**ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW’S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF *PEOPLE’*S TOP 5 BOOKS OF THE YEARBOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTKIRKUS PRIZE FINALISTNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, Time, Oprah Daily, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Economist, Harper’s Bazaar, The G...

Practical tips, techniques, and exercises to help you become a better actorThis essential guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among acting students and teachers. This updated edition includes a revised section on the subtext of a role, along with detailed explanations of all the methods that actors in training have found indispensable for decades, including:• Emotional memory• Physical actions on stage• Imagination...

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor tells her own story for young readers for the very first time!As the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor has inspired young people around the world to reach for their dreams. But what inspired her? For young Sonia, the answer was books! They were her mirrors, her maps, her friends, and her teachers. They helped her to connect with her family in New York and in Puerto Rico, to deal with her diabetes diagnosis, to...

Gaza: The Story of a Genocide is an urgent and powerful collection of personal testimony, poetry, art, and frontline reportage. Together, these works bear witness to the vast and ongoing destruction in�flicted on the Palestinian people-their lives, their land, and their future.Ahmed Alnaouq recounts the devastating loss of twenty-one family members. Noor Alyacoubi offers a searing reflection on starvation. Mariam Barghouti examines the brutality of Israeli settler violence...

New York Times–bestselling author: A paradigm-shifting guide to moving through fear and embracing what matters most in life—loveWhen we travel at the speed of love, we choose to live in a frequency of unconditional love. Today, most of us travel at the frequency of fear and live with a victim consciousness. When we’re traveling at the fear frequency, no matter how fast we go, we can never get to our destination. The victim consciousness is based on the pre...

Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, is the subject of the sixteenth picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes.This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great--the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational way that works well for the youngest nonfiction ...

In a snap, the apocalypse descends, wiping out almost everything.Almost.A few survivors struggle in the ruins, fighting until the bitter end.After The Fall (A Blaze Ward Presents Special Edition) brings together twenty different visions: some hopeful, some desperate, and some just plain weird. Many different takes on what the world might look like after aliens came down. Or the Elder Gods awakened.Or if Darkness itself just fell.Come join US...

Tales to Grow By will be the perfect companion in the exciting path of becoming, little by little, responsible and happy grownups.Fairy tales are stories that have been passed down through generations. Their ancestral wisdom offers readers a truthful and extensive portrait of human behaviors and human experiences. This is why fairy tales are the perfect tool to teach character education.Tales to Grow by is a new series of books that unlocks the power of fairy tales. Each tale is re...

A true sensory experience, this book invites us to discover the diversity and variability of rare diseases. Using a mixture of different visual art techniques, Lucie Albon’s artwork conveys the full complexity of rare diseases. As each rare disease has a unique impact on each patient, the images created by the artist speak to the viewer in their own unique way.Yet, in the same way that the 26 letters making up the alphabet form the basis of each word, the rare diseases form a commun...

For twenty-five years, Michelle Brock has been the woman everyone depends on—and no one truly sees. Nearly fifty, trapped in a loveless marriage and buried beneath the needs of her husband, children, and career, she finds escape in a secret romance manuscript about a glamorous woman who dares to want more.But when Michelle's private fantasy is published without her permission under the pen name Sonia Davey, everything changes. Her writing becomes an overnight sensation, bringing fam...

A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year* "The Little Red Hen gets an appealing girl-power update...Young makers of all genders will be inspired." --The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, starred reviewRuby's mind is always full of ideas.One day, she finds some old boards and decides to build something. She invites her brothers to help, but they just laugh and tell her she doesn't know how to build."Then I'll learn," she says.And she does!...

A scientific wonder, a tale of friendship, horror and mystery, a trip to space and lessons from nature 51 Scintillating Tales is a diverse blend of the real and the imaginary. These stories by young writers are a reflection of a new generation which is ready to take the world by storm.