Thank You Maam

When a young boy named Roger tries to steal the purse of a woman named Luella, he is just looking for money to buy stylish new shoes. After she grabs him by the collar and drags him back to her home, he's sure that he is in deep trouble. Instead, Roger is soon left speechless by her kindness and generosity.

TikTok and viral video star Grey (@greyandmama) says "Thank you, Mama!" to healthy foods in this picture book that teaches gratitude, manners, and the joy of sharing meals with those we love. We all want to raise happy eaters who enjoy trying new foods, mealtimes with family, and being thankful. That's why so many parents love Linda Meeker's charming videos of her son Grey saying "Thank you, Mama!" With colorful illustrations that capture a child's daily snacks and mealtimes, Thank You, Mama will delight parents and kids alike as it follows a little boy exploring different foods—from vegetables to sushi—and trying to pick his favorite. This playful picture book for 3- to 7-year-olds encourages children to try new foods and become happy, healthy eaters honors the bond between parent and child models respect, manners, and thankfulness builds vocabulary and prereading skills with colorful food illustrations paired with words for each item This debut children's book from TikTok and Instagram stars Grey and Mama (@greyandmama, 7M followers) is the perfect story for Parents and grandparents who want to instill good habits and gratitude from a young age Any family eager to celebrate the love of food and family that develops over shared meals Baby showers, birthdays, holiday gift giving, or to a little one scared to try new foods This cheerful story about an adorable, curious, and kind child will have your kids saying "thank you"—and maybe even giving those peas a chance!

The Short Stories of Langston Hughes This collection of forty-seven stories written between 1919 and 1963--the most comprehensive available--showcases Langston Hughes's literary blossoming and the development of his personal and artistic concerns. Many of the stories assembled here have long been out of print, and others never before collected. These poignant, witty, angry, and deeply poetic stories demonstrate Hughes's uncanny gift for elucidating the most vexing questions of American race relations and human nature in general.

… As a professor in IIT Delhi is busy with his love, Biobull, a revolutionary bus that will run on human discharge and provide a somewhat funny, yet, inexhaustible alternate fuel… one of his students is busy with his-a girl thankfully. Tejas Narulas college misadventures and comic entanglements are a result of the twisted hand of Fate. Follow his journey across the nation to his love, aided only by his ingenuity and a trustworthy band of friends.

Gezirah Du Mortier's life began in tragedy when her mother died while giving birth to her. Little did she know the spiral of events that had been put in motion on that fateful day. Her father, John, a wealthy and powerful man, showed little affection to Gezirah as he held her responsible for his wife's death. He eventually got remarried to the beautiful and sophisticated Anne. But is she all that she seems? Becoming increasingly jealous at how Gezirah is blossoming into a beautiful young woman, Anne plots to have her kidnapped and shipped to America. After arriving in America, terrified and alone, Gezirah is first bought and then forced to marry James Black, a hard and brutal cowboy. She is then taken to his ranch in Arizona. Will Gezirah adapt to her new life or will she try to escape back to her homeland?

A teenager tries to steal the purse of Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones and is rebuked in a surprising fashion.

Gecko doesn't want to go back to Juvenile Detention, but trouble somehow always finds him... Graham "Gecko" Fosse drove the getaway car for a robbery he didn't even know was going down. But that doesn't keep him out of Juvie — the worst place he has ever been. It's a place where its inmates, some convicted teenage killers, could easily write an encyclopedia on how to inflict pain. Thankfully, do-gooder Douglas Healy shows up, giving Gecko a chance to swap the slammer for a halfway house lived in by two other young criminals. There are just three crucial conditions — the three boys must stay in school and out of trouble, all while staying on Social Services' good side. Or else it's back to Juvie for all of them. But Terence seems bent on getting himself into trouble — the boys catch him sneaking down the fire escape, off to pull another heist. If only their fight hadn't gotten physical and Healy hadn't wound up in the hospital with amnesia. If only Gecko wasn't falling for a girl whose dad's best friend was the Deputy Police chief. And that's just the beginning of their problems. One thing's for certain: if the boys are found out, their second chance will be their last...

Here, for the first time, is a complete collection of Langston Hughes's poetry - 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920s through the 1960s.