From comedy legend Eric Idle, the fascinating inside story of bringing Monty Python and the Holy Grail to Broadway as the unlikely theatrical hit Spamalot On March 17, 2005, Spamalot debuted on Broadway to rapturous reviews for its star-studded creative team, including creators Eric Idle and John du Prez, director Mike Nichols, and stars Hank Azaria, David Hyde Pierce, Sara Ramirez, Tim Curry, and more. But long before the show was the toast of Broadway and the winner of three Tony Awards, it was an idea threatening to fizzle out before it could find its way into existence. Now, in The Spamalot Diaries, Eric Idle shares original journal entries and raw email exchanges—all featuring his whip-smart wit—that reveal the sometimes bumpy, always entertaining path to the show’s unforgettable run. In the months leading up to that opening night, financial anxieties were high with a low-ceiling budget and expectations that it would take two years to break even. Collaborative disputes put decades-long friendships to the test. And the endless process of rewriting was a task as passionate as it was painstaking. Still, there’s nothing Idle would change about that year. Except for the broken ankle. He could do without the broken ankle. Chronicling every minor mishap and triumph along the way, as well as the creative tension that drove the show to new heights, The Spamalot Diaries is an unforgettable look behind the curtain of a beloved musical and inside the wickedly entertaining mind of one of our most treasured comic performers.
Dive into the world of Lore Olympus like never before with its first-ever official coloring book, featuring line art of the most iconic scenes from the gorgeous Eisner Award–winning comic. From Olympus to the Underworld, explore the world of Lore Olympus with this oversize coloring book. Grab your moodiest blues and hottest pinks to color in Hades and Persephone’s first kiss. Snag a stormy purple and the most regal gold for Zeus and Hera, King and Queen of the gods. Find some playful reds and greens to fill in the mischievous Hermes and Poseidon—or take fate into your own hands and redesign the pantheon however you see fit! Featuring eighty pages of original illustrations on thick paper, this coloring book is the perfect opportunity to spend more time with your favorite characters and scenes from the bestselling Lore Olympus series.
Return to the vibrant world of the hit Netflix series Outer Banks with this official coloring book!“Our mission this summer is to have a good time, all the time.” Join the Pogues on their search for the legendary lost treasures of the Royal Merchant—and all the thrilling adventures that follow. From John B and Sarah Cameron’s first kiss in the rain to a friendly bonfire on the beaches of Poguelandia, there’s something for every OBX fan to enjoy in Outer Banks: The Official Coloring Book. Featuring 80 pages of original illustrations on thick paper, this high-quality coloring book promises fans a path back to the sun-soaked shores of their favorite series, with all the puckish Pogues, stunning scenery, and heartpounding mysteries the hugely popular Netflix series has to offer.
Two sisters navigate the thrilling, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling saga of ambition, sacrifice, and the tangled ties between mothers and daughters from the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife.Southern California, 1960s: endless sunny days surfing in Malibu, followed by glittering neon nights at Whisky a Go Go. In an era when women are expected to be housewives, Carol Donnelly breaks the mold as a legendary female surfer struggling to compete in a male-dominated sport—and her daughters, Mindy and Ginger, bear the weight of Carol’s unconventional lifestyle.The Donnelly sisters grow up enduring their mother’s absence—physically, when she’s at the beach, and emotionally, the rare times she’s at home. To escape questions about Carol’s whereabouts—and to chase her elusive affection—they cut school to spend their days in the surf. From her first time on a board, Mindy is a natural, but Ginger, two years younger, feels out of place in the water.As they grow up and their lives diverge, Mindy and Ginger’s relationship ebbs and flows. Mindy finds herself swept up in celebrity, complete with beachside love affairs, parties at the Playboy Club, and a USO tour in Vietnam. Meanwhile, Ginger, desperate for a community of her own, is tugged into the dangerous counterculture of drugs and cults. But through it all, their sense of duty to each other survives, as the girls are forever connected by the emotional damage they carry from their unorthodox childhood. A gripping, emotional story set at a time when mothers were expected to be Donna Reed, not Gidget, California Golden is an unforgettable novel about three women living in a society that was shifting as tempestuously as the breaking waves.
