Ducks escort tourists on Lake Taupo cruise

According to the Waikato Times, it is because they love the captain.

At least twice a day, cruise boat captain Pete Boyle is visited by a flock of ducks, much to the enjoyment of his passengers.

It started with holding bits of bread out of the windows.

Now they fly alongside, beaks out waiting for their treat.   And each year there are more and more in the flock, as the ducklings learn from their parents.  By now, says Boyle, there would be three or four generations.

The future could be interesting.

The little boat that could

It would make a wonderful children's book.

A model boat made by students in Kennebunk, arrived safely after thousands of miles, on a beach on a remote island in Scotland.

 From the Press-Herald

“The Little Boat That Could” has lived up to its name.

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• Kennebunk students build tiny vessel, prepare to let it go – across the ocean

After 168 days and 12 hours at sea, a small sailboat built by high school students in Kennebunk washed ashore in Scotland after traveling thousands of miles. The boat had sailed across the Atlantic, then up and down the coasts of Portugal, Spain and Ireland before it was discovered Friday by a pair of Canadian tourists exploring a beach on a remote Scottish island.

“It really was a crazy journey,” said Leia Lowery, the director of education for the Kennebunk Conservation Trust who worked with the students who built the boat and documented its journey on Twitter.

The 5-foot boat washed up on Balivanich Airport Beach on the island of Benbecula, where it was found Friday by John and Angelika Dawson of British Columbia as they were walking their dog. The couple notified local police, who called the Scottish coast guard.

At first, no one quite knew what to make of the boat, which is covered with stickers from Maine groups and businesses. The blue and white sail is a bit tattered and the underside of the boat is covered in mussels, but the solar panel, camera and sensors appear to be undamaged. Even the tiny Lego pirate that had been the students’ mascot while they built the boat survived the journey intact.

“Everyone was really excited to hear it was in pretty good shape,” said Ed Sharood, a teacher who worked with the students to build the boat and who informed them of its discovery via text message and email. Some students who had doubted the boat could make it were a bit surprised, he said. 

After determining the boat was not hazardous, the Scottish coast guard moved it to a secure location while officials tried to contact the owner, according to a Facebook post from the HM Coastguard Benbecula. In an update, the HM Coastguard Benbecula said the boat has been handed over to Mari Morrison, a primary school teacher from North Uist. Morrison had previously been involved with the rescue and repair of a similar mini boat that landed in Scotland in 2016.

The boat project is part of an ongoing partnership between the students in the Kennebunk High School Alternative Education program and the Kennebunkport Conservation Trust. The trust bought the kit to make the boat from Belfast-based Educational Passages using an $1,800 grant from San Francisco-based RSF Social Finance.

Kristen Cofferen, one of the students working on the project, suggested the boat’s name after a classmate expressed skepticism that it would make it across an ocean.Seven students from the high school program teamed up with the trust and The Landing School in Arundel to construct the 5-foot self-steering boat that is powered solely by wind and currents. 

Inside the boat – named “The Little Boat That Could” by students – is a waterproof pod that includes a chip that should have collected data from the sensors, along with information about the alternative education program, Kennebunkport Conservation Trust and items that tell about life in Maine.

“We thought it would be a good opportunity to engage ourselves,” Cofferen said in December when the students were finishing up the project.

Students in the alternative education program take classes for the first couple of hours each day, then spend the rest of the school day in the community working on projects and learning about career opportunities. There are seven students in the program, which launched in 2012 to serve kids who weren’t finding success in traditional classrooms.

Students handed the boat over to Educational Passages on Dec. 29 and it was launched near Georges Bank on Jan. 2 by a fishing vessel from the Portland Fish Exchange.

The students and their teacher tracked the boat on the Educational Passages website, following its progress as it initially made a beeline for Spain before veering south toward Morocco. It came within 100 miles of Portugal, then headed back out to sea.

“We laughed and said we’re the only ones who would send out a boat that would boomerang right back home,” Lowery said.

The Maine students had hoped their boat would make it to across the Atlantic and that they’d be able to connect with students in another country via Skype. Now that Sharood and Jacqui Holmes, the other teacher working with the students, are in touch with the Scottish teacher, they’re planning to make that happen.

