New Releases by Michael Townsend

Mr. Ball is back in this latest installment of the popular series. Mr. Ball sets out for his best friend''s birthday party with a VERY large cake. Hilarity ensues as he encounters one hiccup after another, and his cake gets increasingly smaller! Will the party be ruined?

For anyone who feels overwhelmed by the demands and anxieties of daily life, Do Breathe provides practices for fostering relaxation, awareness, and focus. This book features sections on breath work, mindfulness, energy, and courage, and is brimming with practical advice—including the three keys to breathing well and a how-to for decluttering the mind. With simple exercises and daily practices from yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, these inspiring pages will help readers cultivate a balanced mindset and build a foundation for a joyful, peaceful life.

This is the special planner which contains an overview of each week. The good spreads include space to write your daily schedule as well as a to-do list. You can see 7 days in one page. Perfect for any use. you can use for personal, work, to do list, Reminder, Achievement in each week, small diary for note of the day and all purpose. Light weight. Easy to carry around. Made in the USA. Everyone need to have the best planner since the first of the year. Give it for yourself friends family and co-worker and Have a great year together. Full Specifications: - Size: 8.5" x 11" inches with lots of blank space and broader lines to write on. - 105 pages - for recording 52 weeks ( 1 Year) Plan - Space For recording Thing To Do, Achievement in each week, Appointment and Reminder .

Aphoristic, quasi-poetic meditation on humor as key to life''s complexities.

Memoir of a life in theatre by Michael Smith, playwright, critic, producer, lighting designer, a key player in the Off-Off-Broadway theatre movement of the 1960s and beyond.

Writing theatre criticism for The Village Voice from 1957 to 1974, Michael Smith lucked into an extraordinarily dynamic period in American theatre. Broadway-style commercialism was stifling innovation in the early sixties. In response, a new alternative theatre emerged in lofts, storefronts, churches, and coffeehouses radiating out from Greenwich Village. This generous selection of reviews from Smith''s "theatre journal" columns in The Voice gives a sense of the range, seriousness, and energy of the brilliantly imaginative artists he encountered in more than a decade of intensive theatre-going,

Mr. Ball has hatched a great plan! He will capture a wild, scary beast. He will tame it. He will have the best circus act ever!

As theatre critic for the Village Voice in the 1960s, and as a director and playwright, Michael Smith was a key player in the Off-Off-Broadway movement in New York. Since 1990 he has been active on the West Coast as a playwright, director, lighting designer, and producer. This volume contains eleven of his dramatically varied plays, dating from 1974 to 2010: "The Dinner Show," "Heavy Pockets," "Turnip Family Secrets," "Half Life," "Trouble," "Life Before Death," "Fast Forward," "Dogs Bark All Night," "Bad Dog," "Summer Lightning," and "Hamlet in Love."

MICHAEL SMITH won a Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation for criticism, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for playwriting, an Obie Award for directing, and two Indie Awards for stage lighting. As theatre critic for the Village Voice in the 1960s, he was instrumental in the growth of Off-Off-Broadway. This first of two volumes of his plays contains "More! More! I Want More!" (1965), "The Next Thing" (1966), "A Dog''s Love" (1966), "Captain Jack''s Revenge" (1970), "Country Music" (1971), "Denver Trilogy" (1971-74), "Point Blank" (1972), "Prussian Suite" (1974), and "Cowgirl Ecsstasy" (1976).

Cute kittens, cute puppies, and more! An explosion of cuteness tailor-made for "I Can Has Cheezburger" fans. Janie Jane''s life takes a turn for the cute when she receives an adorable puppy as a birthday present. She and Sir Yips-a-lot do everything together. But before you know it, it''s Janie''s birthday again and she''s got a new, potentially cuter present to unwrap: Lady Meow-meow, "The World''s Cutest Kitty." Wait! Sir Yips-a-lot has always been the cute one in Janie Jane''s life. What if she doesn''t need him anymore? Michael Townsend has crafted a lighthearted romp that will help children--especially those with new siblings--recognize and overcome feelings of jealousy.

John P. Dodd, the light man at the legendary Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village in the early sixties, assisted at the birth of Off-Off-Broadway and collaborated with key figures in New York''s downtown world of theatre and dance. This book, illustrated with rare period photographs, recounts Dodd''s colorful life and career from the unique perspective of playwright and director Michael Smith, drama critic of The Village Voice and his intimate companion in that transformative decade. Smith''s personal narrative, thoughtful recollections by friends and colleagues, and Dodd''s own words attest to his originality and unusual force of character. A year-by-year record of his wide-ranging work as a lighting designer confirms the importance of his theatrical art.

These mostly poem-like artifacts were published as they were written at http://michaeltownsendsmith.blogspot.com. A log of course is a record of a journey-in a ship''s log, location, weather, and daily events. The macrotext of this weblog tracks seasons, moods, happenings, and the national temper; but its real concern is less with external circumstances and more with inner action. The writer''s minimalist, allusive diction skips the mechanics of language and attempts to project mental movement directly, the sense arising with the words.

While preparing for his move, Kit Feeny recalls all the special and crazy things he and his best friend did together and suddenly starts to worry about what is to come when his friend is no longer in his life. Simultaneous.

Wanting nothing less than to find the most special present for his mother''s upcoming birthday, Kit Feeny heads out on a wild search and, despite seeing many cool things along the way, successfully locates the most unique (and ugly) gift of all. Simultaneous.