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In these hilarious stories by some of the top authors of middle grade fiction today, each young character is coping with a minor superpower--while also discovering their power to change themselves and their community, find their voice, and celebrate what makes them unique.

Everyone knows that superheroes are supposed to have awesome powers like strength or invisibility or flight. But what happens when you're a mostly regular kid . . . who's just a little bit super?

In these hilarious and thought-provoking stories from today's top middle grade authors, a group of kids are each coping with a recently discovered minor superpower. One can shape-shift--but only part of her body, and only on Mondays. Another can always tell when an avocado is perfectly ripe. One can even hear the thoughts of animals in the pet store--which can be about as heart-tugging as you might imagine. It's hard enough to be in middle school even without some weird ability, but these kids not only find their way to owning their unique powers and potential, they use them to change things for the better . . . and getting there with them is half the fun!

These playful tales prompt readers to consider what their own superpower might be, and how they can use it.

"Award-winning contributors keep delightfully inclusive and accomplished company in this emotionally grounded, compassionate collection. . . . These are not your run-of-the-mill, cape-and-tights-clad superheroes. These are kids with relatable struggles learning to embrace that quirky bit of themselves that makes them unique." --ALA Booklist (starred review)

Written by Pablo Cartaya, Nikki Grimes, Leah Henderson, Jarrett Krosoczka, Remy Lai, Kyle Lukoff, Meg Medina, Daniel Nayeri, Linda Sue Park, Mitali Perkins, Pam Muñoz Ryan, Gary D. Schmidt, Brian Young, and Ibi Zoboi; coedited by Leah Henderson and Gary D. Schmidt.

A city boy moves out to the sticks and befriends a local gal who shows him the true beauty of Hokkaido. The hit manga that inspired an anime--finally available in English in multi-volume omnibus releases!

As soon as sixteen-year-old Shiki Tsubasa from Tokyo steps out of his cab and into the bone-chilling temperatures of Kitami, Hokkaido, he's hit with a wave of culture shock...or maybe it's just hypothermia? But his frosty welcome takes a warmer turn when he meets Fuyuki Minami, a carefree gal who struts through the snow in bare legs without a second thought. Lucky for Shiki, she's his guide to all the quirky wonders of Hokkaido--like sugar on corn dogs, snow huts, the best slopes for skiing, and maybe... even more adorable Hokkaido babes? This city boy may think he's seen it all, but he's about to realize how much he has yet to discover!

Steve Wilson, is the young, rising star chef at one of New York City's most exclusive clubs. In the wrong place at the wrong time, he hears discussions of criminal activity organized by a few members. Steve becomes a tenuous informant for the FBI leading to immersion in the government's witness protection program. His journey turns his life around as he finds temporary homes in some of the most important culinary and cultural centers in the world always fearing for his life, wondering when his enemies will finally track him down. Meeting the love of his life, Chef Steve takes readers on a behind the scenes adventure through professional kitchens in New York City, France, Italy and the remote Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York State. The world is a complicated place of good and evil, those who have so much and those who have so very little, and those who are content and those who are filled with angst and fear. A Cook on the Run is a culinary journey and exposé of the world as it is.

"As surprising as it is unsettling--I Was Alive Here Once overflows with eerie pleasures."--Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House

Ghost stories from Korea, Yemen, Poland, Japan, Uzbekistan, Iceland, Tanzania, and Thailand

A water ghost and a forest ghost fall in love as developers destroy the only world they know. A midwife helps a jinn give birth. When an ancient tree is cut down, it unleashes a family's dark secret along with a vengeful spirit. Through eight contemporary stories exploring a range of genres, from fantasy and horror to eco-fiction and romance, this collection breathes new life into the ghost story, foregoing familiar tropes to speak to today's unique political and ecological horrors. Both lighthearted and menacing, I Was Alive Here Once will lead you into the haze where the living and the dead meet.

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«La mejor cronista de la vida familiar» (Daily Mail), ganadora de los premios Pulitzer, National Book Critics Circle y Pen/Faulkner, regresa con una de sus mejores novelas: una historia llena de humor y esperanza sobre el amor, la familia y la afirmación de la independencia.

