Books published by publisher W.W. Norton, NYC

A handbook on how to avoid boredom, a primer on solitude, a child's declaration of independence. Remember how to fold a paper airplane? What to do with a discarded umbrella? How to make a pin piano? You don’t? You’ve forgotten? Or you never learned these things in the first place, to forget in the second place? Well, Robert Paul Smith remembered and set it down just for you―and everyone else―these things and many others, like broken-umbrella bows and arrows; and slings;and clamshell bracelets, and the collection, care, and use of horse chestnuts. This is a handbook on how to avoid boredom, a primer on solitude, a stand-in for "screen time." This is a child's declaration of independence. Smith tells you “how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself”―real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. It’s a book for kids, but parents are not prohibited from reading it. Line drawings throughout

How do you convince someone to believe in something that is beyond anything you have ever imagined?The fate of a small Florida beach town known as Parrish Pointe is about to be determined as a powerful Fallen angel forms his alliance in preparation for the ultimate revenge of destroying the town and its people. Freshly grieving the loss of her older brother, 16-year-old Sara Simms already thought she had a lot on her plate dealing with her parents' separation and facing her judgmental peers as she starts a new year of high school. That is until she encounters a real-life angel, is visited by the spirit of her deceased brother and discovers the blood running through her veins is actually an ancient half-human, half-angel Amedun bloodline. Before she can even get through her first day back at school, Sara's life is completely turned upside down and inside out.With the help of her new high school guidance counselor, the loyalty of her faithful dog Zeke, and the companionship of her Jersey-born cousin, will Sara be able to put aside her rebellious teenage differences and learn how to accept her destiny of being the key to saving her hometown?

A young noble's training for knighthood began at the age of seven, when he left his own home to enter another noble's household. When he had mastered a knight's weapons, learned to ride the powerful "great horse", could hunt, handle falcons, and dance and speak elegantly, he was finally "dubbed" a knight. From that day forth, he was bound by the code of chivalry; to defend the weak against the strong and the poor against the rich, and to behave always in a manner befitting a knight.

In My Forty Years with Ford, Charles Sorensen-sometimes known as "Henry Ford's man," sometimes as "Cast-iron Charlie"-tells his own story, and it is as challenging as it is historic. He emerges as a man who was not only one of the great production geniuses of the world but also a man who called the plays as he saw them. He was the only man who was able to stay with Ford for almost the full history of his empire, yet he never hesitated to go against Ford when he felt the interests of the company demanded it. When labor difficulties mounted and Edsel's fatal illness was upon him, Sorensen sided with Edsel against Henry Ford and Harry Bennett, and he insisted that Henry Ford II be brought in to direct the company despite the aging founder's determination that no one but he hold the presidential reins.First published in 1956, My Forty Years with Ford has now been reissued in paperback for the first time. The Ford story has often been discussed in print but has rarely been articulated by someone who was there. Here Sorensen provides an eyewitness account of the birth of the Model T, the early conflicts with the Dodge brothers, the revolutionary announcement of the five-dollar day, and Sorensen's development of the moving assembly line-a concept that changed our world. Although Sorensen conceived, designed, and built the giant Willow Run plant in nineteen months and then proceeded to turn out eight thousand giant bombers, his life's major work was to make possible the vision of Henry Ford and to postpone the personal misfortune with which it ended. My Forty Years with Ford is both a personal history of a business empire and a revelation that moves with excitement and the power of tragedy.