Secrets, secrets, secrets! So many of them! In the third book of The Monster Dog series, Tasse shares her private thoughts and stories with her best friend, 'Dear Diary.' Sometimes a little bit naughty, this slightly high-maintenance Shih Tzu spends her time and energy fooling her person, Carmen. "Ha, Ha, Ha," she says, "I have fooled her again."She confesses "I often pretend I cannot hear Carmen when she calls me!" When she is found in her secret hiding place she admits, "I smile to myself as I pretend to be asleep?"One day, when Carmen checks on her in the backyard, she is lying in the sunny grass faking a nap. When Carmen turns away, Tasse goes on a great doggy adventure. "I knew I had time, Dear Diary," to go up on the forbidden garden terrace. "I could smell the rabbits and birds, but I was very careful to not walk on the flowers." She sneaks down just past the rhubarb plant and gleefully exclaims, "I don't think she will even suspect I had this grand adventure."Tasse also shares a dream from the night before. "You know how I love to jump in the air and catch balls." In the dream, she is playing centerfield for the Heavenly Hounds and catching the winning ball as the crowd cheers "Yay Tasse!" The Heavenly Hounds defeat the Mighty Mutts to win the World Series!While playful, there are many things for children to learn from Tasse's adventures. Caregivers and teachers will find many openings for further discussions. One such story is when Tasse shares with Dear Diary she was bullied and scared by a big dog "who made fun of my small size and even the pink ribbon I was wearing."Illustrated by Katie Hunderdosse, each story is accompanied by bright and dynamic illustrations, which will keep children joyfully turning the pages for the next adventure hidden inside THE MONSTER DOG?.TASSE'S DIARY of SECRETS.THE MONSTER DOG Book Series is published through FOX POINTE PUBLISHING, LLP.

Published to accompany the 1994 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, this book constitutes the most extensive survey of modern illustrated books to be offered in many years. Work by artists from Pierre Bonnard to Barbara Kruger and writers from Guillaume Apollinarie to Susan Sontag. An importnt reference for collectors and connoisseurs. Includes notable works by Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso.

Horace G. Danner’s A Thesaurus of English Word Roots is a compendium of the most-used word roots of the English language. As Timothy B. Noone notes in his foreword: “Dr. Danner’s book allows you not only to build up your passive English vocabulary, resulting in word recognition knowledge, but also gives you the rudiments for developing your active English vocabulary, making it possible to infer the meaning of words with which you are not yet acquainted. Your knowledge can now expand and will do so exponentially as your awareness of the roots in English words and your corresponding ability to decode unfamiliar words grows apace. This is the beginning of a fine mental linguistic library: so enjoy!” In A Thesaurus of English Word Roots, all word roots are listed alphabetically, along with the Greek or Latin words from which they derive, together with the roots’ original meanings. If the current meaning of an individual root differs from the original meaning, that is listed in a separate column. In the examples column, the words which contain the root are then listed, starting with their prefixes, for example, dysacousia, hyperacousia. These root-starting terms then are followed by terms where the root falls behind the word, e.g., acouesthesia and acoumeter. These words are followed by words where the root falls in the middle or the end, as in such terms as bradyacusia and odynacusis.. In this manner, A Thesaurus of English Word Roots places the word in as many word families as there are elements in the word. This work will interest linguists and philologists and anyone interested in the etymological aspects of English language.

A most untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare’s passionate affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly).