Piggy Toes Press What Makes a Rainbow? Ribbon Storybook - (Hardcover)
Number of Pages: 7Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: Activity BooksFormat: HardcoverAuthor: VariousAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English
SPANISH ENGLISH PICTURE DICTIO Bilingual - by Catherine Bruzzone (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 6.9 Inches (W) x .2 Inches (D)Weight: .35 PoundsEdition: BilingualNumber of Pages: 48Genre: Juvenile NonfictionSub-Genre: Foreign Language Study / SpanishFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Barrons JuvenilesAuthor: Catherine BruzzoneAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English, spanish About the Book "Over 350 words, over 35 themes"--Cover. Book Synopsis It's never too soon to start teaching boys and girls a second language, and this book presents pages filled with cheerful color pictures that help teach Spanish words to English-speaking children in early grades. It presents more than 350 illustrations of familiar objects, with nine pictures on each page. Every picture is labeled with its English word, followed by its Spanish equivalent. The translated word is followed in turn by a phonetic spelling in smaller type. Words are grouped according to themes, such as Sports, The Classroom, Fruit, Vegetables, Party Time, Weather, and many others. For example, the nine illustrations on the Sports page show pictures with bilingual labels for football, table tennis, skiing, fishing, gymnastics, athletics, cycling, swimming, and basketball. Here's a fun way for younger English-speaking children to build a basic vocabulary in Spanish.
Ask Again, Yes - by Mary Beath Keane (Paperback)
Edition: SignedNumber of Pages: 400Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: PaperbackPublisher: SIMON TRADE POCKETAuthor: Mary Beath KeaneAge Range: AdultLanguage: EnglishNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The Tonight Show Summer Reads Pick *. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by People, Vogue, Parade, NPR, and Elle. "One of the most unpretentiously profound books I've read in a long time...modestly magnificent." --Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air. "A beautiful novel, bursting at the seams with empathy." -Elle How much can a family forgive? A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the friendship between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness. Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope, rookie cops in the NYPD, live next door to each other outside the city. What happens behind closed doors in both houses--the loneliness of Francis's wife, Lena, and the instability of Brian's wife, Anne, sets the stage for the explosive events to come. Ask Again, Yes is a deeply affecting exploration of the lifelong friendship and love that blossoms between Kate Gleeson and Peter Stanhope, born six months apart. One shocking night their loyalties are divided, and their bond will be tested again and again over the next 40 years. Luminous, heartbreaking, and redemptive, Ask Again, Yes reveals the way childhood memories change when viewed from the distance of adulthood--villains lose their menace and those who appeared innocent seem less so. Kate and Peter's love story, while haunted by echoes from the past, is marked by tenderness, generosity, and grace.
Rihanna: Queen Size - by Rihanna (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 25 Inches (H) x 19.75 Inches (W) x 4 Inches (D)Weight: 55 PoundsNumber of Pages: 504Genre: PhotographySub-Genre: Music / GeneralFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Phaidon PressAuthor: RihannaAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis It's a piece of art that I am really proud of --RihannaAll hail Rihanna: Queen Size The statement volume for Rihanna fans, this luxury, queen-size edition is limited to 500 copies worldwide.An homage for fashion, music, and photography lovers and collectors, Rihanna: Queen Size is presented in a format worthy of the global legend herself. From her Barbados beginnings to her worldwide tours, from iconic fashion moments to private time with friends and family, Rihanna: Queen Size showcases intimate photographs of the star's evolution as an artist, performer, designer, and entrepreneur.Rihanna: Queen Size is hand-sewn and bound in bespoke padded Japanese-designed fabric with a pearlescent finish, and an embedded, matte black, laser-cut steel logo designed by Barnbrook studio. The endpapers feature a custom design by The Haas Brothers printed in spot gloss on a rich black paper stock. Rihanna's remarkable story unfolds in 504 pages and more than 1,000 images along with gatefolds and special inserts including bound-in booklets, a die-cut tip-in sheet, and a double-sided removable poster. Review Quotes This book is incredible.--DJ KhaledThe book is a rollicking and sumptuous autobiography, told largely with intimate images. Ephemera are woven in throughout, from early passports and a Barbie workout cassette to a handwritten note from the designer Jeremy Scott that says, Congrats on making Paris!. The book unfolds in chronological order, but the structure is freewheeling and chapter-less, lending it an impressionistic quality: how a person might recall her own lived memories.--VogueWell, this gives new meaning to 'drop': Rihanna's 500-page tome. If it fell on your foot, it would crush it. She has put her stamp on almost every pop culture form - music, film, fashion - and now, books... Rihanna is in a class of her own.--The New York TimesIt's well worth the money.--US WeeklyIn this beautiful new book...we see her like we have never seen her before.--Good Morning America...The book is surely a worthy work of art itself... The book... is more than just a large, incredibly heavy hardcover publication containing stunning professional photographs from her whirlwind life. Rihanna gives readers a rare and intimate look into her journey, chronicled in family pictures, captivating tour shots, and even rare handwritten letters...--BillboardEven for those who aren't obsessed with the pop star's every move, it's a gorgeous collection of photographs.--Rolling StoneFrom the childhood pictures to newspaper clippings of her first media coverage, tour-diary snippets and holiday snapshots, the previously unpublished photographs give a comprehensive look into Rihanna's stratospheric rise from Barbados to megastardom.--Vogue UK... Brings viewers closer to the global superstar. That's not hyperbole... It's candid, unapologetic and, most importantly, authentic to her essence... and brand. Best part of it all is her very fans have been part of the ride all along. Just as you'd imagine, the book also served as a bit of a Who's who? when it comes to the people in her inner circle, with special appearances from friendly faces like Jay-Z and Beyoncé.--iHeartRadioAnother big first - Lavish!--EssenceSeriously, is there anything this woman can't do?--MetroSet forth in this literature, Rihanna is arguably the most visually groundbreaking artist and celebrity of her generation - the ultimate blueprint of coolness and relatability. ...In all its 504-page glory - spanning her childhood in the Barbados, four distinctive album eras since 2010's Loud, her rise as a fashion mogul, and vacation candids - this piece elevates that conversation, reminding readers that Rihanna is the de facto queen of Instagram, 2010's fashion blogs, and celebrity media, as well as Tumblr favorites.--MTV...With over 1,000 behind-the-scenes photos of the artist and her entourage... as the photos revealed themselves, each new image eliciting hushed coos and nods of understanding.--Time1,050 color photos spanning the length of Rih's career and capturing her transition from pop star to businesswoman.--PaperLuxurious.--Bustle...A visual masterpiece. If you've been wondering how to level up your coffee table, this is it, people.--Elite DailyStunning.--ET OnlineRihanna's new coffee-table book will have more intimate moments than a Savage x Fenty show.--HelloGigglesThe mogul's life story in over a thousand rare photos demands prime coffee-table space...--InStyle About The Author Rihanna (b. 1988, Barbados) is a nine-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, actress, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. She has sold 60 million albums and 215 million digital tracks worldwide, making her the top-selling digital artist of all time. Rihanna launched her beauty line Fenty Beauty in 2017, her lingerie line Savage X Fenty in 2018, and most recently her luxury fashion line FENTY in 2019.The Haas Brothers was founded by twin brothers, Nikolai and Simon. Their work explores aesthetic themes related to nature, science fiction, sexuality, and psychedelia. Their first solo museum exhibition was held at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, Florida, and their pieces are held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA, and RISD Museum. They are represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and live in Los Angeles.Barnbrook is one of Britain's most well known and highly regarded independent creative studios. The studio has been collaborating with the world's best and most exciting art and cultural clients to produce memorable, beautiful, and thought-provoking design. The studio's contribution to design was recognized with a retrospective at the Design Museum in London in 2007 and a Grammy Award in 2016 for David Bowieâ s Blackstar record cover.
Scaredy Kate 05/23/2014 Juvenile Fiction - by Jacob Grant (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 10.2 Inches (H) x 9.1 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)Weight: .4 PoundsNumber of Pages: NaGenre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: Social ThemesSeries Title: NaFormat: PaperbackPublisher: BarronsAuthor: Jacob GrantAge Range: Baby - 3 YearsLanguage: English About the Book Kate has a problem. She's terrified of her aunt's big bulldog. Kate's aunt calls the dog Cookie...Kate calls it a monster! One day, after fleeing the apartment to escape Cookie, Kate takes the strangest elevator ride ever--complete with a mysterious package and floor after floor of real-life monsters! Book Synopsis Kate has a problem. She's terrified of her aunt's big bulldog. Kate's aunt calls the dog Cookie. Kate calls it a monster! One day, after fleeing the apartment to escape Cookie, Kate takes the strangest elevator ride ever--complete with a mysterious package and floor after floor of real-life monsters! It takes all of her courage, but Kate soon finds that the monsters aren't so scary after all. Kate makes some new friends, and she discovers the perfect way to tame her own personal beast. This warmly written, beautifully illustrated book is certain to be a favorite among all children (and adults) who have been afraid at one time or another.
Where the Wild Moms Are (Hardcover) (Katie Blackburn)
Dimensions (Overall): 7.4 Inches (H) x 8.4 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)Weight: .65 PoundsNumber of Pages: 32Genre: HumorSub-Genre: Form / ParodiesFormat: HardcoverPublisher: PgwAuthor: Katie BlackburnAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book "In this hilarious and touching play on the children's classic, lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, is for any mother who has longed to escape to an imaginative paradise"--Back cover. Book Synopsis In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mom finds herself floating across time and space to the place where the Wild Moms are. Dazzled by her party tricks, they crown her Queen of the Wild Moms and try to entice her to join their conga . . . But Mom has just remembered who she loves best of all . . . Lovingly illustrated by the award-winning Sholto Walker, this little book is the perfect gift for baby showers, new moms -- or any mom who's ever wanted to go on strike. Review Quotes "A must read for all mothers" -- Jersey Family Fun "Every parent with a sense of humor needs to check out Where the Wild Moms Are." -- PopSugar About The Author Katie Blackburn lives in London with her husband and 18 month old son. Where the Wild Moms Are was written in tribute to Maurice Sendak's: Where the Wild Things Are, Katie's favorite children's book. It was partly inspired by too many sleepless nights and wild days spent with a young baby.
Rad American Women A-Z: Rebels by Kate Schatz (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 7.3 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 64Genre: EducationSub-Genre: Biography & AutobiographyFormat: HardcoverPublisher: CITY LIGHTSAuthor: Kate SchatzAge Range: TeenLanguage: EnglishThe New York Times Bestseller "This is The Most Inspiring Children's Book We've Ever Seen."--Refinery29.com"The very first kids' book released by the iconic publishing house City Lights, Rad American Women A-Z navigates the alphabet from Angela Davis to Zora Neale Hurston with colorful illustrations and short, powerful narratives. The perfect gift for the junior riot grrl in your life."--Bust Magazine"The History of Feminism--in an Awesome Picture Book. The ABCs just got a major girl-power upgrade."--Chantal Strasburger, Teen VogueLike all A-Z books, this one illustrates the alphabet--but instead of "A is for Apple", A is for Angela--as in Angela Davis, the iconic political activist. B is for Billie Jean King, who shattered the glass ceiling of sports; C is for Carol Burnett, who defied assumptions about women in comedy; D is for Dolores Huerta, who organized farmworkers; and E is for Ella Baker, who mentored Dr. Martin Luther King and helped shape the Civil Rights Movement.And the list of great women continues, spanning several centuries, multiple professions, and 26 diverse individuals. There are artists and abolitionists, scientists and suffragettes, rock stars and rabble-rousers, and agents of change of all kinds.The book includes an introduction that discusses what it means to be "rad" and "radical," an afterword with 26 suggestions for how you can be "rad," and a Resource Guide with ideas for further learning and reading.American history was made by countless rad--and often radical--women. By offering a fresh and diverse array of female role models, we can remind readers that there are many places to find inspiration, and that being smart and strong and brave is rad.Rad American Women will be appreciated by various age groups. It is Common Core aligned for students grades 3 - 8. Pre-school and young children will be captured by the bright visuals and easily modified texts, while the subject matter will stimulate and inspire high-schoolers and beyond."This is not a book. This is a guest list for a party of my heroes. Thank you for inviting us." --Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events books"I feel honored to be included in this book. Women need to take radical steps to become feminists, and to be strong to fight for their rights and those of others facing oppression and discrimination. The world needs rad women to create a just society." --Dolores Huerta, Labor Leader, Civil Rights Activist"It's almost always with a chuckle that I view a cartoon image of myself. But to see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models . . . well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women." --Kate Bornstein, author of My New Gender Workbook"I was totally in rapture reading this book. Bold women, bold colors, and fierce black paper cutouts. I cheer these histories of women who fight not for war or country or corporation, but for EVERYONE I can't wait for my son to read this." --Nikki McClure, Illustrator of All in a Day
Childrens Reading Timer - Blue
Package Quantity: 1 & bull;• Clips onto any book & bull;• Or stands on the table & bull;• Two color options & bull;• Simple to use & bull;• Battery includedA cool way to encourage children to read regularly and time their sessions.Time flies when your head’s in a book! But if you need to know precisely how much time has flown, this booky shaped Reading Timer will keep tabs on it. Encouraging young people to read at bedtime or anytime is no mean feat with today’s distractions and a little help goes a long way!Ingeniously the Reading Timer works equally well for the reluctant ‘Do I HAVE to read tonight?’ gang AND the rather keener ‘Pleeeeease can I read for another half an hour?’ brigade.
Strange Planet: The Sneaking, Hiding, Vibrating Creature - by Nathan W. Pyle (Hardcover)
Edition: SignedNumber of Pages: 36Genre: Juvenile FictionFormat: HardcoverAuthor: Nathan W. PyleAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English!Nathan W. Pyle's first picture book in his New York Times bestselling Strange Planet series!Based on his popular Instagram comics, Nathan W. Pyle presents a delightful, heartfelt, and clever picture book that young and old beings alike will enjoy reading together.When the nearest star rises, Lifegiver has an exciting quest planned for Offspring! Follow along as they observe a strange creature that sneaks, hides, and vibrates around their house. Hilarity ensues as the blue beings try to mimic this talented creature.As always, Nathan W. Pyle draws humor from his unique perspective on human activity and delivers a colorful experience that is an ode to cats and humans alike.This book is a joy to read and share, no matter how many revolutions you've made around the nearest star.
Mom Babble - by Mary Katherine Backstrom (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.1 Inches (H) x 7.1 Inch (W) x 1 Inch (D)Weight: 1.85 PoundsNumber of Pages: 304Genre: Family + RelationshipsSub-Genre: ParentingFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Abingdon PressAuthor: Mary Katherine BackstromAge Range: AdultBook theme: MotherhoodLanguage: English About the Book Hope, humor, and spiritual inspiration to families in the trenches of parenthood from the founder of Mom Babble. Book Synopsis Featured on The Ellen DeGeneres Show sharing her "Holiday Magic" viral video. Hope, humor, and spiritual inspiration to families in the trenches of parenthood from the founder of Mom Babble. Mary Katherine Backstrom spends her days mending booboos, conquering the boogie man, comforting heartaches, laughing at knock-knock jokes, cooking pancakes, throwing baseballs, and mopping muddy floors. In other words she spends her days relishing in the beautiful, constant noise that is a life with children. In Mom Babble Mary Katherine (MK) Backstrom, founder and personality behind the Mom Babble online community, offers up hope, humor, and spiritual inspiration to families in the trenches of parenthood. With laughter, crying, and eye-rolls MK's, oh so, real essays about raising littles will delight all the not perfect, not always holy, not completely normal, messy, honest and wonderful moms that read them. MK's conversational approach connects with readers like dear friends cozied up on a coffee date. Praise for Mary Katherine Backstrom "I love how honest and relatable Mary Katherine is in her writing. When an author is raw, it is easy to make a connection to their work." - Meredith Masony, Founder of That's Inappropriate "One of Facebook's funniest parents!"- Today Show Parenting Team "Mary Katherine brings love, wisdom, compassion, humor, and insight to her writing that is a must read for every parent." - Love What Matters "I have probably read more parenting essays than anyone on the planet, and Mary Katherine's voice still surprises me. I laugh out loud, cry, and recall the magic of being a mother in those fresh early years. She is a friend to the struggling moms in the trenches of motherhood." - Jill Smokler, Founder of Scary Mommy and New York Times Best-selling author "Thank you for cracking us up." - Today with Hoda & Jenna Features funny and relatable personal essays. Expands on Backstrom's already popular Mom Babble community posts and stories. Includes a forward by Meredith Masony, founder of That's Inappropriate and That's Inappropriate Parents online communities with nearly 1 million followers across multiple channels. 4-color photographs throughout. Grain embossed hardcover with ribbon.
