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COMMERCIAL PACKAGE: With charming art, a diverse group of children featured, and die-cuts on the cover and throughout the interior pages, this is the perfect gift for young readers.ILLUSTRATOR BACKLIST: The Growing Hearts series has sold more than 1.7 million copies across all accounts, and even though In My Heart was published in 2014, it continues to sell a great number of copies every Valentine¿s Day and throughout the year.HEARTFELT MESSAGE: The story crafts a supportive and uplifting message for caregivers to share with children, affirming them that they¿re seen and loved in everything they do.

The hilarious true story of the making of the cult classic hit show 30 Rock It¿s hard to remember a time when Tina Fey wasn¿t a star, but back in the early 2000s, she was an SNL writer who was far from a household name. It¿s even harder to remember when Fey¿s sitcom 30 Rock was tanking, but it was¿it premiered in the fall of 2006, and by November, the New York Times wrote that 30 Rock was ¿perilously close to a flop.¿But despite all expectations (including those of some of the cast and crew), Tina Fey¿s eccentric buddy comedy lasted 138 episodes, spanning seven seasons. It resurrected the career of Alec Baldwin, survived an extended absence by Tracy Morgan, and permeated the culture¿ its breakneck pacing, oddball characters, and extremely rich joke writing are deeply beloved by millions of fans. Through more than fifty original interviews with cast, crew, critics, and more, culture writer Mike Roe brings to life the history of the gloriously goofy show that became an all-time classic. The 30 Rock Book has everything in it, from tales of the amazing music still stuck in our heads, to the iconic bit characters that make the show, to all the love and drama of the backstage crew . . . and the creative failures and successes along the way. So grab your night cheese and muffin tops, cuddle up with your slanket against your Japanese body pillow, and settle in for the story of one of the funniest shows in television history.

NEEDED CONTENT: Inviting readers to look back on the past year, Measuring a Year is a great read for Rosh Hashanah¿filling a much-needed gap in the market.AUTHOR¿S NOTE: Includes an author¿s note to give additional context on the holiday and its customs.INVITING ILLUSTRATIONS: González Hoang¿s warm and vibrant art style is a perfect match for the preschool age group.

LITERARY CRED: Barba is senior editor for the New York Review of Books, bringing a wealth of connections and knowledge to the project. She is the author of Fair Sun (2017) and geode (2020), a finalist for the New England Book Awards and the Massachusetts Book Award.CONNECTED ILLUSTRATOR: The illustrator Leanne Shapton is a revered artist and writer. She has created book covers for Sheila Heti, Chuck Palahniuk, and Alice Munro, and her book Swimming Studies won the National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. She has more than 11,000 followers on Instagram and connections to the New York Times.CULTURAL RELEVANCY: Wildflowers have never been more endangered or more in need of renewed attention and conservation efforts. The authors have partnered with the Oak Spring Garden Foundation of Upperville, Virginia, who will be eager to help promote the book on publication.

From the creator of the popular website and Instagram@psimadethis comesa how-to craft and creativity book for parents and kids

Designer Natalie Chanin blends embroidery and hand-sewing techniques with her own personal story in this empowering guide for all who love stitching and handcraft Embroidery: Threads and Stories from Alabama Chanin and The School of Making mixes lessons in sewing, design, and embroidery with Natalie Chanin's engaging, personal story of the evolution of Alabama Chanin and the indelible mark the techniques she pioneered and the company she founded have made on the sewing and fashion industry. Chapters explore design-related themes¿craft, technique, relationship, repeat, and color¿through images, instruction, and stories from Chanin about her life, Alabama Chanin, and the evolving view of craft and hand-sewing in the modern world. The book also explores how sewing and embroidery relate to wider concerns of sustainability, community, and women¿s empowerment. As makers, we tend to learn different stitches over time without thinking much about how they relate to one another. Embroidery not only makes understanding complex stitches and techniques easy, it also challenges us to go deeper by examining the history of a beloved company and cherished pastime.

BESTSELLING AUTHOR: Auxier is an award-winning author beloved by booksellers and librarians. His novel The Night Gardener was a New York Times bestseller, and his latest novel, Sweep, received a dazzling six starred reviews.ACCESSIBLE ADVENTURES: Highly illustrated in full-color, these books are great for sharing at story time and perfect for emerging readers to try on their own.EVERGREEN THEMES: Each story explores familiar themes for chapter book readers, such as friendship, courage, and standing up for what¿s right.

