Collection: Adult

An archipelago of eight interconnecting stories and fables filled with the fantastical and a love of the craft of storytelling.

When Nancy's cat Pangur is stolen by the Faery people, she finds herself striking a deal like no other: she is now the one-and-only storyteller for the Faery Kingdom.

So starts Máire Zepf's enchanting story collection, reminiscent of fairytales and fables of past and present, but entirely new.

From ghost dragons to magical hats and a dream-weaving giantess, these are tales that awaken the senses and manage to connect with each other in a way reminiscent of 1001 Arabian Nights, perfect for voracious readers and bedtime story consumers alike.

Science Under the Sea! Learn with Little Octopus Daisy!

Get ready to explore a world of underwater wonders with Daisy, a curious little octopus eager to discover everything about her ocean home! Join Daisy on her exciting journey as she encounters all sorts of fascinating sea creatures, from a clever hermit crab with a moving anemone to a speedy school of herrings trying to outsmart a hungry shark. Little Octopus and the Vast Ocean combines an engaging story with easy-to-understand facts that will introduce young readers to the incredible diversity and the unique habitats of the vast ocean. With vibrant illustrations that bring the underwater world to life, kids will be mesmerized by Daisy's adventures and the amazing things she discovers! Perfect for all little animal and ocean enthusiasts!

• An Ocean Adventure with a Lovable Octopus: Join Daisy on her exciting explorations and discover the wonders of marine life through her curious eyes.


• Meet Amazing Sea Animals: From hermit crabs, herrings, sharks, seahorses, and anemones to shrimp, sea urchin, eels, dolphins, and more, encounter a diverse cast of fascinating ocean inhabitants.


• Learn Fun Facts About the Ocean: Discover interesting and easy-to-understand information about different ocean habitats and the creatures that live there. Vibrant


• Spark a Love for Animals and Nature! Encourage an appreciation for the ocean and its incredible inhabitants, fostering a sense of wonder and respect for the natural world.


• Perfect for Story Time and Curious Minds: The engaging storytelling and captivating visuals make this book a joy to read aloud and a great way to answer children's questions about the ocean.


• A Great Introduction to Marine Biology: Gently introduce young readers to the fascinating field of studying ocean life in an accessible and exciting way.

For over 75 years, Albatros Media has been crafting original and innovative children's books that are both playful and educational, fostering curiosity and a thirst for knowledge in young minds. We deliver the highest quality children's books from novelty, picture, pop-up, and how-to books, to non-fiction, and fairy tale books.

Beginning in 2022, the Philadelphia-based nonprofit public art, history, and design studio, Monument Lab, launched a nationwide initiative organized around a central question: Which stories belong in public? The editors and contributors to Monument Lab: Re: Generation responded with creative and impactful projects of reclamation that provide a deeper understanding of how monuments live and function in communities.

Monument Lab: Re: Generation presents case studies that travel across America, highlighting local commemorative campaigns dedicated to advancing public memory. Featuring articles and artwork from the country's leading monument makers, each project includes a framing essay that provides insights into the varied contexts of location, culture, form, and subject matter.

Monument Lab: Re: Generation provides innovative, healing, and practical approaches to the United States' unreconciled past and divided present facing our nation. In doing so, it invites readers to engage with a broader discourse of monuments and public memory.

Contributors: Thomas J. Adams, Kareal Amenumey, Sháńdíín Brown, Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Kristen Dorsey, Aruna D'Souza, Mariluz Franco Ortiz, Jacqui Germain, Grace Sanders Johnson, Dani R. Merriman, Deirdre Cooper Owens, Naima Murphy Salcido, Kirk Savage, Clint Smith, Tsione Wolde-Michael, Eric Zimmer, and the editors

Which nations are best and worst at protecting human rights, civil liberties, and political freedoms?

Are human rights in retreat in nations and regions across the world? How are quality of life measures related to education, nutrition, and political representation integral to understanding human rights in a given country or region? This resource answers all these questions and more. Readers are provided with a comprehensive introduction to the political and philosophical foundations of human rights, and the evolution of human rights movements around the globe. Controversies, campaigns, and laws related to human rights - including access to healthcare, the impact of climate change, and concerns over the rise of authoritarianism - are also explored.

Other features include personal essays from human rights advocates and scholars, profiles of important people and organizations, a selection of primary documents that illuminate human rights triumphs and setbacks in various parts of the world, and a chronology of major events.

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Now available in a stunning Deluxe Collector's Edition, The Duke and I, the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn's beloved Bridgerton series, featuring beautiful endpapers, a ribbon marker, and a gorgeous, decorated spine. Collect all 8 in the series to unveil the beautiful imagery when shelved together!

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In the ballrooms and drawing rooms of Regency London, rules abound. From their earliest days, children of aristocrats learn how to address an earl and curtsey before a prince--while other dictates of the ton are unspoken yet universally understood. A proper duke should be imperious and aloof. A young, marriageable lady should be amiable...but not too amiable.

Daphne Bridgerton has always failed at the latter. The fourth of eight siblings in her close-knit family, she has formed friendships with the most eligible young men in London. Everyone likes Daphne for her kindness and wit. But no one truly desires her. She is simply too deuced honest for that, too unwilling to play the romantic games that captivate gentlemen.

Amiability is not a characteristic shared by Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings. Recently returned to England from abroad, he intends to shun both marriage and society--just as his callous father shunned Simon throughout his painful childhood. Yet an encounter with his best friend's sister offers another option. If Daphne agrees to a fake courtship, Simon can deter the mamas who parade their daughters before him. Daphne, meanwhile, will see her prospects and her reputation soar.

The plan works like a charm--at first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London's elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule...