Finding Dorothy A Novel by Elizabeth Letts (Paperback)
Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Elizabeth LettsAge Range: AdultLanguage: English"Hollywood, 1938. As soon as she learns that MGM is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years after Frank's passing, Maud is the only person who can help the producers stay true to the spirit of the book ... But the moment she hears Judy Garland rehearsing the first notes of 'Over the Rainbow,' Maud recognizes the yearning that defined her own life story: from her youth as a suffragette's daughter to her coming of age as one of the first women in the Ivy League, from her blossoming romance with Frank to the hardscrabble prairie years that inspired The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
Girl with Stars in Her Eyes - by Xio Axelrod (Paperback)
Edition: SignedNumber of Pages: 464Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Xio AxelrodAge Range: AdultLanguage: EnglishTarget Diverse Book Club Pick and SIGNED BY AUTHOR XIO AXELROD!Her name’s Antonia “Toni” Bennette (yeah, she’s heard all the jokes before) and she’s not a rock star. Neither are the Lillys—not yet. But the difference between being famous and being almost famous can be a single wrong note…or the start of something that’ll change your life forever.Growing up in dive bars up and down the East Coast, Toni Bennette’s guitar was her only companion...until she met Sebastian Quick. Seb was a little older, a lot wiser, and before long he was Toni’s way out, promising they’d escape their stifling small town together. Then Seb turned eighteen and split without looking back.Now, Toni’s all grown up and making a name for herself in Philadelphia’s indie scene. When a friend suggests she try out for a hot new up-and-coming band, Toni decides to take a chance. Strong, feminist, and fierce as fire, Toni B. and the Lillys are the perfect match…except Seb’s now moonlighting as their manager. Whatever. Toni can handle it. No problem. Or it wouldn’t be if Seb didn’t still hold a piece of her heart…not to mention the key to her future.
7 Days of Christmas - Jen Hatmaker (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 7.1 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inch (W) x .8 Inch (D)Weight: 1 PoundsNumber of Pages: 192Genre: ReligionSub-Genre: HolidaysFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Abingdon PressAuthor: Jen HatmakerAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book Inspired by and adapted from her breakout book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, 7 Days of Christmas takes Hatmaker's social experiments in seven key areas--food, clothes, spending, media, possessions, waste, stress--and turns them into thoughtful and practical generosity that captures the true spirit of Christmas.Christmas. Book Synopsis Inspired by and adapted from her breakout book 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess, 7 Days of Christmas takes Hatmaker's social experiments in seven key areas--food, clothes, spending, media, possessions, waste, stress--and turns them into thoughtful and practical generosity that captures the true spirit of Christmas. 7 Days of Christmas covers 7 days during the Christmas season to practice both generosity and restraint in the areas related to the book. It will contain snippets of Jen's journey throughout to offer insight, humor, ideas, facts, and encouragement for the reader to consider while embracing this change, if only for 24 hours. We'll see the reasons why each area is important to Jen and also applicable to most American families. We'll also see how that particular area of excess impacts the family unit, the community, and the world at large--complete with ideas on how to reduce thoughtless consumption and consider other practices that lead to less stuff but more joy.
Wizenard Series : Training Camp - (Wizenard) by Kobe Bryant & Wesley King (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 9.2 Inches (H) x 6.2 Inch (W) x 1.8 Inch (D)Weight: 2.05 PoundsNumber of Pages: 528Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: Fantasy & MagicSeries Title: WizenardFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Two Rivers DistributionAuthor: Kobe Bryant & Wesley KingAge Range: 9-12 YearsLanguage: English About the Book From the mind of basketball legend and Oscar]-winning storyteller Bryant comes this radically original portrait of five young basketball players, one enlightening coach, and the awesome transformative power of the game. First in a new series. Book Synopsis #1 New York Times Bestseller A People Kid Pick of the week From the mind of basketball legend and Academy Award-winning storyteller Kobe Bryant comes this radically original portrait of five young basketball players, one enlightening coach, and the awesome transformative power of the game. Filled with insights about the mental stamina and emotional clarity that peak performance requires, this is an indispensable story for young athletes, coaches, educators, and anyone interested in the astonishing potential of team sports to unlock individual growth. THE GAME WILL NEVER BE THE SAME Magic doesn't seem possible for the West Bottom Badgers. They're the lowest-ranked basketball team in their league, and they live in the poorest neighborhood in Dren. Nobody expects them to succeed at anything. Plus, every kid on the team has secret struggles of his own.When a new coach named Professor Wizenard arrives on the first day of training camp, the Badgers can't explain the magical-seeming things they see and hear. Every player experiences unique and strange visions--visions that challenge everything they thought they knew about basketball, and about their lives and their secrets off the court. To survive the increasingly intense ordeals of training, the Badgers will need to take unimaginable risks, learn to trust their teammates, and confront the darkness within themselves. Review Quotes "The novel is unusual in structure and plot as readers experience the same incidents portrayed through different perspectives, each revealing another layer of the story . . . . Solid, authentic basketball action with plenty of food for thought, colored with elements of fantasy."--Kirkus "The Wizenard is an achievement--not only because it's a good novel; not only because it merges the world of wizardry and sport deftly. It is an achievement because it teaches that magic and basketball aren't binary, not in fiction and not in reality. ...Every young person who picks up a ball, or a book, or even a wand, should pick up The Wizenard Series: Training Camp to be fans and teammates of this standout rookie."--Nikko Ramos, Fully Booked Online.com "Every kid who reads [The Wizenard Series: Training Camp] will imagine they are one of the lucky five young hoopsters--Rain, Twig, Cash, Lab, and Peno--who benefit from the teachings of the master."--2paragraphs.com About The Author Kobe Bryant was an Academy Award winner, a New York Times best-selling author, and the CEO of Granity Studios, a multimedia content creation company. He was also a five-time NBA champion, two-time NBA Finals MVP, NBA MVP, and two-time Olympic gold medalist. Above all else, he was a loving husband and a doting father to four girls. In everything he built, Kobe was driven to teach the next generation how to reach their full potential. He believed in the beauty of the process, in the strength that comes from inner magic, and in achieving the impossible. His legacy continues today. Wesley King is the New York Times best-selling author author of eleven novels, including The Wizenard Series: Training Camp, OCDaniel, the Vindico series, and A World Below. His books have been optioned for film and television and translated for release worldwide. Besides writing, he is working on a circumnavigation on a 1967 sailboat. You can follow him on Instagram @wesleykingauthor or on Twitter @WesleyTKing.
Today We Go Home by Kelli Estes (Paperback)
Edition: SignedGenre: Fiction + Literature ThemesFormat: PaperbackPublisher: SOURCEBOOKS INCAuthor: Kelli EstesAge Range: AdultLanguage: EnglishSeattle, Washington Larkin Bennett has always known her place, whether it's surrounded by her loving family in the lush greenery of the Pacific Northwest or conducting a dusty patrol in Afghanistan. But all of that changed the day tragedy struck her unit and took away everything she held dear. Soon after, Larkin discovers an unexpected treasure-the diary of Emily Wilson, a young woman who disguised herself as a man to fight for the Union in the Civil War. As Larkin struggles to heal, she finds herself drawn deeply into Emily's life and the secrets she kept. Indiana, 1861 The only thing more dangerous to Emily Wilson than a rebel soldier is the risk of her own comrades in the Union Army discovering her secret. But in the minds of her fellow soldiers, if it dresses like a man, swears like a man, and shoots like a man, it must be a man. As the war marches on and takes its terrible toll, Emily begins to question everything she thought she was fighting for.
A Gambling Man - by David Baldacci (Hardcover)
Edition: SignedNumber of Pages: 448Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: HardcoverAuthor: David BaldacciAge Range: AdultLanguage: English!Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, criminal--or all three.Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible--plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their worst addictions and fears.Archer's first stop is a P.I. office where he is hoping to apprentice with a legendary private eye and former FBI agent named Willie Dash. He lands the job, and immediately finds himself in the thick of a potential scandal: a blackmail case involving a wealthy well-connected politician running for mayor that soon spins into something even more sinister. As bodies begin falling, Archer and Dash must infiltrate the world of brothels, gambling dens, drug operations, and long-hidden secrets, descending into the rotten bones of a corrupt town that is selling itself as the promised land--but might actually be the road to perdition, and Archer's final resting place.
My First Interactive Board Book on the Farm - (Hardcover) - by Armandine Notaert
Dimensions (Overall): 7.6 Inches (H) x 7.6 Inch (W) x .7 Inch (D)Weight: .9 PoundsNumber of Pages: 10Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: LifestylesSeries Title: My First Interactive Board BooksFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & DistAuthor: Armandine NotaertAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English About the Book Find out about all the animals on the farm with easy-to-us tabs, and see who's hiding behind the fun flaps on the last page! Book Synopsis In this highly colorful board book, children are invited to pull, roll, slide tabs and lift flaps whilst discovering farm animals and life on a farm.
The Lying Life of Adults - by Elena Ferrante (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 9 Inches (H) x 6.4 Inch (W) x 1.4 Inch (D)Weight: 1.2 PoundsNumber of Pages: 336Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: LiteraryFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Europa EditionsAuthor: Elena FerranteAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book "Original title: La vita bugiarda degli adulti"--Title page verso. Book Synopsis A NEW YORK TIMES & NATIONAL BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF 2020The Washington Post・O, The Oprah Magazine・TIME Magazine・NPR・People Magazine・The New York Times Critics・The Guardian・Electric Literature・Financial Times・Times UK・Irish Times・New York Post・Kirkus Reviews・Toronto Star・The Globe and Mail・Harper's Bazaar・Vogue UK・The Arts DeskA POWERFUL NEW NOVEL set in a divided Naples by ELENA FERRANTE, the New York Times best-selling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter. Soon to be a NETFLIX Original Series. "Another spellbinding coming-of-age tale from a master."--People Magazine, Top 10 Books of 2020 Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear and detest one another: Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of refinement, and Naples of the depths, a place of excess and vulgarity. She moves from one to the other in search of the truth, but neither city seems to offer answers or escape. Named one of 2016's most influential people by TIME Magazine and frequently touted as a future Nobel Prize-winner, Elena Ferrante has become one of the world's most read and beloved writers. With this new novel about the transition from childhood to adolescence to adulthood, Ferrante proves once again that she deserves her many accolades. In The Lying Life of Adults, readers will discover another gripping, highly addictive, and totally unforgettable Neapolitan story. "There's no doubt [the publication of The Lying Life of Adults] will be the literary event of the year."--ELLE Magazine Review Quotes ★ "A girl, a city, an inhospitable society: Ferrante's formula works again!"--Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) ★ "Ferrante's ability to draw in her readers remains unparalleled. [ . . . ] The novel simmers with overt rage toward parental deception, teachers' expectations and society's impossible ideals of beauty and behavior."--BookPage (Starred Review) ★ "Fans of Ferrante's first two Neapolitan novels, My Brilliant Friend (2012) and The Story of a New Name (2013), will especially revel in Giovanna's confessional, perceptive, gut-wrenching, and often funny narration of what she calls her 'arduous approach to the adult world.'"--Booklist (Starred Review) "What a relief it is when an author who has written a masterpiece returns to prove the gift intact."--Dayna Tortorici, The New York Times Book Review "[The Lying Life of Adults] is suspenseful and propulsive; in style and theme, a sibling to [Ferrante's] previous books. But it's also a more vulnerable performance, less tightly woven and deliberately plotted, even turning uncharacteristically jagged at points as it explores some of the writer's touchiest preoccupations."--Parul Sehgal, The New York Times "In The Lying Life of Adults, Ms. Ferrante once again, with undiminished skill and audacity, creates an emotional force field that has at its heart a young girl on the brink of womanhood."--Anna Mundow, Wall Street Journal "The Lying Life of Adults affirms that Ferrante is an oracle among authors, writing literary epics as illuminating as origin myths, explaining us to ourselves."--Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine "Ferrante is a specialist in composure: the drama of achieving, losing, feigning, and regaining composure is central to her work."--Elaine Blair, New York Review of Books "Nowhere else, as much as in The Lying Life of Adults, do we see Ferrante's splendidly harsh laws of physics so clearly laid out. Ugliness may hurt, but it is a hurt that strikes clean and true; ugliness may not be pretty, but sometimes it is unbearably beautiful."--Sarah Chihaya, Los Angeles Review of Books "Ferrante's signature frankness about sex and the unruly female body exist alongside reflections on the unreliable stories we share about ourselves."--Tomi Obaro, BuzzFeed "The Lying Life of Adults is slinky and scowling as a Neapolitan cat [ . . . ] Gentility, manners and even ideals have no power over sex, which is for Ferrante's characters an almost ungovernable force."--Annalisa Quinn, NPR "Yes, this book lives up to its author's reputation, and then some. [ . . . ] Giovanna's fate, containing elements both expected and unexpected, makes her one of this year's most memorable heroines."--Bethanne Patrick, The Boston Globe "Exquisitely moody [ . . . ] A marvelously disconcerting novel of disillusionment."--Merve Emre, The Atlantic "Novels like The Lying Life of Adults do indeed contain wisdom [and] Ferrante lets us both share the intensity of this formative experience and be amused by it. As in the Neapolitan novels, and in much of the best first-person fiction, the relationship between telling one's life story and understanding oneself is central. As long as it is as well-told as Ferrante's version, it is a story we never tire of."--Marion Winik, The Washington Post "A wild shuffle of moments exhilarating and torturous, The Lying Life of Adults reads like a distillation of adolescence itself."--Lauren Mechling, Vogue "The Lying Life of Adults reads like an intimate confession or urgent confidence, and it will leave the reader as shaken and invigorated as it does its young protagonist."--Jenny Shank, Minneapolis Star Tribune "Ferrante makes Naples come alive in her latest literary feat."--Newsweek "Ferrante is still Ferrante -- her characters have wide-spanned souls and so does Naples, exuding the smells of the sea and gasoline and baking crust."--Hillary Kelly, Los Angeles Times "Prepare to be obsessed all over again."--Town and Country "[The Lying Life of Adults] has a timeless quality--the turmoil, judgment and bewildering choices that girls face as their bodies morph and their minds begin to explore independent thought are eternal."--Belinda Luscombe, TIME Magazine "The narrative itself is captivating: an up-close portrait of a woman reflecting back on the mysterious years of her adolescence, the transition from child to adult, from youthful ignorance to a deeper, more complicated understanding about her city, those around her, and ultimately, herself."--Rachel Duboff, Los Angeles Review of Books "The Lying Life of Adults should absolutely be at the top of your TBR list this September."--Barnes & Noble Reads "[Ferrante is] a writer whose work transcends genre."--Lewis Beale, The Daily Beast "Ferrante's depiction of pubescent angst leaps off the page, never flinching away from the agony of minor humiliations [ . . . ] Ferrante knows exactly how to tell a story."--Claire Fallon, Huffington Post "The Lying Life of Adults shares with Ferrante's great Neapolitan novels the sly knack of undercutting whatever straightforward thing it seems to be saying on its surface."--Laura Miller, Slate "It's a safe bet that the mysterious Ferrante's new stand-alone novel, about a teenage girl scouring Naples in search of the estranged aunt with whom she allegedly bears a resemblance, will be one of the most book-clubbed books of the year."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "The Lying Life of Adults is a gripping novel about coping with change and creating the closure you need to move forward."--ForeWord Reviews "With the publication of The Lying Life of Adults, we see an author at her peak."--Asymptote Magazine "Ferrante has a gift, perhaps even a genius, for making great literature out of melodrama."--Judith Thurman, The New Yorker INTERNATIONAL PRAISE FOR THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS "Elena Ferrante is so good [ . . . ] An astonishing, deeply moving tale of the sorts of wisdom, beauty and knowledge that remain as unruly as the determinedly inharmonious faces of these women."--The Guardian "Ms Ferrante's unique style--again superbly captured by Ann Goldstein's translation--is as urgent as ever, proceeding by confrontation and volcanic self-revelation, with little traditional description."--The Economist "The Lying Life of Adults is the most intense writing about the experiences and interior life of a girl on the cusp of adulthood that I have ever read. It is brilliant."--Financial Times "Somehow, Ferrante finds and asks the question that is at the heart of the adolescent experience, that underscores all the pettiness and the posturing and the bravado and the crippling self-doubt."--Esquire (UK) "Ferrante's page-turner talent for suspenseful storytelling and vigorously peopled scenes is on peak form."--The Times, Best Fiction Books of 2020 "There is an undeniable pleasure in experiencing the world through Ferrante's lens. Her characters have a physical quality that is difficult to quantify. The Lying Life of Adults will definitely satisfy hardcore fans as well as win her new ones."--The Winnipeg Free Press
The Girl He Used to Know - by Tracey Garvis Graves (Paperback)
Edition: SignedGenre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: PaperbackAuthor: Tracey Garvis GravesAge Range: AdultLanguage: EnglishNew York Times bestselling author of On the Island, Tracey Garvis Graves, presents the compelling, hopelessly romantic novel of unconditional love. Annika Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess. Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game--and his heart--to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself, quirks and all, and accepts the challenges involved in pursuing a relationship with her. Jonathan and Annika bring out the best in each other, finding the confidence and courage within themselves to plan a future together. What follows is a tumultuous yet tender love affair that withstands everything except the unforeseen tragedy that forces them apart, shattering their connection and leaving them to navigate their lives alone. Now, a decade later, fate reunites Annika and Jonathan in Chicago. She's living the life she wanted as a librarian. He's a Wall Street whiz, recovering from a divorce and seeking a fresh start. The attraction and strong feelings they once shared are instantly rekindled, but until they confront the fears and anxieties that drove them apart, their second chance will end before it truly begins.
