20 Best 33 1/3 Books (2023 Update)

The #1 new york times bestselling children's book now available as a board book! as the sun sets behind the big construction site, all the hardworking trucks get ready to say goodnight. one by one, crane truck, cement mixer, dump truck, bulldozer, and excavator finish their work and lie down to rest–so they'll be ready for another day of rough and tough construction play! an unabridged board book for kids, this version of the bestselling and beloved goodnight, goodnight construction site book is perfect for small hands. even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines, rest their wheels, and drift to sleep with this sweet and soothing story. vibrant illustrations and gentle rhyming text make this construction book for kids a surefire bedtime favorite. wildly popular children's and toddler books: since its debut more than a decade ago, goodnight, goodnight construction site and the series of books it launched have become beloved favorites of kids and parents alike, with millions of copies sold. this popular, timeless nighttime story continues to delight families everywhere! standout picture book: this delightful construction truck book is hailed by booklist, in its starred review, as "especially for those who like wheels with their dreams." perfect read-aloud: author sherri duskey rinker's sweet rhyming text and irresistible artwork by illustrator tom lichtenheld soothe little ones into a peaceful rest. this durable board book version is perfect for kids who can't get enough of trucks and construction stories, day or night! can't get enough of these tough trucks? many more titles in bestselling book series, including mighty, mighty construction site, construction site: road crew, coming through!, and three cheers for kid mcgear! are available now! perfect for: young truck, tractor, and construction fans emerging preschool and kindergarten readers gift for birthday, baby shower, and any occasion fans of books about vehicles like little blue truck, thomas the tank engine, and diggersaurs

Plucky gon’s quest to find his dad leads him into a whole world of crazy adventure.hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people. but such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a hundred thousand can pass the grueling qualification exam. those who do pass gain access to restricted areas, amazing stores of information, and the right to call themselves hunters.the journey to the dark continent begins! chairman netero’s son beyond has a dream to explore the dangerous land of the dark continent. many have made trips there and almost everyone has disappeared or died! but he’s not alone in his desire to explore this strange land—the hunter association has their own plan. and where do gon and his friends fit into all this mess?

Gaitley, mic, author of the popular book "consoling the heart of jesus," comes an extraordinary 33-day journey to marian consecration with four giants of marian spirituality: st. louis de montfort, st. maximilian kolbe, blessed mother teresa of calcutta, and blessed pope john paul ii. father michael masterfully summarizes their teaching, making it easy to grasp, and simple enou…gh to put into practice. more specifically, he weaves their thought into a user-friendly, do-it-yourself retreat that will bless even the busiest of people. so, if you've been thinking about entrusting yourself to mary for the first time or if you're simply looking to deepen and renew your devotion to her, "33 days to morning glory" is the right book to read and the perfect retreat to make.

The blockbuster action manga that inspired the epic anime stampedes towards its climax! marching onwardonce hailed as humanity’s greatest hope, eren has since become unrecognizable. with the attack titan now morphed into a grotesque, colossal skeleton of its former self, eren continues to control the wave of titans laying waste to the world, extinguishing countless homes, towns, and lives in their wake. in order to salvage what’s left of humanity, mikasa, armin, and the survey corps decide to confront eren head-on. but to stop the rumbling, they’ll have to dedicate much more than their hearts…

Guts the black swordsman and his companions brave the open sea, hoping to reach puck's homeland, elfhelm, and its powerful elven king, who might be able to restore the sanity of guts' former lover, casca. but seeking out a sanctuary for casca means that guts must postpone his hunt for his ex-friend and leader, griffith, who has been reborn as a demon lord hell-bent on conquest. the winds of change blow fast and hard across the war-torn lands of the holy see, and if guts waits too long to exact his vengeance, griffith might attain his murderous goals before guts can return to midland to stop him!

The writings in this book are extracted from volumes 1 through 20 of our 33 1/3 series – short books about individual albums. in here you'll find a wide variety of authors, albums, and approaches to writing about those albums. so sit back, put on your headphones, cue up your favourite songs, and let our writers transport you to a time when: dusty springfield headed south to memphis to record a pop/soul classic; the kinks almost fell to pieces, and managed to make their best album while doing so; joy division and their mad, brilliant producer created a debut record that still sounds painfully hip today; james brown mesmerized a sell-out crowd at the apollo, in the midst of the cuban missile crisis; the rolling stones shacked up in the south of france and emerged with one of the best double-albums ever; the ramones distilled punk rock into its purest, most enduring essence… 33 1/3 greatest hits, volume 1: it's like a compilation album, without the filler.

