"Ellie is ready to have the best summer ever. She's especially excited to draw under her favorite tree and hang out with her big brother, Ben. But all Ben seems to care about is impressing the new lip-glossy neighbor, Sara. And all Sara seems to care about is turning Ellie's brother into a Hawaii husband! Luckily, Ellie's best friend, Ling, has the marriage list--a top-secret tool to track the lovebirds and stop a wedding before it starts. But nothing...

During the Prohibition Rum Wars, which created a booming smuggling economy, two women masterminds--Elizebeth Friedman, the inventor of cryptanalysis working for the government, and Marie Waite (aka Spanish Marie), on the rise to rumrunner royalty to save her family--will go to any lengths to rule the Gulf Coast. "1926, Washington, D. C. In the Prohibition Rum Wars, the Coast Guard is losing. Eleven million gallons of illegal liquor a year have created...

Fifteen-year-old Mara is heartbroken when her relationship with Nico, deemed toxic by friends, abruptly ends; however, when an amnesic Nico is found at sea, seemingly a new person, Mara is caught between a second chance at love and helping Nico recover her past.

"After the perils of a case that landed much too close to home, Hana Westerman turned in her badge and abandoned her career as a detective in the Auckland CIB. Hoping that civilian life will offer her the opportunity to rest and recalibrate, she returns to her hometown of Tātā Bay, where she moves back in with her beloved father, Eru. Yet the memories of the past are everywhere, and as she goes for her daily run on the beach, Hana passes a local...

How do you catch a brilliant monster? When a sadistic murderer surfaces in Scotland, terrified local authorities call on a Chicago police detective who investigated a killing spree with the same horrific pattern five years earlier. A shocking thriller about two detectives with tortured pasts trying to stop a merciless serial killer before he claims his next victim

"For years, Aidan Koch's comics have been pushing the boundaries of the medium, helping reimagine what a comic can look like, and the kinds of stories it can tell. Koch has been living and working in the desert of California, turning her focus toward the ways humans and the natural world converge. Spiral and Other Stories is a triumph of that continuing process. Using watercolors, pencils, crayons, charcoals, and collage, Koch builds worlds of dense...

"The definitive, authorized, and first-ever biography of Terry Allen, the internationally acclaimed visual artist and iconoclastic songwriter who occupies an utterly unique position straddling the disparate, and usually distant, worlds of conceptual art and country music. 'People tell me it's country music,' Terry Allen has joked, 'and I ask, 'Which country'?' For nearly sixty years, Allen's inimitable art has explored the borderlands of memory, crossing...

Legendary Admiral Yi leads an allied fleet of ships against invaders in his final valiant naval battle to annihilate the retreating Japanese army. Now seven years after their deadly invasions of Korea, a massive battle at sea unfolds during the winter of 1598 in the Noryang Strait.

In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about the latest breakthrough discoveries in the world of science. In this program: a submersible submarine finds ancient deep-sea coral reefs; an earthquake simulator helps us understand how to erect tall buildings that can withstand powerful earthquakes; researchers create biofuel from waste; scientists invent a type of robotics that grows like a plant; advances are made in fabricating the human...

"Anyone fortunate enough to have seen the sun set at Kommos in southern Crete will have heard the calls and glimpsed the shadows: proud ships glide into the bay, escorted by songs and steered by men with salt-encrusted faces, confident, hardy, and satisfied. Much like four thousand years ago, when Kommos was a way station for mariners who had made the sea their home and the horizon their destination. They were no cause for alarm, these men from Syria,...