May 2022

The eleven stories in Mackin’s mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit. Whenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this incredibly powerful book.

Wild biography from the former SNL comedy writer and star of Better Call Saul.

A novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

After meeting some travelers on a trip to Thailand in 2005, Kepnes realized that living life meant more than simply meeting society's traditional milestones – such as buying a car, paying a mortgage and moving up the career ladder. Inspired by them, he set off for a year-long trip around the world before he started his career. He finally came home after ten years – over 500,000 miles, 1,000 hostels and 90 different countries later! Filled with the color and perspective that only hindsight and self-reflection can offer, this collection of travel stories get to the real questions at the heart of wanderlust and will hopefully inspire people of all ages to explore this magnificent world.

Examining the psyche – and psychoses – of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge their appetites. Remind you of anyone?

Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. The stories are accessible, fully-drawn narratives offering the subjects’ childhood influences, the time and place in which they lived, their accomplishments and motivations and the legacies they left for future generations as links in the “freedom chain.”

Ten-year-old Kai feels like he’s got this junior protector thing down. But when he fails to prevent his mom and sister from being kidnapped, Kai isn't sure he’s cut out for the job. Delphi is finally starting to feel at home in Pineapple Cove. But when she discovers an underwater world that just feels right, she questions where she truly belongs. Together, Kai and Delphi must face their fears, journey to an underwater world, and rescue Kai’s family, before time runs out in this second entry of Bowman’s The Legend of Pineapple Cove series.

A team of genetically enhanced extinct animals embark on top-secret missions around the world in this first entry of The Extincts graphic novel series.

Frankie and Sal have already played every sport and board game invented, baked and eaten batches of cookies and painted a zillion pictures. What’s left to do? Nothing! Ten seconds of nothing! Can they do it? Makes for a wonderful interactive read aloud in class or at home in bed.

Do dinosaurs still walk among us? Sure, no one has seen one, but if alligators, whales, and even birds still exist, then dinosaurs must still roam among us, right? Readers, dinosaur lovers, and educators alike will roar with laughter in this dinosaur picture book for kids that blends STEAM concepts with hilarity, clever chaos and fun illustrations by Andy Elkerton.