Whether you're a lifelong collector or have only just gotten hip to the vinyl revival, navigating the vast landscape of rock albums can be a daunting prospect. enter mike segretto and his mammoth 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, a history of the rock lp era told through a very personal selection of nearly 700 albums. beginning with the birth of rock and roll in the 1950s, segretto moves through the explosive innovations of the 1960s, the classic rock and punk albums of the 1970s, the new wave classics of the 1980s, and the alternative revolution of the 1990s, always with an eye to both the iconic and the ephemeral, the failed experiments and the brilliant trailblazers. it's all here: everything from the classics (sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band, purple rain, nevermind, and countless other usual suspects) to such oddities as albums by johnny "guitar" watson, p. p. arnold, the dentists, and holly golightly. throughout, segretto reveals the perpetual evolution of a modern art form, tracing the rock album's journey from a vehicle for singles and filler sold to kids, through its maturation into a legitimate, self-contained medium of expression by 1967, and onward to its dominance in the '70s, '80s, and '90s. whether you read it from cover to cover, seek out specific albums, or just dip in at random and let the needle fall where it may, 33 1/3 revolutions per minute is a fun, informative, and unapologetically opinionated read.

A true story from raina telgemeier, the #1 new york times bestselling, multiple eisner award-winning author of smile, sisters, drama, and ghosts raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. it soon becomes clear that raina's tummy trouble isn't going away… and it coincides with her worries about food, school, and changing friendships. what's going on? raina telgemeier once again brings us a thoughtful, charming, and funny true story about growing up and gathering the courage to face — and conquer — her fears.

The #1 new york times bestselling sequel to words of radiance, from epic fantasy author brandon sanderson at the top of his game. – in oathbringer, the third volume of the new york times bestselling stormlight archive, humanity faces a new desolation with the return of the voidbringers, a foe with numbers as great as their thirst for vengeance. – dalinar kholin’s alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: the enemy parshendi summoned the violent everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. while on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, kaladin stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified. – nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of urithiru, shallan davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the knights radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. and dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of alethkar was too narrow in scope. unless all the nations of roshar can put aside dalinar’s blood-soaked past and stand together—and unless dalinar himself can confront that past—even the restoration of the knights radiant will not prevent the end of civilization. – other tor books by brandon sanderson the cosmere the stormlight archive the way of kings words of radiance edgedancer (novella) oathbringer the mistborn trilogy mistborn: the final empire the well of ascension the hero of ages mistborn: the wax and wayne series alloy of law shadows of self bands of mourning collection arcanum unbounded other cosmere novels elantris warbreaker the alcatraz vs. the evil librarians series alcatraz vs. the evil librarians the scrivener's bones the knights of crystallia the shattered lens the dark talent the rithmatist series the rithmatist other books by brandon sanderson the reckoners steelheart firefight calamity

The epic ninja adventure that became a global phenomenon! naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. he’s got a wild sense of humor, but naruto is completely serious about his mission to be the world’s greatest ninja! stakes are high as naruto, sakura, granny chiyo and kakashi engage in deadly conflict with sasori and deidara. one wrong decision, and one of naruto’s closest friends could pay the ultimate price. upon returning from battle, team kakashi is rankled by new member sai, whose secrets may be disastrous for naruto. meanwhile, orochimaru has bigger problems of his own—his stronghold may be infiltrated by a spy!

