Anne is an orphan with a penchant for daydreaming and distinctive flaming-red hair that catches the eye of everyone she meets. She is overjoyed to be sent to Green Gables, the Cuthberts\' farm, which she imagines to be the home she has always dreamt of. When her new family, who had been expecting the arrival of a boy, display reservations about the newcomer, Anne must win them over with her charm,

David Busch\'s Nikon Z5 Guide to Digital Photography is your all-in-one comprehensive resource and reference for getting the most out of your Nikon Z5 mirrorless camera. Nikon\'s most affordable full-frame mirrorless model boasts up-scale features, including dual memory card slots, five-axis image stabilization for sharp images even when using slow shutter speeds, and an advanced hybrid autofocus system

Palmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he\'s dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he\'s supposed to become a

From a bestselling illustrator, this utterly unique comic-style book for kids 4 to 8 explores super-small creatures with astounding abilities. Did you know that some of the smallest creatures on Earth have real-life superpowers? The minute oribatid mite can lift more than 1,000 times its own weight. A tiny type of salamander (called an axolotl) can regrow body parts. And the almost microscopic tardigrade?

The remarkable life of Colonel Edward Despard, comrade-in-arms of Nelson and a man who championed the rights of freed slaves, but who was executed in Britain for high treason in

Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown\'s two years\' worth of travel searching for home. As she travels across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic and then to Trinidad and Tobago to attend the funeral of her grandmother, Brown tells her own life-story, as well as writing about race, gender, sexuality, and

This book analyses institutional reforms implemented by Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzō, under his second administration from 2012 to 2020. Also examined is the evolution in the role of such actors in Japanese politics as bureaucrats, Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) factions, and backbenchers of the ruling party. Chapters offer multi-dimensional explanations for the preconditions of successful gradual

A wormhole into a fleeting romance told in a mind-bending first-person chorusTime Zone J is Julie Doucet\'s first inked comic since she famously quit in the nineties after an exhausting career in an industry that, at the time, made little room for women. The year is 1989 and twenty-three-year-old Doucet is flying to France to meet with a soldier. He\'s a man she only knows through their mail correspondence,

\\This series explores the history of European peoples, with the first book focusing on ancient history. To understand the evolution of Europeans, we must go back to the end of the Paleolithic Age. In all probability, from 40,000 BC onward, there was a slow migration from the South across the Middle East, which continued during the Paleolithic Age, and all human languages stem from three principal

Torture - that most notorious aspect of medieval culture and society - has evolved into a dominant mythology, suggesting that the Middle Ages was a period during which sadistic torment was inflicted on citizens with impunity and without provocation: popular museums displaying such gruesome implements as the rack, the strappado, the gridiron, the wheel, and the Iron Maiden can be found in many modern

The internationally bestselling tour de force of love and tragedy in the Spanish Civil

\'As we contemplate the coming months, not knowing when we can breathe again, it\'s worth thinking about how already the foundations have been laid for whatever new opportunities God has for us on the far side of this crisis.\'Rowan Williams offers these words of wisdom and many more in Candles in the Dark. This powerful and timely book brings together the 26 weekly Christian meditations originally

Rama and Sita live happily in the forest until Sita is abducted by the demon king Ravana. Can Rama rescue her - and who is the little white monkey who offers to

Pour yourself a strong shot of rivalry, romance, and murder. Travel writer Jill Curtis is in Louisville, Kentucky, on the next stop of her bourbon tour assignment, and is keen to explore the local distilleries with her videographer, Michael Erickson - especially since her new beau, Lieutenant Nick Harris, lives in the city. But the night before Jill\'s first tour at Parker\'s Distillery, she is shocked

Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip PrizeA comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the authoritarian president of Turkey.One of the world\'s most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ruled over Turkey as either prime minister or president since 2003. This graphic biography sheds light on the origins of Turkey\'s most powerful man, from his youth as a budding soccer

Shiro Kashiba stands atop any list defining Japanese food in Seattle. He\'s been called many things--culinary master, fisherman, mushroom forager and nature lover--but first and foremost he\'s the Sushi King. His eponymous debut cookbook is no chef-vanity affair, though, but a riveting and imaginative blending of East and West in the quest for high gastronomic art. --Shelf Awareness A fabulous read