Sharood said Morrison’s students have been studying the ocean. During an assembly celebrating the last day of school Friday, Morrison plans to bring out “The Little Boat That Could” to show students. Sharood and Holmes plan to coordinate with Morrison to start a conversation between students in Maine and Scotland.

Sharood thinks his students will have lots of questions about Scottish culture and life on Benbecula, an island off the west coast of Scotland with about 1,300 people. He said they’ll work with the Scottish teacher and students to retrieve the data and make repairs so “The Little Boat That Could” can be relaunched. Sharood and Lowery also are dreaming of finding a way to get the Kennebunk students to Scotland for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to learn about the island where their boat made landfall.

“So many of (our students) thought the boat wasn’t going anywhere. They ironically named it ‘The Little Boat That Could,'” Lowery said. “I wish we could get these kids over there to teach those kids how to fix the boat and relaunch it.”

More information about the path the boat traveled is available on the Educational Passages website.

Gillian Graham can be contacted at 791-6315 or at:

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Digitizing Venetian archives

From times of great antiquity, Venice was the hub of maritime commerce, the link between West and East. 

As Robert Zimmerman quotes in his blog Behind the Black

As Venice’s empire grew, it developed administrative systems that recorded vast amounts of information: who lived where, the details of every boat that entered or left the harbour, every alteration made to buildings or canals. Modern banking was invented in the Rialto, one of Venice’s oldest quarters, and notaries there recorded all trading exchanges and financial transactions.

Crucially, those records survived through turbulent centuries. While the rest of Europe was roiled by its perpetually warring monarchs, from the eighth century onwards Venice began to develop into a stable republic that provided the peace and order required for trade to flourish. In many ways it was a model democracy. The people elected a leader — the doge — supported by various councils, whose members were also usually elected. Governance was secular, but for the most part co-existed tolerantly with religion.

French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte put an end to the Serene Republic in 1797. En route to Vienna during his attempt to conquer the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he declared Venice’s secular and democratic governance to be a form of autocracy, and the city to be an enemy of the revolution. He forced the republic to dissolve itself. In 1815, the old Frari was turned into the State Archives of Venice. Over the next decades, all state administrative documents, including death registers, were transferred there, along with medical records, notary records, maps and architectural plans, patent registers and a miscellany of other documentation, some from elsewhere in Italy. Particularly significant are ambassadors’ reports from wider Europe and the Ottoman Empire, providing a unique source of detailed information about daily life. “Venetian ambassadors were the most observant travellers, trained to find out things like what was being unloaded at the docks, or what a prince or other high-up was like as a person,” says Daston. “Their reports were full of gossip and intrigue.”

Most of the archive, predominantly written in Latin or the Venetian dialect, has never been read by modern historians. Now it will all be systematically fed into the Venice Time Machine, along with more unconventional sources of data, such as paintings and travellers’ logs.

As Nature reveals -- 

Only metres away from the tourist throngs that bustle through Venice's crowded piazzas, the silence inside Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari is so profound it hurts the ears. State archivists long ago took over this fourteenth-century friary, but they are just as studious as the Franciscan brothers who once lived here, as they tend the historical records that fill some 80 kilometres of shelving within. Now, a crew of scientists laden with high-tech equipment is stirring things up in these hallowed stacks.

History hangs heavy at the Frari, and computer scientist Frédéric Kaplan likes it that way. He has an ambition to capture well over 1,000 years of records in dynamic digital form, encompassing the glorious era of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. The project, which he calls the Venice Time Machine, will scan documents including maps, monographs, manuscripts and sheet music. It promises not only to open up reams of hidden history to scholars, but also to enable the researchers to search and cross-reference the information, thanks to advances in machine-learning technologies.

If it succeeds, it will pave the way for an even more ambitious project to link similar time machines in Europe’s historic centres of culture and commerce, revealing in unprecedented detail how social networks, trade and knowledge have developed over centuries across the continent. It would serve as a Google and Facebook for generations long past, says Kaplan, who directs the Digital Humanities Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Although the previous decade has seen many digital-humanities projects that scan, annotate and index manuscripts, this one stands out because of its ambitious scale and the new technologies it hopes to use: from state-of-the-art scanners that could even read unopened books, to adaptable algorithms that will turn handwritten documents into digital, searchable text.

A reader that can scan the contents of a book without that book being opened?

