The 50th anniversary celebration of the much-loved Footrot Flats comic strip and its creator, Murray Ball. A must-own for all fans of this iconic series.For those who know and love Wal', Dog, Horse, Cooch, Major, Aunt Dolly, Cheeky Hobson and Rangi, Footrot Flats needs no introduction. But it does need a 50th birthday celebration! This tribute to the iconic series gives old fans and new a chance to enjoy daily life on the farm and share the joy th...

Advent from A to Z invites you on a journey to explore what the season of Advent is all about. Imogen Ball, Philip North and Andrew Zihni offer a total of twenty-four daily reflections, each taking as their starting point a different letter of the alphabet. Together they invite you to discover afresh the people, places, traditions and symbols of Advent. Each day includes a Bible reading, a reflection, an opportunity to respond and a prayer. There are also illustrations for each day as well...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe one and only autobiography by the iconic Lucille Ball, hailed by TV Guide as the “#1 Greatest TV Star of All Time.”Love, Lucy is the valentine Lucille Ball left for her fans—a warm, wise, and witty memoir written by Lucy herself. The legendary star of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy was at the pinnacle of her success when she sat down to record the story of her life. No com...

Founder's Festival Week has come to the sleepy island town of Seaside. But when one of the village's residents ends up dead, it's clear things are not all fun and carnival games. It will be up to Paige, Nate, and Johnny to figure out whodunit.Book Two in the Paige Comber Mystery Series.

Utterly riveting, Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) is the grand opening of her speculative fiction septology, winner of the 2022 Nordic Council Literature Prize (Scandinavia’s most important literary award) for being “a masterpiece of its time.”A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2024A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

A journey into the mysteries and meaning of quantum theory: "Gorgeously lucid text . . . easily the best book I've read on the subject." — The Washington Post"Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Since Niels Bohr said this many years ago, quantum mechanics has only been getting more shocking. We now realize that it's not really telling us that "weird" things happen out of sight, on the tiniest level, in the atomic wor...

After a devastating revelation, a father and son journey across a tapestry of towns in award–winning author Jesse Ball's thought-provoking novel Census.When a widower learns he doesn't have long left to live, he wonders who will care for his adult son whom he fiercely loves—a son with Down syndrome. With no recourse in mind and a desire to see the country, the man becomes a census taker for a mysterious governmental bureau and takes his son on the trip.

Welcome to Seaside! A sleepy, island village filled with sandy beaches, colorful characters... AND MURDER!Paige Comber dreams of running off to Paris to train at the Cordon Bleu, but fresh out of college, she is stuck running her granny's coffee shop in the small town of Seaside. It looks like a lousy summer until a handsome stranger named Nate arrives.He's here to help his Uncle Byron with his affairs, but when his uncle's body washes up on the beach and N...

The Lord commands us in 3 Nephi 23:1 to “search” the “words of Isaiah” diligently. For many, however, understanding the writings of Isaiah seems overwhelming.In this collection of essays, Terry B. Ball shares much of what he has learned through years of teaching and studying Isaiah. With a focus on Isaiah’s teachings about Jesus Christ, prophecies for the latter days, and insights regarding the poetry and language Isaiah uses, these essays will help you better understand the words ...

Decades after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family is reissued by FSG Classics, with a new preface by the author.The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South. Between 1698 and 1865, close to four thousand black people were born into slavery u...

The acclaimed science writer "curates a visually striking, riotously colorful photographic display…of physical patterns in the natural world" ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Though at first glance the natural world may appear overwhelming in its diversity and complexity, there are regularities running through it, from the hexagons of a honeycomb to the spirals of a seashell and the branching veins of a leaf. Revealing the order at the foundation of th...

Virus Taxonomy is a standard and comprehensive source for the classification of viruses, created by the International Committee of the Taxonomy of Viruses. The book includes eight taxonomic reports of the ICTV and provides comprehensive information on 3 taxonomic orders of viruses, 73 families, 9 subfamilies, 287 genera, and 1938 virus species. The book also features about 429 colored pictures and diagrams for more efficient learning. The text is divided into four parts, comprised of 16 ch...