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A Better Man - A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son by Michael Ian Black
Category: Parenting
"Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it's a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys." --Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author of Boys & Sex A poignant look at boyhood, in the form of a heartfelt letter from comedian Michael Ian Black to his t ...Show more
A Child's First Book of Trump by Michael Ian Black
Category: Humour
A New York Times bestseller! What do you do when you spot a wild Trump in the election season? New York Times bestselling author and comedian Michael Ian Black has some sage advice for children (and all the rest of us who are scratching our heads in disbelief) in this perfectly timely parody picture bo ...Show more
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea by Michael Ian Black
Category: Picture Books
Could anything possibly be more fun than a pig parade!? It certainly sounds like a good idea. But actually, a pig parade is a terrible idea. Pigs hate to march, refuse to wear the uniforms, and insist on playing country music ballads. Full color.
CHICKEN CHEEKS by BLACK,MICHAEL,IAN
Category: Picture Books
Some bears will go to any length to get some honey. This one recruits every animal that comes along to form, well, a stack. The result? Tail of the duck to the gluteus maximus of the duck-billed platypus (with many other rears in between). Readers will giggle with delight at the bird's eye view of some ...Show more
Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
Category: Picture Books
Some bears will go to any length to get some honey. This one recruits every animal that comes along to form, well, a stack. The result? Tail of the duck to the gluteus maximus of the duck-billed platypus (with many other rears in between). Readers will giggle with delight at the bird's eye view of some ...Show more
Enemies and Neighbors - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
Category: History
"Comprehensive and compelling...a landmark study" of the Arab-Zionist conflict, told from both sides, by the author of Israel's Secret Wars (Sunday Times, UK).Setting the scene at the end of the nineteenth century, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Ottoman-ruled Holy Land, Black draws on a ...Show more
Enemies and Neighbours: Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel by Ian Black
Category: History
Ever since the Ottoman Empire was defeated and British colonial rule began in 1917, Jews and Arabs have struggled for control of the Holy Land. Israel's independence in 1948 in the wake of the Holocaust was a triumph for the Zionist movement but a catastrophe - 'nakba' in Arabic - for the native Palesti ...Show more
Enemies and Neighbours - Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017 by Ian Black
Category: History
ECONOMIST, SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 'Comprehensive and compelling ... A nuanced, landmark study that has deservedly won plaudits from both Palestinian and Israeli historians' Justin Marozzi, The Times A century after Britain's Balfour Declaration promised a Jewis ...Show more
I'm Bored by Michael Ian Black
Category: Picture Books
There is NOTHING boring about being a kid, but one little girl is going to have to prove it in this anything-but-boring picture book from comedian Michael Ian Black.Just when a little girl thinks she couldn't possibly be more bored, she stumbles upon a potato who turns the tables on her by declaring tha ...Show more
I'm Worried by Michael Ian Black; Debbie Ridpath Ohi (Illustrator)
Category: Picture Books | Series: The\I'm Bks.
A girl, a flamingo, and a worried potato star in the third book in New York Times bestselling author Michael Ian Black and celebrated illustrator Debbie Ridpath Ohi's series about feelings--and why they're good, even when they feel bad. Potato is worried. About everything. Because anything might ...Show more