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The ultimate course in mandala drawing!

Readers will experience creativity, joy, and tranquility as they learn how to draw 30 colorful mandala designs with internationally renowned artist Farah Brightart (Farah Alhamawi). The book begins with an overview of the art form that teaches readers everything they need to know to get started, including the best art materials to use when drawing mandalas, how to draw circles and ray guidelines, and more. At the heart of the book are 30 mandala projects, each one featuring a full-color finished example and step-by-step instructions. The projects start simply and progress to more intricate designs as the book unfolds. Tips and encouraging thoughts about how to experience more joy and serenity while drawing are also included.

A gorgeous collection of poems exploring womanhood, sisterhood, love, loss, and longing, for people who find catharsis in poems, or people who have always wanted to read poetry, but don't know where to start.

"How little / love is. How worth everything." Such is the central theme of Courtney Kampa's sharp yet tender "Skin and Other Weapons," one in a collection of beautiful, intimate poems examining the little shared experiences that make us human. Courtney herself was the kind of person who made life better just for knowing her, and though she tragically passed in 2022, her work carries her brilliance and light forward. While Courtney is no longer here, her husband Will Anderson notes that converting readers to poetry was one of her greatest joys, and this collection will make a convert of any reader.

Courtney wrote for the girls she was raised with and the women she was raised by. She wrote for herself--which is to say, she wrote for so many of us. In "Cartography," a group of friends dissects the end of a relationship with a woman who, through the telling, becomes "meaner now, and / more beautiful." In "The Rules" she writes "I don't believe in girlhood. I don't believe / we are ever small, or ever don't know what it is / we shouldn't know," challenging the sweetness and innocence constantly attributed to little girls who live in a world that is neither sweet nor innocent. In "The Cool Kids," the speaker, desperate to belong but horrified by what her peers require of her, wonders "if this is what it feels like / to be pinned down by the sky."

Individually, each of these poems feels like advice from a friend who knows you deeply and provides a sense of comfort and validation. Taken as a whole, the collection tells a larger story of growth--of the love and loss involved--and learning how to exist in the world. As accessible as they are transcendent, these poems will leave readers feeling as if they have been "anointed with a bright and borrowed light."

In the tradition of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, a thrilling, wire-taut debut about an murder on a college campus and its aftermath twenty years later.

Days after the dawn of Y2K, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, those who knew Karlie-and those who just knew of her-remain consumed by her death. Among them is her freshman year roommate, Joy, now middle-aged and mid-divorce, living in the same college town and desperate for a new beginning. When she stumbles upon a twenty-year-old letter from Karlie, Joy becomes convinced the man in prison for her murder was wrongfully convicted. Soon she is diving deep into the dark world of internet conspiracy theorists and amateur sleuth blogs and bouncing off others touched by the long, sensational aftermath of this crime. They include KC, the trans night manager at the building where Karlie was killed; Sheri, the mother of the intellectually disabled man serving time; and Jacob Hendrix, the charming professor with whom, Joy knows all too well, Karlie was romantically entangled before her
death.
Jumping between 2019 and 1999, Bright and Tender Dark takes us from the era of Reddit threads and online obsession to the evangelism-infused culture of the late '90s to reveal what really happened to Karlie. It is a compulsively readable, prismatic literary mystery that brilliantly mines the mythology of murder, the power of urban legend, and the psychological urge to both protect and exploit what you love but cannot have.

Black and white edition.

Like the month she was born in and named after, April was bright one moment and dark the next. But mostly she was Bright April, because of her happy family, her Brownie Scout troop, and all her friends in the Philadelphia suburb where she lived.

This is April's story. It is especially the story of her tenth birthday, which brought the best surprise she could have ever imagined.

Marguerite de Angeli has made the life of April and her family as real and as warm as a next door neighbor's. Most of all, as always, she has made a picture story book that is fun to read. Profusely illustrated by the author with black and white drawings.

Originally published in 1946, Bright April was the first children's book written in the United States concerning racial prejudice. Mrs. de Angeli felt that all children should be treated the same.

Roger Priddy's Bright Baby Touch and Feel At the Zoo is an interactive board book you can use to help your baby engage their senses through looking, touching, and listening.

