Collection: Adult

Our pint-sized, good-hearted hero is back in Super Diaper Baby: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers by Dav Pilkey, the global #1 bestselling author and award-winning artist of Dog Man!

Just like the bestselling The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, this all-new color version features updated spelling and grammar, new How 2 Draws, fun facts, and more. Dav Pilkey brilliantly weaves a hilarious, action-packed sequel that will inspire heroes of all ages.

The evil genius Dr. Dilbert Dinkle has created the Liquidator 2000 to turn bank vaults into water, but when he accidentally steps in the ray himself, things go terribly wrong. The dastardly Dr. Dinkle vows to destroy every toilet in town. This is a job for our death-defying dynamic duo, Super Diaper Baby and Diaper Dog, who must soar into action to save the city!

For additional awesome escapades, enjoy the Dog Man and Cat Kid Comic Club graphic novels along with the Captain Underpants and Dragon chapter book series. And don't forget to check out the brand new Captain Underpants: The First Epic Manga, reinvented by Dav Pilkey with artwork by Motojiro for a new generation of readers.

A haunting story of survival and redemption on the frozen expanse of Lake Superior.

The harsh winters of Duluth, Minnesota, don't bother Hugh McLaren. Decades after the death of his wife and estrangement from his children, the only respite from his troubled thoughts comes from ice fishing alone on the windswept expanse of Lake Superior. Out on the ice, Hugh can drop a line in search of monsters of the deep and be free of his own demons.

But when a routine exam turns into a terminal diagnosis, Hugh enters a new spiral of guilt and regret--about the loss of his wife and his own troubled upbringing--making him consider how he might mend his broken relationships with his children. To push aside his internal turmoil, Hugh goes onto the ice to fish during a severe storm, but as the blizzard rages on, he is forced to reckon with worsening conditions and the even colder storm inside himself.

The Ice on the Lake is a novel of resilience and determination--both to survive the fury of nature and to reconcile with the ghosts of the past.

Young Mateo is excited to hang out with his grandmother, and he has carefully prepared a list of activities that he thinks are exactly right for sweet, old Gram--complete with leisurely walks, lots of rest, and carefully selected foods. However, Mateo soon realizes that Gram has her own way of interpreting his list. One by one, she debunks his expectations, encourages him to be more active, and leads him on a series of unexpected, new adventures.

Key Features:

• Celebrates multigenerational family bonds: The story encourages grandparents and grandchildren to share interests and adventures and to truly get to know each other.
• Encourages sharing outdoor activities and learning new skills: Mateo and Gram run in the park, ride bikes, swim in the ocean, and read together.
• Challenges stereotypes: The antics of this vibrant, active, and adventurous grandmother repeatedly push her grandson out of his comfort zone and debunk his misconceptions about how older adults behave.
• Funny and heartwarming: Charming, detailed illustrations pair with funny dialogue and situational humor for a fun, playful story.

Perfect for kindhearted kids and young-at-heart grandparents, Hanging Out with Gram follows one determined kiddo who works hard to create a special day for his grandmother . . . but isn't quite prepared for the eye-opening day she has in store for him!

This go-to book on peregrine falcons provides a timely, captivating, and educational blend of natural history, science, exhaustive research, and personal reflections on this dynamic raptor. Written by seasoned journalist and longtime raptor monitor Jim Wright, The Peregrine Falcon offers a comprehensive look at the world's fastest creature.

Learn why peregrines live in cities, how they can reach speeds of 200 mph, and why they are so fast and fierce, as well as all the basics of their hunting and nesting habits. Chapters also dive into key moments in peregrine history, including an in-depth look at why they almost went extinct--and how they were saved--plus their recent surge in popularity due to livestreams of peregrine nests around the world. This is a great read for fans of J. A. Baker's classic The Peregrine and Helen Macdonald's modern classic H Is for Hawk.

Key Features:

• Incredible images of all things peregrine, including many by nature photographer Kevin Watson
• Foreword by Pete Dunne, the legendary raptor expert
• A glossary of terms, a bibliography, and suggestions for further reading

Peregrines are the world's most charismatic raptor, and this well-researched compendium explains why these falcons have captured the imagination of so many. If you love peregrines, you must have this book.

"One of my favourite detectives."--Elly Griffith

The unfailingly shrewd and uniquely brilliant DS George Cross is back . . .

