In The Squickerwonkers, Act 2: the Squickerwonkers' most slothful sinner takes center stage. Lorna the Lazy hasn't the energy for anything and, when it comes to her "end," that will mean everything. What trouble will ensue? Enter at your own risk and dive into another outrageous and dark demise tale with your favorite group of misfit, vice-ridden marionettes.

Meet Selma of the Rin-Run Royals, a clever little girl who is spoiled to the core. One day Selma stumbles upon a band of colorful marionettes, and gets more than she bargained for. The remarkable Squickerwonkers of the fabulous Squickershow are about to teach Selma that she’ll not always get her way. Evangeline Lilly is best known for her work as an actress, but her foremost passion has always been writing. This book is her first published work. Beautifully illustrated by Johnny Fraser-Allen, this eccentric and visually stunning cautionary tale will appeal to adults and children alike.

R.L. Stein meets Lemony Snicket with a dash of Brothers Grimm in this new early reader series that gives a nod to cautionary tales of the past and tugs at the reader's imagination.

WARNING! This story contains: mischief, mayhem, and perhaps a dash of malice...!In this first volume of The Squickerwonkers Series, The Squickerwonkers - a band of colorful marionettes and stars of the fabulous Squickershow - have welcomed a new cast member into their troupe: Selma the Spoiled of the Rin Run Royals, and she's more SPOILED than ever! Having inherited the wealth and power of Selma's Gramp, The Squickerwonkers are no longer outcasts. They are ready to leave their enchanting and spooky wagon to get out and enjoy their new riches. What trouble will ensue? Enter at your own risk to find out....

Come, step behind the curtain and enter a delightfully roguish world where mischief, mayhem and, perhaps, a dash of malice lurk¿ Let us introduce you to the remarkable Squickerwonkers - a band of colorful marionettes, and stars of the fabulous Squickershow - and to Selma of the Rin-Run Royals - a clever little girl with a naughtiness lurking just beneath the surface. One day Selma stumbles upon this troupe of puppet-scoundrels and endures a cheeky test of character that leads to an unpleasant lesson; one The Squickerwonkers are only too happy to oblige in orchestrating. In this, the prequel to the multi-book Squickerwonkers series, Selma's curiosity and the Squickerwonkers' vices set the stage for a wonderful cautionary tale that will captivate old and young alike.

“An extraordinary collection” (San Francisco Chronicle) of twenty-four short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro. “Superb . . . Munro is a writer to be cherished.”—NPR A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Minneapolis Star Tribune A selection of Alice Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from 1995 to 2014, these stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in “Passion”) to the punishing consequences of leaving home (“Runaway”) or ending a marriage (“The Children Stay”). And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—“Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home”—we glimpse the author’s own life. Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.

The Lord of the Rings is an epic adventure, a beautifully written masterpiece of imaginative fiction of the 20th century.