Gail Baines ha tenido un mal día. No está segura de si ha dejado su trabajo de forma voluntaria o si la han echado. Es la víspera de la boda de Debbie, su hija, y esta no ha tenido la delicadeza de invitarla al día de spa organizado por su futura consuegra. Para terminar de rematar todo, su exmarido Max se ha instalado en su casa sin avisar, cargado con un gato y sin tan siquiera un traje para asistir a la boda. Pero la verdadera crisis llega cuando Debbie les confía un secreto, del que acaba de enterarse, sobre su futuro marido, que podría dar al traste con el enlace, además de remover el pasado de Gail y Max.

Una novela construida sobre las alegrías y los sinsabores del amor, el matrimonio y la vida familiar, narrada con la sensibilidad, el mordaz sentido del humor y la maestría de la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride navigates the days before and after her daughter's wedding.

"What a treat." --Washington Post

"Simply exquisite." --Liane Moriarty

"Nobody understands human nature better than Tyler. And nobody understands the complexities of love the way she does." --Boston Globe

"Three Days in June is like reading a hug." --Minneapolis Star Tribune

Gail Baines is having a bad day. To start, she loses her job--or quits, depending on whom you ask. Tomorrow her daughter, Debbie, is getting married, and she hasn't even been invited to the spa day organized by the mother of the groom. Then, Gail's ex-husband, Max, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, carrying a cat, without a place to stay, and without even a suit.

But the true crisis lands when Debbie shares with her parents a secret she has just learned about her husband to be. It will not only throw the wedding into question but also stir up Gail and Max's past.

Told with deep sensitivity and a tart sense of humor, full of the joys and heartbreaks of love and marriage and family life, Three Days in June is a triumph, and gives us the perennially bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer at the height of her powers.

Widely acclaimed as a novelist, here Nicola Griffith displays her power, precision, and clarity of thought in multiple modes and forms.

Known for her gorgeously supple prose that soars effortlessly over genre boundaries, Griffith is also an incisive essayist whose ground-breaking, data-driven work on gender bias in the literary ecosystem sparked self-searching conversations worldwide. In this heady mélange of essays, poems, art, and stories--some seen here for the first time--the author makes foundational assertions about love versus ownership ("Wife"), advocates for the writer as explorer ("Branding: It Burns"), and points out the gaping hole in our literary landscape where we'd expect to find disability fiction ("Overwriting the Old Story"). These and other public-facing essays are followed by four powerfully intimate poems. Returning to prose, Griffith immerses us so seamlessly in her viscerally imagined fiction that we feel how it is to be hurled like light through the stars in "Glimmer," hunted through the urban alleys of "Cold Wind" during a holiday blizzard, swept along irresistible currents of "Down the Path of the Sun," and, in "Many Things in Dumnet," a novella published here for the first time, brought ashore as a stranger to land where something is very wrong.

Finally, "Otherwise Unremarkable," series editor Nisi Shawl's interview with the author, teases out sometimes startling and always satisfying answers to questions on power, activism, immigration, cognitive poetics, and art.

One of the greatest comic sagas in history begins here, as Frank Miller takes the reins of Daredevil!

One of the most influential runs in not just Marvel history, but all comics history begins with the arrival of Frank Miller as the driving creative force of Daredevil. Miller remade the mythos of the Man Without Fear, first by illustrating Roger McKenzie's scripts with art partner Klaus Janson, and then by writing his own instantly-iconic tales. Miller grinds the grit of New York City's streets into every page, blending super heroics with dark tone of hardboiled crime. He also brings with him Elektra--the assassin with surprising connections to Matt Murdock's past--and The Hand--a group of eerie and unrelenting killer ninjas. Elektra's tempestuous relationship with Matt Murdock was an instant hit in the '80s. It's just as compelling today and forms the unforgettable backdrop of Daredevil's high-stakes war with the Kingpin.