A bespoke tailor boards the 9:26 train from Bristol to London. Before it even reaches Bath, his body is found slumped lifeless in the toilet. The police initially assume it's a robbery.

But the truth is more complicated than that. Why was the man found with a plastic bag over his head? Why was his throat cut in such a savage way? DS George Cross realizes that this was no mugging--it was an organized hit. This realization forces George into a merciless, unfamiliar world--and is it his imagination, or is he being followed?

Everyone knows that DS George Cross is tenacious, that he always gets to the truth. It seems, this time, someone will do anything to stop that from happening.

"Readers rejoice! A captivating new series from Mark Billingham--the very best in the business."--Richard Osman, #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club

Detective Miller is back and investigating his most perplexing case yet

The Shadow Step: One taken simultaneously by a pair of dancers facing the same direction, one of them behind and slightly shifted leftwards ("in the shadow")

A perfectly executed shadow step demonstrates synchronized elegance. It showcases a couple in near telepathic harmony with one another. It does not normally end with someone stone-dead in a lake.

DS Declan Miller is a magnet for strange cases, but an innocent man confessing to the crime? That's a first. Things rapidly escalate when the murder that isn't really a murder attracts the unwanted attention of a drug Queenpin, a deranged ex-squaddie, and a lovesick gangland enforcer. And when a real murder follows - and a student is kidnapped - all evidence points back to the same innocent man.

Throw in a wobbly dog, a pair of ceramic leopards, and the distracting smell from a biscuit factory, and Miller's only option to save a young man's life is to waltz all the way into the shadows.

A dark magic debut novel featuring the Boy who becomes the Magician and the villainous Mother whose sadism might end it all--for fans of Our Share of Night and The Changeling

First, he is a Boy, born to a Mother who cannot abide his existence. Despite her torments, the Boy finds a way to survive and create a small space for himself in the world.

The Boy endures unspeakable cruelties, saved only by a mysterious magic that intervenes in moments of need: magic he learns is his to command. When he finally escapes the Mother, a beguiling circus troupe welcomes him into their family and the Boy begins to imagine a life beyond survival, one where circus lions roar and enchanted forests spiral far into the distance. For the first time, he discovers chosen family, community, and love. He eagerly apprentices under the circus's conjurer--only to realize his gifts far outstrip his mentor's. Thus the Boy becomes the Magician. But as ambition bends his power, a primal threat stalks, determined to destroy not just the Magician, but all he holds dear.

Echoing the fairytale cadence of Helen Oyeyemi and Gerardo Sámano Córdova's disquieting excavation of grief and trauma, Tracy Lynne Oliver has created a spellbinding world of twisted patriarchal darkness and a powerful magic that threatens to consume everyone, including its wielder. A debut novel of uncommon accomplishment, Magician establishes its author as a new voice that will hold readers rapt.

An intimate portrait of genius, love, and betrayal at the end of Gustav Mahler's life.

In the spring of 1910, Gustav Mahler--wrapped in a wool blanket--sits on the deck of the Amerika, sailing back to Europe. The ocean around him is gray and endless, the air sharp with wind and steel. Not yet fifty, Mahler is already a legend: in Vienna and New York, audiences fight for tickets to see the restless, small man who commands the most stubborn orchestra in the world.

Yet his fame is shadowed by illness. His body is failing, his wife Alma has fallen in love with another man: the young architect Walter Gropius. Mahler has begged, humiliated himself, tried everything to keep her. Nothing worked, except the certainty of his approaching death. Alma has stayed, tending to him with care, perhaps to ease his final passage.

On board, Mahler reflects on life, art, and above all, love. Finalist for the Deutscher Buchpreis and one of the most acclaimed German novels of recent years, Robert Seethaler's The Last Movement is a haunting, tender portrait of a great artist confronting his farewell to life.

Step into the life and times of George Forster, the eighteenth-century naturalist who sailed the world and made waves with his revolutionary ideas about humanity and freedom--from the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature.

"[A] thrilling biography-cum-adventure story." --Hampton Sides, author of The Wide Wide Sea

"Enthralling. Superb. The Traveler is hypnotically successful and wonderfully restores George Forster as a major historical figure." --Richard Holmes, author of The Age of Wonder

From an early age, it was clear that George Forster possessed a brilliant mind. At just ten years old, he became a botanist when he accompanied his irascible father, Reinhold, on a wild expedition to Russia. By the time he was twelve, they had moved to London and the young boy soon became the breadwinner by publishing translations of the most popular travel accounts of the day. Then, in 1772, at the age of seventeen, George Forster joined Cook's second voyage, the most daring expedition of the time.

