Freddy Buttons loves eating honey made by the bees in his own back garden. It’s so sticky and sweet.But what if there were no honey bees in the garden at Tumbledown Cottage?What if the beehives were attacked?What would Freddy Buttons do?Call the FBI of course!Join Freddy Buttons on his adventures at Tumbledown Cottage, and learn interesting facts about where your food comes from as he solves foodie mysteries with the FBI. And don't forget to try the recipe!

The summer is over and it's time to go back to school.Freddy Buttons is looking forward to seeing all his friends.But all is not well in the school's vegetable garden.Who can Freddy turn to for help?The FBI can't go to school!Or can they...?Join Freddy Buttons on his adventures at Tumbledown Cottage, and learn interesting facts about where your food comes from as he solves foodie mysteries with the FBI. And don't forget to try the recipe!

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times) Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas—the Butterflies. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "This Julia Alvarez classic is a must-read for anyone of Latinx descent." —Popsugar.com "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." —People "Shimmering . . . Valuable and necessary." —Los Angeles Times "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.” —St. Petersburg Times "Alvarez does a remarkable job illustrating the ruinous effect the 30-year dictatorship had on the Dominican Republic and the very real human cost it entailed."—Cosmopolitan.com

Freddy Buttons is in the garden at Tumbledown Cottage with Juno, his dog.It’s a beautiful day. Mahatma Gander and Willow Goose are taking a stroll.The chickens are busy foraging. The birds are tweeting.Everyone is happy, except Miss Sally the goat. She looks miserable. And very confused.Once again, all her hay has gone missing. Who could be taking it?It’s time for Freddy to call the FBI – there’s a mystery to be solved…

It’s Market Day and Freddy Buttons is off to the city with his family. They have lots of food from the garden to sell at the market.Freddy promises Mrs Drake that she can have some of his delicious strawberries next week for the Baking Competition.But can Freddy keep his promise?When he returns to Tumbledown Cottage the strawberry patch is in disarray.Plants dug up, strawberries thrown everywhere.Who could have done such a thing?It’s time for the FBI to investigate…Join Freddy Buttons on his adventures at Tumbledown Cottage, and learn interesting facts about where your food comes from as he solves foodie mysteries with the FBI. And don't forget to try the recipe!

Since the Mexican government initiated a military offensive against its country’s powerful drug cartels in December 2006, some 50,000 people have perished and the drugs continue to flow. In The Fire Next Door, Ted Galen Carpenter boldly conveys the growing horror overtaking Mexico and makes the case that the only effective strategy for the United States is to abandon its failed drug prohibition policy, thus depriving drug cartels of financial resources.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, Cory Doctorow, comes Pirate Cinema, a new tale of a brilliant hacker runaway who finds himself standing up to tyranny. Trent McCauley is sixteen, brilliant, and obsessed with one thing: making movies on his computer by reassembling footage from popular films he downloads from the net. In the dystopian near-future Britain where Trent is growing up, this is more illegal than ever; the punishment for being caught three times is that your entire household's access to the internet is cut off for a year, with no appeal. Trent's too clever for that too happen. Except it does, and it nearly destroys his family. Shamed and shattered, Trent runs away to London, where he slowly learns the ways of staying alive on the streets. This brings him in touch with a demimonde of artists and activists who are trying to fight a new bill that will criminalize even more harmless internet creativity, making felons of millions of British citizens at a stroke. Things look bad. Parliament is in power of a few wealthy media conglomerates. But the powers-that-be haven't entirely reckoned with the power of a gripping movie to change people's minds.... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.