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Spring Bureau Sorceress and Weaving Master Fahng has returned from her quest through the Jade Emperor’s Skyland. The threat of Jōshwee hangs over the Dukedom of Morning Song, and she looks for ways to use the magic of the Pipes of Kunlun in the city’s defense.

China’s most outrageous character—the magical Monkey who battles a hundred monsters—returns to the fray in this seventeenth-century sequel to the Buddhist novel Journey to the West. In The Tower of Myriad Mirrors, he defends his claim to enlightenment against a villain who induces hallucinations that take Monkey into the past, to heaven and hell, and even through a sex change. The villain turns out to be the personification of his own desires, aroused by his penetration of a female adversary’s body in Journey to the West.

As soon as I slid the contents from the envelope, I knew it was a bomb. So opens Justice Never Rests, the story of U.S. Attorney William Kolibash’s relentless fight against organized crime in the foothills of West Virginia and beyond. Not content with only the investigative and prosecutorial tools at his disposal, Kolibash sought new and different means to put away kingpins who’d successfully skirted the law.

The Revolutionary War was over, but Washington’s officers had not received their wages from the Continental Congress in years. Afraid they would never get their money, the officers planned to storm Congress and demand it right away. Luckily, George Washington found out about the plot just in time. He delivered a passionate speech to his men, but they were unaffected. It was only when he struggled to read aloud a letter from Congress and had to put on his glasses, that they realized how much he had sacrificed for their country along with them.

From the former USA Today journalist and author of The Chosen Few, the untold story of The Battle of Ramadi, which led to a war that would last seven years, claim thousands of lives and evolve into a traumatic legacy for the US military and its veterans. Their nickname was the Magnificent...

À ceux qui croient que l'amour est la source de tout, ce livre vous le confirmera. Aux autres qui ne savent pas de quoi je parle, ce livre vous donnera espoir que cela est possible, surtout quand vous ne vous y attendez pas. Quand deux êtres se rencontrent et ne peuvent dépasser le stade de l'amitié dû aux circonstances de leurs vies respectives, l'Univers les remet en face l'un de l'autre lors d'une méditation à des centaines de kilomètres de distance, 20 ans après, même journée, même heure.

A point-blank attempt on confusion itself. Marked by the dogged precision of one resolved to sort the universe with nothing more than a pen and a visceral hunger for understanding, this berserk dissection of the world stands alone—a sober yet dynamic testament both to what crystalline lucidity lines the unnervingly paradoxical, and what incontrovertible madness is tucked into the folds of the mundane.

Sold to a master weaver, a thirteen-year old apprentice called Fahng must divine the meaning of a “sampler” made of strings and bamboo to continue with her weaving sisterhood. Encoded in a forgotten language of knotted Patterns, the sampler is The Weaving Maiden's Mystery. Aided by clues from weaving lore and her master’s training in martial arts, dance, and fortune telling, Fahng discovers the guild’s wisdom and its closely guarded technique for making an exquisite gauze fabric. Her visionary talents lead her to become a weaving master in her own right.

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s popular one-act play is back as a musical in Aria Da Capo (Da Capo Con Musica). Songwriter, L. J. Schulz brings Millay’s evocation of the post-World War I spiritual "wasteland" up to the moment with a score in rock, folk, gospel, and show-tune styles.

Theodore yearns to RACE, to EARN his wins, to prove his WORTH. The only catch? Well, he’s a sloth, the slowest mammal ON THIS EARTH. But that can't stop a dream. With determination, a few good friends and a touch of science, Theo sets out to overcome his obstacles.

Walt Whitman is celebrated as an iconic American poet, but few know of the crucial and heroic role he played tending to the wounded and dying in Civil War hospitals. This nonfiction book highlights Whitman’s compassion and teaches an important lesson about empathy. New York Times-bestselling author Gary Golio and Caldecott Honor artist E. B. Lewis bring Whitman’s story and his passion for America to life.

Aria's chronic illness has robbed her of freedom, friends, and romance. However, an incredible act of magic transforms her and she's swept into a mysterious and perilous new world of fae, sorcerers, and vampires. In the once-sleepy town of Colville, the sky cracks open and magic rains down, enchanting everything it touches. Aria and her classmates Claire, Sorin, and Michael start to manifest strange supernatural abilities.

Fall of Crysin, Book I of the Irrillania Chronicles, begins the journey of Prince Jayden Rionthorne, sole heir to the throne of Crysin.