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The rise of AI and misinformation warfare is leading to racial and political polarization and democratic erosion on a global level.

We are at a unique period in world history. While advances in digital technology have brought the world closer than ever, they have also been used as tools of oppression, driving misinformation and deepening divisions. AI-generated propaganda, radicalization pipelines, and profit-driven algorithms are reshaping political landscapes, often without our awareness. How did we get here, and what can we do?

In Digital Coup, international lawyer, professor, and former national security professional Darin Johnson uses his expertise to explore how AI-driven disinformation and social media echo chambers unravel truth, deepen societal divisions, and erode democracy. Johnson walks us through the digital battleground where tech companies monetize political anxieties and extremists weaponize misinformation. He introduces us to the shadowy networks trafficking in data and disinformation, showing how AI's power is being wielded to manipulate, polarize, and exploit. This world, he argues, is shaped both by those who engineer these systems and by those who refuse to challenge them.

With clear-eyed urgency, Johnson dismantles the myth of a neutral internet and calls for a radical rethinking of our digital future. Digital Coup is a vital intervention, offering both a wake-up call and a vision for a more informed, united, and accountable online world.

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A girl is haunted by her worst fears after meeting a fortuneteller in the sixth book in the Ghosts of Fear Street middle grade series from master of horror R.L. Stine.

Who's afraid of the ghosts of Fear Street? Not Kelsey Moore. She's lived on Fear Street all her life, and she's not afraid of anything. Until she meets Madame Valda--a strange old woman who says she can see into the future. She tells Kelsey that only fools are fearless. Kelsey just laughs.

But Kelsey isn't laughing when she climbs into bed...and finds it full of disgusting sand crabs. Or when she goes for a swim...and finds the ocean swarming with giant jellyfish! Now Kelsey is on edge all the time. Has Madame Valda doomed her to live in fear forever?

The vibrant and inspiring story of beloved singer and fierce activist Cyndi Lauper.

Before Cyndi Lauper was the larger-than-life icon we know today, she was a boisterous little girl who had a hard time fitting in. But she knew she had something amazing to share with the world. She just needed to figure out how.

So one day, Cyndi set off to find her own voice, bopping from place to place and trying out all kinds of jobs along the way. Though she faced many challenges and encountered people who didn't understand her particular shine, she never dimmed her light and always had music in her heart.

Cyndi went on to share her powerful songs with the world and become a passionate advocate for any person who didn't quite fit in. She let people know it's okay to be different, and that you should never, ever be afraid to show your true colors!

Cuddle up to your Papa Bear and read the newest title in the bestselling You're My Little board book series!

Shower the papa bear in your life with some love with the newest title in the bestselling board book series! Featuring cut-out shapes for little hands to explore and adorable illustrations of animal fathers and their children, this book's sweet rhyming story celebrates the special bond between a father and child.

Get to know the You're My Little series from Silver Dolphin Books!
From Valentine's Day to Christmas Day and every day in between, the bestselling You're My Little series is cute as can be--and fun too! Pages from these delightful books feature adorable illustrations by Natalie Marshall, as well as shaped cut-outs, raised elements, or even stickers. Perfect for cuddling up with your little one, these sweet rhyming stories celebrate a parent's love for their child.

This elegant leather-bound edition includes the two essential Greek epics from the poet Homer.

The Iliad and The Odyssey are two of the oldest works of Western literature, yet these ancient myths still offer powerful lessons for our times. From the fascinating fall of Troy to Odysseus's perilous journey home, from the gods and goddesses to the Sirens and the suitors--the events and characters of these epic tales captivate us, teach us, and inspire us. Their influence can be seen far and wide, from other famous works of literature to modern Hollywood blockbusters. Whether you've read Homer's original stories or only enjoyed their modern-day descendants, this is the perfect book to complete your bookshelf, featuring an elegant leather-bound cover, foil stamping, and specially designed endpapers. You'll be moved by these magical works, and then delight in displaying this beautiful book in your home.

SKOTTIE YOUNG--the New York Times bestselling and Eisner Award-winning writer of AIN'T NO GRAVE, TWIG, MIDDLEWEST, and many more--brings you another heaping helping of fairy tale violence.

In this oversized deluxe hardcover collection with art by Brett Bean (MARVEL'S ROCKET AND GROOT), Gert wanders around Fairyland sticking her axe where it doesn't belong on adventure after bloody adventure! Ultimately leading to a confrontation with a long-lost foe, who has raised an army of the dead to put Gert down once and for all...

Collects issues #11-20 of I Hate Fairyland (2022).

A Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu's Romania.

