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Sold outAvengers Omnibus Vol. 6
Featuring iconic art from George Pérez and John Byrne! Collecting a three-year run of The Avengers at its very best, with dynamite work from an awesome assemblage of legendary Avengers creators! First, Gerry Conway joins George Pérez for a new era for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. When Wonder Man returns, the team's internal drama reaches a crescendo all while the Avengers wage war against Doctor Doom. Jim Shooter takes over as writer with John Byrne taking turns with Pérez on art. They begin a series of classic encounters staged on a massive scale, taking on Ultron, the Lethal Legion and the epic threat of Korvac! Then, David Michelinie changeth the order again with a trip to Wundagore Mountain. Plus: Jim Starlin's cosmos-altering Thanos War, a solo flight for the Falcon and the tragic tale of Arsenal! COLLECTING: Avengers (1963) #150-188; Avengers Annual (1967) #6-9; Super-Villain Team-Up (1975) #9; Marvel Two-in-One Annual (1976) #2; Marvel Premiere (1972) #35-37, 49; What If? (1977) #3, 9; material from Marvel Tales (1966) #100, Marvel Treasury Edition (1974) #13 Written by Gerry Conway, Jim Shooter & David Michelinie With Steve Englehart, Stan Lee, Scott Edelman, Bill Mantlo, Jim Starlin, Roger Stern, Marv Wolfman, Roger Slifer, Steve Gerber, Tom Defalco, Mark Gruenwald, Steven Grant, Mark Evanier, Gil Kane, Roy Thomas & Don Glut
Penciled by George Pérez, Sal Buscem & John Byrne With Jack Kirby, John Buscema, Herb Trimpe, Jim Shooter, Don Heck, George Tuska, Jim Starlin, Dave Wenzel, Carmine Infantino, Jim Mooney, Don Newton, Michael Netzer, Gil Kane, Jim Craig & Alan KupperbergSold out -
Nord Stream Conspiracy: The Inside Story of the Explosions That Shook the World
A riveting exposé of the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, the largest act of sabotage in modern history, told through unprecedented access and deep investigative reporting--part geopolitical thriller, part true-crime detective story, part gritty war chronicle
In September 2022, Scandinavian seismologists detected what seemed to be an undersea earthquake near the Danish island of Bornholm. Instead, several powerful explosions had destroyed Nord Stream, the $20 billion pipeline system that transported cheap Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea. The mysterious blasts shifted global geopolitics, disrupted European economies, and triggered a manhunt that strained relations within the NATO alliance. Drawing on years of firsthand reporting, award-winning Wall Street Journal correspondent Bojan Pancevski presents the definitive, behind-the-scenes account of this audacious operation. Authorized at the highest levels of Ukraine's leadership, the mission was ostensibly unofficial and conducted with the utmost secrecy. Pancevski secured exclusive access to the German investigators and their political overseers as well as the Ukrainian agents who executed the attack--a team of intelligence officers, military personnel, and civilian divers. The saboteurs operated on a shoestring budget, using a small rented yacht with a seven-member crew to conduct the strike at great risk in extremely turbulent waters. The Nord Stream Conspiracy addresses the two leading theories about who was responsible, Russia or the US, and explains how these narratives developed, including the popular US theory involving the CIA, which knew about the plot. This gripping account exposes the human stories and moral complexities behind one of the most remarkable geopolitical mysteries of our time, one that redefined modern warfare.Sold out -
Ice Cream Face
The Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning creator of Brick by Brick brings to delicious life the anxiety and elation involved in waiting in line to get ice cream--now available in board book. As far as this ice-cream-loving kid is concerned, every meal should include ice cream. In any form, in every flavor, he loves it all. But what he doesn't love is seeing other people with ice cream while he's still waiting in line for his. That's when he can get his mad, "no-ice-cream-yet, waiting-in-a-long-line face"--until he finally gets his cone, and his mad face melts into something sweet. Heidi Woodward Sheffield gently explores a range of emotions as they relate to this delicious, everyday experience. -
Untold Story of the Binky Fairy
Giving up binkies and pacifiers is hard...but in this imaginative picture book from bestselling author Diane Alber, the Binky Fairy is here to help kids see how magical growing up can be!
