Simon & Schustereloquencefeeds@firebrandtech.com20210426Title information from Simon & Schustereng01USDinGeneral Trade978064848519303020648485196039780648485193159780648485193140978064848519311BCB102Trade Paperback01The Easiest Air Fryer Book Ever!TheEasiest Air Fryer Book Ever!011796217031A01Kim McCoskerMcCosker, KimKimMcCoskerhttps://www.4ingredients.com.au/.]]>01eng144CKB081000WBS2.110CKB07000010CKB05100012WBD12WBF20air fryer; comfort food; snacks; healthy eating; cooking; healthy cooking; low fat; easy recipes; family cookbook; fried foods; convenient cooking0102From the multi-million copy bestselling cookbook brand, The Easiest Air Fryer Book Ever! brings you over 75 delicious recipes, each with a clear nutritional information table and beautiful full colour photography.
Kim McCosker has received requests for the better part of 18 months to write an EASY air fryer book! As the frequency of these requests increased, so did Kim’s fascination with the air fryer; how exactly they worked, and how this incredible machine could create the crispiest, crunchiest, most tantalizing morsels with hardly any mess, and just a fraction of the calories you’d get from regular deep-frying.
In The Easiest Air Fryer Book Ever!, Kim will demystify the air fryer process and explain how you can get restaurant quality meals by ‘frying’ using minimal oil and very hot air. In fact, just about EVERYTHING can be made in an air fryer, including vegetables, nuts, and even baked goods. And don’t forget the fried chicken and French fries – if you can bake it in an oven, fry it on your stove top, or throw it on a BBQ, chances are you can make it in an air fryer. The possibilities are endless!
In The Easiest Air Fryer Book Ever! you will find:
75+ flavour-packed recipes that the whole family will enjoy
144 beautifully illustrated pages
Recipes that can be created in 10-20 minutes and require little preparation time
Healthy, hearty alternatives to comfort food, including best-loved classics like zucchini nuggets, pizza, buffalo wings and bagels!
]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/171a602c-dfda-4bbc-b997-ac3400251472014 IngredientsSIMO3364 Ingredients01014 IngredientsSIMO3364 Ingredients042021010601AU NZ017.874in01200mm027.283in02185mm27159780648947707Harper Collins PublishersIP20202101060224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.00202104254 IngredientsAU0120210106978064894771402020648947718039780648947714159780648947714140978064894771411BCB102Trade Paperback01The Easiest Air Fryer Keto Book EverTheEasiest Air Fryer Keto Book Ever011859935131A01Kim McCoskerMcCosker, KimKimMcCoskerhttps://www.4ingredients.com.au/.]]>01eng144CKB081000WBS2.110CKB07000010CKB05100012WBD12WBF20air fryer; comfort food; snacks; healthy eating; cooking; healthy cooking; low fat; easy recipes; family cookbook; fried foods; convenient cooking; keto; simple keto recipes; low carb; low carb recipes; low carb keto; keto air fryer; keto made easy; 014 IngredientsSIMO3364 Ingredients01014 IngredientsSIMO3364 Ingredients022021072801AU NZ017.874in01200mm027.283in02185mm27159780648947721Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.00202104254 IngredientsAU012021072897813985047070202139850470X039781398504707159781398504707140978139850470711BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade Paperback01Kitty Quest011822434851A01Phil CorbettCorbett, PhilMr.PhilCorbettPhil Corbett is a professional storyteller. He was the last person to write and illustrate the adventures of one of the oldest comic characters in the world, Korky the Cat, from the UK comic magazine The Dandy. He's previously worked in the gaming and toy industry with clients such as Cartoon Network, Disney, Nickelodeon, Nintendo, and PlayStation. Kitty Quest is his debut graphic novel. You can see more of his work at www.philcorbett.com.]]>01eng208JUV008050YFB2.110JUV00807010JUV00811010JUV00205010JUV05200010JUV00813010JUV00809010JUV00808012YFW12YFQ12YFH12YNXW20Dog man; dogman; books like dog man; cat comic book; the dandy; the beano; books for reluctant readers; easy to read books; cat kid; Dav Pilkey; Liz Pichon; graphic novels for children age 8; age 10; age 9; comic books; for seven year olds; age 7; captain underpants; colour comics; for kids; cartoon books for boys; full colour; Tom Gates; dork diaries; animal comic books; 21C3N7901021703704990102There are two new cats in town!
‘Fantastically funny and epically exciting! Kitty Quest is a ridiculous thrill from start to finish!’ – Jamie Smart, creator of the Bunny vs. Monkey series
Dog Man meets the Lord of the Rings in this laugh-out-loud graphic novel debut about two aspiring adventurers who face off against startling ghosts, rampaging monsters and bumbling wizards!
Woolfrik and Perigold are two down-on-their-luck cats in need of some extra cash, so they've decided to become professional monster slayers – except they don't know the first thing about it! So when a huge beast starts rampaging through the town, they are put to the ultimate test.
But the monster is just the beginning of their worries, because someone even more troublesome is pulling its strings. So even though they've never been in a battle – or even gone on a real quest before – it's up to these cats to save the day and prove they've got what it takes to be heroes.
‘So funny! Phil Corbett is a genius!’ – Rob Biddulph
‘Fun, fast-paced and hilarious. Kitty Quest is a must-read – especially if you love a good cat-pun!’ – Laura Ellen Anderson, author of Amelia Fang
Matt Braly, creator of Disney's Amphibia, proclaims Kitty Quest is ‘an absolutely charming story that had me chuckling the whole way through. I couldn't put it down!’
'A hilarious, magical and downright silly story about some paws-itively delightful heroes! Kitty Quest is the purr-fect tale for any reader!' –Brett Bean, creator of the Zoo Patrol Squad series
'Fearless feline heroes! Marauding monsters! Bewitched burritos! With bonkers artwork and snappy storytelling, Kitty Quest has everything young adventurers could ever want!' – Aaron Blecha, co-creator of Dinomighty!]]>0802 ]]>Rob Biddulph0802Kitty Quest is a must-read – especially if you love a good cat-pun!]]>Laura Ellen Anderson, author of Amelia Fang0802Kitty Quest is a ridiculous thrill from start to finish!]]>Jamie Smart, creator of the Bunny vs Monkey series040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a08008c9-70ae-46fc-b5e0-ac8b011963bd01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ018.307in01211mm025.591in02142mm27159781398504691Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280216.99AUDAUZ0.0016.990.00202104250219.99NZDNZZ0.0019.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978139850674902021398506745039781398506749159781398506749140978139850674911BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Better To Have GoneLove, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville011825940751A01Akash KapurKapur, AkashAkashKapurIndia Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India and the editor of an anthology, Auroville: Dream and Reality. He is the former Letter from India columnist for the international New York Times, the recipient of a Whiting Grant, and has written for various leading publications. He grew up in Auroville and returned there to live with his family after boarding school and college in America. ]]>01eng368BIO026000BM2.120nonfiction books; biographies and memoirs; best books 2021; books set in India; family memoirs; family mysteries; family mystery; interesting finds; memory; true story; death; crime books; nonfiction; Akash Kapur; Better To Have Gone; better to go; India; Utopia; Auroville; books about Utopias; books about the 60s; gifts for women; best sellers; new releases; books; David Grann; My Life in Orange01010102'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple
From Whiting Award winner Akash Kapur, a transfixing masterwork that probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays a utopian community striving to create a better world.
The quest to build utopia has a long history; in the 1960s, hopes surged as seekers from around the planet founded communities that they hoped would provide alternatives for a strife-torn world. One such community was Auroville, located on a weather-beaten landscape of hard clay and palm trees in coastal South India. Akash Kapur’s stunning book is about what happened when a beautiful young rebel from Belgium, Diane Maes, and a scion from a powerful American family, John Walker, met in Auroville: how they became drawn into the community’s tumultuous history, and why they died - shockingly, tragically - on the same day.
Founded in 1968 by a French woman known as 'The Mother', Auroville is an aspiring spiritual utopia seeking to reinvent money, government, education and ecology. Now home to 3,000 residents, it is one of the longest-lasting and largest intentional communities in the world. After Diane’s death, her daughter Auralice was taken in by John’s family, in New York City. She later married Akash, who himself grew up in Auroville. Auralice’s understanding of Diane’s and John’s deaths had always been hazy. It was only when Akash and Auralice moved back some thirty years later to Auroville, where they started their own family, that they began to unravel the mysteries that had surrounded those events.
Better to Have Gone blends memoir, history, sociology and politics. It probes the universal idea of utopia, and it portrays in vivid detail the daily life of one particular utopian community. Above all, it is a love story about two doomed and idealistic dreamers. Richly atmospheric and filled with remarkable characters, the book explores timeless questions about faith, idealism, spiritual exploration, as well as the extremism into which these noble impulses so often descend. Spread across time and continents, this is narrative writing of the highest order, a heartbreaking, unforgettable story.]]>0802beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose. It tells an extraordinary tale of a paradise lost, and of the dangers of utopian naivety: what happens when dreams collide with harsh reality. Like In Cold Blood, it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic.']]>William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy0802a gripping morality tale, phosphorescent and unsettling, of the cruelty that accompanies utopia.']]>Jeet Thayil, Booker shortlisted author of Narcopolis0802Spellbinding and otherworldly, Better to Have Gone is an exquisite literary achievement. With graceful, luminous prose, Akash Kapur's intimate account of utopian Auroville is entrancing, devastating and unforgettable. Above all, this book is a hauntingly beautiful love story, composed by a writer in full command of his craft.']]>Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove0802 trenchant, nuanced account of the longing for a perfect world. Working from personal experience and a writer’s profound curiosity, he takes us deep into the heart of an intentional community’s ambitions and failures. This is an important work about the eternal human desire for utopia, and about the dystopia that always lurks within these dreams.']]>Vikram Chandra, author of Sacred Games0802compulsively readable account, Akash Kapur ... unravels a mystery whose players are yogis and hippies, Tamil villagers and a disaffected son of the American elite. Kapur’s great achievement is to narrate a personal tragedy with such generosity and insight that it becomes a love story - one that doesn’t shy from the passionate idealism or devastating failures of sixties utopianism.']]>Nell Freudenberger, author of Lost and Wanted and The Newlyweds0802gripping, magical, deeply moving book is a story of stubborn, self-sacrificing idealism - both its beauty and its cost. Akash Kapur set out to understand the visionary lives and terrible deaths of his wife’s parents in Auroville, the South Indian utopian community where he and she grew up... It is exhilarating to read about a place and time where utopia seemed not just possible but close.']]>Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2d6be776-96a5-43ef-a659-ace300374a5501Scribner UKSIMO445Scribner UK0101Scribner UKSIMO445Scribner UK022021080101AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm27159781398506763Harper Collins PublishersNP10202108010239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Scribner UKAU0120210801978139850675602021398506753039781398506756159781398506756140978139850675611BCB1060910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback - Trade paperback (UK)01Better To Have GoneLove, Death and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville011825940751A01Akash KapurKapur, AkashAkashKapurIndia Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India and the editor of an anthology, Auroville: Dream and Reality. He is the former Letter from India columnist for the international New York Times, the recipient of a Whiting Grant, and has written for various leading publications. He grew up in Auroville and returned there to live with his family after boarding school and college in America. ]]>Export/Airside01eng368BIO026000BM2.120nonfiction books; biographies and memoirs; best books 2021; books set in India; family memoirs; family mysteries; family mystery; interesting finds; memory; true story; death; crime books; nonfiction; Akash Kapur; Better To Have Gone; better to go; India; Utopia; Auroville; books about Utopias; books about the 60s; gifts for women; best sellers; new releases; books; David Grann; My Life in Orange01010102'Beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose... it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic' William Dalrymple
From Whiting Award winner Akash Kapur, a transfixing masterwork that probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays a utopian community striving to create a better world.
The quest to build utopia has a long history; in the 1960s, hopes surged as seekers from around the planet founded communities that they hoped would provide alternatives for a strife-torn world. One such community was Auroville, located on a weather-beaten landscape of hard clay and palm trees in coastal South India. Akash Kapur’s stunning book is about what happened when a beautiful young rebel from Belgium, Diane Maes, and a scion from a powerful American family, John Walker, met in Auroville: how they became drawn into the community’s tumultuous history, and why they died - shockingly, tragically - on the same day.
Founded in 1968 by a French woman known as 'The Mother', Auroville is an aspiring spiritual utopia seeking to reinvent money, government, education and ecology. Now home to 3,000 residents, it is one of the longest-lasting and largest intentional communities in the world. After Diane’s death, her daughter Auralice was taken in by John’s family, in New York City. She later married Akash, who himself grew up in Auroville. Auralice’s understanding of Diane’s and John’s deaths had always been hazy. It was only when Akash and Auralice moved back some thirty years later to Auroville, where they started their own family, that they began to unravel the mysteries that had surrounded those events.
Better to Have Gone blends memoir, history, sociology and politics. It probes the universal idea of utopia, and it portrays in vivid detail the daily life of one particular utopian community. Above all, it is a love story about two doomed and idealistic dreamers. Richly atmospheric and filled with remarkable characters, the book explores timeless questions about faith, idealism, spiritual exploration, as well as the extremism into which these noble impulses so often descend. Spread across time and continents, this is narrative writing of the highest order, a heartbreaking, unforgettable story.]]>0802beautifully written and structured, deeply moving, and realised in wise, thoughtful, chiselled prose. It tells an extraordinary tale of a paradise lost, and of the dangers of utopian naivety: what happens when dreams collide with harsh reality. Like In Cold Blood, it is that rarity: a genuine non-fiction classic.']]>William Dalrymple, author of The Anarchy0802a gripping morality tale, phosphorescent and unsettling, of the cruelty that accompanies utopia.']]>Jeet Thayil, Booker shortlisted author of Narcopolis0802Spellbinding and otherworldly, Better to Have Gone is an exquisite literary achievement. With graceful, luminous prose, Akash Kapur's intimate account of utopian Auroville is entrancing, devastating and unforgettable. Above all, this book is a hauntingly beautiful love story, composed by a writer in full command of his craft.']]>Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove0802 trenchant, nuanced account of the longing for a perfect world. Working from personal experience and a writer’s profound curiosity, he takes us deep into the heart of an intentional community’s ambitions and failures. This is an important work about the eternal human desire for utopia, and about the dystopia that always lurks within these dreams.']]>Vikram Chandra, author of Sacred Games0802compulsively readable account, Akash Kapur ... unravels a mystery whose players are yogis and hippies, Tamil villagers and a disaffected son of the American elite. Kapur’s great achievement is to narrate a personal tragedy with such generosity and insight that it becomes a love story - one that doesn’t shy from the passionate idealism or devastating failures of sixties utopianism.']]>Nell Freudenberger, author of Lost and Wanted and The Newlyweds0802gripping, magical, deeply moving book is a story of stubborn, self-sacrificing idealism - both its beauty and its cost. Akash Kapur set out to understand the visionary lives and terrible deaths of his wife’s parents in Auroville, the South Indian utopian community where he and she grew up... It is exhilarating to read about a place and time where utopia seemed not just possible but close.']]>Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c2f19c3a-ea97-4328-a9b2-ace300374c8301Scribner UKSIMO445Scribner UK0101Scribner UKSIMO445Scribner UK022021072801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm06159781398506749Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Scribner UKAU0120210728978139850902302021398509027039781398509023159781398509023140978139850902311BCB1060910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback - Trade paperback (UK)01Gold Diggers011850588851A01Sanjena SathianSathian, SanjenaSanjenaSathianANZ Only01eng352FIC000000FA2.110FIC01900010FIC04300010FIC06100010FIC05400020crazy rich asians; kevin kwan; immortalists; chloe benjamin; kavalier and clay; little fires everywhere; celeste ng; mindy kaling; warner brothers; homegoing; yaa gyasi; late night; never have i ever; the office; atlanta; gold heist; magical realism; california; gold rush; india; satire; american dream; 93FB93FMM93FU93FUP93FXB01010102‘Achingly familiar and marvellously inventive… a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel’ Celeste Ng ‘Completely original, utterly absorbing, complex and confident’ Karen Joy Fowler ‘Truly funny, insightful, smart and filled with wonderful characters… unmissable’ Ann Napolitano
Anyone can be extraordinary. But it comes at a price…
Neil Narayan’s parents moved to America for a better life, and his perfect older sister is now headed to an elite university. Neil is funny and smart, but he is not living up to his parents’ dream. While he tries to want their version of success, mostly, Neil just wants his neighbour across the street, Anita Dayal.
Once a lot like Neil, Anita is truly thriving academically, athletically and socially. Anita has a secret: she and her mother Anjali have been brewing an ancient alchemical potion from stolen gold that harnesses the ambition of the jewellery's original owner. Anita just needs a little boost to get into Harvard. When Neil – who needs a whole lot more – stumbles onto their secret and joins in the plot, events spiral into a tragedy that rips their community apart.
Ten years later, Neil is an oft-stoned history grad student studying the California gold rush. Anita has given up her high-flying tech career and is working as an event planner, just for now. Anjali, the woman who gave them both so much, is in trouble, and only gold can save her. What choice do Anita and Neil have but to pull off one last heist?
Gold Diggers is a dazzling coming-of-age story that speaks to anyone who ever wondered quite how they belong, and who ever dreamed of being the very best they could be. ]]>0802Gold Diggers takes a wincingly hilarious coming-of-age story, laces it with magical realism and a trace of satire, and creates a world that's both achingly familiar and marvelously inventive. Written with such assurance it's hard to believe it's Sanjena Sathian's debut, this is a dizzyingly original, fiercely funny, deeply wise novel about the seductive powers – and dangers – of borrowed ambition' Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere
'Is the American dream about hard work and sacrifice or is it about the lure of the Gold Rush, of quick riches there for the taking? Greed, regret and love are all at work here in Sathian’s completely original, utterly absorbing, complex and confident debut novel. A bravura performance from an exciting new voice' Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
'A work of 24-karat genius… Sathian has created a funny, compassionate, tragic novel of astonishing cultural richness… The result is a novel of Indian magic and modern technology, a parody of New World ambition and an elegy of assimilation' Washington Post
'[A]chingly real reminders of what it was like to be an adolescent in post-9/11 America, feeling the weight of your parents’ dreams on your shoulders... The tension Sathian builds is one of teenage insecurity swelling into adulthood, until disillusion overthrows the tyranny of American perfectionism... exquisite prose humming with contagious anxiety' New York Times Book Review
'This terrific debut novel uses heists and alchemy to deconstruct immigrant ambition, striving and sin... what makes the novel so compelling is the playfulness with which Sathian deconstructs it. You feel for the characters and the ways they have been warped by their pursuit of greatness and the ways they are haunted by their sins – but also, there are heists and alchemy. It’s a blast'Vox
'The coming-of-age genre meets magical realism meets heist caper… Funny and exciting, it’s an entertaining new twist on the immigrant experience' CNN
'Upends our ideas of what it takes to make it in America. Smart, funny and completely engrossing' Andrew Ridker, author of The Altruists
'Gold Diggers is so many things – truly funny, insightful, smart and filled with wonderful characters. I loved reading this novel, and loved watching Neil Narayan grow up and grapple with the America his immigrant parents believed in. Neil's journey to figuring out what he believes, which includes a multi-layered exploration into the properties of gold, and his strange and wonderful friendship with his next door neighbor, Anita, make this story unmissable' Ann Napolitano, bestselling author of Dear Edward
'Rollicking, at times painful and ultimately intensely satisfying... twines historical fictions and truths and family histories into the main narrative, exemplifying how time both does and does not make a linear kind of sense, how past, present and future's paths collide at times in unexpected ways' NPR
'A dazzling and delightful work of fiction by an exciting new literary talent... Sathian has produced a beguiling elixir with Gold Diggers, skilfully stirring myth into a playful yet powerful modern-day examination of the American dream and the second-generation citizens who pursue it. A fabulist amalgam of The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye, it’s an engrossing cautionary tale as well as a shrewd appraisal of what we consider success – and the moral sacrifices we make to achieve it. Imaginative and intoxicating, Gold Diggers richly rewards its readers' BookPage
'Filled with pathos, humor, slices of American history and an adrenaline-pumping heist, Sathian's spectacular debut also highlights the steep costs of the all-American dream... Pure gold' Booklist
‘A sprawling tale of magical realism, gold heists and the quest to attain the American dream’ PopSugar
‘A feast of a story… breaks apart the mythology of monolithic culture with the perfect alchemy of humour, magic and irresistible albeit flawed people. Let it sweep you off your feet’ BuzzFeed ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/56e97146-19dc-4071-a3d1-ad0d0026cc9b01Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021060201AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm06159781398509016Harper Collins PublishersNP10202106020232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210602978147115818602021471158187039781471158186159781471158186140978147115818611BCB105Paperback01The Russian AffairTheRussian AffairThe True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal011776842521A01David WalshWalsh, DavidDavidWalshThe Sunday Times. A four-time Irish Sportswriter of the Year and four-time UK Sportswriter of the Year, he was also named the 2012 British Journalist of the year. Coauthor of L.A. Confidential: The Secrets of Lance Armstrong and author of From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France, he is married with seven children and lives in Suffolk, England.]]>UK Edition01eng384BIO016000BGS2.112WSK20Russia; doping; Russian doping scandal; Olympics; athletics; athletics scandal; Vladimir Putin; Lance Armstrong; Sochi Games; London Olympics; Rio Olympics; Tom Rob Smith; Child 44; David Walsh; performance-enhancing drugs; Vitaly Stepanov; Yuliya Stepanova; Grigory Rodchenkov; The Rodchenkov Affair; Icarus; Icarus documentary; Moscow; whistle blowers; Bloodsport: Bloodsport Radio 4; sporting scandal; 01010102LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 'Reads like a thriller, or even a spy novel...Walsh keeps you gripped' Rosamund Urwin, Sunday Times 'A turbulent but ultimately inspiring tale. The candour...israre and gripping' Matt Dickinson, The Times
It was the story that shocked the world: Russian athletics was revealed to be corrupt from top to bottom, with institutionalised doping used to help the nation's athletes win medals they did not deserve. But the full story of the couple who blew the whistle has never been told - until now.
When Russian anti-doping official Vitaly Stepanov met the young 800m athlete Yuliya Rusanova, for him it was love at first sight. Within two months, they were married. But there was a problem – in fact, there were lots of problems. She admitted she was doping and that everyone else was doping, and she let him know that she came from a dark place …
It could all have brought a very swift end to a very hasty marriage, but gradually the Stepanovs began to realise that whatever you did, the system in Russia was stacked against you. In the end, the only ones they could rely upon were each other. Fully aware of the risks they were taking, they decided to turn the tables on those who had manipulated them and cheated the sporting world.
The result of their investigative work sent shockwaves around the planet and led to Russia’s athletes being banned from world sport, while the Stepanovs themselves had to go into hiding. The Russian Affair is a gripping true-life drama that at times reads like a spy novel and at others like an epic love story. But, at the centre of it all, is a quietly determined couple who knew that if they stood together they could shine a light on a corrupt system and bring it crashing to the ground.]]>0802a remarkable tale not just of love but of courage....[Stepanov's] persistence in becoming one of sport’s most remarkable whistleblowers...is staggering given everything set against him. When David Walsh, the chief sports writer of The Sunday Times, set out to meet the Stepanovs for the first time, he thought he was writing a doping story...but in The Russian Affair, he has ended up with so much more. The extraordinary, lurching relationship between Vitaly and Yuliya lies at the heart of a turbulent but ultimately inspiring tale. The candour with which they have allowed Walsh to tell their story is rare and gripping.']]>Matt DickinsonThe Times0802unlikely love for one another gives them the moral strength to act as whistleblowers.']]>Nick GreensladeSunday Times, Sport Books of the Year0802utterly compelling is that at its heart it is a love story about the young couple who blew the lid on the scandal. It is a tale of the implausible, complex and fractious relationship between Vitaly Stepanov and Yuliya Rusanova... The story reads like a fast-paced thriller... This masterful work is so much more than a story about drugs, cover-ups and corruption... A beautiful record of a compelling and emotional journey.']]>James RestallThe Times, Sports Books of the Year0802a Cold War thriller, the true story of the committed anti-doping official who falls in love and marries a star 800m runner who turns out an admitted drugs cheat. The book is a journey through deception, betrayal, infidelity, and an eventual escape from the country.']]>Damien O'MearaRTE040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7aded0a8-b13c-40c9-8df7-ac730037636801Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm06159781471158155Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147116362302021471163628039781471163623159781471163623140978147116362311BCB105Paperback01The AbstainerTheAbstainer011682022231A01Ian McGuireMcGuire, IanIanMcGuireIncredible Bodies and the 2016 Man Booker-longlisted novel, The North Water. The Abstainer is his third novel. ]]>01eng368FIC000000FA2.101010102‘Truly terrific' Richard Ford 'Dickens for the twenty-first century' Roddy Doyle 'A powerful, gripping tale' Sunday Times
A man hanging on by a thread. A city about to snap.
From the acclaimed author of The North Water comes an epic story of revenge and obsession.
Manchester, 1867
Two men, haunted by their pasts. Driven by the need for justice.
Blood begets blood. In a fight for life and legacy.
Stephen Doyle arrives in Manchester from New York. He is an Irish-American veteran of the Civil War and a member of the Fenians, a secret society intent on ending British rule in Ireland, by any means necessary. Now he has come to seek vengeance.
James O'Connor has fled grief and drink in Dublin for a sober start in Manchester as Head Constable. His mission is to discover and thwart the Fenians’ plans. When his long-lost nephew arrives on his doorstep, he never could have foreseen how this would imperil his fragile new life – or how his and Doyle's fates would come to be intertwined.
The rebels will be hanged at dawn, and their brotherhood is already plotting revenge.
Praise for The North Water, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016
‘Brilliant, fast-paced, gripping. A tour de force of narrative tension and a masterful reconstruction of a lost world’ Hilary Mantel
‘Utterly convincing and compelling… A startling achievement’ Martin Amis
‘Riveting and darkly brilliant… McGuire has an extraordinary talent’ Colm Toibin
‘Has exceptional power and energy’ Sunday Times
‘A stunning novel that snares the reader from the outset and keeps the tightest grip until the bitter end’ Financial Times
‘A vivid read, full of twists, turns, period detail and strong characters’ The Times
‘Terrific – McGuire’s use of the pitiless, fearsomely beautiful Arctic landscape as a theatre for enduring questions is inspired’ Daily Mail
‘McGuire has a sure and unwavering touch… a writer of exceptional craft and confidence’ Irish Times ]]>0802The Times]]>0802Guardian]]>0802New Statesman]]>0802Sunday Times]]>0802The Economist]]>0802Sunday Express]]>0802The Abstainer tells a story of people trapped by class, a simmering revolution, and their own frailty, but it’s ultimately a very human and compelling novel that gives us a clear glimpse into the hearts and souls of its characters. McGuire is a writer who isn’t afraid to take risks and change course from his previous books.' Philipp Meyer, author of The Son]]>0802The Abstainer is truly terrific – a can't-put-down book. It's no less than a tight 'n spare 'n suspense-filled noir novel, masterfully set in 1860s Britain and America. And like all superb historical novels, it seems as modern and as contemporary as this morning.’ Richard Ford]]>0802Why didn't I know about this before? He has a keen sense of how to mix precise local details with transcendent global themes.’ Michael Punke, Author of The Revenant]]>0802Roddy Doyle, New York Times Book Review]]>0802The Abstainer succeeds in keeping the reader tense and uneasy, much like the polluted, portentous air hanging over Manchester. The brooding and lyrically written cat-and-mouse narrative of Doyle and O’Connor is excellent. If the reader is looking for a taut tale exploring the brutal vagaries of men’s hearts, The Abstainer is a provocative novel that invites further discovery of a troubled time.' Historical Novels Review ]]>0802The North Water, 2016) has an O’Connor prequel in the works. O’Connor’s palpable alienation and the subtly drawn comparisons between the Irish insurgency and America’s then-recent civil war create layers of depth in this exceptional period thriller.' Booklist]]>0802Publishers Weekly]]>01Scribner UKSIMO445Scribner UK0101Scribner UKSIMO445Scribner UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm06159781471163593Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Scribner UKAU012021072897814711694340202147116943X039781471169434159781471169434140978147116943411BCB2210910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Paperback01Book Hospital0121425393271A01Leigh HodgkinsonHodgkinson, LeighLeighHodgkinsonExcess Baggage and Novelty. Novelty toured the world at festivals bringing home numerous awards. She is passionate about writing, making things and daydreaming. Her picture books include Colin and the Snoozebox, Limelight Larry and Scrummy! (all Orchard Books). Leigh lives and works in Lewes with her husband, animator Steve Smith, and their two young children.]]>01eng32JUV000000YBC2.110JNF00000020picture book; Pencil Dog; Goldilocks and Just the One Bear; Troll Swap; Goldilocks and the Three Potties; Colin and the Snoozebox; Limelight Larry; books for babies; books for 3 year olds; books for 4 year olds; books for 5 year olds; books about books; meta; funny; reading21A3M7901021703204990102A funny, charming story about the magic of books from the co-creator of the hit Cbeebies series, Olobob Top.
Have you ever wondered what it's like to BE a book? The BEST bits are getting to hang our with your friends and tell amazing stories, but sometimes a good book can end up in the wrong place at the wrong time... And then they might get scribbled on, nibbled on or even lose their last and most important page... And when that happens, it's time to go to... Book Hospital!
This funny, reassuring story is a celebration of books and the magic of reading. Because when you love your books, when you're kind to your books and when you read your books, they will take you on a magical journey that you'll never forget...
Other books by Leigh Hodgkinson: Pencil Dog Goldilocks and Just the One Bear Troll Swap Goldilocks and the Three Potties Colin and the Snoozebox Limelight Larry ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/bf2a36db-3fa7-4a2f-9e4d-ac73003774eb01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ0110.945in01278mm029.449in02240mm0615978147116942727159781471169441Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147117341702021471173410039781471173417159781471173417140978147117341711BCB2210910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Paperback01Tiny Penguins and the New Baby011400314271A01Jane PorterPorter, JaneJanePorter Jane's first picture book as author/illustrator, Pink Lion, was published by Walker in 2017. She's also illustrated Wings!, a picture book by Paul Stewart for publication by Otter Barry Books, as well as a series of early readers for Orion.
When she's not working, Jane can often be found out on the river Thames in a coracle, skiff or punt, looking out for passing bats, cormorants and wagtails.
Her Instagram handle is @janeporterillustrator.]]>01eng32JUV000000YBCS2.110JUV01304010JUV00238010JUV01307010JUV03906012YFB12YBCH20new baby; reassuring; toddler; family; parent; pregnant; newborn; new arrival; painting; bathtime; sister; brother; mum; dad; home21A3M7901021703104990102A warm and inviting picture book which offers an imaginative and creative look at the arrival of a new baby.
Meet the Tiny Penguins! The Tiny Penguins LOVE helping humans to keep their house tidy, and they have one special rule - stay out of sight! But when they see a sad little girl, Gertie, hiding under her bed, they decide SOME rules are made to be broken. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/238958ea-8867-441e-8d7e-ac7a0037185d01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ0110.236in01260mm0210.236in02260mm2715978147117342406159781471173400Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147117737802021471177378039781471177378159781471177378140978147117737811BBHardback01The New NomadsTheNew NomadsHow the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place011463305101A01Felix MarquardtMarquardt, FelixFelixMarquardtInternational Herald Tribune and is a regular contributor to CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, Guardian and Die Welt. ]]>01eng288POL000000JP2.120Migration; Immigration; Nomad; Free Movement; Felix Marquardt; Brexit; Open Borders; Tim Marshall; Emmanuel Macron; Justin Trudeau; Refugee; Douglas Murray; Owen Jones; Yanis Varoufakis; Naomi Klein01010102We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.
We've got it all wrong.
Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere. Or rather, they are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation. After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism. Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed. Our times require more migration, not less.
Part memoir, part generational manifesto, The New Nomad is both the chronicle of this revolution and a call to embrace it. ]]>0802Highly engaging… a must-read. Through his very personal lens, Marquardt forces you to think about the ethics and economics of one of the central issues of all times.']]>Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan0802On the Road meets Sapiens. Felix Marquardt makes you want to hit the road and embrace the whole wide world as a means to save it. The New Nomads is sure to become a cult book for my generation and the coming ones.']]>Joshua Wong, leader of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution0802intelligent and insightful analysis of one of the great issues of our age, laced with some powerful real-life examples and culminating in a number of thought-provoking recommendations for change... A thoughtful and refreshingly optimistic take on one of most urgent and complex issues of our time.” ]]>Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever0802hymn of praise to the human spirit ever questing in search of the better and the just and the beautiful and the new. Let it never die. And it never will while the humanity of nomads like Felix Marquardt survives COVID19 and flourishes again thereafter.']]>Lord Adonis, former Secretary of State for Transport0802The New Nomads belongs not to the privileged but to the hungry: hungry for wisdom, hungry for adventure, hungry for life. Marquardt places travel, even migration, back in its ancient setting of mythic education: you leave the village to find the part of you that the village could not provide... His writing is filled with wit and challenge. It is a rare gift to be both raconteur and truth teller, and Felix Marquardt is both.']]>Martin Shaw, author of Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass0802Highly compelling... When I met him during his International Herald Tribune years, Felix Marquardt was already an irrepressible Jack of all trades with an uncanny ability to bring very different people together from all over human society and the world. The New Nomads is a profound, timely statement on the power of migration as an exponentially generative process.' ]]>Celso Amorim, former Brazilian Foreign Minister0802a rich experience of life, intelligence and empathy into this exploration of youth, migration, and even the implications of thermodynamics for the new nomads! The stories are compelling, revealing humanity behind faces masked by stereotypes.']]>Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, Nobel Prize 2004, author of Fundamentals0802Thought-provoking. Here is a book that breaks through conventional wisdom to show that localism and globalism can - and need to - work together.' ]]>Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, author of Expulsions0802fresh and compelling book, Felix Marquardt blurs those lines, emphasising the humanity and fundamental curiosity of all of us who seek, wander and move.']]>Jill Filipovic, CNN / Washington Post Contributor, author of The H Spot0802Masterful! The New Nomads is a deeply poetic exploration of migration and its role in the human journey. The stories form a compelling tapestry: the path forward isn't left or right, neither about pinning all our hopes on technology nor forsaking it, but embracing what makes us all human.']]>Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir, senior producer of Star Wars Battlefront & EA Sports FIFA0802The New Nomads is truly a remarkable journey - one you shouldn’t miss!']]>Bertrand Badré, CEO, Blue Like an Orange; former Managing Director, World Bank0802The New Nomads deeply moves me. Felix Marquardt’s profound exploration is no less than a political theology of migration.']]>Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences0802a unique perspective on an immutable law of nature - nothing stays put for long... His stories and commentaries remind us that we all live under this law.']]>Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk - How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World0802complex patterns of migration in the early 21st century that is also a critique of the Davos elite.']]>Dougald Hine, co-author of Uncivilisation – The Dark Mountain Manifesto0802The New Nomads provides a welcome and brilliantly written antidote to the nativism that continues to fester in our more privileged societies... As we follow Marquardt on this fascinating journey, we learn that, in his words, all migrations are a search for home.']]>Stan Cox, author of Any Way You Slice It and The Green New Deal and Beyond0802The New Nomads has that uncommon, rare ability to speak radically and deeply in a quiet, calm tone. It doesn’t shout or scare or turn the reader off. It’s also a story of the adventure of nomadism as well its power to connect us with one another.']]>Bill Vitek, Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College; editor/co-author of The Virtues of Ignorance0802Father Brendan O’Rourke, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/716cdeed-abcb-4ed2-b1fb-a94700257cd601Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021080101AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm2715978147117739206159781471177408Harper Collins PublishersNP10202108010239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210801978147117738502021471177386039781471177385159781471177385140978147117738511BCB106Paperback - Trade paperback (UK)01The New NomadsTheNew NomadsHow the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place011463305101A01Felix MarquardtMarquardt, FelixFelixMarquardtInternational Herald Tribune and is a regular contributor to CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, Guardian and Die Welt. ]]>Export/Airside01eng320POL000000JP2.120Migration; Immigration; Nomad; Free Movement; Felix Marquardt; Brexit; Open Borders; Tim Marshall; Emmanuel Macron; Justin Trudeau; Refugee; Douglas Murray; Owen Jones; Yanis Varoufakis; Naomi Klein01010102We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.
We've got it all wrong.
Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere, from south to south, within and between continents. They are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation. After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism. Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed. Our times require more migration, not less.
Part memoir, part generational manifesto, The New Nomad is both the chronicle of this revolution and a call to embrace it. ]]>0802Highly engaging… a must-read. Through his very personal lens, Marquardt forces you to think about the ethics and economics of one of the central issues of all times.']]>Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan0802On the Road meets Sapiens. Felix Marquardt makes you want to hit the road and embrace the whole wide world as a means to save it. The New Nomads is sure to become a cult book for my generation and the coming ones.']]>Joshua Wong, leader of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution0802intelligent and insightful analysis of one of the great issues of our age, laced with some powerful real-life examples and culminating in a number of thought-provoking recommendations for change... A thoughtful and refreshingly optimistic take on one of most urgent and complex issues of our time.” ]]>Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever0802hymn of praise to the human spirit ever questing in search of the better and the just and the beautiful and the new. Let it never die. And it never will while the humanity of nomads like Felix Marquardt survives COVID19 and flourishes again thereafter.']]>Lord Adonis, former Secretary of State for Transport0802The New Nomads belongs not to the privileged but to the hungry: hungry for wisdom, hungry for adventure, hungry for life. Marquardt places travel, even migration, back in its ancient setting of mythic education: you leave the village to find the part of you that the village could not provide... His writing is filled with wit and challenge. It is a rare gift to be both raconteur and truth teller, and Felix Marquardt is both.']]>Martin Shaw, author of Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass0802Highly compelling... When I met him during his International Herald Tribune years, Felix Marquardt was already an irrepressible Jack of all trades with an uncanny ability to bring very different people together from all over human society and the world. The New Nomads is a profound, timely statement on the power of migration as an exponentially generative process.' ]]>Celso Amorim, former Brazilian Foreign Minister0802a rich experience of life, intelligence and empathy into this exploration of youth, migration, and even the implications of thermodynamics for the new nomads! The stories are compelling, revealing humanity behind faces masked by stereotypes.']]>Frank Wilczek, Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics, MIT, Nobel Prize 2004, author of Fundamentals0802Thought-provoking. Here is a book that breaks through conventional wisdom to show that localism and globalism can - and need to - work together.' ]]>Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University, author of Expulsions0802fresh and compelling book, Felix Marquardt blurs those lines, emphasising the humanity and fundamental curiosity of all of us who seek, wander and move.']]>Jill Filipovic, CNN / Washington Post Contributor, author of The H Spot0802Masterful! The New Nomads is a deeply poetic exploration of migration and its role in the human journey. The stories form a compelling tapestry: the path forward isn't left or right, neither about pinning all our hopes on technology nor forsaking it, but embracing what makes us all human.']]>Sigurlína Ingvarsdóttir, senior producer of Star Wars Battlefront & EA Sports FIFA0802The New Nomads is truly a remarkable journey - one you shouldn’t miss!']]>Bertrand Badré, CEO, Blue Like an Orange; former Managing Director, World Bank0802The New Nomads deeply moves me. Felix Marquardt’s profound exploration is no less than a political theology of migration.']]>Bayo Akomolafe, author of These Wilds Beyond our Fences0802a unique perspective on an immutable law of nature - nothing stays put for long... His stories and commentaries remind us that we all live under this law.']]>Tyson Yunkaporta, author of Sand Talk - How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World0802complex patterns of migration in the early 21st century that is also a critique of the Davos elite.']]>Dougald Hine, co-author of Uncivilisation – The Dark Mountain Manifesto0802The New Nomads provides a welcome and brilliantly written antidote to the nativism that continues to fester in our more privileged societies... As we follow Marquardt on this fascinating journey, we learn that, in his words, all migrations are a search for home.']]>Stan Cox, author of Any Way You Slice It and The Green New Deal and Beyond0802The New Nomads has that uncommon, rare ability to speak radically and deeply in a quiet, calm tone. It doesn’t shout or scare or turn the reader off. It’s also a story of the adventure of nomadism as well its power to connect us with one another.']]>Bill Vitek, Professor of Philosophy, Middlebury College; editor/co-author of The Virtues of Ignorance0802Father Brendan O’Rourke, Congregatio Sanctissimi Redemptoris040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9994ade9-f612-4bea-b785-a9550025bcf801Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm0615978147117737827159781471177392Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147118016302021471180166039781471180163159781471180163140978147118016311BBHardback01Home011515287821A01Penny ParkesParkes, PennyPennyParkesThe Telegraph as well as extensively in her local media. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram as @CotswoldPenny ]]>01eng448FIC071000FA2.110FIC04400010FIC02729010FIC01900010FIC02725010FIC04500010FIC02702010FIC04300010FIC05800010FIC06600012FRD20marian keyes; marian keyes books; grown ups; lucy dillon; lucy dillon books; beth o'leary; beth oleary; beth o'leary books; the flatshare; the switch; flatshare; libby page; libby page books; the lido; the 24 hour cafe; kate riordan; holly miller; kate eberlen; missing you; kate eberlen books; katie fforde; katie fforde books; catherine isaac; catherine isaac books; the world at my feet; caroline sanderson; AJ pearce; aj pearce; dear mrs bird; veronica henry; jill mansell93FBA93FQ93FRD93FS93FXB941DDU-GB-ESFX941DDU-GB-EWSH941DDU-GB-ESL963MPQZ963MRBF963MRBH01010102'Moving, hopeful and heartfelt... an ideal book group read' AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird
A gripping and heartfelt story about overcoming the past and finding where you belong.
Anna Wilson travels the world as a professional housesitter – stepping into other people’s lives - caring for their homes, pets and sometimes even neighbours. Living vicariously.
But all Anna has ever really wanted is a home of her own – a proper one, filled with family and love and happy memories. If only she knew where to start.
Growing up in foster care, she always envied her friends their secure and carefree lives, their certainty and confidence. And, while those same friends may have become her family of choice, Anna is still stuck in that nomadic cycle, looking for answers, trying to find the courage to put down roots and find a place to call home.
Compelling, rich and evocative, Home is Anna’s journey to discovering that it isn’t where you settle down that matters, but the people you have around you when you do. ‘I loved this warm and touching story about home, belonging, and finding your way in the world. Vivid, evocative and beautifully written, with a message of hope at its heart’ Holly Miller, author of The Sight of You 'A gorgeous, thoughtful read' Catherine Isaac, author of The World at My Feet
'Clever, warm and funny, Penny writes with a big heart, a light touch and supreme confidence. Home will be on all the best bookshelves! The ultimate comfort read' Veronica Henry, author of A Wedding at the Beach Hut
'As heartbreaking as it is uplifting, this book wouldn’t leave me. I loved it’ Katie Fforde, author of A Wedding in the Country
** WHY READERS LOVE HOME **
'Sometimes you read a book that genuinely touches your heart. Home by Penny Parkes did that to me... I will be buying this book for friends and for my 18 year old daughter and her friends. I also really hope my book club read it, as there is so much I want to discuss' 5-star reader review
'I felt as though this book touched my heart. I now want to read more of Penny's books as I feel as though I have missed out on her awesome writing' 5-star reader review
'This was without a doubt one of the the most captivating books I have read in quite some time, and I would certainly recommend it to others!' 5-star reader review
'I love this book… I found myself in tears on more than one occasion, smiling and laughing at others… This is a fantastic book and will be recommending it to all of my friends' 5-star reader review
'Goodness me I loved this book. It was so heartfelt and thoughtful… So brilliantly done and the best Penny Parkes to date (they are all brilliant though)' 5-star reader review]]>0802AJ Pearce, author of Dear Mrs Bird0802Catherine Isaac, author of The World at My Feet0802Katie Fforde, author of A Wedding in the Country0802Veronica Henry, author of A Wedding at the Beach Hut0802Holly Miller, author of The Sight of You040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ce44662b-f434-4f22-8706-ac960038f19101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ018.504in01216mm025.315in02135mm031.201in0330.5mm2715978147118017006159781471180187Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147118360702021471183602039781471183607159781471183607140978147118360711BBHardback01Operation Black KeyA Dom Riley Thriller011572460261A01Kim HughesHughes, KimKimHughes01eng416FIC000000FA2.101010102THE ENEMY IS CLOSE TO HOME . . .
Left reeling from the disappearance of his daughter and ex-wife, Staff Sergeant Dom Riley is a haunted man. After months of investigating, he has exhausted nearly all leads in his hunt for answers.
As Riley decides to make one final, desperate push for the truth, it emerges that multiple bombs have been located on board a civilian cruise ship and he is thrown into action in the middle of the ocean.
With little information on the person behind the threat other than the alias BaseHeart, Riley must keep his head together if he has any chance of neutralizing the threat. And it’s not long until the first bomb detonates.
But it’s not the journey, nor the bombs themselves, that pose the real danger. In fact, in travelling halfway across the Atlantic Ocean, Riley will ultimately learn that the enemy is much closer to home . . .
From the most highly decorated bomb-disposal operator to have survived the Afghan conflict, Warrant Officer Class 1Kim Hughes GC, this compulsive, breathless thriller is perfect for fans of Ollie Ollerton, Andy McNab and Stephen Leather.
PRAISE FOR KIM HUGHES GC
‘A taut thriller that seizes your attention from the first page’ Daily Express
‘A terrific start to a new series . . . Light the blue touch paper and retire to a comfortable chair’ The Times
‘A powerful tale from an author who knows his stuff. Addictively compelling, you’ll be reading into the small hours’ Alan McDermott, author of the Eva Driscoll thrillers
‘Gripping . . . The plot beautifully twists several parallel and intertwining story-lines together, at pace. There is a bit of something for everyone here: military detail, spy conspiracy, dastardly terrorist plot and the pieces of the jigsaw all fall into place nicely. Thoroughly recommended’ Army Rumour Service
‘Kim Hughes is the man who stands between us and oblivion' Andy McNab, author of Bravo Two Zero ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/66164fc8-682c-4b09-8f9c-ac2d0025fedb01Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021080101AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm031.122in0328.5mm2715978147118362106159781471183638Harper Collins PublishersNP10202108010239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210801978147118407902021471184072039781471184079159781471184079140978147118407911BCB1050910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01PaperbackThe Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat201The Library CatTheLibrary Cat011595435491A01Philip ArdaghArdagh, PhilipPhilipArdaghEddie Dickens series, to the award-winning Grubtown Tales, and The Grunts quartet, illustrated by Axel Scheffler. He is a regular talking-head on TV and radio, discussing the world of children’s books. ]]>2A12Rob BiddulphBiddulph, RobRobBiddulphBlown Away (HarperCollins), won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2015. His second book, GRRRRR! (HarperCollins) was nominated for the CILIP Greenaway Medal and the IBW Children’s Picture Book of the Year in 2016. ]]>01eng192JUV002050YFCF2.110JUV00100010JUV01900010JUV00214010JUV04700010JUV03922012YFP12YNL12YFQ20Draw With Rob; Marshmallow Pie; Books for 5 year olds; 6 year olds; 7 year olds; year 2; Funny; cat; books about making a difference; cute cats; Mr Dog; Ben Fogle; animal adventures; spiders; Bagpuss; Claude series; Alex T Smith; Squishy McFluff; Pip Jones; Harry Stevenson; Ali Pye; Mr Benn; Hotel Flamingo; Eddie Dickens; Secret Diary of Kitty Cask; The Grunts; illustrated fiction; middle grade 21B3N7901021703504990102A funny and charming NEW young fiction series from Philip Ardagh, bestselling author of The Grunts series and Eddie Dickens adventures, and illustrated by Rob Biddulph, award-winning creator of Draw With Rob. Puuurfect for fans of Alex T. Smith, Pamela Butchart and Laura James.
Meet Furry Purry Beancat – one extraordinary cat with nine extraordinary lives!
Just like every other cat, Furry Purry Beancat loves a catnap. But unlike other cats, when Beancat wakes she finds herself about to embark on a whole new adventure!
Shhh! Our furry (and purry!) heroine has woken up in a LIBRARY, and there’s trouble afoot. There are plans to close it down, but with the help of two grumpy SPIDERS, can BEANCAT do what she does best and SAVE THE DAY?
'Exciting and comic, these are purr-fect first adventures' - LoveReading4Kids
LOOK OUT for more Furry Purry adventures: The Pirate Captain's Cat, The Railway Cat and The Witch's Cat!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8211dbef-bca5-434b-805a-ac810035047f01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm030.547in0313.9mm27159781471184086Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202104250215.99NZDNZZ0.0015.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147118861903021471188612039781471188619159781471188619140978147118861911BCB2210910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback01Slug in Lovea funny, adorable hug of a book011632108781A01Rachel BrightBright, RachelRachelBrightRachel Bright is a bestselling author and illustrator, as well as being the brains behind the multi-million selling global card and gift phenomenon, the brightside. Her picture book hits include Love Monster, which has now been adapted into an irresistible TV series for CBeebies. She is also the author of the hugely popular picture book series, illustrated by Jim Field, whose titles include The Lion Inside, The Squirrels Who Squabbled and The Koala Who Could (winner of the Sainsburys Book Award and the Evening Standard Oscar's Book Prize). Rachel lives in Dorset.]]>2A12Nadia ShireenShireen, NadiaNadiaShireenNadia Shireen has been described as one of the ‘best and brightest picture book creators working in Britain today.’ (The Observer.) Her debut picture book Good Little Wolf received a mention in the Bologna Ragazzi Opera Prima Award and won the UKLA Book Award. Other books include The Bumblebear, which was distributed to over 700,000 children as part of Booktrust’s Time To Read campaign, as well as Billy and the Beast and Billy and the Dragon. Nadia has been shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, and has been Writer-Illustrator in Residence for BookTrust. She lives in London.]]>01eng32JUV000000YBCH2.110JUV00214010JUV01900010JUV02900010JUV03906012YBCS12YFQ20slug; snail; bugs; worm; funny; picture book; 3+; books for three year olds; books for babies; love; romance; rachel bright; the koala who could; the squirrels who squabbled; the lion inside; nadia shireen; billy and the beast; billy and the dragon; bumblebear; jim field; julia donaldson; the worrysaurus; chris chatterton; giles andreae; joy; valentine's day; rhyming; barbara throws a wobbler21A3M7901021703304990102The irresistible story of one slug's search for love from picture book bestsellers Rachel Bright and Nadia Shireen.
Pure, riotous, nonsensical joy' - The Guardian
Doug the slug needs a hug. But who wants to hug a slug called Doug?
Snuggle up with lonesome Doug on his search for love in this completely charming picture book which shows that you just never know when love might come flying by... (And which introduces an unsuspecting world to snail superstar, Gail!)
A warm and endearing rhyming text by Rachel Bright (Love Monster, The Lion Inside) is perfectly paired with funny and fabulous illustrations by Nadia Shireen (Good Little Wolf, Billy and the Beast) in this adorable future classic.
]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c2d2630f-67f3-4032-8e02-ac4e0104d51f01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ0110.236in01260mm0210.236in02260mm0615978147118860227159781471188626Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250219.99NZDNZZ0.0019.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147119039102021471190390039781471190391159781471190391140978147119039111BCB1050910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback01The Incredible Talking MachineTheIncredible Talking Machine011674834251A01Jenni SpanglerSpangler, JenniJenniSpanglerJenni Spangler writes children’s books with a magical twist, she loves to take real and familiar places and events and add a layer of mystery and hocus-pocus. She had the good fortune to be selected for the first year of the ‘Write Mentor’ scheme and was mentored by Lindsay Galvin, author of The Secret Deep. Jenni lives in Staffordshire with her husband and two children. She loves old photographs, picture books and tea, but is wary of manhole covers following an unfortunate incident.
]]>2A12Chris MouldMould, ChrisChrisMould01eng368JUV000000YFB2.110JUV01203012YFT12YFC12YNX20waterstones children's book of the month; Michelle Harrison; Emma Carroll; Kiran Milwood-Hargrave; Magic; adventure; gothic; victorian; classic; children's books; witches; curses; pinchbeck; seances; hocus-pocus; ghosts; myths; legends; page-turner; lockdown; teachers; education21D3N7901021703804990102Pull back the curtain and enter a world where mystery and magic take centre stage . . .
Twelve-year-old Tig works at the Theatre Royale, cleaning, selling tickets and doing anything else that is asked of her by her tyrannical boss, Mr Snell. But Tig will do whatever it takes to get closer to her dream – to become a Stage Manager and spend her days inventing new ways to imagine and build the intricate machinery and props that bring the exciting productions to life!
But when a strange new act – a talking machine – arrives at the Theatre Royale, it moves and behaves in a way that Tig just can’t work out. It’s as though it’s alive somehow . . . And when the machine appears to be hiding a dangerous secret, Tig must race against time to solve the mystery, before everything and everyone she cares about is lost forever.
A gloriously gothic adventure from an original new voice in middle-grade.
A gloriously gothic adventure with a magical twist from an original new voice in middle-grade. Perfect for fans of Michelle Harrison, Sophie Anderson and Emma Carroll.
Praise for Jenni Spangler’s debut novel, THE VANISHING TRICK: A thrilling, original, evocative and eerie tale - I adored it!’ Michelle Harrison, author of A Pinch of Magic
'A thrilling page-turner. Madame Pinchbeck is a gloriously Dickensian villain’ Abi Elphinstone, author of Sky Song
'Ghosts, gadgets, likeable villains and unlikely heroes: The Vanishing Trick is a dark and dazzling adventure’ Emma Carroll, author of Letters from the Lighthouse
'A completely enthralling tale, oozing with atmosphere and originality’ Catherine Doyle, author of The Storm Keeper's Island ]]>01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm27159781471190407Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147119077303021471190773039781471190773159781471190773140978147119077311BCB1050910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01PaperbackSky Pirates101Sky Pirates: Echo Quickthorn and the Great Beyond011666742771A01Alex EnglishEnglish, AlexAlexEnglishSky Pirates: Echo and the Great Beyond was her first middle-grade title. ]]>2A12Mark ChambersChambers, MarkMarkChambers01eng352JUV000000YFB2.110JUV00102010JUV03400010JUV01306010JUV02900012YFC20nevermoor; cogheart; middle grade; MG; 8-12; adventure; maps; pirates; sky pirates; airships; dragons; hot air balloons; explorers; castles; kings; lizard; the unadoptables; the girl who stole an elephant; debut; the vanishing trick; hana tooke;21D3N7901021703804990102Take to the skies in this thrilling new series from author Alex English. (BEWARE: THERE WILL BE PIRATES!)
11 year-old Echo Quickthorn has grown up believing that nothing exists outside the Kingdom of Lockfort, but everything changes when an eccentric professor parks his airship outside her window armed with a map that shows all the magical places that exist beyond the city walls.
Together with her pet lizard, Gilbert, Echo sets off on an incredible adventure to find her missing mother; an adventure that will take her to unimaginable places filled with giant butterflies, mechanical dragons and . . . sky pirates!
Praise for SKY PIRATES: Echo Quickthorn and the Great Beyond:
"Strap yourselves in for an exhilarating ride!" - Daily Mail
"Fizzes with magic and wonder" – Abi Elphinstone, bestselling author of SKY SONG
"A charmingly madcap adventure, with endearing friendships, sparkling wit, and a swashbuckling journey across pirate-infested skies. I loved it. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and Cogheart." – Hana Tooke, author of THE UNADOPTABLES
“A spirited protagonist, a charming side-kick and a believable villain come together in this tightly plotted, visual, treat for the senses. I want to soar over the rainbow rooftops of Port Tourbillon and the toadstooled forests of Tyrian in my very own airship.” – Nizrana Farook, author of THE GIRL WHO STOLE AN ELEPHANT
“Sky Pirates is a fast-moving adventure story full of intrepid explorers, ingenious inventors, stolen treasure and mysterious undiscovered lands. If you like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (and who doesn't?) you'll love Sky Pirates too!” Kirsty Applebaum, author of THE MIDDLER
"From the very first page, I felt as if I'd been grabbed by the hand by a best friend and taken on the journey of a lifetime. Pacey, thrilling and endearing too. If I was ever to encounter sky pirates, I can think of no one I'd want by my side more than clever, brave Echo." – Joanna Nadin, author of the RACHEL RILEY series
“A breath-taking adventure and a wonderfully imagined story of friendship and danger in strange places.” – Claire Fayers, author of THE VOYAGE TO MAGICAL NORTH
"An incredible adventure, brimming with friendship and danger" – The Bookseller
]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/629c3962-5e81-48f2-8145-ab70003828fe01Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK042020080501AU NZ017.795in01198mm021.181in0230mm030.984in0325mm27159781471190780Harper Collins PublishersIP20202008050214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202001220217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020200122Simon & Schuster UKAU0120200805978147119089602021471190897039781471190896159781471190896140978147119089611BCB1050910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01PaperbackSky Pirates01Sky Pirates: The Dragon's Gold011676346731A01Alex EnglishEnglish, AlexAlexEnglishSky Pirates: Echo and the Great Beyond was her first middle-grade title. ]]>2A12Mark ChambersChambers, MarkMarkChambers01eng272JUV000000YFB2.110JUV00102010JUV03400010JUV01306010JUV03906010JUV00227012YFC12YFN12YNX20nevermoor; cogheart; middle grade; MG; 8-12; childrens books; childrens books age 9-11; adventure; action; danger; friendship; maps; pirates; sky pirates; pirate ships; airships; dragons; treasure; gold; jewels; hot air balloons; explorers; castles; volcano; kings; lizard; the unadoptables; the girl who stole an elephant; the vanishing trick; hana tooke21D3N7993YFB93YFC93YFN01021703804990102Embark on another swashbuckling SKY PIRATES adventure in TheDragon's Gold, perfect for 8+ explorers and fans of Abi Elphinstone, Peter Bunzl and Vashti Hardy.
Echo Quickthorn has been reunited with her sky-pirate mother, Indigo Lil, and is now a fully-fledged member of the Black Sky Wolves. So when Lil is summoned to the Alliance of the Seven Skies, Echo decides to sneak along with her friend Horace. There, Horace is captured by the dastardly Thunder Sharks, a rival pirate clan, who present Echo with an ultimatum: they’ll release her friend in exchange for the legendary dragon’s gold ...
Echo must journey – through underwater libraries and active volcanoes – to the inhospitable Dragonlands, in order to find the dragon’s lair. But can she find the treasure and prove herself to be a true-sky pirate?
Praise for SKY PIRATES: Echo Quickthorn and the Great Beyond:
"Strap yourselves in for an exhilarating ride!" – Daily Mail
"Fizzes with magic and wonder" – Abi Elphinstone, author of SKY SONG
"A charmingly madcap adventure, with endearing friendships, sparkling wit, and a swashbuckling journey across pirate-infested skies. I loved it. Perfect for fans of Nevermoor and Cogheart." – Hana Tooke, author of THE UNADOPTABLES
“A spirited protagonist, a charming side-kick and a believable villain come together in this tightly plotted, visual, treat for the senses. I want to soar over the rainbow rooftops of Port Tourbillon and the toadstooled forests of Tyrian in my very own airship.” – Nizrana Farook, author of THE GIRL WHO STOLE AN ELEPHANT
“Sky Pirates is a fast-moving adventure story full of intrepid explorers, ingenious inventors, stolen treasure and mysterious undiscovered lands. If you like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (and who doesn't?) you'll love Sky Pirates too!” – Kirsty Applebaum, author of THE MIDDLER
"From the very first page, I felt as if I'd been grabbed by the hand by a best friend and taken on the journey of a lifetime. Pacey, thrilling and endearing too. If I was ever to encounter sky pirates, I can think of no one I'd want by my side more than clever, brave Echo." – Joanna Nadin, author of the RACHEL RILEY series
“A breath-taking adventure and a wonderfully imagined story of friendship and danger in strange places.” – Claire Fayers, author of THE VOYAGE TO MAGICAL NORTH
"An incredible adventure, brimming with friendship and danger" – The Bookseller]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c7eb4827-e3a0-4a2b-9c69-acd100ee5bb901Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster Children's UK0101Simon & Schuster Children's UKSIMO494Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm27159781471190902Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147119531002021471195317039781471195310159781471195310140978147119531011BCB1050910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback01Relentless PursuitOur Battle with Jeffrey Epstein011698880341A01Bradley J. EdwardsEdwards, Bradley J.Bradley J.Edwards01eng400TRU000000BTC2.120Jeffrey Epstein book; Best Jeffrey Epstein book; Prince Andrew; Ghislaine Maxwell arrest; true crime books; #MeToo; Donald Trump; Bill Clinton; Jeffrey Epstein case; Jeffrey Epstein Lawyer; Epstein Trial; Jeffrey Epstein victims; Lawyer who fought Epstein; truth about Epstein; Alan Dershowitz and jeffrey epstein; prince andrew and jeffrey epstein; harvey weinstein epstein; donald trump epstein; bill clinton epstein; Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Ghislaine Maxwell; Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein; Courtney Wild Jeffrey Epstein; Les Wexner; Julie Brown Epstein01010102This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein’s victims for more than a decade.
In June 2008, Florida-based victims’ rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years old and had just started his own law firm when a young woman named Courtney Wild came to see him. She told a shocking story of having been sexually coerced at the age of fourteen by a wealthy man in Palm Beach named Jeffrey Epstein. Edwards, who had never heard of Epstein, had no idea that this moment would change the course of his life. Over the next ten years, Edwards devoted himself to bringing Epstein to justice, and came close to losing everything in the process. Edwards tracked down and represented more than twenty of Epstein’s victims, and shined a light on his network of contacts and friends, among them Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Ghislaine Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
Edwards gives his riveting, blow-by-blow account of battling Epstein on behalf of his clients, and provides stunning details never shared before. He explains how he followed Epstein’s criminal enterprise from Florida, to New York, to Europe, to a Caribbean island, and, in the process, became the one person Epstein most feared could take him down. Epstein and his cadre of high-priced lawyers were able to manipulate the FBI and the Justice Department, but, despite making threats and attempting schemes straight out of a spy movie, Epstein couldn’t stop Edwards, his small team of committed lawyers and, most of all, the victims, who were dead-set on seeing their abuser finally put behind bars.
This is the definitive account of the Epstein saga, personally told by the gutsy lawyer who took on one of the most brazen sexual criminals in the history of the US, and exposed the corrupt system that let him get away with it for far too long. ]]>0802Riveting...the author powerfully illuminates how Epstein used his wealth and connections to rape and traffic hundreds of girls, most of them teenagers. A revelatory exploration of the long fight to bring a monstrous man to justice.']]>Kirkus Reviews040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/182a0b42-b550-458f-b1b8-ac6500280bcd01Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm030.945in0324mm06159781471195280Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147119563102021471195635039781471195631159781471195631140978147119563111BCB1050910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback01More than Love011507732961A01Natasha Gregson WagnerWagner, Natasha GregsonNatasha GregsonWagnerAnother Day in Paradise, High Fidelity, Two Girls and a Guy, and David Lynch’s Lost Highway, and in the television shows Ally McBeal, House MD, and Chicago Hope. In 2016, she coauthored a coffee table book titled Natalie Wood: Reflections of a Legendary Life. She is one of the producers of the HBO documentary of her mother’s life: Natalie Wood:What Remains Behind. Wagner lives in Los Angeles with her family.]]>01eng304BIO026000BM2.101010102More Than Love is a memoir of loss, grief, and coming of age, set amid Hollywood glamour and royalty, by Natasha Gregson Wagner, the oldest daughter of Natalie Wood and her second husband Richard Gregson. Beginning with the night Natalie Wood went sailing on the family boat with her husband Robert Wagner off the coast of Catalina and never returned, we meet the young Natasha at the age of 11, hearing the news of her mother’s disappearance on the radio while having a sleepover at a friend’s house. From this turning point of profound and shattering loss, Natasha stretches back to tell the story of her cosseted childhood in a warm, bustling family where her mother loved to decorate, entertain, keep ducks in the backyard, and often overprotected her daughters.
An inside look at Natalie’s classic movies—Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel without a Cause, Splendour in the Grass, West Side Story and Bob and Ted and Carol and Alice, among others—More Than Love also offers a riveting, first-hand portrait of what it is like to experience a Hollywood childhood, where Elia Kazan, known as Gadge, for his love of gadgets, is lounging by the pool, Ruth Gordon is your godmother, and Josh Evans, the son of Ali MacGraw, is your first boyfriend.
As Natasha steps back into the past, looking through the carefully preserved archive of her mother’s letters, notes, and photographs, and comes to terms with her grief, a vivid and magnetic portrait of Natalie Wood emerges —the child star, the young actress, the teen idol, the young wife, mother and eventual hostess extraordinaire. Along the way Natasha comes to terms with her mother’s legacy and her own loss: making her peace, having her own daughter, and forging a strong and independent sense of self. ]]>01Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mm030.866in0322mm06159781471195600Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147119669002021471196690039781471196690159781471196690140978147119669011BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Changing World OrderWhy Nations Succeed or Fail011748218111A01Ray DalioDalio, RayRayDalioTime 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as the Bloomberg Markets list of the 50 most influential people. He is the author of Principles, Big Debt Crisis, and The Changing World Order. He lives with his family in Connecticut.]]>01eng336BUS069000KC2.101010102From the international bestselling author of Principles and legendary investor Ray Dalio, who has spent half a century studying global markets, The Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes.
A few years ago, renowned investor Ray Dalio began noticing a confluence of political and economic conditions he hadn’t encountered before in his fifty-year career. They included large debts and zero or near-zero interest rates in the world’s three major reserve currencies; significant wealth, political and values divisions within countries; and emerging conflict between a rising world power (China) and the existing one (US).
Seeking to explain the cause-effect relationships behind these conditions, he began a study of analogous historical times and discovered that such combinations of conditions were characteristic of periods of transition, such as the years between 1930 and 1945, in which wealth and power shifted in ways that reshaped the world order. Looking back across five hundred years of history and nine major empires - including the Dutch, the British and the American - The Changing World Order puts into perspective the cycles and forces that have driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major countries throughout history.
Dalioreveals the timeless and universal dynamics that were behind these shifts, while also offering practical principles for policymakers, business leaders, investors and others operating in this environment.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/077e1f0a-497e-47fb-a5a7-abaf002653b201Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021081801AU NZ019.016in01229mm025.984in02152mm27159781471196706Harper Collins PublishersNP10202108180249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210818978147119703102021471197034039781471197031159781471197031140978147119703111BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01The Distant ShoresTheDistant Shores011735977131A01Santa MontefioreMontefiore, SantaSantaMontefiore01eng416FIC000000FA2.120lucinda riley; lucinda riley books; the temptation of gracie; the deverills; bestselling author; dinah jeffries; dinah jefferies; dinah jefferies books; number one bestseller; mother's day; community; family; love; rosanna ley; rosanna ley books; butterfly room; the butterfly room; kate morton; kate moreton; kate morton books; rachel hore; rachel hore books; rachel hore backlist; women's fiction; jojo moyes; giver of stars; secret hours; songs of love and war; butterfly box; still alice01010102THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES
Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together.
Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of the famous Deverill family. She knows she must speak to the current Lord Deverill – JP – if she is to uncover the secrets of the past. A notorious recluse, JP won’t be an easy man to crack. But Margot is determined – and she is not a woman who is easily put off.
What she never expected was to form a close bond with JP and be drawn into his family disputes. Shouldering the blame for running up debts that forced him to sell the family castle, JP is isolated and vulnerable. With help from his handsome son Colm, it seems as though Margot might be the only one who can restore JP’s fortunes.
Will the family ever succeed in healing rifts that have been centuries in the making?
Praise for Santa Montefiore: 'An enchanting read, overflowing with deliciously poignant moments' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Santa Montefiore hits the spot for me like few other writers' SARRA MANNING 'One of our personal favourites' The Times ‘Funny, sad, poignant and heart-warming’ Choice Magazine]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2da028d4-c4ab-4989-8583-acb20036561701Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021080101AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm27159781471197055Harper Collins PublishersNP10202108010239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210801978147119704802021471197042039781471197048159781471197048140978147119704811BCB1060910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Paperback - Trade paperback (UK)01The Distant ShoresTheDistant Shores011735977131A01Santa MontefioreMontefiore, SantaSantaMontefioreExport/Airside01eng400FIC000000FA2.120lucinda riley; lucinda riley books; the temptation of gracie; the deverills; bestselling author; dinah jeffries; dinah jefferies; dinah jefferies books; number one bestseller; mother's day; community; family; love; rosanna ley; rosanna ley books; butterfly room; the butterfly room; kate morton; kate moreton; kate morton books; rachel hore; rachel hore books; rachel hore backlist; women's fiction; jojo moyes; giver of stars; secret hours; songs of love and war; butterfly box; still alice01010102THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR
'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES
Pure escapism on every page, The Distant Shores tells the story of a family torn apart, and the woman who will bring them back together.
Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of the famous Deverill family. She knows she must speak to the current Lord Deverill – JP – if she is to uncover the secrets of the past. A notorious recluse, JP won’t be an easy man to crack. But Margot is determined – and she is not a woman who is easily put off.
What she never expected was to form a close bond with JP and be drawn into his family disputes. Shouldering the blame for running up debts that forced him to sell the family castle, JP is isolated and vulnerable. With help from his handsome son Colm, it seems as though Margot might be the only one who can restore JP’s fortunes.
Will the family ever succeed in healing rifts that have been centuries in the making?
Praise for Santa Montefiore: 'An enchanting read, overflowing with deliciously poignant moments' DINAH JEFFERIES 'Santa Montefiore hits the spot for me like few other writers' SARRA MANNING 'One of our personal favourites' The Times ‘Funny, sad, poignant and heart-warming’ Choice Magazine]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/31dea34f-470d-4ab2-80f3-acb2003658df01Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK0101Simon & Schuster UKSIMO004Simon & Schuster UK022021072801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm06159781471197031Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster UKAU0120210728978147673000402021476730008039781476730004159781476730004140978147673000411BCB102Trade Paperback01Lake LifeA Novel011709964981A01David James PoissantPoissant, David JamesDavid JamesPoissantThe Heaven of Animals: Stories, in print in five languages, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in numerous anthologies including New Stories from the South, Best New American Voices, and Best American Experimental Writing. A recipient of scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Tin House, Wesleyan, and Longleaf writers’ conferences, he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida and lives in Orlando with his wife and daughters. Lake Life is his first novel.]]>David James Poissant01eng304FIC000000FA2.110FIC01900010FIC04500010FIC04502020florida; hamptons; summer; summer house; beach; family saga; family dysfunction; Lake Life; Davie James Poissant; the heaven of animals; fiction; literary fiction; retirement; real estate; family reunion; swimming; sibling rivalry; inheritance; great american novel; millenials; baby boomers; summer read; beach read; books to read on vaction; bookcation;01010102From the award-winning author of the acclaimed story collection The Heaven of Animals, called “a wise debut…beautiful [stories] with a rogue touch” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a sweeping, domestic novel about a family that reunites at their North Carolina lake house for one last vacation before the home is sold—and the long-buried secrets that are finally revealed.
The Starling family is scattered across the country. Parents Richard and Lisa live in Ithaca, New York, and work at Cornell University. Their son Michael, a salesperson, lives in Dallas with his elementary school teacher wife, Diane. Michael’s brother, Thad, an aspiring poet, makes his home in New York City with his famous painter boyfriend, Jake. For years they’ve traveled to North Carolina to share a summer vacation at the family lake house.
That tradition is coming to an end, as Richard and Lisa have decided to sell the treasured summer home and retire to Florida. Before they do, the family will spend one last weekend at the lake. But what should to be a joyous farewell takes a nightmarish turn when the family witnesses a tragedy that triggers a series of dramatic revelations among the Starlings—alcoholism, infidelity, pregnancy, and a secret the parents have kept from their sons for over thirty years. As the weekend unfolds, relationships fray, bonds are tested, and the Starlings are forced to reckon with who they are and what they want from this life.
Set in today’s America, Lake Life is a beautifully rendered, emotionally compelling novel in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge, and Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth.]]>1302The Heaven of Animals: Stories, in print in five languages, winner of the GLCA New Writers Award and a Florida Book Award, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, One Story, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and in numerous anthologies including New Stories from the South, Best New American Voices, and Best American Experimental Writing. A recipient of scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf, Sewanee, Tin House, Wesleyan, and Longleaf writers’ conferences, he teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida and lives in Orlando with his wife and daughters. Lake Life is his first novel.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/380affcf-dd81-4eb9-a0f5-ac570029544701Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm025.25in02133.35mm030.76in0319.304mm06159781476729992Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728200227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Simon & SchusterAU0120210728978148144933502021481449338039781481449335159781481449335132020052188140978148144933511BBB2210910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Hardback01Vrooom, Vrooom!015061853031A01Mary Lyn RayRay, Mary LynMary LynRayStars, Christmas Farm, Pumpkins, The Thank You Book, and Go to Sleep, Little Farm.]]>2A12Julien ChungChung, JulienJulienChungLa Presse newspaper in Montreal, Quebec. He lives in Montreal with his wife and a lovebird named Cookie.]]>Mary Lyn Ray01eng40JUV041000YBC2.110JUV04103010JUV05100020Books for vehicle lovers; books for kids who love cars; car; cars; truck; vehicles; red light green light; graphic art; graphic design;01021103P043170340480102Hop in the car, turn the key, and vrooom away in this bright, bold book for young car enthusiasts!
Vrooom vrooom! Honk honk!
Green means go as readers set off on an exuberant celebration of automobiles. Colorful, graphic illustrations explore the winding roads, tollbooth, fix-it garage, and bridges with vehicles zipping across. It’s the perfect read-aloud for little ones who love all things that go.]]>1302Stars, Christmas Farm, Pumpkins, The Thank You Book, and Go to Sleep, Little Farm.
Julien Chung has been a professional designer and illustrator for over twenty-five years. He has created licensed characters for brands worldwide and works for La Presse newspaper in Montreal, Quebec. He lives in Montreal with his wife and a lovebird named Cookie.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/edd60bb3-4ef7-48a0-b157-ac340025740c01Beach Lane BooksSIMO129Beach Lane Books0101Beach Lane BooksSIMO129Beach Lane Books022021072801AU NZ016in01152.4mm0212in02304.8mm27159781481449342Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728440227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Beach Lane BooksAU0120210728978149981149002021499811497039781499811490159781499811490140978149981149011BCB102Trade PaperbackLittle Olympians01Little Olympians 1: Zeus, God of Thunder011763794611A01A.I. NewtonNewton, A.I.A.I.Newton2A12Anjan SarkarSarkar, AnjanAnjanSarkarA.I. Newton, illustrated by Anjan Sarkar01eng112JUV022020YFB2.110JUV00100010JUV03500012YNX20god; gods; greek; greek god; greek gods; olympians; little olympians; little olympians zeus; olympus; mount olympus; mt olympus; zeus; athena; poseidon; hades; aphrodite; apollo; ares; artemis; hermes; centaurs; kronos; rhea; zeus god of thunder; thunder god; lightning; lightning god; thunderbolt; thunder bolt; lightning bolt; mythology; myths; greek mythology; greek myths; little gods; greek gods for children; mythology for children; ai newton; anjan sarkar; alien next door; percy jackson01021103K043170360480102Little gods, big personalities! This brand-new series follows little versions of the Greek gods who are at a camp to learn how to control their powers and use them properly--as well as learn to get along with one another.
Zeus is living with his parents, Kronos and Rhea, and he's starting to show his abilities, but his lightning is out of control! Every time he sneezes or gets mad, or is even just plain bored, his lightning shoots out. He tries to keep it under wraps most of the time, but he can't help it, and it causes such a ruckus that his parents decide that it's time he learns to properly use his powers.