From her childhood in Romania, in a village "as small as a thimble on the edge of the world," through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Müller's story unspools against the tumultuous history of Romania in the latter half of the twentieth century. Here, the Nobel Prize laureate reflects on cultural history, memory, and trauma, and on what it was to live and write under Ceausescu's regime. She revisits the friendships that buckled under the weight of fear and paranoia; the experience of being surveilled and interrogated; and on the unique blend of fear and tedium borne through life under totalitarianism.

The Village on the Edge of the World is a book that chronicles the minutiae of life under both fascism and the Soviet Union, while charting the existential questions posed by these regimes of the twentieth century--and how they remain with us in the twenty-first. This is a powerful and evocative reflection on life behind the Iron Curtain.

During Alfred Hitchcock's five-decade reign as the screen's internationally celebrated Master of Suspense, he directed 53 motion pictures. In such Hitchcock gold standard classics as The 39 Steps, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, he staked his claim as the architect, the O.G. of the thriller. He laid down the rules and rhythm of the genre, created an immediately identifiable visual style, experimented constantly with technique, pushed boundaries, tweaked censors, and shattered the expectations of his audiences -- along with their nerves. In exploiting his private fears and vulnerabilities, Hitchcock was as brilliant as making us think and feel as he was at making us scream and invading our nightmares. His films elevated the form and were among the biggest box-office successes and most influential of their time. They were and are emulated for their fashion sense and, more lastingly, even nudged the culture forward by liberalizing attitudes toward cinematic violence and sexual frankness.

Hitchcockian Thrillers: Must-See Films in the Style of the Suspense Master is a curated, opinionated, authoritative, highly personal, lavishly illustrated guide to nine decades of international moviemaking featuring films by directors - beginning in the era of Fritz Lang, Billy Wilder, and Sir Carol Reed and moving right up through today's David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Martin Scorsese - who have all tried to 'do a Hitchcock.'

Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today?

Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated poet, essayist, playwright, and American artist Langston Hughes. My America traces Hughes's journey from a child captivated by the wonder of Kansas City to cosmopolitan witness in Paris, New York, Mexico City, and Madrid. We encounter Hughes as a young man discovering the pulse of modern life in a world on the verge of exploding metaphorically and literally. His experiences informed his work and his thinking on art, democracy, and activism.

Langston Hughes is one of the few American writers who consistently wrote about democracy from a joyous perspective, and My America explores how his works speak to the political anxieties and crises we face today. Jelks deftly examines the themes in Hughes's work, including creative expression, communal dignity, class struggle, and human suffering and what they mean for our inner well-being as democratic persons and political participants.

With care and no-holds-barred insight, My America removes the veneer of respectability often placed on Hughes's work and life to reveal his political adeptness. In a world threatened by fascism, Hughes's writing wasn't afforded the luxury of subtlety. He made a spiritual and political decision to stand on the side of the oppressed. He believed art should be practiced for the sake of justice. And democracy can be practiced with joy.

¿Qué tan lejos llegarías para hacer realidad tus sueños?

En la bulliciosa ciudad, Perro maneja su pequeña lavandería, pero su corazón anhela el océano. Un encuentro mágico con un cangrejo transportado por un detergente especial lo lleva a emprender un viaje increíble. Juntos, Perro y Cangrejo atraviesan montañas y cascadas, descubriendo que lo imposible solo existe si tú lo permites.

Imposible es un álbum ilustrado infantil en español de Tracey Corderoy y Tony Neal que nos transporta a un mundo donde los sueños pueden hacerse realidad con un poco de determinación y amistad. El cuento está recomendado para niños y niñas a partir de 3 años.

¡Porque los cambios son nuevas aventuras y no deberían dar miedo!

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How far would you go to make your dreams come true?

In a bustling city, Dog runs his small laundry, but his heart longs for the ocean. A magical encounter with a crab carried by a special detergent takes him on an incredible journey. Together, Dog and Crab cross mountains and waterfalls, discovering that the impossible only exists if you believe it does.

Imposible is a picture book in Spanish by Tracey Corderoy and Tony Neal that takes us to a world where dreams come true with determination and friendship. Recommended for children ages 3 and up.

Because change is a new adventure--and it shouldn't be scary!

An acclaimed historian's bold response to two simple, yet vexed, questions: What counts as China, and who counts as Chinese?

China became a capitalist superpower by investing in globalization. Now that it has established its credentials--and emerged as a major US competitor--its leaders are looking within, focused on suppressing dissent and fostering cohesion. The result has been an increasingly nationalist cultural agenda, celebrating a Chinese identity steeped in the mystique of the Middle Kingdom and nostalgia for heroic twentieth-century resistance. Yet Chinese nationalism, like nationalism everywhere, is fraught. Few Westerners, and even fewer Chinese, recognize that the very idea of China is up for grabs.

