**Meet 9-year-old Beth, a no-nonsense truth-teller with five brothers and laugh-out-loud childhood stories.Debut author Beth York draws on her childhood to tell relatable short stories full of love, family, and laughter. An illustrated, fast-paced chapter-book that 6-9-year-olds will enjoy!**9-year-old Beth marches to her own beat and her family falls right in, from her stern-but-loving mother to her take-no-nonsense stepfather, Bob, to her five boisterious brothers!

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • BARACK OBAMA SUMMER READ • MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD!‘BEAUTIFUL, PERCEPTIVE, WISTFUL’ Miranda Cowley Heller‘ANN NAPOLITANO’S WRITING IS ASTONISHING’ Marian Keyes‘RADIANT AND BRILLIANTLY CRAFTED’ New York Times------------------------------------Best friends and sisters, the four ...

A playful examination of how science's silliest research leads to crucial breakthroughs and enduring insights.Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the squishability of a cockroach? It all sounds pointless, silly, or even disgusting.Maybe it is. But in The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog, Carly Anne York shows how unappreciated, overlooked, and simply curiosity-driven ...

From Fantasy Island to Darien Lake, Western New York's 100 year amuseument park history is documented in this fast-paced photographic tale. For more than 100 years, western New Yorkers have enjoyed the region's exciting amusement parks. During the days of trolleys and steamships, area businessmen created Celoron Park, Crystal Beach Park, and other fine local summer resorts. Decades later, lifelong memories were formed for neighborhood baby boomers who visited Glen Park and Fantasy Island, ...

'A tale of buccaneering matriarchs marrying their American princess daughters to the dim-witted, cash-strapped sons of British peers . . . Cleverly researched, sparkling with diamonds and wickedly funny' SpectatorTowards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself f...

Anne Bonny – Flammen über der Karibik erzählt die eindringliche Geschichte einer der faszinierendsten Figuren der Piratengeschichte – neu interpretiert, atmosphärisch dicht und aus weiblicher Perspektive. Im frühen 18. Jahrhundert wächst Anne Bonny als Tochter eines irischen Anwalts in den britischen Kolonien auf. Schon als Kind widersetzt sie sich den engen Rollenbildern ihrer Zeit. Während man sie zu Gehorsam und Anpassung erziehen will, lernt sie heimlich Reiten, Fechten und den Umgang ...

There are three things I know for sure.One, hot wax on the coochie ain’t for everybody.Two, diamonds aren’t a girl’s best friend—tampons are.And three, Tanner Morgan is an asshole.I’m sure if I hadn’t spilled beer all over him and gave a subtle suggestion of where he could shove his best friend’s dick, perhaps we would have started out on a better note. How was I supposed to know that the dude was the captain of Bradford Private’s precious football team? I h...

Who said prison was going to stop me from getting what I wanted?I thought breaking out of there was going to be the hardest thing I ever did. I should have known. Being the leader of The Black Widows is never that easy. Someone should have warned me that the woman I was about to kidnap was going to bring me to my knees.She knows I’m coming for her, and this time, she won’t be slipping through my fingers.I’m going to destroy her, and only then will I make her mine.

Newly revised and expanded, The New York Bartender's Guide includes even more tips, trends, and tasty recipes from the hottest bars in New York City. Featuring more than 1,300 alcoholic and non-alcoholic drink recipes, there's something here for everyone, whether it's the hottest vodka cocktail or the most traditional egg cream. Find out the latest trends from top bartenders, get tips on how to serve drinks either professionally or at home, and make some of the most delicious pota...

Never has a king created such controversy down the centuries as Richard III, whose remains were recently unearthed under a car park in Leicester. This discovery and subsequent analysis of the skeleton inspired this meticulously researched, yet lovingly crafted, story of Richard’s short life. Anne Easter Smith has studied this king and his period for several decades and has given us a compelling and real portrait of a three-dimensional man of his time—neither saint nor Shakespeare’s monster...

Anne Perry’s new Christmas novel is an irresistible tale of love, betrayal, greed, murder, and selfless devotion. For the first time, Perry’s annual yuletide offering is set in New York City—a sparkling young metropolis bursting with life, promise, and subtle menace.The year is 1904. Twenty-three-year-old Jemima Pitt, the daughter of Thomas Pitt, head of Britain’s Special Branch, is crossing the Atlantic. She is traveling with an acquaintance, Delphinia Cardew, who is to marry the ...

Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of power, privilege and breeding in which the titled, land-owning governing class had barricaded itself for so long was breached. The incomers were a group of young women who, fifty years earlier, would have been looked on as the alien denizens of another world - the New World, to be precise. From 1874 - the year that Jennie Jerome, the first known '...