52 Gifts from Me to You - by North Light Books (Spiral Bound)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 8.7 Inch (W) x .7 Inch (D)Weight: 1.1 PoundsNumber of Pages: 112Genre: Family + RelationshipsSub-Genre: ActivitiesFormat: Spiral BoundPublisher: North Light BooksAuthor: North Light BooksAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis Tell the person you love exactly why they mean so much with 52 Gifts From Me to You. With a unique prompt for each week of the year, you'll dig deep into your memories and hopes to share the many ways your relationship is special. Whether it's remembering a good laugh or thinking about a time you were inspired, this book will help you find the words you need to show your love.
Him - by Pierre A Jeanty (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 7.99 Inches (H) x 5 Inch (W) x .44 Inch (D)Weight: .47 PoundsNumber of Pages: 192Genre: PoetrySub-Genre: AmericanFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Jeanius Publishing LLCAuthor: Pierre A JeantyAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book Through poetry and prose, Pierre wears his heart on paper and pens a tribute to men; their undelivered feelings, unrecognized strength, their loud silence, and their neglected complaints. HIM celebrates good men, their love, their worth, and their beauty. The characteristics that often fall into the shadows are now brought to life Book Synopsis The best-selling poet of HER & HER Vol. 2 returns with a different voice, on a different path, but with the same mission.HIM is a collection of "he-poetry" in a world of "she-poems" that tends to only refer to him when speaking ill. Through poetry and prose, Pierre wears his heart on paper and pens a tribute to men; their undelivered feelings, unrecognized strength, their loud silence, and their neglected complaints. HIM celebrates good men, their love, their worth, and their beauty. The characteristics that often fall into the shadows are now brought to life.
2Fish : A Poetry Book - by Jhenu00e9 Aiko Efuru Chilombo (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 6.4 Inches (H) x 4.7 Inch (W) x .6 Inch (D)Weight: .4 PoundsNumber of Pages: 141Genre: PoetrySub-Genre: Women AuthorsFormat: HardcoverPublisher: PgwAuthor: Jhenu00e9 Aiko Efuru ChilomboAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book A collection of poems by Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Jhenâe Aiko Efuru Chilombo. Book Synopsis Grammy nominated singer/songwriter Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo has developed and refined a method of emoting through writing. 2Fish is a collection of intimate poems (and a few short stories) written by Chilombo from adolescence to adulthood, in no particular order. The book details Chilombo's thoughts in their most raw and honest form taken directly from a collection of notebooks she has kept since age 12. About The Author Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo was born on March 16, 1988 in Los Angeles, California. Jhené began writing poetry at 6 years old. At 13, she signed to a major record label and began her career as a recording artist. Today, she is a mother of one, a three-time Grammy nominated singer/songwriter and a poet. 2Fish is Jhené's first published book.
Furry Bunny - by Annie Auerbach (Board Book)
Dimensions (Overall): 5.5 Inches (H) x 3.8 Inch (W) x .9 Inch (D)Weight: .18 PoundsNumber of Pages: 10Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: ConceptsFormat: Board BookPublisher: B.E.S. PublishingAuthor: Annie AuerbachAge Range: 4-8 YearsBook theme: Senses & SensationLanguage: English About the Book Delight all of Baby's senses with these adorable little books. Each has a "spot" of fur that Baby can touch and feel right on the front cover. Ideally sized for little hands. Full color. Book Synopsis Delight all of Baby's senses with this adorable little book that has a spot of fur that Baby can touch and feel right on the front cover!Furry Bunny is out and about, meeting friends in the garden. Bright illustrations and gentle text stimulates babies' sense of sight and hearing, and introduce fun facts that can help your little one learn new words and ideas. Perfectly sized for little hands to explore and enjoy.
Beatles: Get Back - by Peter Jackson (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 11.88 Inches (H) x 10 Inch (W) x 1.5 Inch (D)Weight: 4.6 PoundsNumber of Pages: 240Genre: MusicFormat: HardcoverAuthor: Peter JacksonAge Range: AdultLanguage: English
Growing Boldly - by Emily Ley (Hardcover)
Number of Pages: 240Genre: Self ImprovementSub-Genre: MotivationalFormat: HardcoverAuthor: Emily LeyAge Range: AdultLanguage: EnglishFrom bestselling author and founder of the Simplified(R) brand of organizational tools for busy women comes Growing Boldly, a how-to book that inspires us to imagine big, plan well, and then gather the equipment and the courage to go out and do.In Growing Boldly, Emily will help you:Believe in who you are and Whose you are . . . and move past the lies and fears holding you backFigure out what makes you tick and own it confidentlyGather all your grit, learned lessons, and tools because it's all valuableImagine the life you dream of and decide how to make it happenLove your people well so that you create a lasting legacyClear the clutter and cultivate clarity so you can do what matters mostDo the hard work without forgetting to feed your soulA stunning foiled cover, beautiful photography, ribbon marker, and presentation page make Growing Boldly:A thoughtful gift for a friend or family memberPerfect for Mother's Day, birthdays, or holidaysA let's-get-rolling encouragement incentive for yourselfEmily Ley has shown us how to give ourselves grace in Grace, Not Perfection, how to simplify our lives in A Simplified Life, and how to replace busyness with true connection in When Less Becomes More. Now for the first time, Emily draws on her own story of creating a highly successful business--and loving the process--as she teaches us how to move forward in our own vocations and serve others at the same time. This is the start of something good. Get ready to build a life you love.
My Brilliant Friend ( My Brilliant Friend) (Original) (Paperback) by Elena Ferrante
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W) x 1.1 Inches (D)Weight: .8 PoundsNumber of Pages: 331Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: LiterarySeries Title: My Brilliant FriendFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Europa Editions IncAuthor: Elena FerranteAge Range: TeenLanguage: English About the Book A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, this rich, intense, and generous-hearted story gives a meticulous portrait of two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. Book Synopsis Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic). Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence. Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women. "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends." --Entertainment Weekly "Spectacular." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Captivating." --The New Yorker Review Quotes Praise for Elena Ferrante and The Neapolitan Novels The United States "Ferrante's novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." --James Wood, The New Yorker "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." --Megan O'Grady, Vogue "Amazing! My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!" --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge "I like the Italian writer, Elena Ferrante, a lot. I've been reading all her work and all about her." -- John Waters, actor and director "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you've never heard of."--The Economist "Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history."--The New York Times Book Review "I am such a fan of Ferrante's work, and have been for quite a while." --Jennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers "The women's fraught relationship and shifting fortunes are the life forces of the poignant book" -- Publisher's Weekly "When I read [the Neapolitan novels] I find that I never want to stop. I feel vexed by the obstacles--my job, or acquaintances on the subway--that threaten to keep me apart from the books. I mourn separations (a year until the next one--how?). I am propelled by a ravenous will to keep going."--Molly Fischer, The New Yorker "[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." --John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR "Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk . . . In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now -- one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman."--Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends Lila and Elena, Bright and passionate girls from a raucous neighborhood in world-class Naples. Ferrante writes with such aggression and unnerving psychological insight about the messy complexity of female friendship that the real world can drop away when you're reading her."--Entertainment Weekly"It's just hypnotic. I could not stop reading it or thinking about it."--Hillary Clinton "Ferrante seasons the prose with provocative perceptions not unlike the way Proust did." --Shelf Awareness "It would be difficult to find a deeper portrait of women's friendship than the one in Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, which unfold from the fifties to the twenty-first century to tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth."--Megan O'Grady, Vogue "Ferrante's writing is so unencumbered, so natural, and yet so lovely, brazen, and flush. The constancy of detail and the pacing that zips and skips then slows to a real-time crawl have an almost psychic effect, bringing you deeply into synchronicity with the discomforts and urgency of the characters' emotions. Ferrante is unlike other writers--not because she's innovative, but rather because she's unselfconscious and brutally, diligently honest."--Minna Proctor, Bookforum "Ferrante can do a woman's interior dialogue like no one else, with a ferocity that is shockingly honest, unnervingly blunt."--Booklist "The truest evocation of a complex and lifelong friendship between women I've ever read." --Emily Gould, author of Friendship "Elena Ferrante is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels . . . My Brilliant Friend is a large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman."--James Wood, The New Yorker "Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . a riveting examination of power . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force."--Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay surpasses the rapturous storytelling of the previous titles in the Neapolitan Novels."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Ferrante's voice feels necessary. She is the Italian Alice Munro."--Mona Simpson, author of Casebook and Anywhere But Here "Elena Ferrante will blow you away."--Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "The Days of Abandonment is a powerful, heartrending novel."--Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland "The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece . . . I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled. There was nothing else I wanted to do except follow the lives of Lila and Lenù to the end."--Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland "Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!"--Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Burgess Boys "Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!"--John Waters, director "The feverish speculation about the identity of Elena Ferrante betrays an understandable failure of imagination: it seems impossible that right now somewhere someone sits in a room and draws up these books. Palatial and heartbreaking beyond measure, the Neapolitan novels seem less written than they do revealed. One simply surrenders. When the final volume appears--may that day never come!--they're bound to be acknowledged as one of the most powerful works of art, in any medium, of our age."--Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction "Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."--Gwyneth Paltrow, actor "Elena Ferrante's The Story of a New Name. Book two in her Naples trilogy. Two words: Read it."--Ann Hood, writer (from Twitter) "Ferrante continues to imbue this growing saga with great magic."--Booklist(starred review) "One of Italy's best contemporary novelists."?--The Seattle Times "Ferrante's emotional and carnal candor are so potent."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Elena Ferrante's gutsy and compulsively readable new novel, the first of a quartet, is a terrific entry point for Americans unfamiliar with the famously reclusive writer, whose go-for-broke tales of women's shadow selves--those ambivalent mothers and seething divorcées too complex or unseemly for polite society (and most literary fiction, for that matter)--shimmer with Balzacian human detail and subtle psychological suspense . . . The Neapolitan novels offer one of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory--from the make-up and break-up quarrels of young girls to the way in which we carefully define ourselves against each other as teens--Ferrante wisely balances her memoir-like emotional authenticity with a wry sociological understanding of a society on the verge of dramatic change." --Megan O'Grady, Vogue "My Brilliant Friend is a sweeping family-centered epic that encompasses issues of loyalty, love, and a transforming Europe. This gorgeous novel should bring a host of new readers to one of Italy's most acclaimed authors."--The Barnes and Noble Review "Ferrante draws an indelible picture of the city's mean streets and the poverty, violence and sameness of lives lived in the same place forever . . . She is a fierce writer."--Shelf Awareness "Ferrante transforms the love, separation and reunion of two poor urban girls into the general tragedy of their city."--The New York Times "Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein . . . Ferrante writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency that is a celebration of anger. Ferrante is terribly good with anger, a very specific sort of wrath harbored by women, who are so often not allowed to give voice to it. We are angry, a lot of the time, at the position we're in--whether it's as wife, daughter, mother, friend--and I can think of no other woman writing who is so swift and gorgeous in this rage, so bracingly fearless in mining fury."--Susanna Sonnenberg, The San Francisco Chronicle "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it."--The Boston Globe "The through-line in all of Ferrante's investigations, for me, is nothing less than one long, mind-and-heart-shredding howl for the history of women (not only Neapolitan women), and its implicit j'accuse . . . Ferrante's effect, critics agree, is inarguable. 'Intensely, violently personal' and 'brutal directness, familial torment' is how James Wood ventures to categorize her--descriptions that seem mild after you've encountered the work." --Joan Frank, The San Francisco Chronicle "Lila, mercurial, unsparing, and, at the end of this first episode in a planned trilogy from Ferrante, seemingly capable of starting a full-scale neighborhood war, is a memorable character."--Publishers Weekly "An engrossing, wildly original contemporary epic about the demonic power of human (and particularly female) creativity checked by the forces of history and society." --The Los Angeles Review of Books "Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing."---The New Yorker The United Kingdom "The Story of a New Name, like its predecessor, is fiction of the very highest order."--Independent on Sunday "My Brilliant Friend, translated by Ann Goldstein, is stunning: an intense, forensic exploration of the friendship between Lila and the story's narrator, Elena. Ferrante's evocation of the working-class district of Naples where Elena and Lila first meet as two wiry eight-year-olds is cinematic in the density of its detail."--The Times Literary Supplement "This is a story about friendship as a mass of roiling currents--love, envy, pity, spite, dependency and Schadenfreude coiling around one another, tricky to untangle."--Intelligent Life "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you have never heard of. The Italian author has written six lavishly praised novels. But she writes under a pseudonym and will not offer herself for public consumption. Her characters likewise defy convention . . . Her prose is crystal, and her storytelling both visceral and compelling."--The Economist Ferrante is an expert above all at the rhythm of plotting: certain feuds and oppositions are kept simmering and in abeyance for years, so that a particular confrontation - a particular scene - can be many hundreds of pages in coming, but when it arrives seems at once shocking and inevitable."--The Independent Italy "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay evokes the vital flux of a heartbeat, of blood flowing through our veins."--La Repubblica "We don't know who she is, but it doesn't matter. Ferrante's books are enthralling self-contained monoliths that do not seek friendship but demand silent, fervid admiration from her passionate readers . . . The thing most real in these novels is the intense, almost osmotic relationship that unites Elena and Lila, the two girls from a neighborhood in Naples who are the peerless protagonists of the Neapolitan novels."--Famiglia Cristiana "Today it is near impossible to find writers capable of bringing smells, tastes, feelings, and contradictory passions to their pages. Elena Ferrante, alone, seems able to do it. There is no writer better suited to composing the great Italian novel of her generation, her country, and her time than she."--Il Manifesto "Elena Ferrante is a very great novelist . . . In a world often held prisoner to minimalism, her writing is extremely powerful, earthy, and audacious."--Francesca Marciano, author of The Other Language "Regardless of who is behind the name Elena Ferrante, the mysterious pseudonym used by the author of the Neapolitan novels, two things are certain: she is a woman and she knows how to describe Naples like nobody else. She does so with a style that recalls an enchanted spider web with its expressive power and the wizardry with which it creates an entire world." --Huffington Post (Italy) "A marvel that is without limits and beyond genre."--Il Salvagente "Elena Ferrante is proving that literature can cure our present ills; it can cure the spirit by operating as an antidote to the nervous attempts we make to see ourselves reflected in the present-day of a country that is increasingly repellent."--Il Mattino "My Brilliant Friend flows from the soul like an eruption from Mount Vesuvio."--La Repubblica Australia "No one has a voice quite like Ferrante's. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense . . . Ferrante's fictions are fierce, unsentimental glimpses at the way a woman is constantly under threat, her identity submerged in marriage, eclipsed by motherhood, mythologised by desire. Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are."--John Freeman, The Australian "One of the most astounding--and mysterious--contemporary Italian novelists available in translation, Elena Ferrante unfolds the tumultuous inner lives of women in her thrillingly menacing stories of lost love, negligent mothers and unfulfilled desires."--The Age "Ferrante bewitches with her tiny, intricately drawn world . . . My Brilliant Friend journeys fearlessly into some of that murkier psychological territory where questions of individual identity are inextricable from circumstance and the ever-changing identities of others." --The Melbourne Review "The Neapolitan novels move far from contrivance, logic or respectability to ask uncomfortable questions about how we live, how we love, how we singe an existence in a deeply flawed world that expects pretty acquiescence from its women. In all their beauty, their ugliness, their devotion and deceit, these girls enchant and repulse, like life, like our very selves." --The Sydney Morning Herald "The best thing I've read this year, far and away, would be Elena Ferrante...I just think she puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She's marvelous. I like her so much I'm now doing something I only do when I really love the writer: I'm only allowing myself two pages a day." --Richard Flanagan, author of Book prize finalist, The Narrow Road to the Deep North Spain "Elena Ferrante's female characters are genuine works of art . . . It is clear that her novel is the child of Italian neorealism and an abiding fascination with scene."--El Pais About The Author Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of a Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016) in which she recounts her experience as a novelist, and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes known as the "Neapolitan quartet" (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published in America by Europa between 2012 and 2015. The first season of the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, directed by Severio Costanzo premiered in 2018.Ann Goldstein is an editor at The New Yorker. Her translations for Europa Editions include novels by Amara Lakhous, Alessandro Piperno, and Elena Ferrante's bestselling My Brilliant Friend. She lives in New York.
