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Now in paperback! A stellar ensemble of picture book creators—all women—join together to celebrate a sampling of history’s young female revolutionaries. This is the ideal introduction for the next generation of tenacious trailblazers.Fresh, accessible, and inspiring, Shaking Things Up introduces fourteen revolutionary young women who, through determination and perseverance, sparked change in the world. Each accomplished woman and her short, poetic biography is matched with work from an award-winning illustrator: two-time Caldecott winner Sophie Blackall takes on heroic World War II spies Eileen and Jacqueline Nearne; Caldecott Honor–winning Oge Mora presents brave Ruby Bridges; Selina Alko is matched with the courageous Malala Yousafzai; New York Times bestselling illustrator Emily Winfield Martin is paired with the inventor of the controversial one-piece bathing suit, Annette Kellermann; and Shadra Strickland introduces America’s first known female firefighter, Molly Williams.WHO ARE

A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.

New York Times bestseller! From Matt and Rebecca Zamolo, creators of the mega-popular YouTube series Game Master Network, comes a new thrilling novel about everyone’s favorite mystery-solving team as they go toe-to-toe with the mysterious and menacing Game Master.Rebecca Zamolo is on a mission to save her summer. Instead of going to camp like she’d planned, she’s been stuck in summer school. But today is the day! She’s going to present her final science assignment—using her Nana’s borrowed vintage zoetrope—and then she’ll be free to have fun.But as Becca and her classmates wait for her teacher to arrive, a menacing voice comes over the intercom claiming to be the Game Master! The kids quickly discover that the Game Master has locked the doors, scared off the teachers, and made it clear that if Becca and her friends don’t solve the clues that have been left behind, they’ll never get back Becca’s irreplaceable zoetrope, never finish summer school, and never get to enjoy wh

Noted military technology expert Dan Ward's manifesto for creating great products and projects using the methods of rapid innovation.Why do some programs deliver their product under cost, while others

Explores the creation of cottage gardens, courtyards, shade gardens, and kitchen gardens with fountains, arbors, pattern, color, raised beds, and whimsy

A veteran production team shares insider secrets about using television and media opportunities to promote a brand or message, prepare for upcoming appearances, and increase return requests, in a guid

In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive―using her experience to heighten

Using 10 steps from her popular workshops, counsellor Bev Aisbett provides you with practical, sound advice on how to recognise and tame anxiety, whether it affects you just occasionally or every sing

Combining the most cutting edge methods of medical research to present a new model of the brain, a psychiatrist and an associate clinical director at the NIH presents a practical guide for releasing o

In The End of Dieting, Joel Fuhrman M.D., a board–certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods, and #1 New York Times bestsell

Henley, the head of cyber security at Blaine Technologies, is a man no one crosses. He watches employees constantly, using his network of cameras, and enforces his rules by any means possible. Rumors

Celebrating the fusion of high sophistication with a strong tradition of rustic thriftiness, this adventurous cookbook, which advocates using everything that is possibly edible of fowl, beast and fish

Using dramatic real-life stories, the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia presents a scathing expose of the alternative medicine industry that debunks t

A former Navy SEAL and the New York Times best-selling author of American Sniper targets the most important American firearms, using these guns as a window on United States history to prove that the A

A former Navy SEAL and the New York Times best-selling author of American Sniper targets the most important American firearms, using these guns as a window on United States history to prove that the A

Using cutting-edge, never-before-seen research from his acclaimed Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University, a leading expert in eating behavior reveals how innovative, inexpensive design changes can m

A practical guide to using NLP in business and life coaching from bestselling NLP expert Joseph O’Connor. This book is suitable for both established coaches and for those who are being coached.

Women's Studies Journalist Betsy Israel paints remarkably vivid portraits of single women -- and how they have been perceived -- throughout the decades using primary sources, including private jou

Offers mothers and daughters a new roadmap to navigating this difficult familial bond, using research, anecdotes, personal reflections, and examples from literature to make her case.

