Barbie Forever: Her Inspiration, History, and Legacy presents a detailed, full-color portrait of this beloved doll through all-new interviews, original sketches, vintage photos, advertisements, and much more. A double-sided foldout timeline showcases important moments in Barbie history. Explore how the doll came to be, what it takes to create one of her...

In engaging prose as smooth and colourful as her Juno-nominated melodies, Dayna Manning’s memoir provides a window into the world of her songwriting. In Many Moons, Manning depicts her collaborations with Canadian legends such as Burton Cummings, Chris Hadfield, and William Lishman, providing readers with an intimate view of a musician's life and up-close...

'What is your idea of perfect happiness?'
'Reading.'

'What is the quality you most like in a man?'
'The ability to return books.'

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Madame Bovary to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the...

'I have been waiting for this book my entire life. It's brilliant.' - Claudia Winkleman

'A genius book. So funny, so wise, so cool and above all so USEFUL. I couldn't love it more. I am buying it for every one of my friends.' - India Knight

'I'm absolutely fine but I slightly need to pee, I followed the road less travelled and now I don't know where the...

When 20-year-old Odetta Holmes—classically trained as a vocalist and poised to become “the next Marian Anderson”—veered away from both opera and musical theater in favor of performing politically charged field hollers, prison songs, work songs, and folk tunes before mixed-race audiences in 1950s coffee houses, she was making one of the most portentous...

Of the many girl-groups that came out of the 1960s, none is more idiosyncratic and influential than the Shangri-Las. They were together only five years, but within that time they subverted pop standards and foreshadowed a generation of tough women in music. Critically, they are not lauded in the way of the Ronettes, and they are certainly not a household...

By 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like “The Waiting” and “Refugee.” Petty’s response to his restlessness was Southern Accents. Initially conceived as a concept album about the American South, Southern Accents’s marathon...

If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? This anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. It explores often overlooked and underrated albums that may not have inspired their 33 1/3 books, but have played...

Clark is Tanner's happy-go-lucky pup who loves a good belly scratch, but doesn't like going to the dog park. There are too many dogs, too much commotion, and Clark is scared to make new friends. But when a beautiful dog surprises Clark at the water bowl, he'll have to learn to face his fears if he wants to play fetch. Can Tanner help Clark find the...

When James Clipper, a retired merchant navy captain is nicknamed Granddad Bracey, after teaching his grandson Peter how to swing from the ceiling on his braces, he little realises that it will involve them in an epic adventure on a far-away planet called Seven Seas, where his granddaughter Sally, has to battle against all the odds to save her mother’s life.

When a trusting young rabbit called Startup sets out to help his wildlife friends, he little expects to find himself being enticed by a slinky looking rabbit called Lola, and ends up in a life or death struggle to stop King Freddie and a horde of brown rats take over his beloved Hookwood.

In Unofficial Minecraft Life Hacks Lab for Kids, Adam Clarke (aka Wizard Keen) and Victoria Bennett offer projects and gameplay that will guide you to make great choices as a player and a person.

Minecraft is an amazing game that stimulates your creativity as you build whatever you can imagine, but it’s also great for learning about how to be a good citizen...

Scott has played over 500 concerts at hundreds of venues spanning almost two decades. From performing to the bar staff at strip mall dive bars, to a sold-out show with members of The Misfits and the Ramones, 33 Percent Rockstar: Music, Heartbreak and the Pursuit of Rock Stardom is about the love of music and life as a struggling musician. It is the true...

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*Brand new interviews with Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Nanette's Hannah Gadsby*

'Everything you wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask' Emma Thompson

Why do we find it so hard to say 'No'?
What does poker teach us about power structures?
How can feminism be more inclusive?

The Guilty Feminist will challenge you...

It began as a simple idea, the retelling of the four of us from Indiana's rock music adventures in the wild and chaotic West Coast of the mid-1960s for friends and family. It turned into a memoir of our story as seen and experienced through my eyes, and-in the end, it became what it had always been--A LOVE STORY.

ENCHANTED CONCLUDES A FAST-MOVING...

Advance Chess Inferential Analysis Of Distributive Cognitive Logistics: Hybridization of Poly – Plextics Double Set Game - Book 2, Vol. 1 by Siafa B. Neal is book three in his line of professional chess instruction books.

Learn Advance Chess from a master as Siafa uses diagrams, drawings, illustrations and photos displaying key information about the game...

In the spring of 1943, an a cappella male gospel quartet called the Kings of Harmony cut the first of many sides for the new King Solomon Records, a subsidiary of Savoy Records, itself a newcomer specializing in the emerging sounds of bebop. Unbeknownst to the quartet or to Savoy at the time, they were kick starting what would become one of the most...

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'I've never read a book like Jailbirds before - which shows quite how much we need it. It's very funny and important and reminds us that women in jail are still women worth listening to. I'm only grateful - for them, and for us - that Mim was listening.' PANDORA SYKES

'Mim's warmth and understanding make for a humane, sometimes...

Emotionally complex and gripping, author RKC Puthran brings you an unforgettable story of the transcendental power of love.

Fresh out of college with an MBA and a job at a prestigious bank in the US, Rohan Rai seemingly has more than any twenty-five-year old Indian could have. But he has a different dream for his life, and a clear-cut plan to get there. A...

Ike Holter’s Sender thrives on the contrast between order and chaos and the tensions that emerge as we leave childhood and adolescence behind to contend with the demands of “adulting.” In this comedy, Holter presents us with four millennial friends wrestling with these issues. While each is at a different stage of “growing up,” one of the friends has...

36 TRUE STORIES ABOUT THE BIG APPLE'S COLORFUL CITIZENS AND UNIQUE GRIT THAT SPANS 55 YEARS AND FIVE BOROUGHS.

An accomplished storyteller with a New York accent, M.G. Crisci portrays his experiences with people, their struggles, triumphs, loves and jealousies that meandered through his extraordinary life.

It is said that you can't take New York out of a New...