Death Of A Hummingbird

Inspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as "redefining mourning," this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offering comfort and community for coping with the mess of loss through candid original essays from a variety of voices, accompanied by gorgeous two-color illustrations and wry infographics. At a time when we mourn public figures and national tragedies with hashtags, where intimate posts about loss go viral and we receive automated birthday reminders for dead friends, it’s clear we are navigating new terrain without a road map. Let’s face it: most of us have always had a difficult time talking about death and sharing our grief. We’re awkward and uncertain; we avoid, ignore, or even deny feelings of sadness; we offer platitudes; we send sympathy bouquets whittled out of fruit. Enter Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner, who can help us do better. Each having lost parents as young adults, they co-founded Modern Loss, responding to a need to change the dialogue around the messy experience of grief. Now, in this wise and often funny book, they offer the insights of the Modern Loss community to help us cry, laugh, grieve, identify, and—above all—empathize. Soffer and Birkner, along with forty guest contributors including Lucy Kalanithi, singer Amanda Palmer, and CNN’s Brian Stelter, reveal their own stories on a wide range of topics including triggers, sex, secrets, and inheritance. Accompanied by beautiful hand-drawn illustrations and witty "how to" cartoons, each contribution provides a unique perspective on loss as well as a remarkable life-affirming message. Brutally honest and inspiring, Modern Loss invites us to talk intimately and humorously about grief, helping us confront the humanity (and mortality) we all share. Beginners welcome.

"A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA." —Anthony Horowitz, author of Magpie Murders In this follow-up to Nicolás Obregon’s critically acclaimed Blue Light Yokohama, Inspector Iwata returns—in a murder case in his new home of Los Angeles. After a brutal investigation ripped apart his life, Kosuke Iwata quit both his job as a detective with the Tokyo Police Department and his country, leaving Japan for the sunnier shores of Los Angeles, California. But, although he’s determined to leave his past behind, murder still follows him. Having set up shop as a private investigator, Iwata is approached by someone from his old life. Her daughter has been killed and the case has gone cold. Out of loyalty, Iwata agrees to take on the case and reinvestigate the homicide. However, what seems initially like a cold-blooded but simple murder takes a complex turn when a witness, a vagrant, recalls the killer's parting words: “I’m sorry.” From the depths of Skid Row to the fatal expanse of the Sonoran Desert, Iwata tracks the disparate pieces of a mysterious and heartbreaking puzzle. But the more he unearths, the more complex this simple act of murder becomes. Lives untangle, fates converge, and blood is spilled as Inspector Iwata returns.

A role playing game of suspense, horror and hope in 2080 on the streets of Manhattan.

“If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales.” —Albert Einstein Fairy Tales of the Heart is carefully crafted to develop the brilliance in your child’s character, mind, heart and body. These contemporary fairy tales skillfully weave myth and mystery, fantasy and reality, poetry and proven principles of child development into heart-warming, educational, and entertaining experiences for children of all ages—you’ll enjoy reading them too! Featuring inspirational heroes and heroines like Bliss Beary Bear, Beeleev’n Bear, and Poet Bear, these inspirational tales help your child develop core values, conquer challenges, discover their uniqueness, and understand their rapidly changing life. Interacting with and imagining themselves as these delightful characters naturally enhances their brain development, creativity, social skills, and self-esteem. Every facet of these tales—the words, their tone, sentence structures, illustrations, review questions, and absence of violence—is designed to expand your child’s infinite imagination, brilliant mind, and full potential. Reading and interacting with them at home or school provides your child the building blocks to a joyful life and successful future. “These Fairy Tales are heart-felt stories that reconnect adults and children to the magic and wonder of life.” —Dr. Dorothy Sprecher, MD

The Maya Literary Renaissance is a growing yet little-known literary phenomenon that can redefine our understanding of "literature" universally. By analyzing eight representative texts of this new and vibrant literary movement, the book argues that the texts present literature as a trans-species phenomenon that is not reducible only to human creativity. Based on detailed textual analysis of the literature in both Maya and Spanish as well as first-hand conversations with the writers themselves, the book develops the first conceptual map of how literature constantly emerges from wider creative patterns in nature. This process, defined as literary inhabitation, is explained by synthesizing core Maya cultural concepts with diverse philosophical, literary, anthropological and biological theories. In the context of the Yucatan Peninsula, where the texts come from, literary inhabitation is presented as an integral part of bioregional becoming, the evolution of the Peninsula as a constantly unfolding dialogue.

Meet Tal'De. He's your average young adult from Seattle...until his mother disappears and he follows her through a portal into a completely different world. Alone in a realm full of magic, dragons, and demons, Tal'De starts a journey to discover who stole his mother, why, and who's this "Vendelin" person everyone keeps telling him to find? Faced with overwhelming questions and choices, Tal'De must decide what he really wants from this unexpected adventure, before it's too late.