A lovable little penguin discusses and describes all the things he likes to do the most--from playing peekaboo to holding hands--in a new board book edition of the charming story.

My name is Vicksay Baby Moten-Richardson, I am the last of fourteen children. I realize now why I am so different in so many ways, not in a bragging way but in a way that God has laid it on my heart to share my life in this book. Not too many people are named Baby. It was not until I was eighteen and graduating from high school when I revealed that my middle name was Baby. When the principal of the school called my name and I walked up to get my diploma,...

Recorded over the course of two nights at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, this never-before-released material was to be the source for Carlin's twelfth HBO special. But following the attacks on 9/11, Carlin removed and reworked much of the content into what ultimately became Complaints and grievances. Now here for this first time is the performance as it was originally planned, raw and uncensored.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I liked it when my mother included me in the family activities. I would mix drinks for my mother and her boyfriends and bring them over on a small metal tray. #2 When I was almost seven, my mother began dating Johnny, a man who would eventually become my predator. I didn't like him, and I didn't want to know him better. I would pretend not to hear him when he tried...

"For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the...

Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.

Jay is forced to continually cover for his sister, Nicole, who hangs out with the wrong crowd; however, Jay can't deal with it any more. Soon after, Nic fails to return home. When she's deemed missing, the police barely bother to search for her; she's just another lost Black girl. Jay feels guilty and he thinks, "If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be home spending time with our grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior...