Susan Rogers

This photostory is suitable for adult basic education (ABE) and English as a Second Language (ESL) students who are learning to read. Mandy is having a garage sale because she needs to pay her bills. One of the items in the garage sale is a camera with a broken flash. A man asks her if the camera works. What should Mandy tell him? The photographs reflect the text, making the words easy to decode. This high-interest, low-vocabulary reader is suitable...

Dead Man's Pose is a tension-reliever in yoga. Not this time! A spirited yoga teacher teams up with a dark horse partner (determined to right wrongs); and together they seek closure on the sudden and mysterious death of a friend. Throw in a cast of quirky characters that includes a savvy outback detective, an eccentric academic, a highly observant (but sight-challenged) witness, an exotic hairdresser, a Falstaffian nomad, crooked officials, and...

"A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week")...

In this memoir of the Hudson River and of her family, Susan Fox Rogers writes from a fresh perspective: the seat of her kayak. Low in the water, she explores the bays and the larger estuary, riding the tides, marveling over sturgeons and eels, eagles and herons, and spotting the remains of the ice and cement industries. After years of dipping her paddle into the waters off the village of Tivoli, she came to know the rocks and tree limbs, currents...

Compiles the best literary essays of the year 2019 which were originally published in American periodicals.