With seasonal pictures to celebrate the arrival of Spring, this is an engaging book to share with babies and toddlers. There are chicks, bunnies, spring flowers and photographs of other familiar Spring things to look at, and the pages have different touch-and-feel textures, which little fingers will love to explore.

THE STORY: As the New York Post outlines: It is set in a real Rome. A Rome you really miss...It is set there because a young, conservative, slightly stuffy American businessman has come to retrieve the body of his father, who was killed in an

Explore the joys of Spring with this sturdy sensory book. It's specially designed to stimulate babies with colourful pictures, activities and textures to feel. These fun, simple, Spring-themed activities encourage babies to interact with the book through sight, sound and touch. With lots of bright pictures and engaging novelties to enjoy together, this is the perfect sensory experience to share with young children.

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The World Made by Hand postapocalyptic saga concludes with this “suspenseful tale spiked with suffering and violence, rough justice and love” (Booklist). The small town of Union Grove has adapted, struggled, and thrived in the new age of civilization. But early spring is full of hardships: Fresh food is scarce and the winter stores are almost gone. Despite the time of privation, young explorer Daniel Earle resurrects the town newspaper, and the town trustees ask him to help revive the Hudson River trade route. But even as the townsfolk strive forward, a group of visitors remind them that nothing is easy in the new world. They proclaim themselves as representatives of the Berkshire People’s Republic, spouting high-minded, near-fanatical rhetoric of social justice and absolute equality—all while demanding tribute from the citizens under slyly veiled threats. Now, the townspeople of Union Grove will have to decide just how far they are willing to go to keep the freedom and peace for which they have fought so hard . . . With this glimpse into a future that could become reality all too soon, James Howard Kunstler delivers “a slyly folksy, caustically hilarious, unabashedly proselytizing, and affecting finale in a keenly provocative saga.” (Booklist).

This award-winning cultural history reveals how the Great War changed humanity. This sweeping volume probes the origins, the impact, and the aftermath of World War I—from the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913 to the death of Hitler in 1945. “The Great War,” as Modris Eksteins writes, “was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole. The urge to create and the urge to destroy had changed places.” In this “bold and fertile book” (The Atlantic Monthly), Eksteins goes on to chart the seismic shifts in human consciousness brought about by this great cataclysm, through the lives and words of ordinary people, works of literature, and such events as Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight and the publication of the first modern bestseller, All Quiet on the Western Front. Rites of Spring is a rare and remarkable work, a cultural history that redefines the way we look at our past—and toward our future.

The Cycle of Spring (1919) is a play by Rabindranath Tagore. Translated into English by Tagore after he received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Cycle of Spring is a powerful and playful meditation on the cycle of nature, the ethics of leadership, and the regenerative function of art. Spring has arrived and the people are joyous, making music and preparing to celebrate the end of a harsh winter. At the palace, however, the King has discovered two grey hairs, cause for despair in a man obsessed with maintaining a youthful image. As his advisors attempt to focus his attention—a famine in Nagapatam requires his immediate intervention; an ambassador from China has arrived—the King summons the court Poet. Tasked with staging a performance for his majesty, the bard puts on a symbolic performance with the hope of inspiring a renewed sense of energy in the palace. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Rabindranath Tagore’s The Cycle of Spring is a classic of Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.

“Blood in the bones, destruction in the stars. The Shades of Spring shall awaken with the Death of Summer, the Tree of Life shall split in two, the Crown of Roses shall fall, and the Heart of the Halvard shall fail.” When a cryptic prophecy is uttered by their Seer before his death, Halvard Chief Leymon knows that he should take it seriously. But what is most important is to find the next Halvard Seer. When his quest takes him to the lands of the wizards, Leymon learns that the next Seer is a child, and a twin. Twins are scared and no one should separate them. But the Seer’s sister has magic and no Halvard would accept her. Yet Leymon has no choice, and he’s willing to bend the rules till he sees the child, and her magic heals him. Halvard have no magic, are immune to it, and it is impossible for someone to heal him…unless they share his blood. Leymon learns that the children are his own, from a past relationship with the Cailern Queen. Who is also here, with her husband, to claim the children. To unravel the prophecy, Leymon has to travel to the sacred grove called Summer with the Cailern Queen and her husband. Can he come to terms with the wounds of his past to deal with the growing threat that stalks them? Shades of Spring is an epic fantasy novel and the first in the Shades of Spring series. If you like world ending stakes, magic, mysterious prophecies, hidden identities, flawed characters and emotional conflicts, you will enjoy this book.