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They dropped from the skies, roared over the hedgerows, and turned the tide of history-this is the untold story of the airmen who helped liberate France.

By June 1944, Allied air forces were ready to unleash hell on the Germans in occupied France. Massive numbers of bombers and fighters had been assembled in the United Kingdom, as well as more than one million troops poised to invade the continent. Thunder Over Normandy tells the story of the air campaign that began on D-Day, June 6, 1944, and culminated in the liberation of France-one of the largest, most complex, and most successful aerial operations in history.

In April 1944, Allied air forces in Europe-including the vaunted U.S. Eighth Air Force and RAF Bomber Command-were placed under Dwight Eisenhower's Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force and given a twofold mission to lay the groundwork for D-Day: destroy the Luftwaffe's battle strength and isolate Normandy from reinforcements. American and British heavy bombers completed these tasks with devastating effectiveness.

D-Day began with the midnight launching of 1,200 transports to drop American and British paratroopers and gliders behind enemy lines in Normandy. In a monumental effort, the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions landed behind Utah Beach and fought for towns like Carentan; the British 6th Airborne seized Pegasus Bridge and other crossings near Caen. Toward dawn, 1,000 bombers hammered German positions along the coast, just ahead of the troops who stormed the beaches.

As the fighting moved inland during the next two months, Allied fighters and fighter-bombers swarmed in to provide close support for the ground forces slogging through the hedgerows of Normandy. The bombers continued to strike German industry, but priority was now given to destroying V-1 and V-2 rocket sites as part of Operation Crossbow. Bombers were also used tactically in conjunction with ground operations, including the heavy bombardment that preceded the breakout from Normandy in late July.

By the time Paris was liberated in August 1944, air power-thousands of sorties, hundreds of thousands of tons of bombs-had contributed mightily to Allied victory. Thunder Over Normandy details the air operations that made this happen, from thundering bomb runs and low-level strafing attacks to paratrooper drops, glider flights, and wheeling dogfights with the Luftwaffe. During the summer of 1944, as this stirring account vividly shows, the Allies were truly masters of the air.

From Central Park's most iconic dining destination comes the cookbook that brings a century of culinary excellence directly to your table.

For nearly a century, Tavern on the Green has been Manhattan's crown jewel--a place where celebrities, locals, and visitors from around the world gather to create unforgettable memories. Now, with reservations at an all-time high, you can experience the restaurant's celebrated elegance and exceptional cuisine without leaving home.

Tavern on the Green Cookbook delivers the complete dining experience through:

• Signature recipes from French-trained Executive Chef Bill Peet's elegant American menu
• Step-by-step instructions with stunning photography that makes every dish achievable
• Behind-the-scenes secrets from one of America's most famous kitchens
• Historical snapshots spanning the restaurant's remarkable 100-year legacy
• Holiday entertaining tips from a team that serves 1,500 Thanksgiving meals annually

Whether you're a home cook seeking to impress dinner guests or an accomplished chef looking to master restaurant-quality techniques, this cookbook transforms your kitchen into a piece of New York culinary history. Each recipe captures the sophisticated flavors and visual presentation that have made Tavern on the Green a destination for generations of food lovers.

From intimate dinners to grand celebrations, discover why this Central Park landmark continues to enchant diners and create magical moments, one extraordinary meal at a time.

Observe animals and celebrate wildlife in this seasonal twist and reimagined version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." In Twelve Days of Spring, each day reveals the wonders of wildlife and nature's vibrant transformations as we ease into spring.

Experiences with strange phenomena such as ghosts, UFOs, psychics, and miracle cures make for titillating stories. Many of us leave these stories as just that--stories--but for some people the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and otherworldly happenings leads down a dark path. Paranoia and the belief in the paranormal have real-life consequences. What is the science behind these scenarios?

Everyday Extraordinary provides an antidote for the conspiracy theories, medical quackery, and science denial prevailing in today's pop culture.

