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Are you ready to introduce your child to the world of baseball in a way that sparks curiosity, fosters learning, and teaches valuable life lessons? Look no further than A Kid’s Guide to Baseball Legends: Homeruns, History, and Inspiring Stories from the Diamond! Whether you're a parent, grandparent, or caregiver eager to share the joys of baseball, this book provides everything you need to ignite a lifelong love for the game—even if your child has never picked up a bat!

Winner of the 2023 GRAMMY Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album. Finalist for the 2023 AUDIE AWARDS for Audiobook of the Year and Narration by the Author. 'In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop...

A classic work of psychology, this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind. With an introduction by Will Self, read by Oliver Sacks. If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self – himself – he cannot...

Francis Pretty was a diarist and sailor who wrote detailed accounts of his two separate circumnavigations of the globe. The first was with Sir Francis Drake (1577-1580) and the second with Thomas Cavendish (1588).

An “intriguing and accessible” (Publishers Weekly) interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers. “We really need this story now, because...

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon.com ) and "one of the quiet giants... of American fiction" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed "Break It Down" (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee "Varieties of Disturbance".

The Counsellor is the story of a lawyer whose desire to get rich, in order to impress his fiancée, leads him to become involved in a risky drug-smuggling venture. His contacts in the high-stakes cocaine trade are the mysterious Reiner and the seductive Malkina. As the action crosses the Mexican...

The past 20 years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialised world has ever witnessed. In the space of little more than a year, what had been seen as the age of wisdom was viewed as the age of foolishness. Almost overnight, belief turned into incredulity. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong.

Good men don’t fall for students. But apparently, I’m not the golden boy our small town thinks I am, because that’s exactly what I did. I planned to wait until after her graduation to tell Tally how I felt. Then she told me I was her person and everything changed. Now, I have to figure out how to turn forbidden romance into a happily ever after. Because letting Tally go? That’s not an option. Not anymore…

Aaliyah awakens to the human world with her mutilation a harsh reminder that it had all been real, and not just a terrible dream. She is quickly taken in by fellow Deipan members who promise to help her make contact with her father, even as he suffers in Hell. Aaliyah vows to have her revenge on the woman who mutilated her. Shelley Fasquelle has been invited to the next Deipan party on Owen Island by her twisted cousin, Jodie.

Psychologist and author of Homecoming: Overcome Fear and Trauma to Reclaim Your Whole Authentic Self, Dr. Thema Bryant, PhD, speaks with two women in the midst of major life transitions. Together, they explore how to move through tumultuous periods with compassion and grace—and how to embrace change, big or small.

A heart-warming, friends-to-lovers, small-town romance She’s the boss of the Vancity Tide lacrosse team. He’s the team captain—and the firefighter who’s never failed anyone. There are a hundred reasons why their steamy encounter has to stay a secret. But number one? Her dad owns the...

An abandoned hotel…A double murder…An escape into a tortured mind…All in one hellish day. Déjà Vu, book 4 of The Red Thread Saga, finds Mia in a situation she can’t explain, and one she can’t bear to face. She’s been arrested for killing two women she claims she never met, though she can’t be sure about that or anything else… not anymore. The more she tries to clear her mind so she can face the charges and defend herself, the deeper she falls into an in-between place where different horrors wait for her, ones that have been left to fester… ones that anxiously await her return.

At the end of the nineteenth century, William Randolph Hearst’s New York Journal glorified cubanas as “the most feminine and simple women in the world.” Ever since, the stereotype of Cuban femininity as chaste and dutiful has informed Cubans’ racial, social, and ethnic identity in the dominant American imagination, and this gendered and deracialized narrative has taken different forms and served various purposes throughout the Cuban diaspora.

I can’t get over the past. And my too-charming high school nemesis refuses to let me forget. After my big-city life in Chicago goes up in flames, I’m back in Silver Ridge with nothing but my cat and a mountain of regrets to my name. This town is full of memories—like my best friend who...

In the high-stakes world of tech sales, consistent top performers are a rare breed. What separates the elite from the rest isn’t charm, luck, or even raw talent—it’s mindset. The President’s Club Mindset by Bob Kocis offers a definitive look at what it takes to become—and remain—a top sales professional in SaaS, enterprise, and B2B technology sectors. A multiple President’s Club winner turned global sales leader, Kocis brings more than thirty years of field-tested experience to bear.

It was more than twenty years ago that Tom Manetti last saw Maisie Deavor. At the time he was in the grip of severe, morbid hallucinations. He had insisted that her friends in Deipan were monsters—that one of them reached a tentacle inside its abdomen, unveiled a ball of black sludge, and had thrown it at him. Maisie had him pegged as crazy and broke off contact with the smitten young man.

Surviving your forties requires coffee, good friends, and a morally flexible relationship with illegal magic. Tovah Silver runs Mad Queens Inc., an unlicensed magical problem-solving agency with her three best friends. They've built their reputation on grit, loopholes, and unrepentant competence...

When 17-year-old Claire Halloway moves to the quiet, mist-shrouded town of Clearwater, she expects nothing more than another lonely school year---until she meets Adrian Lockwood, a beautiful and distant stranger that seems to carry winter in his veins. Drawn to Adrian despite every warning sign telling her to stay away, Claire soon uncovers the truth: Adrian is a vampire who is bound to an ancient Covenant that slumbers just beneath the frozen lake bordering the town.

An outrageous miscellany of serious and light-hearted lies, myths, untruths, fibs and fabrications that tells the tall tale of South Africa. The fibs come thick and fast, like a burst sewerage pipe: Why everything we've learnt about Shaka Zulu, 'Africa's Napoleon', is a pack of lies. Back in the darkest of ages (the 1970s!), citizens were told that there were satanic messages if you played some of The Beatles songs backwards. National icon Hansie Cronje was a paragon of virtue and integrity … until he wasn't.