Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

THE NO 2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast an unflinching powerful deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed-race Korean food losing her Korean mother and forging her own identity.In this exquisite story of family food grief and endurance Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer songwriter and guitarist. With humour and heart she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene Oregon; of struggling with her mothers particular high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmothers tiny apartment in Seoul where she and her mother would bond late at night over heaping plates of food. As she grew up moving to the east coast for college finding work in the restaurant industry performing gigs with her fledgling band and meeting the man who would become her husband her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mothers diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer when Michelle was twenty-five that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste language and history her mother had given her. Vivacious and plainspoken lyrical and honest Michelle Zauners voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish share and reread.

 

Attached: Are you Anxious Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find and keep love

'A groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be in a relationship.' John Gray PhD. bestselling author of Men Are from Mars Women Are from VenusAn insightful look at the science behind love Attached offers readers a road map for building stronger more fulfilling connections.Is there a science to love? In this groundbreaking book psychiatrist and neuroscientist Amir Levine and psychologist Rachel S. F. Heller reveal how an understanding of attachment theory the most advanced relationship science in existence today can help us find and sustain love.Pioneered by psychologist John Bowlby in the 1950s the field of attachment explains that each of us behaves in relationships in one of three distinct ways:Anxious people are often preoccupied with their relationships and tend to worry about their partners ability to love them back.Avoidant people equate intimacy with a loss of independence and constantly try to minimize closeness. Secure people feel comfortable with intimacy and are usually warm and loving.With fascinating psychological insight quizzes and case studies Dr Amir Levine and Rachel Heller help you understand the three attachment styles identify your own and recognize the styles of others so that you can find compatible partners or improve your existing relationship.

 

Working Backwards: Insights Stories and Secrets from Inside Amazon

'Essential for any leader in any industry' Kim Scott bestselling author of Radical CandorWorking Backwards gives an insider's account of Amazon's approach to culture leadership and best practices from two long-time top-level Amazon executives.In 2018 Amazon became the worlds second trillion dollar company after Apple: a remarkable success story for a company launched out of a garage in 1994. How did they achieve this? And how can others learn from this extraordinary success and replicate it?Colin Bryar started at Amazon in 1998; Bill Carr joined in 1999. Their time at Amazon covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle Amazon Prime Amazon Echo and Alexa and Amazon Web Services to life. Through the story of these innovations they reveal and codify the principles and practices that have driven the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known from the famous 14-leadership principles the bar raiser hiring process and Amazons founding characteristics: customer obsession long-term thinking eagerness to invent and operational excellence.Through their wealth of experience they offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined articulated and proven to be repeatable scalable and adaptable. Working Backwards shows how success is not achieved by the genius of any single leader but rather through commitment to and execution of a set of well-defined rigorously-executed principles and practices that you can apply at your own company no matter the size.

 

Wilder Girls: Rory Power

'Your new favourite book' CosmopolitanAn instant New York Times bestseller Wilder Girls is Rory Power's visceral and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye Reese's hand has changed and Byatt just disappeared completely.Its been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland the girls dont dare wander past the schools fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign things bursting out of them bits missing.But when Byatt goes missing Hetty will do anything to find her best friend even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . .'Wholly original and compelling' Observer'A staggering gut punch of a book' Kirkus'Body horror meets boarding school in a moving terrifying thriller' Guardian

 

The Snail and the Whale Festive Edition

The Snail and the Whale is a delightful tale of adventure and friendship from the bestselling Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler creators of The Gruffalo. This special festive edition features the classic story with a gorgeous wintry cover design perfect for sharing together with the whole family.This is the tale of a tiny snailAnd a great big grey-blue humpback whale . . .When one little snail longs to see the big wide world she hitches a lift on the tail of an enormous whale. Together they set sail on an amazing journey past icebergs and volcanoes sharks and penguins and the little snail feels so small in the vastness of the world. But when disaster strikes and the whale is beached in a bay its up to the tiny snail to save the day.Julia Donaldson and Axel Schefflers brilliant story of unlikely friendship and life-changing adventure has been brought to life on BBC One in an animation starring Sally Hawkins Rob Brydon Cariad Lloyd and Dame Diana Rigg.With a gorgeous wintry cover design The Snail and the Whale Festive Edition is perfect for reading together.

 

Rabbit's Nap: 20th Anniversary Edition (Tales From Acorn Wood)

Lift the flaps and join in the fun with this special anniversary edition of the bestselling preschool classic Rabbit's Nap by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler creators of The Gruffalo. Rabbit is trying to get to sleep but everyone is being so noisy. Lift the flaps and find out who is keeping Rabbit awake! Will she ever have her nap?With sturdy flaps on every spread and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud the Tales from Acorn Wood series has been delighting both parents and toddlers for over twenty years. Celebrate their unending appeal with Rabbit's Nap: 20th Anniversary Edition.Discover more stories in the Tales from Acorn Wood series: Fox's Socks Hide-and-Seek Pig and Postman Bear.

 

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

What would you change if you could go back in time?In a small back alley in Tokyo there is a caf which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.In Before the Coffee Gets Cold we meet four visitors each of whom is hoping to make use of the cafs time-travelling offer in order to: confront the man who left them receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's to see their sister one last time and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat they cannot leave the caf and finally they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . . Toshikazu Kawaguchis beautiful moving story translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly who would you want to meet maybe for one last time?

 

Postman Bear: 20th Anniversary Edition (Tales From Acorn Wood)

Lift the flaps and join in the fun with this special anniversary edition of the bestselling preschool classic Postman Bear by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler creators of The Gruffalo. Bear is writing letters to his friends. But what could his letters be about? Lift the flaps and join Frog Squirrel and Mole for Bear's special surprise!With sturdy flaps on every spread and rhyming stories that are a joy to read aloud the Tales from Acorn Wood series has been delighting both parents and toddlers for over twenty years. Celebrate their unending appeal with Postman Bear: 20th Anniversary Edition.Discover more stories in the Tales from Acorn Wood series: Fox's Socks Rabbit's Nap and Hide-and-Seek Pig.

 

The 130-Storey Treehouse (The Treehouse Series Band 10)

There are lots of laughs at every level in The 130-Storey Treehouse the tenth book in the number one bestselling Treehouse series from Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton.This is our Treehouse come on up!We've added 13 news levels to our Treehouse including soap bubble blaster a GRABINATOR (it can grab anything from anywhere at any time) a time-wasting level a toilet paper factory (because you can never have too much toilet paper) and an extraterrestrial observation centre...Which will come in handy when giant flying eyeballs from outer space come to grabinate US!

 

Room on the Broom: A Push Pull and Slide Book

Push pull and slide the magical moving mechanisms in this brilliant board book to meet all your favourite characters from the bestselling picture book Room on the Broom and bring the story to life!Wiggle the witch's broomstick to make her and her cat fly happily over forests rivers and mountains. Push and pull the tabs to see what happens when they are joined by a dog a bird and a frog who all want a ride and . . . SNAP! Make the broom break in two. Move the magical scene-changing mechanism to scare away the greedy dragon who's hungry for a snack and then slide out the big tab on the last page to watch the witch and her friends fly off on their brand new truly magnificent broom whoosh!With a short simple rhyming text based on the original story Room on the Broom: A Push Pull and Slide Book is the perfect introduction for preschoolers to Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and a great gift for fans of the bestselling picture book.