Wombat Warriors

From the beloved author of Mister Cassowary, Smooch & Rose and Spud & Charli comes another thrilling adventure about Australia’s endangered animals. Mouse is not prepared for her last-minute stay at Aunt Evie’s. How will she cope at a new school without her parents around? But before Mouse has even unpacked her suitcase, she makes a new friend – a wombat called Miss Pearl! Suddenly, being in a strange cottage doesn’t seem so bad, especially when she can snuggle up with a wombat. Mouse soon learns that not everyone in the area loves wombats, including Aunt Evie’s landlord, a sheep farmer who destroys them on sight. Can Mouse find her voice in time to keep her furry friends safe?

The variety of contemporary American poetry leaves many readers overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, he presents 60 poems, each with an original essay explaining how the poem works, why it matters, and how it speaks to other parts of art and culture.

At first his whole world had been the pouch; the sweet scent of his mother, her warmth, and the steady thud of her pulse. Now, he wants to find another world. the warrior is ready to explore. But finding a world, his world, away from the safety of the creel flat and his mother\'9291s hole, is hard and dangerous. And for the warrior to make a new world his, he has to overcome his fears and the ?he Enemy. Ages 8+

Dragon warrior, Dimitri, is struggling in his role as clan leader. A plague took all their females and children, leaving them a dying race without hope. When an uprising separates the clan into two factions, he can do nothing but hope the rogues will soon come to their senses when they leave the castle to search for the non-existent females they believe are hiding somewhere. Shortly after they depart, as if in answer to his prayers, the Great Wind delivers five women to them. Dressed strangely, the dragon warriors are wary of the newcomers. After all, their last visitors brought the plague with them. Concerned with the safety of his clan, Dimitri is unprepared for his instincts to flare. But as soon as he and his twin, Max, touch the beautiful human, Eilagh, it seals all three of their fates. When Eilagh agrees to go camping with her friends in Outback Australia, the last thing she expects to happen is for them all to get blown through a portal to another world. Waking up to two sexy Alpha males hovering over her, claiming she was their one and only is a lot to take in. And don’t get her started on the whole being kidnapped by rogue dragon shifters thing. (Originally published in 2013 under the title “Enchanting Eilagh”, this story has been extensively revised.)

What Persists contains eighteen of the nearly fifty essays on poetry that Judith Kitchen published in The Georgia Review over a twenty-five-year span. Coming at the genre from every possible angle, this celebrated critic discusses work by older and younger poets, most American but some foreign, and many of whom were not yet part of the contemporary canon. Her essays reveal a cultural history from the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, through 9/11 and the Iraq War, and move into today's political climate. They chronicle personal interests while they also make note of what was happening in contemporary poetry by revealing overall changes of taste, both in content and in the use of craft. Over time, they fashion a comprehensive overview of the contemporary literary scene. At its best, What Persists shows what a wide range of poetry is being written--by women, men, poets who celebrate their ethnicity, poets who show a fierce individualism, poets whose careers have soared, promising poets whose work has all but disappeared.

For fans of the Warrior series and Redwall, Braver: A Wombat’s Tale is an exciting new fantasy adventure novel for young readers from Suzanne Selfors and Walker Ranson. A 2021 Charlotte Huck Recommended Book Lola Budge isn’t your average bare-nosed wombat. While her parents and neighbors in the Northern Forest want nothing more than peace and quiet, Lola loves to talk. Bored by the quiet routine of wombat life, Lola desperately wants something, anything, interesting to happen. But when Lola follows the terrifying sound of unfamiliar screeching, she discovers a predator who has been kept in exile for many generations. And this creature has captured the peaceful wombats and carted them away—including Lola’s parents. To save her family, Lola will need help from the Queen of Tassie Island herself. But the road to the golden city of Dore is long and treacherous for a young wombat, especially with predators on the loose. To save the ones she loves, Lola will have to brave infested swamps, rushing rivers, and soaring heights, while encountering all sorts of strange critters, both friend and foe. At times exciting, at times heart-warming, this is the story of a wombat who is much braver than anyone imagined. An Imprint Book

"Goldbarths's exciting new collection ranges from sonnet-sized meditations to extended narratives; from myth-laden journeys through a "river-tangled pocket of Peru" to the celebrated Goldbarthian territory of pop-cultural autobiography. The centerpiece of Beyond is "The Two Domains," an award-winning, prose- and verse-tale that hurtles over boundaries between poetry and fiction, reality and fantasy. Though various and far-reaching in their concerns, all of the poems in this brilliant volume contribute toward an ambitious exploration of what is "beyond"--the incorporeal, the paranormal, and life lived over the knowable edge." --publisher's website.