Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy

A dynamic new story about how babies make their way in the world―and how grown-ups have tried to make sense of these tiny inscrutable beings.
As a new parent, Nicholas Day had some basic but confounding questions: Why does my son find the straitjacket of his swaddling blanket comforting and not terrifying? How can he never meet a developmental norm and still be OK? And when will he stop sucking my finger? So he went digging for answers. They were not what he expected.
Drawing on a wealth of perspectives―scientific, historical, cross-cultural, personal―Baby Meets World is organized around the mundane activities that dominate the life of an infant: sucking, smiling, touching, toddling. From these everyday activities, Day weaves together an account that is anything but ordinary: a fresh, surprising story, both weird and wondrous, about our first experience of the world.
Part hidden history of parenthood, part secret lives of babies, Baby Meets World steps back from the moment-to-moment chaos of babydom. It allows readers to see infancy anew in all its strangeness and splendor.

History

Day, Nicholas

Historical Study & Educational Resources

St.Martin's Press

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world--and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie!&nbsp;The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all. Here is a middle-grade nonfiction, with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist throughout, written at the pace of a thriller, shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty.

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Random House Studio

A&nbsp;"witty thriller" (The New York Times) for middle-grade readers&nbsp;about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how the robbery made the portrait the most famous artwork in the world--and how the painting by Leonardo da Vinci should never have existed at all. SIBERT MEDAL WINNER *&nbsp;NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Publishers Weekly * School Library Journal * Booklist * Kirkus Reviews * NPR * The New York Public Library * The Chicago Public Library&nbsp;*&nbsp;The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie!&nbsp;The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period of revolutionary change: turn-of-the-century Paris. Walk its backstreets. Meet the infamous thieves--and detectives--of the era. And then slip back further in time and follow Leonardo da Vinci, painter of the Mona Lisa, through his dazzling, wondrously weird life. Discover the secret at the heart of the Mona Lisa--the most famous painting in the world should never have existed at all. Here is a middle-grade nonfiction, with black-and-white illustrations by Brett Helquist throughout, written at the pace of a thriller, shot through with stories of crime and celebrity, genius and beauty.

Imagine… An old house; one that has stood many generations. WAITING… You step inside and begin to explore. Was this a good idea? You begin to doubt, but continue to step deeper within the eerie darkness. Something stirs above. Should you investigate? Wandering, you reach the second floor landing. In the center of the upstairs hall, directly above, you discover a trap door. You know, the one that leads to something so terrible, you dare not think to touch it, much less attempt to open the latch! Nevertheless, you are drawn to inspect further. Something is stirring above… of this, you have no doubt. You stand upon tiptoe, stretching as far as your fingers will allow, until you grasp the cord attached to the door. With a loud creaking, it opens, releasing a set of stairs, descending before you. Gazing up, there is nothing but a black hole. There! Again! That stirring! Against your better judgement, you begin to climb. Sweat forms upon your brow with each step, as your stomach turns sour. Still, you climb. Those few stairs feel an eternity to ascend. There at the top, nothing. Dark and empty… nothing. Your eyes adjust… Wait! Beneath the cobwebs and years of layered dust, stands a long, wooden chest. Is it locked? Hmmm… You step within the musty room. There, propped against the side of the chest, an old metal rod. You pick it up, using it to pry open what should have been left locked away, eternally. Toys! Old toys! Somewhere in the darkness, a melody plays, soft and haunting. A music box? NO! A small carousel is moving beside you, its once colorful horses bobbing in time. You look about. There are toys everywhere! Old, broken, forgotten toys fill this attic room. A doll, cracked skull, hairless, limbs askew, stares from behind one eye, the other an empty, hollow socket. A rocking horse begins to sway in the corner. Toy soldiers, their green metal chipped and rusted. How odd; they appear in battle stance, staring… Suddenly, the trap door closes. Darkness… the stirring… These toys… You know why they have been locked away. You stand among evil incarnate. The melody stops. No one hears your final cries… TOYS IN THE ATTIC: A COLLECTION OF EVIL PLAYTHINGS is an anthology of horror like no other. Step inside…WELCOME TO THE ATTIC

Toys in the Attic

Literature & Fiction

Lutzke, Chad

Pratt, Essel

KIrk, James Ward

Mays, Jeremy

Woodbury, Sheldon

Edwards, Murphy

Scott, D. S.

Fox, Dona

Johnson, Alex S.

Crow, Sebastion

Rowe, Coralie

Lopez, Lori R.

Williams, Mimi

Keene, A. Henry

Rushmore, Lemmy

Powell, Rick

H. R. Boldwood

Genre Fiction

James Ward Kirk Publishing

Ninety-one colour plates depicting every species and showing all plumages, races and colour morphs; 60 species illustrated for the first time; a detailed text, aiding rapid and accurate identification in the field; and over 340 colour distribution maps: Birds of The Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia is the first comprehensive guide to cover all 362 species (including 117 endemics) found in this fascinating and little-known region of the Southwest Pacific.

Birds of the Solomons, Vanuatu & New Caledonia

Science & Math

Plant, Andrew

Doughty, Chris

Biological Sciences

A&C Black

Nothing: John Cage and 4'33"

Biographies

Neal Porter Books

St. Martin's: Griffin

Double Feature Magazine is a monthly magazine of science fiction and horror featuring amazing short stories by diverse, talented authors from around the world. Edited by JC Michaels and Gari Seldom.

Double Feature Magazine: Science Fiction & Horror

Boekestein, Jaap

Obermeyer, Fredrick

Day, David L.

Sherer, Mike

Michaels, JC

Wilmot, Andrew

Short Stories & Anthologies

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Sylvia Samantha White is very good at finding--she just doesn't know exactly what all her "junk" is good for, not yet at least. But when completely ridiculous disaster strikes, she springs into action and uses her junk to create solutions to the town's troubles. A charming ode to collecting, creating, and following your bliss--even when you're not entirely sure where it will lead you.

Junk: A Spectacular Tale of Trash

Sleeping Bear Press

In his first novel, This Is Horror and Wonderland Award-nominated author Nicholas Day invites you totake a journey into a Hell that is at once uncomfortably familiar, yet unlike anything you’ve everencountered before: a surveyor finds himself pursued by flesh-eating donkeys in the furthest reaches ofOregon’s desert; a mass-murderer leaves the sanctity of his mountain home to pursue a long-lost love,his guide an otherworldly raven possessed by a 19th century American humorist; in nearby Klamath Falls,two estranged childhood friends set off to find a missing father with the help of two aging cowboys; and,a prisoner in her own home sees a vision of death and knows there is no escape. Pain is proselytizing. Death is the one, true faith. And everyone worships in their due time. The Gates of Nihil are wide open and waiting to…GRIND YOUR BONES TO DUST.

Grind Your Bones to Dust

Literary

Excession Press

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