Documents the experiences of a Syrian immigrant who spent her formative years in Detroit, where she struggled with school bullies and her family traditions before becoming a New York City hair stylist at the height of the punk movement, succumbing to drug addiction and eventually embracing a clean life of peace and redemption. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“aF6JDQAAQBAJ”, 500,400);

How is academia portrayed in children’s literature? This Element ambitiously surveys fictional professors in texts marketed towards children, who are overwhelmingly white and male, tending to be elderly scientists. Professors fall into three stereotypes: the vehicle to explain scientific facts, the baffled genius, and the evil madman. By the late twentieth century, the stereotype of…

A little boy, Tip, escapes from his evil guardian, the witch Mombi, with the help of a walking wooden figure with a jack-o’-lantern head named Jack Pumpkinhead (brought to life with the magic Powder of Life Tip stole from Mombi), as well as a living Sawhorse (created from the same powder). Tip ends up on…

Barbara Walters, arguably the most important woman in the history of television, has had an amazingly full life. In the bestselling Audition, she describes her extraordinary public and private journey. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“kyQtc4gxScUC”, 500,400);

(Five Finger Piano Songbook). This collection contains 8 great tunes arranged in five-finger notation that even very beginners can play and enjoy! Includes the songs: Charlie Brown Theme * Christmas Time Is Here * Great Pumpkin Waltz * Linus and Lucy * Love Will Come * Oh, Good Grief * Schroeder * and Skating, plus…

Ten beautiful holiday songs from this popular contemporary Christian vocal quartet: Angels Medley * The Christmas Song * Don’t Save It All for Christmas Day * Good News * Jesus Born on This Day * Joy (To the World) * Light a Candle * Manger Medley * We Are the Reason * Winter Wonderland. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“n4wEAAAACAAJ”,…

In this candid Hollywood-survival story, the actor who starred in such films as The Lost Boys, Stand By Me and The Goonies comes clean about his past, which included physical, drug and sexual abuse, and opens up about his close friendship with the late Corey Haim. 75,000 first printing. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“ufDxAAAAQBAJ”, 500,400);

In a twenty-fifth-century world in which death is nearly obsolete, thanks to a technology that allows a person’s consciousness to be downloaded into a new body, former U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs, re-sleeved into a new body after a brutal death, finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly far-reaching conspiracy that could have horrifying…

Music and texts of 201 carols for the Christmas season (many in more than one setting), each with copious notes on historical background and performance. An extensive general introduction gives an overview of the history of the carol, and there are a number of appendices dealing with specific areas of the repertory. The book’s approach…