African American Almanac (Paperback) by Lean'Tin Bracks
Dimensions (Overall): 9.23 Inches (H) x 7.13 Inches (W) x 1.34 Inches (D)Weight: 1.95 PoundsNumber of Pages: 543Genre: Social Science, ReferenceSub-Genre: Ethnic Studies / African-American Studies, AlmanacsFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Visible Ink PrAuthor: Lean'Tin BracksAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book A -resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph spanning more than 400 years is presented through a ... mix of biographies--including 500 influential figures--, little-known or misunderstood historical facts, ... essays on significant legislation and movements, and 150 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering events surrounding the civil rights movement; African American literature, art, and music; religion within the black community; and advances in science and medicine, this reference connects history to the issues currently facing the African American community--- Book Synopsis The most complete and affordable single-volume reference of African American culture available today, this almanac is a unique and valuable resource devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac: 400 Years of Triumph, Courage, and Excellence provides insights on the influence, inspiration, and impact of African Americans on U.S. society and culture. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph is presented through a fascinating mix of biographies--including 750 influential figures--little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, and 445 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering politics, education, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, sports, literature, music, dance, theater, art, film, and television, chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected African Americans over the centuries, followed by biographical profiles of hundreds of key figures, including Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Josephine Baker, Amiri Baraka, Daisy Bates, George Washington Carver, Ray Charles, Bessie Coleman, Gary Davis, Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michael Eric Dyson, Duke Ellington, Medgar Evers, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Eric H. Holder Jr., Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeBron James, Mae C. Jemison, Martin Luther King Jr., Queen Latifah, Jacob Lawrence, Kevin Liles, Thurgood Marshall, Walter Mosley, Elijah Muhammad, Barack Obama, Gordon Parks, Rosa Parks, Richard Pryor, Condoleezza Rice, Smokey Robinson, Wilma Rudolph, Betty Shabazz, Tavis Smiley, Clarence Thomas, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Ross Tubman, C. Delores Tucker, Usher, Denmark Vesey, Alice Walker, Booker T. Washington, Kanye West, Reggie White, Serena Williams, Oprah Winfrey, and Malcolm X. Explore a wealth of milestones, inspiration, challenges met, and lasting respect! Review Quotes "*Starred Review* This is an affordable, concise, and overall first-rate resource for high-school, public, and academic libraries. Editors' Choice: Reference Sources, 2012"-- Booklist "Through historical overviews and hundreds of biographies, Bracks thoughtfully illuminates "a legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph" that is part of the black experience in the US."-- Choice "excellent overview of African American contributions to the United States"-- Library Journal "This excellent reference work on the contributions of African-Americans to the history and culture of the United States provides accessible reference and biographical information on a wide range of important events and people."-- Book News "Bracks impressive work is clearly for the educated lay-person, curious researcher, or studious scholar. Bracks has done well in presenting a fair account of the topics, making this an obvious addition to high school and college libraries everywhere"-- Children's Literature "This almanac highlights the considerable contributions African Americans have made to the fabric of U.S. society and culture. Perhaps most inspiring about this collection is that it also features the lives of lesser known leaders, artists, and political figures who may have been forgotten if it were not for their inclusion."-- The Children's Book Review "A one of a kind fantastic book of reference.... It renders a profound look at history by way of the African American experience."-- Birmingham Times "Celebrating centuries of achievements, the African American Almanac provides insights on the influence, inspiration, and impact of African Americans on U.S. society and culture."-- Denver Urban Spectrum About The Author Lean'tin Bracks, is chair of the department of arts and languages at Fisk University and has published numerous biographies, critical reviews, and scholarly perspectives, including, " African American National Biography," "The Black Scholar," " Contemporary African-American Novelists," " Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture," and "Notable African American Men." She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Jessie Carney Smith is a William and Camille Cosby Professor at Fisk University and has published more than 20 books. Her works include, "Black Firsts," "Black Genealogy, ""Black Heroes, " "Encyclopedia of African American Business, "Epic Lives, """Freedom Facts, ""Notable Black American Men, ""Notable Black American Women, and ""Powerful Black Women, "She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Little Bunny by Giovanni Caviezel (Board Book)
Dimensions (Overall): 5.4 Inches (H) x 2.9 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)Weight: .2 PoundsNumber of Pages: 10Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: Animals / RabbitsFormat: Board BookPublisher: BARRONSAuthor: Giovanni CaviezelAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English Book Synopsis Little Bunny is one of several titles in the popular Look at Me series of children's animal board books that are being reset in a miniature size to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original's size, this book presents the same illustrations found in the original, with a slightly abridged story. Realistic illustrations and story offer a child-friendly naturalistic portrayal of a baby animal and its mother, and describes in simple language how the mother rabbit keeps her baby from getting into trouble. Toddlers will love the pictures, and will delight in having Mom or Dad read the story aloud.
Doodle Dogs and Sketchy Cats : Fun and Easy Doodling for Everyone (Paperback) (Boutique-Sha)
Dimensions (Overall): 10.3 Inches (H) x 8.2 Inches (W) x .3 Inches (D)Weight: 1.05 PoundsNumber of Pages: 128Genre: ArtSub-Genre: TechniquesFormat: PaperbackPublisher: F & W Media IncAuthor: Boutique-ShaAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis Sit Back, Relax, Sketch and Doodle! Feel your worry melt away as you begin to sketch and doodle the cutest cats and dogs you've ever seen. They're whimsical. They're cute. They're silly. And they're really easy to draw. Learn how with easy to follow step step-by-step instruction. From temperamental tabbies to loyal labs, from cozy calicos to tireless terriers, you'll infuse personality into your kittens and pups with easy-to-draw expressions and poses. Or give them something to do by drawing action scenes: Cat acrobatics, anyone? Or maybe that Siamese is taking a catnap. Perhaps you'd like to portray a poodle sitting patiently, hoping for a treat. Or depict your doggies playing fetch. - Tons of types and breeds of cats and dogs - Cats in outfits and cats interacting with people--cat tea party, anyone? Even kitty accessories--scratching posts, toy mice and more. Here, kitty, kitty. - Dogs wearing sweaters, dogs on leashes and dogs in dog houses. Even dogs performing all your favorite tricks--Roll over, boy! Sit! Stay! Good dog. - A gallery of fun things to make that are so much more than just doodles, things like calendars, planner pages, greeting cards and memo pads.Keeping going for oodles of doodle and drawing inspiration and instruction!
Color Crush: An Adult Coloring Book, Premium Edition (Paperback) by Paige Tate Select
Dimensions (Overall): 10 Inches (L), 8 Inches (W)Suggested Age: ChildrenEducational Focus: Creative ThinkingNumber of Pages: 20
The Sympathizer (Paperback) by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Dimensions (Overall): 8 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)Weight: .9 PoundsNumber of Pages: 393Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: LiteraryFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Grove PrAuthor: Viet Thanh NguyenAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow, The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a "man of two minds," a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to his communist superiors in Vietnam. The Sympathizer is a blistering exploration of identity and America, a gripping espionage novel, and a powerful story of love and friendship. Review Quotes Praise for The Sympathizer Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for FictionWinner of the 2016 Edgar Award for Best First NovelWinner of the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionWinner of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for FictionWinner of the 2015 Center for Fiction First Novel PrizeWinner of the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Fiction)Winner of the 2016 California Book Award for First FictionWinner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in Creative Writing (Prose)Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Faulkner AwardFinalist for the 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut FictionFinalist for the 2016 Medici Book Club PrizeFinalist for the 2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Mystery/Thriller)Finalist for the 2016 ABA Indies Choice/E.B. White Read-Aloud Award (Book of the Year, Adult Fiction)Shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award Named a Best Book of the Year on more than twenty lists, including the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post "A layered immigrant tale told in the wry, confessional voice of a 'man of two minds'--and two countries, Vietnam and the United States."--Pulitzer Prize Citation "[A] remarkable debut novel . . . [Nguyen] brings a distinctive perspective to the war and its aftermath. His book fills a void in the literature, giving voice to the previously voiceless . . . The nameless protagonist-narrator, a memorable character despite his anonymity, is an Americanized Vietnamese with a divided heart and mind. Nguyen's skill in portraying this sort of ambivalent personality compares favorably with masters like Conrad, Greene, and le Carré. . . . Both thriller and social satire. . . . In its final chapters, The Sympathizer becomes an absurdist tour de force that might have been written by a Kafka or Genet."--Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover review) "This is more than a fresh perspective on a familiar subject. [The Sympathizer] is intelligent, relentlessly paced and savagely funny . . . The voice of the double-agent narrator, caustic yet disarmingly honest, etches itself on the memory."--Wall Street Journal (WSJ's Best Books of 2015) "Nguyen doesn't shy away from how traumatic the Vietnam War was for everyone involved. Nor does he pass judgment about where his narrator's loyalties should lie. Most war stories are clear about which side you should root for--The Sympathizer doesn't let the reader off the hook so easily . . . Despite how dark it is, The Sympathizer is still a fast-paced, entertaining read . . . a much-needed Vietnamese perspective on the war."--Bill Gates, Gates Notes "Extraordinary . . . Surely a new classic of war fiction. . . . [Nguyen] has wrapped a cerebral thriller around a desperate expat story that confronts the existential dilemmas of our age. . . . Laced with insight on the ways nonwhite people are rendered invisible in the propaganda that passes for our pop culture. . . . I haven't read anything since Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four that illustrates so palpably how a patient tyrant, unmoored from all humane constraint, can reduce a man's mind to liquid."--Washington Post "The great achievement of The Sympathizer is that it gives the Vietnamese a voice and demands that we pay attention. Until now, it's been largely a one-sided conversation--or at least that's how it seems in American popular culture . . . We've never had a story quite like this one before. . . . [Nguyen] has a great deal to say and a knowing, playful, deeply intelligent voice . . . There are so many passages to admire. Mr. Nguyen is a master of the telling ironic phrase and the biting detail, and the book pulses with Catch-22-style absurdities."--New York Times "Beautifully written and meaty . . . really compelling. I had that kid-like feeling of being inside the book."--Claire Messud, Boston Globe "Thrilling in its virtuosity, as in its masterly exploitation of the espionage-thriller genre, The Sympathizer was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and has come to be considered one of the greatest of Vietnam War novels . . . The book's (unnamed) narrator speaks in an audaciously postmodernist voice, echoing not only Vladimir Nabokov and Ralph Ellison but the Dostoyevsky of Notes from the Underground."--Joyce Carol Oates, New Yorker "Gleaming and uproarious, a dark comedy of confession filled with charlatans, delusionists and shameless opportunists . . . The Sympathizer, like Graham Greene's The Quiet American, examines American intentions, often mixed with hubris, benevolence and ineptitude, that lead the country into conflict."--Los Angeles Times "Both a riveting spy novel and a study in identity."--Entertainment Weekly "This debut is a page-turner (read: everybody will finish) that makes you reconsider the Vietnam War (read: everyone will have an opinion) . . . Nguyen's darkly comic novel offers a point of view about American culture that we've rarely seen."--Oprah.com (Oprah's Book Club Suggestions) "The novel's best parts are painful, hilarious exposures of white tone-deafness . . . [the] satire is delicious."--New Yorker "The Sympathizer reads as part literary historical fiction, part espionage thriller and part satire. American perceptions of Asians serve as some of the book's most deliciously tart commentary . . . Nguyen knows of what he writes."--Los Angeles Times "Sparkling and audacious . . . Unique and startling . . . Nguyen's prose is often like a feverish, frenzied dream, a profuse and lively stream of images sparking off the page. . . . Nguyen can be wickedly funny. . . . [His] narrator has an incisive take on Asian-American history and what it means to be a nonwhite American. . . . this remarkable, rollicking read by a Vietnamese immigrant heralds an exciting new voice in American literature."--Seattle Times "Stunned, amazed, impressed. [The Sympathizer is] so skillfully and brilliantly executed that I cannot believe this is a first novel. (I should add jealous to my emotions.) Upends our notions of the Vietnam novel."--Chicago Tribune "A very special, important, brilliant novel . . . Amazing . . . I don't say brilliant about a lot of books, but this is a brilliant book . . . A fabulous book . . . that everyone should read."--Nancy Pearl, KUOW.org "Dazzling . . . I've read scads of Vietnam War books, but The Sympathizer has an exciting quality I haven't encountered . . . A fascinating exploration of personal identity, cultural identity, and what it means to sympathize with two sides at once."--John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR (Books I Wish I'd Reviewed) "Powerful and evocative . . . Gripping."--San Francisco Chronicle "Welcome a unique new voice to the literary chorus. . . . [The Sympathizer] is, among other things, a character-driven thriller, a political satire, and a biting historical account of colonization and revolution. It dazzles on all fronts."--Cleveland Plain Dealer "[Nguyen's] books perform an optic tilt about Vietnam and what America did there as profound as Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and Toni Morrison's Beloved were to the legacy of racism and slavery."--John Freeman, Literary Hub "For those who have been waiting for the great Vietnamese American Vietnam War novel, this is it. More to the point: This is a great American Vietnam War novel. . . . It is the last word (I hope) on the horrors of the Vietnamese re-education camps that our allies were sentenced to when we left them swinging in the wind."--Vietnam Veterans of America "What a story . . . [An] absorbing, elegantly written book . . . If you are an American, of any culture or color, you will benefit from reading this book which offers, in exquisite thought and phrase, the multi-layered experience of a war most Americans have blotted out of consciousness, suppressed, or willfully ignored. I've been waiting to read this book for decades."--Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple "Magisterial. A disturbing, fascinating and darkly comic take on the fall of Saigon and its aftermath, and a powerful examination of guilt and betrayal. The Sympathizer is destined to become a classic and redefine the way we think about the Vietnam War and what it means to win and to lose."--T.C. Boyle "Trapped in endless civil war, 'the man who has two minds' tortures and is tortured as he tries to meld the halves of his country and of himself. Viet Thanh Nguyen accomplishes this integration in a magnificent feat of storytelling. The Sympathizer is a novel of literary, historical, and political importance."--Maxine Hong Kingston, author of The Fifth Book of Peace "It is a strong, strange and liberating joy to read this book, feeling with each page that a broken world is being knitted back together, once again whole and complete. As far as I am concerned, Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer--both a great American novel and a great Vietnamese novel--will close the shelf on the literature of the Vietnam War."--Bob Shacochis, author of The Woman Who Lost Her Soul "Read this novel with care; it is easy to read, wry, ironic, wise, and captivating, but it could change not only your outlook on the Vietnam War, but your outlook on what you believe about politics and ideology in general. It does what the best of literature does, expands your consciousness beyond the limitations of your body and individual circumstances."--Karl Marlantes, author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War "Not only does Viet Thanh Nguyen bring a rare and authentic voice to the body of American literature generated by the Vietnam War, he has created a book that transcends history and politics and nationality and speaks to the enduring theme of literature: the universal quest for self, for identity. The Sympathizer is a stellar debut by a writer of depth and skill."--Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "The Sympathizer is a remarkable and brilliant book. By turns harrowing, and cut through by shards of unexpected and telling humor, this novel gives us the conflict in Vietnam, and its aftermath, in a way that is deeply truthful, and vitally important."--Vincent Lam, author of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures and The Headmaster's Wager "I think I'd have to go all the way back to Nabokov's Humbert Humbert to find the last narrative voice that so completely conked me over the head and took me prisoner. Nguyen and his unnamed protagonist certainly have made a name for themselves with one of the smartest, darkest, funniest books you'll read this year."--David Abrams, author of Fobbit "Audaciously and vividly imagined. A compelling read."--Andrew X. Pham, author of Catfish and Mandala "Nguyen's cross-grained protagonist exposes the hidden costs in both countries of America's tragic Asian misadventure. Nguyen's probing literary art illuminates how Americans failed in their political and military attempt to remake Vietnam--but then succeeded spectacularly in shrouding their failure in Hollywood distortions. Compelling--and profoundly unsettling."--Booklist (starred review) "A closely written novel of after-the-war Vietnam, when all that was solid melted into air. As Graham Greene and Robert Stone have taught us, on the streets of Saigon, nothing is as it seems. . . . Think Alan Furst meets Elmore Leonard, and you'll capture Nguyen at his most surreal . . . Both chilling and funny, and a worthy addition to the library of first-rate novels about the Vietnam War."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "[An] astonishing first novel . . . Nguyen's novel enlivens debate about history and human nature, and his narrator has a poignant often mindful voice."--Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review) "Breathtakingly cynical, the novel has its hilarious moments . . . Ultimately a meditation on war, political movements, America's imperialist role, the CIA, torture, loyalty, and one's personal identity, this is a powerful, thought-provoking work. It's hard to believe this effort . . . is a debut. This is right up there with Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke."--Library Journal (starred review) "I cannot remember the last time I read a novel whose protagonist I liked so much. Smart, funny, and self-critical, with a keen sense of when to let a story speak for itself (and when to gloss it with commentary). He's someone I would like to have a beer with, despite the fact that his life's work is the betrayal of his friends. . . . [Nguyen] proves a gifted and bold satirist."--Barnes & Noble Review "Riveting . . . The Sympathizer is not only a masterly espionage novel, but also a seminal work of 21st century American fiction. Giving voice to the Vietnamese experience in the United States, Nguyen offers profound insights into the legacy of war and the politically and racially charged atmosphere of the 1970s."--BookReporter "[A] shimmering debut novel . . . Leaping with lyrical verve, each page turns to a unique and hauntingly familiar voice that refuses to let us forget what people are capable of doing to each other."--Asian American Writers' Workshop "Arresting . . . One of the best pieces of fiction about the Vietnam war--and by a Vietnamese. . . . Stunning . . . Could it be that Nguyen has captured the shape of the devolution of war itself, from grand ambition to human ruin? . . . One of the finest novels of the Vietnam War published in recent years."--The Daily Beast "[An] intriguing confessional . . . [a] tour de force . . . So taken was I by the first quarter of the book that I believed myself to be reading an actual confession . . . The character himself . . . and the quality of the narration seized me, leaving me almost breathless in my pursuit of an ending."--Sewanee Review "Tremendously funny, with a demanding verbal texture . . . Both tender and a bit of a romp, the book reminded me of how big books can be."--Guardian (Best Books of 2015) "Astounding . . . [The unnamed narrator] will be compared to the morally exhausted spies, intelligence officers and double agents of Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, and John le Carré."--Toronto Star About The Author Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. He is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the academic books Race and Resistance and Nothing Ever Dies. He is a cultural critic-at-large for the Los Angeles Times and teaches English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He lives in Los Angeles.