The accaimed four-star chef of Boston's renowned Rialto restaurant shows readers how to cook with confidence, creating simple dishes using fresh, local, and seasonal ingredients drawn from regional tr

A practical, creative guidebook to achieving the results you want using Neuro Linguistinc Programming techniques

You can move quickly from "stuck" to "smooth sailing" in all aspects of your life using Bill O'Hanlon's ten easy Solution Keys, Humorous, direct, and effective, they help you change how you view and "

One of the nation's leading black chefs serves up 125 delicious recipes from South Carolina's "Low Country" using the region's great natural resources--bass, oysters, shrimp, clams, mullet, and sturge

This second, expanded edition adds a new introduction by Gail Sheehy, a new chapter on dealing with everyday stresses, and new sections on the author's own recent, remarkable success using self-hypnos

Guy Kawasaki, CEO of garage.com and former chief evangelist of Apple Computer, Inc., presents his manifesto for world-changing innovation, using his battle-tested lessons to help revolutionaries beco

In this story, number one bestselling author Dr. Spencer Johnson reveals a simple, easy way to bring out the best in yourself. Using his proven world-famous One Minute program, you can: Take better c

Charting the Sacred JourneySpiritual Tarot will take you far beyond traditional Tarot card glimpses of the future, and into the deepest recesses of your own mind. Using the three major Tarot decks --

THE SECRETS OF THE TAROT AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!TAROT: One of the world's oldest and most trusted methods of psychic divination. Since the time of the ancient Egyptians, only a select few have possessed

"Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly beautiful." - Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of An Immense World and I Contain MultitudesAward-winning environment and science reporter Zo?Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom and reveals the astonishing capabilities of the green life all around us.It takes tremendous biological creativity to be a plant. To survive and thrive while rooted in a single spot, plants have adapted ingenious methods of survival. In recent years, scientists have learned about their ability to communicate, recognize their kin and behave socially, hear sounds, morph their bodies to blend into their surroundings, store useful memories that inform their life cycle, and trick animals into behaving to their benefit, to name just a few remarkable talents.The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our

A timely, riveting book that presents for the first time an alternative history of 1930s Britain, revealing how prominent fascist sympathizers nearly succeeded in overturning British democracy—using the past as a road map to navigate the complexities of today’s turn toward authoritarianism.Hitler’s Girl is a groundbreaking history that reveals how, in the 1930s, authoritarianism nearly took hold in Great Britain as it did in Italy and Germany. Drawing on recently declassified intelligence files, Lauren Young details the pervasiveness of Nazi sympathies among the British aristocracy, as significant factions of the upper class methodically pursued an actively pro-German agenda. She reveals how these aristocrats formed a murky Fifth Column to Nazi Germany, which depended on the complacence and complicity of the English to topple its proud and long-standing democratic tradition—and very nearly succeeded.As she highlights the parallels to our similarly treacherous time, Young exposes the in

"This is an absolutely adorable retelling of [the Jack and the Beanstalk] classic story. It is perfect for any emerging reader. An absolute must-buy." --School Library Journal(STARRED review)Join Pete the Kitty on a journey up the beanstalk in this My First I Can Read story fromNew York Timesbestselling team Kimberly and James Dean.Once upon a time, a kitty named Pete and his friend Callie climbed a beanstalk as tall as the sky. At the top, they heard "Fe! Fi! Fo! Fum!" But where are the sounds are coming from?Beginner readers will love this new Pete-tastic spin on the beloved fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk!This My First I Can Read book is carefully crafted using basic language, word repetition, sight words, and sweet illustrations—which means it's perfect for shared reading with emergent readers. The active, engaging My First I Can Read stories have appealing plots and lovable characters, encouraging children to continue their reading journey.For more groovy fairytale twists with P

The highly anticipated third book in the #1New York Timesbestselling Supernatural Investigations series that began withAmari and the Night Brothers!Perfect for fans ofTristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, andNevermoor.War has come to the supernatural world, and Amari’s two worst enemies are leading the charge.Elaine Harlowe has manipulated her way into becoming prime minister, using her mind control ability to force the Bureau to take up her vicious grudge against magiciankind.Meanwhile, Dylan Van Helsing, the newly crowned leader of the League of Magicians—and Amari’s former partner—is after a destructive new power that would not only ensure the magicians’ victory . . . it would make him invincible.With neither the Bureau nor the League safe for Amari, and her newly returned brother, Quinton, determined to keep her out of the fray, she and her friends decide to find a way to end the war on their own.So when they learn that the only way to stop Dyla