So they send him to Eureka, a camp where little gods learn to use and control their supernatural abilities. He's excited to be able to learn to use his powers here, but he's also nervous about going and meeting all the other gods. Apollo and Ares in particular seem very strong (and they let him know it), but he finds friends in the calm and wise Athena and the wisecracking Hermes. But after some trouble with classes, he starts to get discouraged. Will he be able to control his powers with the help of his friends?]]>1302 Anjan Sarkar graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in illustration. After that, he worked as an illustrator and graphic designer before becoming a freelancer, where he gets to work on all sorts of different projects for people of all ages, like this series and the Alien Next Door! He lives in Sheffield, UK. Find out more about Anjan at anjansarkar.co.uk.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/bf0efc38-6531-448b-bc03-ac5700298bc701little bee booksSIMO417little bee books0101little bee booksSIMO417little bee books022021070701AU NZ017in01177.8mm025in02127mm030.4in0310.16mm080.23lb083.68oz08104.33gr27159781499812350Harper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210707120029.99AUDAUZ0.009.990.00202104250212.99NZDNZZ0.0012.990.0020210425little bee booksAU0120210707978149981152002021499811527039781499811520159781499811520140978149981152011BCB102Trade PaperbackLittle Olympians01Little Olympians 2: Athena, Goddess of Wisdom011763795801A01A.I. NewtonNewton, A.I.A.I.Newton2A12Anjan SarkarSarkar, AnjanAnjanSarkarA.I. Newton, illustrated by Anjan Sarkar01eng112JUV022020Y2.110JUV00100010JUV03500012YNX20god; gods; greek; greek god; greek gods; olympians; little olympians; little olympians zeus; olympus; mount olympus; mt olympus; olympics; olympic games; strategy; trickery; knowledge; wisdom; goddess of wisdom; knowledge is power; zeus; athena; poseidon; hades; aphrodite; apollo; ares; artemis; hermes; centaurs; kronos; rhea; zeus god of thunder; thunder god; lightning; lightning god; thunderbolt; thunder bolt; lightning bolt; mythology; myths; greek mythology; greek myths; little gods01021103K043170360480102Little gods, big personalities! This series follows little versions of the Greek gods who are at a camp to learn how to control their powers and use them properly--as well as learn to get along with one another.
The next book in this series follows Athena as the Little Olympians prepare for their own Olympic Games! All the other gods brag about what competitions they'll win because of their powers--Artemis and Apollo will surely win any bow-and-arrow practice, Ares will win any strength competition, and Hermes will win any footrace--but in what event can Athena possibly take the gold? Sure she's wise, but she can't match their physical skills . . . or can she?
As the games begin, Athena has to find unconventional ways to stay in the competition. Will she be able to use strategy and cunning to win the Olympics and show that knowledge is the ultimate power?]]>1302 Anjan Sarkar graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University with a degree in illustration. After that, he worked as an illustrator and graphic designer before becoming a freelancer, where he gets to work on all sorts of different projects for people of all ages, like this series and the Alien Next Door! He lives in Sheffield, UK. Find out more about Anjan at anjansarkar.co.uk.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/08a7844f-f12a-40aa-9a5b-ac8800388ad601little bee booksSIMO417little bee books0101little bee booksSIMO417little bee books022021070701AU NZ017in01177.8mm025in02127mm030.4in0310.16mm080.205lb083.28oz0892.986gr27159781499812367Harper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210707120029.99AUDAUZ0.009.990.00202104250212.99NZDNZZ0.0012.990.0020210425little bee booksAU0120210707978150112402003021501124021039781501124020159781501124020140978150112402011BB0910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Hardback01PrinciplesLife and Work011512812801A01Ray DalioDalio, RayRayDalioTime 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as the Bloomberg Markets list of the 50 most influential people. He is the author of Principles, Big Debt Crisis, and The Changing World Order. He lives with his family in Connecticut.]]>Ray Dalio01eng592BUS050020KJ2.110BUS05000010BUS07100012KJMB12KJD20Ray Dalio; Bridgewater Associates; Bridgewater; Finance; Hedge Fund; Business; Tony Robbins; Money; Leadership; Personal Finance; Investing; Management; Business Principles; Radical Transparency; Economics; Radical Truth; 原则; books for entrepreneurs; books for business majors; books for econ majors; books for college grads;01010102#1 New York Times Bestseller
“Significant...The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving.” —The New York Times
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to create unique results in both life and business—and which any person or organization can adopt to help achieve their goals.
In 1975, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York City. Forty years later, Bridgewater has made more money for its clients than any other hedge fund in history and grown into the fifth most important private company in the United States, according to Fortune magazine. Dalio himself has been named to Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Along the way, Dalio discovered a set of unique principles that have led to Bridgewater’s exceptionally effective culture, which he describes as “an idea meritocracy that strives to achieve meaningful work and meaningful relationships through radical transparency.” It is these principles, and not anything special about Dalio—who grew up an ordinary kid in a middle-class Long Island neighborhood—that he believes are the reason behind his success.
In Principles, Dalio shares what he’s learned over the course of his remarkable career. He argues that life, management, economics, and investing can all be systemized into rules and understood like machines. The book’s hundreds of practical lessons, which are built around his cornerstones of “radical truth” and “radical transparency,” include Dalio laying out the most effective ways for individuals and organizations to make decisions, approach challenges, and build strong teams. He also describes the innovative tools the firm uses to bring an idea meritocracy to life, such as creating “baseball cards” for all employees that distill their strengths and weaknesses, and employing computerized decision-making systems to make believability-weighted decisions. While the book brims with novel ideas for organizations and institutions, Principles also offers a clear, straightforward approach to decision-making that Dalio believes anyone can apply, no matter what they’re seeking to achieve.
Here, from a man who has been called both “the Steve Jobs of investing” and “the philosopher king of the financial universe” (CIO magazine), is a rare opportunity to gain proven advice unlike anything you’ll find in the conventional business press.]]>1302Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world as well as the Bloomberg Markets list of the 50 most influential people. He is the author of Principles, Big Debt Crisis, and The Changing World Order. He lives with his family in Connecticut.]]>0802Winner of the Axiom Business Book Award for 2018
“Mr. Dalio has long been an object of fascination. . . . His new book is more significant than the original list of principles: It is part memoir, part how-to guide. It is a deeply personal story, with Mr. Dalio wading into how he started his firm in 1975, internal conflicts inside the company, and strife early on in his career. The book is both instructive and surprisingly moving. . . . Underneath what may seem like a clinical, emotionless approach is something different and far more poignant: Mr. Dalio is preaching for individuals to have a sense of humility and introspection, an ability to open themselves to appreciate pointed criticism and use it to improve.” —The New York Times]]>0802Principles. The book, weighing in at nearly 600 pages, begins with the author’s own story, including the rise of Bridgewater Associates, Dalio’s highly successful investment firm. Part memoir, part strategic plan, Dalio uses his own history to provide suggestions on attaining success while always stressing the power of individuality and personal goals. This isn’t just a book for the power elite. Dalio’s highly detailed game plan focuses on what he calls ‘radical’ truths and transparencies, and are applicable to the careers of powerful CEOs, ladder-climbing executives, longtime grunts, and fresh-faced rookies.” —Chicago Tribune]]>0802Principles.” —Bill Gates]]>0802—Arianna Huffington]]>0802—Tony Robbins]]>0802—Michael Bloomberg]]>0802—Jamie Dimon]]>0802—Andrew Ross Sorkin]]>0802—Adam Grant]]>0802—Tim Ferriss]]>0802Principles offers a bible to the greatest skill an entrepreneur can have, the ability to Learn How to Learn in any situation. Read it.” —Mark Cuban]]>0802Principles had a profound positive impact on my leadership style—through living more honestly.” —Reed Hastings]]>0802Principles is a must read. It’s a gift to all of us.” —Steve Schwarzman ]]>0802—The Wall Street Journal]]>0802—Fortune]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/11a0dca4-bcfa-43e5-9e34-a73d00df603d01Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster042017100101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm031.6in0340.64mm081.82lb0829.12oz08825.54gr27159781501124051Harper Collins PublishersIP2020171001100249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Simon & SchusterAU0120171001978150115841402021501158414039781501158414159781501158414140978150115841411BBHardback01Love LockdownDating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons011810085611A01Elizabeth GreenwoodGreenwood, ElizabethElizabethGreenwoodPlaying Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, VICE, O, the Oprah Magazine, Longreads, GQ,and others. ]]>Elizabeth Greenwood01eng272SOC004000BTC2.110FAM02900010FAM03000012VFVG12JKV20love and relationships; prison industrial complex; love behind bars; prison love letter; long distance relationships; prison wives; prison wife; orange is the new black; true crime; crime and criminal biographies; prison memoir; life after incarceration; second chances; love language; incarcerated; jail; love after lockup01010102“A tour de force. Elizabeth Greenwood goes to the heart of our prisons’ modern romantic relationships, and returns with a morality tale about what’s gained and lost when America perpetuates the carceral state.” —Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
A compassionate and riveting investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside from the author of the “mesmerizing” (Elle) Playing Dead and perfect for fans of the #1 New York Times bestseller Three Women.
What is it like to fall in love with someone in prison?
Over the course of five years, Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met during incarceration. In Love Lockdown, she pulls back the curtain on the lives of the husbands and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million people in prisons around the United States. In the vein of Modern Love, this book shines a light on how these relationships reflect the desire and delusion we all experience in our romantic pairings.
Love Lockdown infiltrates spaces many of us have only heard whispers of—from conjugal visits to prison weddings to relationships between the incarcerated themselves. A fascinating and unputdownable deep-dive from the “quirky, engaging, and surprisingly uplifting” (Eric Weiner, New York Times bestselling author) journalist Elizabeth Greenwood, Love Lockdown will change the way you look at the American prison system and perhaps relationships in general.]]>1302Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, VICE, O, the Oprah Magazine, Longreads, GQ,and others. ]]>0802Playing Dead) paints a colorful portrait of the world of MWIs… Enriched by the author’s curiosity and empathy, and shot through with memorable details (Jo and Benny ‘toast[ed] each other with blue Powerade from the vending machine’), this is an intriguing look at a little-known world.” —Publishers Weekly]]>0802—Susannah Cahalan, New York Times bestselling author of Brain on Fire and The Great Pretender]]>0802—Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women]]>0802Love Lockdown paints a complex portrait of couples who came together during—and in spite of—incarceration. Greenwood delves deeply into these experiences, revealing paradoxes in the romantic lives of her subjects that will resonate with readers everywhere. A page-turner and a triumph.” —Ayelet Waldman, author of A Really Good Day]]>0802Love Lockdown is a tour de force of empathetic nonfiction storytelling. Elizabeth Greenwood goes to the heart of our prisons’ modern romantic relationships, and returns with a morality tale about what’s gained and lost when America perpetuates the carceral state.” —Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus]]>0802—Kerry Howley, author of Thrown]]>0802—Rachel Monroe, author of Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession]]>0802Love Lockdown is a testament to the power of action, belief, and hope—and urges us to rethink the toll of mass incarceration on loved ones who live free, but with force fields around their hearts and lives.” —Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession]]>0802—Emily Gould, author of Perfect Tunes]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e95475fe-645b-4a95-b14a-ac570029b64401Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books0101Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm030.705in0317.907mm0615978150115842127159781501158438Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210801200239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Gallery BooksAU0120210801978150119260902021501192604039781501192609159781501192609140978150119260911BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade Paperback01The World's Fastest ManTheWorld's Fastest ManThe Extraordinary Life of Cyclist Major Taylor, America's First Black Sports Hero011275686581A01Michael KranishKranish, MichaelMichaelKranishThe Washington Post. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Trump Revealed, John F. Kerry,The Real Romney, and the author of The World’s Fastest Man and Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. He was the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Washington Correspondence in 2016. Visit MichaelKranish.com.]]>Michael Kranish01eng384HIS056000HBTB2.110SPO01100010HIS03606012WSQ12HBLW20the black cyclone; overlooked; nyt overlooked; overlooked obituaries; major taylor; Marshall Walter Major Taylor; marshall major taylor; marshall taylor; marshal taylor; marshal major taylor; major tailor; major taylor association; six day bicycle race; 6 day bicycle race; 6 day race; six day race; early black athletes; first black world champions; early black sports stars; early black celebrities; cycling; track cycling; bikes; black athletes; famous bicyclist; black cyclist; sports stories01010102In this “sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend” (Publishers Weekly)—the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world’s fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era—“Kranish has done historians and fans a service by reminding us that such immortals as Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Serena Williams and Tiger Woods all followed in Major Taylor’s wake” (The Washington Post).
In the 1890s, the nation’s promise of equality had failed spectacularly. While slavery had ended with the Civil War, the Jim Crow laws still separated blacks from whites, and the excesses of the Gilded Age created an elite upper class. When Major Taylor, a young black man, announced he wanted to compete in the nation’s most popular and mostly white man’s sport, cycling, Birdie Munger, a white cyclist who once was the world’s fastest man, declared that he could help turn the young black athlete into a champion.
Twelve years before boxer Jack Johnson and fifty years before baseball player Jackie Robinson, Taylor faced racism at nearly every turn—especially by whites who feared he would disprove their stereotypes of blacks. In The World’s Fastest Man, years in the writing, investigative journalist Michael Kranish reveals new information about Major Taylor based on a rare interview with his daughter and other never-before-uncovered details from Taylor’s life. Kranish shows how Taylor indeed became a world champion, traveled the world, was the toast of Paris, and was one of the most chronicled black men of his day.
From a moment in time just before the arrival of the automobile when bicycles were king, the populace was booming with immigrants, and enormous societal changes were about to take place, “both inspiring and heartbreaking, this is an essential contribution to sports history” (Booklist, starred review). The World’s Fastest Man “restores the memory of one of the first black athletes to overcome the drag of racism and achieve national renown” (The New York Times Book Review).]]>1302The Washington Post. He is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Trump Revealed, John F. Kerry,The Real Romney, and the author of The World’s Fastest Man and Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War. He was the recipient of the Society of Professional Journalists Award for Washington Correspondence in 2016. Visit MichaelKranish.com.]]>2302
PROLOGUE
Madison Square Garden, 1896
On the clear, brisk Saturday afternoon of December 5, 1896, an unusual pair of men strode to New York City’s Madison Square Garden, where thousands would soon assemble for one of the era’s greatest sporting events. The first man, Louis de Franklin Munger, was a lissome figure, with a hawkish gaze, a bristle-thick mustache, and close-cropped hair parted at the apex of his forehead. Munger had once been crowned the world’s fastest man and now, at the age of thirty-three, his championship days behind him, he was still widely recognized by an admiring public. Everyone called him “Birdie,” an appellation that evoked his love of speed and freedom. Now he had new ambitions. The second man, just eighteen years old, was described somewhat mysteriously in press accounts as Munger’s “valet.” He seemed at first glance a short, slight figure, but a close look revealed a compact body with remarkably muscular legs.
As the pair approached Madison Avenue and 26th Street, the arena—the second of what would be several iterations of Madison Square Garden—came into view. The structure was one of the city’s greatest architectural confections, designed by the legendary Stanford White, whose firm was responsible for many of the Gilded Age mansions that lined the most fashionable streets of Manhattan. The Garden’s Moorish arches marched down the avenue; a succession of teardrop-shaped cupolas ringed a fifth-story roof garden. High above, an Italianate tower concealed a private apartment and climbed another three hundred feet into the sky. Atop it all, an Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture of Diana, a twelve-foot-tall unclothed gilded figure aiming a bow and arrow at the winds, proclaimed to all who could see her from miles around that this was the grandest public palace in America.
Munger and his young friend arrived early, before most of the spectators would stream through the Garden’s granite pillars and into the marbled, mosaic entryway. Inside, parquet boards had been laid to create a bicycle-racing oval. More than nine thousand people could be squeezed into the galleries around the track, with standing room for several thousand more. A sliding glass roof opened for ventilation. Within hours, the crowds gathered, and the Garden buzzed with excited murmurs. At eight p.m., a group of racers assembled on the oval and mounted their bicycles. The twenty-five-foot-wide track was sharply curved and steeply banked to a degree that some riders deemed too dangerous. Workmen had applied a coating to the track that failed to cure evenly, leaving it slippery. The crowd noise reached a low roar as the racers readied. One of those at the starting line stood out. It was the teenager who had been called Munger’s “valet.”
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Munger had been a legendary figure at the dawn of cycling, winning world records on a high-wheeler, which typically featured a large, solid wheel in the front and a small one in back. As his career faded in the early 1890s, a new type of bicycle had become wildly popular, with two equal-sized wheels and air-filled tubes. Munger had also raced the early, heavy versions of those models, and he now was in a contest to build the world’s lightest, fastest “safety” cycles, as the new bikes were called.
Indeed, Munger had appeared in this arena earlier in the year touting his bicycles as the world’s best. Tens of thousands of New Yorkers viewed the wares of hundreds of exhibiters, marveling at the latest racing cycle, or a $5,000 showpiece festooned with diamonds, or an Army-designed model bristling with weaponry. The age of the automobile was more than a decade away. This was the time of the “silent steed,” ballyhooed as a replacement for the horse. One of every three patents in the 1890s was related to bicycle manufacture, and more than one million new bikes were expected to be sold in this boom year of 1896. The country had 30,000 bicycle shops and 250 bicycle factories. The main sports of the day were baseball, boxing, and bicycle racing—and cycling was by far the most popular.
Now, as the great annual race began at Madison Square Garden, the crowd focused on Munger’s companion standing on the starting line with a lightweight, state-of-the-art bicycle. The protégé was unlike any racer the spectators had seen before at Madison Square Garden. He was a black man. Not just black, the press reported, but “ebony,” “a veritable black diamond,” “the black meteor.” Those were the kind descriptions. He was housed and sponsored by the South Brooklyn Wheelmen, which called him the “dark secret of Gowanus,” a reference to the Brooklyn neighborhood of brick industrial buildings where he began his training routes with the club’s riders.
The crowd buzzed as they realized they were about to witness a race of white versus black. At stake was much more than a bicycling victory; there was also the prevalent notion among whites that their race was superior. On one side of this contest was a clutch of the world’s most experienced racers, all of them white. On the other was the little-known eighteen-year-old who had come to this unlikely moment under Birdie’s wing.
His name was Marshall Taylor, known as “Major.” The son of a soldier who had fought for the Union in the Civil War, Taylor had raced in amateur competitions but nothing like the vaunted venue of Madison Square Garden. This would be Taylor’s professional racing debut. Logic might have dictated such a start should take place out of the spotlight, but Munger had suggested Taylor’s professional career would begin at the top on this great stage. There was a band on hand, as usual, and the members looked through their sheaves of music for “Dixie,” known as the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy.
• • •
How remarkable that Major Taylor was there at all. Six months earlier, in May 1896, the US Supreme Court had decided Plessy v. Ferguson, the case of Homer Plessy of Louisiana, who was determined to be seven-eighths Caucasian and one-eighth African, and had sought to ride in the first-class compartment of the East Louisiana Railroad. When he refused a detective’s request to move to a blacks-only car, he was arrested for violating the 1890 Separate Car Act, which mandated that blacks and whites ride separately. The Supreme Court upheld the action on grounds that the cars were separate but equal. The ruling effectively accelerated the already heinous racism of the post–Civil War era, institutionalizing Jim Crow laws for decades to come. Only one justice, John Marshall Harlan, dissented, saying “It cannot be justified upon any legal grounds.”
One month after Plessy and five months before Taylor arrived at Madison Square Garden, William Jennings Bryan stood in the same arena and accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, saying, “We believe, as asserted in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal.” Bryan, who nonetheless supported some segregationist policies to woo Southern voters, lost to William McKinley, a former Union officer who would do little to stop the growth of the Jim Crow era.
If the world of sports had its own great dissenter amid this climate of racism, however, it was Munger. He bet his reputation that Taylor could, while riding a Munger-built bicycle, disprove those who believed that blacks were inferior and deserved segregation. Thus the symbolism represented by the starting line was extraordinary. A black man would compete with whites at Madison Square Garden, and may the best racer win.
• • •
Taylor wore skintight, woolen racing shorts and a shirt as he pushed his bike to the starting line. He was a son of two worlds: raised first by his poor family of black farmers, then taken in and tutored by a wealthy white family. He was better educated than most of his competitors, despite the insults hurled against him. He aimed to beat them not just with speed, but with knowledge, tactics, and cunning.
The curtain raiser was a series of half-mile races, each five laps around the track. In every heat, the improperly treated surface caused racers to fall or go flying over the handlebars, but they would reappear in the next heat, “legs and arms swathed up in bandages.” The crowd cheered wildly as the racers who remained on their wheels dodged their fallen competitors.
Taylor made his debut in the third heat. Riding a bicycle made by Munger, he bolted from the starting line and gained ground with every lap. He won easily to qualify for the final heat, pitting him against several of the world’s fastest riders. A starter’s pistol fired. Taylor’s powerful legs turned the pedals. Quickly, he put ten yards between him and his closest competitor. “Round and round the track whirled the colored rider, pedaling away like a steam engine,” wrote the Brooklyn Eagle’s correspondent. Taylor swiveled his head to see a racer named Eddie “Cannon” Bald—considered one of the world’s fastest sprinters—closing in. Bald was “straining every nerve” to catch Taylor. The crowd surged from their seats to see if Taylor could hold on to his narrowing lead.
• • •
In time, the rivalry between Bald and Taylor would be billed by a promoter as the white “Adonis” versus the “great Negro.” Bald would swear that he never wanted to “let a nigger beat” him, while Taylor saw Bald as the embodiment of the racism against him. Their rivalry would serve as a microcosm of the greater social history of the time, and come to an extraordinary conclusion for both men.
Taylor’s epic journey began twelve years before Jack Johnson, a black man, became heavyweight champion, and fifty years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Yet here he was in 1896, wheel to wheel against white racers. His life would be one of the most singular of his era, a black man who took on Jim Crow, who crested at the height of the Gilded Age that was dominated by elite whites. His name eventually faded, but his story is far larger than one of sports. It is a story of one man’s perseverance against relentless waves of prejudice, and of the enduring friendship of two men, one black and the other white, who joined together to push history forward.
Taylor said from the beginning that Munger was pushing not only for the fastest time on the racetrack but also for the larger principle of equality, which victory would help make possible. So, Munger said of Taylor, “I am going to make him the fastest bicycle rider in the world.”
And that, improbably, is what was about to happen.]]>0802—The Wall Street Journal
“For anyone interested in cycling, technology or social history…a fascinating ride… Kranish has done historians and fans a service by reminding us that such immortals as Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Serena Williams and Tiger Woods all followed in Major Taylor’s wake. In the lingo of bike racing, his ultimate legacy was as a pacesetter.” —Washington Post
“The World’s Fastest Man… restores the memory of one of the first black athletes to overcome the drag of racism and achieve national renown.” —The New York Times Book Review
“A fantastic exploration of the life of an athlete who should be a household name, but isn’t.” — The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“Journalist Kranish weaves the fascinating and interconnected history of the rise and demise of professional cycling with the life story of African American cycling hero [Major Taylor]… Kranish mixes sports and history, along with the realities of racism, in a valuable addition for all libraries with collections touching on those areas.” —Library Journal
“[Major Taylor’s] legacy was in the quiet athletes, like Jackie Robinson, who endured endless abuse to break baseball’s color barrier. And… in athletes like Muhammad Ali, who refused to accept limits imposed by white men. It’s also in every child, black or white, boy or girl, who jumps on a bike, sprints down a track or plunges into a pool with one goal: To go faster.” —The New York Daily News ]]>0802—PELOTON Magazine]]>0802Kirkus Reviews]]>0802Booklist, starred review]]>0802Publishers Weekly]]>0802Jon Meacham, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels. ]]>0802—Douglas A. Blackmon, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil War to World War II]]>0802The World’s Fastest Man is a riveting account of the life of Major Taylor, the cyclist who was our country’s ‘First Black Sports Hero.’ Kranish brings Taylor’s story alive with vivid prose and extensive research. This is not just a story about Taylor, it is a story about his times; when racial prejudice blighted the lives of millions of Americans, and made their journeys through life far more difficult than they should have been.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/faf55120-a5a4-4f9e-bccf-aae40026f36001ScribnerSIMO049Scribner0101ScribnerSIMO049Scribner022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.96in0324.384mm06159781501192593Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801400229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425ScribnerAU0120210801978150119801402021501198017039781501198014159781501198014140978150119801411BB0910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Hardback01The Sacred BandTheSacred BandThree Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom011429583201A01James RommRomm, JamesJamesRommThe Wall Street Journal and The New York Review of Books. He currently oversees the ambitious Ancient Lives series recently launched by Yale University Press.]]>James Romm01eng320HIS002010HBJD2.110HIS02722010SOC06400012HBLA12HBW20Love's Warriors; James Romm; Greek books; Books about Greece; Books about Greek Warriors; Greek Warrior book; Greek Warrior books; Greek freedom book; books about Greek freedom; Books about Thebes; Thebes books; Greek history book; books about greek history; historical greek book; greek historical book; ancient greek books; books about ancient greece; ancient greek warrior book; love warrior book; books about male lovers; historical lgbt book; gay history book; sparta book; books about sparta01010102From classicist James Romm comes a thrilling deep dive into the last decades of ancient Greek freedom leading up to Alexander the Great’s destruction of Thebes—and the saga of the greatest military corps of the age, the Theban Sacred Band, a unit composed of 150 pairs of male lovers.
The story of the Sacred Band, an elite 300-man corps recruited from pairs of lovers, highlights a chaotic era of ancient Greek history, four decades marked by battles, ideological disputes, and the rise of vicious strongmen. At stake was freedom, democracy, and the fate of Thebes, at this time the leading power of the Greek world.
The tale begins in 379 BC, with a group of Theban patriots sneaking into occupied Thebes. Disguised in women’s clothing, they cut down the agents of Sparta, the state that had cowed much of Greece with its military might. To counter the Spartans, this group of patriots would form the Sacred Band, a corps whose history plays out against a backdrop of Theban democracy, of desperate power struggles between leading city-states, and the new prominence of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life.
After four decades without a defeat, the Sacred Band was annihilated by the forces of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander in the Battle of Chaeronea—extinguishing Greek liberty for two thousand years. Buried on the battlefield where they fell, they were rediscovered in 1880—some skeletons still in pairs, with arms linked together.
From violent combat in city streets to massive clashes on open ground, from ruthless tyrants to bold women who held their era in thrall, The Sacred Band follows the twists and turns of a crucial historical moment: the end of the treasured freedom of ancient Greece.]]>1302The Wall Street Journal and The New York Review of Books. He currently oversees the ambitious Ancient Lives series recently launched by Yale University Press.]]>0802—Kirkus
"Romm lucidly describes the era’s complex power struggles and explains how the pro-Sparta bias of Xenophon, who wrote the only surviving contemporaneous account of “the era of Theban greatness,” has colored modern perceptions of Thebes. This is an eye-opening and immersive portrait of a little-known aspect of ancient history." —Publishers Weekly
"Striking ... [a] fascinating unit." —Booklist]]>0802—Daniel Mendelsohn, author of An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic
"Bound by love, virtue, and valor, the Sacred Band of Thebes fought for Greek freedom and democracy, for more than a generation in a turbulent era ended by Macedonian conquest in 338 BC. James Romm has delved deep into the history and even the archaeology of this famous, little-understood corps of 300 lover-companions. The result is an exhilarating story of eros and power." —Adrienne Mayor, author of Gods and Robots and The Amazons
"There are several famous 300s in human history but few deserve to be commemorated as does the Sacred Band of the ancient Greek city of Thebes — as James Romm, already very well known as a reviewer, translator, commentator and Herodotus expert, so amply demonstrates in this splendid, pioneering, indeed loving book." —Paul Cartledge, author of Thebes: The Forgotten City of Ancient Greece
"Using contemporary language and interpreting through an enlightened sensibility, James Romm brings energy and relevance to an epic chapter of ancient history." —Mary Norris, author of Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
"James Romm has written a wonderfully readable book about one of the most fascinating and least known stories from the ancient world. Beginning with the Theban rebellion throwing off Spartan control to the destruction of the city by Alexander the Great, the tale of the rise and fall of Theban freedom resonates even today." —Philip Freeman, author of Alexander the Great
"An immersive and deeply atmospheric story of strength and power – a power founded, above anything else, on love and belief. I can think of 300 reasons to recommend this book." —Daisy Dunn, author of The Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/669a3f69-8d66-4b6d-81cb-ac57002a36e001ScribnerSIMO049Scribner0101ScribnerSIMO049Scribner022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.825in0320.955mm2715978150119803806159781501198021Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210801200245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425ScribnerAU0120210801978150721628602021507216289039781507216286159781507216286140978150721628611BCB102Trade Paperback"I Love My" Series01The "I Love My Air Fryer" 5-Ingredient Recipe BookThe"I Love My Air Fryer" 5-Ingredient Recipe BookFrom French Toast Sticks to Buttermilk-Fried Chicken Thighs, 175 Quick and Easy Recipes011814358841A01Robin FieldsFields, RobinRobinFieldsRobin Fields01eng224CKB081000WBS2.110CKB07000010CKB11300020Air fryer cookbook; air fryer oven; air fryers best seller prime; air fryer recipes; air fryer accessories; air fryer toaster oven; air fryer liners; air fryer Ninja; easy dinner recipes; weeknight meals; family meals; family dinner; quick; simple; easy; 5 ingredient meals; cheap meals; cheap dinner ideas; healthy recipes; low cost; affordable; Cosori; GoWISE; Nuwave; recipes with chicken; recipes with ground beef; chicken wings; salmon; french fries; brussel sprouts; cookbook for beginners01010102Create deliciously quick and easy recipes in your Air Fryer using only 5 ingredients or less!
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This easy-to-use cookbook provides mouthwatering, whole-food dishes for every meal—from breakfast and dinner to appetizers and dessert—using favorite, familiar ingredients you probably already have in your pantry.
Including 175 delicious recipes using five—or fewer—ingredients, these fast, affordable meals don’t require a lot of prep or shopping, so you can spend more time out of the kitchen doing the things you love. Best of all, these satisfying, flavorful recipes are sure to be a big hit with everyone in the family. Whether you need an easy dinner on a busy weeknight or want to cut back on time (and money) in the grocery store, this cookbook has you covered!]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ea370648-2e7a-4867-8b13-ac7a0037ab8b01Adams MediaSIMO533Adams Media0101Adams MediaSIMO533Adams Media022021072801AU NZ019.125in01231.78mm027in02177.8mm030.56in0314.224mm27159781507216293Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210728240229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Adams MediaAU0120210728978150721648402021507216483039781507216484159781507216484140978150721648411BBB402Hardback01The Good Morning JournalTheGood Morning Journal5-Minute Guided Reflections to Start Your Day with Inspiration, Purpose, and a Plan011820903391A24Molly BurfordBurford, MollyMollyBurfordAllure, Teen Vogue, and Thought Catalog, among others. She is the author of The No Worries Workbook; Say Yes to Yourself; and DIY Bucket List. Molly was born, raised, and still resides in Detroit, Michigan. Follow Molly at @MollyBurford and learn more at MollyBurford.com.]]>Introduction by Molly Burford01eng176SEL045000VS2.110SEL02700010SEL03500020Journal for women; morning routine; morning motivation; bullet journal; pages; journaling supplies; journal prompts; guided journal; self-care; successful people; creativity; productivity journal; planner; organizer; mental health; guided journal for women; teen girls; inspirational quotes; graduation gift; mother’s day gift; gift for women01010102Seize the day and begin your morning routine with positivity and inspiration using this beautiful easy-to-use guided journal that helps you boost productivity and make the most of each day.
Great days start with The Good Morning Journal!
Each day is a blank slate—a gift that we choose how to use. You can begin each day with clarity, purpose, and inspiration with The Good Morning Journal. This beautiful, easy-to-use guided journal is filled with quick, thoughtful prompts that help you recognize what you want to accomplish—and why—and create a simple plan to achieve your goals. You’ll also find motivating and inspiring quotes that spark a positive mindset and encourage you throughout the day.
With this journal, you’ll be able to identify your true passions—the activities, ideas, and items that mean the most to you—and thoughtfully arrange your day to prioritize these passions. Start living with more purpose, accomplish your goals, achieve your dreams, and fill your days with more joy than ever.]]>1302Allure, Teen Vogue, and Thought Catalog, among others. She is the author of The No Worries Workbook; Say Yes to Yourself; and DIY Bucket List. Molly was born, raised, and still resides in Detroit, Michigan. Follow Molly at @MollyBurford and learn more at MollyBurford.com.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8db721a0-0e4d-408a-842e-ac7a0037b1c201Adams MediaSIMO533Adams Media0101Adams MediaSIMO533Adams Media022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025.5in02139.7mm030.465in0311.811mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210728400224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Adams MediaAU0120210728978153442727302021534427279039781534427273159781534427273132021010946140978153442727311BB0910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03HardbackThe Islanders01The IslandersTheIslanders011380890321A01Mary Alice MonroeMonroe, Mary AliceMary AliceMonroeNew York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the Beach House series: The Beach House, Beach House Memories, Swimming Lessons, Beach House for Rent, and Beach House Reunion. She is a 2018 Inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame, and her books have received numerous awards, including the 2008 South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing, the 2014 South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence, the 2015 SW Florida Author of Distinction Award, the RT Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Book Award for Green Fiction, and the 2017 Southern Book Prize for Fiction. Her bestselling novel The Beach House is also a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. She is the cocreator and cohost of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. An active conservationist, she lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Visit her at MaryAliceMonroe.com and at Facebook.com/MaryAliceMonroe.]]>2A02Angela MayMay, AngelaAngelaMayMary Alice Monroe01eng304JUV039060YF2.110JUV02901010JUV00224020first in series; turtles; Dewees; South Carolina; summer reads; conservation; loggerhead; military; military families; Army; army families; Hallmark Channel; Hallmark movie; The Beach House; Summer Girls; environment; animal stories; ocean; dolphins; jellyfish; alligators; nesting grounds; nature preserve; animal activism; endangered species; Afghanistan;0102110330471703804120102From New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe comes a beautiful story of friendship, loss, and the healing power of nature in her first book for middle grade readers.
Eleven-year-old Jake’s life has just turned upside-down. His father was wounded in Afghanistan, and his mother is going to leave to care for him. That means Jake’s spending the summer on tiny Dewees Island with his grandmother. The island is a nature sanctuary—no cars or paved roads, no stores or restaurants. To make matters worse, Jake’s grandmother doesn’t believe in cable or the internet. Which means Jake has no cell phone, no video games...and no friends. This is going to be the worst summer ever!
He’s barely on the island before he befriends two other kids—Macon, another “summer kid,” and Lovie, know-it-all who lives there and shows both Jake and Macon the ropes of life on the island. All three are struggling with their own family issues and they quickly bond, going on adventures all over Dewees Island. Until one misadventure on an abandoned boat leads to community service. Their punishment? Mandatory duty on the Island Turtle Team. The kids must do a daily dawn patrol of the beach on the hunt for loggerhead sea turtle tracks. When a turtle nest is threatened by coyotes, the three friends must find a way to protect it. Can they save the turtle nest from predators? Can Jake’s growing love for the island and its inhabitants (be they two-legged, four-legged, feathered, or finned) help to heal his father?]]>1302New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the Beach House series: The Beach House, Beach House Memories, Swimming Lessons, Beach House for Rent, and Beach House Reunion. She is a 2018 Inductee into the South Carolina Academy of Authors’ Hall of Fame, and her books have received numerous awards, including the 2008 South Carolina Center for the Book Award for Writing, the 2014 South Carolina Award for Literary Excellence, the 2015 SW Florida Author of Distinction Award, the RT Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Book Award for Green Fiction, and the 2017 Southern Book Prize for Fiction. Her bestselling novel The Beach House is also a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie. She is the cocreator and cohost of the weekly web show and podcast Friends & Fiction. An active conservationist, she lives in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Visit her at MaryAliceMonroe.com and at Facebook.com/MaryAliceMonroe.]]>4402New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/483fdfca-1a82-43dc-b14c-ac490028dc1e01AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm2715978153442729706159781534427280Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801360227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120210801978153443145403021534431454039781534431454159781534431454132018960169140978153443145411BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade PaperbackThe Okay Witch101The Okay WitchTheOkay Witch011441633871A01Emma SteinkellnerSteinkellner, EmmaEmmaSteinkellner2A12Emma SteinkellnerSteinkellner, EmmaEmmaSteinkellnerEmma Steinkellner01eng272JUV008000YFW2.110JUV03700010JUV03906012YFH12YX20witch; graphic novel; graphic novels for kids; Roller Girl; magic; Halloween; Witch Boy; middle grade graphic novel; Salem Witch Trials; first in series; 1st in series; El Deafo; magic; Quince; Aces; Lumberjanes; school library journal best graphic novel; best graphic novel 2019; yalsa quick pick for reluctant young adult readers;21D3N7901021103304717038041205W 06GN390L0102A School Library Journal Best Graphic Novel of 2019 A YALSA 2020 Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers A YALSA 2020 Great Graphic Novel for Teens
Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything!
Magic is harder than it looks.
Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she’s about to discover that witches aren’t just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. When some eighth-grade bullies try to ruin her Halloween, something really strange happens. It turns out that Founder’s Bluff, Massachusetts, has a centuries-old history of witch drama. And, surprise: Moth’s family is at the center of it all! When Moth’s new powers show up, things get totally out-of-control. She meets a talking cat, falls into an enchanted diary, and unlocks a hidden witch world. Secrets surface from generations past as Moth unravels the complicated legacy at the heart of her town, her family, and herself.
In this spellbinding graphic novel debut, Emma Steinkellner spins a story packed with humor and heart about the weird and wonderful adventures of a witch-in-progress.]]>130244020802Chad Sell, creator of Cardboard Kingdom040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a97f2c66-4890-41e6-9b31-a9b700566fc701AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin042019100101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm030.6in0315.24mm080.995lb0815.92oz08451.32gr2715978153443147806159781534431461Harper Collins PublishersIP2020191001300219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120191001978153443148502021534431489039781534431485159781534431485132020931412140978153443148511BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade PaperbackThe Okay Witch201The Okay Witch and the Hungry ShadowTheOkay Witch and the Hungry Shadow011441661131A01Emma SteinkellnerSteinkellner, EmmaEmmaSteinkellner2A12Emma SteinkellnerSteinkellner, EmmaEmmaSteinkellnerEmma Steinkellner01eng256JUV008000YFW2.110JUV03700010JUV03906012YFH12YFD20witch; graphic novel; graphic novels for kids; Roller Girl; magic; Halloween; Witch Boy; middle grade graphic novel; Salem Witch Trials; Indie national bestseller; Indie Next pick; El Deafo; magic; Quince; Aces; Lumberjanes; school library journal best graphic novel; best graphic novel 2019; yalsa quick pick for reluctant young adult readers;21D3M790102110330471703804120102In this hilarious and heartwarming sequel to the bestselling and critically acclaimed graphic novel, The Okay Witch, half-witch Moth Hush uses magic to boost her confidence with disastrous results—perfect for fans of Raina Telgemeier and Molly Ostertag!
Moth Hush is starting to settle into her newfound witch heritage and powers, but life at school continues to be rough. Even her best friend, Charlie, doesn’t entirely understand what it’s like for her to always be the one who gets mocked, and things only get worse when Moth’s mom starts dating one of the dorkiest teachers in the school! Then Moth gets hold of a mysterious charm that can unleash another version of herself—one who is confident, cool, and extremely popular. What could possibly go wrong?]]>13024402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8c84605f-8994-474b-99b8-ac2d0026b7f901AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm0615978153443149227159781534431508Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728300219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120210728978153444578902021534445781039781534445789159781534445789132019035672140978153444578911BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade Paperback01What I Like About You011552028261A01Marisa KanterKanter, MarisaMarisaKanterWhat I Like About You and As If on Cue. Born and raised in the suburbs of Boston, her obsession with books led her to New York City, where she got her degree in media studies and creative writing from New York University. Marisa works in the publishing industry to help books find their perfect readers. Follow her at MarisaKanter.com.]]>Marisa KanterReprint01eng432YAF052020YFM2.110YAF00600010YAF05812020book nerd; love story; romance; romcom; sibling; anxiety; social anxiety; Jewish; Judaism; family; death; death of grandparent; grandparent; book; BookCon; publishing; nerd; comic; graphic; secret identity; secret; crush; internet; blog; meet cute; mixup; rom com; cute; teen; love; high school; friendship; community; brother; anxious; online; irl; persona; relationship; identity; fandom; fan culture; YA audiobooks; windows & mirrors; diverse stories; diverse representation; Jewish culture010311037170312049906HL700L0102“Heartwarming, endearing, and sure to leave you swooning… This story is as sweet as the cupcakes you’ll be craving by the end!” —Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Can a love triangle have only two people in it? Online, it can…but in the real world, its more complicated. In this debut novel that’s perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson, Marisa Kanter hilariously and poignantly explores what happens when internet friends turn into IRL crushes.
Is it still a love triangle if there are only two people in it?
There are a million things that Halle Levitt likes about her online best friend, Nash.
He’s an incredibly talented graphic novelist. He loves books almost as much as she does. And she never has to deal with the awkwardness of seeing him in real life. They can talk about anything…
Except who she really is.
Because online, Halle isn’t Halle—she’s Kels, the enigmatically cool creator of One True Pastry, a YA book blog that pairs epic custom cupcakes with covers and reviews. Kels has everything Halle doesn’t: friends, a growing platform, tons of confidence, and Nash.
That is, until Halle arrives to spend senior year in Gramps’s small town and finds herself face-to-face with real, human, not-behind-a-screen Nash. Nash, who is somehow everywhere she goes—in her classes, at the bakery, even at synagogue.
Nash who has no idea she’s actually Kels.
If Halle tells him who she is, it will ruin the non-awkward magic of their digital friendship. Not telling him though, means it can never be anything more. Because while she starts to fall for Nash as Halle…he’s in love with Kels.]]>1302What I Like About You and As If on Cue. Born and raised in the suburbs of Boston, her obsession with books led her to New York City, where she got her degree in media studies and creative writing from New York University. Marisa works in the publishing industry to help books find their perfect readers. Follow her at MarisaKanter.com.]]>0802 What I Like About You shines with authentic characters you will absolutely fall in love with. This story is as sweet as the cupcakes you’ll be craving by the end!"]]>Rachael Lippincott, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Five Feet Apart0802What I Like About You tightly to my chest."]]>Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone0802Laura Silverman, author of Girl Out of Water and You Asked for Perfect0802What I Like About You is what we love about YA."]]>Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka, authors of If I’m Being Honest040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/1339ce8a-f855-4a38-a3de-abb60027479301Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers0101Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm06159781534445772Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728360219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersAU012021072897815344503010202153445030003978153445030115978153445030113202005497814097815344503011123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade PaperbackNancy Drew Clue Book1601Duck Derby Debacle011571915441A01Carolyn KeeneKeene, CarolynCarolynKeene2A12Peter FrancisFrancis, PeterPeterFrancisCarolyn Keene01eng112JUV028000YF2.110JUV03906010JUV04500020Detectives; Nancy Drew; Clue Crew; The Hardy Boys; Sleuthing; reasoning; mysteries; books for readers 5-8; emergent reader; Common Core; chapter books; books for first graders; books for second graders; books for third-graders; books for 6-year-olds; books for 7-year-olds; books for 8-year-olds; children’s mysteries010211031044170360490102When the rubber duckies for River Heights’s duck derby go missing, Nancy and her friends are ready to quack the case in the sixteenth book in the interactive Nancy Drew Clue Book mystery series.
River Heights is hosting a duck derby to raise funds to install new benches by the pond in the park. Nancy, Bess, and George want to help, so they ask Mayor Strong if they can number the rubber duckies that will be used in the race. It’s a big responsibility, but they know they can do it.
Then the box holding the duckies goes missing from Nancy’s doorstep! The girls need to find the duck-napper fast, but there’s a flock of suspects. Where do they even start without even a squeak of a clue?
Will the Clue Crew figure out who flew off with their rubber duckies before the Mayor finds out they’re gone?]]>1302 Peter Francis lives in Brighton, UK, where he spent a number of years as an illustrator for children’s television before turning to books. When not painting in his studio, he enjoys long coastal walks, exploring local history, and growing vegetables.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/da3db5f7-46e4-4c65-827b-ac260028285801AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021072801AU NZ017.625in01193.68mm025.125in02130.18mm0615978153445031827159781534450325Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202107281360211.99AUDAUZ0.0011.990.00202104250214.99NZDNZZ0.0014.990.0020210425AladdinAU012021072897815344516050202153445160903978153445160515978153445160514097815344516051123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackPaige Proves It101The Mystery MonsterTheMystery Monster011582894661A01Amy Marie StadelmannStadelmann, Amy MarieAmy MarieStadelmannWonder Pets! and Team Umizoomi She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at AmyMarieStad.com]]>2A12Amy Marie StadelmannStadelmann, Amy MarieAmy MarieStadelmannWonder Pets! and Team Umizoomi She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at AmyMarieStad.com]]>Amy Marie Stadelmann01eng112JUV008120YFW2.110JUV01307010JUV04500020graphic novel; chapter books; mystery; facts; monsters; detective stories; friendship; cartoons; easy to read; Sherlock Holmes; Amelia's Notebook; Ada Lace0102110320451703704100102Fact-loving Paige sets out to prove imaginative Penn wrong about a neighborhood monster in this first book in the mystery graphic novel chapter book series Paige Proves It!
Paige loves facts! She records interesting information in her facts journal and shares it with anyone who will listen. Wombats’ poop is cube-shaped! Her street’s buildings have seventy-three windows. And a boy named Penn lives next door.
The two couldn’t be more different. The craziest thing Paige believes is that bananas are actually berries (scientifically proven!), but Penn thinks there’s a monster in the neighborhood! Paige will prove Penn wrong and that monsters aren’t real, one fact at a time.]]>1302Wonder Pets! and Team Umizoomi She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at AmyMarieStad.com]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7aa5ecb2-123c-4b7c-9b1c-ac340026265d01AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm026in02152.4mm0615978153445161227159781534451629Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728720212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202104250215.99NZDNZZ0.0015.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120210728978153445161202021534451617039781534451612159781534451612140978153445161211BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01HardbackPaige Proves It101The Mystery MonsterTheMystery Monster011582894661A01Amy Marie StadelmannStadelmann, Amy MarieAmy MarieStadelmannWonder Pets! and Team Umizoomi She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at AmyMarieStad.com]]>2A12Amy Marie StadelmannStadelmann, Amy MarieAmy MarieStadelmannWonder Pets! and Team Umizoomi She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at AmyMarieStad.com]]>Amy Marie Stadelmann01eng112JUV008120YFW2.110JUV01307010JUV04500020graphic novel; chapter books; mystery; facts; monsters; detective stories; friendship; cartoons; easy to read; Sherlock Holmes; Amelia's Notebook; Ada Lace0102110320451703704100102Fact-loving Paige sets out to prove imaginative Penn wrong about a neighborhood monster in this first book in the mystery graphic novel chapter book series Paige Proves It!
Paige loves facts! She records interesting information in her facts journal and shares it with anyone who will listen. Wombats’ poop is cube-shaped! Her street’s buildings have seventy-three windows. And a boy named Penn lives next door.
The two couldn’t be more different. The craziest thing Paige believes is that bananas are actually berries (scientifically proven!), but Penn thinks there’s a monster in the neighborhood! Paige will prove Penn wrong and that monsters aren’t real, one fact at a time.]]>1302Wonder Pets! and Team Umizoomi She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Visit her at AmyMarieStad.com]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/49d2238a-afef-4c0d-8222-ac34002629c201AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021080101AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm026in02152.4mm06159781534451605Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801440232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120210801978153445300502021534453008039781534453005159781534453005140978153445300511BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Between You, Me, and the Honeybees011598980381A01Amelia Diane CoombsCoombs, Amelia DianeAmelia DianeCoombsKeep My Heart in San Francisco and Between You, Me, and the Honeybees.]]>Amelia Diane Coombs01eng368YAF052020YFM2.110YAF01800010YAF05811020California; sunshine; golden; beekeeping; honeybees; last summer before college; finding yourself; first love; forbidden love; artsy love interest; forbidden romance/some tension between two characters on the front; honeybees; golden sunshiney colors; YA romantic comedy; ya rom com; teen rom com; summer read; college; beekeeping; star crossed lovers; Romeo and Juliet;01031103917031404990102Perfect for fans of Jenn Bennett and Sarah Dessen, this swoon-worthy novel follows a teen girl during her California summer of beekeeping, secrets, and stolen kisses.
Josie Hazeldine has just graduated from high school, and she’s ready for a summer full of sunshine, beekeeping, and…lying to her mom.
Josie’s mom couldn’t be more proud of her daughter going to college, something she never got to do. But Josie wants to stay in her California hometown and take over the family business, Hazeldine Honey. So that college acceptance her mom is thrilled about? Yeah, Josie turned it down. But she’s going to come clean—just not yet.
The neighbor’s artsy, adorable grandson who’s in town for the summer makes Josie’s web of lies even more tangled. He’s into Josie and the feeling is very mutual, but he’s a Blumstein—the sworn enemy of the Hazeldines and their number one competition in the annual Honey Show at the end of July. As their secret fling goes on, Josie knows she’s getting in way too deep to leave him behind when summer’s over.
Can Josie keep the boy she can’t stop thinking about without the secrets she’s juggling crashing down around her?]]>1302Keep My Heart in San Francisco and Between You, Me, and the Honeybees.]]>0802Jenna Evans Welch, New York Times Bestselling Author of Love & Gelato040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a58df2dc-c2fa-4572-bc14-ac2600283c5101Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers0101Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm2715978153445302906159781534453012Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801360229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersAU0120210801978153445566502021534455663039781534455665159781534455665132020010343140978153445566511BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Long Distance011624741771A01Whitney GardnerGardner, WhitneyWhitneyGardnerYou’re Welcome, Universe and Chaotic Good, as well as the creator of Fake Blood and Long Distance and the illustrator for Debbie Levy’s Becoming RBG.]]>2A12Whitney GardnerGardner, WhitneyWhitneyGardnerYou’re Welcome, Universe and Chaotic Good, as well as the creator of Fake Blood and Long Distance and the illustrator for Debbie Levy’s Becoming RBG.]]>Whitney Gardner01eng320JUV008000YFW2.110JUV03906010JUV03217012YFQ12YNXF20graphic novel; space; space camp; summer camp; aliens; extraterrestrial; ufo; space travel; unidentified flying object; spaceship; Portland; Oregon; Washington; Seattle; feminism; feminism for kids; funny books for kids; graphic novels for kids; friendship; long distance friendship; long distance relationship; books about moving away; books about losing a friend; books about making friends01021103517031004990102From the creator of Fake Blood comes another exceptionally charming middle grade graphic novel about friendships both near and far, far away.
Vega’s summer vacation is not going well.
When her parents decide it’s time to pack up and leave her hometown of Portland, Oregon, behind for boring Seattle, Washington, Vega is more than upset—she’s downright miserable. Forced to leave her one and only best friend, Halley, behind, Vega is convinced she’ll never make another friend again.
To help her settle into her new life in Seattle, her parents send Vega off to summer camp to make new friends. Except Vega is determined to get her old life back. But when her cellphone unexpectedly calls it quits and things at camp start getting stranger and stranger, Vega has no choice but to team up with her bunkmates to figure out what’s going on!]]>1302You’re Welcome, Universe and Chaotic Good, as well as the creator of Fake Blood and Long Distance and the illustrator for Debbie Levy’s Becoming RBG.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9e37610d-2bb4-4707-b195-ac64012163a401Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers0101Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm027in02177.8mm06159781534455658Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801160235.00AUDAUZ0.0035.000.00202104250239.99NZDNZZ0.0039.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersAU012021080197815344573240202153445732103978153445732415978153445732413202002750814097815344573241123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackMermaid Tales2101Sleepover at the Haunted Museum011635752511A01Debbie DadeyDadey, DebbieDebbieDadey2A12Tatevik AvakyanAvakyan, TatevikTatevikAvakyanDebbie Dadey01eng112JUV066000YF2.110JUV03700010JUV03906020books for six year olds; mermaids; books for seven year olds; books for eight year olds; books for nine year olds; emergent readers; The Little Mermaid; The Tail of Emily Windsnap; summer reading; early readers; easy readers; chapter books; books for first graders; books for second graders; books for third graders; marine life; underwater; Ariel; fish; sea; under the sea; friendship; adventure; Bailey School Kids; birthday party; sleepover; haunted; mystery; Shelly; Kiki; Echo; Pearl;010211031044170360490102Shelly and her merfriends are excited to sleep in the museum until they start to wonder if it’s haunted in this spooky Mermaid Tales adventure.
It’s almost Shelly’s birthday! She can’t wait to have her friends over and eat her grandfather’s homemade pizza. But when Pearl gets involved in the party planning, the ideas get out of hand. Soon Shelly’s small sleepover turns into an overnight extravaganza at the People Museum, complete with a scavenger hunt and scary stories!
Shelly’s not so sure about spending the night in the museum with its dark spaces and creaking exhibits. But when the day arrives, everything goes swimmingly—that is, until strange, glowing lights start to appear. Could the People Museum be haunted? Or is something fishy going on?]]>1302 Tatevik Avakyan has illustrated many books for children, including the Mermaid Tales series.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/fe9d1589-d811-4e87-935c-ac260028424201AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021080101AU NZ017.625in01193.68mm025.125in02130.18mm0615978153445733127159781534457348Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210517202108011360211.99AUDAUZ0.0011.990.00202104250214.99NZDNZZ0.0014.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120210801978153446005802021534460055039781534460058159781534460058132020052190140978153446005811BBB2210910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Nerdycorn011641759821A01Andrew RootRoot, AndrewAndrewRoot2A12Erin KraanKraan, ErinErinKraanAndrew Root01eng40JUV002270YBCS2.110JUV03906010JUV03600012YFH12YNX20STEM; STEAM; girls who love science; kids who love science; science; computer programming; coding; software; chemistry; 3D printer; robotics; robot; women in science; girls who code; unicorn; friendship; accepting differences; unique; bullying; SEL; Social Emotional Learning; Empowerment;21B3M7901021103P043170330480102Fern isn’t your usual unicorn…she loves chemistry and math more than glitter or flowers—and she refuses to change who she is in this sweet and empowering picture book about being yourself—and standing up for yourself, too!
Meet Fern! She’s a smart, creative unicorn who prefers building robots and coding software to jumping through shimmering rainbows and splashing in majestic waterfalls. Even though Fern is a good friend and always willing to help others, the other unicorns tease her and call her a nerdycorn.
One day, Fern has had enough and decides to stop fixing her friends’ broken things. But then the confetti machine, the rainbow synthesizer, and the starlight bedazzler all go haywire during the biggest Sparkle Dance Party of the year! Fern can certainly fix them…but will she?]]>1302 Erin Kraan grew up in a family of woodworkers, sewers, and painters, crafters who greatly influenced her chosen illustration medium, woodcut printing. She loves the process of carving her characters into the wood and seeing how their quirky and whimsical identities come to life through the ink in the prints. When she isn’t making woodcuts, she loves going hiking through the woods with her German Wirehaired Pointer, Freya. She adores big mugs of milky coffee, cozy socks, chickadees, smelly candles, and the color green.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ed12df27-eeae-412e-95be-ac1f0027427d01Beach Lane BooksSIMO129Beach Lane Books0101Beach Lane BooksSIMO129Beach Lane Books022021072801AU NZ0111in01279.4mm029in02228.6mm030.4in0310.16mm081lb0816oz08453.59gr27159781534460065Harper Collins PublishersNP102021041920210728300224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250229.99NZDNZZ0.0029.990.0020210425Beach Lane BooksAU0120210728978153446189502021534461892039781534461895159781534461895132020045572140978153446189511BBB2210910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Listen011653333251A01Gabi SnyderSnyder, GabiGabiSnyderTwo Dogs on a Trike, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, who said it “perfectly captures the rollicking, manic joy of dogs off the leash.” She studied psychology at the University of Washington and creative writing at The University of Texas and is a member of SCBWI. When she’s not writing, she loves taking nature walks, visiting Little Free Libraries, and baking sweet treats. She lives in Oregon with her family. Learn more at GabiSnyder.com.]]>2A12Stephanie GraeginGraegin, StephanieStephanieGraegin Super Manny Stands Up! by Kelly DiPucchio; Water in the Park by Emily Jenkins; Happy Birthday, Bunny! by Liz Garton Scanlon; Peace Is an Offering by Annette LeBox; and Listen by Gabi Snyder. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in printmaking from Pratt Institute, and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit her at Graegin.com.]]>Gabi Snyder01eng40JUV009110YBCS2.110JUV03906010JUV03922012YBLN112YBLN20bedtime books; mindfulness; listening; quiet; empathy; social emotional learning; social and emotional learning; SEL; how to be a good friend; how to be an ally; books about mindfulness; observation; urban picture books; non-white protagonist; diverse characters; diverse families; picture books with diverse characters; picture books set in Brooklyn; picture books set in New York; diverse picture books; POC protagonist; positive black experiences; picture books with black characters;21A3M7901021103P043170340480102“A memorable experience.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
In the tradition of Tomie dePaola’s Quiet and Scott Magoon’s Breathe comes this lyrical, meditative picture book about listening and mindfulness.
BEEP! WOOF! VROOM!
Isn’t the world a noisy place? But what if you stop, close your eyes, and LISTEN?
Can you hear each sound? Can you listen past the noise and hear the quiet, too?
Beautifully illustrated and poignant, this lovely picture book follows a girl through her school day as she listens to sounds across the city: caws of crows, shouts across the playground, and finally, the quiet beating of her heart and whispered goodnights.]]>1302Two Dogs on a Trike, received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, who said it “perfectly captures the rollicking, manic joy of dogs off the leash.” She studied psychology at the University of Washington and creative writing at The University of Texas and is a member of SCBWI. When she’s not writing, she loves taking nature walks, visiting Little Free Libraries, and baking sweet treats. She lives in Oregon with her family. Learn more at GabiSnyder.com.
Stephanie Graegin is the illustrator of numerous books for children, including Super Manny Stands Up! by Kelly DiPucchio; Water in the Park by Emily Jenkins; Happy Birthday, Bunny! by Liz Garton Scanlon; Peace Is an Offering by Annette LeBox; and Listen by Gabi Snyder. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA in printmaking from Pratt Institute, and she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. You can visit her at Graegin.com.]]>0802Kirkus Reviews, *STARRED REVIEW*May 1, 20210802Kirkus Reviews, *STARRED REVIEW*May 1, 20210802Two Dogs on a Trike) shows the steps behind taking cacophony apart, noise by noise. When a child with brown skin, dot eyes, and pigtail puffs steps out of a doorway and onto a city street, they’re assailed by a wall of sound: a car says “BEEP!” while motor-scooters “VROOM!” and a moving van booms. “Listen,” says the narrator. “Can you hear each sound?” The child pauses and closes their eyes, picturing the car, the scooter, and the other noise sources in vignettes, each one now distinct. At school, listening continues: playground sounds, storytime sounds, “words of joy... and words that can sting.” A classmate’s feelings are hurt: “Can you hear what she’s feeling, too? A sob, a sigh, or even silence.” Dusk falls, and Graegin (Fern and Otto) portrays city streets in a blue twilight that’s studded with glowing lamps: “Listen... to nighttime hush and whispers.” Back matter contains more about the sense of hearing (“The key difference between hearing and listening is attention”), including bottom-up, top-down, and startle responses. Snyder offers an introduction to mental focus, a skill whose enhancement may serve readers struggling to filter through a din. Ages 4–8. Author’s agent: Natalie Lakosil, Bradford Literary. Illustrator’s agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. (June)]]>Publishers WeeklyApril 19, 2021040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/af8792d4-b59f-44a5-b07c-ac1f0027506201Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman BooksSIMO079Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books0101Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman BooksSIMO079Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books022021080101AU NZ0110in01254mm028.5in02215.9mm27159781534461901Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801360229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman BooksAU0120210801978153446317202021534463178039781534463172159781534463172132020037539140978153446317211BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01One Great Lie011663754951A01Deb CalettiCaletti, DebDebCalettiHoney, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.]]>Deb Caletti01eng384YAF018000YFN2.110YAF05804010YAF02200020National Book Award; Printz medal; Love & Gelato; #metoo; Heart in a Body in the World; Girl; unframed; Honey Baby Sweetheart; Nature of Jade; Queen of Everything; Sarah Dessen; We Are Okay; Nina Lacour; summer; strong female character; teen; YA; Italy; Venice; summer abroad; summer read; summer writing program01031103917031404990102A compelling and atmospheric YA story of romance, mystery, and power about a young woman discovering her strength in lush, sultry Venice—from the Printz Honor–winning author of A Heart in a Body in the World.
When Charlotte wins a scholarship to a writing workshop in Venice with the charismatic and brilliant Luca Bruni, it’s a dream come true. Writing is her passion, she loves Bruni’s books, and going to that romantic and magical sinking city gives her the chance to solve a long-time family mystery about a Venetian poet deep in their lineage, Isabella Di Angelo, who just might be the real author of a very famous poem.
Bruni’s villa on the eerie island of La Calamita is extravagant—lush beyond belief, and the other students are both inspiring and intimidating. Venice itself is beautiful, charming, and seductive, but so is Luca Bruni. As his behavior becomes increasingly unnerving, and as Charlotte begins to unearth the long-lost work of Isabella with the help of sweet, smart Italian Dante, other things begin to rise, too—secrets about the past, and secrets about the present.
As the events of the summer build to a shattering climax, Charlotte will be forced to confront some dark truths about the history of powerful men—and about the determination of creative girls—in this stunning new novel from award-winning author Deb Caletti.]]>1302Honey, Baby, Sweetheart, a finalist for the National Book Award; A Heart in a Body in the World, a Michael L. Printz Honor Book; Girl, Unframed; and One Great Lie. Her books have also won the Josette Frank Award for Fiction, the Washington State Book Award, and numerous other state awards and honors, and she was a finalist for the PEN USA Award. She lives with her family in Seattle.]]>0802Booklist, Starred Review040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/782585bc-733f-46a4-9053-ac9400fe0bbe01Atheneum Books for Young ReadersSIMO242Atheneum Books for Young Readers0101Atheneum Books for Young ReadersSIMO242Atheneum Books for Young Readers022021070701AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm2715978153446319606159781534463189Harper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210707320229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Atheneum Books for Young ReadersAU0120210707978153446528202021534465286039781534465282159781534465282132020027953140978153446528211BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Blood Like Magic011673196711A01Liselle SamburySambury, LiselleLiselleSamburyCALiselle Sambury01eng496YAF019010YFH2.110YAF01905010YAF01804012YFHR12YNXW20first in a series; debut; witches; blood magic; black magic; Toronto; Canada; black girl magic; urban fantasy; contemporary fantasy; romance; love story; family; ancestors; heritage; murder; cooking; food; culture; genetics; gene therapy; fantasy; sci-fi; science fiction; robots; immortality; Trinidad; strong female character;21E3N7901031103917031404990102A rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family’s magic. The problem is, she’s never been in love—she’ll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him.
After years of waiting for her Calling—a trial every witch must pass in order to come into their powers—the one thing Voya Thomas didn’t expect was to fail. When Voya’s ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees—and then is horrified when her task is to kill her first love. And this time, failure means every Thomas witch will be stripped of their magic.
Voya is determined to save her family’s magic no matter the cost. The problem is, Voya has never been in love, so for her to succeed, she’ll first have to find the perfect guy—and fast. Fortunately, a genetic matchmaking program has just hit the market. Her plan is to join the program, fall in love, and complete her task before the deadline. What she doesn’t count on is being paired with the infuriating Luc—how can she fall in love with a guy who seemingly wants nothing to do with her?
With mounting pressure from her family, Voya is caught between her morality and her duty to her bloodline. If she wants to save their heritage and Luc, she’ll have to find something her ancestor wants more than blood. And in witchcraft, blood is everything.]]>13020802Blood Like Magic is an intoxicating, skillful blend of science fiction and fantasy that reads like an enthralling dream. Poignant, smart, and wholly unique. An ode to the spirits of Black women, this novel demands that the future never forget the enduring power of family or the long, sharp blade of history. A bold, magical debut full of heart, and an author to watch!]]>Tracy Deonn, New York Times bestselling author of LEGENDBORN0802Blood Like Magic is everything you love about paranormal fantasy. The fast pace, painfully relatable characters, and incredible generational magic system makes Blood Like Magic unputdownable. Liselle Sambury left me with a massive book hangover that won’t be cured until I get the sequel!"
]]>Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5d1bd896-feb6-4a4e-94e6-ac34002638b101Margaret K. McElderry BooksSIMO246Margaret K. McElderry Books0101Margaret K. McElderry BooksSIMO246Margaret K. McElderry Books022021072801AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm0615978153446529927159781534465305Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210728200229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Margaret K. McElderry BooksAU0120210728978153446837502021534468374039781534468375159781534468375132021937646140978153446837511BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Etta Invincible011685260011A01Reese EschmannEschmann, ReeseReeseEschmannEtta Invincible is her debut novel. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @ReesesPieces21_ or at ReeseEschmann.com.]]>Reese Eschmann01eng352JUV039060YF2.110JUV03909010JUV00100020debut; middle-grade debut; adventure; comics; stories set in Chicago; fantasy; disability; hearing loss; dogs; new experience; moving; new kid; Colombia; diverse characters; Menieres; Menieres Disease0102110330471703804120102In this touching debut middle grade novel, a girl with hearing loss and a boy adjusting to life in a new country connect through their love of comics and get entangled in their own fantastical adventure.
Twelve-year-old Etta Johnson has Loud Days where she can hear just fine and Quiet Days where sounds come from far away and she gets to retreat into her thoughts. Etta spends most of her time alone, working on her comic book about Invisible Girl, the superhero who takes down super villain Petra Fide and does all the things Etta thinks she can’t.
But when Louisa May Alcott, a friendly Goldendoodle from across the street, disappears, Etta and the dog’s boy, Eleazar, must find their inner heroes to save her. The catch? LMA has run onto a magical train that mysteriously arrived at the station near Etta and Eleazar’s houses. On-board, they discover each train car is its own magical world with individual riddles and challenges that must be solved before they can reach the engine room and rescue LMA.
Only, the stakes are even higher than they thought. The train’s magic is malfunctioning and spreading a purple smoke called The Fear through the streets of Chicago. Etta and Eleazar are the only ones who can save the city, save Louisa May Alcott—and save each other.]]>1302Etta Invincible is her debut novel. Find her on Instagram and Twitter @ReesesPieces21_ or at ReeseEschmann.com.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/4d3d3c78-e73c-421e-81be-abb60027cdc701AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm0615978153446838227159781534468399Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210801320227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425AladdinAU012021080197815344689240202153446892703978153446892415978153446892413202100053914097815344689241123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackTom Swift Inventors' Academy701The Blurred BloggerTheBlurred Blogger011688106591A01Victor AppletonAppleton, VictorVictorAppletonVictor Appleton01eng160JUV028000YF2.110JUV00100010JUV03600020Nancy Drew; Hardy Boys; Tom Swift TV show; Tom Swift the CW; action; adventure; STEM; mystery; suspense; thriller; Encyclopedia Brown; Alex Rider; Tom Swift; Swifties; friendship; books for 8 year olds; books for 9 year olds; books for 10 year olds; books for 11 year olds; books for 12 year olds; reluctant reader; kids mysteries; kids action; kids thriller; hacker; computers; coding; code;0102110330471703804120102Tom and his friends track down a mysterious blogger who pushes pranks too far in this seventh novel in Tom Swift Inventors’ Academy—perfect for fans of The Hardy Boys or Alex Rider series.
A series of videos called “The Not-so-Swift Academy” are the talk of Tom Swift’s tech-focused school. A mysterious host whose face is blurred shows hidden camera footage of different students being pranked—from a rubber tarantula leaping out of one of the terrariums to water flash freezing.
Tom and his classmates are on edge, wondering which unlucky student will be the star of the next episode. They’re on the lookout for hidden cameras and searching for signs of the next prank around every corner and behind every locker door. Tired of the tension, Sam decides to take matters in her own hands. She’s going to bust the blogger by studying the videos for clues.
But as Sam pieces the clues together, she unveils the biggest prank of all—someone’s trying to frame her for the videos! Can Tom and his friends unmask the blurred blogger and clear Sam’s name before they become the targets of the prankster’s increasingly nefarious stunts?]]>13024402Alex Rider in this latest series featuring the classic character and everyone’s favorite inventor—Tom Swift!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a9c070b8-8dfa-4b9f-835b-ac2600287be401AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021080101AU NZ017.625in01193.68mm025.125in02130.18mm0615978153446893127159781534468948Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801960212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202104250215.99NZDNZZ0.0015.990.0020210425AladdinAU012021080197815344780770202153447807803978153447807715978153447807713202100054314097815344780771123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackHardy Boys Adventures2301Mystery on the Mayhem Express011710421361A01Franklin W. DixonDixon, Franklin W.Franklin W.DixonFranklin W. Dixon01eng176JUV028000YF2.110JUV06700010JUV00100020mystery; suspense; thriller; Nancy Drew; Encyclopedia Brown; Hardy Boys Hulu; Hardy Boys TV show; reluctant reader; kids mysteries; kids action; adventure; kids thriller; Sherlock Holmes; Frank and Joe; Hardy Brothers; knives out; classics for kids; books for 8 year olds; books for 9 year olds; books for 10 year olds; books for 11 year olds; books for 12 year olds; Tom Swift; Edward Stratemeyer; agatha christie; murder on the orient express; murder mystery game; train; brothers; detectives0102110330471703804120102Brother detectives Frank and Joe go full-steam ahead to find the truth in the twenty-third book in the thrilling Hardy Boys Adventures series.
The Hardys and some of their friends hop aboard an old train that’s been restored and turned into a murder mystery experience. A cast of actors will perform an immersive theatrical production while passengers dine in style, assume roles in the game, and ultimately try their hand at solving the case. This should be a cakewalk for Joe and Frank!
The production is a mess. The actors are lousy, fumbling their lines and spelling out obvious clues. At least the food is pretty good. But just as the Hardy Boys are trying to make the most of a disappointing situation, one of the cast members goes missing. At first, the audience thinks that the show is taking a turn for the better, but it quickly becomes clear that this is not part of the act. For the Hardys, the mystery has gone from good fun to deadly serious. And trapped on a train full of people who aren’t who they say they are, everyone is a suspect.
Will Frank and Joe be able to figure out how someone can vanish into thin air on a moving train before this case goes completely off the rails?]]>13024402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/bef69850-8a5d-4a77-b44c-ac260028bc0a01AladdinSIMO009Aladdin0101AladdinSIMO009Aladdin022021072801AU NZ017.625in01193.68mm025.125in02130.18mm2715978153447809106159781534478084Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728880212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202104250215.99NZDNZZ0.0015.990.0020210425AladdinAU0120210728978153447838102021534478388039781534478381159781534478381132020027925140978153447838111BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackSuper Turbo: The Graphic Novel301Super Turbo vs. the Pencil Pointer011713645721A01Edgar PowersPowers, EdgarEdgarPowers2A12Glass House GraphicsGlass House GraphicsGlass House GraphicsEdgar Powers01eng144JUV008020YFW2.110JUV07100010JUV00218020turbo; super turbo; superhero; super hero; superpowers; super power; graphic novel; early graphic novel; young graphic novel; young graphic novel series; chapter books; chapter book; early chapter book; young reader; young chapter book series; books for boys; graphic novel; comics; comic book; school; teacher; sinister; evil; Books for 5 year old; books for 6 year old; books for 7 year old; books for 8 year old; books for 9 year old; books for 1st grade; books for 2nd grade; books for 3rd grade01021103K044170350490102In this third installment of the Super Turbo graphic novel series, Turbo and the Superpet Superhero League set their sights on a dangerous new foe—an electric pencil sharpener!
There’s a new super villain at Sunnyview Elementary. It’s shiny, it’s metal, and it’s (possibly) trying to bury Turbo alive in pencil shavings! Why are the students of Classroom C so excited about this new addition to their room—can’t they see how EVIL it really is? The stakes are higher than ever as Super Turbo and his superpet pals face off against their most fiendish foe yet. Can they outwit this cunning contraption before it’s too late?
This graphic novel adaptation of the Super Turbo chapter book features fun, bright, full-color panels that bring the story to life better than ever before—but with all the same humor and action that readers have come to expect from Super Turbo!]]>13024402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3b8015d5-b016-49db-b301-ac57002b076001Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021072801AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm0615978153447839827159781534478404Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210728400216.99AUDAUZ0.0016.990.00202104250219.99NZDNZZ0.0019.990.0020210425Little SimonAU0120210728978153447866402021534478663039781534478664159781534478664132020027675140978153447866411BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackDragon Kingdom of Wrenly401Ghost Island011716849341A01Jordan QuinnQuinn, JordanJordanQuinn2A12Glass House GraphicsGlass House GraphicsGlass House GraphicsJordan Quinn01eng144JUV008080YFW2.110JUV03700010JUV00227020The Kingdom of Wrenly; graphic novel; young graphic novel; early graphic novel; graphic novel series; legend; legendary; noble; Wrenly; dragon; dragons; scarlet dragon; Ruskin; Cinder; Groth; Roke; Lucas; fantasy; princess; fire; ice; chapter books; beginner chapter books; beginning readers; young readers; Renly; Game of Thrones; Arthurian; medieval; epic fantasy; fiction; fairy tales; young chapter book series; castles; kingdoms; adventure; Jordan Quinn; new friends; fairy; magic; spell01021103K044170350490102In the fourth installment of the exciting Dragon Kingdom of Wrenly graphic novel series, Ruskin and his dragon friends discover there’s more than just ghosts to worry about on Ghost Island!
After surviving a curse, a few wicked spells, and an angry smoke dragon, Ruskin, Cinder, Groth, and Roke decide it’s time for some fun. The dragon friends set out on a camping trip to Ghost Island, located in a remote corner of Wrenly, to see the “statues” of the woodland creatures that have temporarily been turned to stone by the resident basilisk babies.
Groth assures the others that there are no ghosts on Ghost Island…it’s just called that because it’s so deserted. And the basilisks sleep during the day and hunt at night, so as long as they are cautious and quiet, they should have nothing to worry about. But when the dragons arrive, they quickly discover there’s much more to Ghost Island than some creepy statues. In fact, the basilisks are not even the scariest thing there!]]>13024402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/314ff3e2-03f5-4cde-a8ab-ac880039d25c01Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021072801AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm0615978153447867127159781534478688Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210728400216.99AUDAUZ0.0016.990.00202104250219.99NZDNZZ0.0019.990.0020210425Little SimonAU0120210728978153448229602021534482296039781534482296159781534482296132020044410140978153448229611BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Ten Thousand Tries011740260301A01Amy MakechnieMakechnie, AmyAmyMakechnieThe Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair. Her second novel, Ten Thousand Tries was written for all the kids, the ones who have ever had the audacity to try and try and try again. Stay in touch with Amy by subscribing to her newsletter at AmyMakechnie.com.]]>Amy Makechnie01eng384JUV013060YFN2.110JUV03903010JUV03215020father son story; ALS; father; dad; soccer; loss; losing a parent; death; grief; teamwork; friendship; family; sisters; accidents; neighbors; The Thing About Jellyfish; Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; motor neurone disease; MND; Lou Gehrig's disease; loss of a parent; dying; parent dying; team captain; Lionel Messi; Messi; changing friendship; crush; humor; family dynamic; parent; coping; Dealing with Loss; Dealing with Grief; books for boys0102110330471703804120102A middle school soccer whiz’s determination to keep things from changing is tested when his father’s ALS symptoms worsen in this touching story about growing up and facing loss, perfect for fans of Shouting at the Rain.
Twelve-year-old Golden Maroni is determined to channel his hero, soccer superstar Lionel Messi, and become captain of his soccer team and master of his eighth grade universe…especially since his home universe is spiraling out of orbit. Off the field, Golden’s dad, once a pro soccer player himself, is now battling ALS, a disease that attacks his muscles, leaving him less and less physically able to control his body every day. And while Mom says there’s no cure, Golden is convinced that his dad can beat this, just like any opponent, they just have to try.
Golden knows that if you want to perfect a skill you have to put ten thousand tries in, so he’s convinced if he can put that much effort in, on and off the field, he can stop everything from changing. But when his dad continues to decline and his constant pushing starts to alienate his friends and team, Golden is forced to confront the idea that being master of your universe might not mean being in control of everything. What if it means letting go of the things you can’t control so you can do the most good for the things you can?]]>1302The Unforgettable Guinevere St. Clair. Her second novel, Ten Thousand Tries was written for all the kids, the ones who have ever had the audacity to try and try and try again. Stay in touch with Amy by subscribing to her newsletter at AmyMakechnie.com.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a2b1abb9-0af7-441c-8bb0-ac420026f79a01Atheneum Books for Young ReadersSIMO242Atheneum Books for Young Readers0101Atheneum Books for Young ReadersSIMO242Atheneum Books for Young Readers022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm27159781534482319Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210801320227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Atheneum Books for Young ReadersAU0120210801978153448298202021534482989039781534482982159781534482982132020035464140978153448298211BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Kind of Sort of Fine011744148781A01Spencer HallHall, SpencerSpencerHallKind of Sort of Fine is his first novel.]]>Spencer Hall01eng288YAF058110YF2.110YAF05815010YAF05814020coming of age; mental health; fat character; burnout; millennial burnout; friendship; romance; debut; school; high school; senior year; movies; 80s movies; classic teen movies; John Green; Looking for Alaska; Perks of Being a Wallflower; The Breakfast Club; John Hughes;01031103717031204990102Senior year changes everything for two teens in this poignant, funny coming-of-age story that looks at what happens when the image everyone has of us no longer matches who we really are.