My Brilliant Friend : Childhood, Adolescence - Book 1 by Elena Ferrante (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inch (W) x 1.1 Inch (D)Weight: .8 PoundsNumber of Pages: 331Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: LiterarySeries Title: Neapolitan NovelsFormat: PaperbackPublisher: PgwAuthor: Elena FerranteAge Range: AdultVolume number: 1Language: English Book Synopsis Now an HBO series: the first volume in the New York Times-bestselling "enduring masterpiece" about a lifelong friendship between two women from Naples (The Atlantic).Beginning in the 1950s in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of Naples, Elena Ferrante's four-volume story spans almost sixty years, as its main characters, the fiery and unforgettable Lila and the bookish narrator, Elena, become women, wives, mothers, and leaders, all the while maintaining a complex and at times conflicted friendship. This first novel in the series follows Lila and Elena from their fateful meeting as ten-year-olds through their school years and adolescence.Through the lives of these two women, Ferrante tells the story of a neighborhood, a city, and a country as it is transformed in ways that, in turn, also transform the relationship between two women. "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends."--Entertainment Weekly "Spectacular."--Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Captivating."--The New Yorker Review Quotes Praise for Elena Ferrante and The Neapolitan Novels The United States "Ferrante's novels are intensely, violently personal, and because of this they seem to dangle bristling key chains of confession before the unsuspecting reader." --James Wood, The New Yorker "One of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory." --Megan O'Grady, Vogue "Amazing! My Brilliant Friend took my breath away. If I were president of the world I would make everyone read this book. It is so honest and right and opens up heart to so much. Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!" --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge "I like the Italian writer, Elena Ferrante, a lot. I've been reading all her work and all about her." -- John Waters, actor and director "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you've never heard of."--The Economist "Ferrante's freshness has nothing to do with fashion...it is imbued with the most haunting music of all, the echoes of literary history."--The New York Times Book Review "I am such a fan of Ferrante's work, and have been for quite a while." --Jennifer Gilmore, author of The Mothers "The women's fraught relationship and shifting fortunes are the life forces of the poignant book" -- Publisher's Weekly "When I read [the Neapolitan novels] I find that I never want to stop. I feel vexed by the obstacles--my job, or acquaintances on the subway--that threaten to keep me apart from the books. I mourn separations (a year until the next one--how?). I am propelled by a ravenous will to keep going."--Molly Fischer, The New Yorker "[Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels] don't merely offer a teeming vision of working-class Naples, with its cobblers and professors, communists and mobbed-up businessmen, womanizing poets and downtrodden wives; they present one of modern fiction's richest portraits of a friendship." --John Powers, Fresh Air, NPR "Elena Ferrante is one of the great novelists of our time. Her voice is passionate, her view sweeping and her gaze basilisk . . . In these bold, gorgeous, relentless novels, Ferrante traces the deep connections between the political and the domestic. This is a new version of the way we live now -- one we need, one told brilliantly, by a woman."--Roxana Robinson, The New York Times Book Review "An intoxicatingly furious portrait of enmeshed friends Lila and Elena, Bright and passionate girls from a raucous neighborhood in world-class Naples. Ferrante writes with such aggression and unnerving psychological insight about the messy complexity of female friendship that the real world can drop away when you're reading her."--Entertainment Weekly"It's just hypnotic. I could not stop reading it or thinking about it."--Hillary Clinton "Ferrante seasons the prose with provocative perceptions not unlike the way Proust did." --Shelf Awareness "It would be difficult to find a deeper portrait of women's friendship than the one in Ferrante's Neapolitan novels, which unfold from the fifties to the twenty-first century to tell a single story with the possessive force of an origin myth."--Megan O'Grady, Vogue "Ferrante's writing is so unencumbered, so natural, and yet so lovely, brazen, and flush. The constancy of detail and the pacing that zips and skips then slows to a real-time crawl have an almost psychic effect, bringing you deeply into synchronicity with the discomforts and urgency of the characters' emotions. Ferrante is unlike other writers--not because she's innovative, but rather because she's unselfconscious and brutally, diligently honest."--Minna Proctor, Bookforum "Ferrante can do a woman's interior dialogue like no one else, with a ferocity that is shockingly honest, unnervingly blunt."--Booklist "The truest evocation of a complex and lifelong friendship between women I've ever read." --Emily Gould, author of Friendship "Elena Ferrante is the author of several remarkable, lucid, austerely honest novels . . . My Brilliant Friend is a large, captivating, amiably peopled bildungsroman."--James Wood, The New Yorker "Compelling, visceral and immediate . . . a riveting examination of power . . . The Neapolitan novels are a tour de force."--Jennifer Gilmore, The Los Angeles Times "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay surpasses the rapturous storytelling of the previous titles in the Neapolitan Novels."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Ferrante's voice feels necessary. She is the Italian Alice Munro."--Mona Simpson, author of Casebook and Anywhere But Here "Elena Ferrante will blow you away."--Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones "The Days of Abandonment is a powerful, heartrending novel."--Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland "The Neapolitan novel cycle is an unconditional masterpiece . . . I read all the books in a state of immersion; I was totally enthralled. There was nothing else I wanted to do except follow the lives of Lila and Lenù to the end."--Jhumpa Lahiri, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Lowland "Reading Ferrante reminded me of that child-like excitement when you can't look up from the page, when your eyes seem to be popping from your head, when you think: I didn't know books could do this!"--Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer-prize winning author of The Burgess Boys "Elena Ferrante: the best angry woman writer ever!"--John Waters, director "The feverish speculation about the identity of Elena Ferrante betrays an understandable failure of imagination: it seems impossible that right now somewhere someone sits in a room and draws up these books. Palatial and heartbreaking beyond measure, the Neapolitan novels seem less written than they do revealed. One simply surrenders. When the final volume appears--may that day never come!--they're bound to be acknowledged as one of the most powerful works of art, in any medium, of our age."--Gideon Lewis-Kraus, author of A Sense of Direction "Ferrante tackles girlhood and friendship with amazing force."--Gwyneth Paltrow, actor "Elena Ferrante's The Story of a New Name. Book two in her Naples trilogy. Two words: Read it."--Ann Hood, writer (from Twitter) "Ferrante continues to imbue this growing saga with great magic."--Booklist(starred review) "One of Italy's best contemporary novelists."?--The Seattle Times "Ferrante's emotional and carnal candor are so potent."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times "Elena Ferrante's gutsy and compulsively readable new novel, the first of a quartet, is a terrific entry point for Americans unfamiliar with the famously reclusive writer, whose go-for-broke tales of women's shadow selves--those ambivalent mothers and seething divorcées too complex or unseemly for polite society (and most literary fiction, for that matter)--shimmer with Balzacian human detail and subtle psychological suspense . . . The Neapolitan novels offer one of the more nuanced portraits of feminine friendship in recent memory--from the make-up and break-up quarrels of young girls to the way in which we carefully define ourselves against each other as teens--Ferrante wisely balances her memoir-like emotional authenticity with a wry sociological understanding of a society on the verge of dramatic change." --Megan O'Grady, Vogue "My Brilliant Friend is a sweeping family-centered epic that encompasses issues of loyalty, love, and a transforming Europe. This gorgeous novel should bring a host of new readers to one of Italy's most acclaimed authors."--The Barnes and Noble Review "Ferrante draws an indelible picture of the city's mean streets and the poverty, violence and sameness of lives lived in the same place forever . . . She is a fierce writer."--Shelf Awareness "Ferrante transforms the love, separation and reunion of two poor urban girls into the general tragedy of their city."--The New York Times "Beautifully translated by Ann Goldstein . . . Ferrante writes with a ferocious, intimate urgency that is a celebration of anger. Ferrante is terribly good with anger, a very specific sort of wrath harbored by women, who are so often not allowed to give voice to it. We are angry, a lot of the time, at the position we're in--whether it's as wife, daughter, mother, friend--and I can think of no other woman writing who is so swift and gorgeous in this rage, so bracingly fearless in mining fury."--Susanna Sonnenberg, The San Francisco Chronicle "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it."--The Boston Globe "The through-line in all of Ferrante's investigations, for me, is nothing less than one long, mind-and-heart-shredding howl for the history of women (not only Neapolitan women), and its implicit j'accuse . . . Ferrante's effect, critics agree, is inarguable. 'Intensely, violently personal' and 'brutal directness, familial torment' is how James Wood ventures to categorize her--descriptions that seem mild after you've encountered the work." --Joan Frank, The San Francisco Chronicle "Lila, mercurial, unsparing, and, at the end of this first episode in a planned trilogy from Ferrante, seemingly capable of starting a full-scale neighborhood war, is a memorable character."--Publishers Weekly "An engrossing, wildly original contemporary epic about the demonic power of human (and particularly female) creativity checked by the forces of history and society." --The Los Angeles Review of Books "Ferrante's own writing has no limits, is willing to take every thought forward to its most radical conclusion and backwards to its most radical birthing."---The New Yorker The United Kingdom "The Story of a New Name, like its predecessor, is fiction of the very highest order."--Independent on Sunday "My Brilliant Friend, translated by Ann Goldstein, is stunning: an intense, forensic exploration of the friendship between Lila and the story's narrator, Elena. Ferrante's evocation of the working-class district of Naples where Elena and Lila first meet as two wiry eight-year-olds is cinematic in the density of its detail."--The Times Literary Supplement "This is a story about friendship as a mass of roiling currents--love, envy, pity, spite, dependency and Schadenfreude coiling around one another, tricky to untangle."--Intelligent Life "Elena Ferrante may be the best contemporary novelist you have never heard of. The Italian author has written six lavishly praised novels. But she writes under a pseudonym and will not offer herself for public consumption. Her characters likewise defy convention . . . Her prose is crystal, and her storytelling both visceral and compelling."--The Economist Ferrante is an expert above all at the rhythm of plotting: certain feuds and oppositions are kept simmering and in abeyance for years, so that a particular confrontation - a particular scene - can be many hundreds of pages in coming, but when it arrives seems at once shocking and inevitable."--The Independent Italy "Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay evokes the vital flux of a heartbeat, of blood flowing through our veins."--La Repubblica "We don't know who she is, but it doesn't matter. Ferrante's books are enthralling self-contained monoliths that do not seek friendship but demand silent, fervid admiration from her passionate readers . . . The thing most real in these novels is the intense, almost osmotic relationship that unites Elena and Lila, the two girls from a neighborhood in Naples who are the peerless protagonists of the Neapolitan novels."--Famiglia Cristiana "Today it is near impossible to find writers capable of bringing smells, tastes, feelings, and contradictory passions to their pages. Elena Ferrante, alone, seems able to do it. There is no writer better suited to composing the great Italian novel of her generation, her country, and her time than she."--Il Manifesto "Elena Ferrante is a very great novelist . . . In a world often held prisoner to minimalism, her writing is extremely powerful, earthy, and audacious."--Francesca Marciano, author of The Other Language "Regardless of who is behind the name Elena Ferrante, the mysterious pseudonym used by the author of the Neapolitan novels, two things are certain: she is a woman and she knows how to describe Naples like nobody else. She does so with a style that recalls an enchanted spider web with its expressive power and the wizardry with which it creates an entire world." --Huffington Post (Italy) "A marvel that is without limits and beyond genre."--Il Salvagente "Elena Ferrante is proving that literature can cure our present ills; it can cure the spirit by operating as an antidote to the nervous attempts we make to see ourselves reflected in the present-day of a country that is increasingly repellent."--Il Mattino "My Brilliant Friend flows from the soul like an eruption from Mount Vesuvio."--La Repubblica Australia "No one has a voice quite like Ferrante's. Her gritty, ruthlessly frank novels roar off the page with a barbed fury, like an attack that is also a defense . . . Ferrante's fictions are fierce, unsentimental glimpses at the way a woman is constantly under threat, her identity submerged in marriage, eclipsed by motherhood, mythologised by desire. Imagine if Jane Austen got angry and you'll have some idea of how explosive these works are."--John Freeman, The Australian "One of the most astounding--and mysterious--contemporary Italian novelists available in translation, Elena Ferrante unfolds the tumultuous inner lives of women in her thrillingly menacing stories of lost love, negligent mothers and unfulfilled desires."--The Age "Ferrante bewitches with her tiny, intricately drawn world . . . My Brilliant Friend journeys fearlessly into some of that murkier psychological territory where questions of individual identity are inextricable from circumstance and the ever-changing identities of others." --The Melbourne Review "The Neapolitan novels move far from contrivance, logic or respectability to ask uncomfortable questions about how we live, how we love, how we singe an existence in a deeply flawed world that expects pretty acquiescence from its women. In all their beauty, their ugliness, their devotion and deceit, these girls enchant and repulse, like life, like our very selves." --The Sydney Morning Herald "The best thing I've read this year, far and away, would be Elena Ferrante...I just think she puts most other writing at the moment in the shade. She's marvelous. I like her so much I'm now doing something I only do when I really love the writer: I'm only allowing myself two pages a day." --Richard Flanagan, author of Book prize finalist, The Narrow Road to the Deep North Spain "Elena Ferrante's female characters are genuine works of art . . . It is clear that her novel is the child of Italian neorealism and an abiding fascination with scene."--El Pais About The Author Elena Ferrante is the author of The Days of Abandonment (Europa, 2005), which was made into a film directed by Roberto Faenza, Troubling Love (Europa, 2006), adapted by Mario Martone, and The Lost Daughter (Europa, 2008), soon to be a film directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal. She is also the author of Incidental Inventions (Europa, 2019), illustrated by Andrea Ucini, Frantumaglia: A Writer's Journey (Europa, 2016) and a children's picture book illustrated by Mara Cerri, The Beach at Night (Europa, 2016). The four volumes known as the "Neapolitan quartet" (My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, and The Story of the Lost Child) were published by Europa Editions in English between 2012 and 2015. My Brilliant Friend, the HBO series directed by Saverio Costanzo, premiered in 2018.
