4 short stories The Little Fox..... How a little fox learned to be proud of himself, and not want to be someone else. The Old Man and the Rapper...... Two people from different age groups must learn to respect, and trust each other in order to save themselves. A Snake is Always a Snake...... A tale of lying and deception. The Tai Chi Fist....... A brash young martial artist is taught a lession about the value of listening.

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Jacob Sam-La Rose has been described as 'a one-man literary industry'. This was Patrick Neate's comment on the BBC Poetry Season website: 'Passionate about poetry and its power to change people's lives, he's a lesson to us all. He's also a damn fine writer.' Already well-known on the UK performance circuit, Sam-La Rose has also spent many years working with young people in schools and comm...

You don't have to be ruthless to get ahead―kindness will get you there fasterFrom the CEO of the Pavilion community, Sam Jacobs, Kind Folks Finish First weaves practical business lessons with fresh perspectives on how you can achieve success. The ideas in this book are backed by the author's personal experience building a nearly $200-million business rooted in kindness, reciprocity, and deeply held values. More than that, they're proven principles that hav...

Behind a hedge of tangled thorns, a palace sleeps, under the powerful spell of a wicked fairy inside is Sleeping Beauty, waiting for the kiss of a handsome prince to awaken her from her long enchantment…Here is a delightful new version of a traditional fairy tale, specially adapted by Lesley Young and carefully worded with lively text to appeal to all young readers. Every magical moment of this classic story is captured in bright, charming pictures making this edition perfect for reading a...

A Year in My Love chronicles an illicit love affair, through all of its unexpected highs, and devastating lows. It expresses profound joy and crippling sadness, but most of all, it expresses my heart.

Advocate for peace and nonviolent revolutionary Gandhi is the 12th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8.As a young man in India, Gandhi saw firsthand how people were treated unfairly. Refusing to accept injustice, he came up with a brilliant way to fight back through quiet, peaceful protest. He took his methods with him from South Africa back to India, where he led a nonviolent revolution that freed his count...

Live Like You Were Dying is the unforgettable story inspired by Tim McGraw's #1 Country Music song of the same name. It weaves a tale of the miracles that happen once you stop being so busy with life that you actually have time to live it.Millions have embraced the song's lyrics. Now experience the inspirational story that will touch your heart and soul.

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If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop -- one of the book's presiding spirits, with her insistence on the provisional, on the moment in which perception is formed, on landscape as action rather than description. The Casual Perfect continues Lavinia Greenlaw's explorations of light a...

An inspirational book for budding authors who have yet to let their fingers fly across the keyboard, or dip plume into ink, but yet who have a burning desire to turn their thoughts into words and influence the world. The author has allowed voids to encourage the potent and powerful creative urges to spring forth from the fertile minds of his readers, although there's a good deal of useful starting advice for the would-be writer too, with examples of some great works. Nowhere else will the ...

This is a story based on domestic animals who lived in a European village and belonged to my wife and myself. Everything in the story was real - even the wicked witch - although her house was not made of gingerbread.In this particular European country, there is a festival in the Spring where the locals dress up in costumes that are made from animal skins. Because of this, any animal with an attractive skin had better watch out!The story was intended for my granddaughter who g...

Strength is a thing we are made of We women carry it on our shoulders And in our minds. The struggle comes in never wanting to quit Never giving up envelops the strength Holding us together. I am STRENGTH I am HEART We are STRONG We play our part. --from I Am, I Have