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secretSisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a nihilistic sugar baby in New York, living from whim to whim and using her charms to make ends meet. But they share a secret: once, they were snakes, basking under a full moon in Tang dynasty China.A thousand years later, their mysterious history is the only thing still binding them together. When Emerald experiences a violent encounter in Central Park and Su boards the next flight to New York, the two reach a tenuous reconciliation for the first time in decades. Su convinces Emerald to move to Singapore so she can keep an eye on her—but she soon begins to worry that Emerald’s irrepressible behavior will out them both, in a sparkling, affluent city where everything runs like clockwork and any deviation f

For fans of The Wild Unknown, a beautifully illustrated, gender-neutral tarot deck and guidebook from a mother-son duo that reminds us we are all connected and provides a highly inclusive experience of self-reflection, self-love, and self-compassion.The Sacred Web Tarot envisions a world without separation, where everyone and everything is a silken thread in the great weaving of the Cosmos. It is a transformational and timely approach that moves beyond traditional, gendered imagery, card names, and interpretations, focusing on personal and communal growth. Using The Sacred Web, you will discover that every encounter, every energy you meet is meant to teach and transform you.Born from pain―after James Brown IV sustained a life-threatening brain injury―this stunning digitally illustrated tarot deck is a work of love and affirmation that invites you to sit with your life experiences, be present to whatever arises, and experience challenges as opportunities for self-discovery, liberation,

Introduction by Amal ClooneyFrom the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize and founder of the Philippine journalism site Rappler comes this inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism and those who helping to spread it, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies.What will you sacrifice for the truth?Journalist Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power, challenging corruption and malfeasance in her native country, the Philippines. But her work tracking disinformation networks seeded by the government, spreading lies to its own citizens laced with anger and hate, made her an enemy of her country’s most powerful man: President Duterte.Hounded by the state and its allies using the legal system to silence her, accused of numerous crimes, and charged with cyberlibel for which she was found guilty, Ressa faces years in prison and thousands in fines. At a time when authoritarian threats to th

Based on and from the creators of the groundbreaking musical, Jason Robert Brown and Dan Elish, 13: A Novel is a story about friendship, fitting in, and what it means to turn thirteen. Soon to be a movie-musical streaming on Netflix!"No one said becoming a man was easy.Evan didn't expect relevant life advice from Rabbi Weiner, who looks so old that he must have gone to yeshiva with Moses. But wondering what it means to become a man is the least of Evan's problems.After being uprooted right before his thirteen birthday from New York City to Appleton, Indiana, he's more focused on using this fresh start to find the right friends to invite to his bar mitzvah. Because this is his chance to get in with the popular kids--the cool football players and pretty cheerleaders.But it's the weird kids who welcome him, like his nerdy neighbor Patrice and Archie, whose crutches and muscular dystrophy make him an easy target for bullying. Evan doesn't want to be laughed at for being different. He can p

Everyone struggles when faced with something different than they're used to--whether a life change, a fresh challenge, or even an exciting adventure--but award-winning author Shauna Niequist's vulnerable reflections will remind readers to tap into graceful self-compassion and courageous curiosity with each new step they take.A clear-eyed look at what happens when everything we've been clinging to falls apart--what we keep, what we let go, and how we're transformed along the way.Just after her fortieth birthday, New York Times bestselling author Shauna Niequist found herself in a season of chaos, change, and loss unlike anything she'd ever experienced. She discovered that many of the beliefs and practices that had been useful up to that point no longer worked. After trying--and failing--to pull herself back up using the same old tools, she realized she required new ones: courage, curiosity, compassion, and self-compassion. She discovered the way through was more about questions than ans

儘管專家、學者多年來深入研究《安妮日記》，當初法蘭克一家究竟如何躲藏、最終又是誰向納粹舉發，始終是一大謎團。如今，在FBI探員的不辭辛勞的追蹤及現代化調查技術之下，終於能對這段歷史提出更準確的臆測。Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept...Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international teamled by an obsessed retired FBI agenthas finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why?Over thirty million people have read The Diary of a Young Girl, the journal teen-aged Anne Frank kept while living in an attic with her family and four other people in Amsterdam during World War II, until the Nazis arrested them and sent them to a concentration camp. But despite the many worksjournalism, books, plays and novelsdevoted to Annes story, none has ever conclusively explained how these eight people managed to live in hiding undetected for over two yearsand who or what finally brought the Nazis to their door.With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vince