The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York--that brash, bold, archetypal city--came to be. In 1664, England decided to invade the Dutch-controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Charles II and his brother, the Duke of York, had dreams of empire, and their archrivals, the Dutch, were in the way. But Richard Nicolls, the military officer who led the English flotilla bent on destruction,...

While celebrating their anniversary at La Fin du Monde, unhappy couple Jane and Dan find themselves taken hostage by bumbling climate activists whose actions are eerily similar to those in Jane's failed novel, so only they know what will happen and how to stop it.

"Florence Grimes is a thirty-one-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. Single, broke and unfulfilled after the humiliating end to her girl band career, she has only one reason to get out of bed each day: her ten-year-old son Dylan. But then Alfie Risby, her son's bully and the heir to a vast frozen food empire, mysteriously vanishes during a class trip, and Dylan becomes the prime suspect. Florence, for once, is faced with a task...

"Babies and toddlers will learn to say "Dada!" with this adorable and fun-to-read board book written by an early speech expert! Each page features: simple words and "Dada" phrases that are easy for little ones to imitate, and can be used and practiced throughout daily routines, rhythm and rhyme to encourage repetition and help keep babies engaged, even before they can understand the text, real photographs that model correct mouth positions and support...

It's a little girl's first trip to her papa's homeland and she's wowed by the experience, including her enormous family, but she only knows a little Spanish and luckily relatives help her see there are other ways to connect.

In Mercy, Louisiana, a town plagued by red algae and vanishing residents, Noon finds a reluctant ally in Covey and the two join forces to hunt a deadly creature in the dark waters as a storm looms.

Severed from the Legendborn Order and her ancestral ties, African American Bree binds herself to the Shadow King to hone her abilities and protect her friends while the fractured Round Table battles against the demons.

"As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation--until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base. In their truck is a dead body--the first murder in Antarctica. The potential for a geopolitical firestorm is great, and, with no clear jurisdiction, the Americans don't know what to do. But they soon realize the Chinese scientists have brought far more with them than the body. Within seventy-two...

"Violet Lang and Scarlet Koito attend an academy in the Paldea region and embark on their first big assignments, finding treasures that will help them become amazing Trainers with even more powerful Pokémon! Violet Lang calls himself the Prince of Speed and races across the Paldea region in search of the Herba Mystica that will give his Pokémon ultimate speed. Meanwhile, Scarlet Kioto is a Treasure Hunter in search of the Treasures of Ruin. As the...

"Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. Disputes about what to do with the millions of tons of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars waged almost everywhere you look. Some are border skirmishes. Others hustle trash across thousands of miles and multiple oceans. But no matter the scale, one thing is true about almost all of them: few people have any idea they're happening. Journalist Alexander Clapp spent two years...