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An engaging, fast-paced read for fans of Philippa Gregory and of dual-timeline historical fiction." -Library Journal In the winter of 1483, Francis Lovell is Richard III's Lord Chamberlain and confidant, but the threat of Henry Tudor's rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission: protecting the young Richard of York, his brother's surviving son and a threat to Henry's claims to the throne. Two years...

Take to the skies with the scrappy crew of the airship Quin Zaza, as they hunt the fantastical giants that rule their world... DRAGONS!The daily routine aboard an airborne draking vessel springs to vivid life in this exquisitely crafted tale in the tradition of the lush, transporting fantasy of Hayao Miyazaki. Part travelogue, part imaginary cookbook, and part otherworldly slice of life, Drifting Dragons tells the stories of the Quin Zaza and ...

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Mrs. Jeffries and Inspector Witherspoon should be checking off their Christmas present list but instead they're listing murder suspects in this latest entry of the beloved Victorian Mystery series.Harriet Andover had no intention of dying young like her silly siblings had. She intended to outlive them and outdo them as she always had. But Harriet discovers that the best intentions can lead to murder when she is strangled inside her mansion wit...

Das Studium läuft im Jahr 2020/21 digital. In diesem Rahmen ist eine Vorlesung entstanden, die sich mit den mit politischen, sozialen, psychologischen, theologischen und philosophischen Fragen beschäftigen. Es geht um den Umgang mit der Angst, sprunghafte Lernprozesse im Moment der Krise, um Krisenkommunikation und -Steuerung, sowie um Krankheitsbewältigung und Solidarität. Statt Epidemiologien, Virologen und Mediziner kommen hier die Sozialwi...

An interactive picture book with dynamic illustrations, in which readers have to follow the rules or risk a run-in with a monster-with a gentle approach to mindfulness along the way.Beware! This book has rules. You must follow all the rules. If you break the rules . . . Dennis the monster will eat you. And you don't want to be Dennis-food-do you?With a laugh-out-loud, interactive style, The Book of Rules invites you to get your sillies out bef...

This book examines the reception in Latin America of prints designed by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, showing how colonial artists used such designs to create all manner of artworks and, in the process, forged new frameworks for artistic creativity.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet delivers a sharp wake-up call with his fourteenth collectionA "howdie-skelp" is the slap in the face a midwife gives a newborn. It's a wake-up call. A call to action. The poems in Howdie-Skelp, Paul Muldoon's new collection, include a nightmarish remake of The Waste Land, an elegy for his fellow Northern Irish poet Ciaran Carson, a crown of sonnets that responds to the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a tran...

A bristling and brilliant memoir of the mid-twentieth-century New York School of painters and their times by the renowned artist and critic Edith Schloss, who, from the early years, was a member of the group that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New YorkThe Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly is a firsthand account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith Schloss writes about the artists...

In short, gloriously inventive essays, Whiting Award-winning author Amy Leach's The Everybody Ensemble invites us to see and celebrate our oddball, interconnected worldAre you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain that there's a version of our world that doesn't break down into tiny categories of alliance, but brings everybody together into one clattering, sometimes disc...

You are God's strategy for revival. As the nations crumble under chaos and compromise, have Christians sunk so low in their hope that they can no longer anticipate a glorious move of God? Or will a remnant of ordinary dreamers shake off despair, rise up, and join God in His mighty purpose for His people? God always uses ordinary...

Activate your prophetic senses and operate in the invisible realm today! Imagine having access to the unseen spiritual dimension. In fact, the Bible is clear that this should be every believer's daily experience! As a citizen of the Kingdom of God, your inheritance is the ability to see, sense, and operate in the invisible realm of...

The heartfelt counsel of a friend is as sweet as perfume and incense (Proverbs 27:9 NLT). When she sees someone in need, Lumi the Light is always determined to help. But she quickly discovers that she can't do it on her own. Through this beautifully illustrated story, your child will discover the important role...

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NEW & NOTEWORTHY ~ THE NEW YORK TIMES With a Foreword by Susan Orlean, twenty-three of today's living literary legends, including Donna Tartt, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Andrew Sean Greer, Laila Lalami, and Michael Chabon, reveal the books that made them think, brought them joy, and changed their lives in this intimate, moving, and insightful collection from "American's Librarian" Nancy Pearl and noted playwright Jeff Schwager that celebrates the powe...

The official oral history book of "The Office, ” featuring exclusive interviews with every major player and never-before-seen photos, pulling back the curtain on the absurdity and genius that went in to creating this unstoppable force in American popular culture and why it continues to resonate with audiences today.

All our seas feed into one true ocean, interconnected and interdependent. Producing over half of the world's oxygen, our planet's ocean is a natural and vital wonder. As well as supporting a vast array of life, it plays a crucial role in regulating our weather and climate and it supplies us with food, medicine, recreation and a means of transport. Now it is under threat from many sides, such as overfishing, climate change and pollution to name...

The Deeper the Roots is the story of the rise of the visionary young mayor of Stockton, California -- with love and injustice, triumph and failure, and a lot of Tupac along the way ...

Sure, lesbians love to bring a U-Haul on the second date. But what happens when the U-Haul crashes? For Amelia Stone, it's a literal question as much as a figurative one. When plans to move in with her girlfriend go sideways, she's left with more questions about their future than answers. It doesn't help that she's spending far more time with the paramedic who came to her rescue than the woman she's supposed to be in love with. When Finn Dou...

From Mike Tyson to Tupac, from Roy Jones Jr. to J. Prince... Step into a world of rap moguls turned fight promoters, boxers turned rappers, and rappers turned boxers.Daryl McDonald of the iconic rap group Run-D.M.C once argued that Muhammad Ali's "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee" was hip-hop's most famous lyric. Ali's poetic brilliance, ignited by cornerman and hype man Drew "Bundini" Brown, supplied the template for how hip-hop artis...