Bøger udgivet af Zibby Books

A girl takes on a series of identities to survive, shrouding herself in layers of secrets, until years later she is forced to reckon with her past. On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a red-and-blue striped envelope on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny?Maya is sent reeling back to her childhood in Guyana-a time when Sunny was her only name. Unbeknownst to her husband, Maya is not who she claims to be. The letter, from her long-lost sister Roshi, now threatens to expose her true identity and shatter the seemingly perfect existence Maya worked so hard to build. As she frantically weighs the impact of the truth on her future, Maya relives the harrowing details of her past-her journey to America on the "backtrack," the shock of being delivered into the hands of an abusive family while being severed from her own, and her many evolutions of self as she struggles to find a path forward against all odds. This striking debut transports the reader from the sugar cane fields of Guyana to the world of immigrant laborers in Miami to the affluent suburbs of Atlanta. Nanda Reddy takes us on a wrenching journey of assimilation, survival, and reinvention that explores the very construct of identity and the resilience of the human spirit.

In this hilarious, heartwarming tale, mother-daughter skiing champs face the bumps in their own relationship when an avalanche in a Swiss village forces them together. Alpine skiing G.O.A.T. Claudine Potts and her daughter Wylie have been bred for gold medal glory. But this gilded future is cut short when a fall forces Claudine's retirement and Wylie's debilitating anxiety sends her off the slopes. Now it's been years since Wyle and Claudine have even spoken. Claudine, happily married and living in Oregon, has resurrected her stardom as a CycleTron instructor with a devoted pack of virtual cycling followers, obsessing over how to patch things up with Wylie. On the East Coast, Wylie's training for a fitness competition set in Berlin with her controlling boyfriend and giving her notice at the art gallery job she loves so she can focus on making art, not hanging it. Her main goal: impressing her mom. When Dan drops out of the competition before it even starts, Wylie swallows her pride and asks her mom to be her partner. Claudine agrees but with the condition that they can stop in Switzerland to take care of some family business and bury deep secrets that threaten to tarnish the happy reunion. Set in a dreamy Swiss village, Bluebird Day will make readers laugh, swoon, and most of all, relate as Claudine and Wylie slalom through the complicated terrain of mother-daughter love, joined by the colorful cast of characters snowed in beside them. Now if only they could get out of Switzerland...

Amy Wilson, co-host of the award-winning podcast What Fresh Hell, takes a funny and insightful look at how women are conditioned to be "happy to help"--and what happens when things don't go that way. Amy Wilson has always been an ultimate helper. As a big sister, Girl Scout, faithful reader of teen magazines, personal assistant, sitcom sidekick, and, finally, mother of three, Amy believed it was her destiny to be a people pleaser. She learned to put others first, to do what she was told, to finish what she started, and to look like she had everything under control, even when she very much did not. Along the way, Amy started to wonder why doing it all had been her job. Still, when she tried to hand over some of her to-dos, no one was particularly interested in taking them. And when she asked for help, in return, she got advice: have a sense of humor, quit nagging, and stop trying to be perfect. Amy dutifully took on these goals--with varying degrees of failure--until the day she started to question if something else needed to be fixed besides herself. Hilariously relatable, Happy to Help is a collection of essays about how you can be the one everyone else depends on and still be struggling--how you can be "happy to help," even when, for your own sake, you shouldn't.

For gamers that participate in tabletop baseball, compiling statistics has always been labor intensive. But, it doesn't have to be. Here then is the Baseball Statistics Helper: Efficiency Tips for the Serious Gamer, a handy guide to help make record keeping easier and more efficient. The various methodologies rely heavily on preparation and common sense. Discussion includes traditional baseball stat keeping with opportunities to incorporate the newer metrics.

Evie Hudson should be grieving her dead husband, but since the car crash that claimed his life and landed her in the hospital, she can't remember him at all. The only person who can help her piece her past together is her high-school best friend Drew Kennedy. When snippets of her memory start falling into place, Evie wonders exactly how she ended up in a life that couldn't be further from the one she dreamed of.