The Life of a Wannabe Mogul: Mental Disarray - by Bella Thorne (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 5.7 Inch (W) x .8 Inch (D)Weight: .75 PoundsNumber of Pages: 192Genre: PoetrySub-Genre: Women AuthorsFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Rare Bird BooksAuthor: Bella ThorneAge Range: AdultLanguage: English"You'll always be the Cece to my Rocky."--Zendaya "Hey, I didn't read this book. Bella gave it to me and I left it on an airplane."--Diplo "Bella is one of those rare artist who is utterly fearless. Her courage to show you who she truly is--including hopes, fears, and vulnerabilities--is what makes her a relevant and meaningful voice for this generation."--Scott Spear "I just became illiterate after reading this. But the nude photographs were still very interesting."--Marilyn Manson "Yo, sitting here smokin', checking out this book of poems from my homegirl Bella. Damn girl, you dope as a motha******a. I didn't know you had rhymes and rhythms and such words of magnitude and gratitude with just a little bit of attitude. yes, make sure you go get that book from my homegirl Bella. Book of rhymes certified so says Snoop Dogg. Oh yeah, she's a poet and she know it and she ain't afraid to show it. And if you happy and you know it, BLOW it. This for you, Bella, do ya shit girl!!"--Snoop Dogg "Bella Thorne is raw in every sense of the word: tender, juicy, bloody, revealed. Nobody does what she does, which is tell us how the ****** she feels and that it's okay to ******ing feel it. I honor her."--Lena Dunham "Bella Thorne writes poetry as a kidnapper might leave a ransom note. It's a threat. And I don't think she's ******ing around."--Jason Reitman "I haven't read Bella's book, but if it's anything like her then you're in for a treat. She's honest like so few are these days. She's a rule breaker. Doesn't stay in her lane. Pushes herself beyond what you'd expect. She misbehaves. Doesn't follow the rules. I love her for all of that. All women could benefit from behaving a little less. It's an exciting prospect right?"--Jessica Chastain "Bella...is like an opened Pandora's box! Endlessly overflowing with golden delight and darkest seriousness. Your life could be altered if she catches your eye."--Melissa Leo
Heart & Home For Christmas - by Victoria Duerstock (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 6.9 Inches (H) x 7 Inch (W) x .8 Inch (D)Weight: 1.2 PoundsNumber of Pages: 208Genre: ReligionSub-Genre: HolidaysFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Abingdon PressAuthor: Victoria DuerstockAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book Find hope and spiritual growth at Christmastime with design Inspiration and devotions. Book Synopsis As a writer, teacher, and speaker with a busy work and family life, Victoria Duerstock understands that all the tasks of the holiday season can make it easy to forget the true joy that Christmas can bring. In Heart & Home for Christmas, Duerstock brings her mission to inspire hope for God's purpose, and her 20 years of experience in the furniture and design industry together, connecting Scripture with design elements and easy decorating tips in a way that reflects the true spirit of Christmas. The devotions and holiday decorating tips will encourage spiritual growth and inspiration to have both a captivating heart and home at Christmas.Praise for Heart & Home: Design Basics for Your Soul and Living SpaceSeldom do I discover a book which ministers to mind, body and soul, but Victoria Duerstock's Heart & Home is just such a jewel! I was immediately drawn to the unique design elements through color photographs, and especially the carefully selected accompanying Scripture, meditation and prayer. All of these work together to address one small element of life on which I can meditate all day long (and even bring into my own home through her practical suggestions.) While I am neither an interior designer nor DIY crafter, I am someone who embraced "hygge" long before I knew what the word meant-a beauty through coziness and care. You too? Good. My gift list for this special volume is already quite lengthy...Lucinda Secrest McDowell, author Dwelling Places and GracesAs I read Heart & Home, I was captivated not only by the beauty and elegance on every page and in every word, but more importantly I was inspired to see how spaces can transform lives. Creating a home is a sacred undertaking. Building a home or office that inspires, comforts, engages and transforms hearts leads to healthy individuals, families and communities. I was challenged to think about how our homes can be used to focus us on God; how every color, design and object can strengthen our soul. I hope that Victoria's book will also inspire you and refresh your heart and home.Robert Wallstrom, CEO Vera Bradley
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die - 8 Edition (Hardcover) - by Steven Jay Schneider
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 6.6 Inch (W) x 2.3 Inch (D)Weight: 4.3 PoundsEdition: 8 EditionNumber of Pages: 960Genre: Performing ArtsSub-Genre: FilmFormat: HardcoverPublisher: B.E.S. PublishingAuthor: Steven Jay SchneiderAge Range: AdultBook theme: Guides & ReviewsLanguage: English About the Book This brand-new edition covers the complete history of filmmaking, from silent-era greats to recent Oscar winners like A Star is Born, Roma, BlacKkKlansman, and more. Book Synopsis With over 1.75 million copies sold worldwide, this book is a must-have for all movie lovers. This edition of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die covers more than a century of movie history. Selected and authored by a team of international film critics, every profile is packed with details, plot summaries and production notes, and little-known facts relating to the film's history. Each entry offers a fresh look at some the greatest films of all time. This all-new edition has been updated with: New films that span the globeDetailed, full-color imagesKey quotations from the moviesMore movie posters than everUp-to-date facts and movie triviaLearn the complete history of filmmaking, from silent-era sensations such as D.W. Griffith's controversial The Birth of a Nation to recent Oscar nominees like Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Mad Max: Fury Road. Discover little-known facts about Hollywood's most memorable musicals, greatest dramas, noteworthy documentaries, screwball comedies, classic westerns, action and adventure films, and more. Movie lovers of all stripes will thoroughly enjoy this must-have compilation. Review Quotes "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die celebrates the most creative and influential voices in film. It is a trusted resource for movie lovers and one that we proudly reference." -- Sundance Channel
A Woman Is No Man: A Novel - Etaf Rum (Hardcover )
Edition: SignedGenre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: Hardcover Publisher: HARPER COLLINSAuthor: VariousAge Range: Adult Language: English
The Knowing Book (Hardcover) by Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Dimensions (Overall): 10.6 Inches (H) x 8.8 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)Weight: .9 PoundsNumber of Pages: 32Genre: Self ImprovementSub-Genre: Social ThemesFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Boyds Mills PressAuthor: Rebecca Kai DotlichAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English About the Book "Inspiring and wise, this story begins and ends with the sky that is always above you. In between, a young rabbit travels through the wide world, experiencing joy and sorrow and all the wonder that the world has to offer. Along the way he chooses a path, explores the unknown, and ventures along trails on and off the map. And at the end of the journey, braver and more confident, he returns home, the place he can always count on and will always know."--Provided by publisher. Book Synopsis Inspiring and wise, this story begins and ends with the sky that is always above you. In between, a young rabbit travels through the wide world, experiencing joy and sorrow and all the wonder that the world has to offer. Along the way he chooses a path, explores the unknown, and ventures along trails on and off the map. And at the end of the journey, braver and more confident, he returns home, the place he can always count on and will always know. This beautiful celebration of life is the perfect gift to mark any milestone in a child's life from birth to graduation. Review Quotes This picture book encourages readers to make the most of their lives....Curiosity and adventure are encouraged.... The beautiful pen and ink with watercolor illustrations are as goose bump-inducing as the words of wisdom in the text. This inspirational book could be given as a graduation gift at almost any age. --School Library Journal A poem's gentle admonishments nudge readers to open themselves up to the world....Children will intuitively understand the reassuring embrace of the enveloping dome overhead....A frenzy of feeling, pen strokes, and verse that seeks to excite and empower young people just awakening from childhood slumber. --Kirkus Reviews (Author) Dotlich urges readers to take risks ... (and) Cordell's ink-and-wash drawings give the pages life and humor... --Publishers Weekly About The Author Rebecca Kai Dotlich is the author of One Day, The End and When Riddles Come Rumbling, among other titles. Her poetry and picture books have won various honors, including a Golden Kite Honor Award. She lives in Carmel, Indiana. Visit rebeccakaidotlich.com. Matthew Cordell is the illustrator of many books for children, including The Knowing Book and If You Were a Chocolate Mustache. His title Wolf in the Snow won the 2018 Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children. He lives in the suburbs of Chicago. Visit matthewcordell.com.
Her II - by Pierre A Jeanty (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 7.99 Inches (H) x 5 Inch (W) x .38 Inch (D)Weight: .41 PoundsNumber of Pages: 164Genre: PoetrySub-Genre: AmericanFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Jeanius Publishing LLCAuthor: Pierre A JeantyAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis A continuation of the wildly successful best seller "Her", Pierre Alex Jeanty brings explosive emotion to "Her 2". This celebration of femininity and self-love also explores the woes of love. He offers warnings of the wrong types of attraction while encouraging healthy, fun, and devout relationships of the purest form. "Her 2" tugs at the heart strings using short sentiments and vivid, poetic imagery that echo through the chambers of the heart and mind. "Her 2" is sure to be a classic poetic masterpiece for years to come.
I Have No Secrets November Book Club Pick (Hardcover)
Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresFormat: HardcoverPublisher: SOURCEBOOKS INCAuthor: VariousAge Range: TeenLanguage: EnglishJemma knows who the murderer is. She knows because he told her. He thought his secret was safe because Jemma can't speak or move. But Jemma observes all kinds of things about everyone around her. His secret is just one of them. And when a new technology means she may be able to communicate and reveal all she knows, Jemma no longer feels powerless in the face of this deadly secret. It's a race against time before the killer acts again...or tries to stop her.
Apple Cider Vinegar Cure - by Madeline Given (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 7.4 Inch (W) x .6 Inch (D)Weight: 1.25 PoundsNumber of Pages: 250Genre: Health + WellnessSub-Genre: HealingFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Sonoma PressAuthor: Madeline GivenAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis Your all-in-one guide to discovering the practical and versatile uses of apple cider vinegarFor centuries, apple cider vinegar has served as an indispensable health and beauty elixir. In The Apple Cider Vinegar Cure, holistic nutrition consultant Madeline Given shares some of the history and the science behind this superfood. She also provides instructions on how to make natural remedies to boost your gut and your glow, and brings this probiotic powerhouse to your plate with delicious, nourishing recipes for every meal of the day.The Apple Cider Vinegar Cure contains: An Overview explaining the role of apple cider vinegar in folklore medicineOver 20 Healing Home Remedies helping alleviate common ailmentsOver 25 Beauty Treatments including natural body and hair care treatments75 Delicious Recipes using apple cider vinegar in savory and sweet dishesApple cider vinegar recipes include: Bacon and Cheddar Breakfast Scones, Asian Asparagus Salad, Chicken Pot Pie, Apple Cider Vinegar Pie, and many more. Plus, remedies for: Sun Burn, Earache, Cold and Flu, Nausea and Morning Sickness, and much more!Explore the dozens of uses for this multi-purpose tonic with The Apple Cider Vinegar Cure.
No Pain No Gaines - by Chip Gaines (Hardcover)
Edition: SignedNumber of Pages: 224Genre: Self ImprovementFormat: HardcoverAuthor: Chip GainesAge Range: AdultLanguage: English!!!New York Times BestsellerNo Pain, No Gaines is a by-the-bootstraps manual for building a network of people you can count on. Fair warning: building it will be painful, but what you'll gain is something strong, something reliable, and something that can change the world.Spoiler alert #1: This is a book about networksSpoiler alert #2: This is not a book about networkingNot networking in the traditional sense anyway. It's not about how to leverage your interactions with everyone you meet in an all-out sprint to get ahead. It's about how to find a group of real people who will stand beside you as you bust your butt, who believe that authentic human connection is more important than any other earthly thing, and who bet on each other instead of the status quo. People with beating hearts and passions who live and love and try and fail and try again. People who lift you up and give your life meaning.Written for anyone who believes that relationships are more than transactions, and who is looking to build a network of people they can count on, No Pain, No Gaines will coach you on how to:Look outside yourself and your circle and foster connections with othersValue what you bring to the tableResist the status quoFind the risks worth takingEngage and be awake to life, not asleep at the wheelGet comfortable with being uncomfortably kindBuild a network you trust and then trust the network you buildChip Gaines has been building that kind of network his whole life, and he can tell you, it doesn't come easy. The good stuff never does. It requires faith in people. It requires hope. And it requires a willingness to grow even when it hurts. In No Pain, No Gaines, through hard-won lessons and personal stories, Chip will coach you on how to build a network of your own that will make your life rich and your relationships run deep.
Ingram Aluratek eco4life SmartHome WiFi Outlet Plug (ASHP01F
Dimensions (Overall): 6.24 inches (L), 1.99 inches (H) x 4.74 inches (W) x 6.24 inches (D)Weight: .14 poundsMaterial: MetalBattery: No Battery UsedWarranty: No Applicable Warranty. To obtain a copy of the manufacturer's or supplier's warranty for this item prior to purchasing the item, & bull; Sold as 1 Each. & bull; Control your small appliances from anywhere using the eco4life smartphone app. Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control. & bull; Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control. & bull; Smart timers and scheduling allow you to program your outlet to turn on automatically. & bull; No wires, no hassle set-up.eco4life SmartHome WiFi Outlet Plug Control your lights, electronics and small appliances from. Just plug into your existing wall outlet, plug in your favorite devices and control with the eco4life smartphone app. Control your small appliances from anywhere using the eco4life smartphone app. Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control. Smart timers and scheduling allow you to program your outlet to turn on automatically. No wires, no hassle set-up. 1 year limited warranty. Aluratek's SmartHome WiFi Outlet Plug allows you to control your lights, electronics and small appliances from anywhere. Just plug in the SmartHome WiFi Outlet Plug into your existing wall outlet, plug in your favorite devices and control with the Eco4Life smartphone app. The SmartHome WiFi Outlet Plug is perfect for fans, air conditioners, coffee machines, lamps or any small appliance. Enjoy the convenience of powering on your devices from virtually anywhere in the world. Want to cool down your house before you get home? Just open up the smartphone app, and power on your air conditioner, make a cup of coffee or turn on your entry hall light all before arriving home. You can program as many devices as you want and group them together within the application to power on at once. Compatible with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant to power on or off any device of your choosing with just the sound of your voice. Control your small appliances from anywhere using the eco4life smartphone app. Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control. Compatible with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for voice control. Smart timers and scheduling allow you to program your outlet to turn on automatically. No wires, no hassle set-up. Sold as 1 Each.
Lose Your Belly Diet : Change Your Gut, Change Your Life (Hardcover) (M.d. Travis Stork)
Dimensions (Overall): 9.1 Inches (H) x 6.1 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)Weight: .95 PoundsNumber of Pages: 232Genre: Health + WellnessSub-Genre: Diet & NutritionFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Ingram Pub ServicesAuthor: M.d. Travis StorkAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis We want to be healthy. We want to be lean. And we want to lose that annoying fat around our bellies! We can achieve ALL of these goals with The Lose Your Belly Diet. Based on exciting new research about the dramatic benefits of vibrant gut health and a diverse gut microbiome, this plan nurtures your gut while helping you burn off excess weight and harmful belly fat. This plan is built around a very clear, research-based concept: Eating food that nourishes and protects the microbes in your gut paves the way for weight loss, a slimmer middle, and better overall health. It's not just about weight loss. Having great gut health is linked to good health throughout your body. Scientists in this rapidly growing field are finding connections between gut microbes and the immune system, weight loss, gastrointestinal health, allergies, asthma, and even cancer. With every study that's published, scientists become more convinced that having a healthy gut leads to having a healthy body. We're accustomed to thinking of bacteria as bad--and some are--but most of the bacteria and microbes in our guts do amazing things, like working with our immune system to fight disease and helping our bodies digest food. Not only can't we live without them, but as their numbers and diversity increase, so too does our health. In this book, we look at all of the ways you can improve your own gut health, starting with the food you eat. My diet recommendations, meal plans, and recipes will help feed and protect your gut microbes. And we look at the many other steps you can take to support your beneficial bacteria, from avoiding unnecessary antibiotics to changing the way you think about dirt and germs. Even the choices you make about how you bring your children into the world can have an impact on your family's microbiomes. In The Lose Your Belly Diet, we'll cover all the bases, giving you everything you need to know to make dramatic changes in your GI health, your weight, your belly fat, and your overall health.
