It’s time to get a move on with Snail Express from Petit Collage! In this snail-paced mail race, players help their busy Snail Carriers collect and send letters and parcels as fast as they can. Roll the die and decide where to move. If you land on a letter or a parcel, pop it in the postbox. Or aim for an Express Delivery Stamp to zip your way straight to a letter! Be careful to avoid the other players’ mail, though, because if you post their parcel, they’ll get the points. And be sure to play nice because if anyone rolls the depot icon, they can send another player’s snail straight back to the start! When all the letters have been sent, the player with the most mail in the postbox is the winner. Perfect for 2–4 players, ages 4+, playing this game will help kids to learn the values of patience, focus, and winning and losing with grace. Inside the box, you’ll find 4 wooden snail character pieces, 17 letters, 8 parcels, 8 Express Delivery Stamps, 40 stamp stickers, 40 decorative stickers, 1 postbox, wooden die, gameboard, and English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish instructions. AIM OF THE GAME: It’s time to get a move on! Help your Snail Carrier collect and send letters and parcels of their color while trying to avoid posting their opponents’ mail. SETUP : Place the letters on the white gameboard squares, the parcels on squares of matching color, and the Express Delivery Stamps and postbox at the side of the board. Choose your Snail Carrier and place it on its matching depot. You’re ready to play! HOW TO PLAY : Roll the die and move your Snail Carrier that number of spaces. You can choose to move up, down, left, or right, but only in a straight line—snails don’t zig-zag! If you land on a letter or a parcel, pop it in the postbox! You’ll only earn points for mail that matches your snail’s color, though, so watch where you move. If you roll the Express icon, you can use Express Delivery Stamps to earn bonus points! If you roll the depot icon, you can send another player’s snail back home to start again but don’t forget that they can do the same to you. When all the letters on the board have been posted, it’s time to sort the mail! Earn 1 point per letter, 2 points per parcel, and 3 points for Express Delivery. The player with the most points wins the Snail Express race. WHO IT'S FOR : Perfect for 2–4 players, ages 4 and up. WHAT'S INSIDE: 4 wooden snail characters, 17 letters, 8 parcels, 8 Express Delivery Stamps, 40 stamp stickers, 40 decorative stickers, 1 postbox, wooden die, gameboard, and English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish instructions.

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It’s time to get a move on with Snail Express from Petit Collage! In this snail-paced mail race, players help their busy Snail Carriers collect and send letters and parcels as fast as they can. Roll the die and decide where to move. If you land on a letter or a parcel, pop it in the postbox. Or aim for an Express Delivery Stamp to zip your way straight to a letter! Be careful to avoid the other players’ mail, though, because if you post their parcel, they’ll get the points. And be sure to play nice because if anyone rolls the depot icon, they can send another player’s snail straight back to the start! When all the letters have been sent, the player with the most mail in the postbox is the winner. Perfect for 2–4 players, ages 4+, playing this game will help kids to learn the values of patience, focus, and winning and losing with grace. Inside the box, you’ll find 4 wooden snail character pieces, 17 letters, 8 parcels, 8 Express Delivery Stamps, 40 stamp stickers, 40 decorative stickers, 1 postbox, wooden die, gameboard, and English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish instructions. AIM OF THE GAME: It’s time to get a move on! Help your Snail Carrier collect and send letters and parcels of their color while trying to avoid posting their opponents’ mail. SETUP : Place the letters on the white gameboard squares, the parcels on squares of matching color, and the Express Delivery Stamps and postbox at the side of the board. Choose your Snail Carrier and place it on its matching depot. You’re ready to play! HOW TO PLAY : Roll the die and move your Snail Carrier that number of spaces. You can choose to move up, down, left, or right, but only in a straight line—snails don’t zig-zag! If you land on a letter or a parcel, pop it in the postbox! You’ll only earn points for mail that matches your snail’s color, though, so watch where you move. If you roll the Express icon, you can use Express Delivery Stamps to earn bonus points! If you roll the depot icon, you can send another player’s snail back home to start again but don’t forget that they can do the same to you. When all the letters on the board have been posted, it’s time to sort the mail! Earn 1 point per letter, 2 points per parcel, and 3 points for Express Delivery. The player with the most points wins the Snail Express race. WHO IT'S FOR : Perfect for 2–4 players, ages 4 and up. WHAT'S INSIDE: 4 wooden snail characters, 17 letters, 8 parcels, 8 Express Delivery Stamps, 40 stamp stickers, 40 decorative stickers, 1 postbox, wooden die, gameboard, and English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish instructions.

