Jessica Smith

Hello, my name is Adam. I want a pet. Hallo, ich hei e Adam. Ich m chte ein Haustier. Mom tells me to go to the shelter to adopt a pet.

"What do you want for your birthday?" Adam's dad asked his son. "I want a pet," Adam said. "Then why don't we go to the shelter and see what we can adopt?" his mom answered. "Shelter?" Adam said. "Yes. Pets who are lost end up there. Adopting can give these pets a second chance at life." And so, Adam went to the town's shelter, not knowing what he'd discover. Fun and cute story with stunning illustration, get this book now and read a long with your child. They surely will love it.

-This bomb-ass, brilliant book is, without question, as serious as a heart attack. The storyworld of REAL survival: Amy Eggert is the only person I know brave enough, badd enuff, to go there. Aiming to challenge-and more than likely, shatter-widespread myth and that which has been cataclysmic in our society like no other fiction I've read, Scattershot is the true language of trauma. It never stops talking to you, getting into your head in ways that you'll never forget. Far-reaching, Scattershot will utterly blow you away. It's that good-Ricardo Cortez Cruz, author of Straight Outta Compton and Five Days of Bleeding -Written with a compressed precision, the short stories and prose poems that make up Scattershot are like the random yet deadly pattern produced by a haphazardly fired shotgun: painful, contingent, indelible. Equally poised between quiet empathy and unflinching candor, these are snapshots of everyday life in a neoliberal America that has given up on its social contract and the promise of the better life. What remains is a haunted landscape of broken dreams, broken bodies, and broken minds. Amy Eggert is a poet of our diminished world, and Scattershot is necessary reading- Christopher Breu, author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics and Hard-Boiled Masculinities -Amy Eggert's Scattershot must be what Cathy Caruth meant by "the story of a wound that cries out." Only here are many wounds growing mouths, yearning to be heard-the grandfather in the assisted living facility crying "this isn't home," the four year old son flashing back to his father's hallway suicide, a woman who pines for ghost babies lost in trees. These stories, in their unflinching exquisiteness, are a live nerve twitching, the body at its limits demanding witness. Eggert's debut collection is the body almost choking on its own vulnerable song-- Sara Henning, author of A Sweeter Water

Being pregnant with the Antichrist is one thing... but carrying the hitch-hiking demonic reincarnation of your husband's brutally murdered crazy ex-girlfriend is another. Having given birth to half-human twins, only one of which should rightfully be hers, motherhood isn't all it's cracked up to be for Evie Jane Devlin. With the psychotic demon-baby out for her blood, and everyone in her life branding her crazy, it's up to Evie alone to guard her real baby from the usurper. It's up to Evie to protect her perfect son, Zachariah from the sister who'll surely kill him. With the devious monster baying for blood in the shadows, Evie turns to her husband for salvation and begs him to deliver the child back to Hell and eternal damnation. But can Lucius really save her from Daddy's little girl?

A Bird Lost in Paradise is a children's story about a bird of prey called Caitlin who became lost in the Amazon rain forest. She meets Alvin a squirrel monkey and they enjoy meeting new friends and travelling to far-away places. Henry the Mountain Lion helps them cross the Andes Mountain Range. Rocky a Galapagos Penguin helps them travel between the Galapagos Islands and a Macaw called Sky helps them find food. Will Caitlin and Alvin find their way home or will they become even more lost?. To find out read this great adventure story about animals travelling in paradise.