The HMS Resolution set sail with orders to find what was then the hypothetical southern continent of Antarctica, stopping at the islands of the South Pacific-- including New Zealand, Vanuatu, Tonga, Tahiti, and Easter Island--along the way. The Resolution car­ried the ambitions of the most powerful empire in the world, but Forster brought an understanding that was far ahead of his day. A gifted observer, linguist, artist, and writer, he studied the diverse cultures of the world without prejudice and was one of the first Europeans to talk about universal human rights.

Recognized on his return as one of Europe's brightest minds, Forster used his fame to advocate for freedom and human rights and wrote against empire, white supremacy, and slavery. He admired strong, educated women, even accepting his wife's independence--and her love affairs. Driven by his passion for equality, Forster would eventually be pulled into the vortex of the French Revolution and live in Paris during the Reign of Terror. Throughout it all, he held close the radical belief that our common humanity is far greater than what sets us apart. The Traveler recounts the remarkable life of this deeply curious and exceptional man who, though largely forgotten by history, truly belonged to the future.

A gripping tale of murder and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide.

"What Came West is astonishing. Unraveling the mythology of the Western with a genius for insight and description, Weil tells the story anew: a beautiful, ruminative, bloody, terrifying and brilliant book about a chapter in the life of one man and in the life of our country. Unmissable." --Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less

Sierra Nevada, 1840s, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even within his own family, he finds brief solace in love and fatherhood before the pull of the frontier overwhelms him. One day he heads west, chasing a life that might finally make sense.

What follows is a swift, pulse-pounding journey into the mountains, where Silas becomes one of the first white settlers to cross into the Sierra Nevada. He forges a precarious peace with the Indigenous people who live there--until the Gold Rush crashes in with violent force. As thousands flood the region, the balance shatters, and Silas commits murder, a desperate act that alters the course of every life around him, including his own.

Taut and propulsive, What Came West is told in two parallel voices--one a tense, third-person account of Silas on the run, and the other a confessional letter from Silas to the son he left behind--and confronts many different forms of American inheritance, in all its danger, emotional voltage, and mythic momentum. Weil's masterpiece is a fierce, heart-driven portrait of an outsider racing toward belonging and barreling headlong into consequence.

Author of Take Back the Magic and co-founder of the beloved non-denominational fellowship The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn offers a profound invitation to remember and recover the power, presence, and wisdom of the Mother Figure.

"This book is a lodestar for anyone seeking to live with reverence, rootedness, and wonder." --Lyanda Lynn Haupt, author of Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

At a time when so many of us feel unmoored from guidance, care, and belonging, Mothers of Magic is a profound call to return to our deepest sources of knowledge, nourishment, and kinship.

When Perdita Finn found herself at a crossroads with her health, she embarked on a search for healing that led her to confront a heritage of misogyny and violence--and to summon the wisdom of her ancestors to unravel the trauma woven into her story and the story of civilization itself. Braiding memoir with cultural history, Finn introduces readers to a pantheon of maternal figures, from the loving spirit of St. Anne and the defiant courage of Joan of Arc to the very Earth itself, who have long offered refuge, instruction, and love. Through these stories and her own journey of transformation, Finn reveals what becomes possible when we recover an ecological feminism that restores our relationship with our bodies, our mothers, and the body of our world. Alongside the narrative, she shares practical ways to summon all of our mothers--ancestral, spiritual, and earthly--to help us navigate our everyday challenges and deepest wounds.

Radical and restorative, Mothers of Magic is an intervention for our time and a map back to the maternal wisdom that has always been ours--a path toward true connection and the deepest sources of love.

Welcome to FlipFlap Board Books: Adventures to be read forwards, backwards, and side-to-side! For young kids learning their basics and exploring the world around them, this creatively formatted book (which can be read forwards AND backwards) teaches kids their colors with a cast of cute and colorful bugs.

A unique format, this board book has two spines--one on each side. Every other page attaches to the opposing spine so that the book opens outward left and right. As the the reader turns the pages (each die-cut in the shape of a leaf), a new colorful bug appears.

