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‘Oh my word… fantastic… [The] stories intertwine so beautifully, it’s truly amazing. Such a lot of research must have to have been done but so worth it. I can’t recommend this book enough.’ NetGalley reviewer ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Could a rediscovered map show her the way? Present day...

When an apprentice from the Mapmakers' Guild goes missing, Matt and India are employed to find him. Going undercover as a married couple, they discover that not everyone at the guild is what they seem, and the lad's unearthly maps caused jealousy, suspicion and fear. With one of the apprentice's magic maps in their possession, India and Matt must use their wits and India's fledgling, untried magic to find him.

As assistant to Mangkon’s most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman—and in a kingdom where the status of one’s ancestors dictates their social position, the truth could ruin her. Sai seizes the chance to join an expedition to chart the southern seas, but she isn’t the only one aboard with secrets. When Sai learns that the ship might be heading for the fabled Sunderlands—a land of dragons, dangers, and riches beyond imagining—she must weigh the cost of her dreams.

From Lisa Moore Ramée, author of the Walter Honor Award–winning A Good Kind of Trouble, comes her debut middle grade fantasy—an absorbing, imaginative adventure about a Black boy who has the magical ability to bring maps to life. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky...

Return to Cordelia Hatmaker’s spellbinding world of magic and millinery in this sparkling sequel to The Hatmakers. Cordelia Hatmaker has saved England from war. She stopped Lord Whitloof’s sinister plans, rescued the King and Princess, and restored the Makers Guild. But she still hasn’t...

✨ A breathtaking fantasy adventure for kids 8–13 who love magic, mystery, and brave heroes. ✨ When an ordinary kid discovers an extraordinary secret, her world changes forever. Hidden maps. Mysterious powers. Ancient dangers waking in the shadows. What begins as curiosity becomes a thrilling race against time—one filled with heart, courage, and unforgettable wonder. Perfect for readers who love Percy Jackson, Keeper of the Lost Cities, and Amari and the Night Brothers, this epic fantasy for kids 8–13 delivers everything young readers crave: High-stakes adventure with nonstop ...

Resistance operative Charlotte Denneau has critical targeting information for the Allies, and the Gestapo knows it. On the run across occupied France, she must prioritize her mission over the lives of the agents and civilians she needs to aid her escape. Germans are taking down Resistance networks with disastrous results. Agents are being arrested, tortured, questioned, and turned. Charlotte communicates in coded radio calls to London, well aware the enemy is always listening. More than anything, she must find a flight out—before the Nazis drag her to an interrogation chamber.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Two women from different generations face challenges that test their bravery and resilience in this “lovingly constructed [and] passionately told” (The Washington Post) novel from the author of The Baker’s Daughter. “Poignant and deeply absorbing. McCoy weaves...

In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000-foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats in the jungle, the scientists barely completed their mission.

Every time you tap your phone, vote, invest money, or even define success, you're following a protocol—an invisible set of rules and categories that someone else designed. From TCP/IP to GDP, from credit scores to carbon credits, these "reality protocols" shape what's possible, what's valuable, and what's visible. Mapmakers reveals that true power in the 21st century doesn't come from controlling territory or resources—it comes from controlling the maps everyone else has to navigate by. In Mapmakers: The Secret Architecture of Money, Power, and Reality, Josh Luberisse pulls back the ...

How far would you go to change your fate—and the fate of your kingdom? From a young age, Princess Asha has watched helplessly as her kingdom of Zanzia falls into ruin. Now, rival forces from the north—led by the tyrannical son of a mad king—are seizing her country’s land and resources while her people starve. Zanzia’s only hope for survival may rest in the hands of its thirteen-year-old princess. Determined to fight for her home, Asha sets out to reforge her destiny—blade in hand.

Complex, headstrong, curious, and resourceful, David Thompson is a hero in Canada, yet has remained largely unknown in the United States. Between 1801 and 1812, this fur trader, explorer, and cartographer established two viable trade routes across the Rocky Mountains in Canada and systematically surveyed the entire 1250-mile course of the Columbian River. In succeeding years he distilled his mathematical notations from dozens of journal notebooks into the first maps of the northwest quadrant of North America.

Pick up the next thrilling instalment in this gripping Elizabethan mystery series from John Pilkington. Fans of Andrew Taylor and C. J. Sansom will not want to miss this! 🩸️ 'Pilkington’s latest takes this long-running and popular series to a new level' - Booklist A HAWK SOARS TO KILL...

The Ottoman Empire was at the height of its power during the 16th century when Cecilia Baffo Veniero was kidnapped from her Venetian homeland and chosen to be the wife of Selim II, successor to Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent. She would be known as Nurbanu. The Mapmaker's Daughter vividly imagines the confession of Nurbanu as she lies on her sickbed narrating the spectacular story of her rise to the pinnacle of imperial power, determined to understand how her extraordinary destiny was shaped. 

When Tanya Barrett takes an internship at MapOut, she expects emotional landmines. Her father co-founded the digital mapping company, and he died for it - on a cartographic expedition he didn't even need to take. Her father's business partner and his son Connor welcome her.

In 1884, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck convened thirty-two diplomats in Berlin to carve up the African continent without inviting a single African representative. This episode explores the mechanics of that division, focusing on how European powers used the concept of 'effective occupation' to justify their claims. We examine the specific roles played by figures like King Leopold II of Belgium and George Taubman Goldie of the Royal Niger Company, and how arbitrary borders split ethnic groups and united rivals. From the Congo Basin to the Sahel, we trace how these diplomatic decisions ...

Brought to you by Puffin. Return to the spellbinding world of Cordelia Hatmaker in this soaring magical sequel to The Hatmakers. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor, A Pinch of Magic and Harry Potter. Ever since Cordelia discovered the hidden map in her father's precious telescope, she's been...

Majorca, 1455. Every chart is a confession. Siona Cresques inherits her father's workshop and the private notation system that has made his chartsthe most accurate in the Mediterranean. The cipher encodes more than coordinates. It carries the oralnavigation traditions of Jewish, Muslim, and Catalan sailors, gathered across three generations of aconverso family that kept its knowledge alive by never writing it down plainly. The Portuguese crown wants her charts for its southern voyages. The Aragonese tribunal's notary wantsto know why her father's maps carry Arabic place names.

The Mapmaker's Market appears without warning. One morning it isn't there. The next morning it is — warm light, the smell of woodsmoke, and something for sale that you didn't know you needed. Rowan Vale has been keeping the market since her mother disappeared seven years ago. She knows every vendor, every stall, every one of the twelve herbs at the market's center that keep its magic alive. What she doesn't know is why it moves, who built it, or what her mother left behind. Cael Ashmore sells maps from a stall at the back. Ordinary maps. He has been at the market for three years and Rowan...

Liora Tideglass maps coastlines no sailor can see. On the night of the blue moon, a hidden pool opens beneath her grandmother's house and reveals a living map made of silver water. The routes lead under the island, through drowned caves, and toward a kingdom everyone insists is only a fisherman's tale. But the map is changing. Villages vanish from the coast. Strange bells ring under the tide. A mermaid courier arrives with a warning: someone is stealing roads from the sea and using them to wake an ancient throne. If Liora cannot chart the missing paths before the next moonset, the shore ...