New York Public Library Book for the TeenagerNew York Public Library Book to RememberPSLA Young Adult Top 40 Nonfiction Titles of the Year"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesBehold the rat, dirty and disgusting! Robert Sullivan turns the lowly rat into the star of this most perversely intriguing, remark...

Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. In My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan delves into this first Middle America, digging for a glorious, heroic part of the past in the urban, suburban, and sometimes even rural landscape of tod...

Charlie Mularczyk liked his job. He liked living on the island. And he liked working for the Parks Service. Life on the island had a little bit of everything: indoors, outdoors, water, sun, sand. In a one-man office, he was his own boss – at least when the suits and pencil-necks weren't on the prowl – he set his own timetable, and the weather was terrific. It was all upside. Or was it?For years Uncle Cec and Uncle Eck had been trying to convince him that there were dangers in parad...

God's presence and love is always available, but we have to search for it and respond to it once we've found it.People have repeatedly said to the author, "I don't feel God's presence and love in my life." Finding & Responding to God's Presence & Love teaches people how to search for and respond to God's presence and love in their lives because we're created to be in a loving relationship with God, self, and others.

A Jersey Boys book. A Jersey Boys story. A Broadway memoir. A how-to guide to making it on Broadway. Everyone's heard of JERSEY BOYS. Thirteen million people have seen the show, totaling more than $1 billion in worldwide ticket sales. The cast members have performed on Oprah , the Today show, Dancing with the Stars, and at the Emmy Awards. Their recording has gone Platinum, selling more than a million copies in the United States alone. There are six companies performing it around the world...

After rejoining social media, Robert Sullivan wrote and posted a poem a day over two and a half months – the poems collected in Hopurangi— Songcatcher. Inspired by the cyclical energies of the Maramataka, these poems see the poet re-finding himself and his world – in the matauranga of his kuia from the Ngati Hau and Ngati Kaharau hapu of Ngapuhi; in his mother' s stories from his Ngati Manu hapu at Karetu; in the singing and storytelling at Puketeraki Marae, home of his father' s people of...

Some people are just naturally good at not getting rich. They didn't buy Microsoft when a friend mentioned that he was helping start up a new software company. They sold their apartment in Manhattan for a song in the seventies, instinctively believing the real estate market would never, ever come back. These people have built-in wealth prevention systems that steer them safely away from big money even in the most wealth-rich intersections of their lives.In this book, Robert Sullivan...

Leading a thriving life takes work—it doesn't just happen—and daily reflection and affirmations are an essential part of bringing one's dreams to reality.Your Positive Mindset Playbook is designed to help readers create the life they desire, which begins with what they feed their minds on a daily basis. After writing over 50,000 affirmations of his own, Robert "Sully" Sullivan compiled his top 100, with an application story behind each one. This playbook is for individuals who seek...

One of The New Yorker's best books of the year so far | A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature Book of 2024“Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I’ve read about America . . . in many, many years.” —Corey Seymour, Vogue (a best book of 2024)**“Extraordinary . . . A transformative experience for the reader.” —Lucy Sante“A large-hearted, wide-angled book . . . I couldn't put it down....

Mark Williams was just setting out on his own, a crummy apartment, a lousy job, and a hopeless crush were all he had, then things take a turn for the worse when the zombie apocalypse falls right in his lap. Banding together with a small group of survivors, they must find a way to make it out of the city, but with the military, criminals, a horde of teeth, and maybe some of their own against them, it's not going to be easy. And even if they escape Ashville, who's to say what's left of the w...

Love and the rearticulation of New Zealand mythology from a Polynesian perspective are the central themes of this new collection of Hawaii-based Maori poetry. The poems open up two cultural traditions—a Polynesian oral tradition and a written European tradition—with subjects that range from ancient myths to the complexity and moral ambiguity of the modern world. Poetry lovers will find pleasure in the poems' conceptual energy, constantly yielding surprises and unexpected and imaginative an...

Teddy Roosevelt and the Tomkins Tap team are on full alert. Their casebook is full - someone has made off with the Kongs and Greenies from the Petsville Store in Union Square - Oh no, not the Kongs! - Anna's stiletto has been eaten. Yes! Eaten! And Teddy stands accused. It's a sacrilege! - Jorge and Juan's food truck on 8th is being trashed. Por Favor! - The Williamsburg FoodFest has been robbed six times, and the vendors are frantic. They're going bananas! - The Scotties in Chinatown are ...