Featuring the award-winning images of photographer Lars van de Goor, Through the Fairy Door is an enchanting tale that follows a young girl on her magical quest through a fairy door, where she discovers that change starts with a tiny seed and no one is too small to make a difference.In a busy, noisy town where everyone is always rushing about, there is a little girl named Willow. She sees the things that everyone is too distracted to notice—including a lit...

In her English-language debut, award-winning Italian novelist Giulia Caminito follows a teenage girl as her family transitions from Rome’s impoverished outskirts to a fraught new beginning in a tranquil lakeside town, capturing the disillusionment, loneliness, and rage that defined a generation.In the 1990s, Gaia’s family moves from the neglected peripheries of Rome to an idyllic lakeside town twenty miles away, in search of a new life that will lift them out of po...

From the international bestselling author of Gut, an entertaining and highly informative book about how the body’s organs work in tandem to keep us as healthy as we can be.In a world that is becoming ever louder and more complex, sometimes the best perspective is to look inward—at our own physicality. For thousands of years, our bodies have faced challenges and found their own unique ways to overcome them. What can we learn from these extraordinarily compl...

Grounded in progressive pedagogy, this essential resource leads creative writing instructors through each step of designing, teaching, and trouble-shooting a course. A Practical Guide to Teaching Creative Writing offers applied strategies and innovative insights equally valuable for novice and seasoned instructors. Tate and Vigna share tried and tested approaches to online, in-person, and hybrid classes from 6 to 300+ students, attentive to the specific opportunit...

"And the earth was filled with violence." (Genesis 6:11). It's 1,655 years after Eden, and life on earth has already gone to hell. The world of man is a place of wanton cruelty and wickedness. Prehistoric monsters and stone-age marauders roam the land. Murder and destruction are the rule of the day. This is life before the Flood. The story of man on the verge of his first apocalypse. Welcome to the world of The Goddamned. Collects THE GODDAMNED #1-5

Lock your doors, keep a light on, and stay alert because these works lurk in the shadows. The second installment of the Strangest Fiction Anthology features another array of bewildering content that will terrify, delight, and perplex the reader. This time, we've handpicked the most horrifying submissions from writers of all backgrounds. When you open this devilish collection, leap into unique tales about manipulative murderous televisions, camper-killing abominations of nature, ravenous ra...

Transform your understanding of the human gut: An enlightening journey through the most underrated organ with Dr. Giulia Enders' groundbreaking exploration of digestive health, microbial connections, and whole-body wellness.Discover the secrets of your digestive system—and how to hone a healthy gut—plus new research on the mind-gut connection.With quirky charm, science star and medical doctor Giulia Enders explains the gut’s magic, answering questions like:...

From acclaimed middle grade author Maryrose Wood comes the heartwarming follow up to Bad Badger: A Love Story.As Septimus and Gully grow from friends into a family, they weather the challenges of parenting, managing unexpected guests, and navigating the parameters of friendship. To help raise a trio of gull chicks is a rare task for a badger, even a badger as unusual as Septimus.With three spotted fluff balls underfoot, hiding in his phonograph, an...

"Views differ on bitcoin, but few doubt the transformative potential of Blockchain technology. The Truth Machine is the best book so far on what has happened and what may come along. It demands the attention of anyone concerned with our economic future." —Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard, Former Treasury SecretaryFrom Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna, the authors of The Age of Cryp...

For fans of Odder and Skunk and Badger comes a heartwarming story of an unlikely friendship between a gull and a badger.Septimus is not good at being a badger. He adores the sunset. He dreams of going to Venice. And he lives alone in a charming cottage by the sea. He’s not unhappy with his tidy, solitary life, but there are times when being so bad at badgerdom makes him wonder if he’s even a badger at all.When a gull of very few words land...

This book tackles the lack of synchronicity between art and copyright law, proposing practical and interdisciplinary tools through which to navigate this conflict.In the last decades, high profile lawsuits have been filed against artists accused of plagiarism including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger and Andy Warhol. This book demonstrates how these cases are at odds with contemporary artistic reality, in which the use of antecedent visual forms is common practice. Focusing on the dicho...

"Don’t tell the Cluster Sovereign, but the first collection of the all-new adventures of Lilo & Stitch is arriving here on Earth!Life seems to have calmed down for Experiment 626 and his new family — at least until evil aliens come hunting for everyone’s favorite blue-furred troublemaker. The kicker? They’re using giant robots that are powered by Stitch’s own DNA! Will Lilo’s beloved pet be able to take on these villains and lead them away from his adopted planet and loved ones? And even i...