Senior year of high school is full of changes.
For Hayley Mills, these changes aren’t exactly welcome. All she wants is for everyone to forget about her very public breakdown and remember her as the overachiever she once was—and who she’s determined to be again. But it’s difficult to be seen as a go-getter when she’s forced into TV Production class with all the slackers like Lewis Holbrook.
For Lewis, though, this is going to be his year. After a summer spent binging 80s movies, he’s ready to upgrade from the role of self-described fat, funny sidekick to leading man of his own life—including getting the girl. The only thing standing in his way is, well, himself.
When the two are partnered up in class, neither is particularly thrilled. But then they start making mini documentaries about their classmates’ hidden talents, and suddenly Hayley is getting attention for something other than her breakdown, and Lewis isn’t just a background character anymore. It seems like they’re both finally getting what they want—except what happens when who you’ve become isn’t who you really are?]]>1302Kind of Sort of Fine is his first novel.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/623efd9d-e34b-486d-8c65-ac260028f22701Atheneum Books for Young ReadersSIMO242Atheneum Books for Young Readers0101Atheneum Books for Young ReadersSIMO242Atheneum Books for Young Readers022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm27159781534483002Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801400229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Atheneum Books for Young ReadersAU012021080197815344834840202153448348903978153448348415978153448348413202100744914097815344834841123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackItty Bitty Princess Kitty801The CopycatTheCopycat011745885651A01Melody MewsMews, MelodyMelodyMews2A12Ellen StubbingsStubbings, EllenEllenStubbingsMelody Mews01eng128JUV012030YFA2.110JUV00205010JUV04500020itty bitty princess kitty; princess; kitty; kitten; cat; adventures of sophie mouse; sophie mouse; daisy dreamer; heidi heckelbeck; baby mouse; disney fairies; fairies; never girls; king; queen; castle; palace; lollyland; fairy; fairies; unicorn; mermaid; magic; adventure; shooting star; tiara; Books for 5 year old; books for 6 year old; books for 7 year old; books for 8 year old; books for 9 year old; books for 1st grade; books for 2nd grade; books for 3rd grade; books for 4th grade; adventure01021103K044170350490102Itty realizes that she has a copycat in this eighth Itty Bitty Princess Kitty chapter book.
Itty meets a young tiger named Tessa and it turns out she goes to Itty’s school! Itty thinks she’s nice and funny, and she can tell Tessa likes hanging out with her and her friends. But then Tessa shows up wearing the same dress as Itty—the one Itty had told her about that is very special to her. And in art class, Tessa copies Itty’s drawing. Itty doesn’t understand why Tessa is being such a...copycat! Does she really want to be Itty’s friend? Or does she just want to copy whatever Itty is doing?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on every page, the Itty Bitty Princess Kitty chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.]]>1302 Ellen Stubbings is a children’s book illustrator and comic artist based in York, UK. She works in a tiny studio, often accompanied by her large tuxedo cat, Fig. Ellen is obsessed with all things cute and this is reflected in her illustrations.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5eca9b3a-7d11-486c-a725-ac26002901ea01Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021080101AU NZ017.3125in01185.74mm025.5in02139.7mm2715978153448350706159781534483491Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801116029.99AUDAUZ0.009.990.00202104250212.99NZDNZZ0.0012.990.0020210425Little SimonAU0120210801978153448505102021534485058039781534485051159781534485051132020030125140978153448505111BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Indestructible Object011750914191A01Mary McCoyMcCoy, MaryMaryMcCoyDead to Me, Camp So-and-So, the Printz Honor Book I, Claudia, and Indestructible Object. She grew up in western Pennsylvania and studied at Rhodes College and the University of Wisconsin.]]>Mary McCoy01eng336YAF052000YFM2.110YAF03100010YAF00400020podcast; love story; lgbtq; bisexual; break up; divorce; romantic drama; found family; books about break ups; books with bisexual characters; printz honor author; kirkus best book; jlg selection; junior library guild selection; jlg; junior library guild; booklist editor's choice; librarian; memphis; tennessee; queer love story; artist love story; man ray01031103717031204990102Perfect for fans of What If It’s Us and Mary H. K. Choi, this stunning coming-of-age novel from Printz Honor author Mary McCoy follows a Memphis teen whose quest to uncover the secrets of love reveals new truths about herself.
For the past two years, Lee has been laser-focused on two things: her job as a sound tech at a local coffee shop and her podcast “Artists in Love,” which she cohosts with her boyfriend Vincent.
Until he breaks up with her on the air right after graduation.
When their unexpected split, the loss of her job, and her parent’s announcement that they’re separating coincide, Lee’s plans, her art, and her life are thrown into turmoil. Searching for a new purpose, Lee recruits her old friend Max and new friend Risa to produce a podcast called “Objects of Destruction,” where they investigate whether love actually exists at all.
But the deeper they get into the love stories around them, the more Lee realizes that she’s the one who’s been holding love at arm’s length. And when she starts to fall for Risa, she finds she’ll have to be more honest with herself and the people in her life to create a new love story of her own.
Funny, romantic, and heartfelt, this is a story about secrets, lies, friendship, found family, an expired passport, a hidden VHS tape, fried pickles, the weird and wild city of Memphis, and, most of all, love.]]>1302Dead to Me, Camp So-and-So, the Printz Honor Book I, Claudia, and Indestructible Object. She grew up in western Pennsylvania and studied at Rhodes College and the University of Wisconsin.]]>0802Amy Spalding, bestselling author of We Used to Be Friends0802Indestructible Object is not just a novel, but a manual for a life well-lived—it will leave readers wanting to make Art, to fall in and out of love, and to bravely reveal the parts of themselves kept hidden.” ]]>Iva-Marie Palmer, author of Gimme Everything You Got0802Jeff Zentner, Morris Award-winning author of The Serpent King040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7e56669e-bac4-434d-921e-ac34002688d201Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers0101Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm27159781534485075Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210728360227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersAU0120210728978153448529702021534485295039781534485297159781534485297140978153448529711BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackAngelina Ballerina01Angelina Ballerina at Ballet School011751889571A01Katharine HolabirdHolabird, KatharineKatharineHolabird at the kitchen table with her daughters twirling around her. Katharine has three grown children and three grandchildren, and now lives in New York City with her husband.]]>2A12Helen CraigCraig, HelenHelenCraigKatharine Holabird01eng24JUV031020YBCH2.110JUV00218010JUV03500012YFP12YNDB20Angelina Ballerina; ballet; ballerina; ballet school; ballet school; back to school book; first day of ballet; my first ballet; angelina school; angelina first day of school; ballet class; books about ballet; ballerina books; Twinkle; Pinkalicious; Fancy Nancy; dance; bestselling; classic; dancing; ballet shoes; pink; back to school; kids books about first day of school; making mistakes; kids books about making mistakes21B3M6901021103P042170330470102Angelina twirls her way back to ballet school and learns to overcome her stumbles in this 8x8 storybook featuring foil on the cover!
Angelina can’t wait to go to Miss Lilly’s Ballet School again after summer break. But then Angelina accidentally embarrasses herself in front of the whole class, and suddenly, she isn’t so enthusiastic about returning to ballet school anymore. With the encouragement of her family and friends, Angelina learns that everyone makes mistakes, but that shouldn’t stop her from doing what she loves most: dancing!
Helen Craig has illustrated more than sixty books for children, including the Angelina Ballerina books. She lives in England.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/671c3c33-c5b3-4182-93a4-ac260029231d01Simon SpotlightSIMO054Simon Spotlight0101Simon SpotlightSIMO054Simon Spotlight022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm028in02203.2mm27159781534485303Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210531202107281200212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202104250216.99NZDNZZ0.0016.990.0020210425Simon SpotlightAU012021072897815344863310202153448633X03978153448633115978153448633113202100777314097815344863311123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackHenry Heckelbeck601Henry Heckelbeck Dinosaur Hunter011755164381A01Wanda CovenCoven, WandaWandaCoven2A12Priscilla BurrisBurris, PriscillaPriscillaBurrisWanda Coven01eng128JUV037000YFH2.110JUV05100010JUV04500020Henry Heckelbeck; Heidi Heckelbeck; Wanda Coven; Priscilla Burris; book of spells; wizard; wizards; witch; magic; spelling; spelling bee; bee; contest; chapter books; chapter book; early chapter book; young reader; young chapter book series; books for 5 year old; books for 6 year old; books for 7 year old; books for 8 year old; books for 9 year old; books for 1st grade; books for 2nd grade; books for 3rd grade; books for 4th grade; star; emerging readers; beginning readers; dinosaurs; dinosaur010211031044170350490102In this sixth Henry Heckelbeck adventure, Henry might have found a dinosaur!
During a field trip, Henry Heckelbeck discovers a bone that might belong to a dinosaur! His friends don’t think it’s possible, but can Henry the Dinosaur Hunter prove them wrong?
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Henry Heckelbeck chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.]]>1302 Priscilla Burris has illustrated numerous books for children, parents, and teachers. She enjoys cake painting and creating art for products that include murals, greeting cards, and rubber stamps. Priscilla lives with her family in Southern California.]]>4402Book of Spells in this bewitching chapter book series.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5f7b6dd1-d58d-40a5-a7f5-ac180026a1f101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021080101AU NZ017.3125in01185.74mm025.5in02139.7mm0615978153448634827159781534486355Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801116029.99AUDAUZ0.009.990.00202104250212.99NZDNZZ0.0012.990.0020210425Little SimonAU012021080197815344869660202153448696803978153448696615978153448696613202100778414097815344869661123BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackJeanie & Genie401Not-So-Happy Camper011756810581A01Trish GrantedGranted, TrishTrishGranted2A12Manuela LopezLopez, ManuelaManuelaLopezTrish Granted01eng128JUV037000YFH2.110JUV03906010JUV04500020Jeanie and Genie; friends; magic; genie; friendship; adventure; imagination; creative; playful; funny; wishes; granting wishes; chapter books; chapter book; early chapter book; young reader; young chapter book series; girls; girl friends; Books for 5 year old; books for 6 year old; books for 7 year old; books for 8 year old; books for 9 year old; books for 1st grade; books for 2nd grade; books for 3rd grade; books for 4th grade; secrets; making friends; trust; new school; new kid; new girl01021103K044170350490102In the fourth book of the Jeanie & Genie series, Jeanie and Willow’s camping adventure puts their friendship to the test!
Jeanie is so excited to take her best friend, Willow, camping for the very first time. And Willow’s so excited she even promises Jeanie she won’t grant any wishes during the trip! Willow is a genie, after all. But then Willow meets Jeanie’s camping friends, Becca and Bonnie Berriman. The twins aren’t very nice to Willow, and they hog all Jeanie’s attention, so Willow finds herself wishing that the twins would just go away. But the problem is…the Berrimans do go away. Has Willow accidentally made the twins disappear?!
With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Jeanie & Genie chapter books are perfect for beginning readers.]]>1302 Manuela López is an artist, introvert, and tea drinker. She works as an illustrator of children’s books and freelance projects.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/cacfb69c-1070-4fbb-a32d-ac490029200d01Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021080101AU NZ017.3125in01185.74mm025.5in02139.7mm0615978153448697327159781534486980Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801116029.99AUDAUZ0.009.990.00202104250212.99NZDNZZ0.0012.990.0020210425Little SimonAU0120210801978153448766603021534487662039781534487666159781534487666140978153448766611BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackFear Street01Secret Admirer01968951A01R.L. StineStine, R.L.R.L.StineR.L. StineReissue01eng192YAF062000YF2.110YAF05200010YAF02600020ghost stories; supernatural; thriller; suspense; murder; killer; beyond the grave; bestseller; justice;01031103917031404990102A young actress draws a sinister spotlight in this spooky installment in R.L. Stine’s bestselling Fear Street series—now with a fresh new look!
Selena has it all. She just scored the lead in her high school play, and everyone adores her. So when she starts receiving dead flowers from a secret “admirer” named The Sun, she just assumes it’s a harmless fan.
But Selena soon realizes that The Sun is serious...dead serious. First, her understudy is injured in a suspicious accident. Then, a speeding car almost kills her! Selena doesn’t know what this psycho wants. All she knows is that her number-one fan has become her number-one nightmare.]]>13024402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8cf22c0a-a9db-4d9a-a7e5-ac03002e6d5d01Simon PulseSIMO053Simon Pulse0101Simon PulseSIMO053Simon Pulse022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm030.6in0315.24mm080.35lb085.6oz08158.76gr0615978141690820327159781439115527Harper Collins PublishersNP102021011120210801840219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon PulseAU0120210801978153448881602021534488812039781534488816159781534488816140978153448881611BHB2120910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Board book01What's in Dragon's Backpack?A Lift-the-Flap Book011771504261A01Joan HolubHolub, JoanJoanHolubNew York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.]]>2A12Christopher LeeLee, ChristopherChristopherLeeJoan Holub01eng14JUV002270YFP2.110JUV03500010JUV02000020Dragons; Love; Backpack; Backpacks; Back Pack; Holub; Joan; Trailblazer; This Little series; Christopher; Lee; kids; kids'; back to school; school; back; teachers; student; students; First day of school; first day; preschool; kindergarten; classroom; art room; gymnasium; gym; cafeteria; lift-the-flap; interactive novelty; novelty interactive; flaps; board book; back to school; teaching; teacher; student; learning; learn; concepts; first concepts; school day; toddler; school supplies; lunch01021103P04K170330450102See how dragons pack for school in this adventurous, backpack-shaped board book with flaps little ones can lift!
Have you ever wondered what a dragon packs in his backpack for school? What do his pencils and notebooks look like? What does he eat for lunch? What kind of toys does he bring for afterschool fun?]]>1302New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.
Christopher Lee is a designer and illustrator living in Los Angeles working under the moniker The Beast Is Back. He was born and raised in Sacramento, California, and graduated from Sacramento State in 2006 with a degree in graphic design. His bold, playful, graphic style is heavily influenced by nostalgia and the natural world. See more of his work at TheBeastisBack.com.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c4c791db-418f-4870-a6c4-ac180026aa5f01Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021080101AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801680214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Little SimonAU0120210801978153448882302021534488820039781534488823159781534488823140978153448882311BHB2120910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Board book01What's in Unicorn's Backpack?A Lift-the-Flap Book011771509601A01Joan HolubHolub, JoanJoanHolubNew York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.]]>2A12Alyssa NassnerNassner, AlyssaAlyssaNassnerJoan Holub01eng14JUV002270YFP2.110JUV03500010JUV02000020Unicorn; Unicorns; Love; Backpack; Backpacks; Back Pack; Holub; Joan; Trailblazer; Alyssa; Nassner; kids; kids'; back to school; school; back; teachers; student; students; First day of school; first day; preschool; kindergarten; classroom; art room; gymnasium; gym; cafeteria; lift-the-flap; interactive novelty; novelty interactive; flaps; board book; back to school; teaching; teacher; student; learning; learn; concepts; first concepts; school day; toddler; school supplies; lunch; lunch bag01021103P04K170330450102See how unicorns pack for school in this adventurous, backpack-shaped board book with flaps little ones can lift!
Have you ever wondered what a unicorn packs in her backpack for school? What do her pencils and notebooks look like? What does she eat for lunch? What kind of toys does she bring for afterschool fun?]]>1302New York Times bestselling picture book Mighty Dads (illustrated by James Dean), and Little Red Writing (illustrated by Melissa Sweet). She lives in North Carolina and is online at JoanHolub.com.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/468fb3df-8610-49a8-95a1-ac180026b21e01Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon0101Little SimonSIMO032Little Simon022021080101AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801680214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Little SimonAU0120210801978157687980102021576879801039781576879801159781576879801140978157687980111BCB102Trade Paperback01Famous Hermits011802962041A01Stacy SzymaszekSzymaszek, StacyStacySzymaszekA Year From Today (2018). Szymaszek was the director of the Poetry Project from 2007 to 2018. Last year she was the Hugo Visiting Writer at the University of Montana and Poet-in-Resident at Brown University. She is the recipient of a 2019 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry and she serves on the board of directors for Wendy's Subway and Committee on Poetry. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, on the ancestral lands of the Tohono O’odham and the Pascua Yaqui peoples, with her partner, the poet Kimberly Alidio.]]>01eng80POE005010DC2.110POE02400010POE02100020Poetry; Poetry Project; New York; Poets; New York School; Southwest; Western; Eileen Myles; Alice Notley; LGBTQ; Queer; Lesbian; Love; Travel; Memoir; Rene Ricard; Downtown; Queer Poetry; Middle Age; Poets; Confessional; Journal; Arizona01010102The latest work from poet STACY SZYMASZEK, author of A YEAR FROM TODAY.
In Famous Hermits, her sixth full-length poetry collection, Stacy Szymaszek departs from the annual journal form of her past three books yet still adheres to the belief that the potential for revelatory and revolutionary transformation exists in the power we have, when we claim autonomy, to organize the fabric of our day to day lives. Her New York City is present as a memory that interjects its expectations onto new Western and Southwestern landscapes that don't recognize its logic. The concept of the famous hermit is born out of a desire to experience integrity, to not go forgotten, yet with a fierce need to separate from liberal ideas of what poetry should publicly perform. She invokes other kindred artists such as Dante, Bob Kaufman, Tina Modotti, and Jean Seberg as guides as she writes her own statements of renunciation and ultimately of middle-aged self-love.
The poems in Famous Hermits take surface narrative and give it deep glide, that deeper dive that happens when you approach the world as your confidante. Within a few lines, Stacy Szymaszek interlaces eons worth of intricate history to galvanize a poet's hangout — "I writhe / I am a human I think." There is tenderness in the assimilation of being human, to write the savage heart with a poet's restraint. In these pages, Basho meets the collective aporia — "my body takes me on a ride / I effloresce" — to enter a synesthetic space, where each allegory is its own parsed quench. Szymaszek shows her mastery of line and form by encapsulating cinematic propulsions that glint, in a flash, to then come back to our daily dialogue. Infiltrating cohesion with density, and a razor sharp wit, the poet's "elite city" appears as a temporal embrace in the heat of a desert, an emodiment of our migratory needs. What do we hold back, that may emote us, to enter, with simultaneity, our understanding of each other—of people, of poem—where all entrances are lived, all recollected stanzas othered? This richly focused collection explores our diurnal awakenings as cognitive planes, where each grouping of text is a radial entity, a hermetic investigation of a poet's walk. —Edwin Torres, The Body In Language: An Anthology (ed)]]>1302Journal of Ugly Sites and Other Journals which won the 2016 Ottoline Prize from Fence Books and was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. Her work has been honored with a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry. Szymaszek was the director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in NYC from 2007-2018. Since then, she has lived a peripatetic life with stops in Missoula, MT and Tucson, AZ. She currently lives in New York's Hudson Valley.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0abe3d70-bf43-46a0-85e0-ac340026957a01Archway EditionsSIMO771Archway Editions0101Archway EditionsSIMO771powerHouse Books022021080101AU NZ017in01177.8mm027in02177.8mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210801400224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425powerHouse BooksAU012021080197815768798180202157687981X039781576879818159781576879818140978157687981811BCB102Trade Paperback01Two by Mike Sacks011814154971A01Mike SacksSacks, MikeMikeSacksVanity Fair and contributes to The New Yorker, Time, Esquire, GQ, Believer, Vice, Salon, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.
He is the author of eight books and three audio projects. ]]>01eng352HUM007000WH2.110HUM02000010YAF02702012BM20humor; eastbound; vanity fair; danny mcbride; andy richter; david sedaris; vice; comedy; comedy writing; funny; paradoy; film; 1970s; spoof; humor writing; the believer; mcsweeney's; jon hamm; self-published; vulture; 01010102Vanity Fair's Mike Sacks that take comedy writing to surreal, uproarious new heights.
“If you don’t know who Mike Sacks is, well, you should. His writing is funnier than just about anyone’s - hooray for Mike Sacks and everything he stands for.” -David Sedaris
“He’s the best kind of comedy writer; a bona fide weirdo with virtually no interest in satisfying anything other than his own personal obsessions.” -Andy Richter
STINKER LETS LOOSE
“One of the Best Comedy Releases of the year.” -Splitsider
“Top ten comedy release of the year!” -Vulture
RANDY
“Randy! is a hilariously, unexpectedly poignant and eminently worthy addition to Sacks’ sociological/anthropological exploration of the American Jackass and his curious ways. Audacious and inspired.” -Nathan Rabin
“The year's best memoir is about a man who shot a porno in a Baskin-Robbins.” -Vice
“Randy does more to explain certain unexpected turns in this nation's political fate over the last couple of years than a bazillion think-pieces in the New York Times, Atlantic, New Yorker, MSNBC.” -John Colapinto (The New Yorker)
“As the book’s description alludes, Randy is an experiment in memoir, biography, and, well, sheer insanity.” -Robobutt]]>1302Vanity Fair and contributes to The New Yorker, Time, Esquire, GQ, Believer, Vice, Salon, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.
He is the author of eight books and three audio projects. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/156f8ddc-8b40-4dbd-b004-ac730038ebd501Archway EditionsSIMO771Archway Editions0101Archway EditionsSIMO771powerHouse Books022021072801AU NZ017in01177.8mm024.5in02114.3mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210728200249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425powerHouse BooksAU0120210728978157687984902021576879844039781576879849159781576879849140978157687984911BBHardback01Rat Fair011814364281A01Leah Rose KesslerKessler, Leah RoseLeah RoseKessler2A12Cleonique HilsacaHilsaca, CleoniqueCleoniqueHilsaca01eng36JUV002180YBC2.110JUV01900010JUV00300020animal books; wordless books; wordless books for children; wordless books for kids; empathy books for children; empathy books for kids; empathy books for boys; empathy books for girls; books with disabled characters; animal books for kids 3-5; animal books for kids 5-7; animal books for preschoolers; art fairs; art books for kids; disabled parent books; Books for preschoolers; Rat books for kids; Books about families for kids; Books about families for preschoolers0102170330470102A nearly-wordless picture book about a group of rats who mix up a sign for an Art Fair, and instead create a jolly Rat Fair. A compassionate young boy steps up to save them from the humans who would sweep their festivities away.
When a group of industrious, fun-loving rats find letters fallen from an Art Fair sign, they put the sign back together—with one small adjustment—and get to work creating a spectacular RAT FAIR. Their fair is ruined when humans sweep away everything the rats have created. Undaunted, the rats switch gears and start working on their very own Rat Art Fair. As they are wrapping up their first day of the Rat Art Fair, a human child who has been following their progress from the sidelines catches them red handed, and the rats must decide if they can trust the child. A nearly wordless tale about how misunderstandings can lead to wonderful creativity. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/390bd298-869c-4cd0-8b87-ac6c003a2ceb01POW! Kids BooksSIMO760POW! Kids Books0101POW! Kids BooksSIMO760POW! Kids Books022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm028in02203.2mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210728200229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425POW! Kids BooksAU0120210728978157687989402021576879895039781576879894159781576879894140978157687989411BBHardback01LCD011770454901A01Ruvan WijesooriyaWijesooriya, RuvanRuvanWijesooriyaRuvan Wijesooriya is a photographer based in New York City. After starting a skateboard company, working for fashion stylists, and becoming a freelance music journalist before the age of 25, Ruvan picked up analog photography as a means of storytelling. Ruvan is known internationally for his interactive exhibitions and bridging the gap between art and commerce for a clientele ranging from architects like Renzo Piano to fashion brands like Burberry and tech giants such as Samsung. Ruvan’s work was prominently featured in the book and exhibition, Meet Me In The Bathroom. The access and candidness of his photography place the viewer inside of and behind the scenes. Ruvan’s work has been published in dozens of magazines including The New Yorker, New York Times, and Vogue. Since Covid-19, Ruvan’s has been documenting the various NYC protest groups similarly to how he documented the bands and clubs of NYC’s early 2000’s.]]>REVRevised01eng232MUS029000AV2.110PHO02308010PHO01400012AVGU12AVGP20humanity; gritty; musician; punk; journey; photo book; rock; tour; backstage; green room; music; musicians; fans; famous; LCD; LCD Soundsystem; international; camera; photographs; personal; visual; diary; fun; photography; photography books; gift books; coffee table books; music books; coffee table book; gifts; music book; rock biographies; photography coffee table books; photo; history of music; gifts for musicians; indie band; indie rock; indie musician; Brooklyn; NYC bands; NYC; early 200001010102 In 2011, at the height of their career, LCD Soundsystem decided to end the band.
From 2004 to the day they quit, photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya navigated through both private and public moments with the influential, Grammy-nominated, NYC indie band. Ruvan was a fan, first and foremost, and quickly became a fly on the wall and instigator who brought new meaning to the term, "I'm with the band." His access and friendship with LCD is something rare in the commercialized and controlled music industry of today, and this close relationship can be seen in the rapport between photographer and subject. The locations include Hyde Park in London, various New York institutions, Coachella, Rick Rubin's recording mansion in the Hollywood Hills, Way Out West festival in Sweden, Miami Art Basel and more. In addition, the scope of the book goes beyond just photography and features various album art and original interviews with members of the band and showcases an exciting design by James Timmins, art director of Dossier magazine. A handful of these photographs were featured in the recent LCD film, Shut Up And Play The Hits, and others have appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker, but the vast majority have never been shown before, making this the ultimate must-have for every fan to remember the band.
"All of Ruvan's pictures remind me of that feeling: that you're geographically fucked, and its all happening right now, somewhere else, without you. There's an enormous amount of intimacy in them, and promise, and intrusion..." -James Murphy, LCD bandleader]]>1302Ruvan Wijesooriya is a photographer based in New York City. After starting a skateboard company, working for fashion stylists, and becoming a freelance music journalist before the age of 25, Ruvan picked up analog photography as a means of storytelling. Ruvan is known internationally for his interactive exhibitions and bridging the gap between art and commerce for a clientele ranging from architects like Renzo Piano to fashion brands like Burberry and tech giants such as Samsung. Ruvan’s work was prominently featured in the book and exhibition, Meet Me In The Bathroom. The access and candidness of his photography place the viewer inside of and behind the scenes. Ruvan’s work has been published in dozens of magazines including The New Yorker, New York Times, and Vogue. Since Covid-19, Ruvan’s has been documenting the various NYC protest groups similarly to how he documented the bands and clubs of NYC’s early 2000’s.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b5a04af9-91c5-4677-b313-ac6c003a2fd101powerHouse BooksSIMO765powerHouse Books0101powerHouse BooksSIMO765powerHouse Books022021081801AU NZ019.75in01247.65mm027.25in02184.15mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818100249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425powerHouse BooksAU0120210818978158011843902021580118437039781580118439159781580118439140978158011843911BCB102Trade Paperback01Ultimate Guide to Furniture Repair & Refinishing, 2nd Revised EditionRestore, Rebuild, and Renew Wooden Furniture011682502931A01Brian D. HingleyHingley, Brian D.Brian D.Hingley01eng264HOM000000WJK2.120Furniture repair; refinish furniture; refinishing furniture; renovate furniture; how to refinish furniture; how to fix furniture;0102Ultimate Guide to Furniture Repair & Refinishing is packed with detailed information to help you get the job done.
With more than 500 color step-by-step instructions, photographs, and detailed drawings, this authoritative DIY guide will show you everything you need to know to restore furniture, including tips on the tools, materials, and supplies needed. From removing old finishes and refurbishing warped wood to making structural repairs and preserving original finishes on old collectible furniture, you’ll learn a wide range of shop-tested and approved methods to furniture restoration.
This book has been updated and redesigned from its previous edition so you can make the most out of damaged or antique furniture, achieving professional results.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8722c6fa-6d91-4bba-8a3c-abf500299cfd01Creative HomeownerSIMO492Creative Homeowner0101Creative HomeownerSIMO492Fox Chapel and IMM Lifestyle022021080101AU019.843in01250mm027.874in02200mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202108010242.99AUDAUZ0.0042.990.0020210425Fox Chapel and IMM LifestyleAU0120210801978159143393402021591433932039781591433934159781591433934140978159143393411BCB102Trade Paperback01A Healer’s Journey to Intuitive KnowingAHealer’s Journey to Intuitive KnowingThe Heart of Therapeutic Touch011803991511A01Dolores KriegerKrieger, DoloresDoloresKriegerPh.D., R.N.The Therapeutic Touch, Accepting Your Power to Heal, and Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook and was a professor emerita of nursing science at New York University.]]>01eng272HEA014000VXH2.110OCC01101010HEA03200020ENERGETIC HEALING SESSION;ENERGETIC FLOW;INTUITIVE KNOWING;RADICAL HEALING RESULTS;NEW AGE HEALING;SPIRITUALITY;SELF-TRANSFORMATION;ENERGY HEALING;TRIGGER POINT THERAPY;MASSAGE;SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION;SELF-AWAKENING;SELF-HEALING ABILITY;ENERGETIC RESPONSE;THE THERAPUETIC TOUCH;ACCEPTING YOUR POWER TO HEALTH;RADICAL HEALING;REIKI;NATURAL HEALTH;ALTERNATIVE THERAPY;CHAKRA HEALING;THE EVOLUTIONARY EMPATH;REFLEXOLOGY;ACUPUNCTURE;ACUPRESSURE;MASSAGE;TAPPING;CUPPING;YOGA01010102 • Explores the energetic flow, intuitive knowing, and sustained state of grounded centeredness that occur for a healer during the process of healing
• Reveals how healing transforms the healer and how that transformation may elicit more profound and radical healing results
• Examines how the healer establishes communication between her own inner self and that of the person requesting healing
Since the earliest times, healing has been regarded as one of our most esteemed spiritual practices. Yet no one has ever clearly defined the inner experience of the healer/therapist during the healing moment.
In this, her final book, respected Therapeutic Touch cofounder Dolores Krieger explores the energetic flow, intuitive knowing, and grounded centeredness that occur for a healer during a healing session. She shows how, as healers access their inner energies of compassion and intention, they are often led through a personal spiritual transformation or a self-awakening. Although Krieger focuses on the experiences of healers engaged in Therapeutic Touch (TT), she shows how this model for healing interaction resonates with the experiences of those practicing other healing modalities.
The author explains the fundamentals of the energy healing process and how the healer establishes communication between her own inner self and that of the person receiving healing--reminding the patient of his own self-healing ability. Sharing many case histories from TT therapists as well as results from scientific studies on Therapeutic Touch, the author reveals how intuition and experiential knowing are key to the healing process. She also examines the practice of compassion as power with compassion acting as the catalyst for an entire cascade of hormonal, chemical, and energetic responses in the healer, which she embodies and then offers to the person in need.
Delving deeply into the inner shifts that occur for the healer during and after a treatment, Krieger reveals how healing transforms the healer and how that transformation may elicit more profound and radical healing results.]]>1302The Therapeutic Touch and Accepting Your Power to Heal.]]>2302From Chapter 4. Energy Healing as a Humanization of Energy
A sustained state of centered consciousness, unusual in our hurry-up time, is the focal point around which the practice of Therapeutic Touch revolves and the grounded source from which it gains its power. Through experience, we come to realize that Therapeutic Touch is an opportunity to touch another level of consciousness, a new path of self-realization of our ability to compassionately help those in need. We enter an inner journey toward what we are in the depth of our being. As has been stated, this understanding comes with the conscious liaison with the healer’s Inner Self. If the healer is doing Therapeutic Touch correctly, she will not be personally attached to the outcome of the interaction, for she is calling upon a source other than her self-willed persona.
Experientially Acknowledging the Friendly Inner Self
The consistent practice of sustained centering sensitizes the therapist to a recognition of the subtle world of the nonphysical. Very frequently the TT therapist, in an effort to understand this new perspective, will intensify her inner work, such as adopting the practice of meditation. Self-search practices reinforce her growing relationship with her most enduring Self. As this affinity ripens, Inner Self becomes a trusted ally, a friend, teacher, and reliable guide; and the therapist’s healing practice becomes more focused and coherent. This indicates a significant shift in perception that sensitizes her to higher orders of self, which now begin to act in her daily life.
What the healer is trying to do is reach beyond the usual locked-in viewpoint of things-as-they-are, and attempt to align with the more unrestrained perspective of her Inner Self. Now it becomes a different kind of intelligence one pursues, a perception beyond the six basic physical senses; it becomes a transpersonal healing as she becomes more acutely aware of the deep inner work to which she now has access, fulfilled and potentiated by her own Inner Self. In this deep-seated stretch to actualize personal potential for insightful and creative healing in the service of those in need, she perceives for herself the opportunity for significant transformative change, as that change is reflected in the quality of her healing interactions and also in her own life events.
This state often becomes noticeable to the TT therapist as she initially finds herself consciously aware of the need to help someone who is ill or injured, and then intentionally engages her sense of compassion-in-action to offer a healing session with that person. The therapist often begins to realize that change in her life events seem to be accelerating. Less obvious to the therapist herself--although it may be noticeable to others--is that she, too, has been going through a fine-tuned but transforming change.
Sometimes it is possible to catch a glimpse of the Inner Self by becoming aware of one’s own mood. In our culture, we often think of mood as a descriptor of one’s attitude, disposition, or temperament; however, mood is also a deep feeling, a state of mind dominated by a particular emotion. Feelings may be experienced as amorphous, undeveloped, and ill-defined. However, with diligence one can tease back sensations and capture some sense of its content. Most frequently this information will settle back into the unconscious, but with perseverance and sensitivity it can be coaxed to conscious awareness. It is then that the healer can begin to realize the extent of the reach of her own mindset, whose perspective is now so closely aligned with her Inner Self.
Intuition offers insight into the linkage one has with her Inner Self. Intuition has been a singular, incisive factor in my own life. In trying to understand its processes, my observation is that, like a muscle that one exercises, the potency of intuition increases with use and, although intuition thrives on uncontrived spontaneity, its accuracy sharpens under the lens of objective analysis. To test it, I simply follow its prompts every time (except twice in my lifetime, for which I later kicked myself very hard). . . .
Since the evidence of a subtle reflection of the healer’s Inner Self becomes clarified through a committed, sustained centering of consciousness--and such a proposition is supported by events occurring in the everyday happenings of her daily life, I urge that such occurrence be encouraged to go one step further. We recognize that the healee also has an Inner Self. During the healing session the therapist is encouraged to act as though this is an accepted reality. In other words, the suggestion is that during the healing interaction, as the healer feels herself deeply centered and in touch with her Inner Self, she brings the energy of intentionality into play and aligns them purposefully in an attempt to communicate mind-to-mind with the Inner Self of the healee. From this more impersonal stance she can reflect and, perhaps open up for the healee a glimpse or an impression of his own Inner Self.
How one fully engages this mindful act is difficult to describe, but the basic steps involve at least two factors. The healer needs a reliable sense of that inner connection as this experience plays through her consciousness, and second--and most necessarily--she needs the ability to translate that comprehension into a clear communication, mind-to-mind, with what she perceives to be a similar state of consciousness in the healee. The operative words in these instructions are “a clear communication.” The actual process is much like what occurs during mental telepathy; however, intentionality is called upon to make it an acutely conscious experience. During the mind-to-mind communication the healer may offer a direct, nonverbal message to the Inner Self of the client. Ultimately, this mind-to-mind communication depends on the willingness of the healee to engage; we have learned that this silent permission from the field of the healee may come more from his heart, his own experience of sentience, rather than from his conscious mind.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a5f2764e-71a9-44ef-8bc8-ac3b0026a5ae01Bear & CompanySIMO342Bear & Company0101Bear & CompanySIMO342Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm27159781591433941Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108010232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250234.99NZDNZZ0.0034.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978159143402302021591434025039781591434023159781591434023140978159143402311BCB102Trade Paperback01The Great Pyramid Void EnigmaTheGreat Pyramid Void EnigmaThe Mystery of the Hall of the Ancestors011803987061A01Scott CreightonCreighton, ScottScottCreighton01eng320OCC031000VX2.110HIS00203010OCC02900020GIZA PROPHECY;ANCIENT MYSTERY BOOKS;ANCIENT SACRED SITES;EGYPTOLOGY;THE GREAT PYRAMID HOAX;BLACK GENESIS;THE CYGNUS KEY;OSIRIS KINGS;RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE JOURNAL NATURE;BIG VOID;STRESS-RELIEVING CHAMBER;GRAND GALLERY;COPTIC-EGYPTIAN TEXTS;ASTRONOMY;ARCHAEOLOGY BOOKS;ANCIENT EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION;POLE SHIFTS;CONTROVERSY SURROUNDING THE BIG VOID;HISTORY OF EGYPT;ANCIENT AFRICAN HISTORY;ZECHARIA SITCHIN;RAVEN HILL;4TH DYNASTY;KING KHUFU;TWELFTH PLANET;RECOVERY VAULT;ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS01010102 • Analyzes ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts and evidence from astronomy and archaeology to show how the Big Void may be a grand “Hall of Ancestors”
• Explores the controversy surrounding the discovery of the Big Void and debunks many of the theories regarding the purpose of this massive new “chamber”
• Reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible “recovery vault” to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after an anticipated cataclysm
In November 2017, an international team of more than 30 scientists published the results of their two-year-long Great Pyramid research project in the journal Nature. Using an advanced imaging technique known as muon radiography, three groups working independently from each other discovered a massive, previously unknown space within the Great Pyramid of Giza. Mainstream Egyptologists suggest that the “Big Void” is simply a “stress-relieving device” for the Grand Gallery. But, as Scott Creighton reveals, ancient Coptic-Egyptian texts describe exactly what the Big Void is: the Hall of the Ancestors, the protected final resting place of the Osiris Kings.
Exploring the controversy surrounding the Big Void, Creighton artfully debunks many of the theories about the purpose of this massive chamber at the heart of the Great Pyramid as well as other long-held Egyptology beliefs. Analyzing the Coptic-Egyptian texts about the first pyramids and evidence from astronomy, archaeology, and other sources, the author reveals how the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu as an indestructible “recovery vault” to help Egyptian civilization rebuild after a cataclysmic natural disaster--a rapid pole shift and subsequent deluge--predicted by his astronomer-priests. And the key component of the recovery vault would have been the Hall of the Ancestors, a sealed “safe haven” containing the mummified remains of the Osiris Kings, deceased pharaohs who would seek the benevolence of the gods to ensure Egypt’s recovery from the disaster. With a careful examination of the Pyramid Texts, Creighton also reveals evidence that suggests the deluge happened as predicted.
Offering a well-evidenced theory about the extraordinary function of the Big Void, Creighton shows that the Giza pyramids may also include an encoded stellar timeline alerting us to the regular cycle of pole shifts to come.]]>1302The Great Pyramid Hoax. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.]]>2302From Chapter 6. Into the Void
This book began with the discovery of the “Big Void” and went on to show how there exists some good evidence to indicate that the Coptic-Egyptian oral tradition that speaks of the purpose of the Great Pyramid as some kind of “Ark” may actually be based more in fact than the myth believed by Egyptology. As explained in the opening chapter, the Big Void (figure 7.1) is believed to have similar proportions to the Grand Gallery (157 x 28 feet).
The discovery of this void has mainstream Egyptologists scratching their heads as to why such a massive “space” should exist within the Great Pyramid at all. While Egyptologists such as Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass of the ScanPyramids project team advise caution in declaring this space a new chamber, it seems perfectly clear from the data that this massive void is not like many of the much smaller sand and mortar filled voids that the Great Pyramid is peppered with. Indeed, this void appears to be something altogether different and is highly likely, after further investigation, to be found to be the fifth major chamber within the Great Pyramid.
One of the reasons why Egyptologists are hesitant to pronounce this void as a new pyramid chamber is that there is no obvious entry to it. No passageways or connecting tunnels have been detected. If it is indeed a purposely built chamber, then it appears to be entirely isolated and apparently without any obvious means of access. Why would Khufu build his pyramid with a totally inaccessible chamber inside it?
Some have speculated that Khufu may have built this chamber to store his treasure, to perhaps take with him to the Afterlife. This scenario seems highly unlikely since, in accordance with ancient Egyptian burial rituals, it was the job of the ancient Egyptian priests to place these items within the Pyramid only after the king’s death, by which time this chamber would have been long completed and sealed. How, then, would it have been possible for the priests to place Khufu’s afterlife goods into a chamber to which there was no access; a chamber that was entirely sealed off as the Pyramid was built upwards and over it?
It seems that the mainstream narrative--that an ancient pyramid was simply a “tomb of the king”--needs a serious rethink, because the tomb paradigm, quite simply, cannot adequately explain this anomaly; especially if this void is found to be a purposely built, inaccessible chamber. While everyone is focused on the “void” and the modern science that went into discovering it, no one is looking at what the ancient Egyptians themselves have said with regards to the building of the pyramids, and if there is any clue in their ancient texts to shed light upon this discovery.
This book argues that the first, giant pyramids of ancient Egypt were conceived and constructed not as the “tomb of the king,” but rather as the “womb of the kingdom”; that the first sixteen or so pyramids of ancient Egypt, the giant pyramids, represented the allegorical “body of Osiris” (which was said to have been cut into sixteen pieces and scattered across the land of Egypt). This book further argues that the giant pyramids were conceived and built as “Recovery Vaults” for the kingdom in lieu of an impending deluge which the ancient Egyptians believed would overwhelm their kingdom.
This idea of a “Recovery Vault” is not unlike our modern-day seed vault on Svalbaard in the Arctic Circle, which opened in 2008. I did not, however, arrive at this Recovery Vault conclusion of my own accord--I took my cue from what the ancient Egyptian texts tell us:
“. . . The king then directed the astrologers to ascertain by taking the altitude whether the stars foretold any great catastrophe, and the result announced an approaching deluge. The king ordered them to inquire whether or not this calamity would befall Egypt; and they answered, yes, the flood will overwhelm the land, and destroy a large portion of it for some years. . . . upon which the king ordered the Pyramids to be built, and the predictions of the priests to be Inscribed upon columns, and upon the large stones belonging to them; and he placed within them his treasures, and all his valuable property, together with the bodies of his ancestors.”
And there it is--this text suggests that the Big Void within the Great Pyramid is a chamber built specifically to house and protect, “. . . the bodies of his [Sūrīd’s] ancestors.” What must be appreciated here is that, to the ancient Egyptians, their deceased kings and queens continued to perform a vital role for the living kingdom. In the afterlife their role was to commune with the gods in the heavenly realm to assist the living king to ensure the sun would rise, the Nile would flow, and that the crops would grow. Indeed, part of the reason why it was essential that the bodies of these kings and queens were preserved and mummified was to protect them against decay since a decayed body could not fulfill this vital function in the afterlife. It was also the job of the living king to protect the tombs of these long deceased kings and queens from robbery or desecration and to give prayers and offerings to help “nurture” them. Indeed, failing to do this could bring dire consequences for the living king and the kingdom.
And so, as a consequence of their religious beliefs, the ancient Egyptians had great reverence for their ancestor kings and queens and would go to quite extraordinary lengths to protect their long expired bodies, often removing their mummified remains from their original tombs to new, safer tomb locations when it seemed their original tombs were in danger of some kind (usually tomb raiders).]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/45d3c1d6-11d2-41e0-b131-ac3b0026aa5301Bear & CompanySIMO342Bear & Company0101Bear & CompanySIMO342Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm27159781591434030Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108010232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250234.99NZDNZZ0.0034.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978159143411502021591434114039781591434115159781591434115140978159143411511BCB102Trade Paperback01Animal MedicineA Curanderismo Guide to Shapeshifting, Journeying, and Connecting with Animal Allies011803986671A01Erika BuenaflorBuenaflor, ErikaErikaBuenaflorM.A., J.D.01eng216OCC032000VXPS2.110SOC06200010OCC03603020CONNECT WITH ANIMALS;SPIRITUAL WISDOM OF ANIMALS;ANIMAL MESSENGERS;SHAPESHIFTING;ANCIENT SHAMANIC TRADITIONS;CURANDERISMO;MESOAMERICA PEOPLES;UPPERWORLD;DEITIES;ANCESTORS;SUPERNATURAL BEINGS;NONORDINARY REALMS;MY SPIRIT ANIMAL;MESOAMERICA LEGENDS;WISDOM;TRANCE JOURNEYING TECHNIQUES;SHAMANISM;SHAMANIC TRADITIONS;MODERN-DAY SHAMAN;MODERN DAY CURANDERISMO;MEXICAN FOLK HEALING;SACRED ENERGIES OF THE SUN AND MOON;NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGION;ARMADILLO;HUMMINGBIRD;JAGUAR;PUMA;WOODPECKER;INDIGENOUS STUDIES01010102 • Includes an alphabetical guide to 76 animals, explaining each animal’s spiritual gifts, shapeshifting medicine, the realm they are associated with, and their symbolic meaning when they appear in a dream or vision
• Details the trance journeying techniques and shapeshifting practices of ancient Mesoamerican shamanic traditions and modern-day curanderismo
• Explores how to strengthen our connections with our spirit animal guides
In this guide, Erika Buenaflor explores the animal mythologies, spirit journeying techniques, and shapeshifting practices of ancient shamanic traditions and modern-day curanderismo. She examines how indigenous Mesoamerican peoples used animals in their ceremonial healing and divination rites and explains the innate gifts and powers that different animals embody. She explores why certain animals are associated with and provide access to the non-ordinary realms: the Underworld, Middleworld, and Upperworld, wherein deities, ancestors, supernatural beings, and medicine could be connected with or obtained. She details how to enter into a trance journey to go into these nonordinary realms, be guided by or shapeshift into an animal associated with that realm, and access the sacred gifts and spiritual medicine they offer. The author explores shapeshifting practices in detail, and the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual benefits we can gain by engaging in shapeshifting practices. She also explores how to strengthen our connections with our spirit animal guides.
Offering an alphabetical guide to 76 animals most prevalent in ancient Mesoamerican legends, ceremonies, and medicinal rites, from Armadillo and Bear to Hummingbird and Jaguar to Puma and Woodpecker, the author details each animal’s spiritual gifts, shapeshifting medicine, the realm they are associated with, and their symbolic meaning when they appear in a dream or vision. Providing multiple methods to connect with animals for spiritual guidance, self-empowerment, and healing, Buenaflor reveals how each of us can enrich our lives with ancient Mesoamerican wisdom for working with animal guides.]]>1302Cleansing Rites of Curanderismo, Curanderismo Soul Retrieval, and Sacred Energies of the Sun and Moon, she lives in Tujunga, California.]]>2302From Introduction to Ancient Mesoamerican & Curanderismo Animal Symbolism
This book will delve into the symbolic discourse and ceremonial rites the ancient Mesoamerican peoples assigned to particular animals, and explore the two most common ways we can connect with an animal to gain access to their gifts and medicine. One of the most prevalent ways to tap into animal medicine and wisdom is to develop a relationship with them in the physical and spiritual realms (which of course includes dreams) and cultivate a symbolic method of communication with them. Another typical way is through shapeshifting . . .
SAMPLE ENTRIES from Part Two: Ancient Mesoamerican Animal Mythologies, Spiritual and Shapeshifting Medicine, and Symbolism.
Coyote
The K’iché’ associated the coyote with being a cunning nocturnal animal that discovered and dug up hidden or secret things.(70) The coyote’s high predatorial skills also granted it a valued space in the creator echelon: it was one of the first sons of the creator couple, Xmucane and Xpiyacoc, in the Popol Vuh.(71)
The Central Mexican peoples also viewed the coyote as being diabolical, but at the same time grateful and appreciative. Sahagún was told of a story of a warrior who had saved a coyote from a serpent. Two hours after being rescued, the coyote brought the warrior two turkey cocks and pushed them with his muzzle as to say, “take them.”(72) One of their creator deities, Tezcatlipoca, was known to shapeshift into a coyote.(73) Nobles born on Ce Ehécatl were also able to shapeshift into this esteemed predator.(74)
The coyote, like the jaguar and eagle, was a patron of Mexica elite warriors, and was associated with one of the primary military orders. Their military clothing bore the skins of pumas, coyotes, wildcats, jaguars, and eagles, and their head coverings included jaguars and coyotes.(75)
One of the Central Mexican deities, Huehuecoyotl (old coyote) was a coyote deity linked with song, dance, pleasure, deceit, as well as sexuality.(76) The Codex Borbonicus and Codex Tonalmatl Aubin emphasize his musical proclivities, and the Codex Borgia and Codex Vaticanus focus on his dancing. In most examples, huehuecoyotl wears a necklace of pointed shells and a distinctive shell pendant of a pointed oval, costuming usually associated with gods of feasting and dancing.(77)
Nonordinary Realm Associations: Underworld
Spiritual and Shapeshifting Medicine: musically talented, charismatic, sensual, and shrewd
Symbolism:
• Let yourself shake off any unwanted energies and tap into the sacred energies all around you with ecstatic dancing. • Explore energetic tantric teachings and courses, in general, and also to better understand and work with sensual-sexual energies. • You are naturally clairvoyant. Develop this gift by learning to hear the energy of what is being said and trust your intuition. • Go after what you desire with an open mind and heart, it may not be quite what you pictured, but it will be better than what you imagined.
Hummingbird
Hummingbirds were associated with the sun, love, war, resurrection, and fertility--due to their role as pollinators of plants.(168) They are small diurnal birds with beautiful iridescent feathers and are the only birds that can fly backwards. They are known for performing aerial acrobatics and quickly darting back and forth, making them look like glints of sunlight.(169) Although they are rather small, they are also known to be territorial and aggressive fighters.(170) When they sleep they enter torpor and can go in this state for prolonged periods, a day or more and sometimes an entire season. Torpor is a deep sleep, wherein their body temperature will drop to the point of becoming hypothermic, heart rate will also drop, breathing will slow down significantly, and they save up to 60% of their available energy. When they are in torpor it looks as if they are dead.
Sahagún and Duran both wrote about the hummingbird’s torpor capabilities, and related associations with death and rebirth. They indicated that in winter they would stick their bills in a tree. When the tree rejuvenated, the hummingbird would grow feathers, awaken, and be reborn.(171) Both the Maya and Central Mexican peoples often depicted hummingbirds in a floral paradise. Sahagún also wrote that the Central Mexican peoples believed that four years after death, brave warriors would become hummingbirds, birds, or butterflies, and spend the rest of eternity drinking nectar from flowers from an Upperworld paradisal flower realm and from flowers on earth.(172)
The Mexica’s tutelary war deity Huitzilopochtli was commonly depicted with a blue-green hummingbird headdress, likely due to their association with the death and resurrection of brave warriors as hummingbirds. (173) In the Codex Borgia, hummingbirds were illustrated in scenes associated with the rainy season, and an abundance of maize and flowers.(174)
In Classic Maya art, the sun, who was courting the moon, often did so as a hummingbird, and possibly a mosquito. Mosquitos were likely regarded as the counterpart of hummingbirds.(175) In modern narratives, the sun suitor takes the shape of a hummingbird. On the Postclassic Dresden Codex, 7b, the hummingbird is identified as the chich “prophecy” of several gods, indicating its role as a messenger of the gods.(177)
Nonordinary Realm Associations: Upperworld and Middleworld
Spiritual and Shapeshifting Medicine: brave, joyful, acrobatic, and rebirth
Symbolism:
• You have mighty divine forces helping you. Have faith and keep it light.
• Do not forget the importance and power of joyfulness and playfulness. Give yourself opportunities to practice these invaluable skills.
• Be relentless in pursuing your goals, and go beyond believing you can do something, know that you can.
• Remember to give yourself time to conserve your energy and rest; be strategic and intentional about this. When you are resting, no answering business-related calls, emails, or texts, simply rest.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/976ae608-a935-4a73-9999-ac3b0026b25901Bear & CompanySIMO342Bear & Company0101Bear & CompanySIMO342Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm27159781591434122Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210621202108010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250229.99NZDNZZ0.0029.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978162055719802021620557193039781620557198159781620557198140978162055719811BCB102Trade Paperback01Introduction to Magic, Volume IIIRealizations of the Absolute Individual011804002501A01Julius EvolaEvola, JuliusJuliusEvolaEros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex, The Yoga of Power, The Hermetic Tradition, Revolt Against the Modern World,The Mystery of the Grail and Ride The Tiger.]]>2A01The UR GroupUR Group, TheTheUR Group3B06Joscelyn GodwinGodwin, JoscelynJoscelynGodwin01eng464OCC028000VXW2.110SOC03800010OCC01600020THE UR GROUP;INITIATIC PRACTICES;PRIMORDIAL TRADITION;THE DOCTRINE OF AWAKENING;THE HERMETIC TRADITION; INITIATORY EXERCISES;OPUS MAGICUM;UR GROUP; RIDE THE TIGER;REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD; NEO-PAGANS;FREEMASONS;ANHROPOSOPHISTS;POETS;GRUPPO DI UR;ITALIAN ESOTERICISTS;ANCIENT RITUALS;MYSTERY TRADITIONS;PAGAN MYSTERIES;ALCHEMY;HERMETISM;RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES;TANTRA;TAOISM;BUDDHISM;VEDANTA;PAGAN MYSTERIES OF THE WEST;ABSOLUTE INDIVIDUAL;EYE OF REALIZATION;ARTURO REGHINI;ANCIENT TEXTS01010102 • Explores esoteric practices for individual development, handed down from a primordial tradition and discernable in alchemy, Hermetism, religious doctrines, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West
• Reveals the ultimate magical goal of the “Absolute Individual,” the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization
The “Gruppo di UR” was a group of Italian esotericists who collaborated for three brief years, from 1927 to 1929. The purpose of this group was to study and practice ancient rituals and procedures they gleaned from the mystery traditions of the world, both East and West, in order to attain a state of superhuman consciousness and power that would allow them to act magically on the world. They produced a monthly journal containing techniques for spiritual realization, accounts of personal experiences, translations and commentaries on ancient texts, and original essays on esoteric topics. The prime movers of the group were Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), a Pythagorean mathematician and reviver of a spiritual Freemasonry, and Julius Evola (1898-1974), then a young philosopher with a mastery of the esoteric doctrines of East and West. Many years later, Evola gathered the UR Group essays into three volumes, giving them their final form in 1971.
This volume, the third in the series, complements the first two, yet they are not strictly sequential, and their contents can be read in any order. Volume III, more than the others, bears the personal stamp of Julius Evola. In its pages you’ll discover that the “magic” of the UR Group has nothing to do with sorcery or superstition. It was their term for an active and affirmative attitude toward individual development handed down from a “primordial tradition” and discernable in alchemy, Hermetism, esoteric religious doctrines, indigenous practices, Tantra, Taoism, Buddhism, Vedanta, and the pagan mysteries of the West. Its goal was the “Absolute Individual,” the immortal and divine potential that requires rare gifts and extraordinary efforts for its realization.
However, there is incalculable value in this volume even for the less heroic. By studying the practices and realizations within, the reader will be liberated from conventional dogmas--religious, political, scientific, and psychological--and see with the clearer eye of realization.]]>1302Revolt Against the Modern World.]]>2302From Chapter XII.5: Envoi
Now that the task the Ur Group set itself in--organizing this collection of essays--is virtually done, it is time to say a few words of farewell to those who have followed us up to now.
We have been addressing the few whom a higher vocation renders unsatisfied by the values and accomplishments of ordinary human life, in order to give them a sense of the paths, the truths, and the horizons of what is called the initiatic or the secret tradition. We have precisely drawn the frontier that separates these disciplines from the “spiritualist” and occultist forms, sources of mystification and often run by charlatans, which currently enjoy an epidemic of diffusion among a mindless and dilettantish public. We have explained what should be thought of psychoanalysis and metapsychology, recent concotions that have made such an impression on provincials of the spirit. At the same time we have denounced all confusion of initiatic reality with the fields of competence of profane science, and with the world of mysticism, morality, and religion. Consequently our main concern has been to give out a body of teachings relating above all to practice and to realization, corroborating them with accounts of real, lived experiences, as well as traditional texts and references, varied but always converging in a single direction. Compared to other attitudes even within the initiatic domain, this is a direction that gives special importance to concepts of freedom, of power, and of spiritual virility.
In the three volumes of these essays we have communicated whatever we could, following the task mentioned. We have not set up any “occult” scenery, and have spoken with sufficient clarity not to deceive anyone with sensational promises or with the mysterious ceremonial that seems obligatory to many who are hawking the by-products of esotericism and yoga today. As for what we have offered, each will use it as he thinks best, and according to his qualification and interest. Enough reference points have been given to the discerning reader for going a good distance on his own, in study or in practice; and with a certain variety, intended to suit individual inclinations. If anyone wants to know more, it would be difficult to find it in any written exposition.
In the practical domain, we have often mentioned that the conditions of the present epoch, whether collective or for the individual, are more unfavorable than ever for a transcendent development of the I, and that each one is left more or less to himself, at least for a good way on the path. He will soon be discouraged if not endowed with a calm firmness and a subtle energy; if he seeks confirmations and results that are direct and tangible; or if, insufficiently serious about his vocation, he creates illusions. On the other hand it is certain that one who has had the sense of transcendent reality, even if only for a glimpse, can never efface it. “The Dragon’s bite never scars over.” Something will have taken form in his soul that will subsist, even without his being distinctly conscious of it and despite all upsets, from which he will always be able to draw strength to wait, to persist, to resume, to dare.
Another source of perseverance can be the idea that, however vast the distance, one is known and awaited by those on the other shore. Just as some sounds from the valley travel with strange clarity to the mountain peaks, every right intention is perceived. From the second manifesto of the Rosicrucians comes the idea that “thoughts, joined to the real will of the reader, are capable of making us known to him and him to us.” The same text also speaks of belonging to an initiatic chain, which has nothing to do with joining visible and named organizations or “societies”; it is not granted by ceremonies, but in fact, even without knowing it, when the right will is present and one is on the way of right realization.
Another point also needs emphasis under today’s conditions, when sects are proliferating and a herd instinct is asserting itself everywhere. One should mistrust everything that has any exterior character, and all who pretend to be able to provide what only an exceptional internal action can achieve, thanks to the fire of consciousness and of concentration. In all cases you should be sincere--to the point of being pitiless--in examining what you really want: because otherwise, if there is an inner untruthfulness, right action is not possible. But if you are truly aiming at initiatic-magical realization, remember unfeignedly the ancient saying: the way to it is like “walking on the edge of a sword.” That is why it may be better to give up an enterprise that exceeds your own strength than to play with vain substitutes.
At the end of our task, it has been necessary to repeat all this frankly. It is not our business to try to satisfy anyone’s weakness or illusions. We have not been talking to infants, but to mature and serious people. Now that we have cleared the ground sufficiently and, we hope, contributed a necessary work of clarification, it remains for each one, once he has taken due measure of himself, to make appropriate use of what has been expounded up to now. And may such use be auspicious to him: that is our best wish--from the “Gruppo di Ur.”]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ca7d44b8-e3b4-4abd-8c47-ac3b0026bab401Inner TraditionsSIMO355Inner Traditions0101Inner TraditionsSIMO355Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm27159781620557204Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210621202108010249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250252.99NZDNZZ0.0052.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978164263271202021642632716039781642632712159781642632712140978164263271211BCB102Trade PaperbackSteel Brothers Saga1801Freed011801367971A01Helen HardtHardt, HelenHelenHardtNew York Times, #1 USA Today, and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Helen Hardt’s passion for the written word began with the books her mother read to her at bedtime. She wrote her first story at age six and hasn’t stopped since. In addition to being an award-winning author of contemporary and historical romance and erotica, she’s a mother, a black belt in Taekwondo, a grammar geek, an appreciator of fine red wine, and a lover of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. She writes from her home in Colorado, where she lives with her family. Helen loves to hear from readers.]]>01eng300FIC027020FRD2.110FIC02700020 Suspense; romantic; blood bond; helen heart; helen hart; breathless; craving; steele brothers; billionaire; alpha; steel brother 01010102When you hit rock bottom, there’s nowhere to go…
Dale Steel has spent his life running from the horror of his past, so he’s completely unprepared for horror to follow him into the present. But that’s exactly what it’s done. His only hope is his love for Ashley White, so he grabs hold with both hands, determined to escape his bleak existence.
Ashley is so in love she can’t see straight. Dale—and the thrall he holds over her—has given her a new outlook on sex and relationships, and she’s all in. Things are finally falling into place.
But Ashley and Dale’s troubles are far from over. An untimely death disrupts their hopes at happiness, followed by a phone call that leaves Dale even more grief-stricken. He must make an important decision. Two roads lie in front of him, but only one will free him.
]]>1302New York Times, #1 USA Today, and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Helen Hardt’s passion for the written word began with the books her mother read to her at bedtime. She wrote her first story at age six and hasn’t stopped since. In addition to being an award-winning author of contemporary and historical romance and erotica, she’s a mother, a black belt in Taekwondo, a grammar geek, an appreciator of fine red wine, and a lover of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. She writes from her home in Colorado, where she lives with her family. Helen loves to hear from readers.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/bf3a3339-044f-44a2-9c4a-ac2d002788ba01Waterhouse Press LLCSIMO711Waterhouse Press LLC0101Waterhouse Press LLCSIMO711Waterhouse Press LLC022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm025.25in02133.35mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210728320224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Waterhouse Press LLCAU0120210728978164263286602021642632864039781642632866159781642632866140978164263286611BCB102B315Trade PaperbackThe Love Game501Let's Not & Say We Did011814517411A01Elizabeth HayleyHayley, ElizabethElizabethHayley01eng280FIC027020FRD2.110FIC02700010FIC02725020rom com; funny; college; sorority01010102 After an encounter in an alley with Taylor’s ex, Brad, goes horribly wrong, the pair has to decide how far they’re willing to go to stay together and not let past traumas define them. As they travel up and down the East Coast, Taylor and Ransom’s relationship will be put to the test. Unfortunately, it’s not the only relationship they have to worry about.
From a reunion with Ransom’s dysfunctional biological family to an attempt at finally putting the Brad drama to rest, Taylor and Ransom need to find out how they got to this point—and where they’ll go from here.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/d7a653d7-d52c-4202-abba-acc0003b2bf601Waterhouse Press LLCSIMO711Waterhouse Press LLC0101Waterhouse Press LLCSIMO711Waterhouse Press LLC022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm025.25in02133.35mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728320224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Waterhouse Press LLCAU0120210728978164293295902021642932957039781642932959159781642932959140978164293295911BBHardback01Cat Selfies011831926411A01M.D. MullinsMullins, M.D.M.D.MullinsCat Selfies is award-winning journalist, life-long animal lover, one-time cat rescuer, and U.S. Marine veteran, Michael D. Mullins. He formerly published the animal welfare newspaper—The New York Companion. A proud NYC native, Michael now resides in upstate NY with his beautiful wife and two amazing, cat-loving sons. Any and all of Michael's accomplishments are due to the love, guidance, and sacrifice of his parents, Theresa Cummings and Timothy Mullins, and his grandmother, Rose Marsico-Cummings.]]>01eng112PET003000WNGC2.110HUM00900010HUM01700020Cat Books; Cat Books for Adults; Funny Cat Picture Books; Funny Cat Books for Adults; Cat Lover Books; Cat Humor Books01010102Escape into a world of cat closeups, meme humor, and kitty-centric trivia that will have you twirling your whiskers.
Ever wonder what cats are thinking behind their gaze? So do we, and despite our best efforts, this book won’t answer that question. But it will make you smile, laugh, and squeeze your kitty a little tighter.
A must-have for every cat lover, Cat Selfies blends hilarious cat closeups and surprising feline trivia. Can a single litter of kittens have multiple fathers? Was a Connecticut cat once placed under house arrest? Do cats really hold grudges? All these questions and many, many more are answered within, plus buckets of cuteness and cattitude behind every page turn.
And did we mention that all fifty-plus cats featured were rescued? At the time they were photographed, each of these beauties was either in search of a forever home or recently placed in one, reinforcing what we all know—Adoption is Always the Best Option.
So, let your curiosity be your guide and escape into the funny and delightful world of Cat Selfies.]]>1302Cat Selfies is award-winning journalist, life-long animal lover, one-time cat rescuer, and U.S. Marine veteran, Michael D. Mullins. He formerly published the animal welfare newspaper—The New York Companion. A proud NYC native, Michael now resides in upstate NY with his beautiful wife and two amazing, cat-loving sons. Any and all of Michael's accomplishments are due to the love, guidance, and sacrifice of his parents, Theresa Cummings and Timothy Mullins, and his grandmother, Rose Marsico-Cummings.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/50108c0c-32cc-408f-9ce0-ac8f003d06e501Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press0101Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press022021072801AU NZ016in01152.4mm026in02152.4mm030.5in0312.7mm080.57lb089.12oz08258.55grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021040520210728600224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Post Hill PressAU0120210728978164293709102021642937096039781642937091159781642937091140978164293709111BBHardback01Ruby FallsA Novel011786267621A01Deborah Goodrich RoyceRoyce, Deborah GoodrichDeborah GoodrichRoyce01eng272FIC031080FH2.110FIC01900010FIC03000020Psychological thriller; mystery; suspense; identity; abandonment; grief; trauma; PTSD; fear; anxiety; mental-breakdown; psychotherapy; disappearance; search for body; Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier; Hitchcockian thriller; Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock; Dial M for Murder by Alfred Hitchcock; Suspicion by Alfred Hitchcock; Rope by Alfred Hitchcock; Spellbound by Alfred Hitchcock; Joan Fontaine; Mrs. Danvers; Max de Winter; Bag of Bones by Stephen King; Gaslight film by George Cukor01010102Named one of the most riveting books of Spring 2021 by Veranda Magazine!
Like the chilling psychological thriller The Silent Patient, Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Ruby Falls is a nail-biting tale of a fragile young actress, the new husband she barely knows, and her growing suspicion that the secrets he harbors may eclipse her own.
On a brilliantly sunny July day, six-year-old Ruby is abandoned by her father in the suffocating dark of a Tennessee cave. Twenty years later, transformed into soap opera star Eleanor Russell, she is fired under dubious circumstances. Fleeing to Europe, she marries a glamorous stranger named Orlando Montague and keeps her past closely hidden.
Together, Eleanor and Orlando start afresh in LA. Setting up house in a storybook cottage in the Hollywood Hills, Eleanor is cast in a dream role—the lead in a remake of Rebecca. As she immerses herself in that eerie gothic tale, Orlando’s personality changes, ghosts of her past re-emerge, and Eleanor fears she is not the only person in her marriage with a secret.
In this thrilling and twisty homage to Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, the story ricochets through the streets of Los Angeles, a dangerous marriage to an exotic stranger, and the mind of a young woman whose past may not release her.]]>1302Finding Mrs. Ford, debuted in 2019 to rave reviews. She divides her time between the Northeast and Florida, where she writes, reads, watches lots of movies, and spends time with her family.
Deborah serves on the governing and/or advisory boards of the Avon Theatre, the American Film Institute, New York Botanical Garden, the Greenwich International Film Festival, the Greenwich Historical Society, the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach, the Preservation Society of Newport, and the PRASAD Project. She and her husband have restored more buildings than she can count, including the Ocean House Hotel and the Deer Mountain Inn.
Deborah holds a BA in French and Italian from Lake Erie College and an honorary doctorate from the same institution. In an earlier life, she was an actress in film and television and a story editor at Miramax Films. Ruby Falls is her second psychological thriller, and she owes a debt of gratitude for its inspiration to Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock.]]>0802Ruby Falls inhabits a hallucinatory Hollywood where fact and fiction mingle freely and even the smallest acts can feel ominous..an enjoyable pastiche with plenty of twists and turns." —Kirkus Reviews]]>0802Rebecca and Ruby Falls. This is highly recommended reading for those who like gothic stories infused with psychological tension and introspection. The tale exposes the fine paradox between magic, family ties, and the boundaries of what is real and what is not." —Midwest Book Review ]]>0802Ruby Falls is what a reader wants a psychological thriller to be." —Sandra Brown, New York Times bestselling author]]>0802Ruby Falls will sweep you headfirst into the life of Eleanor Russell, an actress setting up house in the glamorous Hollywood Hills with her handsome new husband, Orlando. Secrets abound in this bang of a book, a haunting tale sure to give readers chills. A stunner with some serious Gothic vibes." —Kimberly Belle, internationally bestselling author of "Dear Wife" and "Stranger in the Lake" ]]>0802Ruby Falls takes the reader on a Ferrari ride through the twists and turns of the Hollywood hills, moving so fast your hands are clammy and you can’t catch your breath. But you must! I was up until two am in the grip of this fast-paced modern twister of a gothic novel." —Jane Ubell-Meyer, Bedside Reading, Founder]]>0802Rebecca, this unnerving story about a Hollywood starlet haunted by her past will captivate you right up until the shocking ending. A must-read for anyone who loves an expertly plotted thriller with multidimensional characters." —Emily Liebert, USA Today bestselling author of "Perfectly Famous"]]>0802Ruby Falls is a skillfully plotted page turner!" —Wendy Walker, national bestselling author of "Don't Look for Me"]]>0802Ruby Falls will become your next favorite book!" —Maureen Joyce Connolly, author of "Little Lovely Things"]]>0802Ruby Falls is a fantastic combination of a sweeping Hollywood story folded into a twisty thriller. Fans of Rebecca will be enthralled with how the classic story is woven into the masterful plot of Ruby Falls." —Vanessa Lillie, Amazon bestselling author of "Little Voices" and "For the Best"]]>0802Rebecca, in which she stars. A haunting, unforgettable thriller." —Daniela Petrova, author of "Her Daughter's Mother" ]]>0802Ruby Falls is about stories—the ones we tell ourselves, the ones we tell others, and the dark gaps in between." —Elka Ray, author of the Toby Wong Vancouver Island mystery series]]>0802Ruby Falls is a psychological tour-de-force that grabs you on page one and doesn't let you go until the end. A compelling, engrossing, and truly suspenseful thriller that takes place in the mind of one woman struggling to overcome her demons." —Kris Frieswick, author of "The Ghost Manuscript"]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/43201b11-3840-4267-bb5d-ac2800fd9f2301Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press0101Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm031.1in0327.94mm081.245lb0819.92oz08564.72grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021040520210801270222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Post Hill PressAU0120210801978164293858602021642938580039781642938586159781642938586140978164293858611BCB102Trade Paperback01Mad TravelersA Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth011833272461A01Dave SeminaraSeminara, DaveDaveSeminaraThe New York Times, which first published a brief account of this journey, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Washington Post, and dozens of other publications. He is the author of Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts and two other books: Bed, Breakfast & Drunken Threats: Dispatches from the Margins of Europe and Breakfast with Polygamists: Dispatches from the Margins of The Americas. ]]>01eng256TRV000000WT2.110TRU00400010TRV00100020William Baekeland; HBO William Baekeland; wanderlust; World’s Most Traveled People; country collecting; travel; world’s most traveled person; world’s most traveled man; con artists; country collectors; Bouvet Island01010102A brilliant, young con artist offered to help the world’s most traveled people reach the planet’s last untouched frontiers; instead, they were taken for a wild ride that turned into a costly lesson on the perils of wanderlust.
At twenty-three, William Simon Baekeland was well on his way to becoming the world’s best traveled person. The “billionaire” heir to a great plastics fortune had already visited 163 countries, but his real passion was finding ways to visit the world’s most challenging destinations—war torn cities, disputed territories, and remote or officially off-limits islands at the margins of the map. He earned rock-star status in the world of extreme travel by finding ingenious ways to bring the world’s most widely traveled people to difficult-to-reach and forbidden places. But when his story began to unravel, an eccentric group of hyper-well-traveled country collectors were left wondering how they had allowed their obsession to blind them to the warning signs that William Baekeland wasn’t who they thought he was.
Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth delves deep inside the subculture of country collecting, taking readers to danger zones like Mogadishu and geographical oddities like Norway’s nearly impossible-to-reach Bouvet Island. Along the way, this raucous tale of adventure and international intrigue illuminates the perils and pleasures of wanderlust while examining a fundamental question: why are some people compelled to travel, while others are content to stay home? Mad Travelers is a perceptive and at times hilarious account of how the pursuit of everywhere put the world’s greatest travelers at the mercy of a brilliant young con man.
Soon to be an HBO documentary.]]>1302The New York Times, which first published a brief account of this journey, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, The Washington Post, and dozens of other publications. He is the author of Footsteps of Federer: A Fan’s Pilgrimage Across 7 Swiss Cantons in 10 Acts and two other books: Bed, Breakfast & Drunken Threats: Dispatches from the Margins of Europe and Breakfast with Polygamists: Dispatches from the Margins of The Americas. ]]>0802–Levison Wood, author of Walking the Nile]]>0802—Richard Grant, author of American Nomads]]>0802—David Farley, author of An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town.]]>0802 –Thomas Swick, author of The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them]]>0802 –Noah Stryker, author of Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World]]>0802Parts Unknown in which Anthony Bourdain visits a dozen Fyre Festivals. –Mark Adams, author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time ]]>0802a problem. Normal people take their vacations in Cancun. Or Italy. Or Tahiti. And then there are the weirdos who pencil in a week in Mogadishu. Or a grueling trip to an obscure island in the Chukchi Sea. Seminara's tale isn't about geography. It's about the obsession that drives people to the ends of the Earth." –J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5a1f8922-5f83-4b3d-a1eb-ac96003ad06701Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press0101Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210801200229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Post Hill PressAU0120210801978164293871502021642938718039781642938715159781642938715140978164293871511BBHardback01Dinner With Eleanor011840022571A01Helen Niemtzow PrattPratt, Helen NiemtzowHelen NiemtzowPrattHelen’s Odyssey and Aristotle and Alexander. She married Eli Pritzker in 1988, and they live in Philadelphia with their cat, Thomas.]]>01eng176BIO026000BM2.110BIO01100010ARC00000020Eleanor Roosevelt; friends of Eleanor Roosevelt; Eleanor Roosevelt after FDR; immigration stories; stories about strong women; women in architecture; Pratt family; female architect; family saga; Jewish women in 20th century America01010102The saga of two strong women who built lives in America—culminating in a fateful dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt.
Dinner With Eleanor is the story of Helen Niemtzow Pratt. In the early part of the twentieth century, Helen’s grandmother, Hannah, is disgraced after a divorce. She leaves the comfort of her family in Russia to build a new life in Philadelphia. Two generations later, her granddaughter, Helen, is the first women in her architecture school class. Her beauty and intellect attract a scion from one of America’s prominent families. But, before they can wed, history’s most influential first lady must approve the union.
While the title refers to a pivotal moment in Helen’s young life, the book details how Helen came to have dinner with America’s beloved first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt.]]>1302Helen’s Odyssey and Aristotle and Alexander. She married Eli Pritzker in 1988, and they live in Philadelphia with their cat, Thomas.]]>0802Dinner with Eleanor. It brought me back to my humble beginnings in Jamaica and my own immigration to America. Just like Channah, my daugher Tiffany and I found ourselves in Philadelphia. Everything was new and foreign, and it was bitterly cold. But we had prayed for it, and I was determined to make the best of it." ]]>Rosalie Snape-Anderson0802Micheline Dib040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/bfa04357-acf3-40a8-904f-acb20037873501Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press0101Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202105312021080110243.99AUDAUZ0.0043.990.00202104250247.99NZDNZZ0.0047.990.0020210425Post Hill PressAU012021080197816429389820202164293898X039781642938982159781642938982140978164293898211BCB102Trade Paperback01Morris PIThe Men from Ice House Four011833924741A01Dion BaiaBaia, DionDionBaiaYour World with Neil Cavuto, Hannity & Colmes, The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly, Hannity, The Story with Martha MacCallum, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and Kennedy, among others.
It was during this time at his day job that he first wrote his 2018 book Blood in the Streets, as well as Morris PI: The Men from Ice House Four, both as screenplays, in an effort to break out from behind the camera and transcend beyond a technical capacity into cinema. After having no luck getting eyes on these works, and now with two additional ones written—an inner-city gothic horror script and a revenge western screenplay—he decided in 2012 to translate Blood in the Streets and Morris PI into novel form.
