A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.

"In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin meeting to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they call themselves the Joy Luck Club. With wit and sensitivity, Amy Tan's debut novel--now widely regarded as a modern classic--examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between these four women and their American-born daughters."--Publisher's description....

"A lively kitten is full of joy until she takes a tumble. Can a little comfort from someone special help her feel happy again?"--

This Level 1 guided reader explores the feeling of joy. Students will develop word recognition and reading skills while learning about their feelings.

The Invisible Tree is a series of picture books for children bringing to life the timeless values and virtues known as the fruit of the Spirit. "Joy" is the story of a young child searching for her joy. She discovers joy is not found in a place, but rather is found within. This series was written to inspire children as to the virtues found within and grown in relationship with God.

Joy is a contemporary coming-of-age novel revolving around two women who shared an intense whirlwind romance as teenagers. Now, knee-deep in their twenties, they are both navigating their separate lives. Joy, in London with her husband, is dissatisfied with her materialistic lifestyle. Erica, an artist in their hometown of Liverpool, is stuck thinking about the past whilst living with a girlfriend who can't stop getting fake tan on the bed sheets. ...

JOY is a simple book to help children – between the ages of four and seven – realize the power of decision-making and identify natural action-outcome relationships. In this book, Joy faces five short decision-making situations ending with a question to create a space for further thoughts and discussions.This book is not about reward and punishment as outcomes; simply because the whole concept of punishments and rewards; is based on negative assumptions...

In the Oakland, California, of 1989, Mirai San Julian is a young woman with a fascinating life and a rich past. She restores historic carousels -- her dream career -- working from her own studio in a former roller skating rink. Though black herself, she spent her first years in a Basque immigrant community in Nevada, the adopted child of a single mother. And after the mother's death, she was raised by her Aunt Joy in a Catholic Worker house. Mirai...

First published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti in City Lights Books, Mike Bond is an award-winning poet, best-selling novelist, ecologist and former war and human rights correspondent. His previous poetry collection, The Drum That Beats Within Us received high praise and has been a best-seller repeatedly since its publication in 2018. This new collection draws from his extensive poetry on love, wilderness, wisdom and fate, on our everyday lives and the...