his obsessive worrying and compulsive chewing always land him in the doghouse.● HAZEL, the party girl chihuahua with ADHD. She's peppy and fun, but so distractible that she's always losing her keys.● MEG, the audacious blue heeler with ange...

Moving Pictures opens the door to cinema's first thrilling decades, when the new art was still being invented and every image seemed to promise a discovery. From zoetropes and praxinoscopes to cameras, projectors, studios, and theaters, it traces how motion was made visible, turning playful optical tricks into the foundations of film. At once history, handbook, and celebration, the book ranges from early pioneers and grand picture plays to scientific cinematography, educational films, and ...

The job was simple: find the boy. Bring him back.In a distant galaxy, humanity survives as one species among many, crushed beneath the Council's iron rule. They fled the ruins of the Milky Way, but they brought their vices with them. Crime syndicates. Corruption. Violence. The old sins repeating cycles of destruction.Now a crime lord's son has vanished, and a bounty hunter takes an unwilling contract to find him. Just another job. Just another mark. Until he finds the boy.

The Journey East is a rich and practical resource, drawing upon the deep wells of the spirituality of the Christian East, by one rooted in the monastic life of the Christian West showing how to breathe with both lungs of the Christian tradition. Arranged as a thirty-six-day itinerary with meditations on different aspects of the spiritual journey, each ending with questions inviting further reflection so that what is offered is made part of our own life and practice, we are led deeper into ...

When I Grow Up... is a playful and heartfelt children's story about the big question every child faces: What will I be when I grow up? As two imaginative children explore exciting possibilities, from firefighter and influencer to astronaut, scientist, teacher, doctor, and beyond, they discover that every dream comes with its own adventures and challenges. Through humor, imagination, and plenty of changing minds, the story reminds children that they don't have to have their whole future fig...

Apex Investigator Dylan is just the man for the job when a werefox comes to the agency needing help after the murder of a client. He has no idea what a can of worms he's opening when his boss assigns him the case, though.Ever since finding the dead body of one of his clients, foxy Rey Mercier's life is a mess, and he needs help desperately. He has no idea why he's the target a ruthless killer, and he hopes Dylan and his motley crew of shifters at Apex Investigations can help him fi...

Owner of the Devil's Playground, a gaming establishment and pleasure club, Rys Grey has given up ties with his aristocratic family after a falling out with his father. His brother Owen is the marquess now, and Rys is happy with his life, running his club and staying out of family politics. At least until an old family friend arrives to tell him his brother has been killed.Lucian Fitzwilliam has been friends with Rys's older brother since childhood, and when Owen is killed, he fears...

An American agent in India follows a Russian conspiracy into caves under the hills, where a woman who claims to be nine hundred years old keeps a treasure and an army. Mundy had worked in India and East Africa before he wrote, and his intrigue novels are unusually honest about who the empire's servants actually were. The caves are a pulp invention; the politics around them are not. Fifty plates by painters including Vereshchagin and David Roberts follow the caravan roads, hill temples and ...

The Arabian desert after the Great War: a sheikh who has made himself master of Petra and the rock city, an American, and a British officer who must decide whether the Lion is a bandit or a king. Mundy was born William Gribbon, spent his twenties in India and East Africa as an ivory poacher and confidence man and was jailed for it, then reinvented himself in America as a writer of the East. The disreputable past is why the desert reads true. Fifty-one plates range from David Roberts to Edv...

Two houses in an English school fall out over a captaincy, a stolen sum and a boat race, and the quarrel runs the length of a year. Talbot Baines Reed knew his ground: he wrote for "The Boy's Own Paper" when it had half a million readers. The plot is a mechanism for putting boys in situations where honesty costs them something, and it works because the cost is always specific. Fifty-nine plates after painters including David Wilkie and James Holland carry the school story through public oc...

A British secret service officer and a warrior princess in the Khyber at the outbreak of the First World War, with a jihad being got up behind the passes. Mundy had lived in India and the politics of the frontier are the real subject. This edition adds a gallery of 48 plates, among them paintings by William Simpson and Inglis Sheldon-Williams, alongside 12 in-text illustrations restored and coloured for this printing.

Asoka is the tallest elephant in captivity, and only Quorn, an ex-taxi-driver from Philadelphia, can manage him. In the princely state of Narada, close to Rajputana, carnival month is the one time of year the town lets itself go mad, and palace intrigue in the Ranee's household, the old art of Thuggee and a Ranee who disappears all end up depending on an elephant nobody else dares to handle. Mundy knew India and wrote adventure with the politics left in. Fifty-seven plates of painting by D...