This novel includes the second epilogue, a peek at the story after the story.

The chilling true story of a brutal string of deaths on the post-Revolutionary frontier that reveal the violence at the heart of the young United States

"In Cold Blood for the 1790s . . . Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution."--Jane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello

Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then another--a dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killers--two men with hazy backgrounds--are brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.

The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, that's too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United States' independence. These were uncertain and dangerous years--a time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.

Bristling with tense, page-turning storytelling--and driven by a historian's obsessive detective work--Kingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.

The definitive biography of John Candy--a heartwarming portrait of one of comedy's most beloved and enduring stars.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Vulture's #1 Comedy Book of 2025 - A Globe and Mail, National Post, and CBC Best Book of 2025

"Reading this book was like reconnecting with an old friend. I laughed, I cried, I didn't want it to end." --Judd Apatow

"A thoughtful, thorough and entertaining portrait of one of the funniest people ever." --Marc Maron

From his humble beginnings in sketch comedy with the Toronto branch of Second City, to his rise to fame in SCTV and Hollywood film classics like Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Great Outdoors, and Uncle Buck, John Candy captivated audiences with his self-deprecating humour, emotional warmth, and gift for improvisation. Now, for the first time since Candy's tragic death, bestselling biographer Paul Myers tells the full story of the man behind the laughs.

Drawing on extensive research and exclusive interviews with many of Candy's closest friends and colleagues, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, Steve Martin, Catherine O'Hara, Martin Short, and many more, John Candy: A Life in Comedy celebrates the comedian's unparalleled talent, infectious charm, and generosity of spirit. Through ups and downs, successes and failures, and struggles with anxiety and self-doubt, Candy faced the world with a big smile and a warm demeanour that earned him the love and adoration of fans around the world.

A freak accident comes on the heels of a startling revelation--laying bare the foundation of a marriage, and a husband is left to grapple with the aftermath.

A poetry professor at a small college in Asheville, NC, Asa Flowers, comes home one stormy evening to find his wife Betsy inexplicably distraught. As the evening goes on, the couple end up in a heated argument that sends Asa to sleep out in their garage apartment for the first time in twenty-five years of marriage. The next morning, he wakes to blue sky and an altered world.

Unfolding over a few tense weeks and told from multiple points of view, this novel explores how a tragedy can assume as many shapes as the people it touches. Asa finds himself reckoning with torn feelings about his marriage and confusion about how to proceed in his complicated relationships with his adult children. As he gradually absorbs revelations--so much he didn't know or understand during his long marriage--he finds himself drawn uneasily toward a new world, one in which he must shed much of his old identity if he is to survive, and more important, rededicate himself to being a father.

The first volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary form

A diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, representing work by fifty different writers

As much a nineteenth-century American invention as the cotton gin and the steamboat, the short story emerged here with a range of innovation and a variety of styles and subjects that has still not been fully appreciated. Diverse, wide-ranging, and unprecedented in its scope, The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century gathers more than one hundred stories by fifty different writers.

This first volume of Library of America's two-volume collection of nineteenth-century American short fiction tracks the development of the American short story from Charles Brockden Brown's fragments and Washington Irving's sketches to Poe's gothic tales of horror to Mark Twain's humorous stories. Represented here by generous selections are all the major figures--Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain--as well as Rose Terry Cooke, also a major writer, restored to a place of prominence in this anthology with three unforgettable masterpieces.

Among the many unexpected writers in this volume are: William Austin, so crucial to the development of Hawthorne and Poe; the antebellum Black writer and physician James McCune Smith, whose sketches in his "Heads of the Colored People" series lampooned the pseudoscientific racism of phrenology; Lucretia Hale, the author of the feminist fantasy "The Queen of the Red Chessman," perhaps the greatest one-hit wonder of the mid-nineteenth century; Francis Parkman, whose early magazine fiction remains unknown today even to many scholars; and Fitz-James O'Brien, the author of such unnerving horror stories as "The Lost Room" and "What Was It?," whose true themes and concerns twenty-first century readers, accustomed to reading gay fiction, will not miss.

Unrivaled in its range and textual authority, the anthology includes biographies of each writer, a chronology of writers and the American short story from 1800 to 1900, and extensive notes.

A scathing critique of proposals to geoengineer our way out of climate disaster, by the bestselling authors of Overshoot

The world is crossing the 1.5°C global warming limit, perhaps exceeding 2°C soon after. What is to be done when these boundaries, set by the Paris Agreement, have been passed? In the overshoot era, schemes proliferate for muscular adaptation or for new technologies to turn the heat down at a later date by re­moving CO2 from the air or blocking sunlight. Such technologies are by no means safe; they come with immense risks and provide an excuse for those who would prefer to avoid limiting emissions in the present. But do they also hold out some potential? Can the catastrophe be reversed, masked or simply adapted to once it is a fact? Or will any such round­about measures simply make things worse?

The Long Heat maps the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet and insists on the climate revolution long overdue. In the end, no technology can absolve us of responsibility for our planet and each other.

French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing the diversity of flowering plants in watercolor paintings which were then published as copper engravings, with careful botanical descriptions. The darling of wealthy Parisian patrons including Napoleon's wife Josephine, he was dubbed "the Raphael of flowers," and is regarded to this day as a master of botanical illustration.

This elegant catalogue brings together all engravings from Redouté's illustrations of Roses and Choix des plus belles fleurs (Selection of the Most Beautiful Flowers) and the most astounding images from The Lilies. Offering a vibrant overview of Redouté's admixture of accuracy and beauty, it is also a privileged glimpse into the magnificent gardens and greenhouses of a bygone Paris.