Marvelous for scholars -- but rather spine chilling for writers and publishers.  Could these dedicated scientists open a Pandora's box of unintended consequences?  After all, that is the story of the internet so far....

Exciting book giveaway

New post on linda collison's Sea of Words

Enter for a chance to win Barbados Bound by lindacollison With Rhode Island Rendezvous, Book Three of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series, on the horizon we're offering five copies of book one -- Barbados Bound -- as a give-away through Amazon. To enter the sweepstakes click on the link at the end of the post. We'll also be giving away some Kindle copies soon. I came aboard with the prostitutes the night before the ship set sail… Portsmouth, England, 1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imagined place in the world when her absent father unexpectedly dies, leaving her no means of support.  Raised in a Wiltshire boarding school far from the plantation where she was born, the sixteen-year-old orphan stows away on a ship bound for Barbados in a brash attempt to claim an unlikely inheritance.  Aboard the merchantmanCanopus, under contract with the British Navy to deliver gunpowder to the West Indian forts, young Patricia finds herself pulled between two worlds -- and two identities -- as she charts her own course for survival in the war-torn eighteenth century.   Barbados Bound was first published as Star-Crossed in 2006 by Alfred A. Knopf, and chosen by the New York Public Library to be among the Books for the Teen Age – 2007.  The story is basically the same but the author has made minor changes to the manuscript, in some cases replacing words and phrases edited out from Knopf's Young Adult version.   It all started with a ship. On April 14, 1999, I saw in the newspaper a startlingly anachronistic photograph of a three-masted wooden ship under sail. It looked like it had just sailed out of the eighteenth century. Below it, an intriguing advertisement: Help wanted: Deckhands to man floating museum…a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to sail as crew on Endeavour, the replica of Capt. James Cook’s ship that will visit Hawaii in November. Crewmembers sleep in hammocks slung together on the lower deck.  They must be prepared to go aloft and work the sails at any time of day in any weather, not suffer from chronic seasickness or fear of heights, and be physically fit.  Sailing experience is not essential… Six months later Bob and I were at the dock in Vancouver, signing ship's articles. We spent three weeks aboard the Endeavour, as part of the foremast watch, crossing the Northern Pacific Ocean. We learned the names and functions of the hundreds of lines, sails and spars that power the ship; we learned to climb aloft on the ratlines, stepping out on the foot ropes under the yards to make and furl sail. We took turns steering the ship and were responsible for cleaning and maintaining her in eighteenth-century fashion. We slept in hammocks we strung from the deckhead every evening. The voyage crew, as we green-but-willing sailors were called, bonded quickly, for we were all in it together and we all felt the same swing of emotions -- anxiety, fear, fatigue, exhaustion, sea-sickness, hunger, occasionally resentment – but most of all, exhilaration and awe. For me, those weeks on the Endeavourwere nothing short of a time machine. When Bob and I disembarked in Kona, Hawaii, I carried with me the seeds for a novel. It would not be about Captain Cook or his extraordinary voyages, but it would begin in the mid-eighteenth century aboard a ship much like the one I had sailed on. It would take me more than five years to research and write the story born aboard Endeavour. In 2006 Alfred A. Knopf published it under the title Star-Crossed, as a stand-alone, young adult historical novel which the New York Public Library chose it to be among the Books for the Teen Age – 2007. I had not written the story for teen readers per se, but I had written about a teenager, from her narrow and still immature perspective. Click on the link for a chance to win a trade paperback copy of Barbados Bound; Book One of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series. Open to readers in the United States who have an active Amazon account. Save Save lindacollison | June 25, 2017 at 7:19 pm | Tags: Amazon give-away | Categories: Give-aways | URL: http://wp.me/p1wD0f-2of

BookLife and Indie marketing

BookLife, by Publishers Weekly, is an interesting approach.  "Put the marketing power of Publishers Weekly behind your book," blares the headline in their PW Select offer.

"For just $149 your book cover and synopsis appear in front of thousands of book-sellers, librarians, agents, publishers, film producers and production companies," they say.

Back in 2012, I began an experiment in Indie publishing, predicting that digital books were the way of the future.  As it happens, I was wrong.  As eminent newspapers like the New York Times have found out, big investment in digital was ill-advised.  Print books and newspapers still keep 75% of the market, and always will.

