The Shadow and Bone Trilogy Set
See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with the Netflix series, Shadow and Bone. Just wait for the daring rogue Nikolai to join the fold in Season 2 -- covering explosive events of both Siege and Storm and Ruin and Rising -- streaming now! All three books in Leigh Bardugo's New York Times-bestselling Shadow and Bone Trilogy are now available together in a beautiful paperback boxed set.Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Follow Alina Starkov through Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm, and Ruin and Rising as she discovers her dormant powers and is swept up in a world of luxury and illusion. As Alina struggles to fit into her new life, a threat to the kingdom of Ravka grows--one that will test old alliances and challenge the very limits of magic, one that will forge a leader from a frightened girl. Praise for The Shadow and Bone Trilogy: "This is what fantasy is for." --Laini Taylor for The New York Times on Shadow and Bone "Set in a fascinating, unique world rich with detail, Shadow and Bone was unlike anything I've ever read. Alina is a clever, sympathetic character I will gladly follow into the next installment--which can't come soon enough!" --Veronica Roth, New York Times-bestselling author of Divergent, on Shadow and Bone
The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition記憶傳承人:極樂謊言
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and an exclusive Q&A with cast members, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites, and Cameron Monaghan.Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs. No one thinks to ask questions. Everyone obeys. Everyone is the same. Except Jonas.Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. Gradually Jonas learns that power lies in feelings. But when his own power is put to the test--when he must try to save someone he loves--he may not be ready. Is it too soon? Or too late?The Giver has become one of the most influential novels of our time. Don't miss the powerful companion novels in Lois Lowry's Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
Waves of Love
Caught in the turmoil between Irish leaders and Vikings in eleventh-century Ireland, Princess Maire mac Domnaill desires freedom-the freedom to write the stories and history of her people and the fae folk, rather than being locked in an unhappy political marriage like her mother. When her hand is promised to the brutish son of Brian Boru, the king of Southern Ireland, to unite the north and the south in the coming war, she has no choice but to flee.Black Thorfinn is a warrior of the sea. His past and heritage are unknown, but his bravery and strength are admired by those who know him, even as his battle-weary soul has become inured to matters of the heart. When Thorfinn helps Maire fight off a pair of brigands, however, a spark of love is lit-a spark that will bring hope in the coming days of war and political machinations.Vividly weaving together history and the joy of folklore and tradition in a Medieval Irish setting, Waves of Love is a story of the importance of purpose, truth, and love in a world beset by conflict.
The Silent Arrival
The Silent ArrivalInvaders of Eden, Book 1When the signals first appeared, no one called them invaders.They were silent-not ships, not weapons, not armies.Just a pattern.Orbiting Earth's outer atmosphere, something artificial begins adjusting planetary systems with surgical precision: ocean currents shift, migratory paths reroute, dormant seeds awaken. Governments deny it. Scientists argue. Satellites fail.Then Eden Prime-the world's most advanced biosphere sanctuary-detects something else: The planet is being studied.Dr. Lira Morrow and systems architect Cael Arden uncover fragments of a coded presence embedded in Earth's magnetosphere-an intelligence that does not speak, but calibrates. Not conquest.Assessment.As ecosystems begin to stabilize in unnatural ways, humanity must confront an unsettling truth: What if Earth is no longer under threat from within-but under evaluation from beyond?And what if we are the invasive species?The Silent Arrival begins a sweeping eco-science-fantasy saga about stewardship, identity, and what it means to belong to a living world.
Reclamation Threshold
Reclamation ThresholdInvaders of Eden, Book 5Earth is dying again.Not from invasion-but from imbalance.The resonance war leaves behind destabilized climate corridors and fractured ecological feedback loops. The orbital lattice withdraws, awaiting proof of planetary maturity.Humanity has one chance to cross the Reclamation Threshold: a global synchronization event requiring every biosphere hub-including Eden Prime-to harmonize in unified ecological restoration.But extremist factions sabotage the network, insisting Earth must remain untouched-even if that means collapse.As cascading failures sweep across continents, Lira confronts the deeper truth the invaders withheld: They did not come to conquer.They came because something older than humanity called for help.The Threshold isn't a test.It's an inheritance.And Earth must decide whether to reclaim its place in the living cosmos-or retreat into isolation.
Dawnkeepers
DawnkeepersInvaders of Eden, Book 6The invaders are no longer strangers.They are gone.In the aftermath of the Threshold, the orbital constructs dissolve, leaving behind only dormant resonance nodes embedded within Earth's crust and oceans.The network has withdrawn.The responsibility remains.Now humanity must become what the invaders hoped for: Dawnkeepers.Guardians of planetary equilibrium. Stewards of biosphere harmony. Interpreters of cosmic ecology.But not all believe Earth should join the wider lattice. A shadow coalition seeks to reactivate dormant disruptors, arguing that independence is survival.When the first distant signal echoes through the resonance grid-a call from another endangered world-Lira faces the final question of the saga: Were we invaded?Or were we invited?Dawnkeepers concludes the Invaders of Eden saga in a sweeping meditation on sovereignty, stewardship, and the courage to belong to something greater than ourselves.
The Rising Light of Lyra
The Lyran Accord SeriesBook 1 - Starlight CrossingWhen a deep-space anomaly splits open a corridor of unnatural light, Earth's first exploratory crew steps into a crossing that shouldn't exist-one that leads straight into the Lyran Reach.There, they find Lyra: a world shaped by living architecture, atmospheric science, and a civilization that treats ecology as law. The Lyrani don't greet humanity with weapons-but with questions. Hard ones.Because the crossing wasn't a discovery. It was an alarm.As Dr. Elara Miro begins deciphering the physics of the corridor, she realizes the passage is destabilizing both star systems. And the Lyrani believe Earth's arrival is tied to an old failure they swore would never repeat.To stay in Lyran space, humanity must agree to something unprecedented: an interstellar covenant based not on power... but restraint.
The Cascading Silence
Book 5 - The Cascading SilenceThe first place to go quiet is a coastal sanctuary-an entire ecological district losing sound, signal, and biological rhythm as if life itself has been muted.Then another.And another.Soon the silence begins to cascade across the planet in widening rings, severing habitats from the Harmonic Grid and isolating cities in invisible, breathable voids.The Lyran Council calls it containment.Earth's delegation calls it collapse.But Elara realizes the silence isn't random. It follows the old crossing corridor-like a tide moving through the world. Someone, or something, is using Lyra as a circuit.If they can't stop the cascade, the crossing will become a one-way conduit-and Lyra will be rewritten from the inside out.
Ash and Atmosphere
Book 3 - Ash and AtmosphereA catastrophic atmospheric event ignites across Lyra's southern hemisphere-wildfire without flame, ash without combustion, storms that strip oxygen from the air in spiraling corridors.The Lyrani call it an echo-season, a phenomenon recorded only in forbidden archives.Earth calls it impossible.As evacuation domes rise and entire habitats go silent, Elara uncovers fragments of an older Accord-one written when Lyra faced extinction and survived by changing what it meant to be "civilized."Now, factions on both worlds harden: one side pushing for rapid technological intervention, the other demanding strict adherence to Lyran ecological law.But the planet doesn't care about politics.It cares about balance.And if they can't learn how Lyra breathes-together-both species may discover what it means to suffocate in the same sky.
Starlight Crossing
The Lyran Accord SeriesBook 1 - Starlight CrossingWhen a deep-space anomaly splits open a corridor of unnatural light, Earth's first exploratory crew steps into a crossing that shouldn't exist-one that leads straight into the Lyran Reach.There, they find Lyra: a world shaped by living architecture, atmospheric science, and a civilization that treats ecology as law. The Lyrani don't greet humanity with weapons-but with questions. Hard ones.Because the crossing wasn't a discovery. It was an alarm.As Dr. Elara Miro begins deciphering the physics of the corridor, she realizes the passage is destabilizing both star systems. And the Lyrani believe Earth's arrival is tied to an old failure they swore would never repeat.To stay in Lyran space, humanity must agree to something unprecedented: an interstellar covenant based not on power... but restraint.
Harvest Protocol
Harvest ProtocolInvaders of Eden, Book 2The pattern is no longer silent.Across the globe, coordinated biological shifts accelerate: invasive species vanish overnight. Coral reefs regenerate at impossible speed. Crop yields surge-then collapse.A message finally resolves within the atmospheric interference: HARVEST PROTOCOL INITIATED.But harvest of what?When Eden Prime's systems begin syncing without human authorization, Lira discovers the invaders are not extracting resources.They are extracting data-ecological resilience models, adaptive genetics, behavioral responses to planetary stress.Humanity has been running a test.And the evaluation period is ending.Divided between those who see the presence as salvation and those who see it as erasure, the global alliance fractures. Some believe Earth is being prepared for restoration.Others fear it is being prepared for replacement.Because the data suggests something terrifying: The harvest may not include us.
Waves of Love
Caught in the turmoil between Irish leaders and Vikings in eleventh-century Ireland, Princess Maire mac Domnaill desires freedom-the freedom to write the stories and history of her people and the fae folk, rather than being locked in an unhappy political marriage like her mother. When her hand is promised to the brutish son of Brian Boru, the king of Southern Ireland, to unite the north and the south in the coming war, she has no choice but to flee.Black Thorfinn is a warrior of the sea. His past and heritage are unknown, but his bravery and strength are admired by those who know him, even as his battle-weary soul has become inured to matters of the heart. When Thorfinn helps Maire fight off a pair of brigands, however, a spark of love is lit-a spark that will bring hope in the coming days of war and political machinations.Vividly weaving together history and the joy of folklore and tradition in a Medieval Irish setting, Waves of Love is a story of the importance of purpose, truth, and love in a world beset by conflict.