In 2011, Mr. Cavuto began using Dion in front of the camera on his show, where Dion acted as a comic relief in order to help promote the new channel the Fox Business Network. He periodically appeared, performing small, self-written comedic vignettes and encouraging viewers to call their television providers to “Demand It” (“It” being FBN).
That same year, he also began his podcasting career, and in 2014 cofounded the Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, a nostalgic deep-dive into the films that helped shaped his life. He also graduated to contributing weekly to panel segments on Your World, which he still continues to do to this day.
In 2018 he published his first novel, Blood in the Streets, with Post Hill Press, and in 2020 costarred in the John Schneider comedic car chase adventure film, Stand On It!.
Dion currently lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife Helen-Grace; their son Babe, an opinionated Yorkshire Terrier; and their cat Tofu Roberta.]]>01eng256FIC049050FA2.110FIC02206010FIC02201020Walter Morris; African-American Private Detective; Harlem Detective; Historical Fiction; Private Detective; Mystery; Harlem Private Detective; Mystery; African American Historical Fiction; Historical Thriller; Adventure; Action; Hard-Boiled; African-American Fiction; Blood in the Streets; Who-Done-It; Nazi; Pulp; Josefe Mengele; Albert Fish; World War II; Science Fiction; Urban Crime/Fiction; Serial; Horror; Zombies; 1940s New York City Private Detective; Chester Himes’ Harlem Cycle01010102While investigating the disappearance of a prominent tycoon’s young employee, Harlem Private Detective Walter Morris uncovers an absolutely horrifying plot that brings the final days of the second World War to the mean streets of Manhattan.
New York City, 1945. The war in Europe is in its final days and life in the Big Apple may soon be back to normal. Harlem Private Detective Walter Morris is hired by the reclusive tycoon, Cuthbert Hayden, to find his maid’s missing daughter. Walter begins a journey into the dark and seedy underworld of the city—through a world of back-alley nightclubs, gangsters, double agents, serial killers, black market surgeons, and scientifically engineered monsters…and that doesn’t even scratch the surface.
Morris slowly peels back the layers and stumbles across a horrifying plan to thwart the American fight in the war—a plot that brings Walter face to face with one of the most notorious mass murderers of all time, Doctor Josefe Mengele. Why is Mengele in New York? And what is the totten core? The answer to those questions and many more will change Walter’s life forever and leave a scar on the world—a wound from which it still hasn’t recovered.]]>1302Your World with Neil Cavuto, Hannity & Colmes, The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly, Hannity, The Story with Martha MacCallum, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and Kennedy, among others.
It was during this time at his day job that he first wrote his 2018 book Blood in the Streets, as well as Morris PI: The Men from Ice House Four, both as screenplays, in an effort to break out from behind the camera and transcend beyond a technical capacity into cinema. After having no luck getting eyes on these works, and now with two additional ones written—an inner-city gothic horror script and a revenge western screenplay—he decided in 2012 to translate Blood in the Streets and Morris PI into novel form.
In 2011, Mr. Cavuto began using Dion in front of the camera on his show, where Dion acted as a comic relief in order to help promote the new channel the Fox Business Network. He periodically appeared, performing small, self-written comedic vignettes and encouraging viewers to call their television providers to “Demand It” (“It” being FBN).
That same year, he also began his podcasting career, and in 2014 cofounded the Saturday Night Movie Sleepovers, a nostalgic deep-dive into the films that helped shaped his life. He also graduated to contributing weekly to panel segments on Your World, which he still continues to do to this day.
In 2018 he published his first novel, Blood in the Streets, with Post Hill Press, and in 2020 costarred in the John Schneider comedic car chase adventure film, Stand On It!.
Dion currently lives in Westchester, New York, with his wife Helen-Grace; their son Babe, an opinionated Yorkshire Terrier; and their cat Tofu Roberta.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ca5aad65-b2fd-4ea8-8728-ac96003ad37401Permuted PressSIMO162Permuted Press0101Permuted PressSIMO162Permuted Press022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202105242021080110229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Permuted PressAU0120210801978164293905702021642939056039781642939057159781642939057140978164293905711BBHardback01Barack Obama's Promised LandDeplorables Need Not Apply011834872801A01Jack CashillCashill, JackJackCashillBook TV ten times. He also produced a score of feature-length documentaries. Jack serves as executive editor of Ingram’s Magazine. He writes regularly for American Thinker, American Spectator, and WorldNetDaily and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies and has taught at a French university under the auspices of the Fulbright program.]]>01eng227BIO011000BGH2.110POL03000010POL00000020Barack Obama; Donald Trump; Joe Biden; White House; Michelle Obama; Racism; Affirmative Action; President; Fast and Furious; Tea Party; Solyndra; IRS Scandal; Trayvon Martin; Michael Brown; Ferguson; Beer Summit; Obamacare; Porculus; Affordable Care Act; Sarah Palin; John McCain; Pigford; Putin; Russia; Iraq; Stimulus; Eric Holder; Benghazi; Libya; John Brennan; Sharyl Attkisson; Black Lives Matter; Tea Party01010102Black Americans hoped Barack Obama would lead them to the “Promised Land,” and white Americans hoped he would reconcile the races, but by failing to understand his country or himself, Obama pulled the nation apart.
In his introduction to the world at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, then state senator Barack Obama insisted, “There is not a liberal America and a conservative America—there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America.” But as his latest memoir, A Promised Land, makes clear, Obama inhabits a smug, elite liberal America in which conservatives are not welcome. Indeed, from Obama’s perspective, their every thought, gesture, and vote is insincere and likely racist.
Although the Obama memoir is obsessed with race, Obama as president and as writer has refused to address the one problem he knew to be at the heart of America’s racial divide: the disintegration of the black family. While Obama and his peers have profited from the opportunities America offers, his lack of courage has doomed the black inner city to another generation of crime, drugs, and educational failure. To divert attention from his own failure, Obama has cast the right as the “other” in his ongoing melodrama—driving a wedge between black and white that will take generations to heal.]]>1302Book TV ten times. He also produced a score of feature-length documentaries. Jack serves as executive editor of Ingram’s Magazine. He writes regularly for American Thinker, American Spectator, and WorldNetDaily and has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, the Washington Post, and the Weekly Standard. Jack has a Ph.D. from Purdue University in American studies and has taught at a French university under the auspices of the Fulbright program.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/66de44ea-3040-48c4-889a-ac9d0036342401Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press0101Post Hill PressSIMO439Post Hill Press022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202106072021080110246.99AUDAUZ0.0046.990.00202104250251.99NZDNZZ0.0051.990.0020210425Post Hill PressAU0120210801978164313730802021643137301039781643137308159781643137308140978164313730811BBHardback01It's Not About the GunLessons from My Global Career as a Female FBI Agent011817177611A01Kathy StearmanStearman, KathyKathyStearmanKathy Stearman is a retired FBI Special Agent who spent several years as head of FBI offices in south-central Asia and China. This is her first book. ]]>01eng352BIO026000BM2.110BIO02200010SOC00400020FBI;Federal Bureau of Investigation;agent;special agent;female agent;female;man's world;discrimination;sexism;misogyny;FBI academy;FBI Legal Attaché;travel;career;female identity;United States;United States of America;01010102After spending more than twenty-six years as a Special Agent with the FBI, Kathy Stearman recounts the global experiences that shaped her life—and the mixed feelings that she now holds about the sacrifices she had to make to survive in a man’s world.
When former FBI Agent Kathy Stearman read in the New York Times that sixteen women were suing the FBI for discrimination at the training academy, she was surprised to see the women come forward—no one ever had before. But the truth behind their accusations resonated.
After a twenty-six-year career in the Bureau, Kathy Stearman knows from personal experience that this type of behavior has been prevalent for decades. Stearman’s It’s Not About the Gun examines the influence of attitude and gender in her journey to becoming FBI Legal Attaché, the most senior FBI representative in a foreign office.
When she entered the FBI Academy in 1987, Stearman was one of about 600 women in a force of 10,000 agents. While there, she evolved into an assertive woman, working her way up the ranks and across the globe to hold positions that very few women have held before. And yet, even at the height of her career, Stearman had to check herself to make sure that she never appeared weak, inferior, or afraid. The accepted attitude for women in power has long been cool, calm, and in control—and sometimes that means coming across as cold and emotionless.
Stearman changed for the FBI, but she longs for a different path for future women of the Bureau. If the system changes, then women can remain constant, valuing their female identity and nurturing the people they truly are. In It's Not About the Gun, Stearman describes how she was viewed as a woman and an American overseas, and how her perception of her country and the FBI, observed from the optics of distance, has evolved.]]>1302Kathy Stearman is a retired FBI Special Agent who spent several years as head of FBI offices in south-central Asia and China. This is her first book. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8e0ef9bc-0cbc-459b-b74b-ac6c003ad50401Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books0101Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210801120245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Pegasus BooksAU0120210801978164313764303021643137646039781643137643159781643137643140978164313764311BCB102Trade Paperback01How to Die in SpaceA Journey Through Dangerous Astrophysical Phenomena011716055241A01Paul M. SutterSutter, Paul M.Paul M.SutterYour Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence. He spent three years at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics as the Postdoctoral Fellow in Next-Generation Cosmic Probes and currently is a Visiting Scholar at Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics in Columbus, Ohio, where he hosts the popular podcast “Ask a Spaceman!”]]>01eng336SCI005000PHVB2.110SCI00400010SCI09800020space;universe;astrophysics;dangerous;death;science;star;black hole;creation;galaxy;space travel;aliens;big bang;particles;dying stars;cosmos;paul m. sutter;wormhole;comets;sun;planets;rocket;spacesuit;air;satellite;space station;burn;SpaceX;Elon Musk;Neil deGrasse Tyson;01010102A brilliant and breathtakingly vivid tour of the universe, describing the physics of the dangerous, the deadly, and the scary in the cosmos.
So you’ve fallen in love with space and now you want to see it for yourself, huh? You want to witness the birth of a star, or visit the black hole at the center of our galaxy? You want to know if there are aliens out there, or how to travel through a wormhole? You want the wonders of the universe revealed before your very eyes?
Well stop, because all that will probably kill you.
From mundane comets in our solar backyard to exotic remnants of the Big Bang, from dying stars to young galaxies, the universe may be beautiful, but it’s treacherous. Through metaphors and straightforward language, it breathes life into astrophysics, unveiling how particles and forces and fields interplay to create the drama in the heavens above us.]]>1302Your Place in the Universe: Understanding Our Big, Messy Existence. He spent three years at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics as the Postdoctoral Fellow in Next-Generation Cosmic Probes and currently is a Visiting Scholar at Ohio State University’s Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics in Columbus, Ohio, where he hosts the popular podcast “Ask a Spaceman!”]]>0802Publishers Weekly (starred)0802Kirkus Reviews0802Booklist0802Publishers Weekly (starred) [Praise for Paul M. Sutter, PhD]0802Tariq Malik, Space.com [Praise for Paul M. Sutter, PhD]0802Seth Shostak, senior astronomer, SETI Institute [Praise for Paul M. Sutter, PhD]040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e7f1004d-322e-42e3-a544-ac88003ad3b301Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books0101Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm031.3in0333.02mm080.73lb0811.68oz08331.12grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021041220210801200229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Pegasus BooksAU0120210801978164313765002021643137654039781643137650159781643137650140978164313765011BCB102Trade Paperback01They Are Already HereUFO Culture and Why We See Saucers011721634601A01Sarah ScolesScoles, SarahSarahScolesThe Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SETI project. She lives in Denver, Colorado.]]>01eng304OCC025000VXQB2.110SCI00400010SOC02200020UFO;aliens;aliens;unexplained phenomenon;the watchtower;occult;hauntings;Mulder;the x-files;monolith;science;astronomy;scientific mysteries;physics;contract;carl sagan;neil degrasse tyson;jill tarter;Arecibo;SETI;satelite;UFOlogy;Area 51;roswell;01010102An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery—both terrestrial and cosmic.
More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once again. On December 17, 2017, the New York Times ran a front-page story about an approximately five-year Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The article hinted, and its sources clearly said in subsequent television interviews, that some of the ships in question couldn’t be linked to any country. The implication, of course, was that they might be linked to other solar systems.
The UFO community—those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analyzing supposed flying saucers (or triangles or chevrons) for years—was surprisingly skeptical of the revelation. Their incredulity and doubt rippled across the internet. Many of the people most invested in UFO reality weren’t really buying it. And as Scoles did her own digging, she ventured to dark, conspiracy-filled corners of the internet, to a former paranormal research center in Utah, and to the hallways of the Pentagon.
In They Are Already Here we meet the bigwigs, the scrappy upstarts, the field investigators, the rational people, and the unhinged kooks of this sprawling community. How do they interact with each other? How do they interact with “anomalous phenomena”? And how do they (as any group must) reflect the politics and culture of the larger world around them?
We will travel along the Extraterrestrial Highway (next to Area 51) and visit the UFO Watchtower, where seeking lights in the sky is more of a spiritual quest than a “gotcha” one. We meet someone who, for a while, believes they may have communicated with aliens. Where do these alleged encounters stem from? What are the emotional effects on the experiencers? ]]>1302The Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SETI project. She lives in Denver, Colorado.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5c2b11a4-7cf2-47a1-b271-acb90037453f01Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books0101Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210801120229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Pegasus BooksAU0120210801978164313767402021643137670039781643137674159781643137674140978164313767411BCB102Trade Paperback01A Blissful FeastABlissful Feast011721614971A01Teresa LustLust, TeresaTeresaLustTeresa Lust is the author of Pass the Polenta: and Other Writings from the Kitchen. She is a graduate of Washington State University and holds a master's degree from Dartmouth College. Lust currently teaches Italian for the Rassias Center for World Languages at Dartmouth and teaches cooking classes. She lives in New Hampshire.]]>01eng304CKB047000WBN2.110CKB03000010TRV00911020italian cooking;home cooking;home style food;italy;tuscan cooking;asparagus;anchovies;bagna cuda;polenta;pass the polenta;MFK Fisher;Julia Child;My Life in France;baking;bread baking;grissini;nigella lawson;farm to table;gabrielle hamilton;female chef;female cook;mothers and daughters;immigrant stories;salt; fat; acid; heat;kitchen culture;homemade pasta;vinter;wine;female vinters;female wineries;tuscan wine;piedmontese;01010102A delicious journey through Italy and a celebration of the relationship between family and food.
Moving from the Italian Piedmont to the Maremma and then to Le Marche, chef Teresa Lust interweaves portraits of the people who served as her culinary guides with cultural and natural history in this charming exploration of authentic Italian cuisine.
We learn how to prepare bagna cauda—a robust dipping sauce of anchovies, garlic, and olive oil—with Lust’s relatives outside Torino. We learn about making hand-stretched grissini, Italy’s iconic breadstick, the secrets of whipping up zabaione, a classic dessert of ethereal foam made with egg yolks, sugar, and marsala. Then there is acquacotta, a rustic soup that nourished generations of the area’s shepherds and cowhands. In the town of Camerano, an eighty-year-old woman reveals the art of hand-rolling pasta with a three-foot rolling pin.
Underpinning Lust’s travels is our journey from chef to cook, mirroring the fact that Italians have been masters of home cooking for generations, so they are an obvious source of inspiration. Today, more and more people are rediscovering the pleasures of cooking at home, and Lust’s account—and wonderful recipes—will help readers bring an Italian sensibility to their home tables.]]>1302Teresa Lust is the author of Pass the Polenta: and Other Writings from the Kitchen. She is a graduate of Washington State University and holds a master's degree from Dartmouth College. Lust currently teaches Italian for the Rassias Center for World Languages at Dartmouth and teaches cooking classes. She lives in New Hampshire.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5c7d89ff-1744-4eaf-a178-ac96003ae25601Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books0101Pegasus BooksSIMO740Pegasus Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210801120229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Pegasus BooksAU0120210801978164411208302021644112086039781644112083159781644112083140978164411208311BCB102Trade Paperback01Crazy Wisdom of the YoginiTeachings of the Kashmiri Mahamudra Tradition011804003571A01Daniel OdierOdier, DanielDanielOdierTantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love and many other books, including Yoga Spandakarika: The Sacred Texts at the Heart of Tantra. He lives in Switzerland.]]>01eng160OCC036050VX2.110REL03202010OCC04100020GODDESS WORSHIP;MYTHOLOGY;RITUALS; MEDITATIONS;KASHMIRI;SHAIVISM;LEFT HAND PATH; HINDU;TANTRA;DEVOTIONAL;CHANTS;MUDRAS;THIRD EYE; GODDESS;DURGA;FEMININE POWER;EASTERN SPRITUAL TRADITIONS;TANTRA;TANTRIC KALI;SHAKTI;YOGA SPANDAKARIKA;TANTRIC QUEST;KASHMIRI YOGINI TRADITION;THE GODDESS WITHIN;SHIVA SUTRAS;YOGA;MEDITATIONS;ZEN;EASTERN PHILOSOPHY;INDIA;SELF-REALIZATION;AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGI;MASTER LALITA DEVI;HIMALAYAN FOREST;MYSTICAL JOURNEY;TRANSCEDN EGO;TANTRIC SEX;MAHAMUDRA;YOGA OF EMOTIONS01010102 • Shares vivid, experiential descriptions of the author’s sessions with master Lalita Devi wherein she imparted the essential principles of the Mahamudra to him physically, verbally, and energetically
• Presents new translations of the most significant sacred books, including the Shiva Sutras, the Pratybhijna Hrdayam Sutra, and the Spandakarika, each presented in language that preserves their spontaneous mystic flow
• Pairs the author’s intellectual study of the sacred texts with direct transmissions from his teacher, with each perspective shedding light on the other
In 1975, in an isolated Himalayan forest, Daniel Odier met Lalita Devi, a Tantric yogini who took him on a mystical journey beyond the limits of sexual experience to transcend the ego, recognize the true self, and rediscover the Divine nature of absolute love. Now, after decades of integrating the profound wisdom of his master, Odier shares the secret teachings and self-realization practices of the Kashmiri Mahamudra (meditation on the mind itself) and the Pratyabhijna (the School of Sudden Recognition).
The author offers vivid, experiential descriptions of his sessions with Lalita Devi wherein she imparted the essential principles of the Mahamudra and the yoga of emotions to him physically, verbally, and energetically. Revealing how his teacher knew the principal texts of Kashmiri Shivaism by heart, he offers new translations of the most significant sacred books, including the Shiva Sutras, the Pratybhijna Hrdayam Sutra, and the Spandakarika as well as many chants and poems from the yogini tradition, each presented in language that preserves their spontaneous mystic flow and restores their original ancient female origins.
Sharing both the author’s intellectual study of these texts as well as his direct transmissions from his teacher, with each perspective shedding light on the other, this book offers a profound inside look at authentic Tantric teachings.]]>1302Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love and Tantric Kali. He lives in Switzerland.]]>2302 When Lalita was teaching me visualizations, her energy was projected onto me and I acquired, right from the first transmissions on, the power to instantly see the images that she was describing to me. . . . The transmission took place by touch, one hand on the heart, by the eyes, and by words. In the exact order indicated by Abhinavagupta.
As preliminary practices for the realization of Mahamudra, the visualizations and the yoga of the lineage are very important because they spatialize the body, the mind, and the emotions. They allow you to enjoy a relaxed body of light, a mind that is in its natural state: silent and as open as space, plus emotions that are fluid and quick, not having to be controlled or filtered. Everything can come about in the natural state: no more fear, no goal to reach, no projection, no hope because at every moment you are fulfilled. Presence shows you that you never lack anything.
“This morning I’m going to transmit Kumari’s visualization to you. . . . Your eyes in mine! The breath slow and deep without the slightest variation in rhythm and intensity. Heart to heart!
“You are seated on a flat, round rock in the middle of a lake. Your sacrum is in contact with the cool water. The energy of the water goes up your spine and diffuses into your whole body. In order to balance the masculine energy and the feminine energy and become Bhairava / Bhairavi visualize yourself as a woman. Starting with the perineum, very cool, a yoni opens, a uterus opens. Your heart vibrates and creates breasts. You are identical with me. The subtle feminine vibration spreads through all your cells. You are transforming yourself - I see it in your eyes.
“A beautiful night, a deep blue sky. You see the shore of the lake. A ruby appears, floating in space. You contemplate it, in awe.
“Suddenly the ruby becomes the very beautiful goddess Kumari with a body of transparent rubies. I am Kumari. My organs, my muscles, my bones, my tendons, all the fluids of my body are a beautiful transparent red. I begin walking on the water and I dance the Tandava as I approach you.
“I come to the flat rock and I sit facing you. The red energy begins to invade your body and your organs. Your brain is bathed in the ruby power. A single color. Total presence.
“I join my delicate hands together, placing them on your navel. My breath enters into you. You open totally, without fear, muscles relaxed. My hands enter into you very gently. They surround your uterus and take it out of your body. I place it in the cool water of the lake. See how it distends, taking on marvelous, light colors. No memory remains. It has just come into form. It finds once again its original state.
“My hands come back inside your body. My hands take out your yoni and your ovaries and place them in the cool water. They return once again to their original state with delicious colors. The past dissolves. Innocence is found again.
“I continue to take out organs one after the other. You see all these organs floating and freeing themselves in happiness.
“Now I remove your diaphragm which is going to free up your breath, your lungs, and your heart. They all throb and beat in the water’s coolness. They free themselves from the past, finding once again the delicacy and color of the organs of a newborn child.
“Moving further up, I take out your tongue, your eyes, finally your brain and place them in the water. They too find this peaceful, colored state. Your brain lets go like a handful of oatmeal thrown into boiling water. It is shot through with rainbows. No more memory, no more projections, no more expectations. It is perfect, fulfilled and spacious. Your eyes have not yet seen anything of the world. They are open wide, innocent.
“Contemplate the beauty of your organs and feel the spatiality of your body bathed in this magnificent red light. Your body is nothing but space. It is no different from mine. There is only one body, which is the cosmos.
“I take your uterus from the water and put it back in your body. What coolness! What wisdom! Little by little I replace the other organs and you begin to feel a new communication among them, an enchantment, a subtle quivering that increases as I fill your body with organic space. This is the key to the wonderment. Inner beauty!
“Even when the brain is put back in place it is nothing other than the orgasmic union of the body with the cosmos. You are the cosmos but your thinking mind does not say, ‘I am the cosmos’.”
Lalita slides onto my legs and heart to heart, belly to belly, lips to lips, in a single look she penetrates me. Joined in flamboyance, beyond time. Then she gets up suddenly, begins dancing on the waves, moving away and flowing into the ruby that is floating above the shore of the lake.
When the vision fades, I find myself still opposite her. Her face is illuminated with a light smile. During the transmissions, totally taken by her magic, I never asked any questions. I drank in the energy as the most precious of nectars. Her words incised themselves into me. I saw them as multiple lingams emerging from yonis, as if from sacred spaces, from invisible temples. No doubt it was this fascination that made her smile. The perfume of her body intoxicated me. I had the impression of moving through a garden of jasmine and roses. I had no doubt that the teaching was transmitted also through the olfactory sense, an ability that developed as I visualized myself as a woman, as if the sensory range extended to infinity. . . .]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/71a23c4d-f9cf-448f-9ed7-ac3b0026e81d01Inner TraditionsSIMO355Inner Traditions0101Inner TraditionsSIMO355Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.38in02136.65mm27159781644112090Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108010226.99AUDAUZ0.0026.990.00202104250229.99NZDNZZ0.0029.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978164411235902021644112353039781644112359159781644112359140978164411235911BCB102Trade Paperback01Grandmother AyahuascaPlant Medicine and the Psychedelic Brain011803985431A01Christian FunderFunder, ChristianChristianFunder01eng264OCC039000VX2.110OCC01100010OCC03603020THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL OF AYAHUASCA;AYAHUASCA AFFECTS ON THE BRAIN;SHAMANISM STUDIES;SHAMANISM BOOKS;AYAHUASCA BOOKS;PSYCHEDELIC BOOKS 2021;INTERVIEWS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN AYAHUASCA;SPIRIT DOCTOR;PLANT MEDICINE; PSYCHOTRIA VIRIDIS;BANISTERIOPSIS CAAPI;SHAMANS OF PERUVIAN AMAZON;ABUELA01010102 • Examines how ayahuasca affects the brain from a neuroscientific perspective and how its effects on consciousness relate to ancient esoteric texts
• Shares interviews with people who have experienced ayahuasca’s powerful “spirit doctor” effects and the author’s own ayahuasca journey from suicidal depression to a soul at peace
• Investigates how ayahuasca is interwoven with the ancient practices of Amazonian shamanism
Brewed from a combination of two plants--the leaves of Psychotria viridis and the vine stalks of Banisteriopsis caapi--ayahuasca has been used for millennia by indigenous tribes throughout the Upper Amazon for healing and spiritual exploration. The shamans of the Peruvian Amazon call the plant spirit within the vine Abuela Ayahuasca, Grandmother Ayahuasca. She is said to be a mother spirit of nature who provides guidance and healing to those who work with her.
Exploring the history, lore, traditional use, psychoactive effects, and current scientific studies of this powerful hallucinogen, Christian Funder reveals how Grandmother Ayahuasca is a profound healer, wise teacher, and life-changing guide. Examining ayahuasca from a neuroscientific perspective, the author looks at recent research on the effects of DMT--one of the psychoactive compounds in ayahuasca--as well as fMRI studies of brain activity during altered states. He explores these findings as they relate to the teachings on unified states of consciousness in ancient esoteric texts and to Aldous Huxley’s theory of psychedelics inhibiting the “reducing valve” mechanism of the brain.
Sharing interviews with people who have experienced ayahuasca’s powerful “spirit doctor” effects, Funder also details his own revolutionary ayahuasca healing journey from suicidal depression to a soul at peace. He explores ayahuasca’s relationship to indigenous Amazonian shamanism, including an inside look at the Shipibo tribe and the healing songs known as icaros. Drawing on the work of Jeremy Narby, he investigates the consciousness of nature that shamans access through the use of ayahuasca and other ancient plant medicines such as San Pedro.
Offering a holistic picture of ayahuasca--from science to spirit--the author shows that this venerated hallucinogenic tea has immense therapeutic potential and just might be the long-lost shamanic connection to the sacred Gaian mind.]]>13022302From Chapter 3. The Psychedelic Brain
The Neurobiology
The experience of being lost in mind-wandering is something that makes up a considerable part of most human lives. If one is not busied with any immediate task that requires one’s undivided attention, the mind often begins to wander. Attention is drawn inwards and one becomes rather oblivious to the surrounding environment, hopping from one passing thought to the next.
Neuroscientific research has revealed that this mental behavior activates specific areas of the brain. These activated areas make up an interconnected group of brain structures which has come to be known as the default mode network (DMN). This network of brain regions seems to show less activity when one is performing a task, but higher levels of activity when one is awake, not involved in any specific exercise and left undirected to think to themselves. It is during these times that one often finds oneself engaged in internal monologue, daydreaming, recalling memories, envisioning the future and thinking about others.4 Default mode network activity is generally characterized by all the mental processes associated with spontaneous thinking without any explicit goal of thinking in mind. . . .
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Several ayahuasca studies have been investigating its effect on human consciousness. In 2015 an experiment showed, as often found in trials with psilocybin, a “…significant decrease in activity through most parts of the DMN.”29 Another clinical research study with ayahuasca has been conducted by Jordi Riba and his research team. They hypothesized that insights and visions arise because more information is able to access consciousness than in normal waking consciousness, and their data confirmed this theory. As the ayahuasca dose increased the filtering brain mechanism decreased, and these decreases were statistically significant.30 This supports the notion that ayahuasca, like psilocybin, also allows this chaotic and interconnected state of cognition.
Recent research, however, has found something quite unique in an experiment with DMT. This experiment took place in November 2019 at the National Institute for Health Research Imperial Clinical Research Facility. The work was led by researchers from the recently developed Centre for Psychedelic Research in Imperial College, London. It was a placebo-controlled DMT research study overseen by David Nutt and conducted by Robin Carhart-Harris and Ph.D. candidate, Christopher Timmermann.(31)
Thirteen healthy volunteers were injected with intravenous DMT in a placebo-controlled trial, and their brain activity was measured with multivariate electroencephalography (EEG). Caps with electrodes were fitted on the head of the volunteers to measure the brain’s electrical activity before, during and after the infusion of DMT. Unlike oral ingestion of ayahuasca, the intravenous psychedelic experience is much shorter with the peak lasting approximately 10 minutes. The analysis revealed a significant suppression of alpha waves, which is the prominent electrical rhythm of the awake and resting human brain. They also found that the brain showed increased signal complexity and diversity. The normal hierarchical and ordered structure of the brain subsides, and brain activity thus becomes more chaotic and less predictable. As previously mentioned, both of these findings are consistent in neuroimaging research with psychedelics.
A third finding, however, was unique to this DMT-study. The most intense part of the experience was not only characterized by a significant drop in alpha waves, but an increase in delta and theta waves, and with a striking rhythmicity. Timmermann writes that this "delta-blip" may indicate the breakthrough experience of DMT: “. . . a perceptual mechanism by which the brain switches from the process of exogenously incoming information to a state in which processing is endogenously-driven, as in classic REM sleep dreaming.”(32) Timmermann and Carhart-Harris wrote in the final section of the study that this is only the first step along a fascinating road that may yield important insights into the relationship between brain activity and consciousness.
Delta and theta brain waves are, unlike alpha waves, slower and typically associated with dreaming and sleep, and have recently come to be associated with death experiences. In an EEG study published in PNAS, researchers observed a similar rhythmic surge of brain activity just moments before death.(33) It must be mentioned that the study was conducted on rats, not humans. In this study, the neuroscientists distinguish between four distinct stages of brain death. The second stage (CAS2) lasts about 6 seconds and ends with a burst in low-frequency delta brain waves, strikingly similar to the "delta-blip" of the DMT-study. In this stage, all other brain waves, except this one particular type of delta wave, almost flatlines. Main author of the article, Josipovic, writes that it is similar to the: “. . . highly lucid and realer-than-real mental experiences reported by near-death survivors.”(34)
If the data from this mouse experiment is compared with data from the DMT experiment, one will notice a stunning similarity in brain wave activity. The "delta-blip" of the human brain on DMT and that of the dying mouse seem to be scarily similar.
Perhaps it is not so odd that the indigenous Peruvian Amazonians call ayahuasca the "vine of the dead." Perhaps the DMT-experience somehow mimics the actual experience of dying. The Huichol tribe members believe that the shaman, through his shift in consciousness, can access what they call Nierika, which translates to "cosmic mirror," "passageway between worlds," or "face of deity," and thus bring back knowledge from the "other side." This doorway normally remains hidden until death, but the elected shaman is said to be able to access this door early to bring back knowledge and healing from the spirit world; a walking dead if you will. The Huichol is far from the only shamanic tribe with this belief of the shaman being able to access the "realm of the dead."]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e7088d5b-c37a-40a5-a143-ac3b0026f02401Park Street PressSIMO364Park Street Press0101Park Street PressSIMO364Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm27159781644112366Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108010232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250234.99NZDNZZ0.0034.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978164411265602021644112655039781644112656159781644112656140978164411265611BCB102Trade Paperback01The Last Ecstasy of LifeTheLast Ecstasy of LifeCeltic Mysteries of Death and Dying011803983571A01Phyllida Anam-ÁireAnam-Áire, PhyllidaPhyllidaAnam-ÁireA Celtic Book of Dying, Phyllida lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.]]>01eng176OCC036010VX2.110SEL01000010REL11700020SACRED STAGES OF DEATH;DYING PROCESS;CELTIC SPRITUALITY;ANAM-AIRE;SHADOW WORK;PAST WOUNDS;ECSTATIC TRANSITION;NEXT LIFE;EXERCISES AND VISUALIZATIONS TO LET GO OF NEGATIVE EMOTIONS;HUMAN ENERGY FIELD;SOUL’S JOURNEY;AITES;BARDOS;CELTIC TRADITIONS;MIDWIFE;SACRED GUARDIAN OF LIFE;NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE;PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL SHADOWS;CELTIC BOOK OF DYING;TRAVELLING WITH THE DEAD;CELTIC RELIGIONS;RUNES;EMPATH;SECRET WISDOM;DRUIDS;DRUIDRY;CELTIC MAGIC;WITCHCRAFT;MYSTICISM;LIVE IN THE PRESENT01010102anam-áire
• Emphasizes how shadow work, integrating past wounds, and healing our ancestry allows us to facilitate the ecstatic transition into the next life
• Offers exercises and visualizations to help us integrate emotions like anger and grief, which impact the soul’s readiness to leave the body when the time comes
• Discusses what happens to our cells when we die with regard to the human energy field and explores the soul’s journey through the aítes or bardos
In the Celtic tradition dying is considered an act of birthing, of our consciousness passing from this life to the next. The role of an anam-áire is that of a midwife, a sacred guardian of life force, who supports a dying person by witnessing their journey.
Informed by an early near-death experience and her own life’s work, Phyllida Anam-Áire offers an intimate overview of the sacred stages of the death and dying process seen through the lens of her Celtic heritage. Showing that we live on after our body ceases to exist, she takes a look at dying from the point of view of our human energy field, and discusses what happens to our cells when we die with regard to the elements.
Phyllida emphasizes how important it is to work with our psycho-spiritual shadows and wounds and resolve and integrate as much of our pain as possible in this life, so that we may move on unencumbered and gracefully into our next existence. She explains how healing our ancestry before leaving the body eases not only our transition but also sets future generations free from the pain, guilt, and shame held in our family patterns. Including exercises and visualizations, the author suggests ways to integrate suppressed emotions, which impact the soul’s readiness to leave the body when the time comes. She also shares Celtic blessings and poems to support the process of dying and grieving and stresses that what truly matters is the capacity for authentic compassionate love--in life, in death, and after. She addresses the astral body and the soul’s journey through the aítes or bardos and reveals how, when the soul is fully prepared to leave its material form, the dying individual experiences spiritual ecstasy.
Providing a deep spiritual understanding of the dying process and the afterlife, she shows how we can experience the last ecstasy in our present life not only by releasing our fear of death and preparing ourselves but also by living consciously and compassionately until the final moment arrives.]]>1302A Celtic Book of Dying, Phyllida lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.]]>2302From Part 2: The Elements Leaving the Dying Form
What Happens to the Cells in the Body When We Are Dying
When we are dying, something very special happens in our sacred physicality to support the soul leaving the body. The electromagnetic energy centres in the body begin to lose their inner strength. I believe that this is when the light begins to dim in the cells of the body. Our full biological attention is given over to the dying process. When the light starts to diminish, the cell can no longer hold the energy and so deterioration begins. I was allowed to experience this dying process myself in meditation whilst still in good health.
As the life force leaves the body from the feet upwards, the light also leaves in this direction and so the trillions of cells in the whole body begin to sing the requiem for the form that is undergoing this transformation. The way I described this surreal experience was as if the sounding tones and hues from the exiting energy fields ascended, flowed into the music of the spheres back into formlessness and into consciousness again. This was for me, an extraordinary feeling, as if the physicality was also going through its own enlightenment. When the body dies and when the life force no longer supports the deteriorating cellular systems, the light goes out literally and the outer house is in darkness. The body is without the divine activator as the soul has returned to the great illumination.
During this Near--Death Experience I was fully aware of each movement within my physiology, each impulse. Each tiny movement was felt to a heightened degree and as the lights were dimming in the centre of my cellular system I knew I was in control and could stop the process at any time using a certain kind of oojay breath, known as a sound or snoring breath, thus enlivening the form again. I believe that as the light travels through the body, leaving the body bereft of any voluntary movement, the heart still feels the magnificence of life force and continues supporting the soul in its last grand exit. The heart eventually also gives up the ghost or soul and bows to the angel of death. The Universal Heart then wraps the entity in deep, penetrating Love.
As the body’s energy field or consciousness no longer has enough magnetism to hold onto the physical, to remain earthed, it moves in an anti--clockwise spiralling direction towards the top of the head, the third eye chakra. Then the state of consciousness changes as the soul is now less earthed and we experience what we call ‘the tunnel experience’. This is the place where, if there is unfinished business from the life just lived, we will review this life in the light of grace and non--judgment. It is the place of so called darkness, as we have not yet fully ascended. At this stage we might not be able to take in the full electrical charge of light, as we may still be attached to ego mind where we experience the pain we inflicted on others. This stage is very short as we are still in transit to the illuminative light. The more we can keep our undivided attention on the light the more we will spiral upwards. If we have not been disciplined in our life journeys, we will be distracted very easily at this stage of our dying. But as light attracts light, and we no longer have the magnet energy to draw us or keep us attached to earth, or to the life just lived, we will be guided by the greater light.
A Physiology of Soul
So maybe we can talk about the physiology, the homing place of life force within our biology as the electromagnetic light and life force or even love force that imbues all creation with movement and being. Maybe we can conclude that the soul has its being in the very nuclei, the very photons of light in the cellular structure of our human physicality. It is the spiritual DNA that lights up the whole of creation and us too.
May we learn to live Love so that the light can shine in the cells of our bodies and so lighten our own inner worlds of consciousness, infiltrate our biology and then affect the worlds of the collective.
The egg of possibility Hatches in our readiness To bring our creative soul Into the soil of our ancestors. Thus contributing to the telling of A brand new story Not only for our own next earthing But also for our children's children To the seventh generations.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/877b0420-5bfd-4e15-bc38-ac3b002701bf01Findhorn PressSIMO562Findhorn Press0101Findhorn PressSIMO562Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ017.75in01196.85mm025in02127mm27159781644112663Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108010222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978164411286102021644112868039781644112861159781644112861140978164411286111BCB102Trade Paperback01Yoga of Courage and CompassionConscious Breathing and Guided Meditation011804009481A01William YangYang, WilliamWilliamYang01eng112HEA025000VX2.110OCC01000010SEL03200020FEARLESS LIVING;BREATHWORK;GENTLE YOGA;STRETCHING;GENTLE MOVEMENT;MEDITATION;CONSCIOUS BREATHING;BYPASS EGO-CENTERED MIND;OPEN HEART;LIVE IN THE PRESENT;DEATH;DYING;AFTER-LIFE;INNER STILLNESS;FACING THE END OF LIFE;THE ART OF DYING;LOVE AND LOSS;GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT;RELATIONSHIPS;FAMILY;FORGIVENESS;ANXIETY SURROUNDING DEATH;LIVE LIFE FULLY;PRESENT MOMENT;CONFIDENCE;YOGA;YOGA FOR CANCER;MEDITATIONS FOR CANCER;MEDITATION EXERCISES;COURAGE AND COMPASSION;TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE;SOCIOLOGY OF DEATH01010102 • Shares a series of simple, practical, and profound conscious breathing, movement, and meditation exercises that help you bypass the ego-centered mind, open your heart, and live in the present moment
• Developed through the author’s decades of work with cancer patients
When we face death, we learn to release the small anxieties and insecurities that can afflict us in daily life and live life fully in the present moment. Without the ego-shattering blow of a terminal diagnosis, these life-giving practices usually only come about after decades of spiritual practice. However, it is possible to embrace these lessons from the dying and discover our own gentle confidence, inner stillness, and heart-centered way of being long before we face the end of life.
Through decades of teaching yoga and meditation to cancer patients, William Yang witnessed hundreds of breakthroughs into radical presence and open-heartedness. In many ways, his patients taught him more than he taught them. From this collaboration with the sick and dying, Yang developed a series of simple, practical, and profound conscious breathing, movement, and meditation exercises that help to bypass the ego-centered mind, open the heart, and live fearlessly in the present moment. Yang’s exercises begin with an invitation to rediscover a natural and unforced way of breathing, so we can let go of our anxious ego and let life in again. From there, enlarging the sequence step by step, the author focuses on grounding and connecting with Mother Earth, working with the spine to develop a new sense of self-confidence, and opening the heart to love again.
As we shed elements of the stressed, anxious person we once were, we are able to be more attuned to the world around us in a loving and caring way. Through the lessons learned from his cancer patients, Yang shows how, with courage and compassion, we can live and love without reservation at any time in our lives.]]>13022302From Chapter 9. Being Silent: Healing the World by Being Present
The main characteristic of a Bodhisattva is her quality of “presence,” as she is fully present in the here and now. This presence is tender, modest, and powerful at the same time. It has a quality of nakedness as it is not dressed in impressive or outstanding characteristics.
If she is there you feel yourself surrounded by a loving presence, a kind of energy that you can only feel after you became quiet of wanting it. It is a “healing” energy in the truest sense, as it heals the divisive actions of the mind. It is an energy that fills the fissures and gaps in the heart of mankind. A Bodhisattva brings peace into this world not as a political solution but as a living experience. She is a grassroots peacekeeper, kind yet fearless.
She brings light into this world not out of a crusade against the dark and evil forces, but out of sheer joy of radiating its true essence in all directions and in every situation.
She brings healing into this world not out of fear of sickness and death, but out of bringing people back to their true nature, their original pureness: the inner light of their own soul, heart, and mind.
The yoga of courage and compassion is in fact a pilgrimage to arrive at this inner light and to become a “light unto this world.” It is not a pilgrimage to visit some holy place or meet a holy man. It is all about becoming your own true self: becoming a Bodhisattva. It is about becoming a Buddha, becoming Christ.
As long as we do not have the courage to cross the distance that separates us from a Bodhisattva, a Buddha, and Christ we remain imprisoned in our own dualistic mind. As long as we do not have the courage and the power to break through the walls that separate the Buddha and the Christ, Buddhism and Christianity, East and West or North and South, peace will not have a chance. As long as we need to preserve our cherished identities of being so different from each other--Jew, Muslim, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist--we shall never be able to identify our deepest and innermost nature. In the depth of our being we are brothers and sisters, we are all one. Only from the depths of our being can we be truly loving and compassionate.
To become “one” is the final goal of our pilgrimage. Only then “peace will have a chance.” Inner peace and world peace will then be fundamentally one and the same, as the one cannot possibly exist without the other. This may still seem a distant ideal, but it is the only option for survival as a human race.
True peacekeeping is training our bodies and minds in such a way that peace becomes a living experience: “the most natural gift of our souls.”
This yoga of courage and compassion may guide your way into and right through your body/mind in order to experience the inner Light of Peace. It may then help you to guide this Light inside out into this world until the last blade of grass is touched by You.
Healing the World by Being Present
Buddha’s Basic Breathing Meditation
You can do this breathing meditation in any position you feel comfortable in.
Observe and follow your breath. Feel how the air flows through your nostrils when you breathe in and how it flows out again when you breathe out.
Do this 10 times.
If your mind wanders off, begin again.
Meditative Breathing Exercise
Sit straight on a chair or a cushion on the floor. Feel yourself well connected with the earth beneath you.
Put your right hand in your left hand. The tips of your thumbs lightly touch each other.
The tip of your tongue lightly touches your palate just behind the front teeth. Generate the bowl.
Generate the center within the space of the bowl. Visualize it radiating white light.
Generate a thread of white light through your spinal column.
Generate the energy field within and around your body.
Open your heart of courage and compassion.
Visualize a beautiful, soft white light in the spot between--and a little above--your eyes.
Feel an inner connection between the light in the center of your bowl and the light in between your eyes.
Breathe in and go with your attention from within the center in your bowl through your spine, over the midline of your head into the space between your eyes.
Stop there for a brief moment.
Breathe out and go with your attention downward--down your nose, tongue, throat, chest, stomach, belly, bowl, and into its center.
Silently you can make the sounds OM-AH-HUM--OM breathing in, AH pausing in the space between the eyes, HUM breathing out.
Repeat 7 times . . .
Relax and let the light between your eyes quietly spread over your face . . . into your head . . . down your shoulders, down your arms, filling your chest, filling your belly and bowl . . . spreading into your legs, feet and toes. Spreading beyond your body, filling the room you are in . . . the house . . . the street.
Let it spread as far as it naturally goes, entering all the dark corners everywhere there is suffering, alleviating, transforming, enlightening.
Meditation in Action
Experiment with this living, transforming light wherever you are whatever you do whoever you are with.
Heal the world by your presence.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/86f870b7-5dff-43d3-be31-ac3b0027107b01Inner TraditionsSIMO355Inner Traditions0101Inner TraditionsSIMO355Inner Traditions/Bear & Company022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.38in02136.65mm27159781644112878Harper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108010222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Inner Traditions/Bear & CompanyAU0120210801978164517479002021645174794039781645174790159781645174790140978164517479011BCB102Trade Paperback01The Great Gatsby Coloring BookTheGreat Gatsby Coloring Book011785563281A12Chellie CarrollCarroll, ChellieChellieCarrollChellie Carroll is a designer-turned-illustrator based in Derbyshire, England. She experiments with mixed media and, increasingly, rediscovering pens, pencils, and paint. Drawing on her experience in the fashion industry, she creates intricate patterns and striking compositions. ]]>2A01F. Scott FitzgeraldFitzgerald, F. ScottF. ScottFitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) was an American writer whose best-known works include This Side of Paradise (1922), The Great Gatsby (1925), and Tender Is the Night (1934).]]>01eng96GAM019000WF2.110GAM02000010FIC00400020stuck at home;crafting;fitzgerald;Daisy Buchanan;gatsby;Jay Gatsby;jazz age;creative;mental health;Coloring;calm;mental acuity;craft;home craft;activity;classic;West Egg;Roaring Twenties;Long Island;New York;1920s;Nick Carraway;Jordan Baker;Lost Generation;Great American Novel;literature;Art Deco;party;glitz;glamour;cocktail;mind;illustrated;illustrations01010102Color in more than 40 scenes inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel about the Jazz Age.
Add a splash of color to the Jazz Age in the The Great Gatsby Coloring Book! Each spread features a scene from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel about the Lost Generation in 1920s America. As you color in the Art Deco–style illustrations of extravagant parties, outlandish flappers, and other sights from around the town of West Egg, New York, you’ll feel drawn into the story alongside Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, and other memorable characters. Makes a great gift for history buffs and Gatsby fans.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9882b2b4-5c33-4631-a188-ac57002cc68001Thunder Bay PressSIMO572Thunder Bay Press0101Thunder Bay PressSIMO572Thunder Bay Press022021072801AU NZ0110in01254mm0210in02254mm030.6in0315.24mm081.08lb0817.28oz08489.88grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021040520210728240224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Thunder Bay PressAU0120210728978164517674902021645176746039781645176749159781645176749140978164517674911BHBoard book01Smithsonian Kids: A is for AstronautAn Out-of-This-World Alphabet Adventure011784362751A01Jennifer LevasseurLevasseur, JenniferDr.JenniferLevasseurDr. Jennifer Levasseur received her BA in history from the University of Michigan in 1999, an MA in American Studies from The George Washington University in 2002, and a PhD in history at George Mason University in 2014. Her forthcoming book, Through Astronaut Eyes: Photography from Early Human Spaceflight (Purdue University Press, July 2020), looks at the cultural significance of astronaut photography. She currently serves as the responsible curator for the National Air and Space Museum's astronaut cameras and chronographs, as well as the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs. Prior to her work at the National Air and Space Museum, she worked as a historic interpreter at George Washington's Mount Vernon. She started her Smithsonian career with an internship in the National Portrait Gallery's Department of Photography. There, she cataloged photographs acquired through donation and developed strategies for recording portrait information in the museum's electronic database. Since 2002, Jennifer has also worked at the Air and Space Museum on artifact loans, serves as the Program Committee chair for the biennial Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums conference, and as a department representative on digital projects. She curated the 2015 spacewalk anniversary exhibit Outside the Spacecraft: 50 Years of Extra-Vehicular Activity and currently serves as exhibition curator for the Moving Beyond Earth exhibition.]]>2A12Vanessa PortPort, VanessaVanessaPortVanessa Port is an illustrator living in Bend, Oregon, with her two cats and dog. She has a BFA from Kent State University in Visual Communication Design. When she isn’t illustrating, she loves to foster animals and play board games.]]>01eng16JNF013010YRD2.110JNF05101010JNF01312020alphabet;learn the alphabet;smithsonian;space;astronaut;baby;baby books;read together;learning;educational;stem;shower;gift;ABCs;ABC;illustrated;illustrations01021104P170300420102Blast off into space and learn the ABCs with the Smithsonian!
2021 NAPPA (National Parenting Product Awards) Winner Inside this board book, little space explorers will learn out-of-this-world words for each letter of the alphabet paired with colorful illustrations on each page. From astronaut to zero gravity, this simple introduction to outer space and the ABCs is sure to delight babies and their parents! Author Jennifer Levasseur serves as the as the responsible curator for the National Air and Space Museum's astronaut cameras and chronographs, as well as the Space Shuttle and International Space Station programs.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/4e29b70f-9824-4a34-98ed-ac6c003b3dad01Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021080101AU NZ017in01177.8mm027in02177.8mm030.7in0317.78mm080.655lb0810.48oz08297.1grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021041920210801360214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210801978164517675602021645176754039781645176756159781645176756140978164517675611BHBoard bookNursery Rhyme Sliders01The Wheels on the BusTheWheels on the Bus011784364721A01Editors of Silver Dolphin BooksSilver Dolphin Books has published award-winning activity, novelty, and educational nonfiction books for preschoolers to 12-year-olds. Our focus is to create books that engage and inspire children to learn more about the world around them while fostering a love of reading, exploration, and creative expression. From adorably illustrated board books for toddlers, to interactive play and building sets, to sound books made for story time, we develop innovative books that both enlighten and entertain.]]>2A12Yi-Hsuan WuWu, Yi-HsuanYi-HsuanWuYi-Hsuan Wu is an illustrator with a focus on children's illustration. After graduating from National Taiwan University of Arts, she decided to pursue her dream of being a freelance artist. She currently lives in Taiwan with Sparky the parrot, and spends her time creating cheerful artworks.]]>01eng12JUV055000YBLB12.110JUV05100010JUV00200020nursery rhyme;wheels;bus;baby;toddler;shower;gift;interactive;hands on;sliders;spin;sing;tabs;animals;song;classic;adorable;storytime;read together;movement;motor skills;interaction;illustrated;illustration01021104P170300420102Sing the song, lift the tabs, and spin the wheels with The Wheels on the Bus!
Hop on the bus with animal friends in The Wheels on the Bus! This adorably illustrated board book features the lyrics to the catchy classic so children can sing along as they push and pull the interactive elements. With sliders, tabs, wheels, and adorable illustrations, this book is sure to be a story-time or baby shower favorite!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/4e057afd-e5fd-48e9-8397-ac6c003b411d01Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021072801AU NZ017in01177.8mm027in02177.8mm030.8in0320.32mm080.89lb0814.24oz08403.7grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021042620210728240214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210728978164517679402021645176797039781645176794159781645176794140978164517679411BHBoard book01Sleep Tight, Little One011784367501A01Maggie FischerFischer, MaggieMaggieFischerMaggie Fischer is originally from Oregon, but now lives in Seattle, Washington, after receiving her B.A. in English from Gonzaga University. The daughter of a children’s librarian, Maggie has grown up surrounded by books and feels impossibly lucky to write and edit books for kids. She spends her time trying not to get worried about the increasing number of crows in her backyard, petting her enormous cat, Finch, and drinking more coffee than is probably healthy.]]>2A12Lindsay Dale-ScottDale-Scott, LindsayLindsayDale-ScottLindsay Dale-Scott made her mark on the illustration industry after encouragement from both parents to pursue a creative career. While studying graphic design and illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design, she earned an award for her advertising campaign for the sloth sanctuary (she loves sloths!) of Costa Rica. She gained local, regional, and national recognition with the American Advertising Awards, "The Addy’s." Lindsay describes her work as whimsical with a soft, sophisticated touch, drawing inspiration from classic Disney artist Mary Blair. Vintage posters, folk and fairy tales, and things that are a bit quirky also inspire her. She currently resides in Cleveland with her husband, two bunnies Sam and Pepper, a teddy bear named Toby, and a long-haired Dachshund named Violet. She enjoys living outside the city but is always keen to make trips into the city and other towns for inspiration.]]>01eng12JUV010000YFB2.110JUV00237010JUV02000020animals;sleepy;bedtime;baby;gift;shower;touch;feel;storytime;bedtime stories;read together;goodnight;get ready for bed;sloth;flamingo;fennec;fox;seahorse;narwhal;llama;hands on;interactive;illustrations;illustrated01021104P170300420102It’s bedtime for the little animals in this sweet touch-and-feel storybook!
The jungle has grown quiet, the mountains don’t make a peep—all the little animals are drifting off to sleep! Follow along with the animals as they get ready for bed in this delightful story with touch-and-feel elements. Little ones will find their eyes getting heavy with every turn of the page. Sleep tight!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/d09ae24c-ba80-4afb-bbd4-abfc002a7c7101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm028in02203.2mm030.75in0319.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728240214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250216.99NZDNZZ0.0016.990.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU012021072897816451770500202164517705X039781645177050159781645177050140978164517705011BBB402HardbackSmithsonian Leveled Readers01Smithsonian All-Star Readers: All About Dogs Level 1 (Library Binding)011784368261A01Maggie FischerFischer, MaggieMaggieFischerMaggie Fischer is originally from Oregon, but now lives in Seattle, Washington, after receiving her B.A. in English from Gonzaga University. The daughter of a children’s librarian, Maggie has grown up surrounded by books and feels impossibly lucky to write and edit books for kids. She spends her time trying not to get worried about the increasing number of crows in her backyard, petting her enormous cat, Finch, and drinking more coffee than is probably healthy.]]>01eng32JNF003060YQCR2.110JNF04500010JNF00317020smithsonian;puppy;puppies;leveled reader;preschool;quiz;glossary;facts;learning;educational;learn to read;reading;skills;comprehension;pets;dog;breed;behavior;training;photos;photographs;illustrated;illustrations01021103P04K170330450102From adorable puppies to tricks and training, learn about dogs with the Smithsonian!
From working dogs to cute and cuddly pets, Smithsonian All-Star Readers: All About Dogs Level 1 encourages reading comprehension while introducing dog breeds, behavior, training, and more. Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian and esteemed literacy expert Dr. Adria Klein, this book builds reading skills with a carefully designed leveling structure. After reading all about dogs, children can take the included quiz to reinforce reading comprehension. Also includes a glossary.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/123f08af-a503-40e3-8dea-ac88003b2ae601Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021080101AU NZ019.25in01234.95mm026.25in02158.75mm030.3in037.62mm080.475lb087.6oz08215.46grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801560224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210801978164517721002021645177211039781645177210159781645177210140978164517721011BEB314B312Spiral Bound012022 Coloring Planner011814221201A01Editors of Thunder Bay PressThunder Bay Press is an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Readerlink Distribution Services, LLC, the largest full-service book distributor to non-trade booksellers in North America. Thunder Bay publishes across a wide and varied range of formats and categories, from fun, interactive activity titles and kits on subjects such as origami, cooking, crafts, games, and art to reference books suitable for gift-giving in categories like art, fitness, pets, travel, history, culture, sports, and nature. Thunder Bay Press celebrates the book in all its forms, and publishes something for everyone. They’re headquartered in San Diego.]]>01eng208REF03500010GAM01900010GAM02000020planner;organizer;coloring;illustration;quote;stickers;events;special occasion;inspirational;2021;2022;calendar;18 month;notebook;journal;daily;weekly;monthly;diary;writing;write;bullet journal;creative;goals;personal;planning;schedule;appointment;task01010102This creative 18-month planner features monthly and weekly calendar views, and inspirational quotes and images to color in as the days pass by.
Every spread in this 18-month planner—covering July 2021 to December 2022—includes an inspirational quote and an image to color. When you start your week off with a relaxing coloring activity instead of the dreaded Monday blahs, you’ll soon find your mood improving in everything you do—whether at work, play, or a quiet evening at home. Also included are two sheets of colorful stickers that you can use to highlight important dates and events.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8f56cc79-9440-4ad1-a1a5-acb900379d0901Thunder Bay PressSIMO572Thunder Bay Press0101Thunder Bay PressSIMO572Thunder Bay Press022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728200224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Thunder Bay PressAU012021072897816451772270202164517722X039781645177227159781645177227140978164517722711BEB314B312Spiral Bound0112-Month Undated Daily Planner011814221591A01Editors of Thunder Bay PressThunder Bay Press is an imprint of Printers Row Publishing Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Readerlink Distribution Services, LLC, the largest full-service book distributor to non-trade booksellers in North America. Thunder Bay publishes across a wide and varied range of formats and categories, from fun, interactive activity titles and kits on subjects such as origami, cooking, crafts, games, and art to reference books suitable for gift-giving in categories like art, fitness, pets, travel, history, culture, sports, and nature. Thunder Bay Press celebrates the book in all its forms, and publishes something for everyone. They’re headquartered in San Diego.]]>01eng208REF035000WZS2.110GAM02000010SEL00900020planner;organizer;undated;stickers;general assembly;annual;events;special occasion;calendar;12 month;notes;journal;diary;writing;write;bullet journal;outdoor recreation;personal;planning;second birthday;anniversary;goals;appointments;tasks;schedule01010102An undated planner to track important dates and events, as well as to-do lists and personal goals.
You’ll never forget an important date again with this planner that can be used every year to remind yourself of birthdays, anniversaries, and other memorable events. This undated planner lets you kick off your scheduling any time you wish, and for any 12-month period you choose. With space to record monthly to-do lists and goals, you can plan not just your schedule, but also what you hope to achieve throughout the year. Also included are two sheets of colorful stickers that you can use to highlight important dates and events. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c14af0d2-e6f1-4301-882e-acb900379fb901Thunder Bay PressSIMO572Thunder Bay Press0101Thunder Bay PressSIMO572Thunder Bay Press022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728240224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Thunder Bay PressAU0120210728978164643096302021646430964039781646430963159781646430963140978164643096311BBHardback01Big Whiskey: The Revised Second EditionAn Updated 2nd Edition to Kentucky Bourbon, Tennessee Whiskey, the Rebirth of Rye, and the Distilleries of America's Premier Spirits Region011795772441A01Carlo DeVitoDeVito, CarloCarloDeVito2A13John WhalenWhalen, JohnJohnWhalenJr.01eng640CKB006000WB2.110CKB00206010TRV02508012WBXD20Distilling; cocktail; scotch; malt; bourbon; spirits; bitters; mixed drinks; field guide; tour; distilleries; Dave Broom; whiskey glasses; whiskey stones; whiskey barrel; moonshine; rye; Michael Jackson; Jim Murray; Carlo DeVito; Kentucky; Tennessee; gift01010102An updated edition of Big Whiskey, the definitive guide to the American Whiskey Trail.
This updated edition of the definitive guide to the American Whiskey Trail is comprehensive collection of the whiskey, bourbon, and rye made by the best distillers in Kentucky and Tennessee. Full color images throughout showcase each and every bottle and label, behind-the-scenes images, and the beauty of the Whiskey Trail. Interviews with renowned distillers provide incredible insight into how whiskey is made. Locals and tourists alike will discover new distillers and expressions that are sure to satisfy any and all tastes. Big Whiskey is the perfect gift for the whiskey lover in your life. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ec06f0cc-343d-4e18-a51e-ac6c003b53b101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ018.625in01219.08mm026in02152.4mm032in0350.8mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202106212021080180249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164643098702021646430980039781646430987159781646430987140978164643098711BBHardback01The Encyclopedia of CocktailsTheEncyclopedia of CocktailsOver 1,000 Cocktails for Every Occasion011774842531A01Cider Mill PressCider Mill PressCider Mill Press01eng576CKB006000WBXD2.110CKB08800010CKB02900020Craft cocktails; mixology; bartender; homemade; drinks; booze; entertaining; infusions; syrups; cocktail shaker; ice; Father's Day; Mother's Day; Summer; Gift; Holiday; 2021; 01010102The Encyclopedia of Cocktails features over 1,000 cocktails for every occasion!
From 3-ingredient drinks to mad-scientist mixology, The Encyclopedia of Cocktails is any bartender’s go-to resource.Clean, uncluttered design and extensive index make finding drinks easy, whether you’re searching by spirit or style. Ever wondered about the origins of a Martini or Old Fashioned? This book delves into the history of over 100 classic cocktails. There are also recipes for hundreds of homemade ingredients; from syrups to blends, infusions, tinctures, foams, and more, you’ll be crafting bespoke ingredients in no time. The Encyclopedia of Cocktails is the perfect gift for anyone who likes to mix drinks – it’s the only cocktail book they’ll ever need!]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c5121c69-4e0d-4af0-b8f3-ac6c003b577001Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ0110in01254mm028in02203.2mm032in0350.8mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202104262021072860259.99AUDAUZ0.0059.990.00202104250269.99NZDNZZ0.0069.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643099402021646430999039781646430994159781646430994140978164643099411BCB102Trade PaperbackThe Art of Entertaining01Rubs: 3rd EditionUpdated & Revised to Include Over 175 Recipes for Rubs, Marinades, Glazes, and Bastes011776939491A01John WhalenWhalen, JohnJohnWhalen01eng448CKB040000WBTB2.110CKB00500010CKB10200012WBTH12WB20Barbecuing; grilling; grillmaster; sauces; marinades; spices and condiments; outdoor cooking; Father’s Day; summer; entertaining; grill; smoker; July 4; Fourth of July01010102Rubs, 3rd Edtiion has been fully revised, updated, and expanded to feature over 175 recipes for rubs, marinades, glazes, and bastes –season any dish to create your own signature concoction!
With over 175 recipes for rubs, marinades, glazes, and bastes the new and expanded edition of the bestselling Rubs, 3rd Edition makes it even easier to season any dish to create your own signature concoction. Smart design informs readers of flavor profiles – like “spicy,” “sweet,” “savory,” and “tangy – and the types of proteins on which each one works best. Whether you’re cooking beef, seafood, veggies, or tofu, with this flavor-packed handbook at the ready, you won’t believe how good these easy-to-follow recipes make your food taste. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/691c1950-ccdb-4c15-94a9-ac6c003b5b2101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm026.5in02165.1mm030.8in0320.32mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021041220210728160232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643101402021646431014039781646431014159781646431014140978164643101411BBHardback01Easy CocktailsOver 100 Drinks, All Made with Four Ingredients or Less 011776097191A01Editors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill Press01eng384CKB00600010CKB08800010CKB02900020Craft cocktails; mixology; bartender; homemade; drinks; booze; entertaining; cocktail shaker; ice; home; simple; Fathers Day; Mothers Day; Birthday; Fourth of July; Outdoor; Tailgate 01010102Easy Cocktails features over 100 cocktails all made with four ingredients or less!
Forget the syrups and foams and make quick cocktails at home. With Easy Cocktails on hand you’ll be able to mix an amazing variety of cocktails, all of which are made with four ingredients or less, at a moment’s notice. Just because a drink only has a few ingredients doesn’t mean it can’t be great, and this book features over 100 delicious drinks, from classics to newfangled mixes. Innovation is spurred by tradition and being able to make the most of what you’ve got on hand is an essential lesson, which Easy Cocktails is all about. This is the home bartender’s go-to guide. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/cdf439b7-e750-42ca-b799-ac6c003b5e3701Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm026.5in02165.1mm031.5in0338.1mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728160232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643105202021646431057039781646431052159781646431052140978164643105211BCB102Trade Paperback01The Shark Handbook: Third EditionTheShark Handbook: Third EditionThe Essential Guide for Understanding the Sharks of the World011775229151A01Greg SkomalSkomal, GregDr.GregSkomalPhD01eng280NAT020000AGN2.110NAT04505010PHO02313020shark handbook;biology of sharks;marine biology;everything you need to know about sharks;guide to sharks;illustrated sharks;gift for shark lover;learn about sharks;wildlife;book for beach lovers;ocean lovers;shark anatomy;animals;ocean;beach;geographic photographer;apristurus;asymbolus;blacktip;angelshark;ecosystems;habitats;nature;white shark;marine life;life sciences01010102Dive deep into the world of sharks, the most fascinating and misunderstood marine animals on the planet, in this stunning new edition of the Shark Handbook.
Did you now that a whale shark’s spots are as unique as a fingerprint? Or that sharks can go into a trance when flipped upside down? Jump into brand new facts about these fierce sea creatures. Dive deep into the world of sharks, the most fascinating and misunderstood marine animals on the planet, in this stunning new edition of the Shark Handbook. Featuring over 400 profiles of every shark in existence, from the first sharks living about 445 million years ago to the ones lurking in the ocean deep today! Starring spectacular, full-color photography that makes these jaw-dropping sharks come to life. This is the perfect gift for the shark enthusiast in your life!]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/fc80aa81-376f-4873-abc0-ac6c003b618201Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ017.8in01198.12mm025.5in02139.7mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021042620210801320232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164643119902021646431197039781646431199159781646431199140978164643119911BBHardback01Texas WhiskeyA Rich History of Distilling Whiskey in the Lone Star State011795766331A01Nico MartiniMartini, NicoNicoMartini01eng512CKB006000WBXD2.110HIS03613010TRV02510020Lone Star State; mixology; recipes; travel guide; history; Austin; Dallas; Houston; Nico Martini; state; local; bourbon; corn; barrels; Father’s Day01010102Texas Whiskey: here is the first and only book to tell the story of Texas whiskey.
Texas history runs deep, and the history of whiskey in the state is no exception. But the Texas whiskey scene, which emphasizes local corn and barrels made from trees grown in the state, has grown exponentially in the last 10 years, as this collection of over 100 varied distillers makes clear. Locals and tourists alike will discover new expressions that are sure to satisfy tastes as varied as Texas is large. Texas Whiskey, through distillery profiles, interviews with experts, and original photography, tells the story of how whiskey from the Lone Star State is unlike whiskey being made anywhere else on the planet. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/099b4a63-e4c3-4971-a277-ac6c003b648b01Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ018.625in01219.08mm026in02152.4mm032in0350.8mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021042620210801120249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164643123602021646431235039781646431236159781646431236140978164643123611BCB102Trade Paperback01The Little Chunky Book of SharksTheLittle Chunky Book of SharksHundreds of Fun Facts Spanning the Seven Seas011798788051A01Kelly Gauthier CormierGauthier Cormier, KellyKellyGauthier CormierDiscovering Bugs, The Bug Handbook, Discovering Planets and Moons, and The Little Chunky Book of Dinosaurs.]]>01eng272JNF003150YN2.110JNF05115010JNF05117012YNNR20Megalodon; oceans; seas; marine biology; Shark Week; fossils; fish; kid science; learning books; Kelly Gauthier Cormier; summer vacation; Great White Shark; Jaws01020102The Little Chunky Book of Sharks!
Filled with fun facts and amazing, scientifically accurate illustrations, The Little Chunky Book of Sharks is a big book of learning sure to entertain and inform kids of all ages. Discover everything there is to know about sharks, both small and large, from long-extinct species like megalodon to why sharks behave they ways they do today. The Little Chunky Book of Sharks is perfect for aspiring marine biologists to tuck into their backpacks for beach or boat expeditions or to read in bed at night.]]>1302Discovering Bugs, The Bug Handbook, Discovering Planets and Moons, and The Little Chunky Book of Dinosaurs.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2517930f-4186-40c6-9a4a-ac65002af42201Applesauce PressSIMO148Applesauce Press0101Applesauce PressSIMO148Applesauce Press022021080101AU NZ016in01152.4mm026in02152.4mm030.75in0319.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801360222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Applesauce PressAU0120210801978164643128102021646431286039781646431281159781646431281140978164643128111PDCards01Yoga Cards60 Yoga Cards For Balance and Relaxation Anywhere, Anytime011816344331A01Editors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill Press01eng60HEA025000VFM2.110HEA02200010SEL01900012V20Yoga; speedy yoga; 5-minute yoga; yoga flashcards; easy yoga; morning yoga; night yoga; day yoga; stretches; balance; flexibility; time saving; self-help; health and fitness; exercise; relaxation; de-stress; 01010102De-stress and detox with the help of Yoga Cards, a collection of technique flashcards!
De-stress and detox with the help of these speedy yoga pose flashcards. Flip through these flashcards to learn new poses and refresh yourself on your favorites with ease. Easy-to-follow yoga routines and simple instructions meant to fit your busy schedule, not strain it. Yoga routines designed for any time of the day so that you can find balance and relaxation whenever you most need to. With dozens of poses in flash card format, getting your inner yogi on has never been easier. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7fe1532f-5847-4107-acfc-ac65002afa7e01Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ016in01152.4mm024in02101.6mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801200229.99AUDAUS10.0027.262.73202104250235.00NZDNZS15.0030.434.5720210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164643130402021646431308039781646431304159781646431304140978164643130411BBHardback01The Campfire Cast Iron CookbookTheCampfire Cast Iron CookbookThe Ultimate Cookbook of Hearty and Delicious Cast Iron Recipes011818340611A01Editors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill Press01eng224CKB060000WB2.110CKB00200010CKB02900012WSZR20Glamping; skillet; van life; outdoors; camping; Father’s Day; steak; corn bread; fire; grilling; grill; camp stove; hiking; Dutch Oven; One Pot01010102Enhance outdoor enjoyment with The Campfire Cast Iron Cookbook, featuring over 100 recipes for open fires, camp stoves, and grills!
There’s no such thing as spending too much time outdoors. Campfire Cast Iron guarantees that the more time you spend outside, whether in the backyard or the backcountry, the better your meals will taste. With over 100 recipes for all meals and all tastes, the cravings you work up exerting all that energy in nature will be satisfied, making for a healthy and delicious adventure. From roughing it to van life and glamping, Campfire Cast Iron has your outdoor meal needs covered. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/865ffbbb-74d6-4c7a-86ce-ac6c003b6b9e01Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ0110in01254mm028in02203.2mm031in0325.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021040520210801140242.99AUDAUZ0.0042.990.00202104250247.99NZDNZZ0.0047.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164643132802021646431324039781646431328159781646431328140978164643132811BCB102Trade Paperback01Epic Jokes25 Wickedly Amusing and Entertaining Stories011818193481A01Jake GoldmanGoldman, JakeJakeGoldman01eng192HUM004000WH2.110HUM01500010HUM00800020Humor; joker; comedian; shaggy dog; Father’s Day; entertaining; Aristocrats; the Duck Joke; the Brick Joke; public speaking01010102With Epic Jokes, windup friends and family with these long-winded, hilarious jokes!
A good joke is the same as a good story: it grabs people’s attention, and keeps it until the end. A joke has the advantage of leaving people laughing. And the laughs are bigger at the end of a well told long-winded joke. With Epic Jokes, you’ll learn classic jokes that seem to just go on and on. But have no fear, when you deliver the much anticipated punch line you’ll be the star of the party! ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8d2733b7-9e57-4083-80ac-ac6c003b6f2b01Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ017.75in01196.85mm025.5in02139.7mm031in0325.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210728680222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643133502021646431332039781646431335159781646431335140978164643133511BBHardback01The Complete Sausage CookbookTheComplete Sausage CookbookMake Over 300 Kinds of Sausage011818337891A01Ellen BrownBrown, EllenEllenBrown01eng496CKB054000WB2.110CKB04500010CKB00500020Soup; stew; casserole; homemade; andouille; Italian; pork; beef; lamb; chicken; poultry; seafood; beans; legumes; grains; vegetarian sausage; grilling; smoking01010102 Sausage is a food that can be made with everything from the finest meats to a large assortment of vegetables and grains. It can be flavored to be both savory and sweet. Best of all, it is “comfort food” – an ingredient that delivers flavorful satisfaction. The Complete Sausage Cookbook contains over 300 recipes that span an amazing array of international culinary traditions. Learn how to make a stunning variety of sausage, including many vegetarian options, and use it for easy grilling, or in stews and casseroles, and so much more. If you’ve ever thought about making sausage, the definitive CompleteSausage Cookbook is for you. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b28665a3-1cb0-4e1f-8eca-ac6c003b724501Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ0110in01254mm028in02203.2mm032in0350.8mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202106072021072860242.99AUDAUZ0.0042.990.00202104250247.99NZDNZZ0.0047.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643134202021646431340039781646431342159781646431342140978164643134211BBHardbackThe Art of Entertaining01Ribs, Ribs, RibsOver 100 Flavor-Packed Recipes 011818525341A01Editors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill Press01eng256CKB054000WBTB2.110CKB00500010CKB07800012WB20Pork; beef; lamb; brines; marinades; barbecue; BBQ; outdoor cooking; Texas; art of entertaining; family meals; hearty meals; meat; smoker; oven; Father’s Day; summer01010102Ribs, Ribs, Ribs will take your next backyard barbecue from so-so to stupendous.
Ribs, Ribs, Ribs lets you experience the succulent, flavor-packed glory of all things ribs. Featuring over 100 recipes for the grill, oven, and smoker, mouthwatering sides, and delicious desserts to top it all off, family and friends will be giving their compliments to the chef. Popular the world over, these recipes reflect a mouthwatering bounty of international flavors. This is the perfect gift book for barbecue beginners and grilling masters alike. With Ribs, Ribs, Ribs achieve restaurant results from the comfort of home!]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/54efb6d0-9113-4fe8-9a4d-ac6c003b758701Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm026.5in02165.1mm031in0325.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210728240232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643135902021646431359039781646431359159781646431359140978164643135911BBHardback01The World's Greatest Dad Jokes: The Complete Collection (The Heirloom Edition)TheWorld's Greatest Dad Jokes: The Complete Collection (The Heirloom Edition)Over 500 Cringe-Worthy Puns and One-Liners 011816668601A01Editors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill Press01eng288HUM004000WH2.110FAM02000010HUM01100012WHJ20Dad jokes; puns; bad jokes; clean jokes; best dad; greatest dad jokes; father’s day; father’s day gift; joke book; pun book; anti-joke; best dad jokes01010102The complete collection of the World’s Greatest Dad Jokes is here, with more puns, quips, and corny one-liners than ever that are sure to get eyes rolling!
Why do melons have weddings? Because they cantaloupe! TheWorld’s Greatest Dad Jokes: The Complete Collection is here, with more puns, quips, and corny one-liners than ever that are sure to get eyes rolling. With hundreds of jokes that will make you groan—then make you smile. This book is jam-packed with clever quips and unbearable wisecracks that are so bad, they’re good. Now the dad joke aficionado in your life will never run out of puns, no matter how much you might want them to. The perfect gift for the dad who thinks he’s heard them all, this book is sure to add even more jokes to his repertoire, for better or worse.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/771cb123-597c-4ddc-b021-ac5e00285bb901Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021072801AU NZ017.75in01196.85mm025.5in02139.7mm031in0325.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021042620210728280224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210728978164643136602021646431367039781646431366159781646431366140978164643136611BCB102Trade Paperback01Fun With Kirk and SpockA Star-Trek Parody011819029411A01Robb PearlmanPearlman, RobbRobbPearlman01eng64HUM007000WH2.110FIC02801010HUM01200020Star trek; star trek parody; star trek book; kirk; spock; USS Enterprise; parody books; star trek gift; science fiction books; sci-fi 01010102 Star Trek fans and geeks alike will want to beam up a copy. A Fun with Dick and Jane parody, Star Trek style. This Prime Directive primer steps through The Guardian of Forever to a simpler time of reading, writing, and red shirts. Fun with Kirk and Spock will help cadets of all ages master the art of reading as their favorite Starfleet officers, Klingons, Romulans, Andorians, and Gorn beam down into exciting adventures. This is the perfect gift for the Star Trek lover in your life. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3df190c9-20d6-4916-80f9-ac6c003b78b001Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026.5in02165.1mm030.4in0310.16mm080.405lb086.48oz08183.7grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021041920210801600216.99AUDAUZ0.0016.990.00202104250219.99NZDNZZ0.0019.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164643146502021646431464039781646431465159781646431465140978164643146511BBHardback01The Easy CookbookTheEasy CookbookOver 100 Satisfying Recipes Made with Four Ingredients or Less011818205111A01Editors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill PressEditors of Cider Mill Press01eng256CKB070000WB2.110CKB12700010CKB02300012WBA20Quick; Comfort Food; Vegetarian; Easy; Entrees; Salads; Soups; American; Fresh; Dinner; Homecooked; Weeknight; Seasonal; Family01010102Here is a collection of over 100 of the easiest recipes in the world, The Easy Cookbook offers effortless recipes for quick, easy, and delicious meals!