Cute pictures of animals, rhyming text to read aloud, and touch and feel textures make this book perfect for you and your bright baby.

In Roger Priddy's Bright Baby Touch & Feel Baby Animals board book, little learners meet all different sorts of furry and feathery creatures, big and small.

With colorful pictures of baby animals, rhyming text to read aloud, and touch and feel textures, this interactive book is perfect for your bright baby to build their reading skills and vocabulary.

This charming board book from Roger Priddy presents adorable farm animals perfect for the youngest readers!

Featuring a different texture on each page, this adorable book will stimulate your child's senses and encourage their imagination.

The touch-and-feel element will engage young reader's attention, again and again.

Bright Baby Touch & Feel Perfect Pets, from bestselling children's book author Roger Priddy, is the ideal book for little hands to explore touch and sensations.

An ideal gift for babies and toddlers who will love learning all about pets. The touch and feel elements will keep your little one turning the pages, again and again.

This adorable book, with its fun rhyming text and bright colors makes for an engaging reading experience.

The Bright Baby Touch & Feel box set from bestselling author Roger Priddy will delight little ones with its fun, interactive elements and colorful pictures!

With exciting textures to touch and feel, bright, bold photography and simple word labels, the Bright Baby Touch and Feel series stimulate babies' senses and encourage them to look, touch and listen. Now together in one bundle!

This set includes:
Bright Baby Touch & Feel: Words
Bright Baby Touch & Feel: Colors
Bright Baby Touch & Feel: Numbers
Bright Baby Touch & Feel: Shapes

Roger Priddy's Bright Baby Bilingual Touch & Feel: Numbers / Números will kick-start your child's education with this colorful introduction to words and numbers in two languages.

In this interactive children's board book, infants and toddlers will learn to count and increase their vocabulary in English and Spanish by associating numbers with beautiful pictures and touch and feel elements.

Roger Priddy's Bright Baby Bilingual: Words/Palabras is a fun way to introduce your baby to their first words--in two languages--with this wonderful touch and feel book.

This touch & feel book will increase your child's vocabulary in English and Spanish by associating words with beautiful pictures and touch and feel elements to engage their senses.

Full of fun pictures which celebrate the arrival of the magical winter season, Bright Baby Touch and Feel Winter is an engaging book to share with babies and toddlers.

There are pictures of a jolly snowman, sparkling snowflake, a winter forest and more to look at, and the pages have different touch-and-feel textures, which little fingers will love to explore.

Each spread features full-color images to look at and simple text labels to learn, plus a touch-and-feel element for extra winter fun.

This multi-sensory picture book which will encourage children to look, touch and listen!

Learn first concepts with this fun, multisensory, high-contrast board book for little ones, with tactile pictures and a mirror.

Filled with features to stimulate a baby's senses, this high-contrast black, white, and blue book is full of raised pictures to touch, a peep-through cover, and a mirror.

Babies and toddlers will love getting hands-on, exploring every sensory page, and touching raised pictures of favourite animals such as a black-and-white zebra and a big-eared rabbit. At the end of the book when they turn the final page, they'll be delighted by the shiny mirror surprise.

This baby board book for 0-3 year olds offers:

• 12 illustrated pages with bright, high-contrast colours and eye-catching patterns.
• Raised elements on the page for little ones to explore and touch.
• Baby-safe pages; this chunky board book has chew-proof pages and rounded edges to keep your little one safe as they learn new skills.

Ideal for 0-3 year olds, this multisensory board book is full of high-contrast pictures to promote visual skills. Reading aloud the first words to little ones helps to develop their language, and simple raised patterns are great for babies to engage with, capturing their attention and sparking excitement.

Complete the series!

Bright Baby is part of the Bright Eyed Books series, featuring high-contrast images and first words to develop babies' early learning skills. Doubling up as a great baby gift, this board book is bright and cheery with eye-catching illustrations on every page. If you enjoyed Bright Baby, why not try other books in the series, Happy Baby, Hello Baby, and Curious Baby?

A flagship anthology that ignites youth voice and inspires classroom writing. Great for educators, librarians, and champions of diverse story-telling, this captivating book says: The future is yours to write!

For 10 years Shout Mouse Press has published books by young people, and in that decade we've fallen in love with their stories, their honesty, and their courage. Are you a writer like them? If not, we know you could be.

