Stink Eye

One of the funniest and most relatable family comic strips in history, Baby Blues is guaranteed to entertain parents and comic strip fans of all ages. In the newest Baby Blues scrapbook, cartoonists Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman have returned with another full year's worth of comics and commentary chronicling the family foibles of the MacPhersons and the mischievous antics of Zoe, Hammie, and Wren.

Midwesterner Tanner Fahte, blissful in his new life on the north shore of Kaua'i, pursues his lifelong (if quixotic) dream of melding into a Hawaiian community he has revered since childhood. "The only word to describe it is maika'i," Tanner enthuses, using the all-purpose Hawaiian word for good, well, right and generally neato. The tropical climes, natural beauty, and cultural affinity make him "as happy as a sow in slop!" Politically left of Bernie - and of an ethical rigor that makes Gandhi seem like The Donald - Tanner's convictions and integrationist zeal eventually bring him into the independence movement. Along with kanaka members, he presses for the restoration of Hawaiian national sovereignty, and restitution of land and riches stolen by whites after the illegal 1893 destitution of the monarchy, U.S. annexation and extension of statehood. Tanner's adoring but mercurial wife, Heike, could live without his over-the top, wannabe activism, and keeps him in line just enough to prevent him from making paradise a pain in the 'elemu. But an old kanaka man, Ka'imipono, claims ownership of their property, creating a serious kink in this north shore nirvana. After first dismissing the yammering coot as either a con artist or a doddering loony, Tanner comes to understand the depth of his dilemma when Ka'imipono presents a compelling historical case to substantiate his story. Both fascinated and alarmed, Tanner recognizes Ka'imipono and his ancestral land as a living link to Kaua'i's past - and as a personal challenge to rectify the theft of "his" property from inhabitants dispossessed after the 1893 coup. Can Tanner afford to sacrifice his home and life savings to right the historical wrongs he's unknowingly inherited - and exemplify the wider justice he believes Hawai'i is due? Could he live with himself in betraying his sense of right by protecting his narrow self-interests; passing this historic buck like so many haoles before him; and rebuffing Ka'imipono's claim as invalid under U.S. law? Can a man of even the most noble spirit and utmost reverence for the past be expected to walk away from his beloved adopted home, and his dreams, to accept destitution in a quest for right? With the help and cajoling of Ka'imipono and his extended 'ohana, Tanner gawkily navigates his quandary in ways both funny and touching as he seeks to reconcile Hawaiian identity, history and legacy with his own. Along the way, he not only restores meaning to life he feared he'd forsaken, but ensures that it is pretty goldarn maika'i to boot

Readers are placed in a new home that proves to be a swamp house and the site of a hidden treasure, a sewer ghoul, and a swamp thing, in a spooky story with more than twenty possible endings. Original.

The second original, touching, twisted, and most of all hilarious novel for children from David Walliams, number one bestseller and fastest growing children’s author in the country – beautifully illustrated by Quentin Blake.

"One of the funniest and most relatable family comic strips in history, Baby Blues is guaranteed to entertain parents and comic strip fans of all ages. In the newest Baby Blues scrapbook, cartoonists Jerry Scott and Rick Kirkman have returned with another full year's worth of comics and commentary chronicling the family foibles of the MacPhersons and the mischievous antics of Zoe, Hammie, and Wren." --

Pongdollop wants his fellow monsters to join him in an uprising – and his secret weapon is a real stinker! Urk and Will have sniffed him out, but can they stop this smelly scoundrel from taking over the world?

What in the world is a Stink-Eye? How does a KID get Pink-Eye? All EYES are on THE KID (and THE DOG) as they solve these & other mysteries! Second in a series of books on "idioms" and figurative language--words & phrases that mean so much more than just what they say--by best-selling author & retired educator, Dorenda Doyle

Right-wing conservative and card-carrying member of the Silent Majority, Francis Scott Key is the shirttail relative of the national anthem’s author. A former SEAL and current venture capitalist in Menlo Park, California, Scotty becomes involved with Ali Woo, a beautiful NSA agent. Scotty becomes suspicious when a Berkley grad who developed a way to revolutionize mining goes missing, and localized earthquakes in Canada and Mexico kill their prime minister and president. He teams up with a Royal Canadian Mountie to discover if these natural disasters are truly “natural.” Shortly after the deaths of the Mexican and Canadian officials, a cataclysmic 8.8 earthquake takes 242,000 lives in California. Are these events linked? A guessing game ensues as to the real entity pulling US President Rasheed’s strings. What is the true motivation to rack up debt to the point of the country’s ruination? From San Francisco to D.C., Vancouver, and Cozumel, Mexico, Red House explores in humorously irreverent, gritty detail, the tipping points between treachery, incompetence and ideology against the backdrop of a rich international tapestry of intrigue. Is corruption or narcissistic megalomania driving the bus hurtling the US towards bankruptcy?