¿An illuminating exploration of the rich and varied history¿and myriad health benefits¿of fasting.¿ ¿Wall Street JournalWhen should we eat, and when shouldn¿t we? The answers to these simple questions are not what you might expect. As Steve Hendricks shows in The Oldest Cure in the World, stop eating long enough, and yoüll set in motion cellular repairs that can slow aging and prevent and reverse diseases like diabetes and hypertension. Fasting has improved the lives of people with epilepsy, asthma, and arthritis, and has even protected patients from the worst of chemotherapy¿s side effects.But for such an elegant and effective treatment, fasting has had a surprisingly long and fraught history. From the earliest days of humanity and the Greek fathers of medicine through Christianity¿s ¿fasting saints¿ and a 19th-century doctor whose stupendous 40-day fast on a New York City stage inaugurated the modern era of therapeutic fasting, Hendricks takes readers on a rich and comprehensive tour. Threaded throughout are Hendricks¿s own adventures in fasting, including a stay at a luxurious fasting clinic in Germany and in a more spartan one closer to home in Northern California. This is a playful, insightful, and persuasive exploration of our bodies and when we should¿and should not¿feed them.

A brilliant, entertaining deconstruction of basketball, drawing on the expertise of board-game creators, winemakers, therapists, and more Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the world¿an insanely complicated game built on a combination of athleticism, craftiness, rules, intangibles, and superstardom. However, while it¿s enjoyable to watch, the real reason it works is because it¿s a game of culture, art, and all the things that make us human.How to Watch Basketball Like a Genius deconstructs the sport from top to bottom and then puts it back together again, detailing its intricacies through reporting and dozens of interviews with experts. These experts, however, are a diverse group: wine critics weighing in on LeBron¿s ability to delegate on the fly, magicians analyzing Kyrie Irving¿s mystifying dribbling techniques, SpaceX rocket scientists breaking down Steph Curry¿s deadeye three-point shooting. Every chapter treats basketball to a multi-disciplined study that adventures far beyond the lines of the court, examining key elements of the sport from some surprising and revealing angles. There¿s a reason it has conquered the world, and every game is a chance to learn about pop culture, fashion, history, science, art, and anything else that bounces our way.

ARTIST SHOWCASE: Selections from Jim Lee¿s rarely seen original art for the card set will appear alongside complete reproductions of the fronts and backs of all 105 original cards. This book will be an essential resource for X-Men and general comic book fans alike. ANNIVERSARY OF A LEGACY BRAND: Thirty years after Jim Lee¿s record-breaking issues of X-Men volume 2, the X-Men remain one of Marvel¿s hottest properties. Nostalgia for the ¿90s-era team in particular continues as more and more fans rediscover ­X-Men: The Animated Series on Disney+ (and anticipate the team¿s upcoming introduction into the MCU). HIGH-PROFILE INDUSTRY TALENT: Behind-the-scenes stories from Jim Lee, Paul Mounts, Tom DeFalco, Bob Harras, and many other Marvel luminaries give fans a look at the inner workings of the Special Projects and X-Men editorial team of the early ¿90s. COLLECTOR INTEREST: As secondary market prices within the collectibles market continue to rise, this book will serve as a handy and affordable resource for collectors looking for a visual reference guide that also details the history of the cards and the characters featured on them REMASTERED ART: In 2017, Jim Lee¿s art from this card set was used as variant covers on 29 different Marvel Comics, and a selection from that digitally restored and updated imagery will be reproduced in the book

AUTHOR CONNECTIONS: The author is well-connected in literary circles and with writers, including Paul Beatty, Jessi Jezewska Stevens, Gary Shteyngart, and Paul La Farge, all of whom will be approached for support of the book¿s publication.TARGETED AUDIENCE: For readers of David Wong¿s This Book is Full of Spiders, Paul Beatty¿s The Sellout, George Saunders's CivilWarLand in Bad Decline and Lincoln in the Bardo, and Neal Stephenson¿s Snow Crash.SATIRE AS AUTHOR¿S BRAND: Dayle is a political performance artist whose most recent stunt¿a series of satirical political mailers skewering the New York City mayoral candidates¿was shared on Twitter thousands of times and amassed nearly 50,000 likes.