Doing for letters what Sudoku did for numbers, Bananagrams is the obsessive new puzzle craze that took Game of the Year at the 2009 International Toy Fair. This book translates the brain-twisting word fun of the game onto the page. The book includes glossaries, special strategies, an answer key, and more. Consumable.

Find a friend who’s up for the challenge, and let the tournament commence with this House of Novelties Checkers set from Ridley’s Games! Use logic, strategy, and ingenuity to capture your opponent’s pieces while defending your own to win. When you’re done, simply pack the 30 wooden pieces and instructions inside the folding board until you’re ready to play again. The key to mastering the family-favorite game of checkers is practice. So, whether you’re making your very first move across the board or you’ve become accustomed to your pieces being crowned, with this portable wooden set, you can take the fun with you wherever you go. Inside the suitcase-style folding wooden game board are 15 red pieces, 15 blue pieces, and instructions. The game board measures 10.8 x 10 in / 275 x 256 mm, and the outer box is 5.6 x 11.4 in / 144 x 291 mm when closed, making it the ideal size to tuck under your arm for a game at the park, your favorite cafe, or by the fireside. QUALITY CHECKERS SET – Challenge a friend and let the tournament commence with this House of Novelties Checkers set from Ridley’s Games! Includes wooden game board, 30 wooden pieces, and simple, easy-to-learn instructions with picture diagrams. MADE TO PLAY ANYWHERE – When you’re done playing, simply pack the pieces inside the folding wooden game board, which measures 5.6 x 11.4 in / 144 x 291 mm, making it the ideal size to tuck under your arm for a game at the park, cafe, or by the fireside. PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT – Whether you’re making your very first move across the board or you’re used to all your pieces being crowned, this portable wooden set with vintage feel is made to be played by all levels of experience. For 2 players, ages 10+.   RIDLEY’S – Awesome games and puzzles packed with personality—that’s our passion! We’re a crew of curious creatives making hilarious party games, light strategy games, fast-paced card games, challenging trivia, hilarious jokes, and stunning jigsaws.

A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollywood, chronicling the absurdity of fame and the humanity of failure in a world dominated by social media influencers and reality TV stars. Simon Rich is "one of the funniest writers in America" ( Daily Beast) -- a humorist who draws comparisons to Douglas Adams (New York Times Book Review), James Thurber, and P.G. Wodehouse (The Guardian). With Hits and Misses, he's back with a hilarious new collection of stories about dreaming big and falling flat, about ordinary people desperate for stardom and the stars who are bored by having it all. Inspired by Rich's real experiences in Hollywood, Hits and Misses chronicles all the absurdity of fame and success alongside the heartbreaking humanity of failure. From a bitter tell-all by the horse Paul Revere rode to greatness to a gushing magazine profile of everyone's favorite World War II dictator, these stories roam across time and space to skewer our obsession with making it big -- from the days of ancient Babylon to the age of TMZ.

In Tal Ronnens Restaurant Crossroads in Los Angeles sitzen Veganer, Vegetarier und Fleischesser nebeneinander und geniessen Gerichte, die jeden von ihnen zufriedenstellen. Die Rezepte sind in üppigen Details fotografiert, und mit mehr als 100 davon ist dieses Buch eine unverzichtbare Ressource für gesundheitsbewusste und achtsame Esser überall.