People will always believe in the unbelievable. In this skeptical and scientific investigation, Barry Markovsky pushes back against harmful flights of fancy with down-to-earth and evidence-based explanations wrapped in compelling stories. Each of the chronologically ordered chapters has a Frontstage and Backstage section. The Frontstage recounts a personal experience: awakening from a night terror as a young child; having my fortune told by a psychic; the claims of an alternative medicine practitioner. The Backstage section explains in simple terms what's actually going on-- mechanisms and functions behind our dreams, how psychics use standard "cold reading" techniques, how quack doctors distort evidence. Each explanation is scientifically grounded, but with minimal jargon and softened with anecdotes, illustrations, and humor.

Everyday Extraordinary makes sense of things that at first seem inexplicable. Many of these experiences feel special and unique despite being remarkably common. And even
when not experienced directly, most are all too familiar to readers through reality TV shows, tabloids, and social media.

The stories gently encourage readers to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions; to consider alternative explanations for what happened; to distinguish good evidence from bad; to suspend judgment when the evidence isn't there; to have a mind both open and skeptical; to consider that what we wish to be true may not always be so.
Without being preachy, the scientific explanations prove extraordinary in their own right. Along the way, readers accumulate tools for thinking critically about all sorts of claims,
extraordinary and otherwise.

If one day buds bloom and birds chirp, and the next day a late snow falls from the sky, is it spring? Will it ever be spring? An evergreen, child-friendly picture book that explores themes of patience, hope, the seasons, and nature by the New York Times bestseller and Caldecott Medalist Kevin Henkes.

A flower in the garden down the street. Birds in the sky. Buds on the branches in the park. It must be spring.

But wait! What is this icy gust of wind? Why are snowflakes falling from heavy gray clouds? Will it ever be spring? Yes, says the sun. Just be patient.

Kevin Henkes, the #1 New York Times bestseller who has been awarded the Caldecott Medal, two Caldecott Honors, two Newbery Honors, two Geisel Honors, the Children's Literature Lecture Award, and Children's Literature Legacy Award, among numerous other honors, has created a masterful and classic picture book that combines an evocative call-and-response text with delicate and lovely illustrations. Readers will be left assured that the sun--and spring--will always come again.

A laugh-out-loud funny graphic novel-style picture book about a paper fortune teller left behind at recess who ends up saving the day, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Day the Crayons Quit.

What's a fortune teller to do when she's dropped on the ground half-finished when the bell rings to mark the end of recess? Make friends and save the day, that's what!

In this hilarious graphic novel-style picture book, Forty the Fortune Teller, along with her friends Potato Chip and Basketball convince a team of chewed-up chewing gum to help repair the playground slide so that the kids at school won't get hurt. This story is totally wacky, totally adorable, and a perfect read-aloud for a storytime.

A shocking statistic in education reveals that 70% of K-12 teachers work under chronic stress. This revolutionary new book explains how removing stress from the classroom holds the key to improving education. The book also explains what administrators, teachers, parents, and communities can do to help accomplish a stress-free classroom.

For years, the expert voices said "disengagement" was the crucial issue behind poor educational environments and results. Naturally, only massive reform could fix it. But what if the enormous restructuring and expenditures attacked the wrong problem?

MindShift, an organization that reframes tired and clogged conversations, pushed the old conclusions off the table and started fresh. They gathered diverse leaders in education, leadership, neuroscience, architecture, and wellness in working forums around the nation. These pivotal meetings produced WHOLE, a game-changing approach to education. This book captures the story and details of how the system can be remade for real and lasting benefits to everyone.

With the authors' expertise, the book exposes the exhausted and antiquated thinking that led to the present crisis. But, WHOLE also proposes a new era of disruptive change that can produce happier, healthier, and more successful education for the 21^st century. The book introduces the outliers, tells the stories, and presents the roadmaps to:

• Why teachers should be seen as high-performance athletes, requiring time for recovery and preparation
• How schools can become "field hospitals," combining learning with healing
• Why space matters, how redesigning and refurnishing schools can eliminate stress and produce learning environments that are more open and inviting
• Ways to properly integrate schools within communities, building honest relationships, increasing social capital, and achieving transparency that increases success

Packed with real-life examples, new research, and solutions that you can introduce to your own schools, students, and communities, WHOLE shows us how to move schools from the age of stress and insecurity to an age of true educational flourishing.

