Reality of Life - A Guide to Understanding the Modern-Day TeenagerIn a world where social media, rapid technology, and shifting values shape the next generation, Reality of Life delves into the heart of what it means to grow up today. This insightful and thought-provoking guide explores the challenges, behaviours, and emotions that define modern teenagers - from the fading of moral values to the rise of entitlement, anger, and disconnection.Through real-world reflections an...

Based on the eponymous viral Twitter account, Museum Bums, a celebration of classical art, history, and shapely derrières, encourages readers to learn something new while still managing to have a chuckle.What do Hieronymus Bosch, the Roman cult of Antinous, and the peach emoji all have in common? But of course, butts, of course!Divided into six categories of keisters, this humorous history book takes you on a whirlwind tour of the finest rear ends ...

This volume contains sixteen pieces for the beginning classical guitar duo. Efforts have been made to include composers of note from various periods such as Tchaikovsky, Dowland, Beethoven, Bartok, and Bach, yet the music is not above the abilities of beginning readers. By and large, the key signatures have only one sharp or flat and the accidentals are minimal. The music falls within first position and difficult bar chords have been avoided. The book will provide beginning duos access to ...

This volume is for the advanced guitar duo that is seeking concert-worthy music and a technical challenge. The works transcribed here include selections by Beethoven, de Falla, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Gounod, and others. Much effort was exerted to find works that work well as guitar duos, are not available elsewhere, and yet will be well known to audiences. Like all of the volumes in this series, the works chosen come from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th Century style...

27 April 1944. Exercise Tiger. German E-boats intercept rehearsals for the D-Day landings...On a dark night in 1944, a beautiful stretch of the Devon coast became the scene of desperate horror. Tales began to leak out of night-time explosions and seaborne activity. This was practice for Exercise Tiger, the main rehearsal for the Utah Beach landings.This fiasco, in which nearly 1,000 soldiers died, was buried by officials until it was almost forgott...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • From Pulitzer finalist, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and bestselling author of Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove Karen Russell: a gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town“Achingly gorgeous. . . . Karen Russell is one of our most humane and generous writers; this book is as profound as it is wonderfully stra...

This book is a collection of poems by someone living with Parkinson's during the Coronavirus crisis.This collection includes poems which attempt to put Parkinson's in its place, poems which make cynical observations on life during the pandemic and poems on a variety of stuff which was rattling around inside the author's head.Mark Coxe was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease fin 2013 after it had crept up on him for years. He was fifty when he received his diagnosis and has...

You've got Parkinson's, but consider yourself lucky because unlike all of the other neurological conditions, it won't kill you, it'll just make your life miserable. That was how I was diagnosed, by an expert. Well, he got the first bit right, I do have Parkinson's. The bit in the middle is up for debate, since the medical profession keep on changing their minds (it might kill me) but the third part was totally wrong. Looking on the bright side my glass is always half full, mostly because o...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?“No one writes like Eowyn Ivey.”—Geraldine Brooks“You will find yourself in places you have never been.”—Louise Erdrich“Ivey is an enthralling storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review**AN NPR AND SEATTLE TIMES

**A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF 2024A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR"Short, strange, spiky and sublime.” *—*Dwight Garner, New York Times“Funny, ghastly, eye-opening, marvelous.” —Wall Street JournalFrom the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory colonial revenge story.**One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City....

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK • A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dissonance of finding oneself by exploring life outside one’s community“Both blunt and exquisite . . . O’Connor’s excellent debut . . . is an example of precisely observed writing that makes a character’s specific existence glimmer with verisimilitude.”—Maggie Shipstead, New York Times Book Review"Whale Fall

**FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOKFINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES ART SEIDENBAUM AWARD FOR FIRST FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE, THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION, AND THE PRIX MÉDICIS ÉTRANGER****A bombshell bestseller in Japan, a defiant, darkly funny debut novel about a young woman in a care home seeking autonomy and the full possibiliti...