Keeping your family happy and healthy is easier than ever before thanks to The Easy Cookbook. Focusing on uncomplicated recipes that emphasize wholesome, fresh ingredients, fast food is suddenly synonymous with good food. Featuring over 100 recipes that can be prepped in 30 minutes or less, you’re certain to have an answer to the question “What’s for dinner?” no matter what shape your day takes, and more than 25 vegetarian options help you keep things light. ]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9ea194b0-fba2-4e18-8927-ac730039908801Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press0101Cider Mill PressSIMO150Cider Mill Press022021080101AU NZ0110in01254mm028in02203.2mm031in0325.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210801120242.99AUDAUZ0.0042.990.00202104250247.99NZDNZZ0.0047.990.0020210425Cider Mill PressAU0120210801978164722223902021647222230039781647222239159781647222239140978164722223911BCB102Trade Paperback01Conservation Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3)Large (Notebook With Quotes, Hiking Journal, Camping Journal)011771894711A01Insight EditionsInsight EditionsInsight Editions01eng64NAT000000WZS2.110NAT01300010NAT01100020kraft sewn notebook; quote notebook; laser engraved wood journal; spiral bound ruled journal; outdoor notebook; outdoor notebook set; outdoor kraft sewn notebook; outdoor quote notebook; outdoor softcover notebook; outdoor journal; outdoor journal set; outdoor ruled journal; outdoor spiral journal; outdoor spiral bound ruled journal; camping notebook; camping notebook set; camping kraft sewn notebook; camping quote notebook; camping softcover notebook; camping journal; camping journal set01010102040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/6d9d96e0-68ca-4603-9ebe-acab003d68c201InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ018in01203.2mm025.5in02139.7mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210524202108010225.99AUDAUZ0.0025.990.00202104250229.99NZDNZZ0.0029.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722224602021647222249039781647222246159781647222246140978164722224611BCB102Trade Paperback01Conservation Softcover NotebookNotebook With Quotes, Hiking Journal, Camping Journal011774328181A01Insight EditionsInsight EditionsInsight Editions01eng240NAT000000WZS2.110NAT01300010NAT01100020kraft sewn notebook; quote notebook; laser engraved wood journal; spiral bound ruled journal; outdoor notebook; outdoor notebook set; outdoor kraft sewn notebook; outdoor quote notebook; outdoor softcover notebook; outdoor journal; outdoor journal set; outdoor ruled journal; outdoor spiral journal; outdoor spiral bound ruled journal; camping notebook; camping notebook set; camping kraft sewn notebook; camping quote notebook; camping softcover notebook; camping journal; camping journal set01010102 Featuring an eco-friendly kraft paper cover and 240 pages of responsibly forested FSC lined paper, this softcover notebook will inspire you to think of ways you can decrease your own carbon footprint and preserve our planet for future generations to come.
• PERFECT SIZE, 6” x 8”: An ideal size for journaling or sketching, this notebook is great for taking on the go.
• 240 PAGES: This notebook gives you plenty of space to write, while staying light and portable.
• INSPIRING QUOTE, BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: Featuring a quote from Robert Swan, this beautiful design is sure to inspire you.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f092081a-fbc7-4b8f-96e5-acab003d6baa01InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ018in01203.2mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210524202108010219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722225302021647222257039781647222253159781647222253140978164722225311BEB314P203Spiral Bound01Conservation Wooden JournalLaser Engraved Wood, Notebook With Quotes, Hiking Journal, Camping Journal011774329261A01Insight EditionsInsight EditionsInsight Editions01eng196NAT000000WZS2.110NAT01300010NAT01100020john muir notebook; john muir notebook set; john muir kraft sewn notebook; kraft sewn notebook; john muir quote notebook; john muir softcover notebook; john muir journal; john muir journal set; laser engraved wood journal; john muir ruled journal; john muir spiral journal; john muir spiral bound ruled journal; spiral bound ruled journal; outdoor notebook; outdoor notebook set; outdoor kraft sewn notebook; outdoor quote notebook; outdoor softcover notebook; outdoor journal; outdoor journal set01010102 Filled with 192 lined pages of responsibly forested FSC paper, this journal will inspire your own thoughts and efforts around conservation and the protection of our planet and home for future generations.
• FSC PAPER AND LASER ENGRAVED WOOD: This journal features responsibly forested FSC paper and a beautiful laser engraved wood cover.
• PERFECT SIZE, 6” x 8”: An ideal size for journaling, this journal is perfect for your writing needs.
• 192 PAGES, SPIRAL BOUND: This journal gives you plenty of space to write, while staying light and portable.
• INSPIRING QUOTE, BEAUTIFUL DESIGN: Featuring a quote from Jane Goodall, this beautiful design is sure to inspire you.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0c87b31c-e30a-4d45-ba29-acc0003b966401InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ018in01203.2mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210524202108010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722367002021647223679039781647223670159781647223670140978164722367011PHKit01Conservation Pen and Pencil Set (Set of 2)011813746401A01InsightsInsightsInsights01engSCI092000RNPG2.110NAT01100010SCI07500020journal pens; journaling pens; Stationery; Office supplies; office supplies pens; office supplies for women; stationery paper and envelopes set; stationery cards and envelopes set; stationery sets for writing letters with envelopes; stationery for kids; stationery note cards with envelopes; stationery stickers; stationery pens; stationery shop book; stationery organizer; stationary set; stationery sets; stationery for women; stationery for boys; stationery for teen girls; stationery for men01010102 • GREAT VALUE: Includes one ballpoint pen and one mechanical pencil.
• INSPIRATIONAL CONSERVATION QUOTES: Features two amazing quotes–one from activist Greta Thunberg that will inspire you to take action amid the climate crisis, and the other from Jane Goodall that reminds us to act on behalf of all living creatures.
• PERFECT FOR SCHOOL OR YOUR OFFICE: Take notes or jot down reminders with this beautifully designed pen and pencil set.
• QUOTE ON PEN: “We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have changed.” – Greta Thunberg
• QUOTE ON PENCIL: “The least I can do is speak out for those who can’t speak for themselves.” – Jane Goodall]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/60bc237b-c3fa-4a18-92a1-acd500383d5b01InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ016.875in01174.62mm022.5in0263.5mm031.25in0331.75mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010233.99AUDAUS10.0030.903.09202104250236.99NZDNZS15.0032.174.8220210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722370002021647223709039781647223700159781647223700140978164722370011BBHardback01The Art of the National Parks (Fifty-Nine Parks)TheArt of the National Parks (Fifty-Nine Parks)| National Parks Art Books | Books For Nature Lovers | National Parks Posters | The Art of the National Parks011813777581A01Weldon OwenWeldon OwenWeldon Owen2A01Theresa PiernoPierno, Theresa TheresaPierno3A01JP BoneyardBoneyard, JPJPBoneyard4A01Fifty-Nine ParksFifty-Nine ParksFifty-Nine Parks01eng176TRV018000WTH2.110TRV02500010ART04800020National parks; books for nature lovers; national parks book; national park book; national parks poster; national parks map; national parks guide; trekking the national parks; bucket list national parks; national parks and monuments; national parks and forests; national parks art; poster art; 59 parks; 59 parks poster; national parks gifts; national parks gifts for women; national parks gifts for men; national parks coffee table book01010102 This beautiful art book displays the unique beauty of each U.S. National Park. Fifty-Nine Parks collaborated with acclaimed contemporary artists and designers from around the world to create original posters that celebrate the unique beauty of each of the now 62 parks in the U.S. National Park system. The wildly successful poster art is now available as a collection for the first time in this gorgeous art book.
Inspired by classic W.P.A. posters of the 1930s, each poster is a unique and original reflection of the talent and perspective of the contemporary artist who created it, resulting in a one-of-a-kind tribute to the majesty of the national parks.
Includes art of the Top Ten Most Visited National Parks as rated by the National Park Service: (1) Great Smoky Mountains, (2) Grand Canyon, (3) Rocky Mountain, (4) Zion, (5) Yosemite, (6) Yellowstone, (7) Acadia, (8) Grand Teton, (9) Olympic, and (10) Glacier. Filled with Facts: Includes a comprehensive history and overview of the flora, fauna, and best sights in each park. Travel Guide: With seasonality and travel tips, Our National Treasure: The Art of the National Parks can also be used as a guide for visiting the national parks. Gift for Nature Lovers: An ideal gift gift for armchair travelers, national park enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates contemporary art and design. Each Book Gives Back: Sales benefit the National Park Service.
“Highlights the unique beauty of each national park” –SierraClub.com]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ea4ce078-73cf-4e3a-a7fc-ace30038c6aa01Earth Aware EditionsSIMO476Earth Aware Editions0101Earth Aware EditionsSIMO476Earth Aware Editions022021080101AU NZ0112in01304.8mm029.5in02241.3mm031in0325.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210801100275.99AUDAUZ0.0075.990.00202104250282.99NZDNZZ0.0082.990.0020210425Earth Aware EditionsAU0120210801978164722383002021647223830039781647223830159781647223830140978164722383011BCB102Trade PaperbackArt of Nature01Art of Nature: Under the Sea Softcover Notebook(Cute Stationery, Gift for Girls, Notebooks)011813978371A01InsightsInsightsInsights01eng240NAT000000WZS2.110NAT02500010NAT03100020stationery; journal; notebook; notebook collection; notebook set; magnet set; magnets; pencil case; accessory pouch; memo cube; sticky note; sticky notes; post it notes; postit notes; post-it notes; note cards; post cards; notecards; postcards; nature stationery; underwater stationery; underwater journal; underwater notebook; underwater notebook collection; underwater notebook set; underwater magnet set; underwater magnets; underwater pencil case; underwater accessory pouch; underwater memo cube01010102 Featuring a gorgeous design of vintage illustrations of underwater life, this ornate but durable notebook includes 240 ruled pages, a ribbon marker, and an elastic band closure. TAKE ON THE GO: With a convenient 6” x 8” size, this durable notebook is perfect to take with you on your next journey into the great outdoors. QUALITY PAPER: Featuring 240 thick pages, this notebook has ample space to collect your thoughts and create a keepsake that will last. PERFECT FOR ALL AGES: Ideal for kids, students, and adults alike, this notebook is great for all lovers of the sea’s infinite magic.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/aa4409b2-0775-4ebb-bc31-acce003a244401InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021081801AU NZ018in01203.2mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210628202108180220.99AUDAUZ0.0020.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210818978164722384702021647223849039781647223847159781647223847140978164722384711BCB102Trade PaperbackArt of Nature01Art of Nature: Under the Sea Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3)(Cute Stationery Gift, Gift for Girls, Notebooks)011813978771A01InsightsInsightsInsights01eng64NAT000000WZS2.110NAT02500010NAT03100020stationery; journal; notebook; notebook collection; notebook set; magnet set; magnets; pencil case; accessory pouch; memo cube; sticky note; sticky notes; post it notes; postit notes; post-it notes; note cards; post cards; notecards; postcards; nature stationery; underwater stationery; underwater journal; underwater notebook; underwater notebook collection; underwater notebook set; underwater magnet set; underwater magnets; underwater pencil case; underwater accessory pouch; underwater memo cube01010102 Each notebook includes sixty-four pages and features a different stunning, vintage illustration of underwater life.
TAKE ON THE GO: With a compact 6” x 8.5” size, this notebook set is perfect to take with you on your next journey into the great outdoors. BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED: Each notebook includes sixty-four pages and features a gorgeous illustration of different underwater creatures. PERFECT FOR ALL AGES: Ideal for kids, students, and adults alike, this notebook collection is great for all lovers of the sea’s innumerable wonders.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/237a6fba-27a6-4182-b13a-acce003a267f01InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021081801AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210628202108180225.99AUDAUZ0.0025.990.00202104250227.99NZDNZZ0.0027.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210818978164722399102021647223997039781647223991159781647223991140978164722399111BCB102B304Trade Paperback01Refuge Sewn Notebook Collection (Set of 3)Gifts for Outdoor Enthusiasts and Nature Lovers | Journals for Hikers | National Parks011814008161A01InsightsInsightsInsights01eng64PHO023040AJ2.110NAT01100010TRV02500020Gifts for nature lovers; Gifts for outdoorsy men; gifts for outdoorsy women; gifts for outdoor enthusiasts; Journal photography; journal with photography; notebook with photography; Nature journal; nature notebook series; nature notebook journal; journal for men; journal for women; notebook for women; notebook for men; nature journal for kids; nature journaling; nature journal notebook; nature journal for adults; sewn notebook; notebook set; nature journal; nature journal for boys01010102 GREAT SIZE TO TAKE ON THE GO: With a 6” x 8.5” size, these easily packable and durable notebooks are perfect to take with you on your next journey into the great outdoors. INCLUDES 64 PAGES: Collect your thoughts on 64 pages of high-quality paper. GREAT VALUE: This stationery set includes three notebooks bound in a linen texture. DISCOVER WILD PLACES: Ian Shive’s award-winning nature photography takes you to some of the earth’s most remote and beautiful locations. Featured in the book Refuge: America’s Wildest Places, Ian Shive’s incredible photography will inspire you to explore your surroundings and record your amazing experiences.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/26905723-1ce7-4e4d-89cc-ac810035f6ce01InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010225.99AUDAUZ0.0025.990.00202104250227.99NZDNZZ0.0027.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722400402021647224004039781647224004159781647224004140978164722400411BCB102Trade Paperback01Refuge: Purple Fireweed Softcover NotebookKenai National Wildlife Refuge | Gifts for Outdoor Enthusiasts and Nature Lovers | Journals for Hikers | National Parks011814006571A01InsightsInsightsInsights01eng240PHO023040AJ2.110NAT01100010TRV02500020Gifts for nature lovers; Gifts for outdoorsy men; gifts for outdoorsy women; gifts for outdoor enthusiasts; Journal photography; journal with photography; notebook with photography; Nature journal; nature notebook series; nature notebook journal; journal for men; journal for women; notebook for women; notebook for men; nature journal for kids; nature journaling; nature journal notebook; nature journal for adults; sewn notebook; notebook set; nature journal; nature journal for boys01010102 GREAT SIZE TO TAKE ON THE GO: With a 6” x 8” size, this easily packable and durable notebook is perfect to take with you on your next journey into the great outdoors. INCLUDES 240 PAGES: Featuring high-quality paper, this notebook has plenty of space for you to collect your thoughts. DISCOVER WILD PLACES: Ian Shive’s award-winning nature photography takes you to some of the earth’s most remote and beautiful locations. Featured in the book Refuge: America’s Wildest Places, Ian Shive’s incredible photography will inspire you to explore your surroundings and record your amazing experiences.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/68eae5e6-e7e5-47ff-a92c-ac810035fa7601InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ018in01203.2mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010220.99AUDAUZ0.0020.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722401102021647224012039781647224011159781647224011140978164722401111BCB102Trade Paperback01Refuge: Arctic River Softcover NotebookArctic National Wildlife Refuge | Gifts for Outdoor Enthusiasts and Nature Lovers | Journals for Hikers | National Parks011814007371A01InsightsInsightsInsights01eng240PHO023040AJ2.110NAT01100010TRV02500020Gifts for nature lovers; Gifts for outdoorsy men; gifts for outdoorsy women; gifts for outdoor enthusiasts; Journal photography; journal with photography; notebook with photography; Nature journal; nature notebook series; nature notebook journal; journal for men; journal for women; notebook for women; notebook for men; nature journal for kids; nature journaling; nature journal notebook; nature journal for adults; sewn notebook; notebook set; nature journal; nature journal for boys01010102 GREAT SIZE TO TAKE ON THE GO: With a 6” x 8” size, this easily packable and durable notebook is perfect to take with you on your next journey into the great outdoors. INCLUDES 240 PAGES: Featuring high-quality paper, this notebook has plenty of space for you to collect your thoughts. DISCOVER WILD PLACES: Ian Shive’s award-winning nature photography takes you to some of the earth’s most remote and beautiful locations. Featured in the book Refuge: America’s Wildest Places, Ian Shive’s incredible photography will inspire you to explore your surroundings and record your amazing experiences.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b15e74a3-d9e6-4057-8deb-ac810035fd2401InsightsSIMO478Insights0101InsightsSIMO478Insights022021080101AU NZ018in01203.2mm026in02152.4mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010220.99AUDAUZ0.0020.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425InsightsAU0120210801978164722402802021647224020039781647224028159781647224028140978164722402811PJPostcard book or pack01Refuge Card Portfolio Set (Set of 20 Cards)Gifts for Outdoor Enthusiasts and Nature Lovers | National Parks | Note Cards011814208731A01InsightsInsightsInsights01eng20PHO023040AJ2.110NAT01100010TRV02500020Gifts for nature lovers; Gifts for outdoorsy men; gifts for outdoorsy women; gifts for outdoor enthusiasts; Journal photography; journal with photography; notebook with photography; Nature journal; nature notebook series; nature notebook journal; journal for men; journal for women; notebook for women; notebook for men; nature journal for kids; nature journaling; nature journal notebook; nature journal for adults; sewn notebook; notebook set; nature journal; nature journal for boys01010102 INCLUDES 20 BEAUTIFUL CARDS: Packaged in a gorgeous, keepsake portfolio with a ribbon tie, this card set contains five different designs based on Ian Shive’s astounding photography of our National Refuge System’s most striking landscapes, plus coordinating envelopes and envelope seals. GREAT SIZE—9.5” x 7.5”: The perfect size for your correspondence needs, this stationery set makes a wonderful gift for any nature or outdoor enthusiast. DISCOVER WILD PLACES: Ian Shive’s award-winning nature photography takes you to some of the earth’s most remote and beautiful locations. Featuring images from Ian Shive’s book Refuge: America’s Wildest Places, these incredible cards will inspire you and your pen pals to explore the National Wildlife Refuges near you!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/6caeade4-4e06-41b0-939a-ac8f003d34fa01Insight Editions GiftSIMO781Insight Editions Gift0101Insight Editions GiftSIMO781Insight Editions Gift022021080101AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm029.5in02241.3mm030.75in0319.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010231.99AUDAUS10.0029.082.91202104250234.99NZDNZS15.0030.434.5620210425Insight Editions GiftAU0120210801978164722418902021647224187039781647224189159781647224189140978164722418911BBHardback01Healing TreesA Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing011819607631A01Ben PagePage, BenBenPageHealing Trees: A Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing. He is the founder of Shinrin Yoku LA and Integral Forest Bathing and has been guiding Forest Therapy walks since 2015. During his tenure as a trainer and mentor of guides, Ben has trained hundreds of guides around the world. From 2017-2020, he also served as the Director of Training for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, specializing in curriculum and pedagogical design. Since his practice began, Ben has been featured in such publications as Women’s Health, USA TODAY, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and WebMD. Ben is also a co-founder of The Open School, Southern California’s only free democratic school. He holds a B.A. in religious studies from Carleton College and an M.A. in human development and social change from Pacific Oaks College.
City/state of residence: Los Angeles, CA ]]>2A23Amos CliffordClifford, AmosAmosClifford01eng144OCC043000VX2.110OCC01000010NAT01400020forest bathing; forest therapy; outdoor therapy; psychology; spirituality; health; wellness; environmentalism; Japan; Shinrin Yoku0102Take a walk in the woods to find yourself. This book is intended as an easy approach to forest bathing, a concept that is now making its way into health and wellness practices. Part spiritual guide and part practitioner’s handbook, this accessible, practical, positivity-rich book is designed to be taken on every walk to encourage mindfulness, contentedness, and presence in the moment. Written in a beautiful, encouraging style by a highly qualified and mediagenic author, the book also contains amazing hand-drawn illustrations of forest scenes. ]]>1302Healing Trees: A Pocket Guide to Forest Bathing. He is the founder of Shinrin Yoku LA and Integral Forest Bathing and has been guiding Forest Therapy walks since 2015. During his tenure as a trainer and mentor of guides, Ben has trained hundreds of guides around the world. From 2017-2020, he also served as the Director of Training for the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy Guides and Programs, specializing in curriculum and pedagogical design. Since his practice began, Ben has been featured in such publications as Women’s Health, USA TODAY, Good Morning America, The Washington Post, and WebMD. Ben is also a co-founder of The Open School, Southern California’s only free democratic school. He holds a B.A. in religious studies from Carleton College and an M.A. in human development and social change from Pacific Oaks College.
City/state of residence: Los Angeles, CA ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/d785b3d6-9749-422d-927c-ac65002b3b5b01Mandala PublishingSIMO474Mandala Publishing0101Mandala PublishingSIMO474Mandala Publishing022021080101AU NZ017in01177.8mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210531202108010225.99AUDAUZ0.0025.990.00202104250227.99NZDNZZ0.0027.990.0020210425Mandala PublishingAU0120210801978166590224302021665902248039781665902243159781665902243140978166590224311BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade Paperback01Better Than the Movies011682685401A01Lynn PainterPainter, LynnLynnPainterOmaha World-Herald’s parenting section, even though she is the polar-opposite of a Pinterest mom. When she isn’t chasing kids, she can be found reading, writing, and shot-gunning Red Bulls.]]>Lynn PainterExport01eng368YAF052060YFM2.110YAF05812010YAF05811020Debut; rom com; romantic comedy; YA romantic comedy; YA romance; young adult romance; romance for teens; love story; books set in high school; prom; promposal; Kasie West; Christina Lauren; funny books for teens; Bridget Jones's Diary for teens; Bridget Jones's Diary; Sweet Home Alabama; 10 Things I Hate About You; My Best Friend's Wedding01031103717031204990102In this rom-com about rom-coms, in the spirit of Kasie West and Jenn Bennett, a hopeless romantic teen attempts to secure a happily-ever-after moment with her forever crush, but finds herself reluctantly drawn to the boy next door.
Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar—and maybe snag him as a prom date—even befriend Wes Bennet.
The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Pranks involving frogs and decapitated lawn gnomes do not a potential boyfriend make. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.
But as Liz and Wes scheme to get Liz noticed by Michael so she can have her magical prom moment, she’s shocked to discover that she likes being around Wes. And as they continue to grow closer, she must reexamine everything she thought she knew about love—and rethink her own ideas of what Happily Ever After should look like.]]>1302Omaha World-Herald’s parenting section, even though she is the polar-opposite of a Pinterest mom. When she isn’t chasing kids, she can be found reading, writing, and shot-gunning Red Bulls.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/d48deed6-3728-41af-a316-ac96003bb1ca01Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingSIMO373Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing0101Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingSIMO373Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.5in02139.7mm030.9in0322.86mm080.62lb089.92oz08281.23gr06159781534467620Harper Collins PublishersNP102021040520210728440218.99AUDAUZ0.0018.990.00202104250221.99NZDNZZ0.0021.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingAU0120210728978166590243402021665902434039781665902434159781665902434132021009196140978166590243411BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Dr. FauciHow a Boy from Brooklyn Became America's Doctor011833684661A01Kate MessnerMessner, KateKateMessnerOver and Under the Snow and The Brilliant Deep; novels like All the Answers, Breakout, and Chirp; engaging nonfiction like The Next President and Tracking Pythons; the Fergus and Zeke easy readers, the popular Ranger in Time chapter books, and the History Smashers illustrated nonfiction series. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kate was a TV news reporter as well as a middle school teacher. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to summit all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in between book deadlines. Learn more at her website, KateMessner.com.]]>2A12Alexandra ByeBye, AlexandraAlexandraByeKate Messner01eng48JNF007090YBC2.110JNF00707010JNF05117020dr. fauci; anthony fauci; doctor; pandemic; physician; epidemic; disease; allergies; picture book biography; nonfiction picture book; coronavirus; COVID 19; pandemic; public health; leader biography; inspiration; humble beginnings; books that inspire; covid-19; biography; government; cdc; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; corona; corona virus; virus; 2020; 2021; vaccine; moderna; essential workers; scientist; virologist; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases01021103P043170340480102The definitive picture book biography of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and one of the most crucial figures in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before he was Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci was a curious boy in Brooklyn, delivering prescriptions from his father’s pharmacy on his blue Schwinn bicycle. His father and immigrant grandfather taught Anthony to ask questions, consider all the data, and never give up—and Anthony’s ability to stay curious and to communicate with people would serve him his entire life.
This engaging narrative, which draws from interviews the author did with Dr. Fauci himself, follows Anthony from his Brooklyn beginnings through medical school and his challenging role working with seven US presidents to tackle some of the biggest public health challenges of the past fifty years, including the COVID-19 pandemic. Extensive backmatter rounds out Dr. Fauci’s story with a timeline, recommended reading, a full spread of facts about vaccines and how they work, and Dr. Fauci’s own tips for future scientists.]]>1302Over and Under the Snow and The Brilliant Deep; novels like All the Answers, Breakout, and Chirp; engaging nonfiction like The Next President and Tracking Pythons; the Fergus and Zeke easy readers, the popular Ranger in Time chapter books, and the History Smashers illustrated nonfiction series. Before becoming a full-time writer, Kate was a TV news reporter as well as a middle school teacher. She lives on Lake Champlain with her family and is trying to summit all forty-six Adirondack High Peaks in between book deadlines. Learn more at her website, KateMessner.com.
Alexandra Bye is a freelance illustrator specializing in fun, colorful illustrations for a variety of media such as editorial and children’s publications. Her work is constantly inspired by her flourishing New England community and reflects the energy and dynamic personality of hometown pride. In her free time, she enjoys mountain biking, Nordic ski racing, Jiu Jitsu, studying nutritional therapy, and hiking in the White Mountains with her dog, Oliver.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/950a496e-1cb1-4dd8-8a48-acf300e65fd501Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers0101Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersSIMO333Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers022021072801AU NZ0111in01279.4mm028.5in02215.9mm27159781665902441Harper Collins PublishersNP102021053120210728240229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster Books for Young ReadersAU0120210728978168188563602021681885638039781681885636159781681885636140978168188563611BBB402Hardback01Brains ExplainedHow They Work & Why They Work That Way | STEM Learning about the Human Brain | Fun and Educational Facts about Human Body011725981571A01Alison CaldwellCaldwell, AlisonAlisonCaldwellPhD2A01Micah CaldwellCaldwell, MicahMicahCaldwellLCPC01eng256SCI089000PSAN2.110SEL03100010PSY01500020sawbones; mcelroy; mcelroy brothers; justin mcelroy; sydnee mcelroy; my brother my brother and me; adventure zone; mcelroy family; neuro transmissions; neurotransmissions; Alie Caldwell; dr. alie Caldwell; micah Caldwell; micah Russell-caldwell; alie and micah Caldwell; alie Caldwell neuroscience; micah Caldwell psychology; psychology; neuroscience; brain science; cognitive psychology; facts about the brain; how does the brain work; brain books; books on the brain; human brain01010102 Neuroscientist Alie Caldwell and clinical therapist Micah Caldwell created the YouTube channel Neuro Transmissions in 2015 with a singular mission in mind: explain the brain . . . simply! Whether it's delving into the neuroscience of street drugs or illustrating the psychology of cat behavior, Alie and Micah break down that impossibly complex organ living in your head without all the jargon. Their first book will expose the fascinating, often shocking stories about the brain and have you ditching the dusty textbooks.
This book scrutinizes the sometimes-dubious history of brain science from a modern perspective, wanders through explanations about how your senses trick you into believing some wild things, speculates about whether we'll be able to upload our consciousness to the Matrix, and so much more.
With two exceptional authors and an unbelievable number of intriguing and educational brain facts, Brains Explained is sure to be one of the most cherished popular science titles on your bookshelf for years to come.]]>1302 Micah Caldwell received his B.A. in Psychology and Spanish from Saint Louis University (2011), an M.S. in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Marquette University (2013), and is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in California (LPCC) and Illinois (LCPC). As a therapist, he has worked with a diverse array of clients and populations, including individuals recovering from addictions, the homeless, recently-incarcerated adults with severe mental illnesses, and children seeking asylum.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c8ec2b56-a710-48bd-9cbc-ab38003af32c01Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021072801AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026.75in02171.45mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210524202107280239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250242.99NZDNZZ0.0042.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU012021072897816818864350202168188643X039781681886435159781681886435140978168188643511BCB102P202Trade PaperbackOutdoor Journals01The Cyclist's JournalTheCyclist's Journal| Cycling Journal Notebook | Gifts For Cyclist011774318901A01Weldon OwenWeldon OwenWeldon Owen01eng168SPO011000WZS2.110SEL04500010TRV03100020Cyclist; cyclist's; cyclists; cycling journal; cycling journal notebook; journal; journaling; journals; cycling for man; gifts for cyclist; outdoor; rides; riding; bicycles; bicycle; bicycling; bibs; saddle; bib; saddles; tire; tires; mountain; mountains; road; roads; bikes; bike; biking; backpack; pannier; sketch;sketching; story; stories; storytelling; illustration; record; recording; records 01010102 Made in a sleek, compact, durable format intended especially for cyclists, this journal provides bikers space to plan and record their rides. The latest in Weldon Owen’s outdoor journal series, the Cyclist’s Journal is built for any type of roadside thought, from bulleted lists to freeform notes, from sketches of amazing vistas and sections to log riding times.
This is the most accessible, easily-personalized bike journal on the market.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b15ff581-68b6-4ee1-b574-acab003d98a801Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188644202021681886448039781681886442159781681886442140978168188644211BCB102P202Trade PaperbackOutdoor Journals01The Hiker's JournalTheHiker's Journal| Hiking Journal | Hiking Journal For Women | Hiking Trail Log Book011774320621A01Weldon OwenWeldon OwenWeldon Owen01eng168SPO018000WZS2.110SPO03000010SEL04500020Hiker's; journal; hiking journal; hiking journal with pocket; hiking journal trail log book; hiking journal for women; hiking journal for kids; hiking journal book; hiking journal men; hiking journal logbook; hiking journal trail log book kids; hiking journal for couples; outdoor; series; hikes; hiking; trails; walks; climbs; nature; boot; boots; stick; sticks; marker; markers; backpack; backpacking; daypack; journaling; sketch; sketching; story; stories; storytelling; illustration01010102 Made in a lightweight, durable, wipe-clean format perfect for hiking–and complete with a storage pocket– this journal provides space to record everything about your treks. The core of the title is a logbook, with prompts to record trail names, lengths, difficulty ratings, hiking companions, weather conditions, as well as descriptions of flora, fauna, and other sights and memories. The elegantly designed bulleted journal pages are accompanied by blank pages for sketches of trails or freeform notes to capture memories from the trail.
This journal is set to publish as hiking surges in popularity among all ages. The journal also includes prompts for custom lists of favorite hikes, bucket trips, and gear and equipment.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c37231b4-0c95-43db-8831-acab003d9f6b01Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188645902021681886456039781681886459159781681886459140978168188645911BCB102P202Trade PaperbackOutdoor Journals01The Fisherman's JournalTheFisherman's Journal011774321271A01Weldon OwenWeldon OwenWeldon Owen01eng168NAT000000WZS2.110SPO01400010SEL04500020Fisherman's; Journal; Outdoor; Series; Fish; Fishing; Fisher; Angler; Pole; Reel; Hook; Line; Sinker; bait; river; lake; deep-sea; ocean; pond; boat; cooler; Weight; Sketch; Story; measurement; illustration01010102 Specially formatted for a fisher, this journal provides the space the writer needs to record anything and everything about their fishing trips, with bulleted journal pages for writing, space for sketches, or freeform notes, and other elements to guide the writer's collection of fishing memories.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/6319e2ef-81d5-46a2-a023-acab003da3d301Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188646602021681886464039781681886466159781681886466140978168188646611BCB102P202Trade PaperbackOutdoor Journals01The Gardener's JournalTheGardener's Journal011774323051A01Weldon OwenWeldon OwenWeldon Owen01eng168NAT013000WZS2.110GAR01000010SEL04500020Gardener's; Journal; Outdoor; Series; Garden; Gardening; Green; Thumb; Plants; Plant; Planting; Sketches; Illustrations; Journaling; Harvest01010102 Specially formatted for gardening, this journal provides the space the writer needs to record anything and everything they wish to about their gardening, with bulleted journal pages for writing, space for sketches, or freeform notes, and other elements to guide the writer's note-taking and illustration.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/287fad8f-a8f1-4ce3-8bbc-acab003da68301Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202108010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188749402021681887495039781681887494159781681887494140978168188749411BCB412Paperback - Flexible plastic/vinyl cover01Field & Stream: Total Camping Manual300+ Tips and Techniques for hiking, backpacking, car camping & more011813962611A01T. Edward NickensNickens, T. EdwardT. EdwardNickensField & Stream magazine and contributing editor for Audubon magazine, T. Edward Nickens writes about outdoor sports, natural history, and conservation for many leading magazines, winning more than two dozen national writing awards.
Residence: Raleigh, NC
]]>01eng272SPO009000WSZR2.110SPO03000010SPO00000020Field and Stream; Field & Stream; outdoorsman; Survival Manual; Camping; camping guide; camping guide book; family camping; camping for boys; camping and fishing; camping and hiking; family activity; survival handbook; outdoor survival; outdoor life 01010102 This comprehensive, officially licensed guide to camping provides more than 500 tips and techniques for first-time campers and veteran outdoorsmen alike. Created by Field & Stream and Audubon Magazine editor-at-large T. Edward Nickens, this manual instructs campers on topics like: planning a trip, setting up camp, cooking large meals in the woods, and preparation for any unexpected circumstance.
The latest in Weldon Owen’s popular series of outdoor manuals that have sold more than 1 million copies to date, this is a practical, well-packaged and giftable reference work.]]>1302Field & Stream magazine and contributing editor for Audubon magazine, T. Edward Nickens writes about outdoor sports, natural history, and conservation for many leading magazines, winning more than two dozen national writing awards.
Residence: Raleigh, NC
]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/96186d8c-9e2d-4885-bbb9-ac6c003bda6701Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ019.5in01241.3mm027.5in02190.5mm030.7in0317.78mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062820210801100250.99AUDAUZ0.0050.990.00202104250255.99NZDNZZ0.0055.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188754802021681887541039781681887548159781681887548140978168188754811BBP201Hardback01Grandfather's Words of Wisdom Journal| Keepsake | Grandfathers Gift For Grandchild | Grandfather and Grandson | A Keepsake Journal of Advice, Lessons, and Love for my Grandchild011807694281A01Weldon OwenWeldon OwenWeldon Owen01eng96FAM022000VFX2.110SEL02100010SEL04500020Grandfather's; grandfather; grandfathers gift for grandchild; grandfather and grandson; granddad; grandpa; words; wisdom; journal; keepsake; memories; memoirs; family; legacy; writing; advice; instruction; recollection; ideas; history01010102Grandfather's Journal, Grandfather’s Words of Wisdom is a fun, rewarding, and easy-to-complete journal to convey lifelong experiences and life-lessons to future generations in the family. Each copy is destined to become a much treasured legacy item.
Specially suited to passing to children, grandchildren, or other family members, this journal gives the writer a means to organize their thoughts and craft advice for their loved ones. The journal provides useful, resonant prompts such as "What I wish I'd known when I was your age," "What I've learned in my life and can pass on," "The Top 10 things I've learned in life," "What to look for in a partner or when dating." The latest in Weldon Owen’s line of guided journals, which have sold over 150,000 copies to date, this journal provides a beautiful home for a grandfather’s wisdom.
While the Grandfather’s Journal is focused on recording biographical data, Grandfather’s Words of Wisdom is the place to capture thoughts, reflections, mediations, and life experiences in a more expansive way.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9d9e839b-7543-4ef3-a2cb-ac5e002882ba01BluestreakSIMO517Bluestreak0101BluestreakSIMO517Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ0111in01279.4mm029in02228.6mm030.9in0322.86mm081.695lb0827.12oz08768.84grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021040520210801200231.99AUDAUZ0.0031.990.00202104250234.99NZDNZZ0.0034.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188760902021681887606039781681887609159781681887609140978168188760911BCB102Trade Paperback01Dad Jokes: Hall of Shame| Best Dad Jokes | Gifts For Dad | 1,000 of the Best Ever Worst Jokes011807676541A01Andy HeraldHerald, AndyAndyHerald01eng192HUM011000WHJ2.110HUM01800010HUM00400020Dad jokes book; dad jokes; dad jokes book for new dads; dad jokes for kids; best dad jokes; the essential compendium of dad jokes; book of dad jokes; bad dad jokes; dad jokes book for kids; dad jokes too book; dad jokes too; dad jokes book dadsaysjokes; dad jokes gift; dad jokes for dummies; dad jokes for coworker; dad jokes for adults; dad jokes for new dads; dad jokes for kids book; Howtobeadad.com; how to be a dad; Dad; Jokes; Father; Fathers; parents; parenting; parenthood; hall of shame01010102 Humor is often referred to as the best medicine for many situations, even puns, and this collection of Dad Jokes—guaranteed the most groan-and-forehead-slap-worthy on the market—offers a broad selection of humorous (and often painful) puns and quips. This book is organized by joke theme, includes 100+ illustrations, and is up to date with current events (“Because of the pandemic, they’re having to televise the World Origami Championship. It’s on paperview.”)]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e2685db4-cf49-45a9-903a-ac6c003be1d801BluestreakSIMO517Bluestreak0101BluestreakSIMO517Weldon Owen022021072801AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm025.75in02146.05mm030.5in0312.7mm080.59lb089.44oz08267.62grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021032920210728400221.99AUDAUZ0.0021.990.00202104250224.99NZDNZZ0.0024.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210728978168188762302021681887622039781681887623159781681887623140978168188762311BCB102Trade Paperback01Outdoor Life: Ultimate Bushcraft Survival Manual272 Wilderness Skills | Survival Handbook | Gifts For Outdoorsman011807702691A01Tim MacWelchMacWelch, TimTimMacWelch01eng224REF015000WSZV2.110REF03100010SPO03000020Outdoor; Life; Ultimate; Bushcraft; Survival; Manual; Survival Manual; Paperback; Tim; MacWelch; OL; Survivalist; survivalists; survivalism; survival handbook; outdoorsman; outdoorsman gifts; gifts for outdoorsman; backcountry; fishing; hunting; camping; outdoor survival; outdoor life; hiking; advice; stay safe01010102New York Times bestselling author, Tim MacWelch, the answer is yes!
The latest paperback release in Weldon Owen’s popular Outdoor Life series sees New York Times-bestselling author and survival expert Tim MacWelch explore survival situations. MacWelch examines how native peoples around the world throughout history have made their own shelter, weapons, tools, and more, while detailing clever MacGyver-esque ideas for using anything you might find in your pockets or pack to guarantee survival.
Readers will be prepared to test themselves against nature, to be prepared for any catastrophe, or to learn more about traditional ways of survival.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/565b7d14-6cea-4e94-b25b-ac6c003be9ec01Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021080101AU NZ018.5in01215.9mm026.75in02171.45mm030.6in0315.24mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210531202108010230.99AUDAUZ0.0030.990.00202104250233.99NZDNZZ0.0033.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210801978168188770802021681887703039781681887708159781681887708140978168188770811BBHardbackBig Questions for Little People01Big Questions for Little People: Animals011820812411A01Claire PhilipPhilip, ClaireClairePhilip01eng64JNF003000YFP2.110JNF05105010JNF05100012YXZG20animal books for kids; animals book; kids animal book; animals books; animal book for kids; animals book for children; animals book natural history; animals books illustrated; questions answered for kids; big questions; small questions; kids questions; children’s questions about animals; homeschooling; summer activity; science fairs; STEM 01021703604990102 Do birds fall in love? Why do chameleons change color? How do frogs walk upside down? This book answers all these questions and more!
Filled with fascinating information on all sorts of animals, from blue whales and bears to hummingbirds and bees, Big Questions for Little People Animals will satisfy everyone’s curiosity, however big or small.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/51fa3712-6d06-4e4c-bcf3-ac6c003bef5a01Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021072801AU NZ019.92in01251.97mm027.56in02192.02mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202107280221.99AUDAUZ0.0021.990.00202104250223.99NZDNZZ0.0023.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210728978168188771502021681887711039781681887715159781681887715140978168188771511BBHardbackBig Questions for Little People01Big Questions for Little People: Space011820810981A01Claire PhilipPhilip, ClaireClairePhilip01eng64JNF051010YNTS2.110JNF05100010JNF05104020books on space for kids; space book; kids space book; space books; space book for kids; space book for children; space book; space books illustrated; questions answered for kids; big questions; small questions; kids questions; children’s questions about space; space science for kids; astronomy for kids; aeronautics for kids; homeschooling; summer activity; science fairs; STEM01021703604990102 Are there aliens on Mars? How fast do comets fly? Why do astronauts float in space? This book answers all these questions and more!
Filled with mind-boggling information on everything from dwarf planets and satellites to meteors and the Big Bang, Big Questions for Little People Space will satisfy everyone’s curiosity, however big or small.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3b999374-bf63-49dd-b93b-ac6c003bf23e01Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen0101Weldon OwenSIMO179Weldon Owen022021072801AU NZ019.92in01251.97mm027.56in02192.02mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210607202107280221.99AUDAUZ0.0021.990.00202104250223.99NZDNZZ0.0023.990.0020210425Weldon OwenAU0120210728978168383124202021683831241039781683831242159781683831242140978168383124211BBHardback01Court of the Dead: Rise of the Reaper GeneralAn Illustrated Novel0121387807431A01Beatrice van Sleevan Slee, BeatriceBeatricevan Slee2A09Tom GillilandGilliland, TomTomGilliland3A12Rachel RoubicekRoubicek, RachelRachelRoubicek4A12Fabian SchlagaSchlaga, FabianFabianSchlaga5A11Ricky LovasLovas, RickyRickyLovas01eng480FIC00907010CGN00406010CGN00403020Sideshow; sideshow collectibles; court of the dead; alex horley; death; shard; malavestros; xiall; demithyle; mortighull; Gethsemoni; gallevarbe; cleopsis; kier; avarkus; oglavaeil; bone; flesh; spirit; tom Gilliland; rise of the reaper general; court of the dead graphic novel; graphic novel; court of the dead novel; court of the dead rise of the reaper general; reaper;01010102 In the dark fantasy universe of Court of the Dead, the savage war between Heaven and Hell is a futile stalemate fueled by the souls of mortals, whose purpose of existence has been twisted into nothing more than raw material for the harvest. Yet in seeking to transcend his grim duty in order to return meaning and inspiration to the cosmos, Death and his Court are cast as humanity's unlikely saviors.
Into this dramatic setting are born Demithyle and his fellow reapers, whose first task is to confront the ever-advancing scourge of the vicious bael reiver hordes, ravenous and destructive wraiths who threaten to destroy the Underworld and end the Court's struggle before it begins. Join Demithyle as he evolves from humble foot soldier to reluctant captain, encountering many strange and wondrous characters and places, and finally accepts the mantle of the exalted Reaper General in order to lead to victory the Underworld's last, best hope for salvation.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/d8807792-35f2-41d3-aa5d-a97f00267f4701Insight EditionsSIMO471Insight Editions0101Insight EditionsSIMO471Insight Editions022021080101AU NZ0110in01254mm027.75in02196.85mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210621202108010255.00AUDAUZ0.0055.000.00201901240265.00NZDNZZ0.0065.000.0020190124Insight EditionsAU0120210801978168412323002021684123232039781684123230159781684123230140978168412323011BBB221HardbackOnce Upon a Story01Once Upon a Story: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland011506170361A01Lewis CarrollCarroll, LewisLewisCarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky," all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.]]>2A12Lindsay Dale-ScottDale-Scott, LindsayLindsayDale-ScottLindsay Dale-Scott made her mark on the illustration industry after encouragement from both parents to pursue a creative career. While studying graphic design and illustration at Columbus College of Art and Design, she earned an award for her advertising campaign for the sloth sanctuary (she loves sloths!) of Costa Rica. She gained local, regional, and national recognition with the American Advertising Awards, "The Addy’s." Lindsay describes her work as whimsical with a soft, sophisticated touch, drawing inspiration from classic Disney artist Mary Blair. Vintage posters, folk and fairy tales, and things that are a bit quirky also inspire her. She currently resides in Cleveland with her husband, two bunnies Sam and Pepper, a teddy bear named Toby, and a long-haired Dachshund named Violet. She enjoys living outside the city but is always keen to make trips into the city and other towns for inspiration.]]>01eng128JUV037000YFH2.110JUV00700010JUV05100020alice;wonderland;adventure;action;color;bookmark;cheshire cat;mad hatter;queen of hearts;white rabbit;fantasy;caterpiller;tea party;mad tea party;hatter;march hare;croquet;knave of hearts;king of hearts;coming of age;gift;collectible;tarts;classic;treasury;illustrations;illustrated21C3N7901021103704717031204990102Join Alice for an adventure in Wonderland in this classic paired with modern illustrations!
This classic illustrated collector’s edition of Lewis Carroll’s celebrated tale brings a new generation of young readers into the magic and madness of Wonderland. Once Upon a Story: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland features the classic story of Alice and her curious adventure in Wonderland with stunning color illustrations that bring the story to life. With a beautiful canvas cover with foil and embossing and a ribbon bookmark, this deluxe hardcover book is sure to be cherished time and again.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/35f6870d-f60a-4b47-a474-a978002753e601Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021080101AU NZ0111.5in01292.1mm028.75in02222.25mm030.75in0319.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801140229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210801978168412324702021684123240039781684123247159781684123247140978168412324711BBB221HardbackOnce Upon a Story01Once Upon a Story: The Jungle Book011506170761A01Rudyard KiplingKipling, RudyardRudyardKipling2A12Louise PigottPigott, LouiseLouisePigottLouise Pigott is an illustrator and author from Cambridge, UK. She specializes in creating vibrant, detailed, and atmospheric digital illustrations with a hand-painted feel for children’s picture books. Louise also creates artwork for the greeting card industry, and her work has been printed and sold around the world. She is inspired largely by nature, animals, and all things magical. Louise graduated with a first class honors degree in graphic design and illustration from De Montfort University, Leicester, in 2009. Her past clients have included Paperchase, Hallmark, Harper Collins, Oxford University Press, American Greetings, Bloomsbury, WHSmith, The Royal Horticultural Society, Noel Tatt, Studio Press, Capstone USA, Curious Fox, and Priddy Books, among others.]]>01eng160JUV007000YFA2.110JUV00234010JUV00100020Mowgli;Bagheera;jungle book;Baloo;tiger;wolves;panther;bear;monkeys;jungle;animals;coming of age;classic books;illustrated classics;colorful;fun;collectible;gift;treasury;classic;adventure;classics;bookmark;illustrated;illustrations01021103704717031204990102Discover Mowgli’s wild world in this beloved classic with vibrant modern illustrations!
Saved from the tiger Shere Khan by a family of wolves, little Mowgli the human boy grows up in the heart of the jungle among the animals. Hunting, howling, and learning the language of the many creatures who live there, Mowgli is part of the pack. But unrest stirs in the jungle, and Shere Khan wants his revenge. Follow along with Mowgli, his teacher Baloo the Bear, and his friend Bagheera the panther in this wild tale of self-discovery in which Mowgli must decide: Is he a man, or is he a wolf? This modern illustrated collector’s edition of Rudyard Kipling’s classic brings a new generation of young readers into the wild spirit of Mowgli’s jungle with fresh illustrations, a ribbon bookmark, and foiled and embossed canvas cover.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/6b680be3-d7f7-4407-a496-a9780027562301Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021080101AU NZ0111.5in01292.1mm028.75in02222.25mm030.95in0324.13mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801140229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210801978168412325402021684123259039781684123254159781684123254140978168412325411BBB402HardbackOnce Upon a Story01Once Upon a Story: Peter Pan011557096341A01J. M. BarrieBarrie, J. M.J. M.Barrie2A12Kelly BreemerBreemer, KellyKellyBreemerKelly Breemer is an illustrator from the lovely green city Arnhem, in the Netherlands. She loves the freelance illustrator life because her work days are diverse, creative, energetic, and positive—and that fits her very well! After graduating from art school in 2012, Kelly started working in many different creative fields: children’s books, animation, typography and lettering, infographics, character design, and painting murals. Eventually Kelly found out that books were her favorite. Then she started working for Astound as an illustrator—and she feels like the projects are just as diverse, even more fun, and she's excited to start drawing again every new work day!]]>01eng176JUV037000YFH2.110JUV00700010JUV00100020peter pan;peter;tinkerbell;tinker bell;tink;darling;darling children;wendy;michael;john;neverland;hook;captain hook;lost boys;coming of age;adventure;fantasy;magic;collectible;gift;bookmark;ribbon bookmark;embossing;foil;classic;modern illustrations;illustrations;illustrated01021103704717031204990102Join Peter, Tinker Bell, and the Darling children on an adventure to Neverland in this stunning collectible edition of Peter Pan.
It's time to take off for Neverland in this full-color version of J. M. Barrie's classic tale, paired with modern illustrations. This book also includes a ribbon bookmark and foil and embossing on its canvas cover. Children will fall in love with the adventures of Peter Pan in this stunning illustrated edition.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/d0a2dd23-ce73-45cb-bd24-a9780027581301Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021072801AU NZ0111.5in01292.1mm028.75in02222.25mm030.95in0324.13mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728160229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210728978168412326102021684123267039781684123261159781684123261140978168412326111BBB402HardbackOnce Upon a Story01Once Upon a Story: The Secret Garden011557097141A01Frances Hodgson BurnettBurnett, Frances HodgsonFrances HodgsonBurnettFrances Hodgson Burnett (November 24, 1849 – October 29, 1924) was an English playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (1911), A Little Princess (1905), and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-6). She was born in Cheetham, England, and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee.]]>2A12Medeiros GiovanaGiovana, MedeirosMedeirosGiovana01eng280JUV007000YFA2.110JUV03906010JUV00100020mary;mary lennox;female protagonist;coming of age;england;english countrysid;english countryside;colin craven;archibald craven;dickon;colin;mystery;gift;yorkshire;secret garden;misselthwaite manor;classic;countryside;martha sowerby;ben weatherstaff;yorkshire england;india;adventure;modern illustrations;martha;mysterious;moor;garden;hidden garden;locked garden;ribbon bookmark;bookmark;foil;embossing;collectible;oversized;illustrated;illustrations01021103704717031204990102Join Mary Lennox as she uncovers the secrets surrounding a hidden garden in this classic tale with modern illustrations!
When Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in the English countryside, she is a very unhappy little girl. But when she stumbles on a locked, hidden garden, she begins to grow and bloom. The classic unabridged story of The Secret Garden is presented here with stunning, modern, colorful illustrations throughout, perfect to introduce to a new generation. The canvas cover includes foil and embossing, and the book includes a ribbon bookmark, making it a wonderful gift edition to be treasured.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/170a61bf-f060-4a72-8e69-a97800275a0b01Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021072801AU NZ0111.5in01292.1mm028.75in02222.25mm030.95in0324.13mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728160229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210728978168412441102021684124417039781684124411159781684124411140978168412441111BCB102Trade PaperbackSmithsonian Leveled Readers01Smithsonian All-Star Readers: All About Dogs Level 1011784367881A01Maggie FischerFischer, MaggieMaggieFischerMaggie Fischer is originally from Oregon, but now lives in Seattle, Washington, after receiving her B.A. in English from Gonzaga University. The daughter of a children’s librarian, Maggie has grown up surrounded by books and feels impossibly lucky to write and edit books for kids. She spends her time trying not to get worried about the increasing number of crows in her backyard, petting her enormous cat, Finch, and drinking more coffee than is probably healthy.]]>01eng32JNF045000YQCR2.110JNF00306010JNF00317020smithsonian;puppy;puppies;leveled reader;preschool;quiz;glossary;facts;learning;educational;learn to read;reading;skills;comprehension;pets;dog;breed;behavior;training;photos;photographs;illustrated;illustrations01021103P04K170330450102From adorable puppies to tricks and training, learn all about dogs with the Smithsonian!
From working dogs to cute and cuddly pets, Smithsonian All-Star Readers: All About Dogs Level 1 encourages reading comprehension while introducing dog breeds, behavior, training, and more. Developed in collaboration with the Smithsonian and esteemed literacy expert Dr. Adria Klein, this book builds reading skills with a carefully designed leveling structure. After reading all about dogs, children can take the included quiz to reinforce reading comprehension. Also includes a glossary.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e948ab30-0a41-4f47-9e7d-ac88003bc29201Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books0101Silver Dolphin BooksSIMO571Silver Dolphin Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm030.1in032.54mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801124029.99AUDAUZ0.009.990.00202104250212.99NZDNZZ0.0012.990.0020210425Silver Dolphin BooksAU0120210801978174203591802021742035914039781742035918159781742035918140978174203591811BCB102Trade Paperback01Power Up! The Big Book of Energy011710726261A01Charles HopeHope, CharlesCharlesHopeHunters & Hunted, Fantastic Facts, Gross Facts, The Book of the Sun and the Stars, The Big Book of Antarctica, The Big Book of the Bicycle, Community, Culture, Say What?! The History of Communication, The Year of the Dog and The Year of the Pig.]]>01eng32JNF051000YNT2.110JNF06100012YQS1703704120102Power.
We need it to light our houses, heat our lounge rooms and make our cars move. Almost everything you use in a day needed power to make it, and to get it to you.
Power is changing our world every day. But where does this power come from? Will it ever run out? How is it changing? Switch on with the latest in Power Up!]]>01LOUIE & TEDSIMO730LOUIE & TED0101LOUIE & TEDSIMO730Wild Dog022021072801AU NZ0111.811in01300mm029.449in02240mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250229.99NZDNZZ0.0029.990.0020210425Wild DogAU0120210728978176085048703021760850489039781760850487159781760850487140978176085048711BCB102Trade Paperback01The ArrangementTheArrangement011503011431A01Robyn HardingHarding, RobynRobynHardingThe Party, and The Swap, which was an instant #1 Globe and Mail (Toronto) and #1 Toronto Star bestseller. She has also written and executive produced an independent film. She lives in Vancouver, BC, with her family. Visit her at RobynHarding.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @RHardingWriter or Facebook @AuthorRobynHarding.]]>CA01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC03108010FIC02500020Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Crime; Crime Fiction; Thriller Books; Thrillers; Liane Moriarty; gifts for her; gifts for mum; gift ideas for women; birthday gifts her; mothers day gifts; mothers day kmart; gift for girl; new mum gifts; christmas gifts for mum; gifts for valentines day for her; birthday gifts for mum; birthday gift for wife; gift ideas for her birthday; christmas gift ideas for her; christmas gifts for girlfriend; good presents for mums; 50th birthday presents female0102A Pretty Woman tale turns deadly in this provocative tale of sex, obsession and murder from the bestselling author of The Party.
Natalie, an art student in New York City, is struggling to pay her bills when a friend makes a suggestion: Why not find a sugar daddy – a wealthy, older man who will pay her for dates, and a monthly allowance. All that’s required is to look pretty. Sexual favours are optional.
Gabe, a handsome finance attorney, seems like the perfect candidate and within a month they are madly in love. At least, Nat is – Gabe already has a family, who he has no intention of leaving.
When he abruptly ends things, Nat can’t let go. She begins drinking heavily and stalking Gabe and his family. Their supposedly mutually beneficial arrangement devolves into a nightmare of deception, obsession and, when a body is found near Gabe’s Upper East Side apartment, murder.
‘An insider’s look into the world of sugar daddies … full of shocking revelations, volatile characters, and vice. Look out: The Arrangement will blow your mind.’ Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl
‘A nightmarish deep dive into the underbelly of a secret world. Rivetingly dark, The Arrangement delivers on every level – a shocking premise, a forbidden obsession, and a plot that builds slowly and masterfully escalates to a chilling end. Prepare to be blindsided.’ Heather Gudenkauf, author of These Things Happen ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3c72be4b-b248-46ba-91a4-ab62003dc86401Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia042020060101AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm06159781760850463Harper Collins PublishersIP20202006010219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020190416Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120200601978176085888902021760858889039781760858889159781760858889140978176085888911BCB102Trade Paperback01The Perfect FamilyThePerfect Family011782640391A01Robyn HardingHarding, RobynRobynHardingThe Party, and The Swap, which was an instant #1 Globe and Mail (Toronto) and #1 Toronto Star bestseller. She has also written and executive produced an independent film. She lives in Vancouver, BC, with her family. Visit her at RobynHarding.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @RHardingWriter or Facebook @AuthorRobynHarding.]]>CA01eng336FIC031100FH2.110FIC03108010FIC04400012FA20books like big little lies; liane moriarty; reese witherspoon bookclub; the rumour; who is robyn harding; robin harding; domestic fiction; best thrillers 2021; gifts for mum; books for mum; kmart books; target books; big w books; books like little fires everywhere; little fires everywhere celeste ng; book club books 2021; taylor jenkins reid; louise candlish; books like our house; nicci french; lesley kara; nine perfect strangers; jodi picoult; books like the sunday girl; the strangers we know0102The bestselling author of the The Arrangement explores what happens when a seemingly perfect family is pushed to the edge by cruel, vindictive and increasingly dangerous attacks.
Thomas and Viv Adler have a picture-perfect family. Affluent and attractive, with two well-mannered kids almost out of the nest, they live in a beautiful house in a well-to-do neighbourhood. Their jobs are secure; their children are thriving; the world is their oyster.
Until one morning, when they wake up to find that their house and car have been pelted with eggs. Thomas dismisses it as the work of a few out-of-control kids, but when a smoke bomb is tossed on their front lawn, and the tires on their BMW are punctured, he begins to worry. Unable to identify the perpetrators, they are helpless as the assaults escalate. The police assure them that this is just the work of bored teenagers. But no one in the Adler family believes it. After all, each of them has a secret – kept not only from the outside world but from each other.
As the Adlers grapple with their guilt, fear and shame, the assaults grow deadly. Their ‘perfect’ façade is crumbling, and it may be too late for any of them to do anything about it.]]>0802The Perfect Family explores a perfect family’s perfect façade, and how even perfect lies can become perfect nightmares. A mesmerizing, compulsively readable thriller, this one smoulders from the first page to the last.']]>Christina McDonald, author of The Night Olivia Fell040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f6995d1d-2bc2-486d-929c-acd500387bbf01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm27159781760858896Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202102010235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210201Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU012021072897817608592990202176085929X039781760859299159781760859299140978176085929911BCB102Trade Paperback01The Nazis Knew My NameTheNazis Knew My NameA remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz011792079701A01Magda HellingerHellinger, MagdaMagdaHellinger2A01Maya LeeLee, MayaMayaLeeThe Nazis Knew My Name is the result.]]>01eng304BIO026000BGHA2.110BIO00800010HIS04300012BM12BTM12BTP12HBTZ112HBWQ20Magda Hellinger; Magda Blau; Maya Lee; Holocaust; Holocaust survivor; Auschwitz; Birkenau; concentration camp; Nazis; SS; World War Two; Second World War; prisoner of war; POW; survivor; courage; bravery; liberation; memoir; Jewish people; Jewish history; Tattooist of Auschwitz; Auschwitz memoir; holocaust memoir; holocaust story; World War II memoir; WWII memoir; Poland; Nazism; the nazi officer’s wife; anne frank; Irena’s Children; Born Survivors; Tilar Mazzeo; Elie Wiesel0102The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through everyday acts of courage, kindness and ingenuity.
In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young Slovakian women were deported to Poland on the second transportation of Jewish people sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The women were told they'd be working at a shoe factory.
At Auschwitz the SS soon discovered that by putting Jewish prisoners in charge of the day-to-day running of the accommodation blocks, camp administration and workforces, they could both reduce the number of guards required and deflect the distrust of the prisoner population away from themselves. Magda was one such prisoner selected for leadership and over three years served in many prisoner leader roles, from room leader, to block leader – at one time in charge of the notorious Experimental Block 10 where reproductive experiments were performed on hundreds of women – and eventually camp leader, responsible for 30,000 women.
She found herself constantly walking a dangerously fine line: using every possible opportunity to save lives while avoiding suspicion by the SS, and risking torture or execution. Through her bold intelligence, sheer audacity, inner strength and shrewd survival instincts, she was able to rise above the horror and cruelty of the camps and build pivotal relationships with the women under her watch, and even some of Auschwitz's most notorious Nazi senior officers including the Commandant, Josef Kramer.
Based on Magda's personal account and completed by her daughter Maya's extensive research, including testimonies from fellow Auschwitz survivors, this awe-inspiring tale offers us incredible insight into human nature, the power of resilience, and the goodness that can shine through even in the most horrific of conditions.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0c624621-3f26-4854-9d27-ad0d002aa49801Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO AQ AR AT AU AW AX AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BL BM BN BO BQ BR BS BT BV BW BY BZ CC CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CM CN CO CR CU CV CW CX CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DZ EC EE EG EH ER ES ET FI FJ FK FO FR GA GD GE GF GH GI GL GM GN GP GQ GR GS GT GW GY HK HM HN HR HT HU ID IE IL IN IO IQ IR IS IT JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM KN KP KR KW KY KZ LA LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD ME MF MG MK ML MM MN MO MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NF NG NI NL NO NP NR NU NZ OM PA PE PF PG PK PL PM PN PS PT PY QA RE RO RS RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SG SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR ST SV SX SY SZ TC TD TF TG TH TJ TK TL TM TN TO TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UY UZ VA VC VE VG VN WF WS YE YT ZA ZM ZW019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm27159781760859305Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210728978176110104502021761101048039781761101045159781761101045140978176110104511BBHardback01Footy BannersA Complete Run-Through011822947871A01Leigh MeyrickMeyrick, LeighLeighMeyrick2A01Matthew HagiasHagias, MatthewMatthewHagias01eng160SPO019000WSBX2.110SPO00000010SPO06600020 Gerard Whateley; Kevin Bartlett; football banners; footy run-throughs; football run-throughs; AFL banners; Port Adelaide; Port AFL; Brisbane Lions; Richmond; Richmond Tigers; Tigers AFL; Geelong Cats; West Coast Eagles; St Kilda; Western Bulldogs; Collingwood; Melbourne; GWS Giants; Carlton; Fremantle; Essendon; Gold Coast Suns; Hawthorn; Hawthorn Hawks; Hawks AFL; Sydney Swans; North Melbourne; Adelaide Crows; Norm Smith; Lance Franklin; Buddy Franklin; Gary Ablett; Dustin Martin0102Celebrating one of AFL's longest-standing and most iconic traditions
Have you ever wondered what makes Australian Rules Football so unique? Sure, the rules are unmistakably different to other sports, but it's the bizarre traditions and idiosyncrasies that make the game uniquely ours. One of those quirks is the team banner – an essential element of the pre-match build-up that has connected fans with their heroes for more than 80 years.
The humble banner, or run-through as it's known by the purists, has become an iconic symbol of our love for the game. It's why cheer squads around the country dedicate countless hours each and every week to delicately craft their messages on crepe. This painstaking process culminates in a fleeting moment of glory as the teams run onto the ground before the banner is torn (quite literally) to shreds.
From the funny to the offensive, the emotional to the political, banners come in all shapes and sizes and have evolved considerably, reflecting not only a changing cultural landscape but a changing game itself. Footy Banners: A Complete Run-Through is a collection of historical images, stories and unforgettable moments that pay homage to one of our game's longest-lasting rituals.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3dea41f8-24ce-4b9b-98df-acce003ab47401Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO AQ AR AS AT AU AW AX AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BL BM BN BO BQ BR BS BT BV BW BY BZ CA CC CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CM CN CO CR CU CV CW CX CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DZ EC EE EG EH ER ES ET FI FJ FK FM FO FR GA GB GD GE GF GG GH GI GL GM GN GP GQ GR GS GT GU GW GY HK HM HN HR HT HU ID IE IL IM IN IO IQ IR IS IT JE JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM KN KP KR KW KY KZ LA LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD ME MF MG MH MK ML MM MN MO MP MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NF NG NI NL NO NP NR NU NZ OM PA PE PF PG PH PK PL PM PN PR PS PT PW PY QA RE RO RS RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SG SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR SS ST SV SX SY SZ TC TD TF TG TH TJ TK TL TM TN TO TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UM US UY UZ VA VC VE VG VI VN VU WF WS YE YT ZA ZM ZW016.496in01165mm028.268in02210mm27159781761101052Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210728978176110181602021761101811039781761101816159781761101816140978176110181611BCB102Trade Paperback01When the War Was Here011834559681A01Roxanne VeletzosVeletzos, RoxanneRoxanneVeletzos01eng368FIC000000FV2.110FIC04400010FIC01405010FIC02700012FA12FRH20the girl they left behind; historical fiction; roxanne veletzos books; historical fiction books; books like tattooist of auschwitz; books like tatiana and alexander; books like the bronze horseman; books similar to the nightingale; wwii fiction books; books set in hungary; who is Roxanne veletzos; paris never leaves you; ellen Feldman; beautiful historical fiction; gifts for mum; historical fiction 2021; when the summer was ours; anita abriel; the light after the war; Sopron; books set in sopron0102An epic World War II tale of star-crossed lovers separated by class, circumstance and tragedy from the bestselling author of The Girl They Left Behind
Hungary, 1943. As war encroaches on the country’s borders, willful young Eva arrives in the idyllic town of Sopron to spend her last summer as a single woman on her aristocratic family’s estate. Longing for freedom from her domineering father, she counts the days to her upcoming nuptials to a kind and dedicated Red Cross doctor whom she greatly admires.
But Eva’s life changes when she meets Aleandro, a charming and passionate Romani fiddler with a love for painting. With time and profound class differences against them, Eva and Aleandro still fall deeply in love – only to be separated by a brutal act of hatred.
As their lives diverge and they are each swept into the tides of war and its aftermath they try to forget what they once shared. But as the years pass, the haunting memory of their romance will reshape their destinies and drive them to decisions that will change their lives forever.
From the horrors of World War II to the tensions of the 1956 Hungarian uprising and beyond, When the War Was Here is a sweeping story about the toll of secrets, the blurred lines between desire and loyalty, sacrifice and obsession, and the endurance of the human spirit.
‘A lyrical and deeply moving story ... Book clubs will love this intimate tale of courage and sacrifice’ Anita Abriel, bestselling author of The Light After the War]]>0802When The War Was Here is a lyrical and deeply moving story of star-crossed love during World War II, Hungary. Eva is a complex heroine and her ultimate fate is bittersweet and rewarding at the same time. Book clubs will love this intimate tale of courage and sacrifice.’]]>Anita Abriel, bestselling author of The Light After the War0802When The War Was Here is a gripping story of a passionate, illicit love affair torn apart by decades of brutal inhumanity and secrets. Through unimagined journeys of self-discovery and determination, the characters must find within themselves the courage not only to endure but to once again reach for the impossible. A heart wrenching, vivid novel of love, war, and loyalty written in Roxanne Veletzos’ trademark style of unapologetic honesty and lasting devotion.’]]>Genevieve Graham, author of The Forgotten Home Child0802Alexis Landau, author of Those Who Are Saved0802When The War Was Here is a breathtaking romance that unfolds in a richly drawn landscape of war and loss – a gripping, unforgettable story of enduring love and the fragile yet indomitable hope that sustains the human heart through tragedy to redemption.’]]>Jennifer Chiaverini, author of Resistance Women0802Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Before We Were Yours0802When the War Was Here is an artfully written story told with deep compassion. Historical fiction fans will love this book!']]>Julia Kelly, internationally bestselling author of The Light Over London040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/dcb9e9c6-7336-4be2-be2c-acea003a26d701Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm27159781761101830Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210728978176110191502021761101919039781761101915159781761101915140978176110191511BBHardback01Last Shot011840013131A01Jock ZonfrilloZonfrillo, JockJockZonfrillo Attracted to the dynamic and competitive kitchens of London, he worked alongside top chefs like Marco Pierre White, Gordon Ramsay and David Cavalier.
Jock was on a year-long sabbatical in Sydney when a conversation with an Aboriginal man became the turning point in Jock’s journey to discover the taste and origins of Australia’s Indigenous cuisine.
Jock eventually moved to Adelaide and opened Restaurant Orana in 2013. Orana was a fine-dining experience designed to acknowledge Indigenous culture through food.
Jock hosted Nomad Chef on The Discovery Channel, a show which led an exploration into the Indigenous cultures and cuisine of some of the most remote communities on earth. He appeared in the MasterChef Australia kitchen as a guest chef across three seasons and in late 2019 Jock was announced as one of the new MasterChef Australia judges alongside Andy Allen and Melissa Leong.
The father of four is happily married to businesswoman Lauren Zonfrillo. The couple live together in Melbourne with their two young children, Alfie and Isla. ]]>01eng336BIO026000BM2.110BIO00500010BIO00000012BG12BGA20Masterchef; Masterchef Australia; Jock Zonfrillo children; Jock Zonfrillo restaurant; new Masterchef judges; Restaurant Orana; The Orana Foundation; Glasgow; Melissa Leong; Andy Allen; Lauren Zonfrillo; Jock Zonfrillo wife; Jock Zonfrillo baby; Marco Pierre White; David Cavalier; Dietmar Sawyere; Martin Krammer; Jock Zonfrillo bankrupt; Lauren Fried; Street ADL; Bistro Blackwood; Basque Culinary World Prize; 2018 Restaurant of the year; 2018; Isla Zonfrillo; Jock Zonfrillo defamation0102A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens.
From reckless drug addict to one of Australia’s top chefs and television stars: MasterChef judge Jock Zonfrillo's powerful life story will shock and inspire.
Jock’s life spiralled out of control when he tried heroin for the first time as a teenager while growing up in 1980s Glasgow. For years he balanced a career as a rising star amongst legendary chefs with a crippling drug addiction that took him down many dark paths.
Fired from his job at a Michelin star restaurant in Chester, England, after a foul-mouthed rant, Jock made his way to London looking for work and found himself in front of the legendary Marco Pierre White. He credits White for saving his life, but Jock continued to struggle with addiction in a world of excess, celebrity, and cut-throat ambition.
On New Year’s Eve 1999, Jock shot up his last shot of heroin before boarding a plane to Sydney, where he would find passion and new meaning in life in the most unexpected places. There would be more struggles ahead, including two failed marriages, the closure of his prized restaurant during COVID-19, his time on-country, and some very public battles.
This is his unforgettable story. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7f9350d9-8df6-4330-a9f1-ad11012da73e01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm27159781761101922Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210728978176110256102021761102567039781761102561159781761102561140978176110256111BCB102Trade Paperback01Paris Never Leaves You011706011771A01Ellen FeldmanFeldman, EllenEllenFeldmanEllen Feldman is the acclaimed author of Scottsboro, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Orange Prize, The Boy Who Loved Anne Frank, which was translated into nine languages, Next to Love, Terrible Virtue, The Unwitting and Lucy. A former Guggenheim Fellow in fiction, she has a BA and MA in modern history from Bryn Mawr College and after graduate studies at Columbia University, she worked for a New York publishing house, like Charlotte in Paris Never Leaves You. She has lectured around the US, Germany and the UK. She lives in New York and Amagansett with her husband and rescue terrier Charlie.]]>01eng368FIC000000FV2.110FIC01405010FIC04400020Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Historical fiction; World War 2; Ellen Feldman; Paris; France; World War II; World War; WWII; WW2; Nazi; Postwar; New York; America; Adversity; Love; Wartime; books about love; wwii books; wwii love story; love story; beautiful historical books; post wwii fiction; post wwii; The German Girl; armando lucas correa; the girl they left behind; the daughter's tale; roxanne veletzos; tania blanchard; the girl from munich; all the light we cannot see0102‘Masterful, magnificent. A passionate story of survival. This story will stay with me for a long time.’ Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The war is over, but the past is never past …
Paris, 1944. Charlotte Foret is working in a tiny bookstore in Nazi-occupied Paris struggling to stay alive and keep her baby Vivi safe. Every day they live through is a miracle until Vivi becomes gravely ill. In desperation, Charlotte accepts help from an unlikely saviour – and her life is changed forever.
Charlotte is no victim. She is a survivor. But the truth of what happened in Paris is something she knows she can never share with anyone, including her daughter. Can she ever really leave Paris behind, and embrace the next chapter of her life?
Seamlessly interweaving Charlotte’s past in wartime Paris and her present in the 1950s world of New York publishing, Paris Never Leaves You is a heartbreakingly moving and unforgettable story of resilience, love – and impossible choices.
‘A thrilling achievement ... I was thoroughly drawn into a deep, rich, vivid world of engrossing characters and emotional and moral crises ... a great piece of writing in every way.' Forbes
‘This beautiful novel tells the bittersweet story of a young mother's strength and survival during WWII, effortlessly capturing the terror, immediacy, and inextinguishable human spirit.’ Noelle Salazar, author of The Flight Girls
'With more twists and turns than the back streets of Paris, the story is as propulsively readable as a spy novel, and as rich and psychologically rewarding as only the finest literature can be.’ Liza Gyllenhaal, author of Bleeding Heart
‘An exquisite novel that gives us what we’re hungry for: an intelligent, complex female character who challenges our ideas of right and wrong, morality and immorality. Feldman achieves all of this with admirable precision and wit; she takes aim and does not miss.’ Elizabeth J Church, author of All the Beautiful Girls
'Completely compelling. I tore through it. This novel pivots on how we manage to survive surviving ... Charlotte's visceral story will stay with me.’ Naomi Wood, author of Mrs Hemingway]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0b1ed54c-1540-4cf4-b051-ace300391fb301Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm06159781760855901Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210406Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210728978176110307002021761103075039781761103070159781761103070140978176110307011BCB102Trade Paperback01Forever, Interrupted011860466741A01Taylor Jenkins ReidReid, Taylor JenkinsTaylor JenkinsReidDaisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. To learn more, visit TaylorJenkinsReid.com.]]>01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC02702010FIC00000012FRD20Books like ps I love you; Cecilia Ahern; p.s. I love you; Rebecca serle; five years from now; me before you; after you; still me; jojo moyes; giver of stars; all your perfects; colleen hoover; it ends with us; Nicholas sparks; gayle forman; leave me; jill santopolo; the light we lost; shameless podcast book club; reese witherspoon book club; Dakota fanning movie; heartbreaking books; books that will make you cry; debut novel; Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine; eloping0102A moving and heartbreaking debut from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six – for fans of PS, I Love You and Me Before You
Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year’s Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn’t expecting to see anyone else in the shop, much less the adorable and charming Ben Ross. Their chemistry is instant and electric. Ben cannot even wait twenty-four hours before asking to see her again. Within weeks, the two are head over heels in love. By May, they’ve eloped.
Only nine days later, Ben is out riding his bike when he is hit by a truck and killed on impact. Elsie hears the sirens outside her apartment but by the time she gets downstairs, he has already been whisked off to the emergency room. At the hospital, she must face Susan, the mother-in-law she has never met – and who doesn’t even know Elsie exists.
Interweaving Elsie and Ben’s charmed romance with Elsie and Susan’s healing process, Forever, Interrupted shows us that there’s more than one way to find a happy ending.
‘Touching and powerful ... Reid masterfully grabs hold of the heartstrings and doesn't let go. A stunning first novel.’ Publishers Weekly (starred review)]]>01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021070701AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm27159781761103094Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107070219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210707978176110310002021761103105039781761103100159781761103100140978176110310011BCB102Trade Paperback01After I Do011860474791A01Taylor Jenkins ReidReid, Taylor JenkinsTaylor JenkinsReidDaisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. To learn more, visit TaylorJenkinsReid.com.]]>01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC02702010FIC00000012FRD20Daisy Jones & the Six; Malibu Rising; Daisy Jones; new Taylor Jenkins Reid book; broken marriage; family ties; unconventional marriage; realistic romance; self-discovery; healing process; monogamy; staying in love; seizing love; marian keyes the break; Cecelia ahern; dolly alderton; ghosts; reece witherspoon book club; shameless podcast book club; different love stories; books about marriage; I give my marriage a year; moving fiction; sorrow and bliss; Christina lauren; Rebecca serle0102A love story about what happens when the love fades – from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes.
Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for?
After I Do is the story of a couple caught up in an old game – and searching for a new road to happily ever after.
‘A raw, unflinching exploration of the realities of marriage, the delicate nature of love and the enduring strength of family … Heartbreaking and hopeful, Reid has crafted a story of love lost and found that is as timely as it is timeless.’ Katja Millay, author of The Sea of Tranquility]]>01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021070701AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm27159781761103124Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107070219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU012021070797817611031310202176110313X039781761103131159781761103131140978176110313111BCB102Trade Paperback01Maybe In Another Life011860737171A01Taylor Jenkins ReidReid, Taylor JenkinsTaylor JenkinsReidDaisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. To learn more, visit TaylorJenkinsReid.com.]]>01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC02702010FIC00000012FRD20Books like sliding doors; sliding doors books; gayle forman; if I stay; leave me; dani atkins; one true loves; after i do; forever interrupted; taylor jenkins reed; half life; the versions of us; in five years; Rebecca serle; books parallel universe; fiction parallel universe; the flip side; james bailey; Christina lauren; marian keyes; talia hibbert; rosie danan; celia ahern; ps I love you; dolly alderton; ghosts; olive; emma gannon; daisy jones and the six; Malibu rising; taylor Jenkins reid0102One choice. Two different paths – with stunningly different results. From the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six.