The Trinity Evolved The Halo Awakens
On a black Hebridean shore where the sea refuses to reflect the sky, Freyja steps out of the air like a verdict-and changes three lives forever.Hayley is given the Halo: a crown of force that can shield, strike, and sever the threads of a doorway mid-open. Marie receives a wand of Whitecraft, spellwork built from breath, precision, and protective law. Kayleigh is marked with Thread-Sight and Mind-Path-the ability to glimpse branching futures and cut hostile influence without stealing anyone's will. Their power comes with rules: mercy matters, consent matters, and every choice leaves an echo.But a new hunger has learned to wear faces. Mirror Gate doesn't kick doors in-it waits for doubt, reflection, and fear, opening through glass, screens, and human weakness. As the Trinity forms a bond that feels less like destiny and more like a vow, their first battles pull them from rooftops and city lights into old Scottish water and living myth-where something enormous has been turned into a weapon, and an ancient curse has been knotted into a dragon's wound. Saving it won't be about power alone. It will be about how they use it-together.They can win a night. They can free what was bound. They can wake a network of allies.But the moment they do, something far above the world turns its attention toward them... and the cold of a coming Crown begins to test the edge of everything they've sworn to protect.
Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher, and W璽pos's Friendship Garden
Sarah Ponakey continuing to learn more about her Cree culture and language with the help of the people--and magical animals--around her in the third and final book in the series.Spring break has finally arrived, and Sarah Ponakey is so happy that her k繫hkom has come to stay with her while her mom is away on a work trip. Sarah will have K繫hkom all to herself! Or will she? Sarah has made a special map to show K繫hkom her favorite places in the city, but her plans keep getting interrupted--by an old friend of K繫hkom's, an invitation to a language luncheon, and way more time with new people than Sarah was hoping for. Sarah can't help but be frustrated that nothing is going her way. But when a mysterious little rabbit shows up at the community garden, Sarah starts to realize she has a lot to learn about the importance of patience and how to be a good friend.Featuring Cree words throughout the story, a glossary, and an author's note, like the first two stories in the Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher series, W璽posos's Friendship Garden is a heartfelt celebration of family, friendship, and culture.
The Psi-Chotic Adventures of Drew Darby
Drew Darby is a normal high school kid with normal high school problems. He is not the most popular and feels like a dork. But to make matters worse his parents are making him get a job at the local Happyland fast food restaurant.His new boss, Mr. Harkins, is a family friend and former military man who has agreed to higher the high schooler as a favor to the family. Life couldn't get much worse for Drew until he is sitting in a room alone, waiting for his orientation at his new job. Looking at the motivational pictures on the wall and listening to the training video he discovers a hidden message. A message he doesn't want to see. It tells him he is in grave danger and needs to escape the restaurant immediately. But as he decodes the message and escapes the room, he finds out that Mr. Harkins is not former military.He is in fact recruiting for the United States Army Psychic Operations. And Drew had just passed the test for the chance to enlist.
Tale 6. Ontario's Beaver Tail Trouble!
Bruno is back - and he's on a mission!When he skates into Ontario for the Winterlude Festival, Bruno is horrified to see humans eating something called BeaverTails(R)! Determined to save his species, he storms Parliament Hill, climbs the CN Tower, and even tumbles over Niagara Falls - all before learning a very sweet surprise about what BeaverTails(R) really are.Can Bruno survive the chaos he's created?Packed with laughs, action, and a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar, Ontario's Beaver Tail Trouble! proves that even the biggest misunderstandings can lead to the tastiest discoveries.Series description: The Great Canadian Beaver Tales is a humorous, heartfelt story collection that celebrates the spirit of Canada through the eyes of an unforgettable hero - Bruno the beaver. Blending laughter, geography, and life lessons, the thirteen tales follow Bruno's cross-country adventures through every province and territory, where his big ideas often lead to even bigger messes.This series introduces readers aged 6-9 to Canada's landscapes, cultures, and values - from courage and teamwork to curiosity and kindness. Ideal for classrooms, families, and libraries, The Great Canadian Beaver Tales invites readers to laugh, learn, and explore what it truly means to be Canadian - one beaver, 12 provinces, 3 territories, and one wild adventure!
