"This abundance led to a volume of robust stories with the nerve to push against narrative expectations. The Best American Short Stories 2024 boasts a collection of twenty stories that "buzz with their own strange logic." A man becomes a tourist in his own hometown. An unemployed...
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This new collection is filled with heartwarming and entertaining anecdotes by grateful children, all in praise of the amazing woman who encourages them, supports them, and most importantly, loves them. These stories will brighten any mother's day, and show her that the kids were ...
Harried by work, Roland wishes in a magic mirror to switch places with the baker, but when this actually happens, the former king discovers that being the baker is not so easy.
"The first edited collection of essays on the nineteenth-century diarist Anne Lister, this interdisciplinary collection highlights how her five-million-word diaries shifted paradigms and created awareness around same-sex practices. It engages with Lister's influence beyond academ...
Based on the New York Times best-seller, reveals the dark personal life the blonde bombshell hid from her adoring public. The riveting miniseries sheds new light on Marilyn's career, her three husbands, including Joe DiMaggio and Arthur Miller, and her obsession with President Jo...
"The world's most unlikely heroes are on a mission to save Earth in DreamWorks Animation's Monsters Vs. Aliens -- 'the year's funniest comedy' (Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com. Ginormica, Dr. Cockroach Ph.D., The Missing Link, Insectosaurous and B.O.B. join forces to fight back when ...
When Laurie, a nomadic artist, surprises her mother, an elegant perfectionist, with a dream vacation to Paris, which brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes, mother and daughter unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes in the City of Light.
"Moving, joyful, and insightful collection of conversations with today's living literary legends about the books that changed their lives, made them think, and brought them joy, from 'American's Librarian' Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager"-- Provided by publisher.
Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta fills her days by reading the personals and following an ongoing romance between Jim and Susan, mysterious drifters who appear to lead the kind of free-spirited life she can only dream about. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows ...
When Laurie, a nomadic artist, surprises her mother, an elegant perfectionist, with a dream vacation to Paris, which brings an unexpected sparkle to her eyes, mother and daughter unpack a lifetime of secrets and hopes in the City of Light.
If oceans continue to warm at the current pace, coral reefs could be wiped out by century's end. But scientists from around the globe are rushing to help corals adapt to changing climate through assisted evolution. Follow scientists as they attempt to crossbreed heat-resistant co...
While helping Ruby Wilcox clean up the loft above their shops, China comes upon a box of antique handcrafted lace and old photographs. Following the discovery, she hears a woman humming an old Scottish ballad and smells the delicate scent of lavender... Soon, strange happenings s...
After she is hit by a meteor and turns into a giant, Susan Murphy is taken to a secret military base with other monsters the government has collected where they are called into action to save Earth from alien invaders.
Little turtle was lost. Free from his egg, he climbed out into big, new world. Lost and alone, he wondered where did he really belong? He needed help, but where could he turn? Includes "For Creative Minds" educational section.
"Travel back to the glory days of New Jersey where three women are having conflicts with wealth and status when attractive men enter their lives. Meg is being forced into marriage for riches when her heart longs for a simple artisan. Susan is powerless to use her fortune on the p...
Presented is the little-known story of the first known act of collective, violent resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States, which was a 1966 riot in San Francisco's impoverished Tenderloin neighborhood, three years before the famous gay riot at New...
After she is hit by a meteor and turns into a giant, Susan Murphy is taken to a secret military base with other monsters the government has collected where they are called into action to save Earth from alien invaders.