A deeply moving and painfully honest memoir from the trailblazing, World Cup¿winning, Olympic gold medalist, and US Women¿s soccer goalie Briana ScurryBriana Scurry was a pioneer on the US Women¿s National Team. She won gold in Atlanta in 1996, the first time women¿s soccer was ever played in the Olympics. She was a key part of the fabled ¿99ers,¿ making an epic save in the decisive penalty-kick shootout in the final. Scurry captured her second Olympic gold in 2004, cementing her status as one of the premier players in the world. She was the only Black player on the team, and she was also the first player to be openly gay. It was a singularly amazing ride, one that Scurry handled with her trademark generosity and class¿qualities that made her one of the most popular players ever to wear a US jersey.But Scurry¿s storybook career ended in 2010 when a knee to the head left her with severe head trauma. She was labeled ¿temporarily totally disabled,¿ and the reality was even worse. She spiraled into depression, debt, and endured such pain that she closed out her closest friends and soccer soulmates. She pawned her gold medals. She walked to the edge of a waterfall and contemplated suicide. It seemed like the only way out until Scurry made her greatest save of all.A memoir of startling candor, My Greatest Save is a story of triumph, tragedy, and redemption from a woman who has broken through barriers her entire life.

The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the countercultural movement from the 1960s, ΓÇÖ70s, and ΓÇÖ80s that forever changed comicsIn Dirty Pictures: How Nerds, Feminists, Bikers, and Potheads Revolutionized Comix, author and journalist Brian Doherty tells the wild history of the outlaw, outsider, and sometimes illegal world of Underground Comix. This subterranean subgenre of comic strips and books was printed in lofts on out-of-date machinery, published in handbound zines and underground newspapers, and distributed in headshops, porno stores, and on street corners. ComixΓÇöspelled that way to distinguish the work from its dime-store superhero contemporariesΓÇöpresented tales of illicit sex, casual drug use, and a transgressive view of American society that was embraced by hippies, the fine-art world, and legions of future creatives. With a narrative that weaves together the stories of Harvey Kurtzman, R. Crumb, Trina Robbins, Spain Rodriguez, and Art Spiegelman, among many others, Doherty details, in the first complete narrative history of this movement, the local scenes that sprang up in the 1960s and ΓÇÖ70s in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Chicago, and provides insight into the rivalries, ideological battles, and conflicts that flourished.The book begins with the artistsΓÇÖ origin stories and follows them through major successes, including SpiegelmanΓÇÖs Pulitzer PrizeΓÇôwinning Maus and RobbinsΓÇÖs WimmenΓÇÖs Comix, and tragedies, from S. Clay WilsonΓÇÖs spiral into alcohol abuse that resulted in career-ending brain damage to CrumbΓÇÖs neurotic running from his own success (and his use of controversial race and gender imagery), and ends with an examination of these creatorsΓÇÖ legacies. Dirty Pictures is the essential exploration of a truly American art form that recontextualized the way people thought about war, race, sex, gender, and expression.

Celebrate Halloween with the Owl family in this joyful, rhyming picture bookFollow along with the Owl family on Halloween as they plan their costumes, go trick-or-treating, and more! Laura Gehl¿s lively rhyming text and Lydia Nichols¿s vibrant illustrations make for a spirited read.

The enthralling examination of one of the most popular and most intriguing animals in the deep blue seaThe ocean is the last remaining source of profound mystery and discovery on Earth with eighty percent of it still largely unexplored; thus, it is of perennial fascination. In Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, journalist Wendy Williams introduces one of the oceanΓÇÖs most charismatic, monstrous, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants: the squid. More than just calamari, squid species are fascinatingly odd creatures, with much to teach us about our own species, not to mention the obsessive interest so many of us can''t help but have for the enormous beast that is the giant squid, which is quick to attack sperm whales, and even submarines and boats. Williams also examines other equally enthralling cephalopods, including the octopus and the cuttlefish, and explores their otherworldly abilities, such as camouflage and bioluminescence. Kraken takes the reader on a wild ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way answering some riddles about how the human brain works, what intelligence really is, and what monsters lie in the deep. Wendy Williams weaves a rich narrative tapestry around her subject, drawing powerfully on the passions and discoveries of scientists, fisherman, and squid enthusiasts around the world.

