Birth Science

It’s Robin’s eighth birthday and it seems like everyone has forgotten. But things take a sudden turn when the Cat-Headed Wanderer shows up and sweeps Robin away to a magical party in a fantastical treehouse. It’s a joyful celebration full of song, dance, and newfound friends, but Robin soon realizes there’s another reason they’ve been brought there. To uncover that reason, all Robin needs to do is walk through the half-open door in the back—but what lies beyond.

Emily Peterson started out being a normal woman with normal dreams. Now, she has neither. Now, the family secret is out, and she's a big part of it. Witches, they are all witches. They have been protecting the world from what lies within the walls of her home and what lies beneath.

Mucho está cambiando para Cici. Sus padres se están separando, su abuela se mudó con ellos, y en su décimo cumpleaños, ¡se despierta con alas de hada! Los nuevos poderes mágicos de Cici le permiten ver a las personas como realmente son. Pero lo que descubre acerca de sus amigos y su familia no es fácil de aceptar. Tiene solo un día para decidir si se queda con sus alas. Cuando Cici solo desea que la vida sea normal de nuevo, ¿elegirá creer en el poder de las hadas?

La milenaria, compleja y convulsa historia de China, acaso uno de los procesos históricos más llamativos de todo el planeta, estudiada con precisión y detalle en un período que comprende desde las Guerras del Opio, a la lucha entre Mao Zedong y Chang Kai-Shek y la posterior proclamación del comunismo y el nacimiento de la nueva República Popular China.

Erlebe das erste packende Buchabenteuer von YouTuberin IsyCheesy! Heute ist Isys Geburtstag! Sie freut sich schon auf tolle Geschenke und viel Spaß mit ihren Freunden Lia und Aiden. Ihr Schweinchen Schinken darf natürlich auch nicht fehlen. Doch der Tag hält eine Überraschung für Isy bereit, mit der sie nicht gerechnet hätte. Sie bekommt einen Wunsch geschenkt! Was wohl wäre, wenn Wünsche wirklich wahr würden? Isy probiert es aus, doch schnell wird klar: Ihr Wunsch war ein großer Fehler. Sie muss ihn unbedingt rückgängig machen, und zwar schnell!

Full of balloons, presents and birthday fun (and a sprightly unicorn and her friends), little listeners will love this calming tale before bed. It's Twinkle the unicorn's birthday, and she's having a sleepover party! There are party games, presents, cake, balloons and even fireworks! But as Twinkle's dad counts down to bedtime, there's still a lot going on...will Twinkle and her friends go to sleep in time?

These three exciting chapter books feature some of your favorite Disney heroines on fun adventures as young girls.

These three exciting chapter books feature some of your favorite Disney heroines on fun adventures as young girls.

Still grappling with the darkness they encountered on Nisaim, Jack, Tanner, Allie, and their new friend Gefnar are merely seeking a moment of peace back in the safety of Dragon’s Nest. But the band’s alliance of happenstance is solidified when an ancient face of evil imparts them with a dangerous task. And, with the town they’ve worked so hard to safeguard held for ransom, refusal is not an option.

In the wake of a devastating attack, Dragon’s Nest and its newly proclaimed heroes seek to secure the safety of the weakened town, looking to sea for potential allies. Brought together by circumstance, Jack, Allie, and Tanner join forces once more, traveling to the island of Nisaim off the western coast of Covorum, hoping to secure the aid of the island’s self-proclaimed captain Lenmoir, and to dissuade Lenmoir from any designs he might have on the vulnerable Dragon’s Nest.

Alnora’s childhood was plagued with poverty, desperation, and unmentionable atrocities. That all changed on the day she encountered the Dark Angel, a sorcerer who is the living embodiment of the world’s darkness. After witnessing a display of her potential for the magical arts and the darkness within her heart, this shadowy figure offers Alnora an opportunity to learn the ways of the dark arts and succeed him as the next Dark Angel. With a hunger for power and a quest to leave her traumatizing life behind, Alnora begins an apprenticeship that will change the course of her life.

From the number-one international best-selling author of The Revanant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the fascinating story of America's first battle over the environment. In the last three decades of the 19th century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to 12.

With the increasing demand for midwives among U.S. women, reproductive rights activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights".

When a small town on the edge of the continent is ready to break under the weight of its greed, mistrust, and prejudice, three untested strangers are brought together to combat the coming darkness. One is only searching for clarity beyond her forest home, another wants nothing more than solitude to study the truth behind her painful past, and the third is simply doing his best to appear human. But if the town of Dragon's Nest is to survive, all three will need to set aside their doubts and uncover the dark secrets beneath the stony streets, as well as those above.

Il Desiderio del Settimo Compleanno è una storia magica e divertente di come Wesley, al suo settimo compleanno, sceglie di fare una differenza positiva nella vita degli altri. Wesley compie sette anni e, nel suo mondo, ognuno può realizzare un desiderio per il proprio compleanno. Va in posti nuovi, scopre nuovi amici e vive nuove avventure. Leggi la storia per vedere quale regalo sceglierà!

Рождение Феникса - фантастический роман, первая книга цикла "Игра вместо войны", жанр боевое фэнтези, ЛитРПГ. Третья мировая продолжается на просторах виртуального мира, где под флагами своих стран соберутся все, кто способен дать отпор противнику.

Elephants are as unique as people. They can be clever and curious or headstrong and impulsive, shy or sociable. Learn to know them as individuals as well as a species in this evocative account of years spent studying elephant behaviour in the wild. Watching a family out for a swim on a hot day, Dr Hannah Mumby notes grandmothers, mothers, sisters and children exchanging noisy greetings, a consistent stream of close-range vocalisations, intermittent touching, co-operative herding of babies and frequent stopping for snacks. A close and interconnected family.

In Modern Families, Joshua Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales - his own included - that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. Combining personal memoir and ethnographic storytelling, Modern Families tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales - adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families - set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.

They are not zombies. Or any other supernatural creature that has ever been dreamt up by man. They are The Changed. They are real. And they are everywhere. It happened all at once, all over the planet - every man, woman, child, and animal suddenly changing into a murderous, mindless, twisted version of their former selves. All at once, life as we know it came to an abrupt end. All that survives is one small family: a girl, her mother, and their faithful dog, Maxx.

A medida que su octavo cumpleaños se acercaba, Sophia podrá visitar la Gran Roca de las Hadas, como ella lo planeaba. Pero el Hada no estaba allí. Sin darse por vencido, el espíritu aventurero de Sofía la lleva a la oscura cueva que tiene un secreto oculto. ¿Qué decidirá Sophia cuándo deba olvidarse de su deseo para ayudar a alguien que realmente la necesita?