![]() ![]() Coming Back Stronger is the ultimate comeback story, not only of one of the NFL's top quarterbacks, but also of a city and a team that many had all but given up on. When a potentially career-ending shoulder injury left quarterback Drew Brees without a team-and facing the daunting task of having to learn to throw a football all over again-coaches around the NFL wondered, Will he ever come back? After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, leaving more than 80 percent of the city underwater, many wondered, Will the city ever come back? And with their stadium transformed into a makeshift refugee camp, forcing the Saints to play their entire 2005 season on the road, people questioned, Will the Saints ever come back? It takes a special person to turn adversity into success and despair into hope-yet that is exactly what Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees has done-and with the weight of an entire city on his shoulders. ![]()
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![]() Featuring fun readings of the story, read-along versions, as well as some animal noises to join in with and the Dear Zoo Song!Ī fun-filled sticker activity book based on the bestselling preschool classic, Dear Zoo, packed full of activities and games, plus over 200 stickers. Rod Campbell's classic lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo has been a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike ever since it was first published in 1982, and this includes the classic book and a CD with half an hour of zoo-based storytelling from Rod Campbell and Caroline Quentin. ![]() Will the zoo ever manage to send the perfect pet? Young children will love lifting the flaps to discover the animals the zoo has sent – a very tall giraffe, a fierce lion and even a very jumpy frog. This interactive pop-up edition retains all the charm of the original story and is packed full of exciting surprises. ![]() Rod Campbell's classic lift-the-flap book Dear Zoo is a firm favourite with toddlers and parents alike. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There aren’t many things I loved in high school that I still love now: Listening to the same Dashboard Confessional CD on infinite repeat, running to Livejournal to unselfconsciously document every oh-so-significant spike in my emotional temperature and wearing brightly colored tights under fishnet stockings are all things I’ve let slip into the past but Robbins has seen me through all the milestones and minutia of my teenage and twentysomething years. ![]() Before I had developed a literary taste that I can be proud of, there was the beacon of hope for me that is Tom Robbins. Before I fell hard for postmodernism, I fell for Tom Robbins. Before I knew that magical realism was a thing, I loved Tom Robbins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elias finds herself alone, ensnared in a scandalous trial, and accused of stealing her fortune from whites. Hounded by the salacious press, the very private Mrs. When the truth of her identity is uncovered, thousands of protestors gather in front of her stately home. The unsolved murder turns Hannah’s world upside-down and threatens to destroy everything she’s built. Finally attaining the life she’s always dreamed, she buys a mansion on the Upper West Side and decorates it in gold and first-rate décor, inspired by her idol Cleopatra. As the money pours in, Hannah hides her millions across 29 banks. ![]() Hannah quietly invests in the stock market, growing her fortune with the help of businessmen. Shedding her past, Hannah slips on a new identity before relocating to New York City to become as rich as a robber baron. This is the beginning of an odyssey that moves back and forth in time and reveals the dangerous secrets of a mysterious woman, the fortune she built, and her precipitous fall.īorn in Philadelphia in the late 1800s, Hannah Elias has done things she’s not proud of to survive. ![]() The author of the award-winning Sally Hemings now brings to life Hannah Elias, one of the richest black women in America in the early 1900s, in this mesmerizing novel swirling with atmosphere and steeped in history.Ī murder and a case of mistaken identity brings the police to Hannah Elias’ glitzy, five-story, twenty-room mansion on Central Park West. ![]() |