The Mystery of the Manichean Mask
An ancient African mask. A devious grant. And a crime hiding in plain sight.Step into mysteries that demand courage, discernment, and the will to seek the truth. Conceived and co-written by the daughter of Robert Arthur - the creator of the Three Investigators universe - this restoration of the classic series takes its iconic characters into a new age, with gripping contemporary adventures for young readers who crave meaning, want to share in the growth of characters they admire, and seek a world they can return to again and again.In the thirteenth book of a 26-book story arc, when Jupiter, Pete, Bob, and Mallory are invited, at the start of a new summer, to attend a masked Gala at the Rocky Beach Summer Theatre Festival, they have no idea that the woman who owns the costume bank will tip them off about a local nonprofit that may be a lot shadier than it appears. Run by a Frenchman, an Italian-American man, and a Mexican-American woman, Old Art for Young Artists persuades wealthy patrons to donate artworks it can then auction off, with the proceeds supposedly going to young artists from disadvantaged backgrounds. But it seems its grants and awards are not dispensed according to its mission statement.Behind their masks at the gala, Bob and Mallory eavesdrop on the trio. They also meet a woman who once danced in the Alvin Ailey dance troupe, was married to the Harlem jazz musician who founded the Red Hots, and has recently made a donation to Old Art for Young Artists. Their suspicions aroused, The Three Investigators pretend to apply for mini-grants and summer internships from the nonprofit at a local jobs fair - where they quickly discover that what they look like matters a lot more than what they can do.Keeping calm, Jupiter manages to obtain incriminating evidence, and after soliciting the help of two hip young students who have reason to think that an extremely valuable African tribal mask has gone missing, The Three Investigators share their suspicions with Kwame Owusu, a young Ghanaian artist who comes to the Salvage Yard to buy a rare and special African wood for his artwork.What's the real motive behind Old Art for Young Artists? Why does a painting hanging on the wall of one of its directors' houses seem so familiar? As the mystery deepens and The Three Investigators start to see what Old Art for Young Artists may really be up to, they put two and two together, go undercover as Kwame Owusu's interns, then start zeroing in on a clever but very devious scheme.Join Jupiter, Pete, Bob, and Mallory as they reveal a nefarious fraud and bring an unsavory adversary to justice in this engrossing new chapter of the Three Investigators series.
The Mystery of the Manichean Mask
An ancient African mask. A devious grant. And a crime hiding in plain sight. Step into mysteries that demand courage, discernment, and the will to seek the truth. Conceived and co-written by the daughter of Robert Arthur - the creator of the Three Investigators universe - this restoration of the classic series takes its iconic characters into a new age, with gripping contemporary adventures for young readers who crave meaning, want to share in the growth of characters they admire, and seek a world they can return to again and again. In the thirteenth book of a 26-book story arc, when Jupiter, Pete, Bob, and Mallory are invited, at the start of a new summer, to attend a masked Gala at the Rocky Beach Summer Theatre Festival, they have no idea that the woman who owns the costume bank will tip them off about a local nonprofit that may be a lot shadier than it appears. Run by a Frenchman, an Italian-American man, and a Mexican-American woman, Old Art for Young Artists persuades wealthy patrons to donate artworks it can then auction off, with the proceeds supposedly going to young artists from disadvantaged backgrounds. But it seems its grants and awards are not dispensed according to its mission statement.Behind their masks at the gala, Bob and Mallory eavesdrop on the trio. They also meet a woman who once danced in the Alvin Ailey dance troupe, was married to the Harlem jazz musician who founded the Red Hots, and has recently made a donation to Old Art for Young Artists. Their suspicions aroused, The Three Investigators pretend to apply for mini-grants and summer internships from the nonprofit at a local jobs fair - where they quickly discover that what they look like matters a lot more than what they can do.Keeping calm, Jupiter manages to obtain incriminating evidence, and after soliciting the help of two hip young students who have reason to think that an extremely valuable African tribal mask has gone missing, The Three Investigators share their suspicions with Kwame Owusu, a young Ghanaian artist who comes to the Salvage Yard to buy a rare and special African wood for his artwork.What's the real motive behind Old Art for Young Artists? Why does a painting hanging on the wall of one of its directors' houses seem so familiar? As the mystery deepens and The Three Investigators start to see what Old Art for Young Artists may really be up to, they put two and two together, go undercover as Kwame Owusu's interns, then start zeroing in on a clever but very devious scheme.Join Jupiter, Pete, Bob, and Mallory as they reveal a nefarious fraud and bring an unsavory adversary to justice in this engrossing new chapter of the Three Investigators series.
Our World: Nigeria
"This series offers solid glimpses of faraway places, more poetry than a tour guide . . . evocative and inviting" - School Library Journal Ekaro! Let's spend a day in Nigeria! Visit the market, greet the teacher in three languages, and taste sweet fried plantains. Even learn words in Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa with pronunciation guides throughout the story. Part of the Barefoot Books Our World series with over 200k copies sold Written by Nigerian author, Bunmi Emenanjo and Nigerian illustrator, Diana Ejaita Endnotes provide more insights into life in Nigeria