COLLECTING: DAREDEVIL (1964) #155-176 and material from BIZARRE ADVENTURES (1981) #28 and WHAT IF? (1977) #28

Every solstice, Jupi--just as his father did before him, and his before him--must make a nearly impossible pilgrimage to light an oil lamp at the base of a remote cliff. There he must wait for Kipik, an ancient being who has bound Jupi's family to a mammoth task: share a story every visit that appeases the fickle Kipik, or suffer unthinkable consequences.

For decades Jupi has made the trek, growing grey and exhausted carrying this burden. Nearing the end of his life, Jupi knows he must name a successor, someone from his bloodline who can carry this weight and pass it on to future generations. But Jupi's life has not been easy. His three children, one deceased, one incarcerated, one addicted, are not suitable successors. So Jupi must connect with a granddaughter he barely knows, whose language he barely speaks, and convince her to carry the weight of their family, perhaps their whole community, for the rest of her life.

This moving collection explores shifting definitions of what it means to be accountable to others, how family and community are defined, and how the spirits and demons of the past (both personal and legendary) are very much alive today.

Hop into these adorably egg-citing coloring pages with Color Me Easter (for Kids!).

Celebrate the magic of Easter while keeping little hands busy and imaginations soaring. This charming coloring book bursts with festive designs, from cuddly bunnies frolicking in meadows to cheerful chicks just waiting to be brought to life with splashes of color. These detailed illustrations will build hand-eye coordination, develop fine motor skills, and provide a soothing, calming activity.

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Published in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning Power and Powerlessness examined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman update the story through coal's decline and into the present while focusing on how power relations and community mobilizing have changed and evolved during this era of transition. Their analysis tracks the impact on a place where a fossil fuel-based economy shaped political and social structures for over a century. As they show, new forms of power emerged while old ones remained, and both affected the popular struggle for a future that's both just and more inclusive. Original and timely, Power and Just Transitions merges historical perspective with interviews and engagement to look at how coal's decline impacted power and resistance in an Appalachian community.

Now in paperback. Chirpy the chick makes a new friend who helps her discover how delicious fractions can be in the second book in New York Times bestselling author Nancy Krulik's series.

After her feats of math and science derring-do, Chirpy is the talk of the coop. So when the chicks face a new problem--Clucky greedily chomping down on all the chow--they turn to their Great Mathemachicken for help.

While looking for answers, Chirpy meets Quackers, a very curious duck, who has a lot of his own questions. The pair hops on the school bus to do some investigation, learning about reading and pizza, tally marks and fractions. And it turns out, fractions are yummy . . . and may be the answer to the chickens' coop conundrum.

This second book in the Great Mathemachicken chapter book series combines New York Times bestselling author Nancy Krulik's trademark humor and clever wordplay with hilarious and lively two-color artwork from the incredibly talented Charlie Alder. An engrossing STEM-based adventure that will have young readers clucking for more.

Cryptids beware . . . Jake, Jasmine, and Lanny, the Sasquatch Hunters of Washington, Inc., are at it again in the fourth book of the ever-popular Sasquatch Hunters series! Fresh from their adventure in Scotland, the Sasquatch Hunters are headed to the Olympic Peninsula, the place where it all began when Jake's grandpa first saw a Bigfoot. However, they aren't the only ones pursuing the legendary cryptids on the peninsula. The crew of Jake's favorite TV show, Bigfoot Believers, is filming an episode there. Another young team of Sasquatch stalkers also arrives. Will a friendly rivalry turn ugly? And which team will be the first to prove Bigfoot exists and get their TV show shot at fame? Jake, Jasmine, and Lanny, members of The Sasquatch Hunters of Washington, Inc., are in for their greatest challenge yet as they encounter extreme competition in their quest to locate a Bigfoot. In author K.B. Jackson's fourth title in the series, readers will dive even further into the adventures of the Sasquatch hunters but also learn more about the characters themselves and how their personal lives come to define their friendships.

The story of a little old lady who was never afraid of anything, until one night while walking through the woods she has the scare of her life! 'The little old lady's fearless attitude and her clever solution as to what to do with the lively shoes, pants, shirt and pumpkin head that are chasing her will enchant young audiences. With brilliantly colored, detailed folk art illustrations. A great purchase.'--School Library Journal.