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"Intelligent, politically bold, and beautiful to browse [...] Every bookshelf needs a copy." — Disability Arts Online

Get ready for season 4 of the popular TLC show I Am Jazz! Teen advocate and trailblazer Jazz Jennings--named one of "The 25 Most Influential Teens" of the year by Time--shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.

"[Jazz's] touching book serves as a rallying cry for understanding and acceptance."–Bustle

"Insightful...Brings one of our finest - and most complicated - poets into view...Raw and honest." - Los Angeles Review of Books.

The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.

A Nazi resistance story like none you've ever heard or read. Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers and On Desperate Ground ;Every page is gripping, and the amount of new research is nothing short of mind-boggling. A brilliant book for the ages!

Far more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life.
 

In this day and age, when art has become more of a commodity and art school graduates are convinced that they can only make a living from their work by attaining gallery representation, it is more important than ever to show the reality of how a professional, contemporary artist sustains a creative practice over time. The 40 essays collected here in Living and Sustaining a Creative Life are written in the artists' own voices and take the form of narratives, statements and interviews.

A New York Public Library Best Book of 2017
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book for Teens 2017

‘[An] unconventional journey…brilliantly documented.’ Courier Mail

The 50th Anniversary edition of "the book that changed baseball" (NPR), chosen by Time magazine as one of the "100 Greatest Non-Fiction" books. When Ball Four was published in 1970, it created a firestorm. Bouton was called a Judas, a Benedict Arnold, and a "social leper" for having violated the "sanctity of the clubhouse." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force Bouton to sign a statement saying the book wasn't true. Ballplayers, most of whom hadn't read it, denounced the book. It was even banned by a few libraries. Almost everyone else, however, loved Ball Four .