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Hit a home run with reading "rookies" in this franchise history of the Philadelphia Phillies' World Series wins and losses. Approachable, elementary text and engaging photos explain the professional baseball team's records and memorable MLB championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Steve Carlton and Ryan Howard. An "About the Team" page reviews important facts for young sports fans. ...

Hit a home run with reading "rookies" in this franchise history of the Cincinnati Reds' World Series wins and losses. Approachable, elementary text and engaging photos explain the professional baseball team's records and memorable MLB championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Pete Rose and Ernie Lombardi. An "About the Team" page reviews important facts for young sports fans. Include...

Hit a home run with reading "rookies" in this franchise history of the Boston Red Sox's World Series wins and losses. Approachable, elementary text and engaging photos explain the professional baseball team's records and memorable MLB championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Babe Ruth and David Ortiz. An "About the Team" page reviews important facts for young sports fans. Includes a...

Hit a home run with reading "rookies" in this franchise history of the Baltimore Orioles' World Series wins and losses. Approachable, elementary text and engaging photos explain the professional baseball team's records and memorable MLB championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Cal Ripken Jr. and Brooks Robinson. An "About the Team" page reviews important facts for young sports fans....

Hit a home run with reading "rookies" in this franchise history of the Atlanta Braves' World Series wins and losses. Approachable, elementary text and engaging photos explain the professional baseball team's records and memorable MLB championships. Vibrant, color-blocked layouts spotlight sensational players of different eras, such as Warren Spahn and Greg Maddux. An "About the Team" page reviews important facts for young sports fans. Includes...

The conventional lineage of World Literature starts with Goethe and moves through Marx, Said, Moretti, and Damrosch, among others. What if there is another way to trace the lineage, starting with Simone de Beauvoir and moving through Hannah Arendt, Assia Djebar, Octavia Butler, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and Gayatri Spivak? What ideas and issues get left out of the current foundations that have institutionalized World Literature, and what can...

Inspired by a true character born in 1892 to the son of former slaves, Norvell Jamison grows up in the violent and racially impoverished south under the harsh Jim Crow laws after witnessing a young boy get brutally beaten to death by the Klan. Norvell is traumatized for life. Norvell grows up to be a quick tempered 6-foot 7 inch, 350lbs ultra-violent world wind of destruction whose blood thirsty path leads him to fighting in WWI. Upon leaving ...

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The national conflict in Ireland has created, and feeds off, sharply uneven development between the island's north and south. This is reflected in a history of diverging socio-economic interests, conflicting ideological positions and divided institutions, which date back to the mid-19th century. Since the 1950s this unevenness has been reversed, first though economic convergence, and with increasing intensity, through ideological and instituti...

This poetry addresses the interconnection of individual, communal, and global trauma, towards collective liberation. In Hebrew, the words for wilderness, speaker, and speaks are spelled the same and share the same root letters. Goodman Herrick's title, from a poem in the collection, references the Torah's BaMidbar (in the wilderness or desert) and her ancestor's ritual practice of elevating etymology, roots, and folk word associations as spiri...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her th...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her th...

One of Foreign Policy's "Most Anticipated Books of 2024"Part Michael Lewis, part The Way Things Work: From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, an extraordinary journey revealing the worldwide supply chain--exposing both the fascinating pathways of manufacturing and transportation that bring products to your doorstep, and the ruthless business logic that has left local communities at the mercy of a complex and fragile network f...

The Cellist of Dachau is an acclaimed and “masterful” novel of the Holocaust— the legacy that haunts us, and the music that binds us.In 1938, Otto Schalmik, a 19-year-old musician from a Jewish family in Vienna, is arrested by Nazi police. Transported to Dachau, he is summoned to the home of the camp’s Adjutant, who forces him to scrub the floors and play Bach on a priceless looted cello.In 1990s California, Otto, now a world-famous composer, ...

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compulsively readable mother-daughter story in which two women who share a difficult past must come to together to claim the future they deserve.Arden Moore enjoyed an affluent life thanks to her husband's high-paying job. But a year after his death, the 36-year-old is a grieving single mother deeply in debt and living paycheck to paycheck with her th...

After a global disaster reduces Earth's human population to pre-industrial levels, survivors of western civilization divide into two groups: one recreates society following pre-disaster norms, while the other modifies human emotions to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophe. Those in favor of recreating society, referred to as the "Randoms, " migrate to Western Europe, while the proponents of a redesigned human existence, known as the "Modifi...

Porcupines in prickles and towers of giraffes, Some names of groups of animals will give you belly laughs! Detective Bears and Friends tells in cheerful rhyme and with colorful, whimsical illustrations, the names by which some of our animals friends are known.