Whether you want to hike along South Rim trails, take a rafting trip on the Colorado River, or discover the Canyon’s fauna and flora, the local Fodor’s travel experts on the Grand Canyon are here to help! Fodor’s In Focus Grand Canyon National Park guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This brand new edition has an easy-to-read layout, fresh information, and beautiful color photos.In Focus Grand Canyon National Park travel guide includes:AN ILLUSTRATED ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE to the top things to see and doMULTIPLE ITINERARIES to effectively organize your days and maximize your timeMORE THAN 10 DETAILED MAPS to help you navigate confidentlyCOLOR PHOTOS throughout to spark your wanderlust!HONEST RECOMMENDATIONS FROM LOCALS on the best sights, restaurants, hotels, lodges, and campsites, outdoor activities, scenic drives, hiking and biking trails, and morePHOTO-FILLED “BEST OF” FEATURES on “12 Ultimate Experiences,” Flora of the Grand Canyon,” “Fauna of the Grand Canyon” and moreTRIP-PLANNING TOOLS AND PRACTICAL TIPS including when to go, getting around, beating the crowds, and saving time and moneyHISTORICAL AND CULTURAL INSIGHTS providing rich context on the the Grand Canyon’s stunning geographical features, its historic lodges, and moreSPECIAL FEATURES on the “Best Hikes of the Grand Canyon,” “The Grand Canyon with Kids,” and “Grand Canyon Itineraries”LOCAL WRITERS to help you find the under-the-radar gemsUP-TO-DATE COVERAGE ON: the South Rim, the North Rim, the West Rim, and gateway cities and towns including Flagstaff, Williams, and Tusayan, and much more Planning on visiting more national parks? Check out Fodor’s National Parks of the West, InFocus Zion and Bryce Canyon and InFocus Great Smoky Mountains National Park *Important note for digital editions: The digital edition of this guide does not contain all the images or text included in the physical edition.ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years. For more travel inspiration, you can sign up for our travel newsletter at fodors.com/newsletter/signup, or follow us @FodorsTravel on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We invite you to join our friendly community of travel experts at fodors.com/community to ask any other questions and share your experience with us!
The Alden children were searching for a home – and found a life of adventure! Beloved by generations of families, this illustrated chapter book series is full of wholesome excitement, danger, and mystery.This autumn adventure for the Boxcar Children takes the Aldens to a New England farm that has more than its share of strange occurrences. Every year at the Beckett farm, visitors come to buy pumpkins and go on hayrides, but this year something is haunting the farm―a mysterious specter with a glowing pumpkin head that warns guests to stay away! It's up to the Aldens to find out who―or what―is behind the scare.
From the New York Times bestselling creators of How to Babysit a Grandma and How to Babysit a Grandpa comes a fun and adorable picture book about how to welcome a new baby into your family!A new baby is coming! Do you know what to do? This heartwarming new addition to the bestselling How to... series is all about welcoming a new sibling into your family. Learn how to get ready for the baby, how to make the baby laugh, and how to help Mom and Dad when things get a little topsy-turvy. Follow along through the first year of baby's life, and learn How To... from the experts -- kids! Filled with charming role-reversal humor, creative ideas, and sweet moments, How To Welcome a New Baby is sure to delight new siblings and growing families everywhere!
