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Can a wedding-date deception become true love? Tired of being seen as a lonely workaholic, advertising exec Jill Wickey promises to bring her 'casual boyfriend' to her sister's Valentine's wedding. Too bad he doesn't exist! Then Thom Miller, a carpenter working at her aunt's...

Author: Julia GoldingPublisher: Two HootsPublished: 10/03/2023Pages: 48Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9781529045529Audience: Ages 9-12About the AuthorKate Hindley studied illustration at Falmouth College of Art, and went on to work for two years as a children's print designer at a studio in Northampton, whilst working freelance on...

Inspired by the #1 New York Times bestseller She Persisted by Chelsea Clinton and Alexandra Boiger, a chapter book series about women who spoke up and rose up against the odds--including Opal Lee! Opal Lee grew up as a Black girl in Texas at...

Author: Steve BaltinPublisher: Harper HorizonPublished: 10/10/2023Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780785290551

Author: Carla Smith StoverPublisher: Guilford PublicationsPublished: 09/20/2023Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9781462552986

Presented as one hundred fifteen narrative-style poems, some of which are rhyming and others are in prose or blank verse, Reflections on Mountaineering, A Journey Through Life as Experienced in the Mountains, a FOURTH EDITION, summarizes much of what the author, Alan V. Goldman,...

An epic, stunning novel about one family's search for the true meaning of home in the wake of disaster, from the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches...

Documenting Sze's monumental Guggenheim installation--a reflection on the continual reshaping of experience by digital and material saturationOver three decades, Sarah Sze has developed a remarkable practice that boldly traverses sculpture, video, installation, painting, printmaking, drawing and sound. Her work, sometimes compared to scientific models,...

Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete's struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists...

For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer A body-based healing model that interrogates what we've been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body--and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in modern...

Seneca was not only Rome's major Stoic philosopher. He was its great tragic playwright. Classics of Latin literature, Seneca's dramas also inspired the revival of tragic theater in the Renaissance. They served as models for Shakespeare, Kyd, Racine, Corneille, and Calderon.Dana Gioia's new book...

Devaney Diamond's summer break was shaping up to be the best one ever. Her longtime crush was finally interested in her, and by the time school rolled around in the fall, she knew he'd be her boyfriend.Just when their relationship is getting started, she...

Gina Ferrara's collection Amiss might be subtitled, "American Femicide" these lyric poems are sympathetic, even intimate, elegies for, and apostrophes to, women killed or missing in every state in the Union."Gina Ferrara's collection Amiss might be subtitled, 'American Femicide': these lyric poems are sympathetic,...

Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples - Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans - and non-Indo-European ones - Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians - coexisted with each other for extended periods of time...

Driven by the cruelty of market society into wildernesses of neurasthenic horror, artists and lovers seek out phantoms of forgotten beauty. Cursed Images is a dreamjournal of late capitalism, a Gothic tarot of desire and fear.Author: Reuben DendingerPublisher: Hyperidean PressPublished: 08/31/2023Pages: 284Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...

"Hey Google, how can you help me reach more customers and strengthen my brand?" Voice-enabled technologies are an integral part of our lives, and they present vast opportunities for marketers who are up to the challenge. With Voice Marketing: Harnessing the Power of Conversational...

Back pain is the one of the world's greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. One in 10 people will develop chronic back pain....

Prudence Crick is caring for the twenty cats that call The Maples home while Gerry Coneybear is off travelling. Looking for a change of pace Prudence starts working part time as a barista at the new cafe while also entertaining her out of town...

Get ready for an exciting and colorful trip around the world! The dazzling photos on these pages will spark your children's interest in the bigger world--other places, other people and their families, other cultures, and other creatures from around the planet and beyond! You'll...

Who Dey! The Cincinnati Bengals are ready for game time! In this hi-lo title, leveled text and vibrant images will attract young readers to this historic NFL franchise. Special features provide a look at the team's stadium, important players, and notable achievements. The book...