“[A] fiendish, gorgeously written descent into hell. . .This is the noir novel for our times." —The New York Times This epic crime novel tells a story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge—and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down. Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein's monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together into something like a city. A city ready to explode: A Hollywood pedophile is arrested, and is ready to tear down the city to get his freedom. A young woman goes missing—and men in black rubber gloves who look like cops clean out her apartment in the middle of the night. And the serial killer known as the LA Ripper is on the loose, leaving tragic/graphic/brutal crime scenes in his wake. Three people trying to keep their heads above the dirty water will find themselves coming together to unite these strands into one enormous, unspeakable crime ... Jake Deal is a gonzo live-streaming nightcrawler, beaming the city's chaos straight to his audience of blood-hungry subscribers, giving them the view from the top of the mushroom cloud—until a job he can't refuse drags him back into his old life of Hollywood glamour, drugs, sex and sleaze. Armed with cameras and hidden mics, he'll infiltrate private clubs, gather high-class dirt—and stumble onto a conspiracy woven into the center of LA's most powerful men, who call themselves “The Kids in the Candy Store.” Doug Gibson is a street lawyer, who fights for his clients against the army of cops, prosecutors and judges—he is the knife they bring to the gunfight. But when he's hired by a Hollywood pedophile ready to sell out his friends for a chance for freedom, he'll take on a fight bigger than he could have imagined. And when his client “commits suicide” in prison, Gibson will have to stop being a weapon—and become a warrior. Kara Delgado works for an underground private concierge company—a make-a-wish foundation for the terminally rich. She scores drugs, makes connections, and plans multi-million dollar sex parties.She has learned the secret truth of this world: there are no rules, only prices. Her best friend Phoebe has gone missing, and Kara's the only person who knows that Phoebe's place was wiped clean of evidence by men in black rubber gloves. But when she begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to Phoebe, and its connection to the killer known as the LA Ripper, it will drag her into the dark heart of the city. As Jake, Doug and Kara all investigate these crimes, they'll encounter ketamine-addled sitcom stars, bloody riots, homeless gangsters, a killer cop on death row, secret vaults in Beverly Hills, tech-bro orgies, medical cannibals, true crime junkies, private security wet-work teams, reality shows, street takeovers, car chases, coyotes, a sadistic Tarzan, and a three day, fifty million dollar wedding, before everything is revealed and they must each make their choice about how to fight back in this violent world before the bloody, blazing conclusion.

This award-winning, bestselling, one-of-a-kind interactive book (with over 650,000 copies sold!), shows young readers how every mistake is an opportunity to make something beautiful. A spill. A smear. A smudge. A tear. When you think you have made a mistake, think of it as an opportunity to make something beautiful! A life lesson that all parents want their children to embrace: It’s okay to make a mistake. In fact, hooray for mistakes! A mistake is an adventure in creativity, a portal to discovery. A spill doesn’t ruin a drawing—not when it becomes the shape of a goofy animal. And an accidental tear in your paper? No need to be upset when you can turn it into the roaring mouth of an alligator. A paint smudge becomes the face of a bunny, a crumpled ball of paper turns into a lamb's fleecy coat—celebrate the oops in life. A singular work of imagination, creativity, and paper engineering, Beautiful Oops! is filled with pop-ups, lift-the-flaps, tears, holes, overlays, bends, smudges, and even an accordion “telescope”—each demonstrating the magical transformation from blunder to wonder.

Learn to make artful baskets from foraged materials, with this comprehensive guide to identifying, harvesting, and weaving wild plants. All kinds of plant parts can be used for basketmaking—including leaves, grasses, stems, vines, and bark. Author and basketmaker Katie Grove offers complete instructions for harvesting and preparing more than 50 plants for basketmaking, along with 14 different projects that teach the nine essential basketry techniques, including cordage, coiling, twining, wickerwork, and more. An illustrated harvest calendar explains when each plant is ready for harvesting, and photos of every step in the process, from harvesting to weaving, demonstrate the techniques.

Learn about 40 endangered animals and their wild and wacky behaviors with this interactive card game featuring a pull-out poster showing every animal, and a colorful booklet with more fascinating facts about their habitat, diet, and behavior. The charade activities in the card game Guess My Animal! introduce kids to the amazing and weird behaviors of 40 different animals: Roll into a ball like a frightened pangolin. Take a break and lie face down on the floor like a sunflower starfish. Hang around, slowly chewing, like a pygmy three-toed sloth. Crack shells on your belly like a sea otter. Smile and wave your frilled gills like an axolotl. Lie in wait, then lunge for your pray like a crocodile. Hunch up your shoulders, look down, and pretend to vomit on yourself like a nervous California condor! From the aye-aye to the colorful puffleg hummingbird and the golden poison frog, every animal is featured on its own colorfully illustrated card along with simple instructions on how to act out one aspect of that animal’s distinctive behavior and challenge the other players to identify the animal. The deck is accompanied by instructions for beginner, middle level, and advanced players, a poster showing all of the 40 featured animals, and a booklet with more interesting information about each animal. This creative play card game makes learning fun and engaging for kids ages 6 and up, along with their adults.

