One Shining Star

With gentle rhyme and number fun, children learn to count their way through the nativity. Full color.

Earth, Wind & Fire has sold some ninety million records and won eight Grammy awards. But while its charismatic founder, Maurice White, and Philip Bailey, one of popular music’s greatest voices, are remarkable musical talents, their relentless work ethic exhausted and emotionally gutted the group. Now, Bailey shares the inside story of his professional and spiritual journey, from his origins to the band’s meteoric rise to stardom, and from its breakup to its triumphant reinvention. Shining Star will mesmerize the supergroup’s millions of fans and anyone who loves an inspiring story about what happens when real life exceeds your dreams.

The true story of Chinese American film star Anna May Wong, whose trail-blazing career in Hollywood in the 1930s and 1940s broke new ground for future generations of Asian American actors.

Baseball players who have had only one great season throughout their careers discuss the events, circumstances, and glory of the limelight, and their return to mediocrity

Wow, ' said Toby. 'Did all that really happen?'While on a camping trip Toby and Stella get lost in the bush, bump into a wallaby and fi nd themselves in the mystical village of Spudley Vale where they are welcomed by the tiny potato folk.They meet Shepody the Windwalker who takes them to Rockring for theShining Ceremony. This is the beginning of an exciting adventure as Toby and Stella learn to bridge the gap between the two worlds and, in doing so, fulfill an ancient prophecy.'One Shining Day' is the first of a series of stories revolving around themystical village of Spudley Vale and a search for 'the Truth.'

Sixteen-year-old Grace has dreams, and she knows how to make them come true: a little silicone and surgery here and there –nose, breasts, lips, hair, teeth, nails. Then with the right clothes and a new tan she’ll be ready: ready to be seen, consumed and adored by millions. Grace will become a celebrity. Someone, though, remembers her as an ordinary, pretty schoolgirl living in a rural paradise: a place of simple, natural beauty. When he sees how utterly Grace has changed, he realises how far the world has fallen since those days. The collision of their two lives, their two very different trajectories, can only end in catastrophe.