The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting documentary on the pains of growing up male. It explores the inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure. The film provokes the viewer to reflect on how our society can deprive boys of wholeness. Through formative events of a boy’s life, we come to understand the ways in which men can become emotionally disconnected and alienated from their feminine side. The common dismissal that “boys will...

Mrs. Frizzles introduces facts about insects, including the life cycle of butterflies, how crickets communicate, and how ants work together in a community.

Thirty creepy stories about warped technology, revengeful ants, sadistic gym teachers, and other terrifying things. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.

Hace cuatro años, Brynn dejó el instituto Saint Ambrose después de que su profesora favorita muriera asesinada, un crimen que conmocionó al país entero. Ahora trabaja como becaria en un programa de true crime, la oportunidad perfecta para descubrir qué pasó en realidad. Para ello, tirará del hilo de antiguos contactos, los tres alumnos que encontraron el cadáver. El testimonio de Tripp, su antiguo amigo, fue clave para exculpar a los otros...

"Explorers Troop 301 has explored a lot of planets hoping to find a place to call home. But their latest mission feels like the most boring ever--until they get chased by giant ANTibodies straight into the planet's open mouth! Can Finn and his friends make it through all thirty-five stomachs, battle an army of ants, out-whiz a super-computer in a deadly game of trivia, and find a way out? Or are they doomed to be part of the planet's balanced diet?"--...

"Back when restaurant menus were still printed on paper, and wearing a mask—or not—was a decision made mostly on Halloween, David Sedaris spent his time doing normal things. As Happy-Go-Lucky opens, he is learning to shoot guns with his sister, visiting muddy flea markets in Serbia, buying gummy worms to feed to ants, and telling his nonagenarian father wheelchair jokes. But then the pandemic hits, and like so many others, he’s stuck in lockdown,...

The buoyant mood at Bistro Rousseau deflates when Chef Camille's sister, Renee, turns up dead in the chef's kitchen, and Mimi Rousseau must tease the real killer out of a mélange of menacing characters. Crush Week in Nouvelle Vie is a madhouse - in a good way. Tourists pour into town for the pressing of the Napa Valley's world-renowned grapes, and all the town's businesses get a nice lift, including Bistro and Maison Rousseau. Mimi is raising the...

"Join the frantic chase in Peru for the sacred object that can stop the black magician''s final plan."--

From the cover. Long before people could turn to book for instruction and amusement, they relied upon storytellers for answers to their questions about life. Africa boasts a particularly rich oral tradition, in which the griot -- village historian -- preserved and passed along cultural beliefs and experiences from one generation to the next. The present collection of thirty timeless fables comes from the storytellers of Nigeria, whose memorable narratives...

Rhyming text and illustrations introduce the noisy world of the fire engine.