Og competes in a boat race in this adorable, rhyming Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by Theodor Seuss Geisel Award–winning and New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman and renowned illustrator Elio!Og’s show-off Cousin Zog challenges Og and his giant cat, Mog, to a boat race! Which team will win? Og and Mog? Or Zog and Goat? With a little STEAM and good sportsmanship—and a smart suggestion from Mom to bring a coat—will Cous...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones—an epic history of Westeros and the lands beyond, featuring hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R. R. Martin!If the past is prologue, then George R. R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with The World of Ice & Fire....

Occasionally YoursSome relationships don't end.They just fade into confusion.Occasionally Yours is a literary, emotionally precise exploration of modern love—the kind that lives in gray areas, unanswered messages, mixed signals, and connections that never fully arrive but never completely leave.This is not a story about villains or heartbreak in obvious ways.It's about what happens when someone gives you just enough...

Saros Alsena has spent the last ten years mastering elemental magic to follow in his late father's footsteps. Now a fully-fledged mage, he has one final goal: earn the title of archmage and dedicate his life to serving the sovereign Grey Order and the five kingdoms it is sworn to protect. But when Saros's chance to prove himself finally arrives, its source is strange: a plea for help from Princess Raven Vittar, whose kingdom instigated the war that killed Saros's father.Now, Raven'...

The reply came like an arrow shot straight to the heart: Sam rolled up the sleeve of his white shirt and revealed the tattoo that the torturers at Dachau or another camp had branded onto his forearm and into his very being. No further comment would be needed, were it not for the one thing that man could utter: «We, who have already killed death».A first-hand account told through personal experiences and episodes, interwoven with deliberately overlooked historical truths an...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon.For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The story of the only family of dragonlords to survive Valyria’s Doom is a tale of twisty politics, ...

"Goodbye, Tahrir Square" is a first-person memoir written from the standpoint of a Jewish boy growing up in Egypt during the watershed years that shaped the Middle East into the powder keg it is today. Described as the “Holden Caulfield of the Nile” for his rebellious attitude, the boy witnessed—between the ages of seven to fourteen—the 1952 revolution that overthrew King Farouk and gave rise to the dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser; the 1956 Suez war that marked the end of the British em...

This two-set volume CCIS 3103-3104 constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Management of Digital EcoSystems, MEDES 2025, held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, during November 24–26, 2025.The 46 full papers and 12 short papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. They are organized into topical sections as follows:Part I: Education and Learning; Deep Learning; Smart Cities; Parallel and Distributed Archi...

DISASTROUS CHRONICLES OF PORTO MIRTILLOVolume 2: Hats, Crows, and Chaos✨ A comical fantasy adventure for young adults and young-at-heart adults!If you love fantasy books for young adults, funny stories, out-of-this-world characters, and towns where magic is (almost) out of control… then get ready to return to the astonishing Porto Mirtillo! What you'll find in this book:A clumsy and irresistible protagonist: Tobio Sc...

The Disastrous Chronicles of Porto Mirtillo – Volume 1: Bread, Potions, and ProverbsA comical illustrated fantasy adventure filled with magic, laughter, and unforgettable disasters!Welcome to Porto Mirtillo, a town where potions speak for themselves, bread comes to life, and bureaucracy is a truly magical (and destructive) force. When Tobio Scapezzolo, a confused-looking but sincerely hearted handyman apprentice, is tasked with delivering a ...

This multi-volume set, LNAI 16941-16950, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2026, held in Naples, Italy, during September 7–11, 2026.The papers inlcuded in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected; they were organised in different conference tracks: 280 full papers were accepted for the Research Track out of 1150 submissions, and 90 full papers for the Applied Data Science...

Nothing feels great or better than you making pizza at your own comfort.Why not try making a pizza at home before you think of ordering one tonight. And the most amazing part is that pizza making skills are quick and easy to learn.There's so much for you to explore in the world of pizza making and it comes with a lot of fun. With the recipes in this book, you're sure to wow your friends and they won't realize it's not a takeout. It can be that fantastic.