Time-traveling penguins Pablo and Splash board a Viking longship in this hilarious full-color graphic novel, perfect for fans of Dog Man and InvestiGators.When Pablo and Splash tell their friend Benji about the Vikings and their impressive longships, Benji is desperate to steal the time machine to go plundering for treasure with those ancient warriors. Our intrepid time-traveling heroes Pablo and Splash must get to Viking-era Ireland in time to warn the monks about...

Juan Pablo Villalobos's fifth novel adopts a gentle, fable-like tone, approaching the problem of racism from the perspective that any position as idiotic as xenophobia can only be fought with sheer absurdity.In an unnamed city, colonised by an unnamed world power, an immigrant named Gastón makes his living selling exotic vegetables to eateries around the city. He has a dog called Kitten, who's been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and a good friend called Max, who's in a deep depres...

He died once. He has watched history ever since.Lazarus of Bethany experienced the impossible. He died, was buried, and at the command of Jesus, walked out of his tomb and returned to the living.But resurrection was only the beginning.As years become decades and decades become centuries, Lazarus discovers that he does not age. The people around him grow older. His children become adults. His grandchildren are born. Those he loves eventually die, whi...

Are you on Anti-Inflammatory Diet and too lazy to cook? This recipes book contains 50 surprisingly simple Anti-Inflammatory Diet recipes you can prepare and cook on the same afternoon.In other words, it is so simple, even your lazy ass can cook!The recipes follow the Anti-Inflammatory Diet guidance and they are designed so you can mix and match them according to your preference. Do not think that you have sacrificed your enjoyment of food by giving up meals. Chances are, th...

Oil waste was everywhere—on the roads, in the rivers where they fished, and in the water that they used for bathing, cooking, and washing. Children became sick and died, cases of stomach cancer skyrocketed, and women miscarried or gave birth to children with congenital disorders. The American oil company Texaco—now part of Chevron—extracted its first barrel of crude oil from Amazonian Ecuador in 1972. It left behind millions of gallons of spilled oil and more than eighteen million gallons ...

From an early age in Germany, Kitty Schmidt had lived a life of hardship. Her father had brutally murdered her mother, forcing Kitty to live with her aged grandparents. Her grandfather died and to finance his burial, Kitty had to have sex with the undertaker. This opened the door to her life as a prostitute. It was a journey of poverty, triumph, and evolution; not that of a savvy businesswoman. Her reputation grew.When Kitty attempted to leave Nazi Germany, the Gestapo made a deal ...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Reality proves more epic than fantasy in this family road trip story starring a reluctant young hero and his curmudgeonly grandfather.A Pura Belpré Children’s Author Honor Book**Gonzalo Alberto Sánchez García has never considered himself the hero of his own story. He’s an observer, quietly snapshotting landscapes and drawing the creatures he imagines emerging from them. Forced to spend the summer with his estranged grandfather, Alberto...

Do you crave Mexican meals and too lazy to cook? This recipes book contains 50 surprisingly simple Mexican recipes you can prepare and cook on the same afternoon. In other words, it is so simple, even your lazy ass can cook!The recipes follow the most well known Mexican recipes and they are designed so you can mix and match them according to your preference. Do not think that you have sacrificed your enjoyment of food by giving up meals. Chances are, there are meals you enjoyed eat...

Existential and curiously hypnotic, Pablo d'Ors evokes the sharp stylized prose of Bolaño, Bernhard, and DeLillo in this strange tale of one man's repeated forays into the desert, and the ultimate silence it contains."Thanks to the back cover of a book I knew that there lived in Brno a man who had dedicated a good portion of his life to traveling through many of the world's deserts." So begins Pavel's story, as a series of mysterious circumstances lead him to chang...

Turn your raw data into real knowledge by creating and deploying complex data visualizations with D3.jsAbout This BookUnderstand how to best represent your data by developing the right kind of visualizationExplore the concepts of D3.js through examples that enable you to quickly create visualizations including charts, network diagrams, and mapsGet practical examples of visualizations using real-world data sets that show you how t...

Europe is on the verge of economic collapse following World War II. The communists are at the gate with civil war in Greece and similar movements in Italy, France, and Germany, threatening the West. Our group of patriots once more are called upon to help the Allied cause and stop the collapse by propping up the industrial base and infrastructure of the Western democracies.Richard Blaine and Luis Renault go to Greece to defend democracy and stop Tito's Yugoslavian forces from overru...

Discover everything you've ever wanted to know about Star Wars in this complete history of the most famous franchise in movie history.Painstakingly researched and superbly illustrated, Star Wars™ Year By Year: A Visual History, New Edition presents a unique Star Wars timeline-the full history of the amazing Star Wars phenomenon as you've never seen it before.This stunning visual journey features trivia and cultural corner...