Definitely the Best Dogs of All Time - by Jadan Carroll (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 6.2 Inch (W) x .6 Inch (D)Weight: .9 PoundsNumber of Pages: 99Genre: Pets, HumorSub-Genre: Topic, Essays & NarrativesFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & DistAuthor: Jadan CarrollAge Range: AdultBook theme: Animals, GeneralLanguage: English About the Book Amazing and astounding stories of historical, mythical, and real dogs from around the world Book Synopsis Amazing and astounding stories of historical, mythical, and real dogs from around the world Powerful dogs, mythical dogs, heroic dogs, talented dogs, literary dogs, dogs who have changed the course of history, and dogs who have set the internet ablaze. Dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs. From the deeply misunderstood Cerberus, the multi-headed hound of Hades, to Hachikō, Rin Tin Tin, and Duke--the thrice-elected mayor of Cormorant, Minnesota (who is an actual dog). With words by Jadan Carroll and illustrations by Molly Dyson, (Definitely) The Best Dogs of all Time tells heart-warming, absurd, and informative stories of the most exceptional hounds to have bounded across the earth, their majestic tongues flowing in the breeze, and of the humans who love them. Review Quotes "The book features 42 furry, bald, cuddly and fluffy four-legged friends, and is ideal for anyone who wants to delve into the relationship between humans and dogs. Canines in the book vary in breed, size and nature, with Carroll explaining how each dog embodies the best of human nature." --Herald Sun "Carroll writes about a selection of dogs with great affection and wit, accompanied by Molly Dyson's wonderful artworks." --Daily Telegraph "Captivating, and often moving...[A] gently humorous book, with stylishly lush illustrations by Molly Dyson...Read them in one go and the effect is about the same as drinking two glasses of champagne with your best friends." --Shelley Gare "A jolly little hardback." --Stephen Romei, Weekend Australian
Zoo Animals - (First Sticker Art) by Ksenya Sawa (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 8 Inches (H) x 8 Inch (W) x .4 Inch (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 64Genre: Juvenile NonfictionSub-Genre: Activity BooksSeries Title: First Sticker ArtFormat: PaperbackPublisher: B.E.S.Author: Ksenya SawaAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English About the Book First Sticker Art offers kids 20 sticker creatures to create, scores of colorful, shaped stickers and simple projects for tiny hands. Kids can create everything from a zebra to a tiger. Book Synopsis Stickers and books are always a big hit with kids--so here's your chance to score on both counts! First Sticker Art offers kids: 20 sticker creatures to create Scores of colorful, reusable stickers Simple projects for tiny hands Lions and tigers and bears ... plus a hippo, giant panda, giraffe, flamingo, ostrich, camel, kangaroo, and more! Includes over 200 colorful reusable stickers.
Bookminders Page Markers - Cat & Mouse
Dimensions (Overall): 7 Inches (H) x 2.5 Inch (W) x .13 Inch (D)Weight: .01 PoundsFormat: MiscellaneousPublisher: IF USA LLCAuthor: VariousAge Range: TeenLanguage: English & bull;• Four popular themes & bull;• Vintage style brass material & bull;• Highly detailed designs & bull;• Four individual markers & bull;• Appeals to all ages About the Book Brass page markers, minding the important places in your books. Every Bookminder tells a different story! Position them on the top or sides of your pages and bold as brass they will turn a dull closed book into a miniature story scene. With a hint of traditional bookiness and a huge twist of contemporary cool, each themed set will mark your four favorite places. - Four popular themes - Vintage style brass material - Highly detailed designs - Four individual markers - Appeals to all ages
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - by Travis Bradberry, Ph.D
Dimensions (Overall): 7.1 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)Weight: .8 PoundsEdition: NewNumber of Pages: 255Genre: Business + Money Management, PsychologySub-Genre: Interpersonal Relations, LeadershipFormat: Mixed Media ProductPublisher: Talentsmart ServiceAuthor: Travis Bradberry, Ph.DAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book "Includes a new & enhanced online edition of the world's most popular emotional intelligence test." Book Synopsis FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose--increasing your EQ. Here's what people are saying about it: "Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way."--THE DALAI LAMA "A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve."--NEWSWEEK "Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ."--STEPHEN R. COVEY "This book can drastically change the way you think about success...read it twice."--PATRICK LENCIONI In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack. By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction--it's no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential: 1) Self-Awareness2) Self-Management3) Social Awareness4) Relationship Management From the Back Cover "Surveys of 500,000 people on the role of emotions in daily life have enabled the authors to hone EQ assessment to a 28-question online survey that can be completed in seven minutes. The Washington Post Read worthy strategies for improving emotional intelligence skills make this our how-to book of the week. It s nice to know that average IQ doesn t limit a person to average performance. And who can resist an online quiz with instant feedback? Newsday Emotional intelligence is an extremely important skill for personal and professional success. This book is excellent and the learning included in the free online test is cutting-edge. I strongly recommend it. Ken Blanchard, bestselling business book author of all time; coauthor The One Minute Manager(r). My clients tend to be very successful and incredibly busy. This book delivers valuable insights without wasting time! My coaches and I have done powerful work aided by this book and the emotional intelligence test that comes with it. A fantastic combination for learning the skills that are critical to high job performance."Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of What Got You Here Won t Get You There, and premier executive educator as ranked by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company. At last a book that gives how to s rather than just what to s. We need no more convincing that emotional intelligence is at the core of life success. What we need are practical ways of improving it. Bradberry and Greaves brilliant new book is a godsend. It will change your life. Joseph Grenny, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Crucial Conversations This book is filled with wisdom, inspiration, and practical advice, rooted in groundbreaking research. The authors positive strategies are immensely powerful and will change the way you look at your life, your work, and the world. Captain D. Michael Abrashoff, author of the bestseller It s Your Ship I distributed the book to my entire team. We found it very helpful in our dealings with each other and our internal customers. With all the new buzzwords over the past few years, the heart and soul of a company's culture is how they support and promote emotional intelligence. Those with foresight see that emotional intelligence will separate the good companies from the great ones. This book is a wonderful tool for a grass roots approach. If your desire is to be a truly resonate leader that people will trust and follow, this is an opportunity that cannot only change your professional career, but also your personal relationships. Regina Sacha, vice president, human resources, FedEx Custom Critical In the fast lane of business life today, people spend more time on computer keyboards, blackberries and conference calls than they do in face-to-face communication. We're expected to piece together broken conversations, cryptic voicemails, and abbreviated text messages to figure out how to proceed. In this increasingly complex web, emotional intelligence is more important than ever before. This book is filled with invaluable insights and information that no one can afford to ignore. Rajeev Peshawaria, executive director, Goldman Sachs International Drs. Bradberry and Greaves have created a gem that is powerful and easy to read. This book provides a captivating look at the things that matter most in life. Succeeding in Hollywood is as tough as any business, and emotional intelligence skills are essential. I highly recommend this book. Matt Olmstead, executive producer, Prison Break and NYPD Blue ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Drs. Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves are award-winning authors and the cofounders of TalentSmart(r), a global think tank and consultancy that serves more than 75% of Fortune 500 companies and is the world s leading provider of emotional intelligence tests and training. Their best selling Emotional Intelligence Quick Book has been translated into 23 languages, and is sold in more than 150 countries. Drs. Bradberry and Greaves have written for, or been covered by: Newsweek, BusinessWeek, Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Inc., US News & World Report, Newsday, The Washington Post, and The Harvard Business Review."
The New Jim Crow - 10th Edition by Michelle Alexander (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.4 Inches (H) x 5.4 Inch (W) x 1.3 Inch (D)Weight: .88 PoundsNumber of Pages: 352Genre: Social ScienceSub-Genre: CriminologyFormat: PaperbackPublisher: New PressAuthor: Michelle AlexanderAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book First published: 2010; Previous edition: 2012.. Book Synopsis Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly' Slate' Chronicle of Higher Education' Literary Hub, Book Riot' and Zora A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education--with a new preface by the author "It is in no small part thanks to Alexander's account that civil rights organizations such as Black Lives Matter have focused so much of their energy on the criminal justice system." --Adam Shatz, London Review of Books Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists and organizations motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that "we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it." As the Birmingham News proclaimed, it is "undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S." Now, ten years after it was first published, The New Press is proud to issue a tenth-anniversary edition with a new preface by Michelle Alexander that discusses the impact the book has had and the state of the criminal justice reform movement today. Review Quotes "Devastating. . . . Alexander does a fine job of truth-telling, pointing a finger where it rightly should be pointed: at all of us, liberal and conservative, white and black."--Forbes "Alexander is absolutely right to fight for what she describes as a 'much-needed conversation' about the wide-ranging social costs and divisive racial impact of our criminal-justice policies."--Ellis Cose, Newsweek "Invaluable . . . a timely and stunning guide to the labyrinth of propaganda, discrimination, and racist policies masquerading under other names that comprises what we call justice in America."--Daily Kos "Many critics have cast doubt on the proclamations of racism's erasure in the Obama era, but few have presented a case as powerful as Alexander's."--In These Times "Carefully researched, deeply engaging, and thoroughly readable."--Publishers Weekly "[Written] with rare clarity, depth, and candor."--Counterpunch "A call to action for everyone concerned with racial justice and an important tool for anyone concerned with understanding and dismantling this oppressive system."--Sojourners "Undoubtedly the most important book published in this century about the U.S."--Birmingham News "During the past decade, no single book was more directly responsible for reshaping how the American public understands race and mass incarceration than Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow."--Carolyn Copeland, Daily Kos "[The New Jim Crow] took the academy and the streets by storm, and forced the nation to reconsider the systems that allowed for blatant discrimination."--The Chronicle of Higher Education"If you're interested in learning more about the real lives caught up in our country's justice system, I highly recommend The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. It offers an eye-opening look into how the criminal justice system unfairly cartnears communities of color--and especially Black communities."--Bill Gates About The Author Michelle Alexander is a highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar. She is a former Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and Soros Justice Fellow, has clerked for Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, and has run the ACLU of Northern California's Racial Justice Project. Alexander is a visiting professor at Union Theological Seminary and an opinion columnist for the New York Times. She lives in Columbus, Ohio.
Britannica 5 Minute Really True Stories (Board Book)
Dimensions (Overall): 10.6 Inches (H) x 7.8 Inch (W) x .9 Inch (D)Weight: 1.9 PoundsGenre: Juvenile FictionFormat: Board BookAuthor: VariousAge Range: Baby - 3 YearsLanguage: English
For the Right Reasons (Hardcover) by Sean Lowe
Dimensions (Overall): 9 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x 1 Inches (D)Weight: .95 PoundsNumber of Pages: 237Genre: Biography + AutobiographySub-Genre: Entertainment + Performing ArtsFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Thomas Nelson IncAuthor: Sean LoweAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book The "virgin Bachelor" Sean Lowe reveals the challenges of finding love while championing his Christian convictions in the morally complex world of reality TV. Book Synopsis The "virgin Bachelor" Sean Lowe reveals the challenges of finding love while championing his Christian convictions in the morally complex world of reality TV.After The Bachelorette broke his heart, Sean Lowe suspected his "nice guy" image hurt him. The show never emphasized it, but Sean committed to living according to biblical standards of sexuality, even as producers emphasized the risqué and promiscuous. A Texas boy from a Baptist home, Sean tells the story of how he went from a Division I college football player to a fan favorite on reality television, taking readers behind the scenes of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette to see the challenges of living out his values and faith--and ultimately winning his true love's heart.For the Right Reasons is about the journeys we all have to take in the real world, where being "good" is the right thing to do but sometimes doesn't seem to be enough; where betrayal is commonplace; and where that thing called perfection is actually just a cruel myth. Sean learned a few things from his two seasons on the hottest romance shows on television, and he wants others to benefit from those lessons: good does eventually win, lies will be discovered, and "nice guys" do ultimately finish first.
DEEP IN THE HEART OF TROUBLE - by Deeanne Gist (Paperback)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.38 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x 1.06 Inches (D)Weight: .77 PoundsNumber of Pages: 395Genre: Romance, Fiction + Literature Themes, Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: Literary Genres + Types of Novels, General, historical romance, Inspirational, Love + Relationships + SexFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Bethany House PubAuthor: Deeanne GistAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book From a bestselling author and two-time Christy Award winner comes this light-hearted historical romance featuring the intrepid Essie Spreckelmeyer. Book Synopsis Humorous romance from a best-selling, Christy-award-winning author. Sequel to Courting Trouble, set in Texas in the 1890's. From the Back Cover A Texas-Sized Tale of Unexpected Love Essie Spreckelmeyer is the last woman anyone in Corsicana, Texas, expected to see with a man on her arm. Independent and outspoken, she's known more for riding bicycles in outrageous bloomers than for catching a man's eye. And the last man who seems willing to give her a second glance is Tony Morgan, newly hired at Spreckelmeyer's oil company. The disinherited son of an oil baron, Tony wants most to restore his name and regain his lost fortune--not lose his heart to this headstrong blonde. She confounds, contradicts, and confuses him. Sometimes he doesn't know if she's driving him toward the aisle or the end of his rope. That's how life is...Deep in the Heart of Trouble About The Author Deeanne Gist--known to her family, friends, and fans as Dee--has rocketed up the bestseller lists and captured readers everywhere with her very original, very fun historical & contemporary romances. Add to this four RITA nominations, two Christy Awards, rave reviews, and a growing loyal fan base, and you've got one recipe for success. She has a very active online community on her website at IWantHerBook.com and at Facebook.com/Deesfriends.
Little Duckling (Giovanni Caviezel) (Board Book)
Dimensions (Overall): 5.5 Inches (H) x 2.2 Inches (W) x .6 Inches (D)Weight: .2 PoundsNumber of Pages: 10Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: Animals / Ducks + Geese + etc.Format: Board BookPublisher: B.E.S. PublishingAuthor: Giovanni CaviezelAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English About the Book A board book about ducklings in the shape of a duckling. Book Synopsis Little Duckling is one of several titles in the popular Look at Me series of children's animal board books that are being reset in a miniature size to fit tiny hands. Scaled down to approximately half the original's size, this book presents the same illustrations found in the original, with a slightly abridged story. Realistic illustrations and story offer a child-friendly naturalistic portrayal of a baby animal and its mother, and describes in simple language how the mother duck keeps her baby from getting into trouble. Toddlers will love the pictures, and will delight in having Mom or Dad read the story aloud.
