"If you could have any animal's tongue, whose would you choose? If you had a gaur's tongue, you could taste test ice-cream flavors. If you had a chameleon's tongue, you could catch any Frisbee. And if you had a wolf's tongue, you'd never break a sweat no matter how hot it got! The animal kingdom has tons of amazing tongues, but yours is pretty great, too!"--

"In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In "King Billy Is a Gentleman,"...

A crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet: becoming model citizens. Never have there been five friends as infamous as these guys: dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf, seen-it-all safecracker Mr. Snake, chill master of disguise Mr. Shark, short-fused 'muscle' Mr. Piranha, and sharp-tongued expert hacker Ms. Tarantula, aka 'Webs.' But when, after years of countless heists and being the world's most-wanted...

"The acid-tongued Dorothy Parker is back and haunting the halls of the Algonquin with her piercing wit, audacious voice, and unexpectedly tender wisdom. Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, drink in hand, searching for someone, anyone, who will keep her company on this side of eternity. After forty years she thinks she's found the perfect candidate in Ted Shriver, a brilliant literary...

"This is the story of Temujin, who would be known as Genghis Khan, the ruthless founder of the largest contiguous empire in history, the Mongol Empire... Three childhood friends and sworn brothers -one was initiated into the sacrament and grew up to be a great shaman while the other two followed the path of war and the nation recognized them as leaders. But only one of them was to become the ruler of the land. He was chosen by the Eternal Blue Sky,...

Louis Tomlinson triumphantly returns with his first new music since the release of his million-selling debut solo album Walls in 2020. Written by Louis, Rob Harvey, and Red Triangle, and produced by Mike Crossey (the 1975 and Wolf Alice), Bigger Than Me is an impassioned pop song with a gargantuan and emotional chorus.

Fifty royalty-free plays for children in the lower and middle grades based on such folk and fairy tales as "Pandora's Box," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "The Soup Stone."