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An audiobook reflecting on the meaning of the revolutionary band Nirvana, their leader Kurt Cobain, and the band's personal, musical and cultural contexts in the '90s.It has been three decades since Nirvana upended the pop cultural landscape with Nevermind, the landmark album that became the soundtrack of Generation X, capturing its confusion, frustration, and passion. In 1993, Michael Azerrad published what stands as the definitive biography ...

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the highly lauded Success Academy Charter Schools, shares her advice for raising smart, successful, and intellectually engaged children.Eva Moskowitz has built a national reputation as the founder and leader of Success Academy Charter Schools, one of the country's most highly regarded networks of schools, but while most people know Eva for her success in educating 20, 000 mainly low-income students who are routinely a...

An engrossing social history and memoir of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the glittering "Beaux Arts Ball, " the social event of New York and Harlem society for fifty years--a glamorous event rivalling today's Met Gala, drawing America's wealthy and cultured, both Black and white.Our Secret Society brilliantly illuminates a little known yet highl...

»Mein Name ist Wulle, Wildschwein Wulle.« Das Kuscheltier Wulle ist Geros ständiger Begleiter. Wulle hilft ihm beim Lesenlernen, die beiden gehen auf Streifzüge und haben überhaupt eine Menge Spaß in der »Menschenrotte«. Oft sind Geros große Schwester Viola, das Au-pair-Mädchen Blanche und Oma Lüdenscheid dabei. Außerdem ist da noch dieser Nachbar, Herr Dröge ... Erlebe zusammen mit Wulle, Gero und dem Rest der Familie komische und ganz alltäg...

This debut collection of poems is a revelation. Written by the poet with no thought to their commercial publication and discovered by happenstance by the publisher, these poems explore the highs and lows of everyday living with metaphors -- " rosebuds stillborn in the falling snow" -- that astonish the reader with their force and simplicity. Often disarming in their brevity, the poems in this collection -- written to be read out loud -- are a ...

Jade This wasn't how it was supposed to be. Jade was supposed to return home, reschedule that interview, go back to classes, and continue her life as if nothing had happened. Soran ruined everything. Layol felt more like her home now and she owed it all to him. She finally feels like she's whom she's meant to be. The closer they reach the council to end the war, the more she realizes Soran isn't who she thought he was. Soran's secrets he's...

This book highlights the recent advancement in point-of-care testing (POCT) technologies utilizing `smart¿ nanomaterials for the analysis of biomarkers related to disease, which includes metabolites, enzymes, proteins, nucleic acids, cancer cells and multidrug-resistant pathogen. The POCT refers to medical diagnostic tests performed near the place and time of patient care. During the recent pandemic of COVID-19, many realized the importance of...

In The Top Ten Diseases of All Time, Stacey Smith? presents the top ten deadliest diseases and their effects on society, providing a wealth of information about the trajectory and terrible impact of each disease, and humanity's reaction to these diseases throughout the millennia.

Blood soaks the earth. The ground is carpeted in corpses. Carrion birds feast as power-crazed warlords indulge their bloodlust in never-ending battle. An ancient convent watches over the ceaseless struggle. A sanctuary from war, the Convent of Sacred Visitation offers care, medicine, and healing to any who seek their aid. Within these walls, no creed nor code nor fealty is recognized. Through the haze of battle, two strangers arrive at the con...

There are a few things Coconut Creek has that Pine Ridge does not. Palm trees, sandy beaches, butterfly museums-infuriatingly attractive special forces veterans.When Colorado elementary school teacher Ophelia Brody decides to ditch her divorced family for a Christmas in the sunshine state with her college roommate, she doesn't expect a mile high meet cute to tailspin the entire trip.Frankie Casado is cocky, he's presumptuous, he's shameless-an...

Say "Hello" to Billie the Brain! Learn about your brain from a superstar friend! Billie teaches us what she's made of, how she works, how doctors and others help her when she's sick, and how to keep her healthy. A perfect book created by experts to share and explore, for young readers, budding scientists and neo-neurologists. Rhyming text, fun illustrations, "brainy" facts and simple yet scientifically accurate diagrams are also ideal for STEM...

To rescue a witness ... this K-9 team must face a killer and a storm.After months tracking a colleague falsely accused of a double homicide, officer Tanner Ford and his K-9 partner finally locate crime tech Mara Gilmore--but the real murderer is closing in. Now they must run into a frozen wilderness to survive. Evading the killer is the only way for Mara to clear her name. But will the harsh winter conditions cover their tracks...or bury them ...

There's no place like home for the holidays...As a girl, single mom Lauren Maxwell hated Magnolia, South Carolina. And she thought she'd left her hometown in the rearview mirror years ago, but a message from her beloved baby brother, Brody, changes all that. He's getting married on Christmas Eve. So a holiday at Camp Blossom, the rustic sleepaway camp that had been a haven during her growing-up years, it is. Lauren won't even have to see her d...

You just can't do better than a Diana Palmer story to make your heart lighter and smile brighter." --Fresh Fiction on Wyoming Rugged A sudden romance leads to betrayal and a shocking secret... It takes one night for Erianne Mitchell to fall heart-first for dashing architect Ty Mosby. They work together and have friends in common--and a searing attraction that seems far too good to last. But when a devastating mistake tears them apart, Erianne ...

Justice Manning is talked into a lingerie modeling job...and forgets her inhibitions after meeting the sinfully gorgeous photographer, Black Savoy. When the photo shoot turns hot and heavy, the last thing she pictures is that lust might turn to love.

From Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black, comes the highly anticipated second novel, focusing on the lives of three Black women as they fight their own personal struggles in one of the most egalitarian societies, Sweden.Can a career woman truly have it all?Powerful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi has finally found the man she needs, but Tobias Wikström thinks she's the most selfish woman he...

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Artificial intelligence entrepreneur Max Bennett chronicles the five "breakthroughs" in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow. In the last decade, capabilities of artificial intelligence that had...

A gentleman never dallies with the help, but the new Duke of Penning is no gentleman in this steamy fourth and final book in The Duke Hunt series by New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan. A duke with secrets. Lucian, the newly minted Duke of Penning, has much to prove-- to himself, his family and the ton. Craving spotless respectability, he must find an aristocratic wife. Unfortunately, he can't keep his eyes--and thoughts--off his d...

Spielen Sie als Poppy, Branch und weitere Ihrer Lieblings-DreamWorks-Trolle, während Sie das Troll-Königreich erkunden, zerschmettern, tanzen und kämpfen, um es vor einem melodischen Mastermind zu retten, der versucht, die musikalische Harmonie der Trolle zu verändern!

Mad Dash is the first installment in a contemporary Western romance saga. If you like witty characters, gritty storylines, intrigue, and heart-fluttering romance, then you'll love Sage Evans' series starter. I went to jail for my younger brother's crime and lost everything. I plan to take the secret to my grave, but my grandparents say the only way to reinstate my inheritance is to prove I've settled down from the volatile felon they think I a...