Five lavishly illustrated spreads, big, recessed flaps and a whole host of familiar garden birds to spot, name and mimic combine in this delightful little board book for the very young.A stunning series of casebound, lift-the-flap board books for babies and toddlers Spot where the bird is hiding in the garden, lift the flap, then join in with the noise it makes! With sturdy, easy-to-grab board flaps across five spreads and a double, surprise flap on the last page! This series is perfect for children who are just starting to talk!
It was a story that Cassie Bowman couldn't resist:Lore Rivera loved two men - until one of them shot the other...'A special novel' CHRIS WHITAKER'One of the summer's buzziest debut novels' GOODREADS'A fantastic debut' WASHINGTON POST'I absolutely loved it' ASHLEY AUDRAIN'A masterful work of suspense' POPSUGAR*****Lore Rivera was married to two men at once, until on a baking hot day in 1986, one of them found out and shot the other. A secret double life, a tragic murder. That's the story the world knows.It's not the story that fascinates Cassie Bowman.Carrying the weight of her own family tragedy, true-crime writer Cassie wants to know more about the mysterious woman at the heart of it all, Lore.How did one woman fall in love with two different men? How did she balance the love and the lies?To her surprise, Cassie finds that Lore is willing to talk. To finally tell her heartbreaking story - about how a dance became an affair; how a marriage became a murder.As the two women grow closer,
In a rhyming text, presents pairs of homophones with two very different meanings, encouraging the reader to think about how the words relate to the images.
Warren Kingsley has retired from bodyguarding. (Or maybe he hasn’t.) Leaving his violent past behind—or not—he enters the dog-eat-dog world of politics. (Or perhaps he doesn’t.) One thing we can s
Intended for current and future foreign language teaching professionals, volumes in the Theory and Practice in Second Language Classroom Instruction series examine issues in teaching and learning in l
A significant movement for Catalan independence has been building since 2010 and in 2015 is bringing Catalonia to a political showdown with the Spanish state. The Catalan language has long been cast a
Carolyn Brown brings her signature southern quirkiness to this original tale of Texas love.One cowboy. One cowgirl. One ranch. Who will win the Double Deuce by the Fourth of July?Adele O'Donnell knew
When we talk about a jazz "standard" we usually mean one of the many songs that jazz musicians repeatedly play as part of their core repertoire. But unlike musical works in the tradition of so-called classical music, standards--whether plucked from the "Great American Songbook" or from recordings by other jazz musicians--are always being transformed in performance. They are rearranged and improvised upon, given new chords and altered melodies. These transformations might be small and seemingly unimportant, or they might be radical revisions. Which raises the question: across all of these various performances, what gives a standard its identity? In Hearing Double author Brian Kane answers that question by offering a new theory of musical works that can account for the unique challenges presented by standards. Building from the bottom up--from the actual practices of jazz musicians toward their philosophical implications--he gives a comprehensive theory of how a standard can undergo radi
Today’s eighteen-year-olds may not know who Mrs. Robinson is, the size of a breadbox, or why going postal refers to a major uproar. Such “retroterms” are words or phrases whose orig
Poetry. YOU ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT THE INTERIOR emerges out of the ontological shock and double- bind of there being a world (rather than nothing at all), and inhabiting this world that "depends on viol
