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On the isolated island of Brack, the people live by an ancient bargain: every year, a sacrifice must be made to the Glimm, the creature that haunts the salt marshes. Eight years after the monster spared her, 16-year-old Lotta tends the Council's sacrificial horses and keeps her distance from the villagers who whisper about her fate. But something is stirring. The island is dying...

Guy Hessell has been a well-known landscape gardener for two decades. During that time, hundreds of his clients have asked about the basics of gardening and landscaping with native plants. This inspired him to write Let’s Go Native, a wonderful resource for gardeners in which he generously shares his knowledge. Guy is passionate about our native plants and how special they are b...

Cedric is a dragon like no other. He lives at the zoo, adores children, and is quite possibly the most spectacular dragon Tig has ever known. But when the real reptiles insist he is not a true dragon, Cedric begins to doubt himself. With Tig on his back, he soars far away to find somewhere he belongs, leaving the zoo in chaos. It will take a murmuration of birds, a zoo full of w...

In How to Kill a Language, Sophia Smith Galer offers a wide-ranging and urgent exploration of linguistic loss, tracing how languages disappear not only through violence and policy but through quieter, more intimate decisions made within families and communities. Moving across continents, the book brings together case studies from regions as varied as South America, the Middle Ea...

In Through the Darkening Sea, award-winning Australian author Claire Saxby tells an enchanting, lyrical story about a whale who dies and sinks to the bottom of the sea. The story starts poetically with: ‘Out in the open ocean, where currents sway as wild as wind, where sharks and sea lions widely roam, a whale falls.’ As it sinks gently, like poetry in motion, it becomes surroun...