The entire #1 new york times bestselling trilogy that inspired syfy's the magicians, now available in a gorgeous boxed set, including the magicians, the magician king, and the magician's land this beautiful boxed set makes a perfect gift for readers of the beloved fantasy series praised by george r. r. martin, junot díaz, and erin morgenstern. the magicians quentin coldwater is brilliant but miserable. a high school math genius, he's secretly fascinated with a series of children's fantasy novels set in a magical land called fillory, and real life is disappointing by comparison. when quentin is unexpectedly admitted to an elite, secret college of magic, it looks like his wildest dreams may have come true. but his newfound powers lead him down a rabbit hole of hedonism and disillusionment, and ultimately to the dark secret behind the story of fillory. the land of his childhood fantasies turns out to be much darker and more dangerous than he ever could have imagined . . . the magicians is one of the most daring and inventive works of literary fantasy in years. no one who has escaped into the worlds of narnia and harry potter should miss this breathtaking return to the landscape of the imagination. the magician kingquentin coldwater should be happy. he escaped a miserable brooklyn childhood, matriculated at a secret college for magic, and graduated to discover that fillory–a fictional utopia–was actually real. but even as a fillorian king, quentin finds little peace. his old restlessness returns, and he longs for the thrills a heroic quest can bring. accompanied by his oldest friend, julia, quentin sets off–only to somehow wind up back in the real-world and not in fillory, as they'd hoped. as the pair struggle to find their way back to their lost kingdom, quentin is forced to rely on julia's illicitly learned sorcery as they face a sinister threat in a world very far from the beloved fantasy novels of their youth. the magician's landquentin coldwater has lost everything. he has been cast out of fillory, the secret magical world of his childhood dreams that he once ruled. with nothing left to lose he returns to where his story began, the brakebills preparatory college of magic. but he can't hide from his past, and it's not long before it comes looking for him. meanwhile, the magical barriers that keep fillory safe are failing, and barbarians from the north have invaded. eliot and janet, the rulers of fillory, embark on a final quest to save their beloved world, only to discover a situation far more complex–and far more dire–than anyone had envisioned. along with plum, a brilliant young magician with a dark secret of her own, quentin sets out on a crooked path through a magical demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters. his new life takes him back to old haunts, like antarctica and the neitherlands, and old friends he thought were lost forever. the magician's land is an intricate and fantastical thriller, and an epic of love and redemption that brings the magicians trilogy to a magnificent conclusion, confirming it as one of the great achievements in modern fantasy.

The millions of fans of goodnight, goodnight, construction site can count along from 1 to 10 as excavator revs into action on the construction site in excavator's 1 2 3. it's all in a day's work for the trucks of the bestselling goodnight, goodnight, construction site! from the author of the beloved international bestseller comes excavator's 1 2 3, a great way for preschoolers to learn numbers 1 through 10. little construction fans will love watching excavator and dump truck dig one foundation, lift three loads of sand, set five pipes, and more until the project is done. wildly popular children's and toddler books: since its debut more than a decade ago, goodnight, goodnight construction site and the series of books it launched have become beloved favorites of kids and parents alike, with millions of copies sold. this popular, timeless nighttime story continues to delight families everywhere! talented author-illustrator team: sherri duskey rinker is the author of numerous #1 new york times bestsellers. ethan long is an internationally recognized children's book author and illustrator with more than 70 titles to his credit, including up, tall, and high!, a theodor seuss geisel award winner. he is also the creator of the emmy-nominated preschool series tasty time with zefronk. engaging read-aloud: sweet rhyming text and vibrant artwork teach kids to count from 1 to 10. this irresistible book is perfect for family and preschool story time, soothing little ones to sleep, and helping them learn numbers. can't get enough of this crew of tough trucks? many more titles in the bestselling book series, including mighty, mighty construction site; construction site: road crew, coming through! ; and three cheers for kid mcgear! are available now! perfect for: young fans of trucks, tractors, construction, building, and cars toddlers and kindergarten readers who are beginning to work on number recognition and counting gift for birthday, baby shower, and any occasion readers who love classic children's books and bedtime stories by authors such as dr. seuss, sandra boynton, nancy tillman, mac barnett, and margaret wise brown fans of books about vehicles like little blue truck, thomas the tank engine, and diggersaurs

If given another chance to write for the series, which albums would 33 1/3 authors focus on the second time around? this anthology features compact essays from past 33 1/3 authors on albums that consume them, but about which they did not write. it explores often overlooked and underrated albums that may not have inspired their 33 1/3 books, but have played a large part in their own musical cultivation. questions central to the essays include: how has this album influenced your worldview? how does this album intersect with your other creative and critical pursuits? how does this album index a particular moment in cultural history? in your own personal history? why is the album perhaps under-the-radar, or a buried treasure? why can't you stop listening to it? bringing together 33 1/3's rich array of writers, critics, and scholars, this collection probes our taste in albums, our longing for certain tunes, and our desire to hit repeat–all while creating an expansive "must-listen" list for readers in search of unexplored musical territories.