In this sweeping history, Xu Guoqi explores the transnational construction of Chineseness. The Idea of China describes an identity constantly under renovation. Through dialogue and confrontation with neighbors, more distant outsiders, and Chinese speakers and writers within the state, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the diaspora, the idea of China has been reshaped repeatedly across time. Even bedrock cultural formations like Confucianism have been reimported to China after their translation in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and elsewhere. The idea of China has always been and remains a continuing process, invented, subverted, and reinvented to serve the shifting needs of kings and bureaucrats, industrialists and intellectuals, allies and adversaries.

Xu's chronicle is as provocative as it is rigorous, and his conclusion could hardly be starker: China, fundamentally, is constituted by a shared history. To accept this is to begin moving past the heated great-power rivalries that threaten international peace and stability today.

The high-stakes trials of Carissa Broadbent's The Serpent and the Wings of Night meet the forbidden romance of Keri Lake's Nocticadia in the first of the Aesymarean Duet, as twins thrust into a brutal tournament for godhood must navigate forbidden desires and their own drive for revenge.

In a world where divine power bleeds into the mortal realm, Thais Morvaren has mastered the art of deception. To her seaside village, she's just a fisherman's daughter, serving oysters to summer tourists. In secret, she hides her ability to forge weapons from starlight-a power that would force her into the deadly Trials of Ascension.

But when a priest's ritual exposes her divine heritage, Thais is seized and conscripted into the trials against her will. Now trapped in a competition she never wanted to enter, she transforms her fear into purpose: to kill Olinthar, King of the Gods-the father whose divine touch proved fatal to her mother.
To take down a god, she must become one, even if it costs her everything.

What she doesn't expect is her twin brother's powers suddenly manifesting, forcing him into the trials alongside her-leaving Thais to protect more than just herself.

Worse still, the selection ceremony binds her to a mentor: Xül. A necromancer prince with blood-soaked hands, a sharp tongue, and dark secrets of his own. From the moment they meet, sparks fly. He's insufferably arrogant, she's stubborn to the bone, and neither has any intention of yielding to the other... or to the heat between them.

Each trial survived brings her closer to godhood, but beneath the spectacle of competition, something ancient and malevolent stalks the shadows of the divine realm-a darkness that threatens to unravel the heavens themselves.

Thais may have been forced into the Trials seeking survival, but she'll finish them seeking vengeance.
And the cost of godhood is rising.

Because some stars aren't meant to be weapons.

Some stars are meant to fall.

A beginner's guide to manifesting with candle magic, spell jars, and witchcraft.

Harness the power of the universe and unlock the magic within to claim the prosperity, success, and abundance you deserve.

Manifest Like a Witch is packed with over 50 powerful yet simple spells that will show you how to access your hidden potential, align with your true path, and summon the life of your dreams.

In its pages, you'll discover:

• the essentials of candle magic, spell jars, charm bags, and abundance bowls to attract your deepest desires.
• how to manifest everything you could ever wish for, from your dream house to financial freedom, and finding your true love.
• simple ways to customize spells and incantations to your unique needs.
• helpful charts for choosing the right spell ingredients, crystal types, and candle colors to enhance your manifestations.
• how to connect with your intuition, build confidence, and incorporate witchcraft into your daily life.

Designed for both beginners and seasoned practitioners, Manifest Like a Witch will show you how to use everyday witchcraft practices--some as simple as adding cinnamon to your coffee to draw in good luck--to create the life you've always desired. Whether you're looking to attract love, friendship, wealth, confidence, healing, or protection, this book gives you the tools to make it happen.

Follow Maddie Moate as she takes a look inside everyday objects and machines - from fridges to fire engines!

Starting in the home, you'll find out how microwaves heat your food and how smart speakers react to voice commands. Then take a trip to the supermarket and discover how the checkout works, before heading to the playground and learning why a roundabout makes you feel dizzy!

As you learn about difference machines and objects, you'll go on four mini adventures - from finding missing parts of a toy car, to preparing a birthday picnic. And there are puzzles to solve too, including a spot the difference, a maze and a word ladder.

The marvelous machines featured in this book range from objects in the home (including a smart speaker, a microwave, a dishwasher, a fridge and a toilet!) to machines in the workplace (a dentist's chair, an X-ray machine, a digger and a fire hose), as well as in the playground, at the shops, on holiday and beyond.

Written and researched by Maddie Moate, the star of CBeebies Do You Know?, this book is packed with awesome facts and key STEM concepts - perfect for nurturing curious minds aged 6 and above.