"Learn how to use tarot for radical self-love, personal reflection, and sprinkling every day with magic in this accessible, interactive guide to divination. Each of us has a hero inside-an inner guide fueled by intuition and self-compassion who steers us on the magical journey of life. Tarot explores the challenges and successes of this universal life experience with its imagery and rich symbolism. This interactive guide to the tarot is your chance to explore your hero's journey and the magic that resides within. Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic, a collaboration between 52 Lists Project founder Moorea Seal and multidisciplinary artist Callie Little, examines tarot through a contemporary lens, focusing on mental health, coping skills, and the pursuit of self-inquiry. A timeline of tarot's evolution, followed by beginners' tips on reading the cards precede in-depth interpretations of the cards from an inclusive, modern point of view. Each card is rendered with beautiful, layered artwork and is linked to a gemstone, a song, a number, and an activity or writing prompt. The activities throughout will challenge you to show up for yourself, cultivate healthy rituals to promote wellbeing, and develop skills to support you, every step of the way. Every Little Thing You Do Is Magic is a workbook that brings the rich, centuries-old symbolism of tarot to the modern age. As you get to know the cards, record your findings, and practice introspection, you'll come to realize that every little thing you do truly is magic"--
"A New York-style pizza-making manifesto with 30 recipes, step-by-step photos, and collages of memorable photos and illustrations from retro-style pizza parlor Scarr's Pizza"--
From the author of Catching the Wind comes the second volume of the definitive biography of Ted Kennedy and a history of modern American liberalism.“Magisterial . . . an intricate, astute study of political power brokering comparable to Robert A. Caro’s profile of Lyndon Johnson in Master of the Senate.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Against the Wind completes Neal Gabler’s magisterial biography of Ted Kennedy, but it also unfolds the epic, tragic story of the fall of liberalism and the destruction of political morality in America. With Richard Nixon having stilled the liberal wind that once propelled Kennedy’s—and his fallen brothers’—political crusades, Ted Kennedy faced a lonely battle. As Republicans pressed Reaganite dogmas of individual freedom and responsibility and Democratic centrists fell into line, Kennedy was left as the most powerful voice legislating on behalf of those society would neglect or punish: the poor, the working class, and African Americans.Gabler shows how the fault lines that cracked open in the wake of the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam were intentionally widened by Kennedy’s Republican rivals to create a moral vision of America that stood in direct opposition to once broadly shared commitments to racial justice and economic equality. Yet even as he fought this shift, Ted Kennedy’s personal moral failures in this era—the endless rumors of his womanizing and public drunkenness and his bizarre behavior during the events that led to rape accusations against his nephew William Kennedy Smith—would be used again and again to weaken his voice and undercut his claims to political morality.Tracing Kennedy’s life from the wilderness of the Reagan years through the compromises of the Clinton era, from his rage against the craven cruelty of George W. Bush to his hope that Obama would deliver on a lifetime of effort on behalf of universal health care, Gabler unfolds Kennedy’s heroic legislative work against the backdrop of a nation grown lost and fractured. In this outstanding conclusion to the saga that began with Catching the Wind, Neal Gabler offers his inimitable insight into a man who fought to keep liberalism alive when so many were determined to extinguish it. Against the Wind sheds new light both on a revered figure in the American Century and on America’s current existential crisis.
Toni Bentley, a dancer for George Balanchine, the greatest ballet maker of the 20th century, tells the story of Serenade, his iconic masterpiece, and what it was like to dance—and live—in his world at New York City Ballet during its legendary era.At age seventeen, Toni Bentley was chosen by Balanchine, then in his final years, to join the New York City Ballet. From both backstage and onstage, she carries us through the serendipitous history and physical intricacies and demands of Serenade: its dazzling opening, with seventeen women in a double-diamond pattern; its radical, even jazzy, use of the highly refined language that is ballet; its place in the choreographer’s own dramatic story of his immigration to the United States from Soviet Russia; its mystical—and literal—embodiment of the tradition of classical ballet in just thirty-three minutes.Bentley takes us inside the rarefied, intense, and thrilling world Balanchine created through his lifelong devotion to celebrating and expanding female beauty and strength—a world that, inevitably, passed upon his death. An intimate elegy to grace and loss and to the imprint of a towering artist and his transcendent creation on Bentley’s own life, Serenade: A Balanchine Story is a rich narrative by a dynamic artist about the nature of art itself at its most ephemeral and glorious.
A pick-your-own-style quilt book featuring 30+ quilt blocks, 8 quilt top layout formulas, and all the math done for you so you can focus on creating your own design!In this design-it-yourself quilt book, the quilter is in the driver’s seat, empowering you to decide what size, layout, and combinations of blocks you want to use to create your own one-of-a-kind quilt. Unlike a traditional book of quilt patterns, this book does not prescribe a design. Instead, Quilting Adventures gives you a range of block options that all work together so that you can pick and choose and mix and match those blocks to create your own unique design. The book encourages and supports you, the quilter, as you explore designing your own pattern, providing all the tedious legwork (a.k.a. the math) so that you can focus on creating a final design that is all your own. In addition there will also be a suite of pre-designed patterns as inspiration for anyone who prefers a little extra structure to start. Quilting Adventures includes:• 30+ modern quilt block designs• 8 quilt top layout formulas• 9 patterns that you can follow or use to help inspire your own design• All the math & worksheets you need to get started• Instructions that are easy to follow for beginners and advanced beginnersWhether you're a beginning quilter or an experienced maker looking for a fun, new challenge, Quilting Adventures will give you the confidence to create beautiful, modern quilts that are uniquely your own.
"Like many young professionals, Helene settled into a steady 9-5, watching the clock tick by and dreaming of seeing the world one day. But after a climbing accident leaves her bedbound for months, she finds a new voice connecting with others online and starts a blog to write about her true passion: travel. When her blog takes off and a sponsored trip overseas opens her eyes, she wonders: could she lead a stable life while traveling the world? From skinny dipping in the icy Baltic and hiking Germany's storied Black Forest, to wrestling with visa applications and apartment hunting in medieval Heidelberg, Helene shares the realities--both the magical and the mundane--that come with chasing bold dreams and learning that home is where you make it. For those who fear change, the secret lies in taking calculated risks. Uplifting yet candid, this travel memoir will inspire others to take chances and transform their own lives. But you don't have to uproot your life to find meaning--just have the heart to take a leap. --
An irresistible record book for capturing the key events of your baby's first year, featuring the beloved characters from the bright and busy illustrated world of children's book author Richard Scarry.New parents will love rediscovering the nostalgic world of Richard Scarry as they record their newborn’s milestones in this joyful and whimsical keepsake album filled with Scarry's beloved characters. Busy, Busy Baby allows parents to record all the details, small and momentous, of a baby's first year, from pregnancy and birth to favorite lullabies, first smile, and more.There's a spot for planting hand and footprints ("front and back paw prints here”), monthly recaps of development, and dozens of illustrations throughout, including Lowly Worm inching up the page where you capture baby’s growth, Huckle Cat spilling food on the entry for baby’s first meal, and Goldbug peeking out from an envelope where you can tuck welcome cards and baby’s hospital bracelet.Special features include:Two envelopes for saving a lock of hair and other treasuresTwo sheets of milestone stickersA large pocket on the inside back cover for storing larger keepsakesFor more than fifty years, millions of children have learned their words from Richard Scarry’s classic picture books; now, new parents and grandparents can revel in his funny, frenzied characters while creating memories for their children.
What does it mean when your best friend is dead and your instinct is relief? A stunningly immersive debut about toxic friendships, grief, romance, and new beginnings.Friendship, at least for me, has never been anything but complicated.Before:One year ago, best friends Nora and Julia were starting their senior year of high school, with plans to apply to the same university so they wouldn't be separated. When Dillan Fletcher comes back to town, life as Nora knows it begins to unravel. And then, the unthinkable happens.After:Months after surviving the accident that killed her best friend, Nora Radford is stagnating. Dillan has remained by her side, but he and other friends are starting university, while Nora is still trying to unravel the lies that Julia told, lies disguised as friendship.DEAD GIRLS DON’T SAY SORRY is an absorbing page-tuner told in two timelines about how friendships evolve, how growing up can reveal the dark side of those you trust most. And it’s about how even in the face of tragedy, we can find our way out of the dark and have the courage to step into something better.
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The Bahamas are ever-changing, and this edition--the only full-size, full-color guide to this popular vacation destination--includes new resorts, restaurants, and attractions, along with coverage of the complete renovation of the Coral Towers at Atlantis, Paradise Island, and the exciting new Baha Mar development on New Providence.rovidence.
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