At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. She has lived in six different cities and held countless meaningless jobs since graduating college. On the heels of leaving yet another city, Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby’s guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with her friend Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan.
Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she’s ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later if she wants to stay. Hannah hesitates. What happens if she leaves with Gabby? What happens if she leaves with Ethan?
In concurrent storylines, Hannah lives out the effects of each decision. Quickly, these parallel universes develop into radically different stories with large-scale consequences for Hannah, as well as the people around her. As the two alternate realities run their course, Maybe in Another Life raises questions about fate and love: Is anything meant to be? How much in our life is determined by chance? And perhaps, most compellingly: Is there such a thing as a soul mate?
Hannah believes there is. And, in both worlds, she believes she’s found him.]]>01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021070701AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm27159781761103155Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107070219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210707978176110316202021761103164039781761103162159781761103162140978176110316211BCB102Trade Paperback01One True Loves011860771791A01Taylor Jenkins ReidReid, Taylor JenkinsTaylor JenkinsReidDaisy Jones & the Six, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, One True Loves, Maybe in Another Life, After I Do, and Forever, Interrupted. To learn more, visit TaylorJenkinsReid.com.]]>01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC02702010FIC00000012FRH20Books like sliding doors; sliding doors books; gayle forman; if I stay; leave me; dani atkins; half life; the versions of us; in five years; Rebecca serle; books parallel universe; fiction parallel universe; the flip side; james bailey; Christina lauren; marian keyes; talia hibbert; rosie danan; celia ahern; ps I love you; dolly alderton; ghosts; olive; emma gannon; daisy jones and the six; Malibu rising; after I do; maybe in another life; forever interrupted; taylor Jenkins reid0102A moving love story about a woman unexpectedly forced to choose between the husband she has long thought dead and the fiancé who has finally brought her back to life – from the bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
In her twenties, Emma marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure. On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.
Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness.
That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and all these years he’s been trying to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants.
Who is her one true love? Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.]]>01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021070701AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm27159781761103186Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107070219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210707978178396565602021783965657039781783965656159781783965656140978178396565611BBHardback01Lobby LifeInside Westminster's Secret Society011817334841A01Carole WalkerWalker, CaroleCaroleWalker01eng272POL000000JP2.10102The Thick of It-style pronouncements and hanging out with a succession of prime ministers – always with an eye on the story.
Drawing on interviews with former colleagues, politicians, spin doctors and critics of the system, as well as first-hand insight, Lobby Life tells the intriguing story of this highly secretive British institution from its conception to the present day. It exposes the battles at Downing Street to control the news agenda, including during some of most momentous stories in recent history. Through general elections, industrial strife, the EU referendum and the rise and fall of decades of governments, we witness the behind-the-scenes deals, the drama and debate, the resignations and the rows.
In this no-holds-barred account of what really happens behind the closed doors of Westminster, Walker asks urgent questions about the role of the press today, when politicians can engage directly with voters via social media, bypassing journalists – and accountability. This book will intrigue anyone who wants to understand a political system that seeks to shape how and where we consume our news, and to influence who and what we believe.]]>01Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson0101Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson022021072801AU NZ019.252in01235mm026.142in02156mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280235.00AUDAUZ0.0035.000.00202104250239.99NZDNZZ0.0039.990.0020210425Elliott & ThompsonAU0120210728978178396583002021783965835039781783965830159781783965830140978178396583011BCB102Trade Paperback01Into The Tangled BankDiscover the quirks, habits and foibles of how we experience nature011746703201A01Lev ParikianParikian, LevLevParikianLev Parikian is a writer, birdwatcher and conductor. He is the author of Into the Tangled Bank (2020) and Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? (2018). He lives in West London with his family, who are getting used to his increasing enthusiasm for nature. As a birdwatcher, his most prized sightings are a golden oriole in the Alpujarras and a black redstart at Dungeness Power Station.]]>01eng288NAT000000WN2.10102It's often said that the British are a nation of nature lovers; but what does that really mean?
Lev Parikian is on a journey – from pavement to garden from wildlife reserve to far-flung island – to discover the quirks, habits and foibles of how we experience nature.
Open a window, hear the birds calling and join him.]]>01Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson0101Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.079in02129mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425Elliott & ThompsonAU0120210728978178396597702021783965975039781783965977159781783965977140978178396597711BBHardback01The HeedingTheHeeding011840935441A01Rob CowenCowen, RobRobCowen Common Ground (PRH; 2015) was shortlisted for the Portico, Richard Jefferies Society and Wainwright Prizes and voted one of the nation’s favourite nature books on BBC Winterwatch. His poems have featured on Caught By The River and in Letters to the Earth (Harper Collins). He lives in North Yorkshire.]]>2A12Nick HayesHayes, NickNickHayesSunday Times bestseller, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us (Bloomsbury; 2020). He has published graphic novels with Jonathan Cape and worked for many renowned titles. He has exhibited across the country, including at the Hayward Gallery. He lives in London.]]>01eng112NAT000000DC2.110POE02304012WN0102The Heeding paints a picture of a year caught in the grip of history, yet filled with revelatory perspectives close at hand: a sparrowhawk hunting in a back street; the moon over a town with a loved-one’s hand held tight; butterflies massing in a high-summer yard – remembrances of the moments that shape a life. Collecting birds, animals, trees and people together, and surfacing memories along the way, The Heeding evolves to become a profound meditation to a time no-one will forget.
Across four seasons and through a sequence of luminous poems and illustrations, Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes lead us on a journey that takes its markers and signs from nature and a world filled with terror and pain, but beauty and wonder too.
At its heart, this is a book that helps us look again, to heed: to be attentive to this world we share and this history we’re living through, to be aware of how valuable and fragile we are, to grieve what’s lost, and to hope for a better and brighter tomorrow. It is an unforgettable book that will break your heart, but mend it also.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0c9ce6f8-16c1-4b3a-a4c4-acf10038020101Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson0101Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson022021081801AU NZ018.504in01216mm025.433in02138mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202108180227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Elliott & ThompsonAU0120210818978178396606602021783966068039781783966066159781783966066140978178396606611BBHardback01The Pay OffThePay OffHow Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything011859583751A01Gottfried LeibbrandtLeibbrandt, GottfriedGottfriedLeibbrandtGottfried Leibbrandt is the former CEO of SWIFT, the cross-border payments network. Prior to that, he was a partner with McKinsey & Company. He holds degrees from Vrije Universteit Amsterdam, Maastricht University, and Stanford Business School.]]>2A01Natasha De TeranDe Teran, NatashaNatashaDe TeranNatasha De Terán is a former journalist, specialising in financial regulation and market structures. She has written for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Times, Financial Times, Risk, Week, and Money Week. She was the head of corporate affairs at SWIFT from 2012 to 2019.]]>01eng320BUS000000KCY2.110BUS06400010BUS01400012JPS0102How we pay is so fundamental that it underpins everything – from trade to taxation, stocks and savings to salaries, pensions and pocket money. Rich or poor, criminal, communist or capitalist, we all rely on the same payments system, day in, day out. It sits between us and not just economic meltdown, but a total breakdown in law and order. Why then do we know so little about how that system really works?
As you read this, technology is dismantling payment barriers and governments are erecting them; cash is on the way out, and crypto and BigTech are fighting their way in. The Europeans are heavily regulated, the Americans oddly backward, and the Chinese hoping to lead the way forward. Challenging our understanding about where financial power really lies, The Pay Off shows us that the most important thing about money is the way we move it.
Leibbrandt and de Terán shine a light on the hidden workings of the humble payment – and reveal both how our payment habits are determined by history as well as where we go from here. From national customs to warring nation states, geopolitics will shape the future of payments every bit as much as technology.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/6a5105c6-1dae-4509-b52f-acf10038146101Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson0101Elliott & ThompsonSIMO585Elliott & Thompson022021081801AU NZ019.213in01234mm026.142in02156mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202108180235.00AUDAUZ0.0035.000.00202104250239.99NZDNZZ0.0039.990.0020210425Elliott & ThompsonAU0120210818978178999310302021789993105039781789993103159781789993103140978178999310311BCB102Trade PaperbackWarhammer: Age of Sigmar01Realm-lords011738137641A01Dale LucasLucas, DaleDaleLucas01eng320FIC009100FM2.110FIC00912010FIC00914020Games Workshop; Black Library; Warhammer; Fiction; Old Warhammer; Fantasy; Warhammer Chronicles; Lord of the Rings; Tolkien; George R R Martin; Game of Thrones; GoT; Robert Jordan; Wheel of Time; Feist; Magician; angels; demons; daemons; Dragons; elf; spirit; pantheon; vampire; magic; wizard; Arthurian; mythical creates; battles; magic; orc; ork; skaven; Swords; Empire; exploration; norse; greek; old world; end times; castles; siege engine; knights; beasts; creatures; myth; legend; good; evil01010102 A single, harrowing trial stands between Ferendir and a life of loyal service to his Alarith temple. But on the day of the young aelf’s final initiation, a Slaaneshi warhost descends upon his mountain home, leaving slaughter and destruction in their wake and stealing a long-hidden Lumineth treasure of terrible power. His world now torn asunder, Ferendir and his stalwart masters Serath and Desriel are forced to navigate a realm at war to stop the depraved warriors of the Dark Prince. The three Alarith Stoneguard must gather a band of Lumineth champions and embark upon a perilous quest. Failure is inconceivable, for the Hedonites seek to awaken an ancient and cataclysmic weapon, one with the power to bring Hysh to its knees.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/095fc104-275b-4be5-990a-abc40035fafb01Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop0101Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop022021070101AU NZ017.8in01198.12mm025.1in02129.54mm031in0325.4mm080.61lb089.76oz08276.69grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210701280220.00AUDAUZ0.0020.000.00202104250226.00NZDNZZ0.0026.000.0020210425Games WorkshopAU0120210701978178999826902021789998263039781789998269159781789998269140978178999826911BCB102Trade PaperbackWarhammer 40,00001Brutal Kunnin011752278091A01Mike BrooksBrooks, MikeMikeBrooks01eng288FIC028130FL2.110FIC02805010FIC02801020Games Workshop; Black Library; Warhammer; Warhammer 40K; 40;000; Warhammer 40000; SciFi; Science Fiction; Asimov; Star Wars; Dune; Blade Runner; Philip K Dick; Space Marines; Chaos; Imperium; Orks; Primaris; Warhammer 30K; Warhammer 30000; Heresy; Star Wars; Siege of Terra; Space Opera; Saga; exploration; Space; starship; metaphysical; genes; empire; contact; colonization; invasion; magic; norse; greek; arthurian; robots; Dystopian; Battles; Horus Heresy; Spaceship; Spaceships; Robots; AI01010102Ork action at it's finest, join us for the next epic Waaagh!
Ufthak Blackhawk and the green tide descend upon Hephaesto – an Adeptus Mechanicus forge world bristling with loot – only to find it already under siege by the notorious Freebooter Kaptin Badrukk. When his warboss, Da Biggest Big Mek, orders temporary co-operation, Ufthak seeks to make a name for himself by crushing some of the Imperium’s most advanced defenders and claiming the greatest prize. But with a sinister new war machine on the horizon, Badrukk’s plotting, and a thoroughly annoying grot in his way, Ufthak is going to need the brutal kunnin’ of Mork himself just to survive.]]>1302040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e0578849-23e2-4046-a86a-ac73003a6cbf01Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop0101Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop022021070101AU NZ017.2in01182.88mm025.1in02129.54mm030.9in0322.86mm080.525lb088.4oz08238.14grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210701360220.00AUDAUZ0.0020.000.00202104250226.00NZDNZZ0.0026.000.0020210425Games WorkshopAU0120210701978178999832002021789998328039781789998320159781789998320140978178999832011BCB102B105Trade PaperbackWarhammer 40,00001The Infinite and The Divine011817014471A01Robert RathRath, RobertRobertRath01eng368FIC028130FL2.110FIC02805010FIC02801020Games Workshop; Black Library; Warhammer; Warhammer 40K; 40;000; Warhammer 40000; SciFi; Science Fiction; Asimov; Star Wars; Dune; Blade Runner; Philip K Dick; Space Marines; Chaos; Imperium; Orks; Primaris; Warhammer 30K; Warhammer 30000; Heresy; Star Wars; Siege of Terra; Space Opera; Saga; exploration; Space; starship; metaphysical; genes; empire; contact; colonization; invasion; magic; norse; greek; arthurian; robots; Dystopian; Battles; Horus Heresy; Spaceship; Spaceships; Robots; AI01010102Explore a story told across the millennia that delves deep into a pair of fascinating necron characters, their relationship and their plans for the galaxy.
Before the being called the Emperor revealed Himself, before the rise of the aeldari, before the necrontyr traded their flesh for immortal metal, the world was born in violence.Even when they inhabited bodies of flesh, Trazyn the Infinite and Orikan the Diviner were polar opposites. Trazyn, a collector of historical oddities, presides over a gallery full of the most dangerous artefacts – and people – of the galactic past. Orikan, a chronomancer without peer, draws zodiacs that predict and manipulate the future. But when an artefact emerges that may hold the key to the necrons’ next evolution, these two obsessives enter a multi-millennia game of cat and mouse that ends civilisations, reshapes timelines, and changes both forever. As riddles unwind and ancient secrets are revealed, the question remains: will their feud save the necron race or destroy it?]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3fd007d5-8f1f-4424-80f0-ac73003a755201Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop0101Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop022021080101AU NZ017.8in01198.12mm025.1in02129.54mm031.7in0343.18mm080.68lb0810.88oz08308.44grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210801240220.00AUDAUZ0.0020.000.00202104250226.00NZDNZZ0.0026.000.0020210425Games WorkshopAU0120210801978180026004702021800260040039781800260047159781800260047140978180026004711BCB102B105Trade PaperbackWarhammer Chronicles01Gotrek and Felix: The Sixth Omnibus011807033471A01VariousVariousVarious01eng800FIC009120FM2.110FIC00910010FIC00914020Games Workshop; Black Library; Warhammer; Fiction; Old Warhammer; Fantasy; Warhammer Chronicles; Lord of the Rings; Tolkien; George R R Martin; Game of Thrones; GoT; Robert Jordan; Wheel of Time; Feist; Magician; angels; demons; daemons; Dragons; elf; spirit; pantheon; vampire; magic; wizard; Arthurian; mythical creates; battles; magic; orc; ork; skaven; Swords; Empire; exploration; norse; greek; old world; end times; castles; siege engine; knights; beasts; creatures; myth; legend; good; evil01010102A Gotrek & Felix Omnibus
TBC]]>01Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop0101Games WorkshopSIMO026Games Workshop022021070101AU NZ017.8in01198.12mm025.1in02129.54mm031.7in0343.18mm081.185lb0818.96oz08537.51grHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210701160227.00AUDAUZ0.0027.000.00202104250231.00NZDNZZ0.0031.000.0020210425Games WorkshopAU0120210701978191361809402021913618099039781913618094159781913618094140978191361809411BCB102Trade Paperback01Know Your Clouds011803324401A01Tim HarrisHarris, TimTimHarrisMigration Hotspots: The World's Best Bird Migration Sites. He has been fascinated by all aspects of the natural world since a young age. After studying Norwegian glaciers at university, his quest for wildlife has seen him explore the giant dunes of the Namib Desert, climb the slopes of Popocatapetl in Mexico, camp in the Sumatran rainforest, and search the frozen Sea of Okhotsk for sea-eagles. He lives on the edge of Epping Forest in London, England. ]]>01eng88NAT036000WND2.110NAT03300020clouds; cloudspotting; weather; nature; sky0102040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c6787443-9a73-46c1-9b49-ac340027d77d01Old PondSIMO694Old Pond0101Old PondSIMO694Fox Chapel and IMM Lifestyle022021080101AU015in01127mm027.008in02178mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202108011000214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.0020210425Fox Chapel and IMM LifestyleAU0120210801978191361814802021913618145039781913618148159781913618148140978191361814811BCB102Trade Paperback01Know Your Classic Tractors011657656861A01Chris LockwoodLockwood, ChrisChrisLockwood01eng88TRA000000WGCT2.110TEC00300020Farming; countryside; farm machinery; transport0102 • Description and photograph of each tractor • Country of manufacture • Engine and horsepower This period saw a huge rise in the power and comfort of tractors, and paved the way for today’s high-tech farm machinery.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7f219a77-e9de-475f-aba6-ac340027da2801Old PondSIMO694Old Pond0101Old PondSIMO694Fox Chapel and IMM Lifestyle022021080101AUHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210801800214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.0020210425Fox Chapel and IMM LifestyleAU0120210801978192072752902021920727523039781920727529159781920727529140978192072752911BCB102B105Trade Paperback01Paris Savages011626620291A01Katherine JohnsonJohnson, KatherineKatherineJohnsonPescador’s Wake (Fourth Estate, 2009), The Better Son (Ventura Press, 2016) and Matryoshka (Ventura Press, 2018). Her manuscripts have won Varuna Awards and Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes. The Better Son was longlisted for both the Indie Book Awards and the Tasmania Book Prize. Katherine holds both arts and science degrees, has worked as a science journalist, and published feature articles for magazines including Good Weekend. Katherine lives in Tasmania with her husband and two children. She recently completed a PhD, which forms the basis of her latest novel, Paris Savages.]]>01eng352FIC014000FV2.110FIC01900020Badtjala; Indigenous history; historical fiction; literary fiction; human zoos0102Dr Fiona Foley, Badtjala artist and academic
Fraser Island, 1882. The population of the Badtjala people is in sharp decline following a run of brutal massacres. When German scientist Louis Müller offers to sail three Badtjala people – Bonny, Jurano and Dorondera – to Europe to perform to huge crowds, the proud and headstrong Bonny agrees, hoping to bring his people’s plight to the Queen of England.
Accompanied by Müllers bright, grieving daughter, Hilda, the group begin their journey to belle-époque Europe to perform in Hamburg, Berlin, Paris and eventually London. While crowds in Europe are enthusiastic to see the unique dances, singing, fights and pole climbing from the oldest culture in the world, the attention is relentless and the fascination of scientists intrusive. When disaster strikes, Bonny must find a way to return home.
A story of love, bravery, culture and the fight against injustice, Paris Savages brings a little-known part of history to blazing life, from award-winning novelist Katherine Johnson. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9c780ff2-0a25-407c-a2ba-acff0028a04f01Ventura PressSIMO437Ventura Press0101Ventura PressSIMO437Ventura Press022021072801AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO AQ AR AT AU AW AX AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BL BM BN BO BQ BR BS BT BV BW BY BZ CC CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CM CN CO CR CU CV CW CX CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DZ EC EE EG EH ER ES ET FI FJ FK FO FR GA GD GE GF GH GI GL GM GN GP GQ GR GS GT GW GY HK HM HN HR HT HU ID IL IN IO IQ IR IS IT JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM KN KP KR KW KY KZ LA LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD ME MF MG MH MK ML MM MN MO MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NF NG NI NL NO NP NR NU NZ OM PA PE PF PG PH PK PL PM PN PS PT PY QA RE RO RS RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SG SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR SS ST SV SX SY SZ TC TD TF TG TH TJ TK TL TM TN TO TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UY UZ VA VC VE VG VN VU WF WS YE YT ZA ZM ZW017.795in01198mm025.118in02130mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Ventura PressAU0120210728978192078503102021920785035039781920785031159781920785031140978192078503111BCB102Trade Paperback01The Force WithinTheForce WithinFrom Police Officer to Paralympia011841004531A01Carol Cooke AMCooke AM, CarolCarolCooke AM01eng240BIO026000BGSA2.110BIO01600012BM20Paralympics; Olympics; Australia; MS; adversity; sports; Australian sports; memoir0102 Born into a policing family, Carol follows in their footsteps serving on the Toronto Police Force until love calls and she moves to Australia. Following a period of feeling unwell Carol is diagnosed with MS and life as she knows it changes forever. Resilient and determined, Carol believes she must embrace whatever happens on her life path and that is exactly what she does. She becomes a Paralympian and at an age when her friends are looking at retiring she is still training and competing (and winning!) against athletes much younger than her.
Her story will entertain and inspire you.]]>01Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing0101Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing022021072801AU NZ015.906in01150mm029.055in02230mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280234.99AUDAUZ0.0034.990.00202104250239.99NZDNZZ0.0039.990.0020210425Brolga PublishingAU012021072897819207850620202192078506X039781920785062159781920785062140978192078506211BCB102Trade Paperback01Still CaringSupporting Older People011841009231A01Lyndis FlynnFlynn, LyndisLyndisFlynn2A01Margaret SheltonShelton, MargaretMargaretShelton01eng200SEL005000VSR2.112VS12JKSG20Self help; elderly; retirement; age; aging; nursing home; carers; caring; social work0102Still Caring: Supporting Older People has been written to provide support to all Carers, whether they are working as a professional in aged care or a layperson who finds themselves in a Caring role.
Still Caring considers the ways in which Carers can contribute to the elderly person’s life and also suggests ways in which Carers can balance their own lives and well-being with the demands of the particular caring path they choose. An insightful read for anyone in the Caring role.]]>01Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing0101Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing022021072801AU NZ018.268in01210mm025.315in02135mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Brolga PublishingAU0120210728978192078510902021920785108039781920785109159781920785109140978192078510911BCB102Trade Paperback01FraternityAustralia's Pub Rock Pioneers011840933481A01Victor MarshallMarshall, VictorVictorMarshall01eng408BIO004000AVGP2.110MUS04900012AV12AVH20music; rock music; Australian bands; ACDC; Fraternity; Deep Purple; Manfred Mann; Black Sabbath; Jimmy Barnes; John Swan; Guitar0102 or the first time in 50 years the band’s story is told in their own words and this significant lost chapter in Australian music history is revealed. ]]>01Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing0101Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing022021072801AU NZ015.906in01150mm029.055in02230mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280234.99AUDAUZ0.0034.990.00202104250239.99NZDNZZ0.0039.990.0020210425Brolga PublishingAU0120210728978192217555702021922175552039781922175557159781922175557140978192217555711BCB102Trade Paperback01Best Aussie JokesHow to be the Life of The Party011842068241A01Marguerite MarshallMarshall, MargueriteMargueriteMarshall01eng304HUM000000WHJ2.110HUM00400012WH0102Best Aussie Jokes has a joke for nearly every occasion. Laughter is a powerful tonic for our physical and mental health and these jokes will ensure you become the life of the party. So get ready for a book full of belly laughs. A warning: Beware... laughing is addictive!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/72049e3d-1a03-4088-b650-acdc003aa5d401Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing0101Brolga PublishingSIMO770Brolga Publishing022021072801AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Brolga PublishingAU0120210728978192238792902021922387924039781922387929159781922387929140978192238792911BBHardback01The Art of SacrificeTheArt of Sacrifice011817229271A01George PetrouPetrou, GeorgeGeorgePetrou01eng400ART016010HB2.110ART05004012HBW12AFC12AJC20Art; War Art; Art Collection; Photographic Collection; World War One; World War Two; Vietnam War; Veterans; Victoria Cross; VC; Lost Diggers; Anzac; Military History; Portraits; George Petrou0102 Australians from all walks of life have served our great nation with gallantry and sacrifice — ordinary people who displayed mateship, resilience and devotion to duty. The Art of Sacrifice captures the spirit of service in a fitting tribute to all Anzacs of every generation.
Using images of the past and the stories of today, the artist travels Australia and overseas to connect the past and the present in a unique, powerful and evocative collection of outstanding portraits. The Art of Sacrifice is a stunning contribution to the understanding and commemoration of all those who have served our great country.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/46ce8495-afe6-4eff-abd1-ac5e002a085f01Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ0112.008in01305mm0210.236in02260mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280269.99AUDAUZ0.0069.990.00202104250279.99NZDNZZ0.0079.990.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192241708403021922417084039781922417084159781922417084140978192241708411ZJJigsaw01Where's Bowie?David Bowie in Berlin: 500 piece jigsaw puzzle011621405251A12Kev GahanGahan, KevKevGahanWhere’s Bowie? which was published by Smith Street Books in 2019.]]>01engGAM007000WDK2.110GAM00000010ANT05200020David Bowie; Bowie; pop culture; gift for music lover; gift for David Bowie fan; Bowie art; illustration; iconic; gift for rock and roll lover; gift for rock lover; music puzzle; gift for David Bowie lover; Berlin Trilogy; heroes; jigsaw; puzzle; jigsaw puzzle; puzzles for adults; iso gift; social distancing; adult jigsaw puzzles; puzzles; puzzles 500 pieces; music jigsaw; Berlin; pop culture jigsaw; music; where’s waldo Bowie; where’s wally Bowie; search and find; game; game night0102 Music aficionados and Bowie nerds alike will explain that the “Berlin Trilogy” of the albums Low, Heroes, and Lodger, are some of the best he ever recorded. They are infused with electronic, ambient and world music – thanks in great part to Bowie’s collaboration with Brian Eno throughout this time. It’s a vital chapter in the annals of Bowie, and is explored in this intricate jigsaw. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/10dbb60b-68b3-4d39-ad80-ac1800285fd401Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books042021020301AU NZ018.504in01216mm0211.496in02292mmHarper Collins PublishersIP20202102030229.99AUDAUS10.0027.262.73202104250235.00NZDNZS15.0030.434.5720210425Smith Street BooksAU012021020397819224171900202192241719X039781922417190159781922417190140978192241719011BBHardback01A Field Guide to GrungeAField Guide to Grunge011841017611A01Steve WideWide, SteveSteveWideSteve Wide is an Australian DJ with a long-running British music radio show. He’s run legendary club nights and interviewed countless artists, from Noel Gallagher to Björk. Steve’s previous books include Bowie A to Z, Prince A to Z, Grace Jones A to Z and The Beatles A to Z.]]>01eng96MUS035000AV2.112AVGU12AVGP20Grunge; rock music; Nirvana; 90s; Pearl Jam; Soundgarden; Alice in Chains; Seattle; guitar; Kurt Cobain;0102 In these pages, Steve explains how cracks in the American dream turned into unwashed hair and thrifted flannels in America’s Pacific Northwest, with detailed timelines and a look back at the social climate of the 80s and 90s. There are breakdowns on the key record labels, DJs, producers, engineers and magazines – all of which grew from the gritty determination and sonic experimentation of a close-knit community. There are deep dives into controversies, rivalries and messy band breakups. And lastly, there’s a dissection of how ripples of Grunge are still felt today, in recorded music and across wider pop culture.
If you, or someone close to you, is obsessed with wallowing in Grunge, then this book is a must-have.]]>01Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books022021072801AU NZ018.268in01210mm026.693in02170mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Smith Street BooksAU0120210728978192241720602021922417203039781922417206159781922417206140978192241720611BBHardback01A Field Guide to BritpopAField Guide to Britpop011841658781A01Steve WideWide, SteveSteveWideSteve Wide is an Australian DJ with a long-running British music radio show. He’s run legendary club nights and interviewed countless artists, from Noel Gallagher to Björk. Steve’s previous books include Bowie A to Z, Prince A to Z, Grace Jones A to Z and The Beatles A to Z.]]>01eng96MUS029000AVGU2.112AVH20Britpop; Pulp; Oasis; Musicians; postpunk; England; Britain; Blur; Radiohead0102 In these pages, Steve explains the social and music industry climates of the 90s, when New Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair was emerging and Nirvana controlled the airwaves. There’s also a timeline of foundational bands, and a lookback at Oasis and Blur’s rivalry. There are breakdowns on the key record labels, DJs, producers, engineers, and magazines – all of which contributed to the new vision of Britishness. There are deep dives into controversies and messy band breakups. And lastly, there’s a dissection of how ripples of Britpop are still felt today, in recorded music and across wider pop culture.
If you, or someone close to you, is obsessed with Britain on Y2K’s edge, then this book is a must-have.]]>01Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books022021072801AU NZ018.268in01210mm026.693in02170mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Smith Street BooksAU0120210728978192241737402021922417378039781922417374159781922417374140978192241737411BBHardback013D Munchies011841016001A01Eli GeorgeGeorge, EliEliGeorge]]>01eng136CKB127000WBA2.112WBVM20Cooking; comfort food; muchines; cheese; nachos; carbs; snacks01023D Munchies is here to take bring your late-night (or morning, we’re not judging) cravings into the future. Strap in for a journey: they say seeing is believing, and this book is here to let you visualize those cheesy nacho crevasses and the crispiness of those potato chips before they even hit the plate.
With half-baked smaller snacks to fully loaded, pop-off-the-page carbs, with a whole section for anyone with a sweet tooth, this book is here to satiate all your senses with fried and baked goodness. Includes 3D glasses, heaps of diet-unfriendly recipes and some chocolate-dipped, over the top visuals. ]]>01Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books022021072801AU NZ019.449in01240mm027.874in02200mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Smith Street BooksAU0120210728978192241741102021922417416039781922417411159781922417411140978192241741111ZJJigsaw01Leaf Supply: The House Plant Jigsaw Puzzle1000 piece puzzle011847972981A01Lauren CamilleriCamilleri, LaurenLaurenCamilleri2A01Sophia KaplanKaplan, SophiaSophiaKaplanLeaf Supply and Indoor Jungle for Smith Street Books.]]>01engGAM007000WDK2.110GAR01000010GAM00000012WDM12WM20Jigsaw; plants; gardening; games; indoor games; puzzles; board games; leaf supply; hobbies; boredom busters010201Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books022021072801AU NZ0127.559in01700mm0221.417in02544mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280235.00AUDAUS10.0031.823.18202104250245.00NZDNZS15.0039.135.8720210414Smith Street BooksAU0120210728978192241742802021922417424039781922417428159781922417428140978192241742811ZJJigsaw01Late-night Ramen1000 piece jigsaw puzzle011847981551A12Alice OehrOehr, AliceAliceOehrAlice Oehr is an illustrator, graphic and textile designer based Melbourne, Australia. She has previously illustrated Ramen-topia, Taco-topia and Prince A to Z for Smith Street Books. ]]>01engGAM000000WDM2.110GAM00700010CKB04800012WDK12WB20Puzzles; Games; Board Games; Indoor Games; Ramen; Japanese food; comfort food; pop culture; Jigsaw; Jigsaw puzzle; gifts; boredom buster010201Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books022021072801AU NZ0127.559in01700mm0221.417in02544mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280235.00AUDAUS10.0031.823.18202104250245.00NZDNZS15.0039.135.8720210425Smith Street BooksAU0120210728978192248817602021922488178039781922488176159781922488176140978192248817611BCB102Trade Paperback01The Overthinkers011826989551A01Lisa PortolanPortolan, LisaLisaPortolanLisa Portolan is a journalist and author from Sydney. She has previously published two books, including bestseller, Happy As (Echo, Melbourne). She has written for publications like the Australian Financial Review, The Guardian, 9 Honey and 10 Daily, and appeared on the Today Show and The Drum. ]]>2A01Ben CheongCheong, BenBenCheongThe Overthinkers. An openly-gay, cis man, and son of first-generation Chinese Malay immigrants, Ben grew up in suburbia as an outlier in both the ‘Aussie’ and Chinese communities. Instead, Ben attempted to make connections in a very closeted, young LGBT+ community. As a young adult, Ben felt embarrassed when talking about mental health issues, and heard similar stories from his close friends, which drove him to write his debut novel with Lisa Portolan.]]>01eng294FIC005070F2.112FA20LGBT; Dating; Fiction; Coming of Age; Social themes; Sydney; gay; love; comedy0102 Benji: desperate to stand on his own, and be perceived as separate to his status-driven family. Francesca: plotting her remarkable and glamorous future. Leo: the confident gay-sian, but despite the pretense, lacks a sense of identity and self-worth. Hamish: fell into drugs to distinguish himself.
Four stories interlaced together. Anxiety masked as confidence. Ambitions as arrogance. Insecurities which fester … until the cracks appear in the perfect façade
"I laughed. I cried. Sometimes at the same time!' Tim Ferguson.
"Portolan and Cheong’s voices stitch seamlessly together to lay out a funny, honest and extremely relatable story, so clearly born of the 2020s. I couldn’t get enough of it!" Marlee Silva]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ce9fcb0e-862b-4010-8b8d-acf10039a9d101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ019.055in01230mm026.024in02153mm27159781922488183Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248826802021922488267039781922488268159781922488268140978192248826811BCB102Trade Paperback01Mine Warfare1st Australian Task Force's struggle for South Vietnam011832625791A01Andrew RossRoss, AndrewAndrewRoss01eng170HIS027100HB2.112BT12BTC0102040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e67b84ae-5fa4-433b-86be-ac96003d2b4401Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ016.299in01160mm029.646in02245mm27159781922488275Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248836702021922488364039781922488367159781922488367140978192248836711BCB102Trade Paperback01Secrets and Spells011848735301A01Aleesah DarlisonDarlison, AleesahAleesahDarlisonOur Class Tiger, was joint winner of the 2015 Environment Award for Children’s Literature (Non-Fiction). Aleesah’s other series' for children include the Unicorn Riders series and the Totally Twins series.]]>01eng176JUV037000YF2.112YFH12YFC20Magic; witches; girls stories; adventure; school; friendship; fantasy; fun. Mystery; secrets1703704120102040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/acde96d0-fb03-4b29-a1fa-ace300394cab01Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ018.071in01205mm025.315in02135mm27159781922488541Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202103110214.99NZDNZZ0.0014.990.0020210311Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248837402021922488372039781922488374159781922488374140978192248837411BCB102Trade Paperback01Hauntings and Hexes011848735911A01Aleesah DarlisonDarlison, AleesahAleesahDarlisonOur Class Tiger, was joint winner of the 2015 Environment Award for Children’s Literature (Non-Fiction). Aleesah’s other series' for children include the Unicorn Riders series and the Totally Twins series.]]>01eng176JUV037000YF2.112YFH12YFC20Magic; witches; girls stories; adventure; school; friendship; fantasy; fun. Mystery; secrets;1703704120102]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/cf3b4706-feec-4c2c-9d6a-ace30039500401Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ018.071in01205mm025.315in02135mm27159781922488558Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280212.99AUDAUZ0.0012.990.00202103110214.99NZDNZZ0.0014.990.0020210311Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248844202021922488445039781922488442159781922488442140978192248844211BCB102Trade Paperback01TobrukFirecely Stand or Fighting Fall011847994891A01David Mitchelhill-GreenMitchelhill-Green, DavidDavidMitchelhill-Green01eng420HIS027100HB2.112HBW12HBWQ20History; WWII; World War Two; Second World War; Tobruk; Libya; 2nd AIF; Rats of Tobruk; North Africa; Rommel; European colonisation0102 Tobruk: Fiercely Stand, or Fighting Fall presents a new perspective – asking why the remote fortress successfully fought off repeated attacks in 1941, before tragically falling to Rommel’s Axis forces in just 24 hours in mid-1942. It begins with Italy’s invasion of Ottoman-held North Africa in 1911, before introducing key individuals - Rommel, Mussolini and Morshead – to examine how their WWI service shaped later events. From Mussolini’s ill-fated invasion of Egypt in September 1940, the book explores the capture of Tobruk in January 1941 by the Australian 6th Division, the ensuing siege of its sister 9th Division, and the fortress’ disastrous capitulation. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/db3fb0c4-c13a-4426-a862-ace3003951a401Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ019.055in01230mm026.024in02153mm27159781922488459Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248846602021922488461039781922488466159781922488466140978192248846611BBHardback01I Wonder011847998851A01Allison PatersonPaterson, AllisonAllisonPatersonAnzac Sons: Five Brothers on the Western Front, the children’s version of the adult non-fiction title Anzac Sons: the Story of Five Brothers in the War to End All Wars. Both are based on a collection of over 500 letters sent from the Western Front by her grandfather and his four brothers. Her children’s picture books Granny’s Place and Shearing Time are inspired by childhood memories of her grandparents and life on the farm. Allison was a teacher-librarian for over twenty years and has reviewed children’s literature for Magpies Magazine for 15 years. Allison now works full-time as a writer and presenter in schools. She was a recipient of a 2017 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Creative Time Fellowship. The resulting young adult manuscript Follow After Me was published in 2019. Australia Remembers: Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and War Memorials is the first in a series with the next, Customs and Traditions of The Australian Defence Force to be released in 2021.]]>2A12Nancy BevingtonBevington, NancyNancyBevington01eng32HIS027100HB2.112HBW12HBWQ20Environment; pollution; sustainability; plastic pollution; marine polluttion; ocean animals; beaches; identity; Clean Up Australia; Australian Author; Caring for our World170340480102 Odd things pass it by, tumbling and floating into the ocean – a chip packet, a takeaway cup and a plastic bag. The little wooden boat wonders and worries ... Is it a forgotten thing? Is it just rubbish now? Will it ever find a home again?
A powerful and timely tale of the small steps we can take to care for our world. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a6dfdd2e-80a1-4659-a27b-ace30039543801Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ0110.236in01260mm029.055in02230mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU012021072897819224884730202192248847X039781922488473159781922488473140978192248847311BCB102Trade Paperback01I Wonder011847998851A01Allison PatersonPaterson, AllisonAllisonPatersonAnzac Sons: Five Brothers on the Western Front, the children’s version of the adult non-fiction title Anzac Sons: the Story of Five Brothers in the War to End All Wars. Both are based on a collection of over 500 letters sent from the Western Front by her grandfather and his four brothers. Her children’s picture books Granny’s Place and Shearing Time are inspired by childhood memories of her grandparents and life on the farm. Allison was a teacher-librarian for over twenty years and has reviewed children’s literature for Magpies Magazine for 15 years. Allison now works full-time as a writer and presenter in schools. She was a recipient of a 2017 May Gibbs Children’s Literature Trust Creative Time Fellowship. The resulting young adult manuscript Follow After Me was published in 2019. Australia Remembers: Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and War Memorials is the first in a series with the next, Customs and Traditions of The Australian Defence Force to be released in 2021.]]>2A12Nancy BevingtonBevington, NancyNancyBevington01eng32JUV000000YB2.110JUV00903012YBLC12YBL20Environment; pollution; sustainability; plastic pollution; ocean animals; beaches; identity; Clean Up Australia; Australian Author170340480102 Odd things pass it by, tumbling and floating into the ocean – a chip packet, a takeaway cup and a plastic bag. The little wooden boat wonders and worries ... Is it a forgotten thing? Is it just rubbish now? Will it ever find a home again?
A powerful and timely tale of the small steps we can take to care for our world.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/1db6e539-eb14-4510-bcd9-ace30039577e01Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ0110.236in01260mm029.055in02230mm27159781922488480Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250216.99NZDNZZ0.0016.990.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248873202021922488739039781922488732159781922488732140978192248873211BCB102Trade Paperback01Sea MonstersSavage Submarine Commanders of World War Two011853426071A01Tony MatthewsMatthews, TonyTonyMatthews01eng348HIS027100HB2.112HBW12HBWQ20History; WWII; World War Two; Second World War; Navy; Submarines; War; Ships; Sailors0102 From the heart-rending account of the sinking of the German liner Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945 — the worst maritime disaster in world history — through to a variety of other brutal actions carried out by numerous submarine commanders, including the sinking of the hospital ship Centaur in 1943, this book comes from the deep shadows of a tragic past. It reveals the terrible truth of a secretive war that was responsible for the deaths of unimaginable numbers of innocent people.
Sea Monsters includes powerful and poignant interviews with survivors — never before published.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0a8ba690-cb08-420c-b713-ace300395ac401Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ019.055in01230mm026.024in02153mm27159781922488749Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248883102021922488836039781922488831159781922488831140978192248883111BCB102Trade Paperback01Soldiers' TalesVolumes 1 and 2011773794341A01Denny NeaveNeave, DennyDennyNeave military history. He has authored five military titles and produced a military history documentary Long Tan to Afghanistan.]]>01eng384HIS027000HB2.112HBW12HBWS20History; WWII; World War Two; Second World War; WWI; World War One; Vietnam War; Korean War; Iraq War; Afghan War; Soldier; Military; Army;0102Soldiers’ Tale is a wonderful tribute to the Aussie digger. Australian soldiers share their stories and anecdotes from World War One to the modern day conflict, the stories that are usually saved for Anzac Day or a catch-up with mates over a cup of tea or an icy cold beer. In their own words they provide a fascinating glimpse of the many funny and touching moments that our diggers often hold tight to their chest. The collection of stories featured in Soldiers’ Tale vividly provide a taste of what a soldiers life is like in both war and peace.
From the pyramids of Egypt where a pint-sized captain used lateral thinking to gain respect, Anzac day on the porch with Banjo Patterson or a scorpion in the pants in Vietnam, their stories showcase the laconic sense of humour of the Aussie digger – that wonderful ability to get the job done with a sense of fun and a helping hand for a mate.
The stories within Soldiers’ Tales will warm the heart, bring a smile to the face or a tear to the eye. These tales will appeal to all ages, offering younger readers a fascinating insight into the mind of the soldier at war. The book is stylishly presented and designed for easy reading, the perfect gift book for all ages.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2e30d4e5-6779-44f1-9289-ace3003961f301Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ018.268in01210mm026.22in02158mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192248894702021922488941039781922488947159781922488947140978192248894711BCB102Trade Paperback01Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation1950-1966011853421161A01Mark LaxLax, MarkMarkLax01eng278HIS027140HB2.112HBW12HBW12HBWS12HBWS20History; Indonesia; Malaya; Air Force; RAAF; Royal Australian Ari Force; Military0102040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/e952fa56-452b-4ff6-a944-ace30039656701Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing0101Big Sky PublishingSIMO758Big Sky Publishing022021072801AU NZ019.055in01230mm025.315in02135mm27159781922488954Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Big Sky PublishingAU0120210728978192538463503021925384632039781925384635159781925384635140978192538463511BCB102Trade Paperback01Matryoshka011401541891A01Katherine JohnsonJohnson, KatherineKatherineJohnsonPescador’s Wake (Fourth Estate, 2009), The Better Son (Ventura Press, 2016) and Matryoshka (Ventura Press, 2018). Her manuscripts have won Varuna Awards and Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes. The Better Son was longlisted for both the Indie Book Awards and the Tasmania Book Prize. Katherine holds both arts and science degrees, has worked as a science journalist, and published feature articles for magazines including Good Weekend. Katherine lives in Tasmania with her husband and two children. She recently completed a PhD, which forms the basis of her latest novel, Paris Savages.]]>01eng400FIC019000DSK2.101010102The award-winning author of The Better Son is back with Matryoshka – a beautifully written and haunting tale of family, secrets, violence and refuge, set against the breathtaking backdrop of Tasmania.
When Sara Rose returns to live in her recently deceased grandmother’s Tasmanian cottage, her past and that of her mother and grandmother is ever-present. Sara’s grandmother, Nina Barsova, a Russian post-war immigrant, lovingly raised Sara in the cottage at the foot of Mt Wellington but without ever explaining why Sara’s own mother, Helena, abandoned her as a baby.
Sara, a geneticist, also longs to know the identity of her father, and Helena won’t tell her. Now, estranged not only from her mother, but also from her husband, Sara raises her daughter, Ellie, with a central wish to spare her the same feeling of abandonment that she experienced as a child.
When Sara meets an Afghani refugee separated from his beloved wife and family, she decides to try to repair relations with Helena – but when a lie told by her grandmother years before begins to unravel, a darker truth than she could ever imagine is revealed.
Matryoshka is a haunting and beautifully written story about the power of maternal love, and the danger of secrets passed down through generations. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/16af8121-1b9f-4ea6-9d43-a94e0026823a01Ventura PressSIMO437Ventura Press0101Ventura PressSIMO437Ventura Press042018100101AU NZ016.024in01153mm029.213in02234mm27159781925384642Harper Collins PublishersIP20201810010229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00201710190235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Ventura PressAU0120181001978192564097702021925640973039781925640977159781925640977140978192564097711BCB102Trade Paperback01The Enemy WithinTheEnemy Within011519667171A01Tim AyliffeAyliffe, TimTimAyliffeTim Ayliffe has been a journalist for more than 20 years and is the Managing Editor of Television and Video for ABC News and the former Executive Producer of News Breakfast. He has travelled widely and before joining the ABC he worked in London for British Sky News. A few years ago he turned his hand to writing global crime thrillers featuring former foreign correspondent John Bailey. He is the author of The Greater Good, State of Fear and The Enemy Within. When he's not writing or chasing news stories Tim rides bikes and surfs. He lives in Sydney.]]>01eng368FIC030000FH2.110FIC03106010FIC03109010FIC00600010FIC03101010FIC05000012FHD12FHP12FFC20thriller; crime thriller; Australian crime fiction; The Greater Good; State of Fear; The Enemy Within; Australian Author; male protagonist; investigative journalist; news reporter; foreign correspondent; white supremacy; CIA; murder; Top thriller books 2021; Top crime books 2021; Best Australian Crime fiction 2021; Candice Fox; What should I read next; for fans of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch; books like Two Kinds of Truth by Michael Connolly; characters like Harry Bosch0102Like Michael Connelly’s Bosch, former war correspondent John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth – and expose a deadly enemy.
He heard a voice, someone calling out in the distance, followed by a loud fluttering of birds. Bailey looked up just in time to see a body falling from the sky ...
Investigative journalist John Bailey will risk everything to get to the truth so being kicked when he’s down comes with the territory.
Having lost the one woman who was always there to pick him up, the former war correspondent is doing his best to turn his life around without her.
He has a new job. He’s given up the drink. He even has a dog.
But then Federal Police raid his home with a warrant granting them unprecedented powers to take anything they want – including all his electronic devices and passwords. When Bailey protests, they threaten to put him in a prison cell if he doesn’t comply.
Someone wants to stop Bailey doing what he does best – exposing the truth. He has been investigating the rise of a global white supremacist group and suspects that a notorious neo-Nazi in the United States has been directing deadly racist attacks on Sydney’s streets.
When a body of one of his key sources washes up on a nearby beach, it’s clear Bailey and anyone helping him have become targets. Bailey reaches out for help from a reliable and ruthless old friend – CIA veteran, Ronnie Johnson – and the pair discover a deadly enemy emerging from the shadows.
An enemy who thought they were untouchable. Until now …
‘Sharp, gritty, sophisticated. Ayliffe’s criminal world is terrifyingly real’ Candice Fox
Praise for State of Fear
‘Another brilliantly crafted thriller from Ayliffe that fits perfectly in today’s worrying world … Verdict: Get this guy on TV’ Herald Sun
‘Sharp, incisive and scarily prescient, I was hooked from the first chapter to the final page.’ Sara Foster, bestselling author of The Hidden Hours
‘Utterly compelling and terrifyingly timely. I could not put it down’ Pip Drysdale, bestselling author of The Sunday Girl
‘As a correspondent, I lived this world. Tim Ayliffe has written it’ Stan Grant, writer and broadcaster
Praise for The Greater Good
‘A brilliantly written character starring in cracking crime thriller’ Herald Sun
‘A fun and exhilarating political crime thriller that is guaranteed to electrify and entertain in good measure.’ The Unseen Library
‘Readers will not fail to enjoy the ride from start to finish.’ Good Reading
‘A crime thriller with the lot: murder, deceit, corruption and a hint of romance … Ayliffe takes you deep inside the worlds of politics and the media, with a heavy dose of international intrigue thrown in.’ Michael Rowland
'Ayliffe delivers a taut, nail-biting page-turner, stamping his mark on the modern day Australian thriller.’ Better Reading
‘If Rake were a journalist, with a talent that equals his capacity to survive being beaten up, Bailey would be him.’ Julia Baird
‘An absolute cracker of a thriller.’ Chris Uhlmann,]]>0802Candice Fox040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a6535cdf-6131-4daa-96ea-ace30039696301Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia022021072801AD AE AF AG AI AL AM AO AQ AR AS AT AU AW AX AZ BA BB BD BE BF BG BH BI BJ BL BM BN BO BQ BR BS BT BV BW BY BZ CA CC CD CF CG CH CI CK CL CM CN CO CR CU CV CW CX CY CZ DE DJ DK DM DO DZ EC EE EG EH ER ES ET FI FJ FK FM FO FR GA GB GD GE GF GG GH GI GL GM GN GP GQ GR GS GT GU GW GY HK HM HN HR HT HU ID IE IL IM IN IO IQ IR IS IT JE JM JO JP KE KG KH KI KM KN KP KR KW KY KZ LA LB LC LI LK LR LS LT LU LV LY MA MC MD ME MF MG MH MK ML MM MN MO MP MQ MR MS MT MU MV MW MX MY MZ NA NC NE NF NG NI NL NO NP NR NU NZ OM PA PE PF PG PH PK PL PM PN PR PS PT PW PY QA RE RO RS RU RW SA SB SC SD SE SG SH SI SJ SK SL SM SN SO SR SS ST SV SX SY SZ TC TD TF TG TH TJ TK TL TM TN TO TR TT TV TW TZ UA UG UM US UY UZ VA VC VE VG VI VN VU WF WS YE YT ZA ZM ZW019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mm2715978192564098406159781925640991Harper Collins PublishersNP10202107280232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202102080235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120210728978192575036203021925750361039781925750362159781925750362140978192575036211BCB102Trade Paperback01Lethal Agent011003984921A01Vince FlynnFlynn, VinceVinceFlynn New York Times bestselling author Vince Flynn (1966–2013) created one of contemporary fiction’s most popular heroes: CIA counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp, featured in thirteen of Flynn’s acclaimed political thrillers. All of his novels are New York Times bestsellers, including his stand-alone debut novel, Term Limits.]]>2A01Kyle MillsMills, KyleKyleMillsNew York Times bestselling author of nineteen political thrillers, including Total Power, Lethal Agent, and Red War for Vince Flynn and The Patriot Attack for Robert Ludlum. He initially found inspiration from his father, the former director of Interpol, and still draws on his contacts in the intelligence community to give his books such realism. Avid outdoor athletes, he and his wife have lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for over twenty years. Visit his website at KyleMills.com.]]>01eng300FIC000000FH2.110FIC03100010FIC03106020Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; Crime; Crime Fiction; Thriller Books; Thrillers0102An unprecedented and terrifying bioterrorism plot threatens to kill millions in the midst of a divisive presidential election in this new thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series.
A toxic presidential election is underway in an America already badly weakened by internal divisions. While politicians focus entirely on maintaining their own power and privilege, ISIS kidnaps a brilliant French microbiologist and forces him to begin manufacturing anthrax. Slickly produced videos chronicling his progress and threatening an imminent attack are posted to the Internet, intensifying the hysteria gripping the US.
ISIS recruits a Mexican drug cartel to smuggle the bioweapon across the border, but it’s really just a diversion. The terrorist organization needs to keep Mitch Rapp and Irene Kennedy distracted long enough to weaponize a deadly virus that they stumbled upon in Yemen. If they succeed, they’ll trigger a pandemic that could rewrite the world order.
Rapp embarks on a mission to infiltrate the Mexican cartels and track down the ISIS leader who he failed to kill during their last confrontation. But with Washington’s political elite increasingly lined up against him, he knows he’ll be on his own.
“In the world of black-ops thrillers, Mitch Rapp remains the gold standard” (Booklist, starred review).]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/896f44d5-8cc7-4cec-9e5a-ab7e00dabc4f01Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia042020080501AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm0615978192575035527159781925750379Harper Collins PublishersIP20202008050219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120200805978192579143303021925791432039781925791433159781925791433140978192579143311BCB102Trade Paperback01The Girl They Left BehindTheGirl They Left Behind011003546291A01Roxanne VeletzosVeletzos, RoxanneRoxanneVeletzos01eng368FIC014000FV2.110FIC01900010FIC00000012FJMS20Second World War; World War II; Nazis; Survival; Triumph; Family History; Love; Courage; Communist Regime; 1940s; Adoption; human spirit; Bucharest; Jewish; Romania; orphanage; Soviet occupation; USSR; communism; freedom; true story; fiction; novel; The Girl from Munich; The German Girl; family; 1941; destiny; affair; romance; history; historical fiction; escape; enigma963MPBL0102Inspired by the author’s true family story of survival during the Second World War, Natalia’s story is an unforgettable portrait of the triumph of the human spirit.
‘In anguish and despair we release this child into the hands of God, with hope and faith that she may be saved...’
On a freezing night in January 1941, a little Jewish girl is found on the steps of a building in Bucharest. With Romania now in league with the Nazis, the Jewish population is doomed. The child is placed in an orphanage and adopted by a wealthy childless couple who name her Natalia. As she adapts to her new life, she all but forgets the parents forced to leave her behind.
Yet, as Natalia comes of age under Soviet occupation, traces of her identity pierce the surface of her everyday life, leading to a discovery that will change her destiny. When she meets Victor, an important official in the Communist regime, she is drawn into a passionate affair despite overwhelming obstacles and her lover’s dark secrets.
When Natalia is offered a one-time chance at freedom, Victor is determined to help her escape, even if it means losing her. Natalia must make an agonising decision: remain in Bucharest with her beloved adoptive parents and the man she loves, or seize the chance to finally live life on her own terms – and to confront the painful enigma of her past.
‘There are stories that must be told because in doing so, they shed light on the irreparable consequences of war in the lives of so many innocents.’ Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl]]>0802 —Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network]]>0802a prism of deeply felt humanity in The Girl They Left Behind as unforgettable men and women face devastating choices during WWII and its aftermath. The political is personal, and Roxanne Veletzos shows us how lives shatter when ideology devolves into chaos and brutality behind the Iron Curtain. This is an important book for these times."
—Laurie Lico Albanese, author of Stolen Beauty ]]>0802 The Girl They Left Behind is a vividly told, beautifully written, impossible-but-true story. This novel is a moving testament to the power of the human spirit and to those who defied impossible odds to allow the light of humanity to shine in the darkest of times.”
—Helen Bryan, internationally bestselling author of War Brides]]>0802 The Girl They Left Behind, written with flawless historical detail, is a page-turner. In its first pages, it narrates the desperation of a young couple as they leave their four-year-old daughter on the steps of a building. The tale of that girl's destiny, like those of thousands of others, are a necessary testimony for humanity."
— Armando Lucas Correa, author of The German Girl]]>0802 —Kirkus Reviews]]>0802Schindler's List and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief, Veletzos's powerful, heartbreaking story, and fluid writing style will transport readers."
— Library Journal]]>0802 —Publishers Weekly]]>0802"[The Girl They Left Behind], which Veletzos based on her mother's life, is worth reading for its Romanian setting, and questions regarding Natalia's real parents and whether she will ever be reunited with them add an element of suspense."
— Booklist ]]>0802Historical Novel Society]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/1d229b8c-2a9c-432b-95db-aa7b002c4c4701Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia0101Simon & Schuster AustraliaSIMO372Simon & Schuster Australia042019090101AU NZ017.795in01198mm025.039in02128mm27159781761101311Harper Collins PublishersIP20201909010219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Simon & Schuster AustraliaAU0120190901978192581175903021925811751039781925811759159781925811759140978192581175911BBHardback01A Field Guide to PunkAField Guide to Punk011720591021A01Steve WideWide, SteveSteveWideSteve Wide is an Australian DJ with a long-running British music radio show. He’s run legendary club nights and interviewed countless artists, from Noel Gallagher to Björk. Steve’s previous books include Bowie A to Z, Prince A to Z, Grace Jones A to Z and The Beatles A to Z.]]>01eng96MUS030000AVGU2.110HUM02000010MUS04900020Music; punk; rock and roll; rock music; music history; music books; punk rock; music book; rock biographies; rock biography books; history of rock and roll; rock 0102 In these pages, Steve explains the social climate of Thatcherism, along with a detailed timeline of foundational bands (as well as connected artists, like Damien Hurst, and other subversive genres like Britpop). There are breakdowns of the most iconic Punk artists, as well as fashion designers, record labels, DJs, producers, engineers and magazines – all of which applied their own layer to the Punk patchwork. There are deep dives into controversies, rivalries, and band breakups. And lastly, there’s a dissection of how evolutions of punk carry on today, in recorded music and in wider pop culture.
If you, or someone close to you, is obsessed with the nitty-gritty of the Punk movement, then this book is a must-have.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f54712f7-37f4-408e-b0e6-abbd002a147c01Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books042020090201AU NZ018.268in01210mm026.693in02170mmHarper Collins PublishersIP20202009020229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Smith Street BooksAU012020090297819258117660302192581176X039781925811766159781925811766140978192581176611BBHardback01A Field Guide to Post-Punk & New WaveAField Guide to Post-Punk & New Wave011721145721A01Steve WideWide, SteveSteveWideSteve Wide is an Australian DJ with a long-running British music radio show. He’s run legendary club nights and interviewed countless artists, from Noel Gallagher to Björk. Steve’s previous books include Bowie A to Z, Prince A to Z, Grace Jones A to Z and The Beatles A to Z.]]>01eng96MUS030000AVGU2.110MUS02700010HUM02000020Music; new wave; post-punk; rock and roll; rock music; music history; music books; punk rock; music book; rock biographies; rock biography books; history of rock and roll; rock and roll books; post-punk books; rock and roll biographies; music history book; music history books; books about music; books about musicians; books on music; gifts for musicians; gifts for the musician; history of music; rock and roll history; art; journalism; blondie; the cure; joy division; the smiths; devo0102 In these pages, Steve explains the social and music industry climates of the 70s and 80s, unpacking the influence of the punk genre on NYC-based groups like the Velvet Underground and New York Dolls. There’s also a timeline on the usage of the term New Wave – for a long chunk of the 70s it was used almost interchangeably with “punk”. There are breakdowns on the key record labels, DJs, producers, engineers and magazines – all of which stitched their own layer on the New Wave patchwork. There are deep dives into controversies, rivalries and messy band breakups. And lastly, there’s a dissection of how ripples of New Wave are still felt today, in recorded music and across wider pop culture.
If you, or someone close to you, is obsessed with the minutiae of the New Wave movement, then this book is a must-have.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f32f44a4-8cec-4db3-901c-abcb0028370901Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books042020090201AU NZ018.268in01210mm026.693in02170mmHarper Collins PublishersIP20202009020229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Smith Street BooksAU0120200902978192581185803021925811859039781925811858159781925811858140978192581185811ZJJigsaw0190s Icons500 piece jigsaw puzzle011727427631A12Niki FisherFisher, NikiNikiFisher 90’s Bingo and Bowie Bingo, released by Smith Street Gift in 2020.]]>01engGAM007000WD2.110GAM00000020Jigsaw; jigsaw puzzle; 90s kid; gift for 90s kid; gift for millennials; 500 piece jigsaw; puzzle; 90s; 90s gift; ;1990s; 1990; oprah; Tamagotchi; beanie babies; nokia; 0102Put down your phone screen and crack open this intricately illustrated jigsaw puzzle, which celebrates pop culture of the 90s - the raddest decade ever.
In the 90s Icons jigsaw puzzle, the 500 pieces tesselate to reveal an intricately designed collage of pop-cultural classics. Any millennial will say that the 90s were the best decade (even though many were still in diapers at the time). Regardless, and putting the whole 90s-kid debate aside for a moment, they're very much right. Much of 90s culture dictates ours today. Without Friends or Seinfeld, would our world still turn? If Nirvana hadn't made it big, would grunge have ever reached the masses? Can anyone even pass a driving test without training in Mario Kart?? We doubt it, and this jigsaw puzzle just about proves it.
As you assemble this puzzle, get ready for Nokia, Nintendo 64, Tamagotchi, Discman, Rollerblades, Bucket hats, CD-ROM, Beanie Babies, Chokers and more! Then there's personalities like Oprah, The Fresh Prince, Princess Diana, Madonna, The Spice Girls, and Britney Spears, as well as the classic film and TV of the 90s, Dawson's Creek, Jurassic Park, Pretty Woman, Home Alone, Mrs Doubtfire, Pulp Fiction, and more!
Blast your favourite Madonna album while you're doing the jigsaw for the full immersive experience.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/105c2809-90c1-4d75-a64d-abaf0028b09c01Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books0101Smith Street BooksSIMO470Smith Street Books042020070101AU NZ018.504in01216mm0211.496in02292mmHarper Collins PublishersIP20202007010229.99AUDAUS10.0027.262.73202104250235.00NZDNZS15.0030.434.5720210425Smith Street BooksAU0120200701978192594612302021925946126039781925946123159781925946123140978192594612311BBHardback01Immortals of English Cricket011724092151A01Bill RicquierRicquier, BillBillRicquierHampshire: 100 Greats. This was followed by The Indian Masters and The Pakistani Masters, each of which was published in England and India. Bill Ricquier is a cricket historian and cricket blog writer for From The Pavilion End, which focuses on current cricketing events, but also explores the game's rich history, often using current events as a peg to examine cricketers and matches of the past. www.billpavilionend.com ]]>01eng216SPO054000WSJC2.110SPO00000020best players; England's greatest (male) cricketers; English cricket team; Jack Hobbs; highest run-scorer; Ian Botham; Test wicket taker; Test cricket; Trescotisk; Boycott; Compton; Route; Petersham; Knot; Tromman; Swan; Larwood; Anderson0102The Immortals of English Cricket, Bill Ricquier tells the cricketing life stories of eleven of England's greatest (male) cricketers. Ricquier selects his Immortal English team from players who didn't just dominate, they changed the game with their sheer will. Those portrayed include Jack Hobbs, the highest run-scorer in the history of first-class cricket, Ian Botham, who was the most famous sportsman in the country in the 1980s and James Anderson, England's leading Test wicket taker. Selected also is the legendary slow left arm bowler who made almost 40,000 first-class runs and took over 4,000 first-class wickets and the extraordinary, almost indefinable bowler who averaged 16.43 in Test cricket.
The Immortals of English Cricket will inspire discussion, debate and controversy but indisputably represents a team of remarkable skill and character, one to proudly represent the Crown and Three Lions on any Elysian field.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/09caf90a-e757-4c84-90ba-ac96003d371801Gelding Street PressSIMO697Gelding Street Press0101Gelding Street PressSIMO697Gelding Street Press022021072801AD AE AL AT AU BA BE BF BG BH BI BJ BY CD CF CG CH CI CM CZ DE DJ DK DZ EE EG ES ET FI FR GA GB GG GH GI GN GQ GR GW HR HU IE IL IM IS IT JE JO KE KW LB LI LU LV MA MC MD ME MG MK ML MR MT MU MW NE NG NL NO NZ OM PL PS PT QA RO RS RU RW SA SC SE SI SK SM SN TD TG TN TR TZ UA UG VA YT ZM ZW019.213in01234mm026.024in02153mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Gelding Street PressAU0120210728978192594630702021925946304039781925946307159781925946307140978192594630711BEB314Spiral Bound012022 Lunar and Seasonal DiarySouthern Hemisphere011833491131A01Stacey DemarcoDemarco, StaceyStaceyDemarcoWitch in the Boardroom, Witch in the Bedroom and The Coffee Oracle, all of which have been translated into multiple languages. She is also the co-writer of The No Excuses Guide to Soul Mates, The No Excuses Guide to Uncovering Your Purpose and Plants of Power. Her oracle card decks include the best-selling Queen of the Moon Oracle, Divine Animals Oracle and Elemental Oracle, all three illustrated by Kinga Britshigi. Stacey has been the creator of the beautiful annual Lunar & Seasonal Diary since 2011, which is produced in both southern and northern hemisphere editions. Stacey is the founder of Natureluster, which educates and works to reconnect people to the health-giving power of nature. She is also an animal activist, ethical beekeeper and dedicated adventure traveller, and lives by the beach on a cliff in Sydney with her husband and furry companions. www.themodernwitch.com]]>01eng216OCC002000WZS2.110OCC02600020witch; Stacey Demarco; lunar timings; moon phases; practical magical; Gods; Goddesses0102 2022 Lunar & Seasonal Diary. A beautifully produced diary with full-colour pages and ring binding that allows the pages to lay flat, and with extra space for recording notes. The diary includes lunar timings and explanations of the moon phases and their impact on humans, with practical magical suggestions to get the most out of the energies of each season.
Packed with invaluable tips and techniques ranging from increasing your wealth to improving your relationships, boosting your vitality and magnifying your personal power to removing obstacles and fears that are holding you back in your life.
Comes complete with gods and goddesses for each month and seasonal spell castings and invocations for specific moon phases, including equinoxes and solstices.]]>01Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing0101Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing022021072801AU NZ018.819in01224mm026.22in02158mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Rockpool PublishingAU0120210728978192594633802021925946339039781925946338159781925946338140978192594633811PCCalendar012022 Crystal Calendar011840444571A01Rachelle CharmanCharman, RachelleRachelleCharmanRachelle Charman is the founder of The Academy of Crystal Awakening in Australia. A passionate teacher who travels extensively worldwide, Rachelle was deeply inspired by her own first crystal healing teacher and master, Maggie Vrinda Ross, who awakened her to the knowledge of the crystal kingdom. She worked for Hay House from 2001-2004 and was in charge of over 2000 certified angel intuitive practitioners as Doreen Virtues' personal assistant, and has contributed a crystal guide in Angel Medicine by Doreen Virtue. Rachelle is the author of Crystals (2012), Crystal Reading Cards (2015), Chakra Reading Cards (2016), Crystal Box Collection (2017), Crystal Wisdom (2017) and Crystal Medicine Oracle (2019), all published by Rockpool Publishing. www.crystalawakening.com]]>01eng24OCC004000WZS2.110OCC01600012VXPC20energy; healing; affirmations; desk calendar;01022022 Crystal Calendar. As you move into each month you are blessed with the energy of different crystals and positive words of wisdom to guide and inspire you. The photos of the crystals are exquisite, vibrant and gorgeous and certainly a beautiful addition to your home or office. This magical calendar will brighten up your days as it pours good vibrations into your life with its energy of love and healing. Whether you consciously connect and work with the energy and crystals of this calendar or simply have it in your home, it will fill your world with love and inspiration.]]>01Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing0101Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing022021072801AD AE AL AT AU BA BE BF BG BH BI BJ BY CD CF CG CH CI CM CZ DE DJ DK DZ EE EG ES ET FI FR GA GB GG GH GI GN GQ GR GW HR HU IE IL IM IS IT JE JO KE KW LB LI LU LV MA MC MD ME MG MK ML MR MT MU MW NE NG NL NO NZ OM PL PS PT QA RO RS RU RW SA SC SE SI SK SM SN TD TG TN TR TZ UA UG VA YT ZM ZW018.819in01224mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210728029.99AUDAUS10.009.080.91202104250212.99NZDNZS15.0011.301.6920210425Rockpool PublishingAU0120210728978192594637602021925946371039781925946376159781925946376140978192594637611BCB102Trade Paperback012022 Astrology Diary - Southern Hemisphere011851210141A01Patsy BennettBennett, PatsyPatsyBennettwww.patsybennett.com]]>01eng160OCC002000VXA2.110OCC00900012VXFA20eclipses; New Moons; Full Moons;Sun signs; forecasts; yearly; Southernhemisphere; Romance; health;wealth; happiness0102 Title includes: -Southern hemisphere planner with astrological interpretations -Week-at-a-glance diary Monthly sun sign forecasts -Tips for excelling during eclipse seasons -When to grow ideas, when to take action -Romance, health, wealth and happiness hot spots -Dates, signs and meanings of 2022 -New moons and full moons -Mercury retrogrades: how to make them work for you]]>01Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing0101Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing022021072801AU NZ014.843in01123mm027.362in02187mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425Rockpool PublishingAU012021072897819259464130202192594641X039781925946413159781925946413140978192594641311BCB102Trade Paperback012022 Witch's Dairy - Southern Hemisphere011864065421A01Flavia Kate PetersPeters, Flavia KateFlavia KatePetersSpirit & Destiny magazine and is a columnist for FAE and Witchcraft & Wicca magazines. Her authentic approach makes her a most sought-after wisdom keeper, and her mission is to keep the magic of the old ways alive! www.flaviakatepeters.com]]>2A01Barbara Meiklejohn-FreeMeiklejohn-Free, BarbaraBarbaraMeiklejohn-Free01eng160OCC016000WZS2.110REF02700012VXWT0102 The 2022 Witch's Diary will awaken the witch within and help you discover the freedom to express who you truly are. This practical guide will show you how to harness the magic of nature, reclaim your personal power through the discovery of ancient wisdom and embrace the feminine divine. You will journey through the year, learning to work with the forces of nature through spell work, incantations, rituals, sigils, age-old recipes and charms that use herbs, candles and crystals.
This is a must-have magickal tool for anyone who has a love of the natural world and wants to bring the power and magick of the old ways into their everyday lives. ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a9c6915f-fdfa-4bed-8dec-ad060043a33901Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing0101Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing022021072801AU NZ015.512in01140mm028.268in02210mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250225.00NZDNZZ0.0025.000.0020210425Rockpool PublishingAU0120210728978192594653602021925946533039781925946536159781925946536140978192594653611BCB102Trade Paperback012022 Moon Goddess011851239301A01Nicci GaraicoaGaraicoa, NicciNicciGaraicoa01eng160OCC000000VX2.110OCC03605020Moon energy; moon guidance;crystals; essential oil; Affirmation;rituals; meditations; harmony;MotherNature010201Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing0101Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing022021072801AD AE AL AT AU BA BE BF BG BH BI BJ BY CD CF CG CH CI CM CZ DE DJ DK DZ EE EG ES ET FI FR GA GB GG GH GI GN GQ GR GW HR HU IE IL IM IS IT JE JO KE KW LB LI LU LV MA MC MD ME MG MK ML MR MT MU MW NE NG NL NO NZ OM PL PS PT QA RO RS RU RW SA SC SE SI SK SM SN TD TG TN TR TZ UA UG VA YT ZM ZW018.268in01210mm026.299in02160mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250225.00NZDNZZ0.0025.000.0020210425Rockpool PublishingAU012021072897819259465500202192594655X039781925946550159781925946550140978192594655011PDCards01Mystic Martian Oracle011840463891A01Lisa PorterPorter, LisaLisaPorter01eng128OCC025000VXF2.110OCC00800012VXQB20Cosmic Star Seeds; Great Sky Gods;Earthlings; extra-terrestrial species;archetype; Sky Beings0102 This deck is designed and intended as a generic guide line of extra-terrestrial species. Each card is a symbolic and representational conduit for a specific archetype. As all is connected from micro to macro.
The major theme is centred around timeless archetypal forces, that transcend through the cosmos and fractal also into the human psyche.The vast array of aliens is immense, multi-layered and even at times convoluted. They keep a mindful eye on us individually and collectively. They observe our successes and our failures, and everything in between. Open your eyes and stretch your insight into far broader horizons, and assist you with every day concerns. May you welcome the ancient Sky Beings that are for ever watching over you.]]>01Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing0101Rockpool PublishingSIMO607Rockpool Publishing022021072801AD AE AL AT AU BA BE BF BG BH BI BJ BY CD CF CG CH CI CM CZ DE DJ DK DZ EE EG ES ET FI FR GA GB GG GH GI GN GQ GR GW HR HU IE IL IM IS IT JE JO KE KW LB LI LU LV MA MC MD ME MG MK ML MR MT MU MW NE NG NL NO NZ OM PL PS PT QA RO RS RU RW SA SC SE SI SK SM SN TD TG TN TR TZ UA UG VA YT ZM ZW013.543in0190mm025.039in02128mmHarper Collins PublishersNP10202107280229.99AUDAUS10.0027.262.73202104250235.00NZDNZS15.0030.434.5720210425Rockpool PublishingAU0120210728978194087863802021940878632039781940878638159781940878638140978194087863811BCB102Trade Paperback01Dio Holy Diver011795385751A01Steve NilesNiles, SteveSteveNiles2A12Scott HamptonHampton, ScottScottHampton3E99DioDioDio01eng124CGN000000FX2.110CGN00600010MUS01900020Dio; Holy Diver; Jojo's Bizarre Adventure; Stand; The World; Manga; Shonen Jump; Ultra Jump; Anime; Crunchy Roll; comic; graphic novel; 01050102Holy Diver graphic novel – an original storyline inspired by one of heavy metal’s most iconic album covers. Penned by acclaimed horror comics writer Steve Niles (30 Days ofNight), the book will tell the tale behind the events leading to the powerful moment captured on the cover of Dio's debut album—definitively addressing 30 years of fan speculation. Why is the priest being thrown into the ocean? Who is truly the villain in this scenario?]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/3a953369-80f9-4f47-b573-ac26002ab9a201Z2 ComicsSIMO775Z2 Comics0101Z2 ComicsSIMO775Z2 Comics022021072101AU NZ0110.25in01260.35mm026.25in02158.75mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210721480234.99AUDAUZ0.0034.990.00202104250236.99NZDNZZ0.0036.990.0020210425Z2 ComicsAU0120210721978194087865202021940878659039781940878652159781940878652140978194087865211BCB102Trade Paperback01ElvisThe Graphic Novel011795405411A01Chris MiskiewiczMiskiewicz, ChrisChrisMiskiewicz2A07 Michael ShelferShelfer, MichaelMichaelShelfer01eng144CGN007000FXZ2.110CGN00600010MUS01000001050102 Witness the King of Rock 'n' Roll's humble beginnings in Memphis as a young artist struggling to define his voice and break into the music industry. From the history-making Sun Studio to television sets across the nation, the trials and tribulations of Elvis Aaron Presley are explored in graphic detail by authors Chris Miskiewicz (Grateful Dead: Origins) and Marvel Comics artist Michael Shelfer.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/698547d6-eaaa-46a1-8ffc-ac88003c521e01Z2 ComicsSIMO775Z2 Comics0101Z2 ComicsSIMO775Z2 Comics022021081801AU NZ0110.25in01260.35mm026.25in02158.75mm030.4in0310.16mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818480234.99AUDAUZ0.0034.990.00202104250236.99NZDNZZ0.0036.990.0020210425Z2 ComicsAU0120210818978194087871302021940878713039781940878713159781940878713140978194087871311BCB102Trade Paperback01Sublime: $5 at the Door011820732621A01Ryan CadyCady, RyanRyanCady2A07VariousVariousVarious3E99SublimeSublimeSublime01eng120CGN000000FX2.110CGN00600010MUS00000001050102 After teenage pals Bud and Eric form a band in high school, it takes a fateful meeting with a new kid named Bradley to discover the blend of punk-rock and reggae that would define an era. Xanadu meets Superbad in this heartfelt anthology of Sublime legends brought to life by Ryan Cady (Infinite Dark, Poppy’s Inferno) and a cadre of the industry’s most talented illustrators. Featuring a brand new cover by Sublime logo creator Opie Ortiz! ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/936ccd5c-f33f-4c34-b352-ac88003c5a2901Z2 ComicsSIMO775Z2 Comics0101Z2 ComicsSIMO775Z2 Comics022021072101AU NZ0110.25in01260.35mm026.625in02168.28mm030.4in0310.16mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210721480239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250242.99NZDNZZ0.0042.990.0020210425Z2 ComicsAU0120210721978197470732402021974707326039781974707324159781974707324140978197470732411BCB102Trade PaperbackSnow White with the Red Hair01Snow White with the Red Hair, Vol. 14011812956921A01Sorata AkidukiAkiduki, SorataSorataAkidukiSorata Akiduki01eng184CGN004180FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00416020Akagami; Shirayuki; Snow White; Akagami no Shirayuki Hime; Zen; Kiki; Mitsuhide; Obi; Izana; Palace intrigue; fairy tale; shojo manga; manga; romance01010102 Shirayuki is an herbalist famous for her naturally bright-red hair, and the prince of Tanbarun wants her all to himself! The prince from the neighboring kingdom, Zen, rescues her from her plight, and thus begins their love story.
Shirayuki and Ryu are back in Lilias to work as herbalists. Shirayuki wastes no time diving into her new assignment, spending a backbreaking number of hours compounding medicine. But she and Ryu aren’t alone for long before Obi appears on Zen’s orders and invites Shirayuki to join him for a chat—at sunrise, no less!]]>1302Vahlia no Hanamuko (Vahlia’s Bridegroom), Seishun Kouryakubon (Youth Strategy Guide) and Natsu Yasumi Zero Zero Nichime (00 Days of Summer Vacation). Snow White with the Red Hair began serialization in August 2006 in LaLa DX in Japan and has since moved to LaLa.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/56e1633c-f7c9-41a3-91aa-ace30039847201VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197471050802021974710505039781974710508159781974710508140978197471050811BCB102Trade PaperbackMoriarty the Patriot01Moriarty the Patriot, Vol. 4011812931931A01Ryosuke TakeuchiTakeuchi, RyosukeRyosukeTakeuchi2A12Hikaru MiyoshiMiyoshi, HikaruHikaruMiyoshi3A10Sir Arthur DoyleDoyle, Sir ArthurSir ArthurDoyleRyosuke Takeuchi01eng200CGN004100FXA2.110CGN00414010CGN00416020Yuukoku no moriarty; yukoku no moriarty; Sherlock holmes; moriarty; Watson; mystery; crime manga01010102 Before he was Sherlock’s rival, Moriarty fought against the unfair class caste system in London by making sure corrupt nobility got their comeuppance. But even the most well-intentioned plans can spin out of control—will Moriarty’s dream of a more just and equal world turn him into a hero…or a monster?