But as an experiment it has proved very interesting.  As part of my own participation, I started another blog, called Kindle Publishing Hints.    It has proved very popular, with thousands of hits and -- most satisfyingly -- over one thousand thank you letters.  Apparently it has helped many writers through the technics of formatting, editing, illustrating, and submitting to KDP, and has even coached many through the intricacies of designing and uploading a cover.

For me, though, the crunch came when I was to advise about marketing.  I promised to do it, but never came through, because it has proved so difficult.

Bean-counters have taken advantage of this, by offering marketing at various prices.  The cheapest, by far (because it is free) is Draft to Digital, a firm that promotes your book with a range of digital booksellers, such as Kobo, for a commission that is just a fraction of the selling price. 

Others charge hundreds, or even thousands.  So when I came across the offers made by Publishers Weekly, a highly respected marketer and reviewer of new books, I was interested, as the prices of the various options seemed reasonable.

First, there is the Book Life Prize.  This is an annual competition, where the entry fee is $99 (occasionally reduced to $79 as a special deal).  Entry is easy, involving a download of the pdf file of your book, a jpeg of your cover, and the writing of a blurb and so forth.  It is very like submitting your book to Kindle Direct Publishing.  In return, you get a critique.  It is not a review, being terse and formal, with various aspects of the book -- character development, plot development, and so on -- being graded out of ten.  It can be very quotable, and you are allowed to quote it, as long as you give Book Life Prize as the source.

Worth it?  Yes.  Good value for money.

And then there is the Book Life section of Publisher Weekly.  It is called PW Select.

According to what they say --

When you pay $149 to participate in PW Select, your book appears in:

- Publishers Weekly's print and digital edition

- the home page of PublishersWeekly.com

- the home page of BookLife.com

- BookLife's weekly email newsletter to 18,000 recipients

- BookLife's Twitter and Facebook channels

Plus you receive:

- a six month digital subscription to Publishers Weekly

- a one year digital subscription to Publishers Weekly's PW Select monthly supplement

- a listing of your book in Publishers Weekly's special announcements database powered by Edelweiss which reaches tens of thousands of booksellers, librarians and reviewers

- a free copy of the Publishers Weekly print issue in which your listing appears

My reaction, after submitting The Money Ship to this process?  Does it help promote the book?  

Well, if that is what you are expecting...

It's a con.

The appearance in the PW print and digital was so fleeting I would have missed it if I had blinked.

The listing is almost as brief.  You can see it at the head of this post.  The only plus is that it is one of the first to be listed. 

There is also the cachet of being able to say that your book has been listed in this prestigious magazine.

And the 6-month digital subscription is also a bonus, if you like being kept up to date with the American book world.  (A one-year digital subscription is currently being offered at a discounted $168.00.)

My advice?  Try the Book Life Prize, by all means.  It's a new and interesting marketing ploy.  Forget PW Select.  There are much better ways to promote your book.  

Wreck of legendary cutter located

Revenue cutter Bear, painted by Ron Druett as an illustration for the chapter on Mary Jane Healy, wife of Captain "Roaring Mike" Healy, in She Captains.

From The Smithsonian

The McCulloch was the largest cutter of its day and sank in 1917 after colliding with a passenger ship in heavy fog

By Jason Daley

SMITHSONIAN.COM JUNE 20, 2017 12:48PM

In October 2016, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Coast Guard decided to conduct a joint training exercise off the California coast. According to Megan Gannon at LiveScience, previous surveys of the area had indicated the legendary Coast Guard cutter McCulloch might have been sunk there. So, using a specially designed wreck-hunting remote operated vehicle, the team looked for its remains.

They found the skeleton of the ship covered with anemones. But they held off touting the discovery.

Last week, on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, the agency finally announced that it had discovered the wreck of the ship, reports Linda Wang at the Associated Press. “[W]e decided it would be a fitting tribute to the ship and her crew to wait and make the announcement June 13,” Dan Dewell, a public affairs officer with the Coast Guard, tells Gannon.

According to a Coast Guard press release, the ship has a long and storied history. Commissioned in 1897, when it was built it was the largest cutter in the fleet of the Coast Guard’s predecessor, the U.S. Treasury’s Revenue Cutter Service. According to Gannon, it cost over $200,000, and was armed with four 6-pounder, 3-inch rapid firing guns and one 15-inch torpedo tube.

