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This long-awaited companion to Jonah Winter's acclaimed DIEGO features the paintings of young Spanish artist, Ana Juan. This stunning picture book is the perfect gift for art enthusiasts of all ages.When her mother was worn out from caring for her five sisters, her father gave her lessons in brushwork and color. When polio kept her bedridden for nine months, drawing saved her from boredom. When a bus accident left her in unimaginable agony, her paintings expressed her pain and depr...

An epic and addictive roller coaster ride of a romance that’s unforgettably heart-wrenching and jaw-dropping, brought to you by Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best Selling Author, Willow Winters.Our love story isn't a tragedy but it sure as hell started out like one.I grew up in the life, and learned to hate everything in this town.Everything but her. She was my constant through it all.Just a look would tempt and torment.Just a t...

From author Jonah Winter and illustrator Stacy Innerst, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: The Case of R.B.G vs. Inequality is a picture book biography of the great Supreme Court Justice.A New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book of 2017An ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s BookTo become the first female Jewish Supreme Court justice, the unsinkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome countless injustices. Growin...

I’m not always proud of the man I am, but when you grow up in a crime family, there aren’t a lot of options. I do what I have to do, and more than often, I f*cking love it.The power, the women, the money. All of it comes easy to me.Until Becca walked into my office.Everything about her was tempting. Her beautiful eyes that pierced into me, her body that was made for sin.She came to pay off a debt, but I wanted more.So I did what I’ve always done, I t...

A new Dark, Delicious, Deviant Romance coming from the New York Times Bestseller, Pepper Winters.5 x USA Today Bestselling Dark Romance! All books available now!“There was a boy once. A boy who wasn’t strong enough to save me when I was taken.T**here was an owner once. An owner who bought me, entrapped me, and made me his unwilling goddess.”Eleanor Grace is a naïve dreamer. Trusting and young, she believes ...

East Texas, the 1930s—the Great Depression. Award-winning author Jonah Winter's father grew up with seven siblings in a tiny house on the edge of town. In this picture book, Winter shares his family history in a lyrical text that is clear, honest, and utterly accessible to young readers, accompanied by Kimberly Bulcken Root's rich, gorgeous illustrations. Here is a celebration of family and of making do with what you have—a wonderful classroom book that's also perfect for children and pare...

A picture book biography that will inspire readers to dance to their own beats!Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She lived by her own rules and helped to shake up the status quo with wild costumes and a you-can’t-tell-me-no attitude that made her famous. She even had a pet leopard in Paris!From bestselling children’s biographer Jonah Winter and two-time Caldecott Honoree Marjorie Priceman comes a sto...

From Hollywood, California, to Heywood, Arizona, trouble follows her…After her husband’s brutal killing and her fall from the Hollywood elite, the disgraced Samantha Rathbone moves to Heywood hoping to forget her past and live a quiet life of anonymity as Sam Jones.When she takes a job at the local herbal shop, Sage Advice, and the owner is found murdered, Sam is pushed back into the unwanted spotlight when she becomes the number one suspect. As she wades t...

She never believed in ghosts… until one started giving her advice.Bernadette Maxwell runs a charming Sedona bed-and-breakfast that just happens to have a “haunted” reputation. The strange smells? The icy cold spots? Great for business. Totally fake—at least that’s what Bernadette thought.Until an accident leaves her seeing the truth.Her new houseguest is a wisecracking, flower-child ghost… and she’s Bernadette’s grandmother, Ruby.When a gues...

An elderly African American woman, en route to vote, remembers her family’s tumultuous voting history in this picture book honoring the Voting Rights Act of 1965."Moving.... Stirs up a potent mixture of grief, anger, and pride at the history of black people’s fight for access to the ballot box." —The New York TimesAs Lillian, a one-hundred-year-old African American woman, makes a “long haul up a steep hill” to her polling place, sh...

**A New York Times Notable BookA powerful historical picture book about the child of founding father Thomas Jefferson and the enslaved Sally Hemings.**In an evocative first-person account accompanied by exquisite artwork, Winter and Widener tell the story of James Madison Hemings’s childhood at Monticello, and, in doing so, illuminate the many contradictions in Jefferson’s life and legacy. Though Jefferson lived in a mansion, Hemings and his siblings lived in a sin...

Five starred reviews!Mother-son team Jonah and Jeanette Winter bring to life one of the most secretive scientific projects in history—the creation of the atomic bomb—in this “astonishing…beautifully told” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) picture book.At a former boy’s school in the remote desert of New Mexico, the world’s greatest scientists have gathered to work on the “Gadget,” an invention so dangerous and classified they cannot...