A bright red ladybug rests on a leaf.
An orange butterfly hangs beneath.
In the breeze, a pink mantis sways.
A white cabbage moth flutters and plays.

As the story goes on, kids learn their colors and are rewarded with a rainbow of bugs at the back of the book.

Colorful critters, a rainbow of friends! (Can you read it back again?)

Then, in order to closer the book correctly, the text must be read backwards while the bugs hide away again. With wonderfully layered design, illustration, and text that can be read forwards and backwards, there's a surprising amount to discover in this small but mighty board book that begs to be read multiple times.

A Nobel Prize-⁠winning economist shows us why we have to deal in trade-offs when we can't agree on what's right and what's wrong.

Some of the most intractable controversies in our divided society are, at bottom, about what actions and transactions should be banned. Should women and couples be able to purchase contraception, access in vitro fertilization, and end pregnancy by obtaining an abortion? Should people be able to buy marijuana? What about fentanyl? Can someone be paid to donate blood plasma, or a kidney?

Disagreements are fierce because arguments on both sides are often made in uncompromising moral or religious terms. But in Moral Economics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth asserts that we can make progress on these and other difficult topics if we view them as markets--tools to help decide who gets what--and understand how those markets can be fine-tuned to be more functional. Markets don't have to allow everything or ban everything. Prudent market design can find a balance between preserving people's rights to pursue their own interests and protecting the most vulnerable from harm.

Combining Roth's unparalleled expertise as market design pioneer with his incisive, witty accounts of complicated issues, Moral Economics offers a powerful and innovative new framework for resolving today's hardest controversies.

A bighearted debut novel about queer yearning, indie musicians, and bushwacking a thorny path back to your first love

Jamie is bad at endings, which is why she's stuck at a dead-end Baltimore newspaper job, continuing to have break-up sex with her first-ever hetero partner, and haunted by the what-ifs of her ex-girlfriend Mari--a charismatic and brilliant musician--and their former band together, the Maidenheads. Since they (and their band) broke up a decade ago, Jamie hasn't been able to sing.

Then an unexpected opportunity to perform in DC with Mari's successful new band arises, and Jamie jumps at it. What begins as a return to music becomes a reckoning--with the weight of unfinished love, the voice she long buried, and her own complicated past. But as Jamie channels more of her energy into the band, other threads in her life begin to fray, and she must make some urgent choices about her future.

Electric, spine-tingling, and filled to the brim with tenderness and honesty, The Maidenheads is a novel about the tenacity of first love, the life-changing power of music, and the difficult, necessary work of becoming yourself.

Explore Scandinavian cuisine through over 85 healthy, delicious, and easy-to-make recipes for bowls, salads, soups, desserts, andmore, from the IACP Award-winning chef and author of Scandinavian from Scratch

Contemporary Scandinavian cooking is approachable, fresh, and simple, made with an abundance of seasonal ingredients, artisan grains, and local and sustainable meat and fish.

Written with expertise and warmth, Scandinavian Everyday invites readers into Nichole Accettola's kitchen to experience more than 85 easy-to-follow, savory, and sweet recipes inspired by the cuisines of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. As a chef for decades and now the owner of San Francisco's beloved Kantine, Nichole shares glimpses of Scandinavian life and food culture, along with chapters full of clean, satisfying recipes to cook from morning to evening:

• BOWL ME OVER: Savory 3-Grain Porridge with Kale, Mushrooms, and Farmers Cheese; Granola with Chamomile and Dried Blueberries
• GROWN: Warm Potato Salad with Silken Leeks and Celery Seed Vinaigrette; Roasted Sunchokes with Dandelion Greens, Almonds, and Rye Crackers
• LUNCH-ISH: Smörgåstårta (Swedish Sandwich Cake); Chanterelle, Charred Corn, and Goat Cheese Tartlets
• SOUP'S ON: Lemony Chickpea and Green Split Pea Stew; Salmon and Roasted Corn Chowder
• NEW CLASSICS Scandinavian Meatballs with Shaken Red Currants; Beer-Braised Lamb with Winter Vegetables and Kale Cream
• SIMPLE BREADS AND SWEET TREATS: Rhubarb Cake with Custard Sauce; Flødeboller (Danish Meringue Puffs)

Each recipe is broken down into clear, manageable steps and adapted for the American kitchen. With a focus on key elements of the Nordic diet, these vibrant dishes come together easily and turn everyday meals into an act of nourishment, care, and connection.