Mycroft Holmes gives MI6 a top secret mission to put an end to the Third Anglo-Afghan War. William believes Colonel Moran, who once fought in the war, is the right man for the job and asks Albert to recruit the colonel. But will old memories from Moran’s past hinder his efforts to assist the mission? Meanwhile, more dark figures lurk in London’s nobility, spreading further chaos in the country…]]>1302ST&RS, his first serialized Weekly Shonen Jump series. He later did the storyboards for All You Need Is Kill.
Hikaru Miyoshi is a manga artist whose previous work includes Inspector Akane Tsunemori, which was based on the popular anime Psycho-Pass.
Takeuchi and Miyoshi began collaborating on Moriarty the Patriot in 2016.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/42cc96bd-1943-40c8-bac7-ace3003988cb01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197471253302021974712532039781974712533159781974712533140978197471253311BCB102Trade PaperbackBeastars01BEASTARS, Vol. 13011812942381A01Paru ItagakiItagaki, ParuParuItagakiParu Itagaki01eng208CGN004120FXL2.110CGN00416010CGN00600020Paru Itagaki; Cherryton Academy; Lugosi; Legosi; Haru; wolf; rabbit; predator; prey; herbivore; carnivore; Manga Taisho Award; New Creator Prize; Best Shonen Manga; school drama; romance; blood lust; murder; mystery; furry; animal; Zootopia01010102 At a high school where the students are literally divided into predators and prey, friendships maintain the fragile peace. Who among them will become a Beastar—a hero destined to lead in a society naturally rife with mistrust?
Now that he has a criminal record, gray wolf Legoshi is working in a noodle shop instead of attending high school. At his job and apartment complex, he meets denizens of the sea, where the values and laws are surprisingly different from those on land. Meanwhile, Beastar horse Yahya and Komodo dragon Gosha attempt to settle their historic grievances through battle. And then a black market drug hits the city…]]>1302Beast Complex. Beastars is her first serialization. Beastars has won multiple awards in Japan, including the prestigious 2018 Manga Taisho Award.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/60c84090-c670-4947-9787-acdc003b13e201VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210818600218.99AUDAUZ0.0018.990.00202104250221.99NZDNZZ0.0021.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197471317202021974713172039781974713172159781974713172140978197471317211BCB102Trade PaperbackLove Me, Love Me Not901Love Me, Love Me Not, Vol. 9011812955211A01Io SakisakaSakisaka, IoIoSakisakaIo Sakisaka01eng192CGN004180FXA2.110CGN00428010CGN00416020Omoe omoware furi furare; high school romance; love triangle; Yuna and Rio; friends and lovers; Io Sakisaka; blue spring ride; strobe edge; shojo beat; shojobeat; shojo manga; shoujo manga; shojo; shoujo; kimi ni todoke01010102 Fast friends Yuna and Akari are complete opposites—Yuna is an idealist, while Akari is a realist. When lady-killer Rio and the oblivious Kazuomi join their ranks, love and friendship become quite complicated!
Love and friendship have become quite complicated for these four friends. Yuna’s insecurities about herself resurface on her first Valentine’s Day with Rio, and Akari’s plan to give Kazuomi chocolates is thwarted. Will the girls be able to salvage this special day?]]>1302Sakura, Chiru. Her series Strobe Edge and Ao Haru Ride are published by VIZ Media’s Shojo Beat imprint. Ao Haru Ride was adapted into an anime series in 2014, and Love Me, Love Me Not will be an animated feature film. In her spare time, Sakisaka likes to paint things and sleep.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c4bf4ff3-8c27-44ca-b953-acf1003a155d01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197471530502021974715302039781974715305159781974715305140978197471530511BCB102Trade PaperbackHell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku01Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku, Vol. 9011812944901A01Yuji KakuKaku, YujiYujiKakuYuji Kaku01eng216CGN004120FXA2.110CGN00415010CGN00424020Ninja; ninjutsu; assassin; supernatural; religion; gods; devils; samurai; decapitation; magic; mythology; deity; deities; gabimaru; sagiri; yuji kaku; kaku yuji; fantasma; omoide zeikan; manga+; Japanese history; Japanese mythology; seinen; horror01010102 Gabimaru is a ninja on death row with one chance to see his wife again—by finding the elixir of immortality on a supernatural island and delivering it to the shogun. Standing in his way are his fellow convicts and the fearsome beasts that roam the island, devouring or killing anyone they encounter.
The battle against Lord Tensen has forced everyone to push their bodies to the limit, accessing new abilities and taking desperate measures to secure their escape. But against such formidable foes, sometimes your best…is simply not enough. The bandit Aza Chobe and Gabimaru the Hollow have the highest chances of beating the enemy, but they may pay a dear price for their victory!]]>1302Fantasma, which ran in Jump SQ from 2013 to 2014. Hellʼs Paradise: Jigokuraku is his second series.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/6bd8b3ac-ea57-48a7-9080-acd500390a2801VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210818560218.99AUDAUZ0.0018.990.00202104250221.99NZDNZZ0.0021.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197471543502021974715434039781974715435159781974715435140978197471543511BCB102Trade PaperbackIdol Dreams701Idol Dreams, Vol. 7011812953411A01Arina TanemuraTanemura, ArinaArinaTanemuraArina Tanemura01eng184CGN004120FXA2.110CGN00409010CGN00418020josei; Japanese idols; older woman; office lady romance; magical girl; chikage; shojo for older readers; shojo manga; shoujo manga; shojo beat01010102 At age 31, office worker Chikage Deguchi feels she missed her chances at love and success. When word gets out that she’s a virgin, Chikage is humiliated and wishes she could turn back time to when she was still young and popular. She takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to when she was 15. Now Chikage is determined to pursue everything she missed out on all those years ago—including becoming a star!
To pursue missed chances at love and success, 31-year-old Chikage Deguchi takes an experimental drug that changes her appearance back to how she looked at age 15. Hanami has left Tokita at the altar. As Tokita deals with the fallout, Haru takes the opportunity to woo Chikage.]]>1302Ribon Original magazine. She gained fame with the 1997 publication of I•O•N, and ever since her debut Tanemura has been a major force in shojo manga with popular series Phantom Thief Jeanne, Time Stranger Kyoko, Full Moon, The Gentlemen’s Alliance † and Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura. Both Phantom Thief Jeanne and Full Moon have been adapted into animated TV series.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/40bfa272-05b6-4552-871f-ace300398c7d01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197471771202021974717712039781974717712159781974717712140978197471771211BCB102Trade Paperback01Disney Bento: Fun Recipes for Bento Boxes!011812930481A09Masami MiyazakiMiyazaki, MasamiMasamiMiyazakiMasami Miyazaki01eng96CKB048000WBN2.110CKB02300010CKB09000010CKB12000020Disney; bento; lunch; cookbook; cook book; Japanese; Mickey Mouse; Minnie Mouse; Donald Duck; Daisy Duck; Pluto; Goofy; Chip; Dale; Chip and Dale; Chip & Dale; Winnie the Pooh; Pooh; Piglet; Tigger; Eeyore; cooking; Stitch; Lilo and Stitch; Lilo & Stitch; Marie; The Aristocats; Cinderella; Snow White; Tinker Bell; Peter Pan; Anna; Elsa; Frozen; Frozen 2; Olaf’s Frozen Adventure; Alien; Toy Story; Toy Story 2; Toy Story 3; Toy Story 4; Peas in a Pod; Lotso; Sulley01010102 Fifty recipes for delicious bento boxes featuring your favorite Disney characters! Create masterpieces for any meal, including snack time, with Mickey, Minnie, Elsa, Anna, Winnie the Pooh, and more! Transform your lunch box with Disney Bento and enjoy the magic wherever you go!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5a4ac5ba-15f2-46d2-b01c-acea003b581301VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ0110.25in01260.35mm028.25in02209.55mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818340226.99AUDAUZ0.0026.990.00202104250229.99NZDNZZ0.0029.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197471924202021974719243039781974719242159781974719242140978197471924211BCB102Trade PaperbackFly Me to the Moon01Fly Me to the Moon, Vol. 6011812938171A01Kenjiro HataHata, KenjiroKenjiroHataKenjiro Hata01eng208CGN004250FXA2.110CGN00416010CGN00418020Tonikaku kawaii; tonikaku kawai; tonikaku cawaii; meet cute; marriage manga; kaguyahime; kaguya hime; moon girl; hayate; manga love story; shonen romance; moe; over the moon for you; over the moon; anime; tonikawa01010102 From the day his parents named him, Nasa Yuzaki has felt connected to outer space…whether he likes it or not. His efforts to outperform the space program veer off course when an accident introduces him to Tsukasa, a mysterious girl with strange powers. Is she an alien, a moon goddess or something else? Since she insists on marrying him, Nasa will have plenty of chances to find out!
Is this manga cute enough yet? No? Better add a cat! Toast, possibly the least adorable kitten in manga, doesn’t care for Nasa and interrupts his private time with his wife. Then Nasa and Tsukasa set out on a romantic date at an amusement park, not realizing that everyone else has the same idea…including Nasa’s teacher Yanagi Sensei, who may or may not be aware she’s on a date!]]>1302Umi no Yuusha Lifesavers, was published in Shonen Sunday Super. He followed that up with his smash hit Hayate the Combat Butler. Fly Me to the Moon began serialization in 2018 in Weekly Shonen Sunday.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/43058565-bc56-4658-a46f-acff002966a401VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197471929702021974719294039781974719297159781974719297140978197471929711BCB102Trade PaperbackMashle: Magic and Muscles01Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Vol. 1011812965001A01Hajime KomotoKomoto, HajimeHajimeKomotoHajime Komoto01eng216CGN004240FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00425020 mashle; mashle: magic and muscles; magic and muscles; mash burnedead; dot barrett; lance crown; lemon; regro burnedead; shonen jump; Hajime Komoto; divine visionary; parody manga; fantasy manga; shonen01010102 In the magic realm, magic is everything—everyone can use it, and one’s social status is determined by their skill level. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he’s become a fitness god, but he harbors a secret that could turn his life upside down—he can’t use magic! When he’s found out, rather than his life being over, he’s unexpectedly enrolled in magic school, where he must beat the competition!
Mash just wants to live in peace with his father in the forest. But the only way he’ll ever be accepted in the magic realm is by attending magic school and becoming a Divine Visionary—an exceptional student revered as one the chosen. But without an ounce of magic to his name, Mash will have to punch his way to the top spot.]]>1302Mashle: Magic and Muscles, which began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2020.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/aee59d96-f68c-4835-8309-ace30039908c01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197471940202021974719405039781974719402159781974719402140978197471940211BCB102Trade PaperbackWorld Piece01World Piece, Vol. 1011812936331A01Josh TierneyTierney, JoshJoshTierney2A07AgroshkaJoshua Tierney01eng190CGN004240FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00419020Alien; Earth; End of the World; high school; archaeology; isekai01010102 Lucas Densen has earned his easygoing high school reputation through hard work and optimism. Life seems to be smooth sailing for this basketball-playing stargazer until an alien artifact shrinks the world, along with everything Lucas loves. What awaits him in this new realm where worlds are the size of your palm, and can he find out how to restore the Earth?
Lucas Densen has earned his easygoing reputation through hard work and optimism. When not playing basketball for his high school team, the Pulsars, Lucas enjoys visiting his mother’s archaeological excavations. During one visit, Lucas accidentally triggers an ancient alien artifact that suddenly transforms Earth into a small glowing orb no larger than a basketball! Transported to a mysterious realm with nothing but what’s on his back and the planet in his hands, Lucas encounters a friendly alien, Lully, who offers to help. What awaits him in this new realm where worlds are the size of your palm, and can he find out how to restore Earth?]]>1302Spera, which was nominated for Eisner, Shuster, Harvey and Diamond Gem Awards, as well as the high school mystery webcomic Warm Blood.
Agroshka is an illustrator from Poland whose previous work includes book illustrations, album covers and video game concept art. She has previously collaborated with Josh Tierney on the webcomic Warm Blood. World Piece is her first graphic novel series.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/becd415b-3d83-4d6e-8b00-ace30039938201VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021070701AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210707600224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU012021070797819747201180202197472011X039781974720118159781974720118140978197472011811BCB102Trade PaperbackAsadora!01Asadora!, Vol. 3011812941301A01Naoki UrasawaUrasawa, NaokiNaokiUrasawaNaoki Urasawa01eng184CGN004290FXA2.110CGN00410010CGN00600020Naoki Urasawa; mystery; Asadora; Asa Asada; Kasuga; monster; creature; female lead;01010102 In 2020, a large creature rampages through Tokyo, destroying everything in its path. In 1959, Asa Asada, a spunky young girl from a huge family in Nagoya, is kidnapped for ransom—and not a soul notices. When a typhoon hits Nagoya, Asa and her kidnapper must work together to survive. But there’s more to her kidnapper and this storm than meets the eye.
With the Olympics around the corner, the Japan Defense Forces have their hands full. So Jissoji enlists Asa and Kasuga’s help to find, identify and deal with the mysterious creature that decimated Asa’s hometown.]]>1302BETA!! in 1983 and hasn’t stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa’s oeuvre encompasses a multitude of different subjects, such as a romantic comedy (Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl), a suspenseful human drama about a former mercenary (Pineapple ARMY; story by Kazuya Kudo), a captivating psychological suspense story (Monster), a sci-fi adventure manga (20th Century Boys), an art heist thriller (Mujirushi: The Sign of Dreams), and a modern reinterpretation of the work of the God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka (Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka; co-authored with Takashi Nagasaki, supervised by Macoto Tezka, and with the cooperation of Tezuka Productions). Many of his books have spawned popular animated and live-action TV programs and films, and 2008 saw the theatrical release of the first of three live-action Japanese films based on 20th Century Boys.
No stranger to accolades and awards, Urasawa received the 2011 and 2013 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia, and is a three-time recipient of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, a two-time recipient of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize, and also received the Kodansha Manga Award. Urasawa has also become involved in the world of academia, and in 2008 accepted a guest teaching post at Nagoya Zokei University, where he teaches courses in, of course, manga.]]>0802 “If you’re itching for adventure, and are craving something to instill your waning faith in humanity, I implore you. Let these works transport you. Fly Urasawa Air. It’ll get you where you need to go."
“Urasawa’s works possess such a singular ability to transport readers halfway across the world almost effortlessly...”]]>PolygonManga legend Naoki Urasawa: ‘A victory through violence is not a victory’040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a8d7c222-1810-42e1-baa7-acff00296ac501VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210818600222.99AUDAUZ0.0022.990.00202104250226.99NZDNZZ0.0026.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472076702021974720764039781974720767159781974720767140978197472076711BCB102Trade PaperbackNo. 501No. 5, Vol. 1011812946641A01Taiyo MatsumotoMatsumoto, TaiyoTaiyoMatsumotoTaiyo Matsumoto01eng318CGN004190FXA2.110CGN00424010CGN00600020Taiyo Matsumoto; No. 5; Matryoshka; Rainbow Warriors; Rainbow Council; sniper; action; science fiction01010102Cats of the Louvre and Tekkonkinkreet.
In a world where most of the earth has become a harsh desert, the Rainbow Council of the Peace Corps has a growing crisis on its hands. No. 5, one member of a team of superpowered global security guardians and a top marksman, has gone rogue. Now the other guardians have to hunt down No. 5 and his mysterious companion, Matryoshka. But why did No. 5 turn against the council, and what will it mean for the future of the world?]]>1302Tekkonkinkreet, which in 2006 was made into an animated feature film of the same name directed by Michael Arias. In 2007, Matsumoto was awarded the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award, and in 2020 he won his second Eisner Award for the English publication of Cats of the Louvre.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0df5bbe4-8b56-4895-8a84-acff00296e0201VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210621202108180233.99AUDAUZ0.0033.990.00202104250238.99NZDNZZ0.0038.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472109202021974721094039781974721092159781974721092140978197472109211BCB102Trade PaperbackPokémon Adventures: Black 2 & White 201Pokémon Adventures: Black 2 & White 2, Vol. 4011812929761A01Hidenori KusakaKusaka, HidenoriHidenoriKusaka2A12Satoshi YamamotoYamamoto, SatoshiSatoshiYamamotoHidenori Kusaka01eng128JUV008010YFW2.110JUV00800010JUV00803020pokemon; pokémon; pokemon adventures; pocket monsters; hidenori kusaka; mato; satoshi yamamoto; pokemon monsters special; poketto monsuta; red; rivalry; blue; professor oak; team rocket; pikachu; gym badge; elite four; johto; gold; silver; crystal; yellow; ruby; sapphire; firered; fire red; leafgreen; leaf green; green; emerald; diamond; pearl; platinum; heartgold; heart gold; soulsilver; soul silver; pokemon video games; pokemon trainer; summoned creatures; monsters01020102 Two years have passed since Team Plasma was defeated and Trainer Black was sucked into the Light Stone along with Legendary Pokémon Reshiram… Now Team Plasma is back to its wicked ways, controlling other people’s Pokémon and even wild Pokémon with technology. Luckily, a new young hero and Looker of the International Police are on their trail…
It’s the exciting final volume of the Black 2 & White 2 arc! Blake catches up to Colress, the current leader of Team Plasma, while Whitley, accompanied by the reformed Team Plasma member N, corners Ghetsis, whose plan is to self-destruct, destroying everything around him. Both Trainers must defeat their enemies and save the world, but it won’t be easy.
Can the four Pokédex holders—Blake, Whitley, Black and White—handle the greatest crisis ever to hit the Unova region?!]]>1302Pokémon Adventures. Running continuously for over 20 years, Pokémon Adventures is the only manga series to completely cover all the Pokémon games and has become one of the most popular series of all time. Kusaka is currently working on the 14th story arc, Pokémon: Sun & Moon. In addition to writing manga, he also edits children’s books and plans mixed-media projects for Shogakukan’s children’s magazines. He uses the Pokémon Electrode as his author portrait.
Satoshi Yamamoto is the artist for VIZ Media’s Pokémon Adventures, which he began working on in 2001, starting with volume 10. Yamamoto launched his manga career in 1993 with the horror-action title Kimen Senshi, which ran in Shogakukan’s Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine, followed by the series Kaze no Denshosha. He is currently working on the 14th story arc in the Pokémon series, Pokémon: Sun & Moon. Yamamoto’s favorite manga creators/artists include Fujiko Fujio (Doraemon), Yukinobu Hoshino (2001 Nights) and Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira). He loves films, monsters, mysteries, punk rock music and livin’ the good life. He uses the Pokémon Swalot as his artist portrait.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2ab4f5fc-5b14-44a3-ad93-ace300399ad701VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818800214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472111502021974721116039781974721115159781974721115140978197472111511BCB102Trade PaperbackChildren of the Whales01Children of the Whales, Vol. 17011812943101A01Abi UmedaUmeda, AbiAbiUmedaAbi Umeda01eng168CGN004230FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00416020children of the whales; children of whales; kujira no kora wa sajou ni utau; kujira; nous; chakuro; whale calves sing on the debris; mud whale; thymia; war; tezuka osamu cultural prize nominee; adventure; drama; fantasy; mystery; umeda abi; abi umeda; dystopia; post-apocalyptic; water world; magic powers; special abilities; violence; lost civilization; detailed art style; friendship; elaborate art; desert; island; survival; rikos; saimia; avatar; ouni; lykos; anime; manga01010102 In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past.
The blight of the tárichos is infecting the people of the Mud Whale with horrifying speed, and the island seems doomed to become a floating graveyard. But visions of the past may have the power to save the future as Chakuro becomes witness to Shaun and Ouni’s private recollections.]]>1302Yukokugendan in Weekly Shonen Champion. Children of the Whales is her eighth manga work.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2b2c2099-870b-40c5-86af-acc7003cac8401VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210818600218.99AUDAUZ0.0018.990.00202104250221.99NZDNZZ0.0021.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472114602021974721140039781974721146159781974721146140978197472114611BCB102Trade PaperbackCase Closed01Case Closed, Vol. 79011812937451A01Gosho AoyamaAoyama, GoshoGoshoAoyamaGosho Aoyama01eng192CGN004100FXA2.110CGN00416010CGN00424020case closed; detective conan; meitantei conan; aoyama gosho; gosho aoyama; mystery; detective; drama; romance; solving crime; criminals; crime; secret identity; shinichi kudo; conan edogawa; age transformation; shogakukan manga award winner; anime; anime movies; ova; child protagonist; high school; old to young; murder; murder mystery; experimental drug; searching for cure; adventure; comedy; shonen Sunday; faked death; friendship; organized crime; manga; Jimmy Kudo; Rachel Moore; Richard Moore01010102 When ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black—poof! He is physically transformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way.
CONAN EDOGAWA’S DRACULA
Can the Kaito Kid nab a gem attached to a turtle in an aquarium? Conan wants to make sure that this time the master thief ends up all wet! Then Harley Hartwell tries to deduce how a man could be murdered while alone in an elevator.
When Conan and Harley investigate a supposed vampire curse, they find a case they can really sink their teeth into. Someone is eliminating the members of a wealthy family using methods straight out of Dracula lore!]]>1302Chotto Matte (Wait a Minute), which won Shogakukan's prestigious Shinjin Comic Taisho (Newcomer's Award for Comics) and launched his career as a critically acclaimed, top-selling manga artist. In addition to Detective Conan, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2001, Aoyama created the popular manga Yaiba, which won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1992. Aoyama's manga is greatly influenced by his boyhood love for mystery, adventure and baseball, and he has cited the tales of Arsene Lupin and Sherlock Holmes and the samurai films of Akira Kurosawa as some of his childhood favorites.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f2aa3c1f-dc45-47d4-8b28-acf80034131401VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472174002021974721744039781974721740159781974721740140978197472174011BCB102Trade PaperbackSplatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show401Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Vol. 4011812951871A01Hideki GotoGoto, HidekiHidekiGotoHideki Goto01eng128CGN004120FXA2.110CGN00416010CGN00425020Kids; Video Games; Consoles; Comedy; Handheld Gaming; switch; Splatoon; Splatoon 2; inklings team blue; team red; squid sisters stories; Callie; Marie; Octarians; Great Zapfish; Splatfest; Turf War; Squid Sister; Global Testfire; Shintaro Sato; Splat Zones; tower control; rainmaker; Battle Dojo; Octo Valley; headphone-chan; Knit-cap chan; Megane; raidaa; hotaru; aori; amii; headphones; bobble hat; specs; rider; army; aloha; mask; stealth goggles; octoglasses; 4-coma; 4-koma; four panel comics01010102 Wacky short adventures based on the hit Nintendo games!
Fourth time around is the charm! Inklings Hit, Maika and Kou return for even more silly stories and fun adventures in the world of Splatoon!]]>1302Zenryoku Dadada. His first serialization was Manga de Hakken Tamagotchi: Bakusho 4-koma Gekijo, which began in Monthly Coro Coro Comics in 1997. Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show began its serialization in Bessatsu Coro Coro Comics in 2017 and is Goto's first work to be published in English.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/01f1e05a-34ef-4e9d-944e-acc7003cb56301VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210614202108181000214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472186302021974721868039781974721863159781974721863140978197472186311BCB102Trade PaperbackThe Promised Neverland01The Promised Neverland, Vol. 20ThePromised Neverland, Vol. 20011812933731A01Kaiu ShiraiShirai, KaiuKaiuShirai2A12Posuka DemizuDemizu, PosukaPosukaDemizuKaiu Shirai01eng240CGN004230FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00416020promised Neverland; the promised Neverland; yakusoku no Neverland; yakusoku no nebarando; demizu posuka; posuka demizu; shirai kaiu; kaiu shirai; shonen jump; wsj; shonen; orphans; orphan; orphanage; monsters; demons; supernatural; drama; mystery; thriller; escape plan; betrayal; traitor; child protagonists; children; humans as food; coverup; deception; human farm; manga01010102 Life at Grace Field House had been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they had to take were tough, their loving caretaker provided them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But when they discover the horrifying truth about why they are being kept at the orphanage, their lives change forever…
Back at Grace Field House, Emma faces Peter with the future of the demon world hanging in the balance. Meanwhile, something unexpected is happening in the demon capital. Can the children finally escape to the human world? And what fate awaits Emma at the end of her long journey?]]>1302Ashley Gate no Yukue on the Shonen Jump+ website. Shirai first worked with Posuka Demizu on the two-shot Poppy no Negai, which was released in February 2016.
Posuka Demizu debuted as a manga artist with the 2013 CoroCoro series Oreca Monster Bouken Retsuden. A collection of illustrations, The Art of Posuka Demizu, was released in 2016 by PIE International.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/8fbc6f7d-14ff-44a5-8ec9-acce003b880901VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728520214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU012021072897819747222110202197472221X039781974722211159781974722211140978197472221111BCB102Trade PaperbackRIN-NE01RIN-NE, Vol. 40011812939951A01Rumiko TakahashiTakahashi, RumikoRumikoTakahashiRumiko Takahashi01eng192CGN004120FXA2.110CGN00416010CGN00425020rin-ne; rinne; kyoukai no rinne; kyokai no rinne; takahashi rumiko; rumiko takahashi; comedy; romance; school life; supernatural; fantasy; ghosts; seeing spirits; Shinigami; spirits; reincarnation; exorcism; exorcists; afterlife; demons; inuyasha; ranma; anime; manga01010102 After a mysterious encounter in her childhood, Sakura Mamiya gained the power to see ghosts. Now a teenager, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! Then one day she meets Rinne Rokudo, a boy who is far more than what he seems.
Rinne wins a day trip in an Afterlife lottery and asks Sakura Mamiya to join him. After some unfortunate surprises, the trip ends on a high note with matching bracelets for the pair...but those same bracelets will lead to a series of mishaps that neither of them could have anticipated!]]>1302Those Selfish Aliens. Later that same year, her boy-meets-alien comedy series, Urusei Yatsura, was serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday. This phenomenally successful manga series was adapted into anime format and spawned a TV series and half a dozen theatrical-release movies, all incredibly popular in their own right. Takahashi followed up the success of her debut series with one blockbuster hit after another—Maison Ikkoku ran from 1980 to 1987, Ranma 1/2 from 1987 to 1996, and Inuyasha from 1996 to 2008. Other notable works include Mermaid Saga, Rumic Theater, and One-Pound Gospel.
Takahashi was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame in 2018. She won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award twice in her career, once for Urusei Yatsura in 1981 and the second time forInuyasha in 2002. A majority of the Takahashi canon has been adapted into other media such as anime, live-action TV series, and film. Takahashi’s manga, as well as the other formats her work has been adapted into, have continued to delight generations of fans around the world. Distinguished by her wonderfully endearing characters, Takahashi’s work adeptly incorporates a wide variety of elements such as comedy, romance, fantasy, and martial arts. While her series are difficult to pin down into one simple genre, the signature style she has created has come to be known as the "Rumic World." Rumiko Takahashi is an artist who truly represents the very best from the world of manga.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c114019b-5889-4e75-b280-acf1003a679b01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472226602021974722260039781974722266159781974722266140978197472226611BCB102Trade PaperbackOresama Teacher01Oresama Teacher, Vol. 29011812955571A01Izumi TsubakiTsubaki, IzumiIzumiTsubakiIzumi Tsubaki01eng192CGN004250FXA2.110CGN00418010CGN00428020oresama teacher; ore-sama teacher; tsubaki izumi; izumi tsubaki; my teacher; action; comedy; drama; romance; school life; slice of life; banchou; bancho; shojo; shojo beat; delinquent; slapstick; gang; high school; transfer student; mafuyu; super bun; Mafuyu Kurosaki; Hayasaka; Shinobu Yui; Miyabi Hanabusa; natsuo; reverse harem; ex-delinquent; cross-dressing; childhood friends; friendship; lifestyle change; age gap; club activities; school club; rivalry; manga 01010102 Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter’s wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country.
Mafuyu and her friends manage to save the school festival at the last minute, and with it the future of Midorigaoka Academy! But when Takaomi rushes to the hospital to tell his grandfather, all he finds is an empty bed. Has victory come too late?!]]>1302Hana to Yume’s HMC (Hana to Yume Mangaka Course), and subsequently won Hana to Yume’s Big Challenge contest. Her debut title, Chijimete Distance (Shrink the Distance), ran in 2002 in Hana to Yume magazine, issue 17. Her other works include The Magic Touch (Oyayubi kara Romance) and Oresama Teacher, which she is currently working on.]]>01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472279202021974722791039781974722792159781974722792140978197472279211BCB102Trade PaperbackD.Gray-Man01D.Gray-man, Vol. 27011812960881A01Katsura HoshinoHoshino, KatsuraKatsuraHoshinoKatsura Hoshino01eng192CGN004290FXA2.110CGN00416010CGN00424020exorcists; exorcism; demons; innocence; england; 19th century; akuma; allen; allen walker; cursed; soul; anime; katsura hoshino; hoshino katsura; spirits; fighting; fantasy; supernatural01010102 Set in a fictional 19th century England, D.Gray-man is the story of Allen Walker, a 15-year-old boy who roams the earth in search of Innocence. Washed away to unknown parts of the world after The Great Flood, Innocence is the mysterious substance used to create weapons that obliterate demons known as akuma.
In the present, using a powerful technique to escape from his former comrades in the Black Order, Allen winds up taking himself and his rather surly frenemy Yu Kanda to Edinstown, England, where the story of Allen began. After sending a golem to find their allies General Tiedoll and Johnny Gill, Allen and Yu are confronted by a swarm of their long-time enemies, the akuma. In the past, the strange tale of Allen begins to unfold…
]]>1302D.Gray-man has been serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump since 2004. Katsura's debut manga, "Continue," appeared for the first time in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2003. Katsura adores his cat Coro.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/74423676-85dc-41a6-86f8-acff002971dd01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472280802021974722805039781974722808159781974722808140978197472280811BCB102Trade PaperbackDr. STONE01Dr. STONE, Vol. 17011812934091A01Riichiro InagakiInagaki, RiichiroRiichiroInagaki2A12BoichiRiichiro Inagaki01eng192CGN004190FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00416020dr. stone; manga; science fiction; sci-fi; shonen jump; boichi; riichiro inagaki; taiju; senku; tsukasa; survival; fantasy; action; shonen; dr stone; doctor stone01010102 One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!
The Kingdom of Science is off on a high-seas voyage to the U.S.A. However, Senku and Ryusui are soon divided on how best to chart their course, leading to all-out war—in the form of a poker game! After the winner is determined, what awaits their crew on the large continent to the east?!]]>1302Sun-Ken Rock and Terra Formars Asimov.
Riichiro Inagaki is a Japanese manga writer from Tokyo. He is the writer for the sports manga series Eyeshield 21, which was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/02798532-4d26-4843-9207-acce003b8b0401VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472291402021974722910039781974722914159781974722914140978197472291411BCB102Trade PaperbackPlatinum End01Platinum End, Vol. 13011812933011A01Tsugumi OhbaOhba, TsugumiTsugumiOhba2A12Takeshi ObataObata, TakeshiTakeshiObataTsugumi Ohba01eng216CGN004290FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00424020platinum end; platina end; ohba tsugumi; tsugumi ohba; obata takeshi; takeshi obata; death note; bakuman; drama; mature; mystery; psychological; romance; school life; shonen; supernatural; competition; survival; mind control; angels; angel; orphan; murder; sociopaths; super powers; supernatural; manipulation; suicide; students; violence; mirai; death game; manga01010102 As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.
The remaining candidates meet for a final showdown to determine who will be the next god. Professor Yoneda plans to prevent a new god from being chosen at all costs. Mirai has finally stepped up and will assume the mantle of god if it means stopping Yoneda. Who will survive the confrontation and who will become the new god?]]>1302Death Note, Bakuman and Platinum End.
Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as the artist of the wildly popular Shonen Jump title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei “New Hope” Award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga Award. He went on to illustrate the smash hit Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga Bakuman and All You Need Is Kill.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/10961474-9045-4177-aabd-acc7003cbb3401VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472293802021974722937039781974722938159781974722938140978197472293811BCB102Trade PaperbackMy Hero Academia: Vigilantes01My Hero Academia: Vigilantes, Vol. 10011812932291A09Kohei HorikoshiHorikoshi, KoheiKoheiHorikoshi2A01Hideyuki FuruhashiFuruhashi, HideyukiHideyukiFuruhashi3A12Betten CourtCourt, BettenBettenCourtKohei Horikoshi01eng192CGN004240FXA2.110CGN00408010CGN00416020superheroes; action; My Hero Academia; vigilantes; The Crawler; Cruller; Koichi Haimawari; Pop Step; Kazuho Haneyama; Knuckleduster; shonen jump; superhero; quirks; superpowers; action; science fiction; fantasy; comedy; All Might; heroes; hero agency; villains; HeroAca; BNH; all might; one for all; supervillains; villains alliance; special abilities01010102 In a superpowered society, there is nothing ordinary about evil anymore. Heroes, trained and licensed to protect and defend the public against supervillains, stand above all the rest. Not everyone can be a hero, however, and there are those who would use their powers to serve the people without legal sanction. But do they fight for justice in the shadows, or for reasons known only to themselves? Whatever they fight for, they are called...vigilantes.
Pop has emerged as the new Queen Bee, her transformation forced upon her by the villainous Nomura, a.k.a. Number 6. At his direction, Pop begins to rain destruction down on Naruhata. With a villain on the loose, it’s only natural for heroes to be called in to deal with the situation, but Koichi knows his friend’s life and soul are at stake. Will inspiration from his old master and training with past foes help him find the hero within?]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/92582dc8-204e-44fa-8718-acdc003b1e5701VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472300302021974723003039781974723003159781974723003140978197472300311BCB102Trade PaperbackPersona 501Persona 5, Vol. 7
011812950791A01Hisato MurasakiMurasaki, HisatoHisatoMurasaki2A10AtlasHisato Murasaki01eng200CGN004120FXA2.110CGN00410010CGN00416020Persona 5; P5; Phantom Thieves; Persona; Akira Kurusu; Joker; Ryuji Sakamoto; Captain Kid; Morgana; Mona; Zorro; Ann Takamaki; Carmen; Yusuke Kitagawa; Fox; Makoto Nijima; Johanna; Futaba Sakura; Alibaba; Haru Okumura; Milady; Goro Akechi; Crow; Persona501010102 After being arrested and having to transfer to a new high school in Tokyo, Akira Kurusu is given the goal of rehabilitation and awakened to a new power—the power of one’s true self, a Persona. Using his Persona and the mysterious navigation app Mementos, Akira and his friends take on the role of Phantom Thieves, saving people from the twisted desires of those around them.
The Phantom Thieves are celebrating successfully reforming mob boss Kaneshiro when they’re suddenly called out by the international hacker group Medjed! Caught off guard, Akira is further confused when he receives a mysterious message from a person claiming to have knowledge of Medjed, who offers the Phantom Thieves a special deal to help them out with their predicament…]]>1302Hyakume no Kishi (Knight of 100 Eyes), The Case-Book of ENA, the D-Crackers series and Bravely Archive: D’s Report. He also wrote the manga Boku no Mawari no Uchuujin (The Alien Around Me). He started work on Persona 5 in 2016.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/230c1fc4-f99d-41ff-9b2b-acf1003a6b0701VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472306502021974723062039781974723065159781974723065140978197472306511BCB102Trade PaperbackQueen’s Quality01Queen's Quality, Vol. 12011812955931A01Kyousuke MotomiMotomi, KyousukeKyousukeMotomiKyousuke Motomi01eng168CGN004290FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00418020queen’s quality; queens quality; qq sweeper; sequel; motomi kyousuke; kyousuke motomi; kyosuke motomi; fumi; kyutaro; angst; comedy; drama; romance; supernatural manga; shojo; shojo beat; amnesia; special powers; chosen one; mind control; spirits01010102 Fumi Nishioka lives with Kyutaro Horikita and his family of "Sweepers," people who specialize in cleaning the minds of those overcome by negative energy and harmful spirits. Fumi has always displayed mysterious abilities, but will those powers be used for evil when she begins to truly awaken as a Queen?
When Kyutaro faces off against Seiryu Clan member Aoi Shinonome, he realizes how weak the snake inside him is. He decides to let his snake eat some of his “wishes” in an attempt to grow significantly stronger, but will this dangerous gamble pay off?]]>1302Deluxe Betsucomi with Hetakuso Kyupiddo (No Good Cupid) in 2002. She is the creator of Dengeki Daisy, Beast Master, and QQ Sweeper, all available in North America from VIZ Media. Motomi enjoys sleeping, tea ceremonies and reading Haruki Murakami.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/99483e4b-68db-4783-937b-acce003b920e01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472340902021974723402039781974723409159781974723409140978197472340911BCB102Trade PaperbackBad Boys, Happy Home01Bad Boys, Happy Home, Vol. 1011812934811A01SHOOWA2A12Hiromasa OkujimaOkujima, HiromasaHiromasaOkujima SHOOWA01eng194CGN004210FXA2.110CGN00410010CGN00418020yaoi; boys love; BL; bishonen; bishounen; SuBLime; SuBLime Manga; fighting; homeless; troubled; gay; lgbtq; coming out; prostitution; drugs; Akamatsu Seven; Akamatsu and Seven; Dousei Yankee; Dosei Yankee; Dousei Yankee Akamatsu Seven; delinquent manga; bara01010102 Akamatsu has problems at home, while Seven doesn’t even have a home. When these two strangers meet, fighting soothes their troubled souls, opening up room for something more.
Life sucks, and high school bad boy Akamatsu needs an outlet for his pent-up frustrations. Seven, a homeless guy living in a nearby park, is just the outlet Akamatsu needs. Soon, he finds himself heading to the park every day just to pick a fight, even though he never wins. So when Seven ends up kicked out of his favorite sleeping spot, Akamatsu decides there’s only one possible solution to retain his fighting partner…invite Seven home to live with him!]]>1302Bad Boys, Happy Home may be SHOOWA’s first English-language release, but she’s also been published internationally in both French and Korean. You can find out more about her on her Twitter page, @shoowa.
Although this is Hiromasa Okujima’s first professional foray into boys’ love, he’s created many shonen and seinen manga. Some of his hobbies include martial arts and collecting secondhand clothing. You can find out more about him on his Twitter page, @HiromasaOkujima.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a0089183-dad5-4e66-9b05-ad14002c5b6e01SuBLimeSIMO300SuBLime0101SuBLimeSIMO300SuBLime022021081801AU NZ017.125in01180.98mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818600218.99AUDAUZ0.0018.990.00202104250221.99NZDNZZ0.0021.990.0020210425SuBLimeAU012021081897819747235080202197472350X039781974723508159781974723508140978197472350811BCB102Trade PaperbackUndead Unluck01Undead Unluck, Vol. 2011812967561A01Yoshifumi TozukaTozuka, YoshifumiYoshifumiTozukaYoshifumi Tozuka01eng200CGN004290FXA2.110CGN00424010CGN00425020undead unluck; undead; unluck; andy; fuuko izumo; union; shonen jump; under; negator; UMA; unjustice; tatiana; billy; top; unrepair; shonen01010102 Tired of inadvertently killing people with her special ability Unluck, Fuuko Izumo sets out to end it all. But when she meets Andy, a man who longs for death but can't die, she finds a reason to live—and he finds someone capable of giving him the death he's been longing for.
Sick of being targeted, Fuuko and Andy decide they would rather be the hunters than the hunted. So they set their sights on joining the ten-member Union. But to snag the second seat they need, they’ll have to defeat their would-be assailant, Unchange!]]>1302Uchuu Kankou C-Arc (Cosmic Arc Travel), which was published in Jump Next! in May 2014. Undead Unluck, his first series, began serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump in January 2020.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/7bc718cf-8fad-45f5-8d8a-ace30039a27201VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021072801AU NZ017.5in01190.5mm025in02127mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210728600214.99AUDAUZ0.0014.990.00202104250217.99NZDNZZ0.0017.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210728978197472352202021974723526039781974723522159781974723522140978197472352211BCB102Trade PaperbackDevil’s Candy01Devil's Candy, Vol. 1011812935961A09REM2A09Bikkuri REM01eng208CGN004240FXA2.110CGN00415010CGN00425020Ghosts; ghouls; webcomic; Rem; Tsulala; Bikkuri; Pandora; Kazu; Kazu Decker; Hemlock Hearts Academy; monsters; demons01010102Devil’s Candy, the popular webcomic by Rem and Bikkuri, is a hilarious action-adventure that follows Kazu Decker and his science experiment, Pandora, as they navigate high school with a ghoulish supernatural twist.
At Hemlock Heart Academy, science wiz Kazu Decker shows off his skills by creating a humanoid girl named Pandora. But in a world of monsters and mayhem, surviving high school is harder than getting good grades and lessons often turn violent at Hemlock. Fortunately for them, Pandora’s stoic nature and seemingly limitless strength, paired with Kazu’s luck, knowledge and friends, get them out of trouble almost as often as it gets them mixed up in it!
Science projects at Hemlock Heart Academy require more than a fizzy volcano to impress the class, so naturally Kazu brings to life a humanoid girl, Pandora, whose violent streak and impressive strength introduces more destruction into his already chaotic school life. Braving runaway science experiments, howling apparitions, and a deadly fashion show, Pandora learns that life at a devil high school is a day-to-day struggle for survival. But even savage schoolyard skirmishes can’t prepare Kazu and his friends for a superpowered secret society of daemons determined to grind all of devil society under their heel.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/1ee4745e-3c32-4021-9a7e-acff00297a4f01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210818600224.99AUDAUZ0.0024.990.00202104250228.99NZDNZZ0.0028.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU0120210818978197472369002021974723690039781974723690159781974723690140978197472369011BCB102Trade PaperbackRWBY: Official Manga Anthology01RWBY: Official Manga Anthology, Vol. 5Shine011812927431A09Rooster Teeth Productions2A09Monty OumOum, MontyMontyOum Rooster Teeth Productions01eng176CGN004240FXA2.110CGN00412010CGN00416020RWBY; Ruby; Rooster Teeth; Gray Haddock; Monty Oum; Miles Luna; Kerry Shawcross; Lindsay Jones; Barbara Dunkelman; Jeff Williams; Casey Lee Williams; Grimm; Vale; Beacon; monsters; post-apocalyptic; strong female characters; teamwork; sisters; red vs. blue; Arryn Zech; Blake Belladonna; Jaune Arc; Nora Valkyrie; Pyrrha Nikos; Lie Ren;01010102 The world of Remnant is filled with horrific monsters bent on the destruction of humanity. Fortunately, the kingdoms of the world have risen to combat these forces by training powerful Huntsmen and Huntresses at academies around the planet. Ruby Rose, Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna and Yang Xiao Long are four such Huntresses in training.
New short stories featuring Team JNPR!
Team RWBY is not the only group of Hunters and Huntresses in the world of Remnant!
Get to know Jaune Arc, Nora Valkyrie, Pyrrha Nikos and Lie Ren, one of the strongest—and most fun—teams of Grimm Hunters in the hit series RWBY! From a team of exciting new manga artists comes the fifth volume in a series of short story collections, this time showcasing Team JNPR!]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c356b027-dae2-4b6a-be6b-acea003b652a01VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC0101VIZ Media LLCSIMO103VIZ Media LLC022021081801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.75in02146.05mmHarper Collins PublishersNP102021062120210818600218.99AUDAUZ0.0018.990.00202104250221.99NZDNZZ0.0021.990.0020210425VIZ Media LLCAU012021081897819821032310202198210323X039781982103231159781982103231140978198210323111BB0910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Hardback01The Lost Boys of MontaukTheLost Boys of MontaukThe True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind011458610711A01Amanda M. FairbanksFairbanks, Amanda M.Amanda M.FairbanksThe New York Times, as a reporter for HuffPost, and at TheEast Hampton Star, where she wrote investigative stories, features, and profiles. Her writing has also appeared in TheBoston Globe, Newsweek, TheAtlantic, and TheSan Francisco Chronicle. A graduate of Smith College and a former Teach for America corps member, she has two master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and currently lives with her family in Sag Harbor. ]]>Amanda M. Fairbanks01eng336BIO034000BG2.110TRU01000010TRA00601020Montauk; East Hampton; Hamptons; the East End; eastern Long Island; fish; fishing; fishing boat; tilefish; the Wind-Blown; drowning at sea; The East Hampton Star; East; real estate; lost at sea; The Perfect Storm; Sudhir Venkatesh; Gang Leader for a Day; Michael Vigilant; Michael Stedman; David Connick; Scott Clarke; Grey Gardens; Nelson Demille; The Gold Coast; Showtime's The Affair; marital secrets; adultery; summer homes; weekenders; alcoholism01010102An immersive account of a tragedy at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as “an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.”
In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young boys, was the boat’s owner and leader of the four-man crew, which included two locals and the blue-blooded son of a well-to-do summer family. After a week at sea, the weather suddenly turned, and the foursome collided with a nor’easter. They soon found themselves in the fight of their lives. Tragically, it was a fight they lost. Neither the boat nor the bodies of the men were ever recovered.
The fate of the Wind Blown—the second-worst nautical disaster suffered by a Montauk-based fishing vessel in over a hundred years—has become interwoven with the local folklore of the East End’s year-round population. Back then, on the easternmost tip of Long Island, before Wall Street and hedge fund money stormed into town, commercial fishing was the area’s economic lifeblood.
Amanda M. Fairbanks examines the profound shift of Montauk from a working-class village—“a drinking town with a fishing problem”—to a playground for the ultra-wealthy, seeking out the reasons that an event more than three decades old remains so startlingly vivid in people’s minds. She explores the ways in which deep, lasting grief can alter people’s memories. And she shines a light on the powerful and sometimes painful dynamics between fathers and sons, as well as the secrets that can haunt families from beyond the grave.
The story itself is a universal tale of family and brotherhood; it’s about what happens when the dreams and ambitions of affluent and working-class families collide. Captivating and powerful, The Lost Boys of Montauk explores one of the most important questions we face as humans: how do memories of the dead inform the lives of those left behind?]]>1302The New York Times, as a reporter for HuffPost, and at TheEast Hampton Star, where she wrote investigative stories, features, and profiles. Her writing has also appeared in TheBoston Globe, Newsweek, TheAtlantic, and TheSan Francisco Chronicle. A graduate of Smith College and a former Teach for America corps member, she has two master’s degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and currently lives with her family in Sag Harbor. ]]>0802The Perfect Storm and similar books. A riveting man-vs.-nature story and compelling tribute to those who perished."—Kirkus (starred review)
"Deeply reported and moving...A memorable portrait of loss."—Publishers Weekly
“Readers fascinated by stories of shipwreck such as Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm may be similarly intrigued by this sad tale.” —Booklist
"[A] must-read."—Town & Country
"A relentlessly reported page-turner about the collision of man and nature on the ocean and the collateral damage back on land."—Tom Clavin, New York Times bestselling author ofDodge City and Tombstone
“This extensive and stunningly reported true story of a tragic shipwreck off Montauk is tinged with that rebel late-hippie-era vibe of the late seventies and early eighties. It's about family secrets, romances cut short, the fishing life, and the evolving history of the East End of Long Island, now known as ‘The Hamptons.’ It’s an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.”—Ron Suskind, bestselling author of Life, Animated
"The Lost Boys of Montauk is riveting. Combining gorgeous prose and exhaustive research, Fairbanks paints a fascinating portrait of a shipwreck and its aftermath. It's a complex tale of class divides in the Hamptons, of grief, passion, memory, and youth. Over the course of the book, we come to know and care deeply for the young men who were lost at sea and for those who live on to tell their story. A must-read."—J. Courtney Sullivan, bestselling author of Friends and Strangers
"Not since Peter Matthiessen’s Men’s Lives has there been such an insightful depiction of the struggles, joys, and dangers of being a fisherman out of Montauk. The Lost Boys of Montauk is beautifully written and impeccably researched. You’ll never again hear the words ‘lost at sea’ and not think of this book.”—Steven Gaines, bestselling author of Philistines at the Hedgerow
“Four commercial fishermen perished in a late-winter storm off the coast of Long Island in 1984. Through obsessively detailed reporting, clear, powerful writing, and the unstoppable storytelling of a thriller, Amanda Fairbanks has made this one event stand for a whole world. The Lost Boys of Montauk is an unforgettable portrait of fishermen’s culture, of the peculiarities of a place inhabited by ordinary people and the very rich, and of the ways in which a tragedy can exert a force on people’s lives down through the decades.”—Nicholas Lemann, author of Transaction Man
“The Lost Boys of Montauk describes the permanent shadow cast across the lives of the women, men, and children affected by the sinking of the Wind Blown in a winter storm forty years ago, with all four young men aboard lost at sea. Amanda Fairbanks collects the histories of the men and their families and describes the atmosphere of a fishing town at the eastern end of Long Island. Her book is a kind of collective testimony, a chorus of voices that would not otherwise have been heard.”—Alec Wilkinson, author of The Riverkeeper
“This grippingly reported book is about social class and boundaries, about family, about the web of pain — grief, drugs, alcoholism, divorce, loneliness — that spins out of devastating loss. From generation to generation, from family to family, Fairbanks documents trauma’s insidious effect on an entire East End community.”—Susan Scarf Merrell, author of Shirley
"An arresting, awesome story — vivid and sensory, and as hypnotic as the tides of the sea. Fairbanks is an in-depth reporter who weaves wonderfully a vastly researched tale into a cinematic page-turner."—Mira Ptacin, author of The In-Betweens
"The Lost Boys of Montauk gives something of an idea of what Steinbeck and Melville might have produced had they written narrative nonfiction together. In telling the tragic tale of four men whose lives were cut short, Fairbanks crafts a gripping portrait not only of the characters, but of a time and place now trapped in the amber of the not-too-distant past."—Graydon Carter, Editor of Air Mail
"Amanda Fairbanks' story of the Wind Blown and the four men who died at sea, their lives, and the disaster's long effects is a brilliantly reported, heartrending epic that captures the beautiful, complicated—and in this case, tragic—threads in a community that I have long called home and that my family's newspaper has covered for generations. This book belongs in every South Fork collection."—David Rattray, Editor, The East Hampton Star]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/eeb7491e-13a6-4575-ac78-ac57002e94e901Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books0101Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm031.1in0327.94mm081.09lb0817.44oz08494.42gr27159781982103255Harper Collins PublishersNP102021042620210801200249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Gallery BooksAU0120210801978198210412202021982104120039781982104122159781982104122140978198210412211BB0910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03HardbackThe Scot Harvath Series2001Black IceA Thriller011462890731A01Brad ThorThor, BradBradThorNew York Times bestselling author of twenty thrillers, including Near Dark, Backlash (one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year), Spymaster (“One of the all-time best thriller novels”—The WashingtonTimes), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (one of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” —NPR), and The Lions of Lucerne. Visit his website at BradThor.com and follow him on Facebook at Facebook.com/BradThorOfficial and on Twitter @BradThor.]]>Brad Thor01eng336FIC031060FHD2.110FIC00600010FIC03000012FH20Scot Harvath series; new brad thor; new scot harvath; military thriller; political thriller; nyt bestsellers; suspense; special forces; task force; busting bad guys; CIA thriller; scot harvath chronological order; counterterrorism; international terrorism; conservative books; brad thor book order; navy seal; special ops; Armand Schulz; government conspiracy; international intrigue; espionage; books like 24; war and patriotism; action thriller; best sellers list new york times01010102The new Cold War is about to go hot.
#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most intense thriller yet.
Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he’s got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America’s top spy has a decision to make—return, or submit his resignation.
When his deadly past comes calling, though, he’ll be left with no choice at all.
Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi—a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway?
In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath will be tested in ways he has never imagined and pushed to a limit few human beings could ever endure.
If he succeeds, he’ll walk away with everything. If he fails, the United States and its allies will be at the mercy of one of the world’s most dangerous actors.]]>1302New York Times bestselling author of twenty thrillers, including Near Dark, Backlash (one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year), Spymaster (“One of the all-time best thriller novels”—The WashingtonTimes), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (one of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” —NPR), and The Lions of Lucerne. Visit his website at BradThor.com and follow him on Facebook at Facebook.com/BradThorOfficial and on Twitter @BradThor.]]>4402New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/251c9115-ae20-48a8-a0d3-ac57002ea32701Atria/Emily Bestler BooksSIMO257Atria/Emily Bestler Books0101Atria/Emily Bestler BooksSIMO257Atria/Emily Bestler Books022021080101AU NZ019.25in01234.95mm026.125in02155.57mm030.865in0321.971mm27159781982104146Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801200245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Atria/Emily Bestler BooksAU0120210801978198210556302021982105569039781982105563159781982105563140978198210556311BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade PaperbackDove Pond Series201A Cup of Silver LiningsACup of Silver Linings011472692811A01Karen HawkinsHawkins, KarenKarenHawkinsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Hawkins writes novels that have been praised as touching, witty, charming, and heartwarming. A native Southerner who grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee where storytelling is a way of life, Karen recently moved to frosty New England with her beloved husband and multiple foster dogs. The Dove Pond series is a nod to the thousands of books that opened doors for her to more adventures, places, and discoveries than she ever imagined possible. To find out more about Karen, check in with her at Facebook.com/KarenHawkinsWriter, @KarenHawkinsAuthor on Instagram, and at her website, KarenHawkins.com.]]>Karen Hawkins01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC06100010FIC02702020New York Times bestselling author; okra pick; best women's fiction; best commercial fiction; Maclean Curse; Maclean Curse series; magical realism; family ties; female friendships; small towns; small-town life; North Carolina; good luck; sisters; books about sisters; starting over; community bonds; romance; veterans; love stories; witty banter; humor; fishing; Southern romace; Sarah Addison Allen; Ruth Hogan; Jenny Colgan; Alice Hoffman; Amy Reichert; Christina Dodd; Heather Graham; Jude Deveraux01010102New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins returns to her beloved Dove Pond series with another “mesmerizing fusion of the mystical and the everyday” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author)—but this time, the magic is in the tea leaves.
Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialty Teas—is frantic.
Just as her fabulous new tearoom is about to open, her herbal teas have gone wonky. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her anti-anxiety tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors. Ava is desperate for a remedy, but her search leads her into dangerous territory, as she is forced to face a dark secret she’s been hiding for over a decade.
Meanwhile, successful architect Ellen Foster has arrived in Dove Pond to attend the funeral of her estranged daughter, Julie. Grieving deeply, Ellen is determined to fix up her daughter’s ramshackle house, sell it, and then sweep her sixteen-year-old granddaughter, Kristen, off to a saner, calmer life in Raleigh. But Kristen has other plans. Desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, Kristen sets off on a quest she’s avoided her whole life—to find her never-been-there father in the hopes of winning her freedom from the grandmother she barely knows.
Together, Ava, Kristen, and Ellen embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.]]>1302New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Hawkins writes novels that have been praised as touching, witty, charming, and heartwarming. A native Southerner who grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee where storytelling is a way of life, Karen recently moved to frosty New England with her beloved husband and multiple foster dogs. The Dove Pond series is a nod to the thousands of books that opened doors for her to more adventures, places, and discoveries than she ever imagined possible. To find out more about Karen, check in with her at Facebook.com/KarenHawkinsWriter, @KarenHawkinsAuthor on Instagram, and at her website, KarenHawkins.com.]]>0802A visit to Dove Pond, where the real magic lies in forgiveness and acceptance, is balm to my readerly soul. Write the next book quickly please!"]]>KJ Dell'Antonia, New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club pick, The Chicken Sisters0802A Cup of Silver Linings offers up the perfect blend of family, forgiveness, and healing. With quirky, lovable characters and abundant small-town Southern charm, I enjoyed every minute spent in Dove Pond, where life is truly magical."]]>Heather Webber, USA Today bestselling author of Midnight at the Blackbird Café0802A Cup of Silver Linings, a novel of loss, love, and letting go, holds magic for the residents of Dove Pond and for readers who believe that sometimes miracles really do happen."]]>Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Family Reunion040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b7541365-017f-46db-b333-aae40029d53301Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books0101Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.3125in02134.94mm030.92in0323.368mm0615978198214145527159781982105570Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801400227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Gallery BooksAU0120210801978198210854002021982108541039781982108540159781982108540140978198210854011BB0910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Hardback01Love After 50How to Find It, Enjoy It, and Keep It011483087641A01Francine RussoRusso, FrancineFrancineRussoThey’re Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy. A widely recognized journalist, she covered the Boomer beat for Time for over a decade. She has also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic, and other major publications. Russo has two grown children, three adult stepchildren, and six amazing grandkids (with twins on the way!). She has experienced first-hand the tremendous potential we all have to grow and transform ourselves with the people we love. A PhD in English literature, she lives in New York with her partner.]]>Francine Russo01eng272FAM029000VFV2.110SEL01600010FAM05400012VS12VFVG20Love after 50; Francine Russo; marriage; sex; dating; relationships; eHarmony; boomers; erotic friends; F*ck Love; The Third Chapter; Naked at Our Age; The Love Sense; They're Your Parents; Too!; They're Your Parents Too; ghosting; online dating; blended family; remarriage; widowhood; overcoming divorce; how to date; living alone together;01010102A comprehensive and intimate guide to finding, keeping, and enjoying love after fifty, the best kind of love there is.
Studies keep showing that love after fifty is more satisfying than at any other stage in life, and it makes sense: at this stage, you are more emotionally stable and more focused on the present; you know what you absolutely have to have, but also what you can live without; partnering is no longer about building family and fortune—it’s about sharing intimacy as grounded individuals. And sex isn’t pass/fail anymore, but about becoming erotic friends.
So if this is the promised land, how do you get there?
In Love After 50, journalist Francine Russo interviewed the best experts in the field and dozens of couples to help show the way. Her practical advice includes: -How to recover from the emotional damage of divorce, the grief of widowhood, or a history of unfulfilling relationships -How to build realistic requirements for a partner -What attitudes to bring to dating -How to overcome the physical challenges of sex and embrace your erotic selves -How to evaluate the financial, emotional, and practical results of marrying, living together, or living apart -How to deal with (hostile) adult kids to safeguard your relationship and family
Love After 50 is not only practical, it is unassuming and candid. It is full of stories of real people (including the author’s own), with vivid examples of couples who have overcome their pasts to form healthy and nurturing partnerships. In other words, it’s as real as love after fifty can be.]]>1302They’re Your Parents, Too! How Siblings Can Survive Their Parents’ Aging Without Driving Each Other Crazy. A widely recognized journalist, she covered the Boomer beat for Time for over a decade. She has also written for Scientific American, The Atlantic, and other major publications. Russo has two grown children, three adult stepchildren, and six amazing grandkids (with twins on the way!). She has experienced first-hand the tremendous potential we all have to grow and transform ourselves with the people we love. A PhD in English literature, she lives in New York with her partner.]]>0802—John Gottman, author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
"A terrific, optimistic book for those moving into new territory dating and (re)partnering over 50. From on-line dating, to marriage and other forms of relationships, to managing adult children and aging as a new couple, here is clear, sensible advice and wonderful stories of people who have made it work. For anyone over 50 and starting over, this is the book to own, and to reread at all the different stages of your new relational life." — Ellen Berman, MDClinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania
"Francine Russo's Love After 50 promotes positive, realistic expectations for choosing a partner rather than overpromising a perfect person and relationship. She motivates and empowers divorced, widowed, and single people to create a healthy relationship." — Barry McCarthy, Ph.D., author of Contemporary Male Sexuality and Couple Sexuality After 60
"Francine Russo has written the book I wish was available when I got divorced at 50. It covers everything from widening your preferences for a partner to sex to whether to live together or marry. Now, as a dating and relationship coach, I highly recommend this book to anyone looking for love after 50!" — Sandy Weiner, Coach at LastFirstDate.com and author of Becoming a Woman of Value
"Francine Russo’s upbeat book is full of stories from the many she interviewed plus the gem of this book— her candor about her own loves and losses. Whether it’s for love, companionship, marriage, or sex—or all of this—this book is essential reading for the over 50 crowd. Russo lived it, provides helpful information, and gives you hope." — Pauline Boss, PhD, author of The Myth of Closure
"Russo asks all the right questions. She has a clear personal grasp of love and integrity. You will reflect, process and be ready for love." — Mark T. McGonigle, Director, Wisemind Therapy]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/2eb1dab4-0b15-4a80-bb3f-ac57002eb7a201Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm030.705in0317.907mm0615978198210855727159781982108564Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210801200242.99AUDAUZ0.0042.990.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Simon & SchusterAU0120210801978198211457202021982114576039781982114572159781982114572140978198211457211BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade Paperback01Message in the SandA Novel011531403361A01Hannah McKinnonMcKinnon, HannahHannahMcKinnon The Lake Season, Mystic Summer, The Summer House, Sailing Lessons, and The View from Here. She graduated from Connecticut College and the University of South Australia. She lives in Connecticut, with her family, a flock of chickens, and two rescue dogs.
]]>Hannah McKinnon01eng352FIC044000FA2.110FIC04500010FIC01900020beach read; new england; summer; hannah mckinnon author; connecticut; new hannah mckinnon; books set in new england; view from here; mystic summer; summer house; saybrook; beach; romance; family reunion; women's fiction; family; weddings; seating arrangements; elin hilderbrand; jennifer close; sibling rivalry; siblings; hannah roberts-mckinnon; hannah roberts mckinnon; hannah mackinnon; hannah mackinon; book club; girls in white dresses; nancy thayer; summer reads; second chance01010102An emotional and unforgettable tale of a small town irrevocably affected by an unforeseen and shocking event—from the author of the “charming gem of a novel” (Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author) Mystic Summer.
Wendell Combs is as local as they come. Born and raised in the small town of Saybrook, Connecticut, his venture into the larger world was met with heartbreak. Now, middle-aged and a confirmed bachelor, he seeks solitude from his tour of duty as a soldier back in his hometown, working as head caretaker for wealthy Alan Lancaster’s forty-acre estate, White Pines, a place he has come to love for its beauty, peace, and quiet.
Alan’s eldest daughter, fifteen-year-old Julia, also loves White Pines, but for very different reasons. She and her little sister spend their days riding horses, swimming in the lake, and painting landscapes inspired by the property they adore. While her parents prepare to host their annual summer gala fundraiser, Julia’s eyes are set to the simpler joys of summer: she’s fallen in love with the boy-next-door and longs for their next encounter.
But as the last guests leave on that magical summer night, a tragedy no one could have predicted suddenly occurs, shaking the entire town to its core. Wendell and Julia now face an uncertain future. At the height of their grief, two very different women return to Saybrook: Ginny Feldman, Wendell’s first love, who cannot stay away any longer, and Candace Lancaster, Julia’s estranged aunt who wants nothing to do with the town or the family estate she escaped decades earlier. Now, the only familiar things Julia has to cling to are Wendell and White Pines, but it looks like she’s about to lose both...
With Hannah McKinnon’s “sharp and evocative” (Kirkus Reviews) prose, this stirring and affecting tale explores the connection between people and place and what, ultimately, makes up the fabric of a family.]]>1302 The Lake Season, Mystic Summer, The Summer House, Sailing Lessons, and The View from Here. She graduated from Connecticut College and the University of South Australia. She lives in Connecticut, with her family, a flock of chickens, and two rescue dogs.
]]>0802Brenda Janowitz, author of THE GRACE KELLY DRESS040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/49b8fc50-117d-4464-8834-ac65002c7ca301Atria/Emily Bestler BooksSIMO257Atria/Emily Bestler Books0101Atria/Emily Bestler BooksSIMO257Atria/Emily Bestler Books022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.3125in02134.94mm030.88in0322.352mm2715978198211459606159781982114589Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801400227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Atria/Emily Bestler BooksAU0120210801978198212151802021982121513039781982121518159781982121518140978198212151811BCB1020910PREVIEW_PROHIBITED_03Trade Paperback01The Down DaysTheDown DaysA Novel011571201441A01Ilze HugoHugo, IlzeIlzeHugoThe Ghost Eater and Other Stories and My Holiday Shorts. As a freelance writer, she’s written for magazines to guidebooks to ad campaigns and even the odd comic. She lives by the ocean in Muizenberg, Cape Town, with her husband and two children.]]>Ilze Hugo01eng368FIC028070FL2.110FIC02204010FIC00901012FM12FF20science fiction; future; dystopian; fledgling; wild seed; dawn; the nickel boys; zone one; underground railroad; thriller; zombie; literary; laughter; ghosts; sin eater; South African folklore; spirit healer; sangoma; van hunks; Table Mountain; post truth; post-truth; memory; trauma; grief; missing child; mystery; amateur sleuth; Octavia e. butler; kindred; colson whitehead; zones; world building; speculative fiction; stranger than fiction; based on a true story; inspired by true events01010102In the vein of The Book of M comes a “dynamic, fast-paced debut” (Publishers Weekly) and character-driven literary apocalyptic novel that explores life, love, and loss in a post-truth society.
In the aftermath of a deadly outbreak—reminiscent of the 1962 event of mass hysteria that was the Tangayika Laughter Epidemic—a city at the tip of Africa is losing its mind, with residents experiencing hallucinations and paranoia. Is it simply another episode of mass hysteria, or something more sinister? In a quarantined city in which the inexplicable has already occurred, rumors, superstitions, and conspiracy theories abound.
During these strange days, Faith works as a fulltime corpse collector and a freelance “truthologist,” putting together desperate pieces of information to solve problems. But after Faith agrees to help an orphaned girl find her abducted baby brother, she beings to wonder whether the boy is even real. Meanwhile, a young man named Sans who trades in illicit goods is so distracted by a glimpse of his dream woman that he lets a bag of money he owes his gang partners go missing—leaving him desperately searching for both and son questioning his own sanity.
Over the course of a single week, the paths of Faith, Sans, and a cast of other hustlers—including a data dealer, a drug addict, a sin eater, and a hyena man—will cross and intertwine as they move about the city looking for lost souls, uncertain absolution, and answers that may not exist. The Down Days is a “fascinating story” (HelloGiggles) that demonstrates “one of the most accurate depictions of the strange realities of life during a pandemic” (The A.V. Club) that you won’t want to put down.]]>1302The Ghost Eater and Other Stories and My Holiday Shorts. As a freelance writer, she’s written for magazines to guidebooks to ad campaigns and even the odd comic. She lives by the ocean in Muizenberg, Cape Town, with her husband and two children.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ef1d391a-6187-4678-a5fb-ac57002f019a01Skybound BooksSIMO555Skybound Books0101Skybound BooksSIMO555Gallery Books022021080101AU NZ018.8125in01223.84mm025.625in02142.88mm030.92in0323.368mm06159781982121549Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801400229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Gallery BooksAU012021080197819821272130302198212721X039781982127213159781982127213140978198212721311BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01JackpotHow the Super-Rich Really Live—and How Their Wealth Harms Us All011584221461A01Michael MechanicMechanic, MichaelMichaelMechanicMother Jones magazine. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, two teenagers, and various animals. Jackpot is his first book.]]>Michael Mechanic01eng416SOC002010JHM2.110BUS02703010POL02300012JFCD12JFFA20Lives of the rich; wealthy;elite; lottery winner; books about rich people;ultrawealthy; lottery ticket; powerball; 1 percent; monopoly; dot-com bubble; millionaire; billionaire;The Giving Pledge; Elon Musk; Larry Ellison; Bill Gates; John Adams; Jeff Bezos; cryptocurrency; wealth therapist; family office; retail therapy; Rolls-Royce; Telsa; Bentleys; Gucci bags; Real Estate Wealth Expo; Quintessentially; Hillard Heintze; Exclusive Protection; The Guidry Group; Bernie Madoff; go bag01010102A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit—and the insidious ways this realm harms us all.
Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot, the big exit, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape “essential” day jobs and cramped living spaces, bury our debts, buy that sweet spread, and bail out struggling friends and relations. But rarely do we follow the fantasy to its conclusion—to ponder the social, psychological, and societal downsides of great affluence and the fact that so few possess it.
What is it actually like to be blessed with riches in an era of plagues, political rancor, and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access, how problematic the downsides? Does the experience differ depending on whether the money is earned or unearned, where it comes from, and whether you are male or female, white or black? Finally, how does our collective lust for affluence, and our stubborn belief in social mobility, explain how we got to the point where forty percent of Americans have literally no wealth at all?
These are all questions that Jackpot sets out to explore. The result of deep reporting and dozens of interviews with fortunate citizens—company founders and executives, superstar coders, investors, inheritors, lottery winners, lobbyists, lawmakers, academics, sports agents, wealth and philanthropy professionals, concierges, luxury realtors, Bentley dealers, and even a woman who trains billionaires’ nannies in physical combat, Jackpot is a compassionate, character-rich, perversely humorous, and ultimately troubling journey into the American wealth fantasy and where it has taken us.]]>1302Mother Jones magazine. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, two teenagers, and various animals. Jackpot is his first book.]]>0802Jackpot, Michael Mechanic’s entertaining and eviscerating peek behind the velvet curtains and into the real lives of America’s Super-Rich. Mechanic provides an eyeopening exposé of the myriad ways in which our nation’s political system unfairly enriches those at the top at the expense of those at the bottom. His myth-busting conclusion is that everyone loses, even the lucky few who have hit the jackpot.” —JANE MAYER, author of Dark Money
“Eye-opening…. often a gleeful sendup of the absurd eccentricities of the superrich…. A scathing but fair indictment of how the mindless worship of wealth makes us all poorer.” —Kirkus Reviews
“Jackpot skillfully explores the impact of great wealth on people’s lives and society; an economic system driven by selfish values; and the urgent need for a more fair, equal, and sustainable capitalism that works for the greater good of everyone and the planet.” —MARC BENIOFF, chair and CEO of Salesforce
“Jackpot explores the harm that great wealth imposes, not only on society but also, surprisingly, on those who possess it. In ways that bring to mind the late nineteenth century, the United States now faces the consequences of ‘wealth against commonwealth,’ except today’s robber barons are even richer. Do you want to win the lottery? As Michael Mechanic eloquently shows, maybe you don’t. Instead of playing a rigged game, we should be challenging its outcomes and changing the rules.” —ERIC SCHLOSSER, author of Command and Control
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The scandalous historical love affair between Lydia Robinson and Branwell Brontë, brother to novelists Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, gives voice to the woman who allegedly brought down one of literature’s most famous families.
Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson has tragically lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. She returns to her bleak home, grief-stricken and unmoored. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her testy mother-in-law scrutinizing her every move, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more.
All of that changes with the arrival of her son’s tutor, Branwell Brontë, brother of her daughters’ governess, Miss Anne Brontë and those other writerly sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Branwell has his own demons to contend with—including living up to the ideals of his intelligent family—but his presence is a breath of fresh air for Lydia. Handsome, passionate, and uninhibited by social conventions, he’s also twenty-five to her forty-three. A love of poetry, music, and theatre bring mistress and tutor together, and Branwell’s colorful tales of his sisters’ imaginative worlds form the backdrop for seduction.
But their new passion comes with consequences. As Branwell’s inner turmoil rises to the surface, his behavior grows erratic, and whispers of their romantic relationship spout from Lydia’s servants’ lips, reaching all three Brontë sisters. Soon, it falls on Mrs. Robinson to save not just her reputation, but her way of life, before those clever girls reveal all her secrets in their novels. Unfortunately, she might be too late.]]>13024102This reading group guide for Brontë’s Mistress provides an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Finola Austin. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.
Introduction
Yorkshire, 1843: Lydia Robinson, mistress of Thorp Green Hall, has lost her precious young daughter and her mother within the same year. With her teenage daughters rebelling, her hateful mother-in-law breathing down her neck, and her marriage grown cold, Lydia is restless and yearning for something more.
Change comes with the arrival of her son’s tutor, Branwell Brontë, brother of her daughters’ governess, Anne Brontë, and those other writerly sisters, Charlotte and Emily. Handsome and romantic, a painter and a poet, Branwell is twenty-five to Lydia’s forty-three. Colorful tales of his sisters’ elaborate playacting and made-up worlds form the backdrop for seduction, and soon Branwell’s intensity and Lydia’s loneliness find a dangerous match in each other.
Grave consequences for Lydia’s transgression loom. Her prying servants blackmail her for their silence, her husband becomes suspicious, and Branwell’s behavior grows increasingly erratic while whispers of the affair reach his bookish sisters.
With this swirling vortex of passion and peril threatening to consume everything she has built, the canny Mrs. Robinson must find the means to save her way of life, and quickly, before clever Charlotte, Emily, and Anne reveal all of her secrets in their deceptively domestic novels.
That is, unless she dares to write her own story first.
Deliciously rendered and captivatingly told, Brontë’s Mistress reimagines the scandalous affair that has divided Brontë enthusiasts for generations and gives voice to the woman vilified by history as the “wicked elder seductress” who allegedly brought down the entire Brontë family.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. On page 51, Lydia Robinson remarks, “How funny it is that men and women struggle as they die, but few of us kick or scream as we are lowered alive into our tombs.” How would you describe Lydia’s state of mind at the start of Brontë’s Mistress?
2. What is Lydia’s relationship with her daughters like? Why do you think that she is often critical of them? On page 80, she pens, “Motherhood was about offering truth, not comfort. For all it still tugged at my heartstrings to hear her cry so, Lydia needed to leave behind her childish notions. And I must be the one to disabuse her.” Why does the elder Lydia feel that it’s her duty to do so? Do you agree with her (taking into account the historical context)?
3. Lydia feels strongly about her daughters’ marriage prospects and remarks on page 90, “I would take action and defend them from a woman’s worst fate—to be extraneous and unneeded.” Given that this is Lydia’s greatest fear, how does this worry drive her actions and affect her decisions throughout the novel? Does she ever become “extraneous”? Do the Brontës?
4. Women throughout history are often cast as the temptress when they engage in sexual relationships outside of wedlock. What famous examples of this can you think of? How is this portrayed in Brontë’s Mistress? Is more of the burden for the affair put on Lydia than it is on Branwell? Do you believe that Edmund’s emotional distance from Lydia played a role in her affair, and if so, does any of the burden fall on him?
5. A great deal of Lydia’s focus revolves around what is economically safe and savvy for herself and her family. Why do you think she engages in this affair with Branwell, given all the risks to her financial well-being and societal status?
6. On page 136, Lydia says to Anne Brontë, “You never had your chance. . . . And, now, look at the life you are forced to lead—you and your sisters. You must choose between being a drudge or a burden.” Do you think Lydia is being harsh or truthful here? Are we meant to sympathize with her? Did writing novels offer a third alternative path to the Brontë sisters? Do female main characters have to act a certain way for readers to sympathize with them?
7. Why do you think Lydia is so fascinated with Charlotte?
8. How would you characterize Lydia’s relationship with Marshall? Compare Marshall to Lydia's own mother (as we're told) or to Lydia and her daughters' relationship. Do you think there is anything romantic and/or sexual in their connection?
9. Before Lydia travels to Allestree Hall, she says on page 245, “Sir Edward might be saving me, but I would not abdicate my power. I could not allow myself to make the same mistakes again.” In what way did Lydia abdicate her power in past relationships? How does she work to change that dynamic when she’s with Sir Edward? Do you think she’s successful in keeping her power?
10. Women have more options today than in Victorian times. But do you think there is still undue pressure on women in romantic, sexual, or economic relationships? Do some aspects of Lydia’s experience apply to women today?
11. Consider Lydia’s relationship with Dr. Crosby. Why do you think he shares with her the fact that he’s attracted to men? How does their relationship grow over the course of the novel, and how is it unique from any of the other relationships in Lydia’s life?
12. Lydia’s affair with Branwell has been historically characterized as bringing down the entire Brontë family. Having read this novel, do you believe that to be true? Why do you think this blame has been laid at Lydia’s feet?
13. Did Lydia’s encounter with Charlotte go the way you expected it would? Lydia writes, “The tears I was choking on now seemed less for Branwell than for his sisters, for the fact that they would always hate me” (page 287). Why do you think Charlotte’s rejection of Lydia affected her so much? Do you think she feels closer to the Brontë sisters than to Branwell by this point? Why?
14. What do you think of the ending and Lydia’s “almost overwhelming desire to write a novel of my own. A story about me?” (page 297)? In what ways was her own story told for her in the past? How did her tangential relationship with the Brontë sisters inspire this? What stories of real women from the past may be lost to us?
