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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
What if you could leap twenty times your own body length? Or drink through your skin? How about if you could catch all your food with just your tongue? Or stare without blinking? With this bright, breezy guide, kids can practice their wiggling and jumping, peeping and croaking, while learning all about frogs, from their life cycle, habits, and food preferences to their origins and relatives around the world. Ribbit! --From the publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster ed.
Language
English
Description
Our presidents loom so large in history that we often forget they are human. Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making? is a collection of handwritten love letters that offers a surprising and intimate portrait of the men who occupied the White House. From George Washington to Barack Obama, these are not the presidents we see in history books. Instead, when they courted the women they wanted to marry, or seduced women outside of their marriage,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics, and everything in between. Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feminist and Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle big issues embroiling society--state-sponsored violence and mass shootings, womens rights post-Dobbs, online disinformation, and the limits of empathy--alongside...
Publisher
Taschen GmbH
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"With the cold war ebbing, crime and inflation at record levels, and movie star-turned-President Ronald Reagan launching a Star Wars of his own, the 1980s did not seem likely to become one of the most outrageous, flamboyant, and prosperous decades of the 20th century. The "greed is good" mantra on Wall Street spawned the power-dressing, exercise-obsessed "Me Generation" of Yuppies. The art world enjoyed the influx of capital; computers and video games...
Publisher
Dynamite
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
After surviving the Necro-Comic-Con 2009, our hero, Ashley J. Williams, wakes to (drum roll please) Dawn of the Dorks. The President has been sold a piece of the Necronomicon, so what's a chosen one to do? Find out in the second chapter of ARMY OF DARKNESS: ASH SAVES OBAMA! You know you want to!
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political acumen of Abraham Lincoln via sixteen encounters before and during his presidency, bringing to light not only the strategy of a great politician who inherited a country divided, but lessons for our own disorderly present. In 1855, as the United States found itself at odds over the issue of slavery, then lawyer Abraham Lincoln composed a note on the...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The story of how a new generation of tech-savvy franchise owners is reshaping every aspect of professional sports. In the last two decades, innovation, data analysis, and technology have driven a tectonic shift in the sports business. Game of Edges is the story of how sports franchises evolved, on and off the field, from raggedly run small businesses into some of the most systematically productive companies around. In today's game, everyone from...
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Kazusa was a quiet middle schooler, but she arrived in high school determined to make friends. So (as a huge Harry Potter fan) she decides to join the literature club. When one of the club's icebreakers is "say one thing you want to do before you die," one of the girls blurts out "sex." The prudish club president, the class beauty, and the other nerdy girls' reactions are wildly different. Far from a typical sex comedy, O Maidens in Your Savage Season...
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