It’s the eighties, baby! This adorable, electric board book features everything from neon legwarmers to totally rad rock music, and plenty of eighties slang! I’m an eighties baby, check me out! I’m tubular, I’m radical, I’m chill, no doubt. From shoulder pads to fanny packs, Walkmans to VCRs, this baby’s got your eighties dreams covered!

A 1980s baby, author Nasreath L. King was raised in Brooklyn, New York, a place that for him was one of the worst in America. With danger lurking in the corners, and an abundance of thieves and drug dealers, it was a difficult city in which to grow up. In 80s Baby Righteous Life, King shares the stories of his life. Interspersed with poetry, he narrates the sadness and pain that permeated much of his existence. Abused and living a life of poverty, King discusses how he learned to forgive, overcome negativity, and strive toward happiness. He touches on a variety of subjects including love, obesity, and trust. In this memoir, King tells how the love of his mother and his faith in God help him persevere. 80s Baby Righteous Life presents the message that each of us has a purpose in life, and King hopes to facilitate happiness and peace through his poetry.

By the beginning of the 1980's, the Bronx had become a godforsaken slum, making it the ideal location for an epidemic. That epidemic arrived in the form of crack cocaine, which hit the streets with a savage force setting off an explosion of violent crime unlike anything ever seen before. The birth of crack brought with it more money, more guns and more gangs. The faces of which were younger, hungrier and more vicious than their predecessors.In 1986, Hassan, a student of the streets put those lessons to work, ascending above all other ghetto dons and planting his flag at the top of the drug game. After successfully merging the North and Southside, Hassan ceases control of the largest projects in The Bronx, The Edenwald Houses. With maximum power and unlimited resources he and his crew reign supreme over the crack trade. But what crack giveth, crack taketh away as jealousy, rival crews and the federal government began chipping away at his once mighty empire. Enter Rhae, a beautiful, around the way girl, raised in the same unforgiven streets. After falling in love with Hassan, she tries convincing him to leave the game behind. But old habits die hard and the allure is stronger than either of them could imagine proving to be easier said than done.

DIVDIVWhom do you trust with your life?/divDIV Kelsey’s summer vacation will be perfect—a holiday on Beverly Island, where she’ll get to know her mom’s new boyfriend, Eric, and enjoy the perks of a sun-drenched beach and gorgeous lifeguards./divDIV But Kelsey’s dream holiday quickly turns into a nightmare when Eric’s daughter, Beth, goes missing. When Kelsey finds a mysterious note from Beth, she doesn’t know whom to believe. Also terrifying is the number of suspicious drownings and the creepy fisherman . . . at least she has the lifeguards around to protect her, right? But what Kelsey doesn’t know is that these lifeguards don’t come to the rescue—they have other plans./divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richie Tankersley Cusick including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection./div/div

Peppa is an up-and-coming pimp from Richmond, California, who's facing the trials and tribulations of street life on his quest to be the biggest pimp he can possibly be. But the game he's playing comes with ultimate sacrifices and rules he must stick to for him to become successful in the game. He's a con man slash pimp who will do whatever to acquire the almighty dollar. He's dealing with a wife at home who's aware of his dealings with the streets and a flock of hos in his stable who are coming in at a rapid pace, and he's pissing some people off along the way. Eyevette, Peppa's wife, is a drug dealer who's dealing in the streets of Richmond, trying to grind her way to the top rock for rock. And she has the recipe that's going to get her rich. And she's doing so while raising her children and trying to stick by her husband's side through thick and thin and be a good bottom bitch to him and his stable, but while she's getting money, others want in on her turf. Lil Pep is a product of the '80s and is soaking all his parents' actions in and is watching and preparing himself to be a major pimp like his father or a major hustla' like his mother. His innocent youth is being sucked away before his eyes as he's getting the game raw and uncut from his parents. He is growing up in the '80s crack era where anything goes, and he wants in. Will this family make it through the storm, and do they realize the influence that they're having on their children? Dope era. It's all in the game.

For fans of vintage YA, a humorous and in-depth history of beloved teen literature from the 1980s and 1990s, full of trivia and pop culture fun. Those pink covers. That flimsy paper. The nonstop series installments that hooked readers throughout their entire adolescence. These were not the serious-issue novels of the 1970s, nor the blockbuster YA trilogies that arrived in the 2000s. Nestled in between were the girl-centric teen books of the ’80s and ’90s—short, cheap, and utterly adored. In Paperback Crush, author Gabrielle Moss explores the history of this genre with affection and humor, highlighting the best-known series along with their many diverse knockoffs. From friendship clubs and school newspapers to pesky siblings and glamorous beauty queens, these stories feature girl protagonists in all their glory. Journey back to your younger days, a time of girl power nourished by sustained silent reading. Let Paperback Crush lead you on a visual tour of nostalgia-inducing book covers from the library stacks of the past.

80s Baby is a story of childhood, told through the eyes of the man who that child became. In a series of essays, John Bilancini talks about the world of cartoons, television shows, food, toys, commercials, video games, books, and more that helped shape his upbringing. In doing so, John tries to expose younger generations to beloved 80s and 90s memories while reminding other millennials of the world in which they came of age. Fans of McDonald's Happy Meal Toys, movie tie-ins, Ninja Turtles, VHS tapes, He-Man, and more will see themselves in these pages.