The Binky Fairy needs binkies, and she needs them quick! There are so many toddlers and babies around the world in need of soothing. With a little bit of creativity and generosity, toddlers and families can help the Binky Fairy make sure babies everywhere are loved and comforted.
In this enchanting and funny story, the Binky Fairy helps kids give up their binkies and pacis, celebrating the magic of growing up. This hilarious picture book adds a touch of magic to the tradition of weaning off of pacis by making every visit from the Binky Fairy truly unforgettable for kids ages 4-6. This fairy story is the perfect read-aloud or gift opportunity for little ones that are binky obsessed, for story time, or for any occasion!
Have you ever wondered where babies get all their binkies and pacifiers (pacis) from? Well, that's my job! I'm the Binky Fairy.
Other books in this magical series:
- The Untold Story of the Christmas Fairy
- The Untold Story of the Easter Fairy
- The Untold Story of the Tooth Fairy
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Sold outDive
"A magical portrait of the unique ways we look at life and connect with others."--Kirkus Reviews
A true dive into the enchanting inner world of a unique boy, where wonder and creativity flow through the vast ocean of the autistic universe.In this heartfelt narrative, we follow the journey of a worried mother and a compassionate doctor as they explore the enchanting inner world of a uniquely special boy. As they delve deeper, they discover that his world is as vast and profound as the ocean--a place of wonder, depth, and emotion.
This sensitive and respectful story offers a luminous window into the autistic universe, celebrating the many ways we can connect, understand, and embrace one another. Through vibrant, expressive illustrations and lyrical prose, Dive reveals the beauty and complexity of human connection, inviting readers to see the world through fresh, compassionate eyes.
Tender and humorous, this visually rich tale is a celebration of empathy, creativity, and the mysterious inner worlds of children. It invites readers of all ages to dive into the ocean of feelings we all carry inside.
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Field Guide for the Formerly Villainous
STARDEW VALLEY meets STUDIO GHIBLI in a charming cozy fantasy about healing, redemption, and the subtle magic of simple living. Perfect for fans of Can't Spell Treason Without Tea and The Spellshop. Welcome home, weary traveler.
When Oaklin Nettlewood accidentally joined an evil world-ending cult, mind control magic forced them to do unspeakable things. Years later, the realm's heroes have finally saved the day, defeated the villain, and shattered the last remnants of the spell...leaving destruction in their wake. And so, with a spell-damaged memory and whole bushel of trauma, Oaklin escapes to a small farm on the edge of Mossley's Rest and swears an oath: After all the things they were forced to do with their magic, they will never use it again. Ever.
The no-nonsense ghost granny who lives in Oaklin's house has other ideas. As she coaxes Oaklin out of their shell and back into the world, they find companionship (a grumpy horse and a very good dog), friendship (a local bard and magical baker who should just kiss already), and tentative romance (a paladin-librarian who makes Oaklin's heart come alive for the first time in ages.) Magic even seems possible again--though strictly for foraging magical mushrooms and protecting the farm from bugs.
Healing comes in gentle waves, and Oaklin doesn't have to do it alone. So what does it mean when an inquisitor comes to town to hunt former cultists just as Oaklin begins to think that maybe, just maybe, they deserve a happy ending after all?
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Woo-Hoo It's Potty Time Little One: Let's Celebrate Going Potty
Make potty time so much fun for little one with this sweet and encouraging board book from the USA Today bestselling author Sandra Magsamen!
Everyone has to use the potty - so why not make potty time party time? In this heartwarming, gender-neutral board book, Little One is growing up with your toddler by learning to use the bathroom. The perfect toilet training gift, reward, or introduction, babies and toddlers' favorite elephant takes on the potty and is celebrated every step of the way!
Filled with lively illustrations, gently rhyming text, and activities like silly jokes or sweet songs your little one can try on the toilet, this charming board book encourages listening to your body and having a positive potty time experience!
When your tummy starts to talk,
to the potty you will walk.
Take a seat and get in the groove,
soon your body will start to move!