This anthology features standout youth-authored pieces from across our 60+ books-memoir, poetry, fiction, comics, and picture books-that speak with heart and clarity about topics that shape our lives at every stage: family, friendship, identity, justice, belonging, and more.

But this isn't just a greatest-hits collection. Alongside these pieces, you'll find simple writing prompts, fun behind-the-scenes details insights, and insightful conversations with some of our favorite authors that show how rewarding and powerful it is to tell your truth.

Whether you've got a story ready or just a feeling in your gut-we hope this book gives you the spark to begin.

Featuring contributions from award-winning authors in conversation with young voices. Safia Elhillo, Robin Ha, Candice Iloh, Tony Keith, Jr., Nicole Lynn Lewis, José Olivarez, Clint Smith

What's Inside:

• A diverse collection of youth-authored memoirs, poetry, fiction, comics, and children's literature, featuring underrepresented voices.
• Creative writing prompts and behind-the-scenes insights to inspire students and emerging writers to tell their own stories.
• Intergenerational conversations with award-winning guest authors, exploring the role of storytelling in social change.
• Discussion questions for middle and high school classrooms, book clubs, and creative writing workshops.

Perfect for:

• Aspiring young writers looking for inspiration, mentorship, and creative guidance.
• Educators and librarians seeking an engaging, diverse, and inclusive classroom writing resource for middle and high school students.
• Readers who believe in the power of storytelling to spark dialogue and transform communities.

Welcome to the dark and secretive world of Ashthorn Ward, the kingdom's most brutal military academy-where weapons aren't forged of steel, but of people.

Nineteen-year-old Lory has spent her life surviving Dunai's alleys with blades, wits, and an iron will. Now, caught and conscripted, she must endure Ashthorn, where rivals are lethal, failure is fatal, and obedience comes at the cost of herself.

But Lory is not like the others.

When the Ward uncovers a dangerous secret in her blood, she's offered an impossible deal: survive their trials, and she'll serve the crown as a weapon honed for war. Fail-and she won't leave Ashthorn alive.

Overseeing her transformation is Captain Khayrivven Falcrest. Cold, ruthless, and utterly untouchable, he's the last person she should trust-and the only one who seems to see the person beneath the monster the Ward wants her to become.

As war rises beyond the border and rebellion festers in the shadows, Lory must navigate Ashthorn's deadly games-and her forbidden gift-before both claim her.

Enemies. Rivals. Lovers.

At Ashthorn Ward, trust is a weapon, love is a liability, and the only way out is through blood.

Bright Burns the Flame is the first installment in a darkly romantic fantasyscape, perfect for fans of slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance, morally gray heroes who fall first and hard, heroines who fight for their own power, and magical academies filled with secrets and danger.

Perfect for fans of Fourth Wing, Quicksilver, and A Court of Mist and Fury.

This series is part of the ALCUNAIRE.

A group biography of five women who played path-breaking roles in the transcendentalist movement

In November 1839, a group of young women in Boston formed a conversation society "to answer the great questions" of special importance to women: "What are we born to do? How shall we do it?" The lives and works of the five women who discussed these questions are at the center of Bright Circle, a group biography of remarkable thinkers and artists who played pathbreaking roles in the transcendentalist movement.

Transcendentalism remains the most important literary and philosophical movement to have originated in the United States. Most accounts of it, however, trace its emergence to a group of young intellectuals (primarily Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) dissatisfied with their religious, literary, and social culture. Yet there is a forgotten history of transcendentalism--a submerged counternarrative--that features a network of fiercely intelligent women who were central to the development of the movement even as they found themselves silenced by their culturally-assigned roles as women.

Bright Circle is intended to reorient our understanding of transcendentalism: to help us see the movement as a far more collaborative and interactive project between women and men than is commonly understood. It recounts the lives of Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Lydia Jackson Emerson, and Margaret Fuller as they developed crucial ideas about the self, nature, and feeling even as they pushed their male counterparts to consider the rights of enslaved people of color and women.

Many ideas once considered original to Emerson and Thoreau are shown to have originated with women who had little opportunity of publicly expressing them. Together, the five women of Bright Circle helped form the foundations of American feminism.