Dream House Party

Explore Barbie's spectacular home with over 50 flaps to lift. The lift-the-flap format has never looked so glamorous with Barbie™ Dreamhouse Party. Explore Barbie's spectacular home with over 50 flaps to lift. See what Barbie has in her amazing closet, her fabulous bedroom, family room, and outside at the pool. Girls will love exploring Barbie’s home and playing with all Barbie’s friends. In addition to the story, each page has a secondary learning activity that reinforces early learning concepts, such as opposites, colors and actions words.

Barbie and her sisters love sharing their home so they are throwing a super-cool party, and you're invited! With fun flaps to open on each page, you'll see the fabulous rooms in their house as the sisters plan the special event. Find out what yummy treats Barbie is making in the kitchen, see Chelsea's adorable dance, check out Skipper mixing music, and find who is hiding under all the pillows! Girls will want to visit Barbie and her dreamhouse party again and again!

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope--haunted houses, erotica, bildungsroman--in which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations about the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, Star Trek and Disney villains, fairy tales, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

This Dream House Convertible is the perfect gift for young Barbie fans all over the globe! Put the house together to play in your very own Barbie house, complete with die-cut windows and doors. After you have finished playing, fold it up to read a fabulous story all about Barbie and her best friends!

In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S. media in the context of the period’s reigning ideals about home and family life, Spigel looks at a range of commercial objects and phenomena, from television and toys to comic books and magazines. The volume considers not only how the media portrayed suburban family life, but also how both middle-class ideals and a perceived division between private and public worlds helped to shape the visual forms, storytelling practices, and reception of postwar media and consumer culture. Spigel also explores those aspects of suburban culture that media typically render invisible. She looks at the often unspoken assumptions about class, nation, ethnicity, race, and sexual orientation that underscored both media images (like those of 1960s space missions) and social policies of the mass-produced suburb. Issues of memory and nostalgia are central in the final section as Spigel considers how contemporary girls use television reruns as a source for women’s history and then analyzes the current nostalgia for baby boom era family ideals that runs through contemporary images of new household media technologies. Containing some of Spigel’s well-known essays on television’s cultural history as well as new essays on a range of topics dealing with popular visual culture, Welcome to the Dreamhouse is important reading for students and scholars of media and communications studies, popular culture, American studies, women’s studies, and sociology.

Read all about BarbieTM and her sisters' amazing adventures in the new animated series BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures in this Step 2 deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader--plus stickers! Barbie and her sisters--Chelsea, Stacie, and Skipper--always have fun as they travel all around the world in the new animated comedy series BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures. Children ages 4 to 6 will love reading this Step into Reading Step 2 Reader based on BarbieTM Dreamhouse Adventures. It features over 30 sparkly stickers! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories. For children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Since 1959, Barbie has shown girls that they can live their dreams. From an astronaut to a chef, to the first woman president, she knows that girls can do anything!

Someone is about to die... Someone is about to lie... At the intimate house-warming party for her glorious ‘grand design’, Kathleen confides in her best friend Beth that she is terrified of one of their close friends, but daren’t reveal which one. The guests are a tight-knit group, but Kathleen is convinced one of them is dangerous. The next day Kathleen’s body is found at the foot of a cliff and Beth must face the sickening truth that she may have been killed by one of their trusted friends. With little help from the police, Beth’s decides to seek answers. All the friends have secrets they are desperate to hide, but only one of them is ready to kill to keep theirs safe... The House Party is set on the Isle of Wight - insular,claustrophobic, and with nowhere to run. Mary Grand has written a heart-stopping novel of secrets, betrayal and desire, perfect for fans of Louise Candlish, Lucy Foley and The Isle of Wight Murders. What readers are saying about The House Party: 'Truly a great puzzler with a superb ending! I HIGHLY Recommend!!!' 'Wow I'm so so impressed it had me gripped start to finish and I couldn't put it down. I completed within 1 night and such a page turner' 'All the suspense and twists and turns' 'This is a real page turner, that kept me guessing until the end!' 'A gripping read.' 'A brilliantly clever read and one to remember.' 'So many twists and turns to keep the reader guessing to the very end. An excellent read.' 'This is a book that will leave the reader guessing all the way.' 'With its ability to draw the reader in, this is great for a day when you don’t want to do anything but curl up with a good story and while away the day.' 'The House Party is a fantastic read for anyone who likes twisty, witty thriller reads.' 'I highly recommend this book - you won't want to put it down.' 'This is a great book that sucks you in right from the start. Plenty of twists and turns and suspense. Unexpected ending that I didn't see coming.' 'Brilliant if you love psychological thrillers like me.' 'This was an excellent novel, combining the elements of drama and thriller.' 'A sinister "whodunit" that is not your typical police procedural.'

Children ages 3 to 7 will love this full-color activity book that features quizzes, puzzles, posters, and over 50 stickers based on Barbie(R)'s hilarious series of webisodes, Barbie(TM) Life in the Dream House.