Musa and his friends return to share their favorite days of the week and why each one is special to them in this sweet and heartwarming picture book sequel to Our Favorite Day of the Year.Musa is excited to see his classmates at the start of the week, but when he sees Zohra looking sad and asks her why, he discovers Zohra is missing her favorite day of the week! She loves Tuesday, when her neighborhood sanitation workers come around. Musa’s other classmate...

Bound to Get There opens as a brisk, wholesome boy's adventure in the tradition of Alger, Stratemeyer, and Oliver Optic, promising courage, fair play, hard work, and the kind of practical heroism that made American juvenile fiction so popular. Against that energetic backdrop, the story plunges into the hard life of Nick Collins, a resourceful sixteen-year-old orphan cheated by his employer and drawn into danger when he and his friend Frank Alden hear a child in distress. From there the tal...

In a beautiful, durable volume suited to a lifetime of use, here is the all-in-one "bible" on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity-packaged in a handsome display box with a ribbon bookmark. The Prosperity Bible is a one-of-a-kind resource that collects the greatest moneymaking secrets of authors from every field-religion, finance, philosophy, and self-help-and makes them available in an attractive, keepsake edition. This is a book to treasure and ...

Some women accept the life they are given. Sybylla Melvyn refuses.Raised on remote cattle stations before poverty forces her family onto a struggling farm, Sybylla grows up sharp tongued, clever, and utterly unwilling to be quiet. She longs for music, ideas, travel, and purpose, things the narrow world around her insists a girl like her should not want. When a wealthy, steady, devoted man offers her exactly the escape most women would dream of, security, comfort, an end to endless ...

When your living room window starts giving you visions of the future... you better pay attention.Chloe Blake’s campus rental has it all: a retro Victorian vibe, a beautiful picture window, and a perfect view of Ethan Reynolds—the guy who broke her heart and lives across the street. But when disturbing visions of death slide across the panes, she’s convinced she’s glimpsed Ethan’s future. She’ll stop at nothing to change fate and save him… even if it means everyone ...

Love in the Time of Inmates is a gripping novel about courage, loyalty, love, trauma, and the possibility of redemption inside a maximum-security prison.Elaine Bennett has spent more than twenty years teaching incarcerated men, believing that education can change lives. Her world changes when a violent prison riot turns her classroom into a hostage scene. Surrounded by dangerous inmates, fires, violence, and shifting alliances, Elaine must use her experience, coura...

'The Pie King is back with another beauty of a book' Jamie Oliver'What Calum doesn't know about pies is not worth knowing' Angela HartnettFrom the iconic Pork Pie to the little-known Buckinghamshire Bacon Badger, in this delicious new book, Calum Franklin, best-selling author of The Pie Room, gives British pies the appreciation they deserve.One of the oldest forms of British cooking, every ...

This book presents the first scholarly account of the life and artistic legacy of the influential École de Paris painter, Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943). In addition to presenting new archival and fieldwork findings, Franklin interrogates and decisively dispels many of the persistent, popular but problematic biographical myths that have dogged the artist and limited interpretation of his works.This book is at once a critical biography and a handbook – with chapters organised bo...

Miles Franklin’s fierce and funny My Brilliant Career is the passionate semi-autobiographical novel of a young woman living in the Australian bush who wants more than the life she’s been given.Sybylla Penelope Melvyn had no intention of accepting the hand she’d been dealt. Living deep in the Australian bush, her family is plunged further into poverty when drought and her father’s bad decisions carry them from their station at Bruggabrong to a struggling da...

Could the boy next door be the man of her dreams?She’s broke, broken-hearted, and moving back in with her mother, but Violet Chalmers isn’t one to feel sorry for herself.Nope. Vi picks herself up, dusts herself off, and takes a job teaching drama at her old high school.Okay, so maybe she feels a little sorry for herself.Enter her best friend, Kade. He’s there like he’s always been, making her laugh, singing her songs, and letting he...

Everything is true. Some of it will eat you.Exiled from Asgard once and for all, former Norse-god and current tech CEO Lain Laufeyjarson is working on settling back into mortal life with his friends, family, and company. Nothing is that simple, however, and an encounter with a cursed webseries sees him head to Melbourne to investigate what seems to be the birth of a new Wyrdborn.Ngoc Bich's life, meanwhile, was upended when her best friend and co-c...

After shredding a Prada for a costume, Shirley Manchester fears she opened a portal to hell. With a fashion designer out for revenge hot on her heels, a secret admirer on a mission to evict her from the pool of eligible bachelorettes, and a relentless streak of bad luck, surviving through Halloween is turning into a sketchy proposition.Next time, Shirley will remember there are better ways to dodge an unwanted advance than kissing a random stranger.Escaping the party turns ...