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A guide to some of the common problems that children may face; chapters introduce subjects including Bullying, Anxiety and Feeling Misunderstood. Presents complicated topics in a way that is accessible to a younger audience. Opens up conversations between adults and children about emotional wellbeing. Charming illustrations throughout by Lizzy Stewart, winner of the Waterstones Children’s Book Award and the AOI World Illustration Award, for her amazing book[i] There's a Tiger in The Garden Ideal for ages 9+

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This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song. Last Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, the “Duchess of Coolsville” ( Time ) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs – «Chuck-E's in Love,» “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”– but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold and tales of her fabled ancestors. In this tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music are never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades.

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Are you at the top of your game—or still trying to get there? Take your cues from the short, powerful Nine Things Successful People Do Differently , where the strategies and goals of the world’s most successful people are on display—backed by research that shows exactly what has the biggest impact on performance. Here’s a hint: accomplished people reach their goals because of what they do, not just who they are. Readers have called this “a gem of a book.” Get ready to accomplish your goals at last.

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Part family memoir, part lost historical narrative, and part archive of literary and publishing history, Endpapers paints a powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment, and emigration that reaches back in history to the assimilation and anti-Semitism of the early nineteenth century and through the violence of the twentieth century and beyond. Endpapers features the history of a pivotal figure in transatlantic publishing, which is sure to interest reviewers. Kurt Wolff, the author’s grandfather, founded the Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1913 in Germany, where he was the first publisher of many of the works of Franz Kafka, including The Metamorphosis , alongside authors like Émile Zola and Anton Chekhov. When Kurt Wolff emigrated to the United States in 1941, he founded Pantheon Books, which developed a singular reputation for publishing the best European writers, including Boris Pasternak’s Nobel-winning novel Doctor Zhivago, and works by Carl Jung, Giuseppe de Lampedusa, and Günter Grass. Many never-before-recounted details of this publishing history come to life in Endpapers . The Wolff papers have been very closely held by the family for decades, and the author is the first person to investigate them at this level. Much of this literary history has never before been published. Endpapers will appeal to lovers of books that illuminate a historical moment through the lens of a single family, such as New York Times bestseller The Hare with Amber Eyes or My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege. It will also appeal to readers interested in German cultural and intellectual history, fans of books like The Lady in Gold and The Rape of Europa . We will do outreach to known Germanophiles including Jonathan Franzen, who has championed and translated the works of Karl Kraus, one of the most important early authors of the Kurt Wolff Verlag. Alongside Franzen, we hope for support from writers like Ron Chernow, Daniel Mendelsson, Erik Larson, Anna Funder, Alan Furst, Caroline Moorhead, Daniel Kehlmann, Francine Prose, Tom Stoppard, Alexander Waugh, Philippe Sands, Christopher Browning, John Kamper, and authors of The Zhivago Affair Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, among others. We will do outreach to German institutions in the States that work in the literary and cultural spheres, including the administrators of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, awarded each year for a work translated from German into English and published in the USA. We will also do early academic outreach to build on for the paperback. Endpapers contains over fifty family photographs that give faces to the characters in the book, alongside a beautifully illustrated family tree. Grove Press will be publishing in the UK, where the team is already very enthusiastic about the book’s potential, and German rights are under offer. Alexander Wolff served as a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for over thirty years and has written and edited several highly acclaimed and bestselling books on basketball, but this is the first time he is turning to his own family story.

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A riveting debut thriller by Andrea J. Johnson, and the first in the VICTORIA JUSTICE series.
Twenty-five year old Victoria Justice has never really gotten over a near drowning at the hands of a high school bully, but has attempted to build her confidence and career as a court stenographer under the mentorship of The Honorable Frederica Scott Wannamaker, the county's first African-American Superior Court judge.
But when her old nemesis appears on the court docket, Victoria's carefully crafted world implodes—evidence goes missing, a potential mistrial abounds, and the judge winds up drowned in the courthouse bathroom. Victoria realizes her transcript of the proceedings unlocks everyone's secrets…including the murderer's.
Plagued with guilt for failing to protect her mentor, Victoria teams up with Ashton North, the handsome state trooper accused of mishandling trial evidence, and starts to untangle the conspiracy surrounding the case.
Meanwhile, the deputy attorney general hangs himself during the Post-Election Festival. Everyone is quick to accept his suicide note as a sign of guilt, but Victoria is convinced the truth behind her mentor's death lies in the trial transcript. Can she suppress her fears long enough to crack the code, find her voice, and avoid the crosshairs of the killer?

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In Letters of Note: Sex, Shaun Usher collects together some of the most noteworthy missives ever written on the subject, from euphemism-laden, flirtatious exchanges and desire-driven expressions of passion to sincere and thoughtful meditations on the meaning of sex.
Includes letters by: John Cheever, Dorothy Day, Frida Kahlo, Margaret Mead, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Mae West & many more

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In Letters of Note: Space, Shaun Usher brings together fascinating correspondence about the universe beyond our planet, containing hopeful thoughts about the future of space travel, awestruck messages penned about the worlds beyond our own and celebrations of the human ingenuity that has facilitated our understanding of the cosmos.
Includes letters by: Buzz Aldrin, Isaac Asimov, Marion Carpenter, Yuri Gagarin, Ann Druyan, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander Graham Bell, Neil DeGrasse Tyson & many more

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In Letters of Note: Dogs, Shaun Usher brings together a delightful collection of correspondence about our canine friends, featuring affectionate accounts of pups’ playful misdemeanours, heartfelt tributes to loyal fidos and shared tales of remarkable hounds.
Includes letters by: Clara Bow, Bob Hope, Charles Lamb, Sue Perkins, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein, E.B. White & many more

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Modern life is full of minor but acute dilemmas: we get stuck at a gathering with someone unusually boring and wonder how to move on without causing offence; in the course of introducing one friend to another, we realize that we have forgotten one of the party’s names; we run into an ex while on an early date with a new partner; we spill red wine across a host’s sofa … Such dilemmas might—at one level—seem desperately insignificant. But they actually belong to some of the largest and most serious themes in social existence: how can you pursue your own agenda for happiness while at the same time honoring the sensitivities and wishes of others; how can you convey goodwill with sincerity; how can you be kind without being supine or sentimental? The modern age often doesn’t seem to value manners, equating them with an old-fashioned stuffiness, instead we are advised to communicate our feelings and tell it the way it really is. But the result, in practice, is that we are often confused as to how to act around others and discharge our obligations to them. This book puts good manners back at the center of our lives. It features twenty case-studies on common social dilemmas and our possible responses to them, contributing to a new and original philosophy of graceful conduct. Manners are far from negligible fancies; they stand at the day-to-day end of a hugely grand and dignified mission which The School of Life is committed to: the creation of a kinder and more considerate world.

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An in-depth exploration of how secular aspects of religious belief can interact with philosophy, psychotherapy, art, and architecture to enrich our modern lifestyle. Acknowledges the growth of atheism juxtaposed with people’s need for a spiritual dimension to their lives. Offers suggestions and guidance on incorporating simple religious rituals into our everyday lives to offer comfort and solace. Part of a series of giftable essays from The School of Life. Titles include: What is Psychotherapy?; How to Find Love; Self-Knowledge. Beautifully produced, premium gift format.

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