Lift the flaps to explore all the fun at the firehouse! When a Dalmatian puppy goes missing on the day of the big parade, the firefighters need all the help they can get to find their furry friend. But is the missing pup hiding in the dispatch room—or napping in the captain's bunk? Shaped just like a firehouse, this board book's double pages open out from the middle, inviting toddlers to explore a firehouse's many rooms and to meet the friendly folks who work there. With cheerful art and clever seek-and-find flaps throughout, this latest title in the Double Booked series is an interactive story full of sweet surprises. • Perfect for toddlers who love firetrucks and firehouses! • Gatefold pages and 35 lift-the-flaps to help with hands-on childhood developmental skills • Bold colorful illustrations will delight children and adults alike! Perfect for any child who loves Firehouse!, This Is the Firefighter, and At the Firehouse: A Tinyville Town Story. • Ages 2 and up • Firehouse books for babies • Interactive board books for toddlers Kayla Stark is an illustrator whose work has been featured in children's books and educational materials. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Blue and her friends star in this new 8 x 8 adventure. Sprinkles loves his shiny red fire truck, but he's not quite sure what firemen do. So, big sister Blue and their friends decide to visit a fire station to learn firsthand. There they meet Fireman Dave who teaches them about the importance of safety and how neat it is to be a fireman-he even let's them slide down the fireman's pole! Now Sprinkles can't wait to get back home to play with his new fire truck.

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them.” --Frank McCourt "In the firehouse, the men not only live and eat with each other, they play sports together, go off to drink together, help repair one another's houses, and, most important, share terrifying risks; their loyalties to each other must, by the demands of the dangers they face, be instinctive and absolute." So writes David Halberstam, one of America’s most distinguished reporters and historians, in this stunning New York Times bestselling book about Engine 40, Ladder 35, located on the West Side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center. On the morning of September 11, 2001, two rigs carrying thirteen men set out from this firehouse: twelve of them would never return. Firehouse takes us to the epicenter of the tragedy. Through the kind of intimate portraits that are Halberstam’s trademark, we watch the day unfold--the men called to duty while their families wait anxiously for news of them. In addition, we come to understand the culture of the firehouse itself: why gifted men do this; why, in so many instances, they are eager to follow in their fathers’ footsteps and serve in so dangerous a profession; and why, more than anything else, it is not just a job, but a calling. This is journalism-as-history at its best, the story of what happens when one small institution gets caught in an apocalyptic day. Firehouse is a book that will move readers as few others have in our time.

Tells about what two best friends do together, such as riding bicylces and swinging on swings.

The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner Rozan, set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11.

They can walk through fire. They would sacrifice their own lives to save yours. In the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Thoughts on Fire is a meditation on how to live a life that matters. Drawing on his dual life as a philosophy professor and firefighter, "Dr. Frank" begins a journey not just into the fire, but inside himself. The lessons of this voyage are not just about axes and hoses but hope, forgiveness and love. "As a professor and a firefighter, Dr. McCluskey shifts gears easily between the metaphysical and the macho, pontificating in a pin striped suit by day and plunging into a smoky, flaming house by night." -The New York Times "It is a book that you will want to read again and again. It is a remarkable story that you will want to share with those you love." -Dr. Robert Schachat, author of The Seven Conditions of Trust "Thoughts on Fire is a book that is at once entertaining and enlightening" -Dr. John Briggs, author of The Seven Life Lessons of Chaos

The definitive account of the gay rights movement, Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney's Out for Good is comprehensive, authoritative, and excellently written. This is the definitive account of the last great struggle for equal rights in the twentieth century. From the birth of the modern gay rights movement in 1969, at the Stonewall riots in New York, through 1988, when the gay rights movement was eclipsed by the more urgent demands of AIDS activists, this is the remarkable and—until now—untold story of how a largely invisible population of men and women banded together to create their place in America’s culture and government. Told through the voices of gay activists and their opponents, filled with dozens of colorful characters, Out for Good traces the emergence of gay rights movements in cities across the country and their transformation into a national force that changed the face of America forever. Out for Good is the unforgettable chronicle of an important—and nearly lost—chapter in American history.