This groundbreaking book sets out to explore The Beatles' songwriting techniques in a clear and readable style. It is aimed not only at musicians but anyone who has ever enjoyed the work of one of the most productive and successful songwriting partnerships of the 20th century. Author Dominic Pedler explains the chord sequences, melodies and harmonies that made up The Beatles' self penned songs and how they uncannily complemented the lyrical themes. He also assesses the contributions that rhythm, form and arrangement made to the Beatles unique sound. Throughout the book the printed music of the Beatles' songs appears alongside the text, illustrating the authors explanations.

Combination biography and call to justice, this book follows Randy Liberty's journey from maximum-security prison Warden to Maine's Commissioner of Corrections.

When Randy Liberty was seven years old, he traveled to the Maine State Prison to visit his incarcerated father. Forty years later, he returned to the prison as its Warden. A trailblazer in the field of corrections, Randy introduced innovative programs and dramatically reduced the use of restrictive housing during his tenure as warden. In 2019, Randy was appointed commissioner of corrections, implementing an operating philosophy known as the Maine Model of Corrections. Representing a radical shift from traditional models of incarceration, it focuses on rehabilitation, redemption, de-stigmatization, and humanization. Statewide recidivism rates since dropped to twenty-one percent, well below the national average of sixty-five percent. This book tells Randy's story, how he was able to break free from generational incarceration and poverty to achieve redemption and a life filled with purpose.

A deluxe hardcover edition of the pioneering classic that explores the contexts in which history is produced--now part of the HBO docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes, written and directed by Raoul Peck

A Beacon Classics edition, featuring a spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette

Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the Haitian Revolution--the most successful slave revolt in history--alongside denials of the Holocaust and the debate over the Alamo, Michel-Rolph Trouillot offers a stunning meditation on how power operates in the making and recording of history.

This modern classic resides at the intersection of history, anthropology, Caribbean, African-American, and post-colonial studies, and has become a staple in college classrooms around the country. Trouillot analyzes the silences in our historical narratives, what is left out and what is recorded, what is remembered and what is forgotten, and what these silences reveal about inequalities of power. With exacting precision, he exposes forces less visible--but no less powerful--than gunfire, property, and political crusades in shaping the production of history.

Why the separation of powers is essential to liberty and democracy.

From the winner of the Holberg Prize and New York Times-bestselling author of The World According to Star Wars.

All over the world, people are questioning the separation of powers. They want a strong man, able to do what must be done. But James Madison was right to say this: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

In this essential and immensely timely book, Separation of Powers, Cass Sunstein explains why the separation of powers is necessary for both freedom and self-government. He shows that freedom from fear is a central goal of the system of separation of powers. He also explains why the executive branch is the most dangerous branch, why the idea of presidential immunity is a terrible one, and why an independent judiciary is crucial.

Drawing on his extensive experience in the White House, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security, the author also argues that the separation of powers is, in fact, six separations of powers: (1) The legislature may not exercise the executive power. (2) The legislature may not exercise the judicial power. (3) The executive may not exercise the legislative power. (4) The executive may not exercise the judicial power. (5) The judiciary may not exercise the legislative power. (6) The judiciary may not exercise the executive power. Each of these is essential to liberty under law.

The classic Gundam series now in a premium Deluxe Edition hardcover!

