Skinner

Frankie Horvath is not happy. He's almost forty. He's fat. His wife is dead. He designs forks for a living. And his son? Well, he might just be the Antichrist. Which is why Frankie is about to meet with Satanists to find out the truth once and for all. And taking into account Frankie's lifelong delusions of grandeur (and the gun stuffed down the front of his pants) a bloody showdown for the fate of mankind is not out of the question. If you love the...

What if your kids begged to play with words and ideas, because it was so fun? 'Tom is a magician with words, a sorcerer with challenging ideas, and an all-around excellent poet.' Kids and teens love ideas from left field, a play on words that makes them giggle and stretches their creative language skills. It's very hard to describe this series until you read it because Get Your Wordsworth is (as far as I can tell) a new hybrid model of illustrated...

What if your kids thought playing with words and ideas was incredibly fun? 'It's witty and entertaining. The drawings are funny.' Kids and teens love ideas from left field, a play on words that makes them giggle and stretches their creative language skills. 'Definitely good for a quick giggle.' Call it what you will this quick 'n' quirky combination of poetry, youthful humor, silly phrases, puns and sketches is designed to challenge developing brains...

A loving but eccentric father of three awakens his children late one night with news that their mother has left him and is bound for California. They set off on a hilarious, emotionally charged cross-country road trip to find her, but it takes another decade for the mystery of what happened to be revealed--and for the healing to happen.

John Wright's mind is playing tricks on him. He sees people he thinks he knows, but they are only strangers. His memory flickers in and out of focus. He has not seen his fiancée, Iris, in over three years. He fled their Los Angeles apartment one night after a fit of rage that may or may not have left her dead. He has been living off a small fortune he stole from Iris's rich, manipulative businessman father. He bides his time and waits for the police...

"It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection." -Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The Story of Ain't by David Skinner is the captivating true chronicle of the creation of Merriam Webster's Third New International...

From craft beers and sourdough bread to kimchi, coffee, tea, and cheese, fermentation is a popular topic in both food and health circles. In Our Fermented Lives, food historian and fermenting expert Julia Skinner explores the fascinating roots of a wide range of fermented foods in cultures around the world, with a focus on the many intersections fermented foods have with human history and culture, from the evolution of the microbiome to food preservation...

A Iris Fallowfield se le da tan bien portarse bien que los profesores acuden a ella cuando necesitan ayuda para recordar las normas del colegio, ¡y hay muchísimas! Pero cuando Iris descubre un paquete medio descolorido de SEMILLAS MÁGICAS, su mundo comienza a florecer de una manera extraña, aterradora y -a la larga- maravillosa...

Body horror is just the start. Faithful is a suspense-filled novella that unwinds the relationship between a captor and his victim in a cold and agonizing thirty-day plot. With a purposeful and melancholic melody, it will have you holding your breath and body close. From the author who brought you Broken, Paths and Healed, all reaching and maintaining number one spots in numerous categories (#1 in Horror Short Stories, #1 in One-Hour Literature &...

It's Monday morning, 9am. How do you feel? Imagine waking up to start another week. In a perfect world, how would you like to feel? Maybe you imagine feeling motivated and energized. Maybe you imagine starting your week with a sense of purpose, peace and intention. The goal of this book is simple: to help you live with a sense of purpose. Part-manual, part-manifesto, this book is not a quick fix for happiness, it's not a five-day plan promising a...