In this "forcefully persuasive book" (Joyce Carol Oates), the president of Princeton reveals how colleges are getting free speech on campuses right and how they can do better to nurture civil discourse and foster mutual respect Conversations about higher education teem with accusations that American colleges and universities are betraying free speech, indoctrinating students with left-wing dogma, and censoring civil discussions. But these complaints are badly misguided. In Terms of Respect, constitutional scholar and Princeton University president Christopher L. Eisgruber argues that colleges and universities are largely getting free speech right. Today’s students engage in vigorous discussions on sensitive topics and embrace both the opportunity to learn and the right to protest. Like past generations, they value free speech, but, like all of us, they sometimes misunderstand what it requires. Ultimately, the polarization and turmoil visible on many campuses reflect an American civic crisis that affects universities along with the rest of society. But colleges, Eisgruber argues, can help to promote civil discussion in this raucous, angry world—and they can show us how to embrace free speech without sacrificing ideals of equality, diversity, and respect. Urgent and original, Terms of Respect is an ardent defense of our universities, and a hopeful vision for navigating the challenges that free speech provokes for us all.

From the unforgettable teacher Jessamyn Stanley comes Every Body Yoga, a book that breaks all the stereotypes. It’s a book of inspiration for beginners of all shapes and sizes: If Jessamyn could transcend these emotional and physical barriers, so can we. It’s a book for readers already doing yoga, looking to refresh their practice or find new ways to stay motivated. It’s a how-to book: Here are easy-to-follow directions to 50 basic yoga poses and 10 sequences to practice at home, all photographed in full color. It’s a book that challenges the larger issues of body acceptance and the meaning of beauty. Most of all, it’s a book that changes the paradigm, showing us that yoga isn’t about how one looks, but how one feels, with yoga sequences like “I Want to Energize My Spirit;” “I Need to Release Fear;” “I Want to Love Myself.” Jessamyn Stanley, a yogi who breaks all the stereotypes, has built a life as an internationally recognized yoga teacher and award-winning Instagram star by combining a deep understanding for yoga with a willingness to share her personal struggles in a way that touches everyone who comes to know her. Now she brings her body-positive, emotionally uplifting approach to yoga in a book that will help every reader discover the power of yoga and how to weave it seamlessly into his or her life.

An illustrated history of the iconic Negroni, including over 20 simple variations, from the author of A Man & His Watch and A Man & His Car. A century ago, the cocktail acheived perfection when, according to legend, Count Camillo Negroni asked his bartender in Florence to stiffen an Americano by replacing the soda water with gin. The world never looked back. With its cosmically simple 1:1:1 ratio, its balance of bitter and sweet, its pleasant kick, its aura of sophistication, the Negroni has bewitched cocktail lovers ever since. Perhaps none more so than Matt Hranek, who intones this love song to his favorite drink and offers a curated collection of recipes, both the classic and dozens of variations, deviations, and delicious reinterpretations.

Discover the slow, quiet joy of sewing clothes by hand in this one-of-kind guide. Featuring step-by-step, illustrated instructions, this hand-sewing course-in-a-book shows you how to create nine wardrobe staples, including a t-shirt, button-up, and jeans, using simple hand-sewing and hand-stitching techniques. Author Louisa Owen Sonstroem shares her sustainable, empowering, and portable craft with gentle encouragement and guidance. Sewists of all experience levels will learn how to: - Draft a pattern to fit custom measurements. - Select and cut fabric. - Make nine pieces of clothing with simple hand-sewing techniques. - Construct each garment without using a sewing machine.