Animal 4.5 : Last Rites (Paperback) (K'Wan)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.2 Inch (W) x 1 Inch (D)Weight: .6 PoundsNumber of Pages: 305Genre: Fiction + Literature GenresSub-Genre: African AmericanSeries Title: AnimalFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Consortium Book Sales & DistAuthor: K'WanAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book National Best Selling Author K'wan presents the fourth and a half installment of the Animal series Book Synopsis ''K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.'-Publishers Weekly Animal 4 Re-Issue featuring Bonus material. From the moment Animal's former lover Red Sonja showed up on his doorstep, he knew trouble wouldn't be far behind. It wasn't because the last time he'd seen her, he had been fleeing for his life from a strange island. Nor was it because of the little girl she had in tow, claiming Animal was the father. It was because women like Red Sonja carried trouble around with them like designer purses. He knew getting involved with Sonja again would come at a price, but he had no idea how steep the price would be until it was too late. With his wife gone and his children abducted by a ruthless drug cartel, Animal must lead a suicide mission into the lair of one of the most dangerous assassins in the world, a woman who calls herself Tiger Lily. To go against Tiger Lily and the cartel Animal would need an army, so the call to arms is put out and the streets readily answer. Leading a handful of loyal souls against seemingly insurmountable odds, Animal races against the clock to save his children and put a stop to Tiger Lily and the cartel's plans, while trying to stay one step ahead of the two detectives following the trail of bodies. Things take an unexpected turn when Animal learns a dark truth hidden beneath what he had been led to believe that changes everything, including who can be trusted. When the Grand Design his father had always spoken of is finally revealed Animal will be forced to make the hard choice between love, loyalty, and vengeance. Review Quotes With every page soaked with street-smart vernacular, K'Wan's fourth novel delivers another aggressive, bloody portrait of unrepentant urban outlaws. - Publishers Weekly "One of hip-hop fiction's hottest authors." -KING Magazine Top-notch street lit...one of the top urban fiction novels of the year." - Library Journal Starred Review on Diamonds and Pearl ''K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page.'-Publishers Weekly "The legacies of Iceberg Slim and Donald Goines are forever preserved.... [Street Dreams] is as real as it gets." --Upscale on Street Dreams "K'wan steadily builds to a frantic, movie-worthy climax." --Entertainment Weekly on Street Dreams "[A] heart-thumping thriller...K'wan does a masterful job of keeping readers on their toes right up to the very last page."-Publishers Weekly on Black Lotus "Fans expecting another thug-in-the-street story will be pleasantly surprised at this rough police procedural."-Library Journal on Black Lotus About The Author K'wan is a multiple literary award winner and bestselling author of over a twenty titles which include: Gangsta, Road Dawgz, Street Dreams, Hoodlum, Eve, Hood Rat, Blow, Still Hood, Gutter, Section 8, From Harlem with Love, The Leak, Welfare Wifeys, Eviction Notice, Love & Gunplay, Animal, The Life & Times of Slim Goodie, Purple Reign, Little Nikki Grind, Animal II, The Fix, Black Lotus, First & Fifteenth, Ghetto Bastard, Animal 3, The Fix 2, The Fix 3 and Animal 4. K'wan is also the author of several dark fantasy novels written under a pseudonym. K'wan has been featured in: Vibe, Pages, King, The Library Journal, Entertainment Weekly, The New York Press, and Time Magazine, to name a few. K'wan was also the recipient of the 2012 and 13 Street Lit Book Award Medals (SLBAM) in adult fiction for Eviction Notice and Animal. His credits also include featured commentary in the award winning Documentary Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp (produced by Ice-T) as well as a reoccurring guest role on TV-One's Celebrity Crime Files. K'wan currently resides in New Jersey where he is working on his next novel.
Color Your Mind : A Coloring Book for Those With Alzheimer's and the People Who Love Them (Paperback) - by Maria Shriver
Dimensions (Overall): 11 Inches (H) x 8.5 Inch (W) x .38 Inch (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 80Genre: Health + Wellness, Self ImprovementSub-Genre: Coloring BooksFormat: PaperbackPublisher: Ingram Pub ServicesAuthor: Maria ShriverAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book From renowned Alzheimer's advocate and journalist Maria Shriver, comes this groundbreaking, informational, and inspiring activity book researched and designed to form meaningful connections between people with Alzheimer's and those who love and care for them. Book Synopsis Color Your Mind: A Coloring Book for Those with Alzheimer's and the People Who Love is an innovative book filled with both information and inspiration. In a category all its own, Color Your Mind is the first and only coloring book created specifically for people with Alzheimer's. Authored by award-winning journalist, best-selling author, and Alzheimer's advocate Maria Shriver, this book was developed with insights from caregivers, neurologists, psychologists, and, of course, people with Alzheimer's. Color Your Mind is a resource for caregivers, family, and friends to help forge communication and connection with people with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia. Each coloring page is accompanied by relevant information and prompts to help people with Alzheimer's and their caregivers to create, connect, and reflect. Color Your Mind is unique in that it connects coloring with helpful information about wellness, social connection, nutrition, exercise, moving the mind, and sleep--all valuable lessons for a fulfilling, balanced life. The activities, images, and approach in Color Your Mind were developed and refined through visits to nursing homes and memory care facilities. These visits and interactions also informed the selection of cheerful, inspiring coloring images throughout the book. Review Quotes Out of the countless coloring books being sold today, 'Color Your Mind' is truly one of a kind.-- the Today Show, NBC "This coloring book fills an unmet need and it can facilitate meaningful time and interactions between people with Alzheimerʼs, their family members, and caregivers." -- Dr. Richard Isaacson, Director of the Alzheimerʼs Prevention Clinic, Cornell Medical College "The thought and work that has gone into it are very obvious. Itʼs so important to find activities that can be engaging for family members and patients. Itʼs very well done and I can see the care, concern and beauty coming through on this project!" -- Robin Ketelle, Cognitive Psychology, Emotion, Developmental Psychology R.N., University of California, SF I am very impressed with the layout of the book. The creative ideas, formats, and the simple yet captivating projects are adequate for the clients you are reaching out to. Color Your Mind allows for individual creativity and it also encourages care-givers and families to become involved. Bonding through coloring, drawing, music, crafting, laughing, as well as, a positive sense of humor provide an unthreatening atmosphere for dementia, or Alzheimer's patients to live, love and flourish. -- Sister Conchessa Johnston, Director at Memory Care Center, University of The Incarnate Word About The Author Maria Shriver: - Peabody and Emmy-winning journalist and producer - Six time New York Times best-selling author - NBC News Special Anchor reporting on the shifting roles, emerging power and evolving needs of women in modern life. Maria creates socially conscious television, books, films and digital media with the purpose of informing, inspiring and igniting hearts and minds in a discussion that produce positive impact in the world. Shriver's work is driven by her belief that all of us have the ability to be what she calls Architects of Change -- people who see a problem in their own life or the community around them, then step out of their comfort zone and do what it takes to create the solution. Her website, MariaShriver.com, features life stories and life lessons from Architects of Change aimed at inspiring people to use their own ideas, influence and initiative to go out and make an impact on our world. Maria is one of the nation's leading advocates for families struggling with Alzheimer's disease. Her father, Sargent Shriver, was diagnosed with the disease in 2003 and passed away from it in 2011 at the age of 95. In 2009, Shriver co-executive produced the Emmy Award-winning four-part HBO documentary series called The Alzheimer's Project, which opened millions of people's eyes to the devastating disease. One of the films in the series, Grandpa, Do you Know Who I Am? was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for exemplifying television with a conscience and was based on Shriver's best-selling children's book dealing with Alzheimer's. In 2009, Shriver testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging to encourage Congress to make Alzheimer's a national legislative priority. Shriver's voice was instrumental in the December 2010 passage of the National Alzheimer's Project Act. In addition, Shriver serves on the advisory board of the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas and continues to advocate for patients and families alike.
Furry Chick - (Mini Friends Touch & Feel Books) by Annie Auerbach (Board Book)
Dimensions (Overall): 6.4 Inches (H) x 3.6 Inch (W) x .5 Inch (D)Weight: .18 PoundsNumber of Pages: 10Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: AnimalsSeries Title: Mini Friends Touch & Feel BooksFormat: Board BookPublisher: B.E.S.Author: Annie AuerbachAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English About the Book Delight all of Baby's senses with this adorable little book that has a "spot" of fur that Baby can touch and feel right on the front cover! Furry Chick meets friends on the farm in this charming book that's perfectly sized for little hands. Book Synopsis Delight all of Baby's senses with this adorable little book that has a "spot" of fur that Baby can touch and feel right on the front cover!Welcome, little chickadee! Furry Chick meets friends on the farm. Bright illustrations and gentle text stimulates babies' sense of sight and hearing, and introduce fun facts that can help your little one learn new words and ideas. Perfectly sized for little hands to explore and enjoy.
Ingram 24PORT PATCH PANEL CAT5E 568B N052-024
Dimensions (Overall): 20.39 inches (L), 2.19 inches (H) x 4.29 inches (W)Weight: 14.5 poundsCable/Cord Length: 6 feetConnection Gender: Male-To-FemaleConnection Types: RJ-45 (Ethernet)Data Transfer Rate: No Data Transfer RateWarranty: No Applicable Warranty. To obtain a copy of the manufacturer's or supplier's warranty for this item prior to purchasing the item, & bull; Sold as 1 Each. & bull; Network patch panel for easy installation of cables. & bull; Features metal frame construction for durability. & bull; Comes with 110-type terminal connector A, RJ-45 female connector B for better connectivity. & bull; Utilizes 1U rack height for designating the usable space. Features rack mountable for easy installation.Tripp Lite's 24-port CAT-5E Rack-Mount Patch Panel offer you the same functionality and compatibility as any name brand. Each panel comes with 110-type termination, while meeting and exceeding EIA/TIA TSB-40 CAT-5E connecting hardware specifications. It's color coded for EIA/TIA and 568A/568B installations. The 24 ports ensure a wide range of plug and play options. The clear numbering on both the front and back of each panel gives you a quick and easy way to identify cable runs and the high density 19 in. panel design will save you valuable space. Network patch panel for easy installation of cables. Features metal frame construction for durability. Comes with 110-type terminal connector A, RJ-45 female connector B for better connectivity. Contains 24 ports for easy connection. Utilizes 1U rack height for designating the usable space. Features rack mountable for easy installation. Network patch panel for easy installation of cables. Features metal frame construction for durability. Comes with 110-type terminal connector A, RJ-45 female connector B for better connectivity. Utilizes 1U rack height for designating the usable space. Features rack mountable for easy installation. Sold as 1 Each.
Ingram STM Goods Hynt Polycarbonate, Thermoplastic Polyurethane Case,-MacBoo STM-122-154P-33
Number of Pieces: 1Dimensions (Overall): 14.49 inches (L), .74 inches (H) x 10.24 inches (W) x 14.49 inches (D)Weight: .96 pounds & bull; Sold as 1 Each. & bull; ClearView polycarbonate allows full visual access to your device. EdgeGuard features internal, clear TPU that protects from inadvertent bumps, and scratches. & bull; Sandblasted metal badge with etched logo complements the materials, appearance, and feel of your MacBook Pro. Textured rubber Friction Feet prevent your laptop from sliding on smooth surfaces.A clear winner. A combination of two transparent materials - polycarbonate and TPU - provide the maximum level of protection while allowing the beauty of your device to shine through. Please note this case only fits the MacBook Pro released late in 2016 & 2017 . ClearView polycarbonate allows full visual access to your device. EdgeGuard features internal, clear TPU that protects from inadvertent bumps, and scratches. Sandblasted metal badge with etched logo complements the materials, appearance, and feel of your MacBook Pro. Textured rubber Friction Feet prevent your laptop from sliding on smooth surfaces. ClearView polycarbonate allows full visual access to your device. EdgeGuard features internal, clear TPU that protects from inadvertent bumps, and scratches. Sandblasted metal badge with etched logo complements the materials, appearance, and feel of your MacBook Pro. Textured rubber Friction Feet prevent your laptop from sliding on smooth surfaces Sold as 1 Each.
Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover) by Peter Wohlleben
Dimensions (Overall): 7.6 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)Weight: .9 PoundsNumber of Pages: 272Genre: Science, NatureSub-Genre: TreesFormat: HardcoverPublisher: PgwAuthor: Peter WohllebenAge Range: AdultLanguage: English About the Book "Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben ... makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on ... scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers"--Dust jacket flap. Book Synopsis AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith more than 2 million copies sold worldwide, this beautifully-written book journeys deep into the forest to uncover the fascinating--and surprisingly moving--hidden life of trees."At once romantic and scientific, [Wohlleben's] view of the forest calls on us all to reevaluate our relationships with the plant world."―Daniel Chamovitz, PhD, author of What a Plant KnowsAre trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland.After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again.Includes a Note From a Forest Scientist, by Dr.Suzanne SimardPublished in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute Review Quotes "The matter-of-fact Mr. Wohlleben has delighted readers and talk-show audiences alike with the news -- long known to biologists -- that trees in the forest are social beings."--Sally McGrane, The New York Times"This fascinating book will intrigue readers who love a walk through the woods."--Publishers Weekly"If you read this book, I believe that forests will become magical places for you, too."--Tim Flannery"In this spirited exploration, [Wohlleben] guarantees that readers will never look at these life forms in quite the same way again."--Library Journal"A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement that will make you joyously acknowledge your own entanglement in the ancient and ever-new web of being."--Charles Foster, author of Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide"Soon after we begin to recognize trees for what they are -- gigantic beings thriving against incredible odds for hundreds of years -- we naturally come to ask, 'How do they do it?' This charming book tells how -- not as a lecture, more like a warm conversation with a favorite friend."--Hope Jahren, author of Lab Girl"A powerful reminder to slow down and tune into the language of nature."--Rachel Sussman, author of The Oldest Living Things in the World"Charming, provocative, fascinating. In the tradition of Jean-Henri Fabre and other great naturalist story-tellers, Wohlleben relates imaginative, enthralling tales of ecology."--David George Haskell, author of The Forest Unseen, Pulitzer finalist"Wohlleben's book is at once romantic and scientific, beautifully articulating his personal relationship with the trees he has dedicated his life to. His view of the forest calls on us all to reevaluate our relationships with the plant world."--Daniel Chamovitz, PhD, author of What a Plant Knows"With colorful and engaging descriptions of little-known phenomena in our natural world, Wohlleben helps readers appreciate the exciting processes at work in the forests around them."--Dr. Richard Karban, University of California, Davis, author of Plant Sensing and Communication"You will never look at a tree the same way after reading Peter Wohlleben's The Hidden Life of Trees, which reveals the mind-boggling properties and behavior of these terrestrial giants. Read this electrifying book, then go out and hug a tree -- with admiration and gratitude."--David Suzuki About The Author Peter Wohlleben spent over twenty years working for the forestry commission in Germany before leaving to put his ideas of ecology into practice. He now runs an environmentally-friendly woodland in Germany, where he is working for the return of primeval forests. He is the author of numerous books about the natural world including The Hidden Life of Trees, The Inner Lives of Animals, and The Secret Wisdom of Nature, which together make up his bestselling The Mysteries of Nature Series. He has also written numerous books for children including Can You Hear the Trees Talking? and Peter and the Tree Children. Tim Flannery is a scientist, explorer and conservationist. He is a leading writer on climate change and his books include Atmosphere of Hope and The Weather Makers. Jane Billinghurst's career has been in book publishing in the UK, the US, and Canada, as an editor, publisher, writer, and translator. She is the translator of the New York Times-bestseller The Hidden Life of Trees by German forester Peter Wohlleben.
The Doctor's Diet Cookbook (Hardcover) by Travis Stork M.D.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.29 Inches (H) x 7.32 Inches (W) x .87 Inches (D)Weight: 1.25 PoundsNumber of Pages: 236Genre: Medical, Health + WellnessSub-Genre: Health + Healing / Weight ControlFormat: HardcoverPublisher: Bird Street BooksAuthor: Travis StorkAge Range: AdultLanguage: English Book Synopsis A companion to the #1 New York Times best-selling diet book that has swept the nation, The Doctor's Diet Cookbook is a collection of simple, delicious, and balanced recipes that will help you maintain a healthy weight now and throughout your life. The highly flexible and workable plan in The Doctor's Diet unlocked the power of 10 Food Prescriptions to activate weight loss while restoring health, preventing disease and adding years to readers' lives, and this cookbook is an extension of that plan. The positive feedback on the tasty recipes in The Doctor's Diet was overwhelming, and you demanded more. So, in The Doctor's Diet Cookbook, Dr. Travis Stork brings brand new, easy-to-follow and quick-to-prepare ideas for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks and, of course, dessert, all designed to support your weight loss efforts and keep you at optimal health. Dr. Travis believes that in order to commit to healthy eating, our food must taste good and these meals reflect his passion by presenting unique food variations that are delightful for the palate, as well as for the waistline. Plus, it's flexible for almost any dietary restriction or choice; whether you're a "meat and potatoes" type, a vegetarian, or watching your sodium or sugar intake, this cookbook has mouthwatering options for you.
Hey! Look at You... in the Jungle - (Hey! Look at You Books) by Emily Snape (Hardcover)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.5 Inches (H) x 8.5 Inch (W) x .4 Inch (D)Weight: .7 PoundsNumber of Pages: 10Genre: Juvenile FictionSub-Genre: ConceptsSeries Title: Hey! Look at You BooksFormat: HardcoverPublisher: B E S Pub CoAuthor: Emily SnapeAge Range: 4-8 YearsLanguage: English About the Book Mirrors on the front and inside back cover allow little ones to explore all sorts of delightful things. Take your baby on a wild ride through the jungle! Baby can tag along as a monkey hoots, a parrot squawks, elephant stomps, and a lion roars. Book Synopsis B.E.S. Hey! Look at You books feature mirrors on the front and inside back cover that allow little ones to explore all sorts of delightful things. Launch them into imaginative role play, explore exciting and fun emotions, and help them make all sorts of facial expressions as they see themselves in each captivating scene. Take your baby on a wild ride through the jungle! Baby can tag along as a monkey hoots, a parrot squawks, elephant stomps, and a lion roars.
