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Hip-hop culture has shaped many facets of popular culture, including the worlds of music, politics, and business. The hip-hop movement began with New York City residents with few resources and has now turned into a billion-dollar worldwide industry. Readers will learn about the four elements of hip-hop: rapping (MCing), disc jockeying (DJing), graffiti art, and B-boying (break dancing). They'll learn how these foundational components evolved to construct what hip-hop is recognized as today. A list of essential hip-hop albums and annotated quotes from music critics and famous hip-hop artists are also included in this all-encompassing look at the history of hip-hop.

The Farm Sound Board Books are a perfect delight for little ones, each depicting a different animal as it goes about its life on the farm. Sturdy and colorfully illustrated, each book has a surprise sound chip that oinks, moos, woofs, or cock–a–doodle–doos when the final spread is opened. Also available in this series: Happy Cockerel, Hungry Pig and Lost Calf.

Creative Crafts for Kids brings together an inspiring collection of more than an hundred fun, absorbing ideas to keep the kids busy for hours on end. This imaginative selection includes things to make and to bake for every possible occasion. There are gifts to make for family and friends as well as ideas for costumes and seasonal decorations for the home. Rainy day projects will take the pressure off parents!All the projects have colorful, clear, easy-to-follow instructions suitable for girls and boys from two to ten.

A brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an investment counselor who turns out to be a con man, causes Savannah belle BeBe Loudermilk to lose everything. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motor court on Tybee Island. Tybee is outside of Savannah, an eccentric beach town that calls itself a drinking village with a fishing problem. Breeze Inn is a place where BeBe wouldn't normally be caught dead, but there she is, unwilling to admit failure, fighting bankruptcy. With the help of friends, she soon has the motel spiffed up and attracting paying guests. Then there's a sighting of Reddy in Florida, and BeBe decides to go after him with a plan to carry out a sting that may be just a little bit outside the law but that, with any luck at all, will retrieve BeBe's fortune.