LET'S GET THE FEMINIST PARTY STARTED! Have you ever wanted to be a superheroine? Join a fandom? Create the perfect empowering playlist? Understand exactly what it means to be a feminist in the twenty-first century? You’ve come to the right place. Forty-four writers, dancers, actors, and artists contribute essays, lists, poems, comics, and illustrations about everything from body positivity to romance to gender identity to intersectionality to the greatest girl friendships in fiction. Together, they share diverse perspectives on and insights into what feminism means and what it looks like. Come on in, turn the pages, and be inspired to find your own path to feminism by the awesome individuals in Here We Are. Welcome to one of the most life-changing parties around!

When a late bloomer goes viral for coming out, she decides to use her newfound fame to get her first kiss—with the help of a sexy bartender—in this "funny, smart, and spicy" romance (Abby Jimenez). Librarian Angela Gutierrez has never been kissed. But after posting a video about her late bloomer status and ace identity, she's finally ready to get some firsts out of the way. Using her new influencer status to come up with a scavenger hunt idea in which the winner earns her first kiss, Angela realizes she may need some help to pull off the event. Enter Krystal Ramirez, hot bartender and Angela’s unrequited crush of five years. Despite vowing that romantic love isn’t for her, Krystal seems awfully determined to help Angela pull off the scavenger hunt and find true love. There’s just one problem: the connection between Angela and Krystal is getting stronger and stronger the more they hang out, until Angela isn’t sure she wants to go through with the scavenger hunt after all. But Krystal is convinced that she isn’t capable of love and before long, Angela realizes she's falling head over heels for a woman who may never love her back.

The kitchen is the perfect home Montessori learning environment, and now award-winning cookbook author Kristen Miglore teams up with bestselling Montessori author Junnifa Uzodike to create a perfect guide for parents and kids to play and learn together through cooking. The kitchen is the perfect playground for children to tackle new skills and experience everything—the play, the science, the math, the magic—that preparing food has to offer. New groceries coming in and out. Colorful vegetables being washed and prepped and cooked. Different ingredients being scooped and measured and transformed, with so many points along the way to see, smell, touch, taste, and listen. And endless opportunity for conversation with their grown-ups. The newest book in the bestselling Montessori series offers parents a new way to think about time spent in the kitchen with their young kids with over 60 delicious, nutritious, unexpected interactive recipes. The fun starts before baby is born, with wholesome, easy foods for the pregnant and postpartum parent (that older siblings can help make with love). The book take parents through those early months in the kitchen wearing—and talking—to baby while prepping dinner, creating baby and toddler friendly corners in the kitchen, to developing those first kitchen skills, eating together, and fostering their growing independence in the kitchen. Kids can learn about flavor and practice spreading with Beet Tahini Dip, explore texture with Chunky Ratatouille, experiment with spice variations with Roasted Apples with Warming Spices. As they grow, they can prep and measure out ingredients for Fluffy Lemony Pancakes, and roll the dumplings for Sweet Potato Gnocchi. And through it all, learning about the Montessori way of parenting—and connecting—in the kitchen.

Learn how to stay true to and focus on your own creative vision when the world seems out of control, as bestselling author Austin Kleon offers advice, stories, and anecdotes that teach you how to persist in doing work that helps make a world worth living in. Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating. In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple rules for how to stay creative, focused, and true to yourself—for life. The creative life is not a linear journey to a finish line, it’s a loop—so find a daily routine, because today is the only day that matters. Disconnect from the world to connect with yourself—sometimes you just have to switch into airplane mode. Keep Going celebrates getting outdoors and taking a walk (as director Ingmar Bergman told his daughter, ”The demons hate fresh air”). Pay attention, and especially pay attention to what you pay attention to. Worry less about getting things done, and more about the worth of what you’re doing. Instead of focusing on making your mark, work to leave things better than you found them. Keep Going and its timeless, practical, and ethical principles are for anyone trying to sustain a meaningful and productive life.

Renowned embroiderer Trish Burr passes her creative secrets on to stitchers--especially beginners--who want to take their needle painting skills to the next level. In 15 projects organized in three levels, from novice to intermediate, Trish provides expert, easy-to-follow guidance on techniques for surface stitching that provide subtle shadings and a soft, paintlike blending of colors. Sections on materials, the long and short stitch, and helpful practice motifs lead to gorgeous projects like Burgundy Rosebuds, a Wild Pansy, and a Racquet-tailed Roller.