Enhance Your Book Club
1. Read some of the Brontë sisters’ famous works, such as Jane Eyre, Agnes Grey, and Wuthering Heights. Did you notice any references to parts of these novels in Brontë’s Mistress? What were they? Was your opinion of the characters in Brontë’s Mistress affected by your reading of these famous works? Conversely, if you’ve already read works by the Brontës, was your perspective on their family changed by reading Brontë’s Mistress?
2. Read and reflect on other works where female figures from history or literature are cast as the main character—for example, The Paris Wife, Mrs. Poe, Loving Frank, and Z. Consider how the retelling of their stories gives voice to women whose history and perspectives are often glossed over in a telling of history and a literary canon written almost entirely by men.
3. You can find the fully designed book club kit at finolaaustin.com/book-clubs. In it, you can read Finola Austin’s travelogue of her visit to the grounds of Thorp Green Hall and see a map of the buildings mentioned in the novel.
A Conversation with Finola Austin
Q: How did you first become interested in the Brontës? What made you decide to tell Lydia Robinson’s story?
A: I’ve always loved nineteenth-century literature. Charlotte Brontë and Charles Dickens were probably the first two Victorian novelists I read as a child, and in my teens, I raced through the works of all three Brontë sisters. After doing an undergraduate degree in Classics and English, I stayed on at the University of Oxford to complete a master’s in Victorian literature. While my dissertation focused on sensation novelists Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Wilkie Collins, I also wrote a paper on Charlotte Brontë (particularly on romantic relationships between students and teachers in her novels).
It wasn’t until 2016, though, when I was reading the first biography of Charlotte Brontë (by fellow nineteenth-century novelist Elizabeth Gaskell), that I came across Lydia Robinson’s story. I was immediately fascinated—by Gaskell’s assassination of Lydia’s character and by what a contrast this Mrs. Robinson would be to many of Charlotte’s protagonists. Brontë heroines are often poor, plain, young, and virginal. But here was a woman who was wealthy, beautiful, in her forties, and sexually experienced. I realized hers was a very different story, and one that I wanted to tell.
Q: You’ve done a great deal of research in order to write this novel. Where has your research taken you, and what was the most surprising thing you discovered?
A: I spent a full year researching Brontë’s Mistress before I began writing, and I went on a research trip to Yorkshire (“Brontë country”) after completing my first draft. I detail a lot of my research in the Author’s Note at the end the novel, but some of the highlights for me were taking tea in Dr. Crosby’s front parlor, holding Lydia’s letters and Edmund’s accounts book, seeing the wonderful statuette of a monk above the front door of Monk’s Lodge, and, of course, visiting the Brontë Parsonage Museum.
A particular focus of the research for me was doing justice to the Thorp Green servants. I wanted to understand their roles in the house, but also who they were as people. These details really helped me to picture them as individuals with stories of their own and families at home, even when I wasn’t able to include all of them.
Q: It seems that you were drawn to a woman who was wronged by history’s telling of her life. Are there any other such women in history or literature who spark your interest?
A: Lots! While Lydia was cast as the villain of the Brontës’ story, many women have been wronged by history because their stories haven’t been told at all. Women have often been confined to the domestic sphere rather than acting center stage in politics or standing on the front line of battlefields, but for me, this doesn’t make their histories less important.
Q: On page 83, Branwell says to Lydia, “Charlotte talks from time to time of the novel as the ‘literary pinnacle of our age,’” and Lydia thinks to herself, “I’d always assumed my taste for them was confirmation of my feminine frivolity.” How were novels regarded in the mid-nineteenth century? Did the Brontës’ works cause novels to be held in higher esteem at the time, or did their fame come later?
A: In the nineteenth century, women were major consumers of novels, just as they are today. They read them in three volumes, borrowed from circulating libraries, or serialized chapter by chapter in their favorite publications. Perhaps because of this association with femininity, novels were often regarded as inferior to highbrow literature such as poetry.
Victorian novelist George Eliot (another woman writing under a male pseudonym, like the Brontë sisters) wrote an essay, “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” in 1856, criticizing the formulaic genre fiction so many women wrote about and enjoyed. Her title clearly linked femininity to frivolity.
While the Brontës’ works (especially Charlotte’s) have always been regarded as a step above the writing of many of their contemporaries, I think even today we see a repetition of this pattern. When I’ve told people I’m writing about the Brontës, many respond to me by dismissing Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights as “just romances” and “for women.” While for me, Brontë’s Mistress doesn’t seem romantic, I don’t see writing romance as lesser than other genres or writing for women as a weakness.
Q: Why did you decide to make the dynamic between Lydia and her daughters a more distant one? Was that common for relationships between women in families at the time? What historical texts and examples did you refer to when shaping this relationship?
A: Attitudes toward parenting have shifted dramatically since the nineteenth century (in fact, the word parenting started to emerge only in the late twentieth century as theorists started to understand the formative nature of our early experiences). The Victorians engaged in many practices we typically turn away from today, including employing wet nurses to feed their infants and regularly using corporal punishment to discipline children. Lydia then might not have seemed like a “bad mother” to her contemporaries as much as today we might question her choices in the novel. With sons much more valuable to families at that time, due to women’s limited options, it also made sense to me that Lydia might have a strained relationship with her daughters, believing that “tough love” was the right way to prepare them for the realities of their position as women.
I had two main literary models in mind here. First, Mrs. Bennet from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Mrs. Bennet and Lydia are very different in terms of temperament, but their outlook is similar: their daughters should seek to marry well, but be practical and unromantic about their prospects. The second model was a character named Mrs. Winstanley from a lesser-read Victorian novel—Vixen, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Mrs. Winstanley is a mother obsessed with her daughter Violet’s size (similar to how Lydia worries about Bessy’s figure in Brontë’s Mistress). Braddon eventually reveals that Violet is five feet six inches with a 22-inch waist (she could probably fit into a US size 0 today). Braddon is clearly playing this for laughs. She’s pointing out the maternal character’s ridiculousness, but she strikes at a truth: when women are valued solely or largely for their physical appearance, mothers can and do become hypercritical of their daughters’ looks. Even today, I know many women who can trace a direct line between their insecurities about their appearance and their mothers’ own warped body image.
Q: There are many letters throughout the book between the characters. Are these letters based on actual letters from the time? Are any of them the letters that the historical figures wrote?
A: None of the letters in the novel are real, though the poem Branwell includes in his letter dated August 1, 1845, is. Eighteen letters written by Lydia are extant and part of the Robinson Papers collection at the Brontë Museum Parsonage. I was lucky enough to be able to read these. They are business letters written to the agent Lydia mentions employing in my chapter 16. From these I took her distinctive sign-off, “yours very truly,” and details about the honeymoon and the yacht meeting Lydia and Sir Edward in Marseilles, which shaped chapter 20 and Lydia’s final letter to Bessy.
Q: We can see from your novel that Charlotte Brontë originally published Jane Eyre under the pen name Currer Bell. Was it common for female authors at the time to publish under a male name? When was Charlotte revealed to be the author?
A: There are certainly many examples of women novelists from the nineteenth century hiding their identities by choosing to remain female but anonymous (Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility was described as “by a lady” on its publication in 1811) or by adopting a male persona (the option taken by the Brontës, George Eliot, and Louisa May Alcott, who often wrote as A. M. Barnard).
What’s unique about the Brontës was the huge level of public interest in discovering who the “Bells” were. Were there really three? Were they brothers? Sisters? A married couple writing together? Reviews were rife with argument and speculation about the writers’ (or writer’s?) gender(s).
Charlotte and Anne revealed their true identities by visiting their publisher in July 1848 (when Lydia is tending to a dying Lady Scott in my novel), but it wasn’t until the publication of Charlotte’s 1850 preface to a new edition of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey that most readers knew who the Brontës were. By then, both Emily and Anne had already died. Charlotte’s characterization of her sisters formed the foundation of the so-called Brontë myth and has had a lasting impact on the family’s depiction in popular culture.
Q: The role of women and the expectations placed on them, whether by men or by society, is prevalent in your novel. Why is this a subject you wanted to explore in such depth?
A: I am a woman, and so, unfortunately, these roles and expectations are something that I (and more than half the population) have to face all day, every day. I feel it would be impossible to write a novel with a woman main character, whether set today or in the past, that didn’t touch on any of these issues.
Q: If it was indeed not Lydia who “brought down” the Brontë family, do you think any particular factor or factors led to their undoing?
A: The Brontë family’s story is fascinating and tragic. The early loss of Mrs. Brontë and the two eldest sisters, Maria and Elizabeth, had a lasting impact on the Reverend Brontë and the four children who made it to adulthood—something I reference a few times through the course of my novel. There was extremely poor sanitation in Haworth, leading to many probably preventable deaths (just take a walk around the graveyard there to see the shocking gravestones with multiple names per family).
When it comes to Branwell, it is clear that he was troubled long before meeting Lydia. He’d failed in his dream of becoming a painter and had been dismissed from his job with the railway due to his excessive alcohol consumption. Blaming Lydia for what happened to Branwell (and the rest of his family) seems to me to be an archaic way of thinking. There’s a clear gendered double standard in vilifying her for any sexual affair, and our understanding of the ravages of addiction is much more nuanced today.
Q: This story is told as a first-person narrative from Lydia’s point of view. What made you choose this perspective rather than, say, a third-person narrative? What do you think we gain with this access into Lydia’s mind, and why is that important for the story you tell?
A: I always knew I was going to write Brontë’s Mistress in first person. Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre is written in the first person, and my novel is in some ways an answer to hers. Jane is poor, plain, young, and virginal. Lydia is wealthy, beautiful, older, and sexually experienced. But both characters have limited options open to them just because of their gender.
Because Lydia has so often been blamed for Branwell Brontë’s demise, I thought it was important for readers to understand her position (even if they don’t always agree with her actions). Lydia can be incredibly selfish. For instance when any of her servants are ill, she thinks first of the inconvenience to her. And she can be blind to just how good her life is (e.g., she compares herself to a slave going to the galleys when forced to endure an awkward Easter luncheon!).
But many people, whether they admit it or not, spend their lives obsessing over the petty and failing to see the bigger picture. In the last chapter, Lydia says, “There were women from here to England, crying over curtain fabric.” Curtain fabric isn’t just curtain fabric: it’s being trapped in a system where women have no property, power, or recourse to divorce and limited, superficial education. Flawed as Lydia is, I have empathy for her impossible position, and I hope others do too.
Q: Do you have any favorite books or movies that inspired you as you were writing Brontë’s Mistress?
A: I was of course inspired by the works of the Brontë sisters in writing the novel, especially Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey, which was based in part on her time working at Thorp Green Hall, and Charlotte Brontë’s iconic Jane Eyre. Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina were important models for literary adulteresses. And I was also inspired by nineteenth-century American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” and by the 2016 film Lady Macbeth, both of which deal with the psychological impact of women’s limited choices during the Victorian period.
Q: Do you have a next project in mind? If so, can you share anything about it?
A: I am working on a new book! It’s also historical fiction, but set during a different time period and in a different country from Brontë’s Mistress, which has been a fun challenge. In both novels, I was inspired by the true stories of real women, though in this case, my main character was an artist in her own right, unlike Lydia.]]>0802— Christian Science Monitor]]>0802–– Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/76d06fa9-3309-48b9-a9d7-ac65002cbf9a01Atria BooksSIMO237Atria Books0101Atria BooksSIMO237Atria Books022021080101AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.3125in02134.94mm030.84in0321.336mm06159781982137236Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801400229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Atria BooksAU012021080197819821414550202198214145X039781982141455159781982141455140978198214145511BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01HardbackDove Pond Series201A Cup of Silver LiningsACup of Silver Linings011472692811A01Karen HawkinsHawkins, KarenKarenHawkinsNew York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Hawkins writes novels that have been praised as touching, witty, charming, and heartwarming. A native Southerner who grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee where storytelling is a way of life, Karen recently moved to frosty New England with her beloved husband and multiple foster dogs. The Dove Pond series is a nod to the thousands of books that opened doors for her to more adventures, places, and discoveries than she ever imagined possible. To find out more about Karen, check in with her at Facebook.com/KarenHawkinsWriter, @KarenHawkinsAuthor on Instagram, and at her website, KarenHawkins.com.]]>Karen Hawkins01eng368FIC044000FA2.110FIC06100010FIC02702020New York Times bestselling author; okra pick; best women's fiction; best commercial fiction; Maclean Curse; Maclean Curse series; magical realism; family ties; female friendships; small towns; small-town life; North Carolina; good luck; sisters; books about sisters; starting over; community bonds; romance; veterans; love stories; witty banter; humor; fishing; Southern romace; Sarah Addison Allen; Ruth Hogan; Jenny Colgan; Alice Hoffman; Amy Reichert; Christina Dodd; Heather Graham; Jude Deveraux01010102New York Times bestselling author Karen Hawkins returns to her beloved Dove Pond series with another “mesmerizing fusion of the mystical and the everyday” (Susan Andersen, New York Times bestselling author)—but this time, the magic is in the tea leaves.
Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialty Teas—is frantic.
Just as she is getting ready to open her fabulous new tearoom, her herbal teas have gone wonky. Suddenly, her sleep-inducing tea is startling her clients awake with vivid dreams, her romance-kindling tea is causing people to blurt out their darkest secrets, and her happiness tea is making them spend hours staring into mirrors.
At the same time, Ava’s newest employee’s—sixteen-year-old Kristen Foster—life has just come crashing down around her. After her mother’s death, her grandmother arrived in town to sweep her off to a white mansion on a hill in distant Raleigh. Kristen is desperate to stay with her friends in Dove Pond, but to do so means she must undertake a quest she’s been avoiding her entire life—finding her sperm donor father.
With the help of an ancient herbal remedy book, Ava realizes Kristen holds the key to fixing her unstable tea leaves. So she throws herself into Kristen’s search, even convincing Kristen’s grandmother to help, too. Together, the three embark on a reluctant but magical journey of healing, friendship, and family that will delight fans of Alice Hoffman, Kate Morton, and Sarah Addison Allen.]]>1302New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Hawkins writes novels that have been praised as touching, witty, charming, and heartwarming. A native Southerner who grew up in the mountains of East Tennessee where storytelling is a way of life, Karen recently moved to frosty New England with her beloved husband and multiple foster dogs. The Dove Pond series is a nod to the thousands of books that opened doors for her to more adventures, places, and discoveries than she ever imagined possible. To find out more about Karen, check in with her at Facebook.com/KarenHawkinsWriter, @KarenHawkinsAuthor on Instagram, and at her website, KarenHawkins.com.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b969e5f1-5f11-4edc-a630-aaeb010c806701Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books0101Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm030.945in0324.003mm06159781982105563Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801200245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Gallery BooksAU0120210801978198214943702021982149434039781982149437159781982149437140978198214943711BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01How to Write a MysteryA Handbook from Mystery Writers of America011704306711A01Mystery Writers of America2B01Lee ChildChild, LeeLeeChildKilling Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.]]>3B01Laurie R. KingKing, Laurie R.Laurie R.KingMystery Writers of America; Edited by Lee Child with Laurie R. King01eng336LAN005050DSK2.110LAN00500010FIC02200012FF12CJCW20how to write a bestselling novel; how to write a bestselling mystery; writing guides; how to make money writing; how to write a mystery; writing mysteries; mystery writers of america; how to write a good mystery; lee child; lee child on writing; best books on writing a novel; how to write a novel; writers on their craft; books about craft of writing; books about selling a novel; guides to selling a novel; best mysteries of the year; best mysteries of all time; jacqueline winspear01010102From the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries—from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers—a must-have for every aspiring mystery writer.
Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is known for providing unparalleled resources on the craft, art, and business of storytelling, helping writers of all levels improve their skills for nearly a century. Now, this new handbook helps authors navigate the ever-shifting publishing landscape—from pacing, plotting, the business side of publishing, to the current demand for diversity and inclusivity across all genres, and more.
Featuring essays by a new generation of bestselling experts on various elements of the craft and shorter pieces of crowd-sourced wisdom from the MWA membership as a whole, the topics covered can be categorized as follows:
Also included is a collection of essays from MWA published authors—including Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, and Charlaine Harris—selected by bestselling authors Lee Child and Laurie King and arranged thematically answering, “What piece of writing advice do you wish you’d had at the beginning of your career?”
Highly anticipated and incredibly useful, this new and trusted guide from MWA’s experts provides practical, current, easily digestible advice for new and established authors alike.]]>1302Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by forces beyond his control. Visit Lee online at LeeChild.com for more information about the novels, short stories, and the movies Jack Reacher and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. Lee can also be found on Facebook: LeeChildOfficial, Twitter: @LeeChildReacher, and YouTube: LeeChildJackReacher.]]>0802—Booklist, starred review
"Everything you wanted to know about how to plan, draft, write, revise, publish, and market a mystery, courtesy of the cheerleaders from the Mystery Writers of America. . . . A chorus of encouraging voices that mix do-this instruction with companionable inspiration." —Kirkus Reviews
"Budding authors looking for pro tips will find some useful tidbits." —Publishers Weekly]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/a63cab52-9a5e-447c-9b98-ac420028f68e01ScribnerSIMO049Scribner0101ScribnerSIMO049Scribner022021072801AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm031.1in0327.94mm081.045lb0816.72oz08474gr0615978198214944427159781982149451Harper Collins PublishersNP102021032920210728200245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425ScribnerAU0120210728978198215231402021982152311039781982152314159781982152314140978198215231411BBB4020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Space Nomads: Set a Course for MarsChasing the Arts, Sciences, and Technology for Human Transformation011717146801A01Camomile HixonHixon, CamomileCamomileHixon Hixon communicates this message through various art forms including music. Her glitter paintings have been exhibited at Tokyo Japan’s Shibuya Subway Terminal, New York City’s Oculus Transportation Hub at the World Trade Center, as well as concurrent shows at the 57th and 58thVenice Biennal. Her Love from Mars painting was exhibited on 130 digital kiosks across New York City. Camomile’s virtual, interactive worldwide Search for the Missing Unicorn has included millions of people and been covered by major media outlets including MSNBC, the BBC, and the CBC among others. Museum shows include the American Textile History Museum, Cornell Art Museum, and the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Hixon’s works are held in public and private collections worldwide. Visit her on Instagram @CamomileHixon or at CamomileHixon.com.]]>Camomile Hixon01eng208OCC019000VX2.110SOC03700010ART01602020mars exploration;space exploration;mission to mars;mars rover landing;missing unicorn project;overview effect;philosophy of space exploration;cosma hypothesis;new space age;cosmic journeys;spacetime odyssey;future of humanity;future of the cosmos;mars rover book;space x; new horizons;mars one;search for the missing unicorn;spacex;space barons;quest for a fantastic future;the final frontier;colonizing the universe;fight for space;through the wormhole;cosmos;into the universe;01010102Open Your Mind. Expand Your Universe. Reach for Mars.
Imagine a better tomorrow with interstellar art and essays—drawing on the aspirational futurism that fuels Star Trek, The Martian, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, renowned contemporary artist Camomile Hixon reminds us that by reaching for the stars, we can transform ourselves and life on Earth.
We are on the threshold of interplanetary travel: SpaceX just launched the first manned commercial flight to the international space station; NASA’s 5th rover landing is due on Mars in 2021. Not since the moon landing in 1969 has space—or the promise of a utopian future for humanity—felt so close. Do we dare to reach for it?
Yearning to know the stars has long united humanity and ignited our imaginations. And while here on Earth we grapple with deep unrest—economic struggle, political upheaval, gender discrimination, pandemics, racial tensions, climate change—the potential of Mars has sparked a new, universal hope and a common sense of purpose as we fulfill our destiny by moving beyond Earth’s orbit.
Celebrating the limitless potential of space and the human spirit, Hixon’s indelible essays and fantastical works of art invite us to imagine a future where we reach together for absolute freedom and prosperity for all on our grand quest for world peace, unconditional love, transcendent experiences, and deeper knowing.
Weaving science, history, art, and philosophy with meditations on higher consciousness inspired by the overview effect of seeing Earth from Space, Space Nomads is a book of unbridled optimism for the future.]]>1302 Hixon communicates this message through various art forms including music. Her glitter paintings have been exhibited at Tokyo Japan’s Shibuya Subway Terminal, New York City’s Oculus Transportation Hub at the World Trade Center, as well as concurrent shows at the 57th and 58thVenice Biennal. Her Love from Mars painting was exhibited on 130 digital kiosks across New York City. Camomile’s virtual, interactive worldwide Search for the Missing Unicorn has included millions of people and been covered by major media outlets including MSNBC, the BBC, and the CBC among others. Museum shows include the American Textile History Museum, Cornell Art Museum, and the Lyman Allyn Art Museum. Hixon’s works are held in public and private collections worldwide. Visit her on Instagram @CamomileHixon or at CamomileHixon.com.]]>0802Space Nomads: Set a Course for Mars, Camomile Hixon instead tells these same stories with art, poetry, compassion. Will any of these futures come true? I don't know, but if one does, I would like to sign up for the future of the Space Nomads, expanding our shared humanity into the universe." — Mike Brown, Professor of Planetary Astronomy at CalTech and author of How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming]]>0802Space Nomads: Set a Course for Mars is a must-read for anyone wishing to grasp the imperceptible through idealism and aspiration." — Kate Mulgrew, Actor and Author]]>0802 — Sheika Fariha Al-Jerrahi (Philippa de Menil), Founder, Dia Art Foundation]]>0802Space Nomads: Set a Course for Mars provides a glimpse of ourselves transformed by radically new perspectives; and similar to meditation experiences, the smaller our conventional and habitual selves become, the larger the reality we inhabit."
– Helen Tworkov, Founder of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f78eddea-90f4-4ca5-8285-ac65002cf12401Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press0101Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press022021080101AU NZ019.125in01231.78mm027.375in02187.32mm030.545in0313.843mm27159781982152321Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210801220239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Tiller PressAU0120210801978198215404202021982154047039781982154042159781982154042140978198215404211BCB102Trade PaperbackStar Trek: The Next Generation01Shadows Have Offended011721619601A01Cassandra Rose ClarkeClarke, Cassandra RoseCassandra RoseClarkeOur Lady of the Ice, Magic of Blood and Sea, Magic of Wind and Mist, Star’s End, Halo: Battle Born, and Halo: Meridian Divide. She grew up in south Texas and currently lives in a suburb of Houston, where she writes and teaches composition at a local college. Cassandra’s first adult novel, The Mad Scientist’s Daughter, was a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick Award, and her YA novel, The Assassin’s Curse, was nominated for YALSA’s 2014 Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons and Daily Science Fiction. Visit her at CassandraRoseClarke.com.]]>Cassandra Rose Clarke01eng304FIC028010FL2.110FIC02805010FIC02809012FLS20picard; star trek picard; cbs; Jean-Luc Picard; 50th anniversary; Gene Roddenberry; TOS; VOY; VGR; TNG; DS9; ENT; Titan; vanguard; Starfleet corps of engineers; Starfleet academy; new frontier; William shatner; Leonard nimoy; Patrick Stewart; Kirk; Spock; Picard; janeway; archer; sisko; strange new worlds; Star Trek beyond; shatnerverse; Klingon; Romulus; Vulcan; romulan; Star Trek the original series; the original series; Star Trek the next generation; the next generation01010102An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series!
The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony. En route, sudden tragedy strikes a Federation science station on the isolated planet Kota, and Captain Jean-Luc Picard has no qualms sending William Riker, Data, and Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher to investigate. But what begins as routine assignments for the two parties soon descends into chaos: Picard, Worf, and Deanna Troi must grapple with a dangerous diplomatic crisis as historic artifacts are stolen in the middle of a high-profile ceremony…while nothing is as it seems on Kota. A mounting medical emergency coupled with the science station’s failing technology—and no hope of rescue—has Doctor Crusher racing against time to solve a disturbing mystery threatening the lives of all her colleagues….
Both successful entrepreneurs and chess grandmasters have the vision to look at the pieces in front of them and anticipate their next five moves. In this book, Patrick Bet-David “helps entrepreneurs understand exactly what they need to do next” (Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog!) by translating this skill into a valuable methodology. Whether you feel like you’ve hit a wall, lost your fire, or are looking for innovative strategies to take your business to the next level, Your Next Five Moves has the answers.
You will gain: CLARITY on what you want and who you want to be. STRATEGY to help you reason in the war room and the board room. GROWTH TACTICS for good times and bad. SKILLS for building the right team based on strong values. INSIGHT on power plays and the art of applying leverage.
Combining these principles and revelations drawn from Patrick’s own rise to successful CEO, Your Next Five Moves is a must-read for any serious executive, strategist, or entrepreneur.]]>13020802Praise for Patrick Bet-David
“Patrick is one of the most exciting thinkers I’ve had a chance to converse with.” —Ray Dalio, author of Principles: Life and Work
“Patrick is one of the most driven goal oriented individuals that I have ever met. What he has done has inspired so many including myself. I am not only a friend I am a fan.” —Kevin Hart
“Patrick is unusual because he’s a highly successful business person but he’s [also] a thinker… Plato would’ve called him a philosopher-king.” —Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power
“[I believe in and follow] Patrick Bet-David. He has the drive and the fire to make a difference.” —Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple
“A former veteran himself, Patrick’s teaching style and story is now inspiring other veterans to become entrepreneurs.” —Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad
“Patrick helps entrepreneurs understand exactly what they need to do next.” —Brian Tracy, author of Eat That Frog! ]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/869726c5-65e2-416a-8d92-ac57002febea01Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books0101Gallery BooksSIMO243Gallery Books022021070701AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.8in0320.32mm06159781982154806Harper Collins PublishersNP102021050320210707400229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Gallery BooksAU012021070797819821574700202198215747X039781982157470159781982157470140978198215747011BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade Paperback01Make Russia Great AgainA Novel011736897261A01Christopher BuckleyBuckley, ChristopherChristopherBuckleyThank You for Smoking, The Judge Hunter, Make Russia Great Again, and The Relic Master. He worked as a merchant seaman and White House speechwriter. He has written for many newspapers and magazines and has lectured in over seventy cities around the world. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.]]>Christopher Buckley01eng288FIC037000FA2.110FIC05200010FIC01900020Chris Buckley; Trump; Political Satire; Putin; Russiagate; Mueller Report; White House; satire; Thank You for Smoking; Boomsday; The Relic Master; The Judge Hunter;01010102In “the Trump satire we’ve been waiting for” (The Washington Post), award-winning and bestselling author of Thank You for Smoking delivers a hilarious and whipsmart fake memoir by Herb Nutterman—Donald Trump’s seventh chief of staff—who has written the ultimate tell-all about Trump and Russia.
Herb Nutterman never intended to become Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff. Herb served the Trump Organization for twenty-seven years, holding jobs in everything from a food and beverage manager at the Trump Magnifica to being the first general manager of the Trump Bloody Run Golf Course. And when his old boss asks “his favorite Jew” to take on the daunting role of chief of staff, Herb, spurred on by loyalty agrees.
But being the chief of staff is a lot different from being a former hospitality expert. Soon, Herb finds himself deeply involved in Russian intrigue, deflecting rumors about Mike Pence’s high school involvement in a Satanic cult, and leading President Trump’s reelection campaign.
What Nutterman experiences is outrageous, outlandish, and otherwise unbelievable—therefore making it a deadly accurate account of being the chief of staff during the Trump administration. With hilarious jabs at the biggest world leaders and Washington politics overall, Make Russia Great Again is a timely political satire from “one of the funniest writers in the English language” (Tom Wolfe).]]>1302Thank You for Smoking, The Judge Hunter, Make Russia Great Again, and The Relic Master. He worked as a merchant seaman and White House speechwriter. He has written for many newspapers and magazines and has lectured in over seventy cities around the world. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor and the Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence.]]>0802Washington Post ]]>0802Booklist ]]>0802New York Times Book Review]]>0802Kirkus]]>0802Make Russia Great Again gives them a reason to laugh out loud again."—Newsweek]]>0802 "Christopher Buckley skewers Trump hilariously....[Buckley] is the undisputed American master of the British art of using slashing humor to cut bloated egos down to size, as his pile of bestselling books attests....No satirist working can match his unbridled glee in helping us laugh at powerful blowhards."—San Francisco Chronicle]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/5bb7191a-fd78-46f6-ae56-ac57003006f101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021072801AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.72in0318.288mm06159781982157463Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210728400229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Simon & SchusterAU0120210728978198215802602021982158026039781982158026159781982158026140978198215802611BBHardback01Millennial NunsReflections on Living a Spiritual Life in a World of Social Media011739413801A01The Daughters of Saint PaulThe Daughters of Saint PaulThe Daughters of Saint PaulThe Daughters of Saint Paul01eng240BIO018000BGX2.110REL01213010REL01000020nuns;books about nuns;books about the Catholic Church;nuns having fun;nun habits;hidden lives of nuns;millennials;books for millennials;recovery bible;books for millenials;nuns and soldiers;nuns on the bus;nuns story;daughters of saint paul;books about st. paul;religious books;nuns as artists;catholic bibles;prayer books;prayer study books;catholic youth bible;cathlic catechism;spiritual awakening books;unveiled;spirtual life books;sacred books;the rebel and the nun;three nuns from the ranch01010102Discover how to engage in a faith-filled life in the era of social media from a group of young, consecrated Catholic sisters.
Friend. Artist. Writer. Businesswomen. Advocate. Scholar. The women whose pieces are included in this book hold many different titles. But they all share two important characteristics. First, they are all young women. Second, they are all consecrated religious of the Catholic order the Daughters of Saint Paul. They are millennial nuns.
More and more people—especially millennials—are turning to religion as a source of comfort and solace in our increasingly chaotic world. But rather than live a cloistered life of seclusion, the Daughters of Saint Paul actively embrace social media, using platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to evangelize, collectively calling themselves the #MediaNuns.
In this collective memoir, eight of these Sisters share their own discernment journeys, struggles and crises of faith that they’ve overcome, and episodes from their daily lives. Through these reflections, the Sisters also offer practical takeaways and tips for living a more spiritually-fulfilled life, no matter your religious affiliation.
In a collection as diverse and varied as the Daughters of Saint Paul themselves, Millennial Nuns will appeal to any reader looking to discover more about balancing faith with the modern age.]]>13020802“Millennial Nuns is a gem—at turns funny and poignant, eye-opening and radically honest. The wildly diverse stories and backgrounds of these young Daughters of Saint Paul testify to the most fundamental truth of the Gospel: that the God who is love didn’t wait for us to find Him; He entered into our human brokenness to seek and find us. And He is still doing so today, wherever He finds souls brave enough to open themselves to His extravagant, all-consuming love.” —Colleen Carroll Campbell, award-winning author of The Heart of Perfection]]>0802Millennial Nuns, the Daughters have an opportunity to share that same infectious joy with countless others, and it’s no overstatement to say that this opportunity has the potential to change the world.” —Tommy Tighe, author of Saint Dymphna’s Playbook]]>0802Millennial Nuns are real, relatable, and fun. Each chapter reveals a beautiful aspect of the ‘many-sided wisdom of God’ (Eph. 3:10) in the lived experience of each sister. Anyone looking for inspiration, authenticity, and encouragement—Christian or not—will find abundant fruit in these pages.” —Father S. Brice Higginbotham, author of Daily Lessons from the Saints: 52 Weeks of Inspiration and Encouragement]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c05791a9-95c1-4faf-be69-ac5700300cf301Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press0101Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.625in0315.875mm27159781982158040Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801400232.99AUDAUZ0.0032.990.00202104250237.99NZDNZZ0.0037.990.0020210425Tiller PressAU0120210801978198215830902021982158301039781982158309159781982158309140978198215830911BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01The AtmospheriansTheAtmospheriansA Novel011740728381A01Alex McElroyMcElroy, AlexAlexMcElroyThe Atmospherians is their first novel.]]>Alex McElroy01eng304FIC019000FA2.110FIC07600010FIC05500020Women Talking; Miriam Toews; Red Clocks; Leni Zumas; Joanne Ramos; The Farm; Lost Children Archive; Valeria Luiselli; Mostly Dead Things; Kristin Arnett; New Waves; Kevin Nguyen; Mars Room; Rachel Kushner; atmospherians; hot button issues; toxic masculinity; men’s rights; doxxed; republican; Daddy Issues; Daddy Issues chapbook; men’s rights movement; feminism; feminist reads; men’s liberation; toxic masculinity cure; satire; satirical reads; fight toxic masculinity01010102A “dazzling” (Bryan Washington, author of Lot) and brilliantly satirical debut novel for fans of Women Talking and Red Clocks about two best friends—a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor—who form The Atmosphere, a cult designed to reform problematic men.
Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she’s at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men’s rights protestors rage outside. All that once glittered now condemns.
Sasha confides in her oldest childhood friend, Dyson—a failed actor with a history of body issues—who hatches a plan for Sasha to restore her reputation by becoming the face of his new business venture, The Atmosphere: a rehabilitation community for men. Based in an abandoned summer camp and billed as a workshop for job training, it is actually a rigorous program designed to rid men of their toxic masculinity and heal them physically, emotionally, and socially. Sasha has little choice but to accept. But what horrors await her as the resident female leader of a crew of washed up, desperate men? And what exactly does Dyson want?
Explosive and wickedly funny, this “Fight Club for the millennial generation” (Mat Johnson, author of Pym) peers straight into the dark heart of wellness and woke-ness, self-mythology and self-awareness, by asking what happens when we become addicted to the performance of ourselves.]]>1302The Atmospherians is their first novel.]]>0802The Atmospherians is a marvel, a wonder, a gift. McElroy's characters glide across the page, in and out of love, and we see ourselves in their conflicts, their crucibles, and what they hold dear. Simply put, McElroy dazzles. This novel is dazzling.” —BRYAN WASHINGTON, author of Lot and Memorial]]>0802The Atmospherians combines Mary Gaitskill's unflinching examination of beauty, cruelty, and power with a toxic masculinity rehabilitation center so outlandishly funny that it would fit perfectly in an episode of Nathan for You. This is a voice to get very excited about: darkly perceptive, stylistically bold, and terrifically, inimitably entertaining." —MARY SOUTH, author of You Will Never Be Forgotten]]>0802The Atmospherians is a novel about the tangle of capitalism, narcissism, and masculinity that have defined our cultural moment. McElroy is a master excavator of the murky innards that drive us, a satirist with an eye for the tender parts that make us tick.” —ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine]]>0802CATHERINE LACEY, author of Pew, The Answers, and Nobody is Ever Missing]]>0802- NOVUYO ROSA TSHUMA, author of House of Stone]]>0802The Atmospherians is a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation. I feel particularly bullish on this novel, and this writer.” —MAT JOHNSON, author of Pym and Loving Day]]>0802The Atmospherians takes our absurd age seriously—which is to say it laughs, darkly, in its face." —HERNAN DIAZ, author of In the Distance, a Finalist for Pulitzer Prize ]]>0802—MATTHEW BAKER, author of Why Visit America and Hybrid Creatures]]>0802The Atmospherians is what happens when an amazing idea meets stunning awareness meets brilliant writing. A book dazzling with power." —NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH, New York Times bestselling author of Friday Black ]]>0802 Publishers Weekly]]>0802— Kirkus (Starred review)]]>0802—Poets and Writers]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/cb708d5e-2ca8-4480-959a-ac570030106e01Atria BooksSIMO237Atria Books0101Atria BooksSIMO237Atria Books022021080101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm031.1in0327.94mm081.01lb0816.16oz08458.13gr27159781982158316Harper Collins PublishersNP102021041920210801200249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Atria BooksAU0120210801978198216074602021982160748039781982160746159781982160746140978198216074611BBHardback01Breaking the NewsExposing the Establishment Media's Hidden Deals and Secret Corruption011749957911A01Alex MarlowMarlow, AlexAlexMarlowBreitbart News Network, a position he has held since he was twenty-seven years old. He has been on the cover of Time and Newsweek, named in Forbes 30 Under 30, and called “perhaps the most significant media figure in America.” He also hosts the flagship radio show Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM’s Patriot channel.]]>Alex Marlow01eng368POL065000KCP2.110POL00800010POL04202020andrew breitbart; breitbart news network; breitbart news; far right; conservatism; conservative party; liberalism; liberal agenda; liberal party; donald trump; president trump; maga; fake news; tea party; new york times; washington post; cnn; fox news; rush limbaugh; silicon valley; case for trump; ann coulter; sean hannity; glenn beck; journalism memoir; capitalism; socialism01010102From the editor in chief of Breitbart News, a firsthand account of how the establishment media became weaponized against Donald Trump and his supporters on behalf of the political left.
Alex Marlow was just a twenty-one-year-old UC Berkeley student when renowned media mogul Andrew Breitbart hired him as his first employee. Breitbart began mentoring Marlow on how to fight the culture war one headline at a time and to remain resilient in the face of personal attacks.
Now, in this eye-opening and timely book, Marlow explains how the establishment press destroyed its own credibility with a relentless stream of “fake news” designed to smear Donald Trump and his supporters while advancing a leftist agenda. He also reveals key details on how our information gatekeepers truly operate and why America’s “fake news” moment might never end.
Breitbart—and Trump—began banging the drum about “fake news” during the 2016 election, and it resonated with millions of voters because they intuitively knew the corporate media was willing to say or write anything to achieve their political ends. It’s a battle cry that continues to this day. Alex and his team of researchers elucidate the stunning details of the key “fake news” moments of the Trump era and take a deep dive into some of the right’s favorite media targets: from Bloomberg, CNN, The Washington Post, and The New York Times to the tech elite in Silicon Valley. Deeply researched and eye-opening, Breaking the News rips back the curtain on the inner workings of how the establishment media weaponizes information to achieve their political and cultural ends.]]>1302Breitbart News Network, a position he has held since he was twenty-seven years old. He has been on the cover of Time and Newsweek, named in Forbes 30 Under 30, and called “perhaps the most significant media figure in America.” He also hosts the flagship radio show Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM’s Patriot channel.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/b253c21f-f218-42bd-9236-acd5003997a601Threshold EditionsSIMO115Threshold Editions0101Threshold EditionsSIMO115Threshold Editions022021070101AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm031.3in0333.02mm081.14lb0818.24oz08517.1gr27159781982160760Harper Collins PublishersNP102021041920210701200239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Threshold EditionsAU0120210701978198216470602021982164700039781982164706159781982164706140978198216470611BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01The DirectorTheDirectorMy Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover011763590011A01Paul LeterskyLetersky, PaulPaulLetersky2A02Gordon L. DillowDillow, Gordon L.Gordon L.DillowThe Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, and is the author or coauthor of numerous books. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. ]]>Paul Letersky with Gordon Dillow01eng320BIO027000BGH2.110HIS03606010TRU00100012BTH12JPSH20FBI; Father's Day; graduation gift; gifts for dads; gifts for grads; Clyde Tolson; Helen Gandy; J. Edgar Hoover; Man in the High Castle; Vietnam War; protests; surveillance; national security; policing; detective; crime scene investigation; law enforcement; criminal justice; conscientious objector; draft; the sixties; Baby Boomer; American Century; international order; Unabomber; Manson Family; the Seventies; Watergate; Richard Nixon; Gerald Ford; spy books; FBI books; FBI history; history gifts01010102The first book ever written about FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by a member of his personal staff—his former assistant, Paul Letersky—The Director offers unprecedented insight into an American legend.
The 1960s and 1970s were arguably among America’s most turbulent post-Civil War decades. While the Vietnam War continued seemingly without end, protests and riots ravaged most cities, the Kennedys and MLK were assassinated, and corruption found its way to the highest levels of politics, culminating in Watergate.
In 1965, at the beginning of the chaos, twenty-two-year old Paul Letersky was assigned to assist the legendary FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who’d just turned seventy and had, by then, led the Bureau for an incredible forty-one years. Hoover was a rare and complex man who walked confidently among the most powerful. His personal privacy was more tightly guarded than the secret “files” he carefully collected—and that were so feared by politicians and celebrities. Through Letersky’s close working relationship with Hoover, and the trust and confidence he gained from Hoover’s most loyal senior assistant, Helen Gandy, Paul became one of the few able to enter the Director’s secretive—and sometimes perilous—world.
Since Hoover’s death half a century ago, millions of words have been written about the man and hundreds of hours of TV dramas and A-list Hollywood films produced. But until now, there has been virtually no account from someone who, for a period of years, spent hours with the Director on a daily basis.
Balanced, honest, and keenly observed, The Director offers a unique inside look at one of the most powerful law enforcement figures in American history.]]>1302 Gordon Dillow has been a reporter, columnist, and war correspondent for more than thirty years. He has written for a number of newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, and is the author or coauthor of numerous books. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. ]]>0802—Tom Brokaw, Special Correspondent for NBC News and bestselling author of The Greatest Generation]]>0802—Bob Schieffer, CBS News]]>0802“Fascinating and engaging… Letersky brings to life a bygone era of G-Men, galoots, and molls—and, delightfully, Hoover's motherly gatekeeper “Miss Gandy,” who plays Moneypenny to the author's Bond.” —Chris Whipple, New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers and The Spymasters]]>0802The Director new and fascinating insights...Neither a paean nor a hatchet job, this clear-eyed and compelling account of the author’s years with the director, followed by his adventures as a street agent, is a welcome contribution to the history of law enforcement and the culture of its most famous agency.” —Mark Olshaker, coauthor of Mindhunter, The Killer Across the Table, and The Killer’s Shadow]]>0802—Joe Pistone aka Donnie Brasco, former FBI Special Agent]]>0802—Sanford J. Ungar, former Director of Voice of America and host of “All Things Considered,” and author of FBI: An Uncensored Look Behind the Walls]]>0802 by far the most illuminating portrait of Hoover I’ve read.” —Don Brown, former prosecutor and bestselling author of Travesty of Justice]]>0802The Director shockingly new, simply because no one dared speak them until now. The book rounds out what we know about J. Edgar Hoover. Yes, he was demanding, odd at times, secretive, and vindictive, but he was far more complex than most people imagine. Only could a person working by his side, who answered his phone and read his mail and dealt with his fits of pique and bursts of enthusiasm, give us this insight.” —Joe Navarro, former Special Agent and author of Three Minutes to Doomsday]]>0802—Robert K. Wittman, Founder of the FBI Art Crime Team and New York Times bestselling author of Priceless and TheDevil’s Diary]]>0802—Tom Satterly, author of All Secure and, also, retired Delta Force operator whose life was portrayed in Black Hawk Down]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9c65d29a-3da1-4c31-8306-ac570030309b01ScribnerSIMO049Scribner0101ScribnerSIMO049Scribner022021072801AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm030.825in0320.955mm27159781982164720Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210728200245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425ScribnerAU0120210728978198216589502021982165898039781982165895159781982165895140978198216589511BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackStar Trek: The Original Series01Living Memory011768601351A01Christopher L. BennettBennett, Christopher L.Christopher L.BennettStar Trek novels as Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels Orion’s Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History, and the Enterprise novels Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel, Uncertain Logic, and Live By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, Prophecy and Change, and Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines.]]>Christopher L. Bennett01eng320FIC028010FL2.110FIC02805010FIC02809012FLS20gallery; gallery books01010102An all-new Star Trek movie-era adventure!
While attempting to settle in as commandant of Starfleet Academy, Admiral James T. Kirk must suddenly contend with the controversial, turbulent integration of an alien warrior caste into the student body—and quickly becomes embroiled in conflict when the Academy controversy escalates to murder. Meanwhile, Captain Spock of the USS Enterprise and Commander Pavel Chekov of the USS Reliant are investigating a series of powerful cosmic storms seemingly targeting Federation worlds—unstoppable outbursts emitting from the very fabric of space. Endeavoring to predict where the lethal storms will strike next, Spock and Chekov make the shocking discovery that the answer lies in Commander Nyota Uhura’s past—one that she no longer remembers….
When Christine Platt set out on her journey to live with less, she never intended to become The Afrominimalist. She just wanted to tame the chaos in her closet! But after struggling with the austerity and whiteness of mainstream minimalism, Christine realized why minimalism often seems unattainable for so many: the emphasis on all-white, barren aesthetics distracts from the practice of living with intention. And so, she decided to do things her way by curating a life of less influenced by the African diaspora.
In The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living With Less, Christine gets right to the heart of how childhood experiences and expectations manifest in adulthood, the delicate dance between needs and wants, and the complicated weight of familial and societal pressures. A far cry from Konmaried closets, capsule wardrobes, and conspicuous consumption, Christine’s brand of “living with less” is more than a decluttering regimen. Inspired by her personal journey, Christine presents a radical revisioning of minimalism, one that celebrates the importance of history and heritage, and gives you permission to make space for what really matters…your way.
Beautifully illustrated with original black-and-white prints and line drawings, The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living With Less is a testament to the idea that anyone can be a minimalist and a warm invitation to a life curated with intention, perfect for readers of Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus (The Minimalists), Marie Kondo, Joshua Becker, and Courtney Carver.]]>1302The Afrominimalist—a creative platform chronicling her journey to minimalism. Visit her online at TheAfrominimalist.com.]]>0802—Courtney Carver, author of Soulful Simplicity and Project 333]]>0802more.” —Jason Reynolds]]>0802—Laura Fenton, author of The Little Book of Living Small]]>0802—Céline Semaan, founder of Slow Factory Foundation]]>0802The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less Christine Platt gives us a new roadmap to curate the life you’ve always wanted." —Kate Northrup, author of Do LessandMoney: A Love Story]]>0802—Rachel Cargle, author of I Don’t Want Your Love & Light]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/0d2b7f1b-5745-4eb7-92bf-ac87011f96ad01Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press0101Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.585in0314.859mm27159781982168063Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801400235.00AUDAUZ0.0035.000.00202104250239.99NZDNZZ0.0039.990.0020210425Tiller PressAU0120210801978198216938102021982169389039781982169381159781982169381140978198216938111BBB4020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Tarot & TequilaA Tarot Guide with Cocktails011782635031A01David A RossRoss, David ADavid ARossTarot & Tequila.]]>David A. Ross01eng272OCC024000VXFC12.110CKB00600010OCC02600012WBXD312VXWT20Cocktail book;bartending book;mixology book;tequila;tequila cocktails;tequila drinks;tequila recipe; liquor and spirits;bar book;cocktail recipe;mixed drinks;cocktail techniques;bartender book;mixed drinks recipes;Mixology supplies;tarot books;tarot gifts;tarot book;new age;newage;holistic tarot;divine;tarot card;deviant moon;tequila gifts;Bar cart;bar kit;bar accessories;home bar;bar glasses;bar equipment;cocktail glasses;bar gifts;mixology of astrology;tequila mockingbird;major arcana01010102Embrace the magic of tarot and perfectly match the cards with mixed drinks in this beautifully illustrated bar book.
“Don’t take advice from tequila, that’s the tarot’s job.”
Tarot & Tequila is a positive and spiritually uplifting guide that includes both basic and humorous tequila-inspired meanings of all 78 tarot cards that both beginners and experienced tarot card readers will relate to.
Featuring 40 cocktail recipes—one for each Major Arcana card plus bonus Minor Arcana drinks, too—based on the attributes of the cards themselves, as well as a mystical pairing that explains why professional tarot card reader David Ross chose to pair each card to their respective drink, this magical mixology book can be used as both a guide and a recipe book.
Try drinks like: -The High Priestess, an elixir of tequila, lemon juice, thyme, and seltzer -The Chariot, a tequila version of a Moscow Mule, with lemon, beet, and apple juices -The Four of Wands, a positive concoction of rum, homemade fennel liqueur, and more
Perfect for fans of drinking, bartending, and tarot alike, this beautifully illustrated book makes both a perfect gift and a must-have addition to any home bar.]]>1302Tarot & Tequila.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/22180e0a-a4aa-4c70-b825-ac57003050a101Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press0101Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press022021072801AU NZ018in01203.2mm026.5in02165.1mm030.705in0317.907mm27159781982169411Harper Collins PublishersNP102021061420210728200229.99AUDAUZ0.0029.990.00202104250235.00NZDNZZ0.0035.000.0020210425Tiller PressAU0120210728978198217015802021982170158039781982170158159781982170158140978198217015811BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackFolger Shakespeare Library01Henry VIII0139541A01William ShakespeareShakespeare, WilliamWilliamShakespeare2B01Dr. Barbara A. MowatMowat, Dr. Barbara A.Dr. Barbara A.Mowatemerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.]]>3B01Paul WerstineWerstine, PaulPaulWerstinePh.D.Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.]]>William Shakespeare, Edited by Barbara A. Mowat and Paul Werstine01eng352DRA010000DDS2.110DRA00300010DRA00000020Shakespeare; Love's Labour's Lost; Shakespeare play; Measure for Measure; Folger Shakespeare Library; Plays; All's Well That Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Hamlet; Henry IV; Part I; Henry IV; Part II; Henry V; Henry VI; Part I; Henry VI; Part II; Henry VI; Part III; Henry VIII; Julius Caesar; King John; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Merchant of Venice; Merry Wives of Windsor; Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado about Nothing; Othello; Pericles01010102The authoritative edition of Henry VIII from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
In Henry VIII, Shakespeare presents a monarchy in crisis. Noblemen battle with Lord Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey, who taxes the people to the point of rebellion. Witnesses whom Wolsey brings against the Duke of Buckingham claim he is conspiring to take the throne, yet Buckingham seems innocent as he goes to his death.
Henry is also without a male heir. After meeting the beautiful Anne Boleyn, he says that he suspects his current marriage to Katherine, with whom he has one surviving daughter, is invalid. Katherine, meanwhile, glows with such splendid integrity that actresses have long desired the role. She advocates for the people, suspects the witnesses against Buckingham, and eloquently defends her conduct as Henry’s wife.
This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading
Essay by Barbara A. Mowat
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.]]>1302 Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.
Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/f272676b-f062-463b-b671-ac570030547e01Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.88in0322.352mm06159780743273305Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801400219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104010222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210401Simon & SchusterAU0120210801978198217016502021982170166039781982170165159781982170165140978198217016511BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackFolger Shakespeare Library01The Two Noble KinsmenTheTwo Noble Kinsmen01912351A01William ShakespeareShakespeare, WilliamWilliamShakespeare2A01John FletcherFletcher, JohnJohnFletcher3B01Dr. Barbara A. MowatMowat, Dr. Barbara A.Dr. Barbara A.Mowatemerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.]]>4B01Paul WerstineWerstine, PaulPaulWerstinePh.D.Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.]]>William Shakespeare and John Fletcher; Edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine01eng384DRA010000DDS2.110DRA00000010PER00000020Shakespeare; Love's Labour's Lost; Shakespeare play; Measure for Measure; Folger Shakespeare Library; Plays; All's Well That Ends Well; Antony and Cleopatra; Comedy of Errors; Coriolanus; Cymbeline; Hamlet; Henry IV; Part I; Henry IV; Part II; Henry V; Henry VI; Part I; Henry VI; Part II; Henry VI; Part III; Henry VIII; Julius Caesar; King John; King Lear; Macbeth; Measure for Measure; Merchant of Venice; Merry Wives of Windsor; Midsummer Night's Dream; Much Ado about Nothing; Othello; Pericles01010102The authoritative edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.
Written by Shakespeare and John Fletcher, this play tells the familiar story of a love triangle. Here, though, it seems distant and strange. Initially, the Theban knights Arcite and Palamon are devoted kinsmen, both serving their king, Creaon, who is defeated by Theseus, Duke of Athens. After they are imprisoned in Athens, they see Emilia, sister of the Duchess of Athens, through a window. They become rivals for her love, eager to fight each other to the death, even though she does not know they exist.
After Arcite is released and banished, and Palamon escapes, they begin their would-be fight to the death with chivalric ceremony. Theseus, happening on them, decrees that they must compete for her in a tournament, after which the loser will be executed.
Emilia is no willing bride; as a girl, she loved Flavina, who has died. Still, she tries to avert the tournament by choosing between Arcite and Palamon, only to find she cannot. The jailer’s daughter, a character added by the playwrights, is infatuated with Palamon and helps him escape. But the social gulf between her and Palamon is unimaginably wide. Only the gods can bring the play to resolution.
This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading
Essay by Dieter Mehl
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.]]>1302 Barbara A. Mowat is Director of Research emerita at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Consulting Editor of Shakespeare Quarterly, and author of The Dramaturgy of Shakespeare’s Romances and of essays on Shakespeare’s plays and their editing.
Paul Werstine is Professor of English at the Graduate School and at King’s University College at Western University. He is a general editor of the New Variorum Shakespeare and author of Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare and of many papers and articles on the printing and editing of Shakespeare’s plays.]]>4402040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/ca112972-934d-4e86-98ef-ac57003057ac01Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.96in0324.384mm06159780671722968Harper Collins PublishersNP102021060720210801200219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104010222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210401Simon & SchusterAU0120210801978198217032503021982170328039781982170325159781982170325140978198217032511BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01KG: A to ZAn Uncensored Encyclopedia of Life, Basketball, and Everything in Between011786775601A01Kevin GarnettGarnett, KevinKevinGarnettUncut Gems, and is the subject of a forthcoming Showtime documentary. In his post-NBA career, he has also trained some of the league’s leading young superstars.]]>2A02David RitzRitz, DavidDavidRitzThe New York Times, Rolling Stone, Essence, People, Art Connoisseur, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles with Roberta, his wife of nearly fifty years.]]>Kevin Garnett with David Ritz01eng320SPO004000BGS2.110BIO02600010BIO01600012BM12WSJT20Kevin Garnett; KG; NBA; Boston Celtics; Minnesota Timberwolves; Brooklyn Nets; The Big Ticket; The Kid; The Franchise; The Big Three; Paul Pierce; Ray Allen; Rajon Rondo; Doc Rivers; NBA Finals; champion; Kevin McHale; Stephon Marbury; Greenville; South Carolina; Maudlin High School; Chicago; Farragut Career Academy; Mr. Basketball; McDonald’s All-American; NCAA; 1995 NBA draft; Moses Malone; Kobe Bryant; LeBron James; Sports Illustrated; racism; anything is possible; Olympics; gold medal01010102NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A unique, unfiltered memoir from the NBA champion and fifteen-time all-star ahead of his induction into the Hall of Fame.
Kevin Garnett was one of the most dominant players the game of basketball has ever seen. He was also one of its most outspoken. Over the course of his illustrious twenty-one-year NBA career, he elevated trash talk to an art form and never shied away from sharing his thoughts on controversial subjects. In KG A to Z, published ahead of Garnett’s induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame, he looks back on his life and career with the same raw candor.
Garnett describes the adversity he faced growing up in South Carolina before ultimately relocating to Chicago, where he became one of the top prospects in the nation. He details his headline-making decision to skip college and become the first player in two decades to enter the draft directly from high school, starting a trend that would be followed by future superstars like Kobe Bryant and LeBron James. He shares stories of playing with and against Bryant, James, Michael Jordan, and other NBA greats, and he chronicles his professional ups and downs, including winning a championship with the Boston Celtics. He also speaks his mind on a range of topics beyond basketball, such as fame, family, racism, spirituality, and music.
Garnett’s draft decision wasn’t the only way he’d forever change the game. His ability to play on the perimeter as a big man foreshadowed the winning strategy now universally adopted by the league. He applies this same innovative spirit here, organizing the contents alphabetically as an encyclopedia. If you thought Kevin Garnett was exciting, inspiring, and unfiltered on the court, just wait until you read what he has to say in these pages.]]>1302Uncut Gems, and is the subject of a forthcoming Showtime documentary. In his post-NBA career, he has also trained some of the league’s leading young superstars.
David Ritz is a songwriter who has collaborated with stars like Janet Jackson and Marvin Gaye, as well as a renowned ghostwriter who has authored more than fifty books for some of the biggest stars in music: Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Ray Charles, Lenny Kravitz, Joe Perry, Smokey Robinson, Don Rickles, and Willie Nelson, to name a few. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Essence, People, Art Connoisseur, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles with Roberta, his wife of nearly fifty years.]]>2302 It was 2008, and after thirteen seasons, I had finally won the muthafuckin’ finals and helped bring the Celtics their first championship in more than twenty years.
When the horn went off and the game was over, time froze. My mind froze. I had halfway been expecting a buzzer-beater; but it was a blowout. We beat down the Lakers by thirty-nine points. Confetti was coming down as I was going up. I’d never been that high or felt so hyped.
I was in the bliss: people grabbing at me, hugging, kissing, crying. I looked over at my wife, saw my kids, my family, my friends, my fans, and then, like a movie, my brain went on rewind, replaying scenes, rushing at me at once: hooping in Billy’s driveway when I barely knew how to shoot; waking up the neighborhood at five in the Carolina morning cause I couldn’t stop working on my dribbling; a country kid, then a teenager trying to download those badass Chicago streets; wins, losses, bumps, bruises, a million memories, a million hours on the grind, hacking, scraping, clawing to get where I needed to go; and there I was at last. Reporter Michele Tafoya holding up a mic in front of my face. The Boston crowd wildin’ out. She gotta shout for me to hear.
“League MVP. Defensive Player of the Year. Now it’s time to add NBA champion to your résumé. How does that sound?”
I put my hand to the fresh-out-the-box championship hat on my head.
“Man, I’m so hyped right now.”
I take a second to gather myself.
Another rush of images flashing in front of me: sitting at Ruth’s Chris Steak House during a family dinner; watching D-Wade playing Chauncey in the Eastern finals; my struggles in Greenville, AAU tournaments, endless games in endless parks in endless neighborhoods, going, growing, never stopping, learning, burning with an energy that gets more intense year by year, wanting this thing, wanting it for all my twelve years in Minneapolis, wanting it for the T-Wolves fans, wanting it for the Celtics fans, wanting this ultimate win, this championship that I’ve desired more than anything—more than money or fame or sex. And now the reality clicks in my brain, runs down my spine, enters my soul, and I’m taking off my hat and tilting my head straight back and screaming like a madman.
“Anything is possible!”
A few moments later, I add, “Top of the world! Top of the world! I’m certified! I’m certified!”
I’m yelling so loud that my voice can be heard beyond those sixteen—soon to be seventeen—championship banners hanging from the rafters all the way up to heaven. Yellin’ up there to Malik Sealy and Eldrick Leamon and everyone I loved and lost. Everyone who got me to this moment.
In the middle of the mad scramble I see Kobean. I call him “Kobean” or “Bean” cause his dad is Jellybean. Bean knows what I was going through. I’d been chasing him, been chasing Shaq, been chasing Timmy, been chasing all the legacies, and now the moment is mine.
“Congratulations, man,” says Bean. “Enjoy this, cause there ain’t gonna be too many more. I’ll see yo bitch ass next year.”
I have to get in my blows, have to say, “We activated now. This ain’t that Minnesota shit.”
“We’ll see.”
“Say hi to Vanessa and the kids,” I say. “Love you, my brotha.”
“Love you too, dawg.”
Then I give him one of those gorilla hugs around the neck and ask, “Bean, y’all out tonight?”
“Hell, yes,” said Kob, “we getting the fuck outta this bitch.”
It’s beautiful because I know how pissed he is—Bean hates losing more than anyone—but I also know that he has to be a little happy for his OG.
Like me, Bean believes in the unstoppable human spirit. It’s that spirit that makes anything possible. Those words come from my heart, from my guts, from the life I’ve lived. Those words apply to right now, this very second, because here I am, a dude who has ADD and ADHD, and as a result doesn’t read a lot of books, sitting down to write my own book. Ain’t that a trip?
Attention deficit disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. I got ’em both. I also have dyslexia, meaning I see shit backwards. I see things in vision. For a long time, I was believing that I was mentally disabled, until a great friend of mine—shout-out to Torey Austin—said, “Hey, man, maybe that means you have superpowers.” Torey’s words arrived right on time. Before that, I was dealing with feelings of heavy inferiority, cause my teachers were on me for not reading right. The formal diagnosis happened later in life when I was already an adult. As a country kid in South Carolina, I didn’t have access to sophisticated professionals who could figure out what was wrong. I struggled with words on the page.
Yet here I am, writing words on a page.
That’s one of the reasons I decided to structure the book this way, like an encyclopedia, with little bite-sized entries. Because of my reading problems and my limited attention span, I’m not the kind of dude who’s gonna kick back on the couch with a book for an hour or two. I’m gonna pick up a book, read a page or two, and then bounce. So I wanna write the kind of book that I’d wanna read. I want to change it up, do it differently. I’ve never been much of a rule follower. I didn’t follow the rules when I skipped college and went straight to the draft. Didn’t follow the rules when I negotiated what was at the time the biggest contract in professional sports. Didn’t follow the rules when I’d bring up the ball or play on the wing rather than plant myself down low like every other big man. So I sure as hell ain’t gonna follow the rules here. I’m writing a book that, like hoop, is filled with suspense, surprises, high drama, and big fun.
There are a bunch of words and names and phrases that start with the letter “A” that have been important in my life and come before “Anything Is Possible!” Like “AAU” or “Alpha” or “AI.” Trust me, we’ll get into all that eventually. But I have to start with “Anything Is Possible!” because that’s the most important. That’s what everything you’re gonna read about adds up to. Here’s one more: “Agenda.” Let me say it straight-up: my agenda is to show you how negatives can turn into positives and how positives can change your life for the better. And the only way I’m gonna be able to do that is if I’m fully honest about those negatives. About the mistakes I’ve made. About the hardship I’ve experienced. About the pain. I know being honest isn’t always comfortable. This is the first time I’ve ever said anything about my learning disabilities. I never even told Kobean, and he was dyslexic too. And if I’m really being honest, then I also have to say that right now I’m wondering if this is such a good idea. I’m starting to feel doubt creep in.
Doubt will trip you up, turn you back, have you quit. The only thing holding us back from charting new territory is doubt. Gotta understand that doubt. Just can’t delete it by wishing it away. Gotta work with it. We all do. We gotta talk to the muthafucka. Gotta say, “I see you, Mr. Doubt. I hear you, Mr. Doubt. I know you wanna keep me from doing what I was meant to do. But I also know that, while you’re part of me, I do not intend to allow you to become all of me. Because I got no choice, I’m gonna tolerate you. And because I know it’s a smart move, I’m gonna try and understand you. The more I understand you, Mr. Doubt, the less you’re gonna have to say. So I’m gonna get you out of the driver’s seat and put your ass in the back of this car. I know you’re gonna try and backseat drive. I know you’re gonna tell me I’m moving in the wrong direction, that I’ll never reach my destination. So please keep it down back there. Even though that chatter might go on forever, I’m now the one with my hands on the wheel. I’m doing the driving. And I’m taking myself to where I need to go.”
These words I write represent a triumph over doubt. Going at a challenge is the only way I know of meeting that challenge—and beating that challenge. I’m opening up about Kevin Garnett, the man, the player, the person—and what it took to build that human being. Growing up, it was difficult to find love. Maybe that difficulty is part of the reason why a beast emerged. That beast got all over me. Sometimes it looked like the beast would self-destruct. But I thank Jehovah God that at an early age I saw that intensity could be put to purpose. Had to be put to purpose. Had to be used as a tool. Had to be deployed strategically. Intelligently. The beast is an energy that requires refinement and focus. And energy is what rocks the world. Energy is what rocks this book.
Warning: my energy is different. Hard to contain. Impossible to suppress. My energy doesn’t move in predictable patterns. I’m all over the place, and it ain’t just ADHD. It’s something greater than that. Something deeper. Holier. Call it my essence. My spirit. I have a zigzagging spirit. That’s how I’ve lived my whole life. And so this book is gonna zigzag too. That’s another reason for this nonlinear approach. It’s not only the way I live my life, but it is the way I remember and reflect on my life. I don’t see a single straight narrative from start to finish. I see flashes, bursts, eruptions, explosions. Just like that night we won the title, when all those memories flooded through my mind. If my story is a ball, the ball is always moving. I’m dribbling, I’m passing, I’m head-faking, I’m lobbing, I’m dunking. One moment I’m thinking about shit that happened ten years ago, the next I’m thinking about what happened ten seconds ago. Yet for all the jumping ahead and laying back in the cut, if you read closely, you’ll see that the dots connect.
So let’s go on a trip where we break down doubt and bust through obstacles. Let’s go where they’re telling us we can’t go. Let’s do what they’re telling us we can’t do. Let’s explode our creativity. ]]>0802—Kirkus Reviews
“The athlete autobiography is a well-established though often disappointing genre. It’s rare for one to truly stand out among the many disposable ones that are released each and every year. Garnett’s new book, KG: A to Z, co-written with David Ritz, is one of those very satisfying exceptions. One reason is that KG: A to Z is not presented as a traditional narrative. The book travels alphabetically through dozens of different entries with Garnett giving his thoughts on disparate topics such as video games, Family Guy, Allen Iverson, Uncut Gems, the Book of Job, and many more. In a more standard autobiography, many of the detours taken here would be annoying, a distraction from an overarching story, but here, this format works to Garnett’s advantage…Readers are certain to come away feeling like they just shared a wonderful time with Garnett as he regaled them with his personal opinions and favorite stories. For any NBA fan, such an experience would be a true delight and this book is the closest most of us will ever have to replicate it for ourselves…Garnett’s autobiography captures his large and passionate biography as well as any book ever could, making it one of the rare books by an athlete worth intentionally seeking out.” —Micah Wimmer, Fansided.com]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/39228fc9-5ae0-4a6f-9f16-ac590130b83601Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021080101AU NZ019.25in01234.95mm026.125in02155.57mm030.9in0322.86mm081.28lb0820.48oz08580.6gr27159781982170349Harper Collins PublishersNP102021012520210801200249.99AUDAUZ0.0049.990.00202104250255.00NZDNZZ0.0055.000.0020210425Simon & SchusterAU0120210801978198217046202021982170468039781982170462159781982170462140978198217046211BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01ChangesAn Oral History of Tupac Shakur011787445271A01Sheldon PearcePearce, SheldonSheldonPearceThe New Yorker. Previously, he was a contributing writer at Pitchfork. He has worked for NPR Music, and his writing has appeared in TheGuardian, Rolling Stone, The Fader, Spin, Dazed, Complex, Deadspin, and others.]]>Sheldon Pearce01eng288BIO004000BGF2.110BIO00500010MUS03100012AVGR12AVH20Books about Tupac; Snoop Dogg; Dr. Dre; Suge Knight; Puff Daddy; Biggie Smalls; Digital Underground; Poetic Justice; Juice; Above the Rim; protest; police brutality; Black Panthers; Afeni Shakur; George Floyd; shooting; murder; sexual assault; prison; Maya Angelou; Brenda’s Got a Baby; Holler If Ya Hear Me; Death Row Records; California Love; Digital Underground; Changes; Pitchfork; Chuck D; Ernest Dickerson; oral history books; Dear Mama; Keep Ya Head Up; I Get Around; Hit ‘Em Up;01010102A New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.
In the summer of 2020, Tupac Shakur’s single “Changes” became an anthem for the worldwide protests against the murder of George Floyd. The song became so popular, in fact, it was vaulted back onto the iTunes charts more than twenty years after its release—making it clear that Tupac’s music and the way it addresses systemic racism, police brutality, mass incarceration, income inequality, and a failing education system is just as important now as it was back then.
In Changes, published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Tupac’s birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, Sheldon Pearce offers one of the most thoughtful and comprehensive accounts yet of the artist’s life and legacy. Pearce, an editor and writer at The New Yorker, interviews dozens who knew Tupac throughout various phases of his life. While there are plenty of bold-faced names, the book focuses on the individuals who are lesser known and offer fresh stories and rare insight. Among these are the actor who costarred with him in a Harlem production of A Raisin in the Sun when he was twelve years old, the high school drama teacher who recognized and nurtured his talent, the music industry veteran who helped him develop a nonprofit devoted to helping young artists, the Death Row Records executive who has never before spoken on the record, and dozens of others. Meticulously woven together by Pearce, their voices combine to portray Tupac in all his complexity and contradiction.
This remarkable book illustrates not only how he changed during his brief twenty-five years on this planet, but how he forever changed the world.]]>1302The New Yorker. Previously, he was a contributing writer at Pitchfork. He has worked for NPR Music, and his writing has appeared in TheGuardian, Rolling Stone, The Fader, Spin, Dazed, Complex, Deadspin, and others.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c7aa4026-919c-4255-b83d-ac5e002b0ebc01Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster0101Simon & SchusterSIMO001Simon & Schuster022021072801AU NZ019in01228.6mm026in02152.4mm030.745in0318.923mm27159781982170486Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051020210728200245.00AUDAUZ0.0045.000.00202104250249.99NZDNZZ0.0049.990.0020210425Simon & SchusterAU0120210728978198217246602021982172460039781982172466159781982172466140978198217246611BB0910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Hardback01Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19What Pandemics Teach Us About Parenting, Work, Life, and Communities from the 1700s to Today011794787851A01Kari NixonNixon, KariKariNixonHuffPost, YES! Magazine, and CNN. Her academic book, Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact, was published by SUNY University Press, and tracks the social history of humankind’s responses to disease in Victorian literature and popular culture. She regularly teaches about zombies, medical ethics, the problematic pressures on the health care system, and social justice issues for marginalized races and genders. She has edited numerous books on diseases in society.]]>Kari Nixon01eng304SOC057000JF2.110MED02209010HIS05400012MJCJ12MBNS20pandemics;pandemic 1918;spanish flu;1918 flu;germ theory;books about germ theory;how to survive a pandemic;coronavirus;books about the coronavirus;books about covid-19;wuhan; wuhan virus;black death;books about pandemics;history of plagues;in the wake of the plague;history of pandemics;covid;covid-19;quarantine;cholera;HIV essentials;Zika;ebola;things to do during quarantine;how to survive zombie apocalypse;smallpox;cholera;defoe;plagues;influenza;santiation;ebola;contaiment;CDC01010102For readers of Mary Roach and Adam Diamond, an innovative look at the histories of different epidemics and what it meant for society, alongside what lessons different diseases have to teach us as society battles the novel Coronavirus.
Throughout history, there have been numerous epidemics that have threatened mankind with destruction. Diseases have the ability to highlight our shared concerns across the ages, affecting every social divide from national boundaries, economic categories, racial divisions, and beyond. Whether looking at smallpox, HIV, Ebola, or COVID-19 outbreaks, we see the same conversations arising as society struggles with the all-encompassing question: What do we do now?
Quarantine Life from Cholera to COVID-19 demonstrates that these conversations have always involved the same questions of individual liberties versus the common good, debates about rushing new and untested treatments, considerations of whether quarantines are effective to begin with, what to do about healthy carriers, and how to keep trade circulating when society shuts down.
This immensely readable social and medical history tracks different diseases and outlines their trajectory, what they meant for society, and societal questions each disease brought up, along with practical takeaways we can apply to current and future pandemics—so we can all be better prepared for whatever life throws our way.]]>1302HuffPost, YES! Magazine, and CNN. Her academic book, Kept From All Contagion: Germ Theory, Disease, and the Dilemma of Human Contact, was published by SUNY University Press, and tracks the social history of humankind’s responses to disease in Victorian literature and popular culture. She regularly teaches about zombies, medical ethics, the problematic pressures on the health care system, and social justice issues for marginalized races and genders. She has edited numerous books on diseases in society.]]>0802The Inheritance: A Family on the Front Lines of the Battle Against Alzheimer’s Disease]]>08020802 even more important, a clearer outlook on the inevitable future. Whether you’re into history, literature, or science, or just want to better understand the many frustrating and seemingly counterintuitive responses contemporary humans are having while experiencing their first pandemic . . . this is a book centuries in the making that is a must-read today.” —Shane Mauss, host of the podcast Here We Are]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/9ee40db6-e8f4-4a65-8f29-ac570030809b01Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press0101Tiller PressSIMO672Tiller Press022021080101AU NZ018.375in01212.72mm025.5in02139.7mm030.785in0319.939mm27159781982172473Harper Collins PublishersNP102021051720210801360239.99AUDAUZ0.0039.990.00202104250245.00NZDNZZ0.0045.000.0020210425Tiller PressAU012021080197819821819490202198218194X039781982181949159781982181949140978198218194911BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade PaperbackThe Scot Harvath Series2001Black IceA Thriller011462890731A01Brad ThorThor, BradBradThorNew York Times bestselling author of twenty thrillers, including Near Dark, Backlash (one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year), Spymaster (“One of the all-time best thriller novels”—The WashingtonTimes), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (one of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” —NPR), and The Lions of Lucerne. Visit his website at BradThor.com and follow him on Facebook at Facebook.com/BradThorOfficial and on Twitter @BradThor.]]>Brad ThorExport01eng336FIC031060FH2.110FIC00600010FIC03000012FHD20Scot Harvath series; new brad thor; new scot harvath; military thriller; political thriller; nyt bestsellers; suspense; special forces; task force; busting bad guys; CIA thriller; scot harvath chronological order; counterterrorism; international terrorism; conservative books; brad thor book order; navy seal; special ops; Armand Schulz; government conspiracy; international intrigue; espionage; books like 24; war and patriotism; action thriller; best sellers list new york times01010102The new Cold War is about to go hot.
#1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling author Brad Thor is back with his most intense thriller yet.
Scot Harvath is having his best summer ever. With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend Sølvi, he’s got everything he could possibly want. But out of vacation days and long overdue back home, America’s top spy has a decision to make – return, or submit his resignation.
When his deadly past comes calling, though, he’ll be left with no choice at all.
Leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi – a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway?
In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath will be tested in ways he has never imagined and pushed to a limit few human beings could ever endure.
If he succeeds, he’ll walk away with everything. If he fails, the United States and its allies will be at the mercy of one of the world’s most dangerous actors. ]]>1302New York Times bestselling author of twenty thrillers, including Near Dark, Backlash (one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year), Spymaster (“One of the all-time best thriller novels”—The WashingtonTimes), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (one of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” —NPR), and The Lions of Lucerne. Visit his website at BradThor.com and follow him on Facebook at Facebook.com/BradThorOfficial and on Twitter @BradThor.]]>4402New York Times bestselling author Brad Thor.]]>040301http://cloud.firebrandtech.com/api/v2/hostedcover/c46fd4f5-dffd-45cf-8832-ac88003d194f01Emily Bestler BooksSIMO286Emily Bestler Books0101Emily Bestler BooksSIMO286Emily Bestler Books022021072801AU NZ019.25in01234.95mm026.125in02155.57mm030.84in0321.336mm06159781982104122Harper Collins PublishersNP102021052420210728200227.99AUDAUZ0.0027.990.00202104250232.99NZDNZZ0.0032.990.0020210425Emily Bestler BooksAU0120210728978198218805402021982188057039781982188054159781982188054140978198218805411BCB1020910PREVIEW_PERMITTED_01Trade Paperback01This Tender LandA Novel011651905881A01William Kent KruegerKrueger, William KentWilliam KentKrueger is the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), as well as eighteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Desolation Mountain and Sulfur Springs. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Learn more at WilliamKentKrueger.com.]]>William Kent KruegerExport01eng464FIC019000FA2.110FIC01400010FIC05900020indie pick; book of the month club; reading group; best books of 2019; best of; best fiction of 2019; where the crawdads sing; Ordinary Grace; Mississippi River novels; great american novel; coming of age story; indian schools; native american schools; great depression novels; huck finn; mark twain; tom sawyer; odyssey; river novels; minnesota river; gilead; odysseus; odie; runaway children; book club fiction; edgar award; childhood innocence; canoe; life on the mississippi; cork o'connor; cork01010102INSTANTNEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER! A magnificent novel about four orphans on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression, from the bestselling author of Ordinary Grace.
1932, Minnesota—the Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O’Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own.
Over the course of one unforgettable summer, these four orphans will fly into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds.
With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic.
"If you’re among of the millions who raced through Where the Crawdads Sing this year and are looking for another expansive, atmospheric American saga, look to the latest from Kreuger." —Entertainment Weekly
"Long, sprawling, and utterly captivating, readers will eat up every delicious word of it.” —New York Journal of Books]]>1302 is the New York Times bestselling author of This Tender Land, Ordinary Grace (winner of the Edgar Award for best novel), as well as eighteen acclaimed books in the Cork O’Connor mystery series, including Desolation Mountain and Sulfur Springs. He lives in the Twin Cities with his family. Learn more at WilliamKentKrueger.com.]]>01Atria BooksSIMO237Atria Books0101Atria BooksSIMO237Atria Books022021072801AU NZ018.25in01209.55mm025.3125in02134.94mm031.16in0329.464mmHarper Collins PublishersNP1020210728200219.99AUDAUZ0.0019.990.00202104250222.99NZDNZZ0.0022.990.0020210425Atria BooksAU0120210728