Why readers love Woo-Hoo It's Potty Time Little One!:
- A special keepsake with a Memorable Moments page to record all of Little One's achievements!
- Meaningful gift for babies and toddlers learning to use the potty, with heartfelt reassurance and gentle reminders about this special step towards growing up.
- Thick board pages made for little hands and repeat reads!
- Familiar Faces from the beloved Welcome Little One series keep toddlers engaged while reinforcing healthy hygiene habits.
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Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State
"You'll never look at a can of tuna the same way again." -Malcolm Harris, nationally bestselling author of Palo Alto
The hidden story of the California Coast, told through generations of immigrants, surges of industry, and three marine species caught in the dragnet of human history. Look west from San Francisco or Monterey, past the surfers and cargo ships. This is the California Current, 1,900 miles of the most productive waters on earth. It was here that eighteenth-century locals encountered frisbee-sized abalone mollusks, sardine schools the size of buses, and Yellowfin tuna, each the size of a man. But it was not to last. Over the next three centuries, the abalone, sardine, and tuna were swept into the violent undertow of history. Their species became resources. Fishing and hunting drove the Spanish-Russian territory battle of the eighteenth century, California's virulently racist first "conservation" laws in the 19th, and an ad campaign that kept America fed on just-like-chicken canned goods in the 20th. Along the way, they became drivers of geopolitical competition, catalysts for the dramatic rise and fall of Cannery Row aristocracy, and even surly muses for John Steinbeck and Fritz Lang. Collapsing the distinctions between human and natural history, Tin Can Coast brings the cautionary tale of the California shore to life.Sold out -
Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915
An eye-opening work of narrative history tracing the roots of American fascism back to the Antebellum South.
When American fascists suddenly goose-stepped down Main Street in the 1930s, fascism was seen by the rest of the country as a terrifying and radical new European import. It was not. It didn't come from abroad. Nor was it new or radical. The seed of American fascism was planted by elite southern planters who insisted that slavery need not be addressed in the Constitution because it would soon die out on its own. In The Biggest Lie, Joseph Kelly chronicles fascism's deep roots in the antebellum South; its codification under Jim Crow; and, then, after the Spanish American War, its ascendency in the form of Anglo-Saxon nationalism, proposing that the nation belongs to a master-race-the original lie of American fascism. In this dark hour of American history, Kelly's gripping story reminds us that the monied elite have always exceled at deploying disinformation to bias and inflame the masses, and that there have always been courageous patriots helping us to fight our way out of darkness toward the light.Sold out -
American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon
In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-first-century culinary and cultural powerhouse? Starting in early modern Britain and tracing the story of bacon through the colonial era, the Civil War, the Progressive Era, modern fad diets, and the emerging craft bacon industry, Johnson provides a new perspective on some familiar American narratives. More than a story of production, marketing, and consumption, Johnson argues, this cultural history connects bacon to race, class, and gender while also illuminating major historical forces, such as migration, warfare, urbanization and suburbanization, reform movements, cultural trends, and globalization. For Johnson, bacon's story from "most dangerous food in the supermarket" to pop culture and gastronomic phenomenon reflects the cultural values of a nation. -
Making and Breaking of the American Constitution: A Thousand-Year History
A provocative new history of America's constitution and an urgent call to action for a nation confronted by challenges its founders could never have imagined
The American Revolution occurred at a time when Britain's constitutional order failed to adapt to the extraordinary growth of its colonies. The framers designed an American constitution to succeed where Britain's had faltered, planning for continuous population and territorial expansion that would eventually cross the continent. Yet by the end of the nineteenth century, it was already ill-suited for an increasingly urban, industrialized society, and the transformations of the twentieth century have pushed it to a breaking point. This book charts the history and aims of the American constitution from its origins in an agrarian past to the grave crisis we face today. Mark Peterson traces the American constitutional tradition to the control of land in medieval England, showing how the founders incorporated the aspirations of Magna Carta with the administrative principles of the Domesday Book, a meticulous survey and valuation of landed property commissioned by William the Conqueror. This framework encouraged the growth of democratic self-government in a young nation. It also institutionalized the colonization of territory and the expulsion of Indigenous peoples, establishing a legal blueprint for transforming tribal lands into revenue-yielding real estate for settlers. Peterson's riveting narrative paints an arresting picture of a dynamic republic whose frame of government has changed enormously to meet the challenges of the modern age but whose written constitution has changed very little. Marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, The Making and Breaking of the American Constitution reveals how this widening disconnect threatens the very existence of our democracy. It calls for a constitution that sustains the ideals developed over the past thousand years while meeting the challenges of the future. -
Sold outI Didn't Do It
I Killed Zoe Spanos meets The Counselors in this YA thriller about the daughter of a killer who must prove her innocence after a night of fun turns deadly.
