About the Book Herbie is a frog with yellow spots that is laughed at and never picked for games. He does not realize or understand any differences between him and his classmates. In one eventful day, everything changes for Herbie when he helps save another frog from danger. About the Author Sylvia Morales Moffett is a proud single mother of two young adults. She loves to sing and play Latin percussion in her church band. She has obtained her EdS in Higher Education Administration and currently teaches Spanish in a high school. She taught English at a university in Asia and enjoys taking time to travel when possible. Sylvia is also a talented artist and has passed down her love for writing, art, and music to her daughters.

Prodigals, a memoir inessays, explores the life of Sarah Beth Childers'swildly creative brother, who committed suicide at twenty-two, and her life with him and after him, through the lens of the Biblical parable of the Prodigal Son. This book examines the ways Childers's brother's story was both universal and uniquely Appalachian. While the archetype of the prodigal son carries all its assumed baggage, the Appalachian setting of Prodigals brings its own influences.Childers foregrounds the Appalachian landscape in her narrative, depicting its hardwood forests, winding roads, mining-stained creeks and rivers, hill-clinging goats and cows, neighborhoods and trailer parks tucked between mountains. The Childers family's fervent religious faith and resistance to medical intervention seemsnormal in this world, as doestheir conflicting desires to both escape from Appalachia and to stay forever at home. Weaving in the stories of other famous prodigals, including Branwell Brontë, the alcoholic brother of the Brontë sisters; Jimmy Swaggart, the fallen televangelist;Robert Crumb, her brother's beloved author of sexist and racist comic books; and even herself, Childers examines the role of the prodigalwithin the intimate tapestry of family life and beyond-to its larger sociocultural meanings.

Series: Written for you Massimo and Maria Grazia are partners both in the real life and in the writing process too. They love writing fantasy stories together, which are intended to readers of all ages. This series comes from the idea of turning the fairytales and the stories they invented for their own children into books.Translator: Alice Frani

This book, designed for kids ages 6-10, features true, character-building stories for kids to enjoy alone or with their parents.

Carl Hiaasen meets Agatha Christie in this funny hard-boiled mystery starring Junior Bender—the thief-turned-PI hailed as “the clown prince of crime fiction” (Suspense Magazine). In present-day L.A., Junior faces a murderous conspiracy—and the increasingly confusing legacy of his burglar-mentor, Herbie Mott. It’s everyday business when Wattles, the San Fernando Valley’s top “executive crook,” sets up a hit. He establishes a chain of criminals to pass along the instructions and the money, ensuring that the hitter doesn’t know who hired him. But one day Wattles finds his office safe open and a single item missing: the piece of paper on which he has written the names of the crooks in the chain. When people associated with the chain begin to pop up dead, the only person Wattles can approach to solve his problem is Junior Bender, professional burglar and begrudging private eye for crooks. But Junior already knows exactly who took Wattles’s list: the signature is too obvious. It was Herbie Mott, Junior’s burglar mentor—and when Junior seeks him out to discuss the missing list, he finds Herbie very unpleasantly murdered. Junior follows the links in the chain back toward the killer, and as he does, he learns disturbing secrets from Herbie’s hidden past.

An energetic VW Bug helps a young race car driver follow her dream to compete in NASCAR, in a novelization of the new live-action movie starring Lindsay Lohan.

.Mike overcame various obstacles to realize his dreams. He was born in Nigeria in 1954. After high school, Mike journeyed to U.S.A. in pursuit of education. Mike arrived in Detroit in 1975 as a student with a $500 bank account. .Mike received grants to attend the University of Detroit. After graduating, he moved to Daytona Beach to pursue his Master's. .Mike now lives in West Bloomfield because of the success in the auto industry. When Mike drives up in one of his three luxury vehicles the neighbors are still amazed at his accomplishments. . He constantly tell others how he, who could not speak fluent English, 7000 mile from home, could come to this country and become successful, anything is possible if you do not make excuses. . If you keep a positive outlook, you can change your situation, get up, get a dream and see it come to fruition. Jerry J. Walker an ordained minister since 1996 has traveled to various states ministering to people, God's will for their life. He ardently believes that God has a desire for people to reach their highest potential in life. Jerry was born and raised in Pontiac Michigan, served in the military, in the United States Army in the early "70's and received an honorable discharge. He is a successful business owner, married for over 16 years, a devoted husband, father and grandfather.

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

This modern picture book teaches us to never underestimate the power of a pint-sized little girl to size-up store clerks, see through the shortcomings of parents and well, rid the video store of MONSTERS! Meet Stella, a character whose tolerance for the intolerable (in this story that means a monster who eats her mother) is very low. Pushed to her limit, this cute little girl explodes into Frankenstella, a kid super-hero of sorts, and gets that nasty monster to burp up her mother and stop lurking in the dark corner of the video store. This hilarious story is powered by high fidelity, digitally inspired art and gets its "I eat monsters for breakfast" attitude from today's empowered kids.