Here comes the march of the penguins...and the Antarctic fox, Artic shrew, Lapland longspur, and Canada lynx. These are creatures of the extreme cold, from the ermine and polar bear to the gyrfalcon and reindeer, and children will love connecting the dots and learning all about them. Monica Russo, author of nearly a dozen great dot-to-dot collections, has provided a thoroughly appealing introduction that’s packed with fascinating information. Each spread contains one full-page picture and a page of facts, plus a small drawing of a globe with an arrow pointing to the region where the animal lives.

Trolls, mad science, government secrets—Dr. Autumn Pike had thought she'd seen it all. When her secret war project is shut down, the desperate doctor will do anything to save her pets. A circus performer's niece introduces Autumn to a unique menagerie of retired circus acts and supernaturals. As time runs down on the kill order, Autumn must convince the circus to help or lose her trolls forever. Monsters of Winter is a fast-paced, creature-filled urban fantasy adventure set in 1920s New York. If you love historical fantasy, quirky characters, and the roaring 20s, buy now to jump into Autumn's adventure! This fantasy short story will tickle your sense of adventure and have you cheering for this wayward doctor and her monsters. Keywords: historical fantasy, 1920s fantasy, dieselpunk, urban fantasy, short story, fast reads, fantasy.

Dot Tegydd is the third daughter of propertied parents who longed for a son. Hywel Fletcher was born the day his father was killed in the pit, and is bitterly resented by his mother. And Huw Pettigrew is the much-loved and hard-working eldest child in a respected working family. Dot and Hywel dream of a contented future caring for their land, while Huw's dreams are more like nightmare . . . Yet when tragedy strikes it is Huw's vision which brings the three together and gives each of them, in the end, their heart's desire.

In the eve of the first independence referendum, Louis Bourbon discovers that he has a growing problem: debt. In his first year as a medical student, he tries to resolve his financial troubles by attempting to become a pimp. After the attempt fails, Louis takes a sojourn in Cuba to “escape from himself.” There, he meets the innocent yet seductive Isabella, who is a symbol of the regime she lives in. Louis then heads back to Montreal to complete his medical studies. Shortly thereafter, he is involved in a relationship with Marie, a married woman with compulsive desires and a maniacal fear of aging. Louis later finds that his former high school friend, Sosthène, has embraced the lifestyle and values of Communist China and is seeking Quebec’s independence from Canada. Sosthène seeks Louis’s help in promoting his political ambitions but is met by reluctance. Sosthène, in a show of defiance and frustration, resolves to seek his revenge on the Establishment through an ill-fated bank robbery.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse comes a fascinating and fantastic collection that explores complex emotional and intellectual landscapes at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life. A VINTAGE BOOKS ORIGINAL. In "All Kinds of Proof," a down-and-out drunk makes the unlikeliest of friends when he is hired to train a mail-carrying robot; in "Blood Memory," a mother confronts the dangerous reality that her daughter will never assimilate in this world after she was the first child born through a teleportation device; in "The Blue Afternoon That Lasted Forever," a physicist rushes home to be with his daughter after he hears reports of an atmospheric anomaly which he knows to be a sign of the end of the earth; in "Miss Gloria," a robot comes back to life in many different forms in a quest to save a young girl. Guardian Angels and Other Monsters displays the depth and breadth of Daniel H. Wilson's vision and examines how artificial intelligence both saves and destroys humanity.

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