THE BEST SHOW: For nearly 20 years, Tom Scharpling has been hosting The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, a three-hour weekly call-in radio show that includes guests like Amy Poehler, John Hodgman, Marc Maron, Jack Black, and John Mulaney as guests and admirers, among countless others.COMEDY ICON: Scharpling regularly makes lists of top comedians and podcasts from publications like the AV Club, Paste Magazine, and Vulture.TV CONNECTIONS: Scharpling was an executive producer of the Emmy Award¿winning show Monk for its eight-year run and wrote 25 episodes. He is also known as the voice of Greg Universe on the hit Cartoon Network program Steven Universe

A spin-off chapter book series in the world of the Flytrap Files, from New York Times bestselling author Tom Angleberger!The latest wacky adventure of DJ Funkyfoot, a Chihuahua who just wants to buttle! In this newest adventure, DJ Funkyfoot finally gets the job of his dreams: as a butler for a very fancy opera star. But as the singing pig's demands get more absurd, so do the disasters. Robbery! Wrecks! Romance! And even . . . rapping?

WELL-CONNECTED AUTHOR: Stosuy has access to a remarkable list of artists who have contributed to the series and will continue to promote it. He has more than 30,000 followers on Twitter, 5,000 followers on Instagram, and is becoming increasing influential through The Creative Independent, with more than 65,000 Instagram followers. ONGOING INTEREST IN CREATIVE SELF-HELP: Books that demystify the creative process are evergreen. Think Julia Cameron¿s The Artist¿s Way, Austin Kleon¿s Steal Like an Artist, and more recently, Adam J. Kurtz¿s Things Are What You Make of Them. BROADLY APPEALING: Stosuy¿s approach sets itself apart by including diverse voices across disciplines and generations. His books appeal not just to makers but to anyone whös interested in what it means to live a creative life.

Black Girls Sew supplies tools, builds skills, and offers encouragement to help young sewists create a powerful sense of self and styleBlack Girls Sew is a nonprofit organization built on strong messaging: teach and empower young girls to take ownership of and have pride in their clothing. Their first book offers the tools, knowledge, and vocabulary to help young people take back their fashion narrative. Black and brown girls and boys need a space where they do not have to encounter misrepresentation of their culture, and this book provides them with a safe space in which to explore their creativity.Primarily the book teaches basic sewing skills and design principles so that readers can create one-of-a-kind looks. By encouraging them to follow their curiosity, rather than telling them what to create, Black Girls Sew helps young fashionistas learn to take risks and explore creative play in clothing design. The way we dress is a means of expression, and by encouraging boys and girls to immerse themselves in the world of fashion, providing projects to create their own wares, and offering historical looks at prominent Black figures who have impacted the industry, Black Girls Sew is a guide for all who are interested in fashion, design, and building their own powerful sense of self and style.

A high-flying YA anthology featuring 13 short stories that turn superhero tropes on their head and offer fresh perspectives on modern mythsTriumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types.This YA anthology features 13 short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistakeΓÇösuperheroes donΓÇÖt have to just be generic handsome white dudes. Everyone in the world, no matter their race, sexual preference, pronouns, or level of ability, has dreamed of flying.Contributors include six New York Times bestselling authors, seven multiple award winners, a founder of We Need Diverse Books, and at least one author with millions of books in print in the U.S. aloneΓÇöand the collection also features illustrations from Colleen DoranΓÇöNew York Times bestselling cartoonist, and artist of the legendary Stan LeeΓÇÖs memoir. The full list of contributors includes: Barry Lyga, Paul Levitz, Sarah MacLean, Lamar Giles, Elizabeth Eulberg, Danielle Paige, Varian Johnson, Joseph Bruchac, Morgan Baden, Matthew Phillion, Anna-Marie McLemore, Sterling Gates, and Axie Oh.

The magic of Disney Princess unfolds with the turn of a page in this one-of-a-kind gift bookThis magical storybook brings the Disney Princesses to life like never before. As you turn the pages, one epic and seamlessly captivating illustration, printed on an accordion fold, moves forward with youΓÇöeach section transitioning into the next. Set to the lyrics of "Starting Now," an all-new song by Brandy for the Ultimate Princess Celebration, this book is the perfect gift for Disney fans both young and young at heart!

Decades in the making, an original graphic novel biography about the life of Joseph Smith, the founder of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. The book discusses all of the monumental moments during Smith's life, including the anti-Mormon threats and violence which caused his followers to move from New York to Ohio, Smith's receiving the divine commandment of plural marriage, his imprisonment, his announcement to run for president of the United States, and his ultimate murder by an angry mob in 1844 at the young age of 38