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Bird Sounds

Little children will love hearing the birds sing as they press the pages of this enchanting book. Each beautifully illustrated scene has simple text and cut-out shapes to discover, and a sound button to press to hear different bird sounds including baby b

The Fashion Book

The iconic bestseller - showcasing more than 500 of fashion's greatest names from A- Z - now updated in a stunning new edition Revised and updated, this new edition of Phaidon's iconic global bestseller The Fashion Book takes a fresh look at the fashion world and the people who created and inspired it. Spanning two centuries, the entire industry is represented: from designers to photographers,

Monet

An introduction to the work of Claude Monet.

Van Gogh

The career of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90) as a painter was short, but his paintings revolutionized artistic practice and styles. The intensity of his vision, his wonderful sense of colour and the extraordinary boldness of his technique created masterpieces that exercised a profound influence on the art of the twentieth century. There are also enormously popular, and paintings such as The Yellow

The Da Vinci Women: The Untold Feminist Power of Leonardos Art

Leonardo da Vinci was a revolutionary thinker, artist and inventor who has been written about and celebrated for centuries. Lesser known, however, is his revolutionary and empowering portrayal of the modern female, centuries before the first women's liberation movements. Before da Vinci, portraits of women in Italy were still, impersonal and mostly shown in profile.Leonardo pushed the boundaries

Harry Potter: Youre Magical: A Fill-in Book

Let the Harry, Ron, Hermione, or even Hagrid in your own life know how magical you think they are with this one-of-a-kind DIY gift book.This interactive book invites you to fill in what you love about your best friend, with writing prompts inspired by the relationships shown across the Harry Potter series. Once completed, the book becomes a personalized gift that perfectly expresses your

A for Anonymous

A for Anonymous shows how a leaderless band of volunteers successfully used hacktivism to fight for the underdog, embarrass their rich and powerful targets-from Sony and Paypal to the Church of Scientology and Ferguson Police Department-all in the name of freedom of speech and information. Their exploits blurred the distinction between "online" and "reality," and help shape

I Love to Hate Fashion: Real Quotes and Whispers Behind the Runway

Tales of East Africa

Tales of East Africa is a collection of 22 traditional tales from Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Welcome to a world of magical adventure-a place where a boy spares the life of a fearsome monster, a flock of doves brings a girl back from the dead, and a hare wreaks havoc among all the other animals. Translated and transcribed by folklorists and anthropologists in the early 20th century, these

I Know This to Be True: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

TheI Know This to Be True series is a collection of extraordinary figuresfrom diverse backgrounds answering the same questions, as well as sharing theircompelling stories, guiding ideals, and insightful wisdom. Throughouther legal career-spanning nearly five decades-Ruth Bader Ginsburg has been anunwavering force for progress and a leading voice for equality and justice. Witha disarming honesty,

I Know this to be True: Bryan Stevenson

The IKnow This to Be True series is a collection of extraordinary figures fromdiverse backgrounds answering the same questions, as well as sharing theircompelling stories, guiding ideals, and insightful wisdom. BryanStevenson has committed his career to fighting wrongful convictions, systemicpoverty, and mass incarceration-here, he shares the lessons he's learnedthroughout his life.

I Know This to Be True: Nelson Mandela

TheI Know This to Be True series is a collection of extraordinary figuresfrom diverse backgrounds answering the same questions, as well as sharing theircompelling stories, guiding ideals, and insightful wisdom. Incarceratedfor more than twenty-seven years, Nelson Mandela's enduring faith and rise toleadership remains an inspiration to all. Withstories from his closest colleagues paired with his

The Bluest Eye

A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows.

The Pier Falls

The first collection of stories from the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and The Porpoise. 'Terrifically compelling' GuardianA seaside pier collapses.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Chinese Myths and Folk Tales

Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are legends of ancient demons, strange ghosts, magic swords, evil sorcerers, diabolical transformations, flying ogres, fairy foxes,

THE FOUDATION TRILOGY

It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and violence that will last for thirty thousand years. Gathering together a band of courageous men and women, Seldon leads them to a hidden location at

Late to the Party

From author Kelly Quindlen comes a poignant and deeply relatable story about friendship, self-acceptance, and what it means to be a Real Teenager. Late to the Party is an ode to late bloomers and wallflowers everywhere.Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined.She's never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She's never even been kissed. And it's not just because she's gay. It's

Docile

K. M. Szpara's Docile is a science fiction parable about love and sex, wealth and debt, abuse and power, a challenging tour de force that at turns seduces and startles. There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of your service.

Comics Will Break Your Heart

Comics Will Break Your Heart is a sweet, funny contemporary teen romance for the inner geek in all of us from graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks. Miriam's family should be rich. After all, her grandfather was the co-creator of smash-hit comics series The TomorrowMen. But he sold his rights to the series to his co-creator in the 1960s for practically nothing, and now that's what Miriam has: