An ode to Black girlhood and adolescence as seen through KB's eyes, What the Fireflies Knew follows KB after her father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit. Soon thereafter, KB and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing, Michigan.
Timothy O’Day knew the woods. Yet when he disappeared on the first night of a bachelor party camping trip with his best friends in the world, he didn’t leave a trace. What he did leave behind were two heartbroken parents, a crew of guilt-ridden groomsmen, and a pile of clues that don’t add up.
Growing up Black in rural North Carolina, Ray McMillian’s life is already mapped out. But Ray has a gift and a dream—he’s determined to become a world-class professional violinist, and nothing will stand in his way.
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU doctor at a busy New York City hospital. The daughter of Chinese parents who came to the United States to secure the American dream for their children, Joan is intensely devoted to her work, happily solitary, successful. She does look up sometimes and wonder where her true roots lie:
Rediscover the superpower that makes good things happen, from the professor behind Yale School of Management's most popular class “The new rules of persuasion for a better world.”—Charles Duhigg, author of the bestsellers The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better You were born influential
One spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulz’s beloved father went into the hospital with a minor heart condition
Political violence rips apart several towns in southwest Texas. A far-right militia plots to kidnap the governor of Michigan and try her for treason. An armed mob of Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists storms the U.S. Capitol. Are these isolated incidents? Or is this the start of something bigger?
Ever since she was adopted from a Sri Lankan orphanage, Paloma has had the best of everything—schools, money, and parents so perfect that she fears she'll never live up to them.
From open floor plans and Zoom calls to Slack channels, the workplace has changed a lot over the years. But there’s one thing that never changes: You’ll always encounter jerks. Jerks at Work is the definitive guide to dealing with - and ultimately breaking free from - the overbearing bosses, irritating coworkers, and all-around difficult people who make work and life miserable.
Now more than ever, you don’t need a fancy office, Ivy League degree, or millions of dollars in venture capital to launch a business that matters for the communities you care most about. Software, the internet, and remote work have made it possible for entrepreneurs to start for free, make a customer of anyone, and grow a profitable, sustainable company from anywhere.
Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace.
With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance.
The future isn’t about where we will work, but how. For years we have struggled to balance work and life, with most of us feeling overwhelmed and burned out because our relationship to work is broken.
The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak--a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes.
A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant considerati
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall.
Upptäck 60 mudror för ökad livsenergi och harmoni!
Mudror är en ofta förbisedd österländsk tradition som tar energin i våra händer på allvar och utnyttjar den för ökad hälsa, livsglädje och harmoni. Om vi förstår hur vi kan kanalisera energin i handen så kan vi skapa oanad förändring i livet. Med enkla handrörelser och handställningar kan vi skapa energiflöden för olika ...
Lär dig använda kristallernas stärkande kraft för att hitta balans i ditt känsloliv, i din kropp och din själ. Här presenteras ett modernt kristallapotek och kurer för 75 olika åkommor som kan drabba kropp, sinne och själ. Om du lider av stress, sömnlöshet, ensamhet eller kärlekssorg eller vad som än inträffar i livet kan boken rekommendera en kristall som kan underlätta.
Ärkeänglar, gudinnor, andedjur, älvor och underbara varelser från mystikens värld lämnar upplyftande budskap och välmenande goda råd för att hjälpa dig att ta dig genom livets alla utmaningar och återfå livsglädjen.
I tusentals år har månen varit vår ständiga följeslagare. Hon uppmuntrar oss att ta vara på möjligheterna som vi får och hjälper oss att släppa taget om det som håller oss tillbaka. Använd de här vackra, kosmiska orakelkorten för att stärka dina manifesteringskrafter och lära dig att dra till dig allt du önskar dig.
Skapad av Yasmin Boland en av våra största auktoriteter inom månens astrologi.
Magiska energier genomsyrar allt i naturen, inklusive oss själva. Vit häxkonst ger oss chansen att komma i kontakt med vår inre kraft och att framkalla dess naturliga, positiva energier för magiska syften. Det är också en plattform för helande och reflektion. I den här boken lär du dig hur veckodagar, väder och månens faser kan påverka och förstärka dina magiska förmågor.
Bliss Bites is a celebration of the taste and flavour sensations that are possible with dairy and refined sugar-free snacks. Kate Bradley, author of bestselling book and successful blog Kenko Kitchen returns with a collection of over 50 gluten-free, vegan and plant-based recipes - some savoury, most sweet, all inventive and delicious.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light comes a "powerful" (The Washington Post) novel about the choices that alter the course of our lives.