Dina Soto is used to laying low. Ever since her father confessed to murdering two of his students, Dina's mom has kept the family on a short leash to avoid drawing any more attention. But when cute, popular, and incredibly sweet Kai Thompson invites Dina to spend the weekend with him and his friends at his cabin, Dina thinks maybe being noticed wouldn't be so bad. But once at the cabin, Dina realizes one night won't change her reputation as the daughter of a killer-especially not when people start turning up dead. Told in part through police evidence, the truth of what happened that night unravels alongside long-held secrets. But one thing remains true: Dina is adamant she didn't do it. Now, she just has to prove it.Sold out -
Sold outGive Me Everything You've Got
"A hugely talented writer" --Sarah Waters - "Gripping. . . a sensuous game of cat and mouse." --Aisling Rawle - "Stylish, devastating and very hot." --Daisy Alpert Florin, author of My Last Innocent Year
Hot to the touch, an "utterly addictive" (Colin Walsh) modern gothic about a promising young filmmaker pushed to the brink In the middle of an unrelenting heat-wave, up-and-coming filmmaker Ruby arrives at the country house of her idol, Ellen. An iconoclastic feminist director, Ellen has offered Ruby mentorship and a room of her own in which to write her next film. Ellen's home is like something out of a dream--grand and imposing, with sprawling gardens and a shimmering swimming pool. But tension thrums beneath the picture-perfect surface. Ellen's reputation is under fire, and she chastises Ruby for refusing to turn her trauma into art. Meanwhile, Ellen's mercurial twenty-year-old daughter, Lara, lounges by the pool under the blistering sun, drawing her mother's latest houseguest towards her like a moth to a flame. As her hopes for an artistic summer retreat unravel, Ruby finds herself entangled in a dangerous dynamic between mother and daughter, waiting for the heat to break. Ellen and Lara seem to be playing games with her, and only they know the rules. Soon the house itself begins to feel haunted, and Ruby has the unnerving sensation that she's not the first promising young woman to fall under its spell. An incendiary fever dream of a novel set during one sun-bleached July, Imogen Crimp's Give Me Everything You've Got explores the dark corners of ambition, exploitation, and what it takes to be a woman artist.Sold out -
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 3-Book Boxed Set: Crime and Punishment; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov
A beautiful boxed set of Dostoyevsky's three greatest novels, now Penguin Clothbound Classics designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith This stunning clothbound set, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, brings together Dostoyevsky's three greatest novels in modern translations from Penguin Classics. In The Brothers Karamazov, a murder changes the lives of four brothers forever; in Crime and Punishment a student commits an appalling act of random violence; and in The Idiot, a gentle and naive aristocrat finds himself drawn into a web of blackmail and betrayal. Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. -
How to See Like a Machine: Images After AI
We once looked at pictures. Then, with the advent of computer vision and machine learning, pictures started looking at us. By the award-winning artist, filmmaker and thinker. Today our world is under the watchful and tireless eye of computer vision, with cameras and monitors tracing our every move. Furthermore, generative AI is now able to render a synthetic world indistinguishable from reality for us to explore. Trevor Paglen goes in search of the ways and means of understanding this new visual universe. Instead of asking what these technologies "say" about the world, he teaches us to ask what they "do" and where such images come from. Exploring the esoteric worlds of psyops, UFO imagery, magicians, and public relation gurus, Paglen shows that this apparently alien realm is more human, but much stranger, than we imagine.