PRAISE FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES

"It's a good book. Very good, actually. Very good war comics, requiring no prior experience with anime or mecha or Gundam--just a well-made, old-fashioned war comic, full of thrills and spills and lucky breaks and narrow escapes and preening villains you'll love to hate and pigheaded heroes you may hate to love, and expert drawings by a master craftsman, and hard, sturdy violence." --Joe McCulloch, The Comics Journal

"One of the best drawn and told manga works of recent memory... If you want to understand the fuss around the original Gundam, or even read one of the better manga works out there, then Gundam: The Origin is definitely worth checking out." --Ollie Barder, Forbes

"WINNER: BEST MANGA [2013] This manga was penned by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko--and who better to handle the transformation of the show from screen to page than the man who had key roles in the original series, from character design, to illustration, to layout?" --NEO Magazine (U.K.)

"Yasuhiko's work is just really strong throughout. Fights between mobile suits are exciting, and manage to stay clear despite an impressive amount of detail... These releases deserve as much love as was put into them."--Joseph Luster, Otaku USA

"While it goes without saying that Gundam fans should enjoy these books, they are also a good read for those who simply like a science fiction or a war story that is well-written, nicely illustrated, and full of interesting characters... [S]eriously good literary entertainment." --Anime News Network

"No real knowledge or understanding of the original MSG is needed... What follows are hundreds of pages of suspenseful war drama and sci-fi explosiveness, all of which is well and good (seriously good, actually; this is an intensely fun sci-fi epic), but it's the visuals that you are truly getting this book for." --Graphic Novel Reporter

"A compelling coming-of-age story. It spins personal and political drama together in a way that is both engaging and satisfying... This is a series you will want to put into a teen's hands, even if they don't know it yet. Once they start reading, they won't want to put it down." --School Library Journal Blog Network

The storied Gundam franchise's "First Season" that set new standards of verisimilitude for televised sci-fi animation returns in comics form at the hand of one of the initial creators! The definitive account expands on the classic narrative with the same sense of purpose that lit up the screen more than four decades ago.

This new edition collects the original bestselling twelve-installment English release into six oversized volumes. All of the many color pages--unusually numerous for Japanese comics--have been retained...only at a larger size. The master's artwork has never looked so grand!

(Does not include essays and illustrations from the original release that are not the author's own)

Help your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography all about the brave sled dog Balto! The perfect introduction to nonfiction for preschoolers!

Travel alongside Balto, the famous sled dog, as he races across frozen Alaska in 1925 with lifesaving medicine! This exciting true tale of a heroic dog will thrill young boys and girls. Full of engaging colorful artwork and little-known facts--including what happened to Balto in his later years--My Little Golden Book About Balto will be read again and again!

Middle School meets Percy Jackson in this exciting adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson, where Greek gods task an ordinary twelve-year-old with a big mission.

Nick Andino isn't exactly "hero" material. He's perfectly happy working at his family's Greek diner, pining over his crush, and avoiding his bully. His life isn't very exciting...until destiny comes calling.

Dr. Zeus, the over-the-top king of the gods, zooms into town with a quest that Nick must complete to save Andinos past and present from being erased from history. Accompanied by a fast-talking Hermes, Nick journeys back to ancient Greece, where his ancestors await--along with new friends and a whole host of Greek gods and monsters. Can Nick be the hero the Andinos need, or will his story be another Greek tragedy?

This fast-paced, feel-good adventure from the world's favorite storyteller has black-and-white illustrations throughout, and amphitheaters full of humor and heart.

Captivate young readers ages 2-5 with this engaging first words book that includes touch-and-feel textures and lift-the-flap surprises. Perfect for early learners, this book offers a hands-on experience that combines fun with educational content about animals in various environments.

Introduce little ones ages 2-5 to the fascinating world of animals! This engaging first words book is arranged into seven thematic spreads, featuring animal friends from diverse environments such as the jungle, the farm, and the ocean. Each spread is designed to engage young children with a combination of tactile textures and lift-the-flap elements, making learning an interactive adventure.

Feel the bumpy skin of a jumping tree frog, the soft fur of a farmyard lamb, and the rough scales of a spiky puffer fish. As children lift the flaps, they'll uncover fun facts about each animal, from the mighty roar of a lion to a gently swimming sea turtle.

The perfect blend of sensory exploration and educational discovery, this book is an ideal addition to any child's early learning library.