A boy who sees mathematics in the stars. A mother who dreams of angels thirty feet tall. A promise made to a bright star — and kept for a lifetime.Born in the village of Bicole in Senegal, Papa Demba Ba grows up seeing spirals, ratios, and distances written across the night sky. When he secretly converts to Islam, his mother discovers his Quran in a shoebox and turns him out of the house. For eight months he sleeps in construction sites and classrooms, eating from ...

Lets meet the seven deadly sins.Pride. Greed. Envy. Anger. Lust Gluttony. Sloth.Surely in life these sins exist. We’ve all committed at least one deadly sin at some point in life, maybe more. And more you shall receive while reading Dante’s Sins. Each story is bound to touch your heart and make you ask yourself; What would I’ve done? How would I have reacted? Be prepared to go on a journey.Here we go.Let Pride introduce you to Katrina whose good looks and soa...

Stand-up is all well and good, but observational humor that's funny and warm may work best in books. And Tom Papa, whose loyal audiences are packed with "date night" couples of all ages, has perfected the form. In We're All In This Together, Papa's thirty-seven short essays tackle these universal American topics, among others:–Love for Your First Car ("To Buy or Lease")–The Truth about Personal Hygiene ("How You Know When It's Time to Go")–Date Nights ("Will Y...

This book " papa" is dedicated to all of our fathers & the beautiful hands comes across and helped us while compiling this beautiful anthology And this book is for all those people who love their partner very much . Also dedicated to the friends whomever came in our lives and gave us such a lovely memories. Last but not the least we want to thank our parents who are always there in our support and never leave our hand in any condition also thanks to all mighty for giving us such a lovely f...

365 days, 365 ways to master mindfulness—a guide for beginnersStart your journey to living better, being present, and acting with intention today. A Year of Mindfulness for Beginners is the perfect choice for people looking to internalize the practice and develop beneficial, lifelong habits.Featuring daily doses of affirmations, exercises, meditations, and inspiring quotes, A Year of Mindfulness for Beginners helps you live in the moment a...

The private, inexplicable and yet universal ways in which families communicate with each other in order to function or at least avoid the urge to hit each other with forks at the dining room table - illuminated by one of America’s favorite family comics.Tom Papa is a comedic polymath: in his stand-up (five Netflix Specials), on his two radio shows (“Come to Papa” and “What a Joke with Papa and Fortune”), his podcast “Breaking Bread...

When his Aunt Becky drags Ben out to Colorado to help with her archeological dig, Lyse, Bell, and Carson tag along. Soon, chaos follows; Lyse is fighting with Bell, Ben is running off, and him and Carson are attacked by a deranged Native American and the scorpions he controls, which only makes their stay a nightmare for his aunt.But when Ben uncovers a map on a dead body the team digs up, he is literally off and running in search of treasure--after all the map has a big X on it.

When Lyse receives an all-expense paid scholarship to East Washington University, she can't wait to check it out. Staying at her friend Sandy's missile silo, her exciting summer vacation soon turns disturbing when she realizes that the neighbors are acting weird, people are watching them, and something strange is going on in the lower levels of the eerie place. Lyse doesn't want to call them monsters but she can think of no other way to describe the frightening roar she heard on the third ...

When Carson Wildermuss overhears two men planning to kill a Princess to get a rock, no one but Ben, his brother, believes him. And why should they? It's only a rock, and as Ben tells him, "There's no royalty in America."Left to their own devises, since their sisters are off doing other things, the boys spring into action, enlisting the aid of two cowardly mutts, Boomer and Slick, to solve this mystery. Only to soon discover that they are way in over their heads.And when they ...

When someone tries to kill Bell's friend, Kimiko Okamoto, the Wildermuss children go in search of her attacker. With the help of Monty, their ape friend, Lyse, Bell, Ben and Carson must first fight--and flee--their way to a truth so unbelievable it can't be true. But before they reach that truth, they'll encounter dinosaurs, smalls one, deadly robots, big ones, and a host of other dangerous and creepy entities that threaten their lives.Yes, strange things are happening at the tech c...

Longing to be free, when Spanky escapes his habitat, he runs into a world nothing like the one he's seen through the distorting lens of television. Unbeknownst to the one-and-a-half-pound platypus, Spanky has lived a sheltered life, but he soon learns there's a lot more to it than the wild exaggerations found in the movies. (And unlike himself, animals don't talk.)A treacherous place, full of deadly beasts, time and again, Spanky battles homesickness, his own ignorance, and the over...

His summons to appear before Congress made Monty Perdi weary. Accused of supporting terrorists and facing a mountain of damning evidence (and a few corrupt congressmen with their own underhanded agendas for destroying him,) Monty needed to act carefully or risk discovery. The grind from maintaining a false identity, a fabricated past, and the subtle wall he kept around his life had placed Monty in the very predicament he'd yearned to avoid--being in the media spotlight, in front of the wor...