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash”. At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a man many times her age - and has to live with the consequences for a lifetime.
The international phenomenon, now in paperback. Quirky and bittersweet, heartbreaking yet outrageously funny, A Man Called Ove is a life-affirming fable for our times.
Emily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment.
Profeten vill säga en sak: Du är större än du själv vet, och det är gott . Kahlil Gibran om Profeten Profeten är en vacker hyllning till livet. Profeten berättar med poetisk glöd om kärlek, äktenskap, glädje och sorg, självkännedom, gott och ont, döden och annat som upptar människors tankar, med en vishet som talar direkt till våra hjärtan och skänker oss sinneslugn i en hektisk värld.
Guds folk är ett reportage om USA:s kristna höger. Om hur den lyckats sätta dagordningen i det amerikanska samhället. Om varför abort- motståndet är ständigt närvarande. Om hur Darwins evolutionsteori blivit så omstridd att republikanska politiker säger sig tro mer på Bibelns skapelseberättelse.
Maria Svelands prosa talar, dialogen är suverän. Trådarna knyts ihop. Våldet och skräcken står i centrum och påverkar hela tiden. Men vi måste ändå fortsätta att leva. Christina Flodman, Nerikes Allehanda En ny, psykologisk roman av Maria Sveland som skildrar fyra kvinnor och deras relationer, i en stad där våldet paralyserar och terroriserar.
Internationell bästsäljare med klaustrofobisk spänning. Tre döda kroppar hittas döda i en pool och frågan är vad som döljer sig bakom den glättiga ytan i det exklusiva området?
"En djävulskt skickligt berättad liten bok. - Dagens nyheter
Tre döda kroppar hittas på botten av en pool i ett exklusivt bostadsområde utanför Buenos Aires.
Inspired by classic Italian packaging and stationery, celebrated designer Louise Fili brings her pencil collection into full color. This fun and stylish set, a companion to Fili's Perfetto Pencils, contains twelve double-sided pencils in six Tutti Frutti shades, ideal for drawing or writing.
This box set brings the light and dark sides of the Force together for the first time. The Jedi Path is the ancient Jedi training handbook that has educated and enlightened generations of Jedi, including Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker. They have handwritten their comments into this text, the only remaining copy in existence
After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move.
Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of th
En illavarslande artikelserie hittas under en husrenovering av den pensionerade polissekreteraren Majken Bladh. Den ärskriven av en ung kvinna som omkommit en bilolycka tillsammans med sin mamma utanför Paris. Trettiosex år senarehittas mammans kropp i Djursholm.
En värdefull källa till information, förändring och manifestation.
Akashakrönikan är som ett andligt bibliotek fullt av information om världen och allt i den - varje person och händelse, förr och nu. Den oändliga visdom och filosofi som finns där kan transformera våra liv, hjälpa oss att läka det förflutna, ta oss igenom dagens utmaningar i livet, släppa blockeringar och ...
An all-new, official prequel novel to The Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard Entertainments next expansion to the critically acclaimed World of Warcraft videogame.
From the author of Never Never, co-written with Colleen Hoover!
#1 New York Times bestselling author Tarryn Fisher delivers a pulse-pounding, fast-paced suspense novel that will leave you breathless—an instant bestselling thriller you won’t be able to put down!
Featuring self-care rituals and hacks, helpful tools, prompts and practices to help you work through various challenges, Astrology SOS will empower you with the knowledge you need as you move across the astrological terrain of life. Welcome to the upgrade you never knew you needed!
Explore the city in Kanto, the mountaintops in Johto, the beach in Alola - and lots more! Re-create epic battles and use your stickers to complete the scenes in the ultimate Pokémon sticker book.
In A Little Bit Country, city girl Rorie falls for cowboy Clay after he rescues her in a small town, but their budding romance faces complications. In Country Bride, heartbroken Kate impulsively proposes to her friend Luke, who insists she truly loves him and vows to prove it. Both stories explore the ups and downs of finding love in the countryside.
Soon to be a major motion picture-Stephen King's terrifying classic.'They float...and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too.'To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live.It was the children who saw - and felt - what made Derry so horribly different. In
From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a sizzling, sweepingly romantic story filled with dangerous secrets, evil twins, and powerful magic. Now in paperback!