Benji wants a doll more than anything in the world. When he finally gets one, he can ́t wait to take it to the park to show his friends... An up-lifting story which reminds us that there are no toys for boys or toys for girls - there are just toys. By the authors of I Love My Colorful Nails, Alicia Acosta and Luis Amavisca.

Collectors will delight in acquiring the first and only Black dolls book that is completely published in Full Color! Author Debbie Garrett has written an extensive book of reference on vintage, modern, fashion and artist Black dolls. Featured in this book are Black dolls made from cloth, bisque, celluloid, composition, rubber, wood, and hard plastic. Fashion dolls, modern artist dolls and other doll categories are covered. This long overdue, insightful book includes a price guide and tips.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope in horror movies, but like many fears, there is some truth at its heart. Dolls are possessed-by our aspirations. They're commonly used as a tool to teach mothering to young girls, but more often they are avatars of the idealized feminine self. (The word "doll" even acts as shorthand for a desirable woman.) They instruct girls what to strive for in society, reinforcing dominant patriarchal, heteronormative, white views around class, bodies, history, and celebrity, in insidious ways. Girls' dolls occupy the opposite space of boys' action figures, which represent masculinity, authority, warfare, and conflict. By analyzing dolls from 17th century Japanese Hinamatsuri festivals, to the '80s American Girl Dolls, and even to today's bitmoji, “Doll” reveals how the objects society encourages us to play with as girls shape the women we become. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

In May 1977 Posy Simmonds, an unknown young illustrator, started drawing a weekly comic strip for the Guardian. It began as a silly parody of girls' adventure stories, making satirical comments about contemporary life. The strip soon focused on three 1950s school friends in their later middle-class and nearly middle-aged lives: Wendy Weber, a former nurse married to polytechnic sociology lecturer George with a large brood of children; Jo Heep, married to whisky salesman Edmund with two rebellious teenagers; and Trish Wright, married to philandering advertising executive Stanhope and with a young baby. The strip, which was latterly untitled and usually known just as 'Posy', ran until the late 1980s. Collected here for the first time are the complete strips. Although celebrated for pinpointing the concerns of Guardian readers in the 1980s and their constant struggle to remain true to the ideals of the 1960s, they are in fact remarkably undated. They show one of Britain's favourite cartoonists, celebrated for Literary Life and Tamara Drewe, maturing into genius.

TJ Ryan has always wanted a big family. Watching all of his friends have families of their own, he’s caught the baby bug. He just needs to convince his husband, Connor, it’s a brilliant idea. Armed with portfolios from different surrogates and a reality tv show to follow their journey, TJ tries to persuade Connor that they need a baby ASAP, but Connor isn’t so sure they shouldn’t explore other options like adoption or being foster parents. Connor Ryan loves his husband and wants to do whatever he can to make him happy, but to what extent? Connor is busy co-owning The Social Hour with his best friend, Cam, and they’re about to launch a new location. Now is not the time to add chaos to their lives. But chaos is TJ’s middle name. When TJ’s world begins to crumble, Connor has to decide to put a stop to all the madness, or pick up the pieces and try to glue TJ back together. Last Call is the fourth book in the Coffee Girl series. It’s a multi-POV, closed-door, supporting novel with returning characters. If you have not read the Coffee Girl series, the author suggests reading the first three for returning characters and references to the other books in the series.

A horrendous tragedy in his family changed Toby Nelson's life rather abruptly. Now, twelve years later, the boy has become a young man, chased through the galaxy by a mad scientist who is desperately looking for something from Toby's parents' shrouded past - something valuable enough to kill for. Follow Toby Nelson and his alien friend Benji through this space adventure, on their journey to unravel a mystery that, maybe, should have better stayed secret.