One of spin's best music memoirs of 2022! brian johnson's memoir from growing up in a small town to starting his own band to ultimately replacing bon scott, the lead singer of one of the world biggest rock acts, ac/dc. they would record their first album together, the iconic back in black, which would become the biggest selling rock album of all time.brian johnson was born to a steelworker and wwii veteran father and an italian mother, growing up in new castle upon tyne, england, a working-class town. he was musically inclined and sang with the church choir. by the early '70s he performed with the glam rock band geordie, and they had a couple hits, but it was tough going. so tough that by 1976, they disbanded and brian turned to a blue-collar life.then 1980 changed everything. bon scott, the lead singer and lyricist of the australian rock band ac/dc died at 33. the band auditioned singers, among them johnson, whom scott himself had seen perform and raved about. within days, johnson was in a studio with the band, working with founding members angus and malcolm young, cliff williams, and phil rudd, along with producer mutt lange.when the album, back in black, was released in july–a mere three months after johnson had joined the band–it exploded, going on to sell 50 million copies worldwide, and triggering a years-long worldwide tour. it has been declared "the biggest selling hard rock album ever made" and "the best-selling heavy-metal album in history." the band toured the world for a full year to support the album, changing the face of rock music–and brian johnson's life–forever.

Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning? in the ruins of a place once known as north america lies the nation of panem, a shining capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. the capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual hunger games, a fight to the death on live tv. sixteen-year-old katniss everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the games. but katniss has been close to dead before – and survival, for her, is second nature. without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. but if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. new york times bestselling author suzanne collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made the kite runner a beloved classic, the #1 new york times bestseller a thousand splendid suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. “just as good, if not better, than khaled hosseini’s best-selling first book, the kite runner.”—newsweek khaled hosseini returns with a beautiful, riveting, and haunting novel that confirms his place as one of the most important literary writers today.born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, mariam and laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, by loss and by fate. as they endure the ever escalating dangers around them-in their home as well as in the streets of kabul-they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. with heart-wrenching power and suspense, hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice, and that in the end it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival.a stunning accomplishment, a thousand splendid suns is a haunting, heartbreaking, compelling story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship, and an indestructible love.

This four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set contains j.r.r. tolkien's epic masterworks the hobbit and the three volumes of the lord of the rings. each book features a leatherette cover with stamped title and all four books are held in a leatherette bound box with gold foil stamping. shrinkwrapped. in the hobbit, bilbo baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in hobbiton by the wizard gandalf and a company of dwarves. he finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of smaug the magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. the lord of the rings tells of the great quest undertaken by frodo baggins and the fellowship of the ring gandalf the wizard, the hobbits merry, pippin, and sam, gimli the dwarf, legolas the elf, boromir of gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called strider. j.r.r. tolkien's three volume masterpiece is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale–a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of middle-earth.

The writings in this book are extracted from volumes 1 through 20 of our 33 1/3 series – short books about individual albums. in here you'll find a wide variety of authors, albums, and approaches to writing about those albums. so sit back, put on your headphones, cue up your favourite songs, and let our writers transport you to a time when: dusty springfield headed south to memphis to record a pop/soul classic; the kinks almost fell to pieces, and managed to make their best album while doing so; joy division and their mad, brilliant producer created a debut record that still sounds painfully hip today; james brown mesmerized a sell-out crowd at the apollo, in the midst of the cuban missile crisis; the rolling stones shacked up in the south of france and emerged with one of the best double-albums ever; the ramones distilled punk rock into its purest, most enduring essence… 33 1/3 greatest hits, volume 1: it's like a compilation album, without the filler.

The second compendium of extracts from continuum's acclaimed and successful 33 1/3 series, volume 2 features 20 sharp, savvy and very different writers' takes on albums by neutral milk hotel, sonic youth, my bloody valentine, david bowie, the pixies, the beastie boys, nirvana, r.e.m, the band and many more. a perfect gift for the music lover in your life!

A good girl's guide to murder: the collection by holly jackson a good girl's guide to murder is the new york times no.1 bestselling ya crime thriller and winner of the british book awards' children's book of the year 2020. the case is closed. five years ago, schoolgirl andie bell was murdered by sal singh. the police know he did it. everyone in town knows he did it. but having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the crime, pippa fitz-amobi isn't so sure. when she chooses the case as the topic for her final project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. and if the real killer is still out there, how far will they go to keep pip from the truth … delve into this complete collection of the award-winning good girl’s guide to murder trilogy in this addictive, spine-tingling slipcase set.