Those armaments served it well during the Spanish-American War. In 1898, the cutter was part of the U.S. Asiatic Squadron, which destroyed the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay. After the war, the ship was stationed out of San Francisco and patrolled the entire Pacific coast of the U.S. from Mexico to Cape Blanco, Oregon. It even served in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands, where it enforced seal-hunting regulations and served as a floating courthouse for coastal settlements.

With the outbreak of World War I, the Navy took command of the McCulloch. On June 13, 1917, in heavy fog, it collided with the passenger steamship SS Governor. Luckily all of McCulloch's crew was able to escape to the Governor, though one crewman who was injured during the accident died from his injuries a few days later. Wang reports it only took 35 minutes for the ship to sink 300 feet to bottom of the ocean.

Though the decks of the ship are gone, the ROV team was able to positively ID the cutter using images of the vessel published in 1914. Its 11-foot bronze propeller, guns, torpedo tube and boilers were conclusive evidence that the ship was the McCulloch.

“McCulloch and her crew were fine examples of the Coast Guard’s long-standing multi-mission success from a pivotal naval battle with Commodore Dewey, to safety patrols off the coast of California, to protecting fur seals in the Pribilof Islands in Alaska,” Rear Admiral Todd Sokalzuk, commander of the 11th Coast Guard District, says in the press release. “The men and women who crew our newest cutters are inspired by the exploits of great ships and courageous crews like the McCulloch.”

There are no official plans for what to do with the wreck next, but legally it is still property of the U.S. government, and it’s illegal for anyone to disturb the ship—with the exception of the odd sea anemone.

A Shakespearean Trump?

A current article in The Economist poses an interesting question.   Could Trump be the star in a tragic drama by Shakespeare?

Apparently, after the astonishing sight of prominent men humiliating themselves in Trump's first "Cabinet" meeting, by fawning over the smug president while his impassive son-in-law oversaw the performance, triggered a tweet from Canada that went viral.

It's straight out of the beginning of King Lear, the tweeter suggested.

For those who have forgotten their Shakespeare, it is a scene where the senile king's daughters (save for one brave abstainer) lavish him with flowery praise to ensure their bits of the kingdom.

It was just like that at the meeting, it seems.  As the article comments:  'Vice-President Mike Pence set the tone, confiding that serving a president “who’s keeping his word to the American people” is “the greatest privilege of my life”. 

'As Mr Trump clenched his jaw, nodded and threw in an occasional “good job” of encouragement, his cabinet secretaries—who include former governors, retired four-star generals and more than one billionaire—mostly followed suit. They variously reported that his presidency has “thrilled” crime-fighters, excited the world with its “international flair” and inspired “love” in Mississippi. “My hat is off to you!” swooned the energy secretary, Rick Perry, who in 2015 called Mr Trump a “cancer on conservatism”. 

'For as long as cameras whirred this surge of praise rolled round the room like a bureaucrats’ Mexican wave, peaking with a testimonial from Reince Priebus, the White House chief of staff. Unabashed by speculation that he is to be sacked, Mr Priebus declared: “We thank you for the opportunity and the blessing to serve your agenda.” The verdict of a Twitter-user from Toronto, “This is actually the start of ‘King Lear’,” went viral, pinging around the political internet.

'No secretary quite filled the role of Cordelia, the princess whose principled refusal to flatter King Lear in the opening scene of that tragedy (“I cannot heave/My heart into my mouth”) helps to precipitate her father’s descent into madness and the play’s plunge into eye-gouging, several murders and a small war. A few came close, notably James Mattis, the defence secretary and a thoughtful former four-star Marine general. Rather than fawn, Mr Mattis used his turn to praise troops and to express a core plank of his philosophy: that America maintains potent armed forces so that its diplomats “always negotiate from a position of strength”.

'As Mr Trump basked in congratulations, then hailed himself as the most “active” and productive president since Franklin D. Roosevelt, it was understandable if some recalled Shakespeare’s tragedies. For those works often explore how sycophancy clouds the judgment of great men, especially when pride prevents them from seeing that they are being gulled. As he divides his kingdom between three daughters, Lear confuses flowery words with love. It is fawning that lures Julius Caesar to a fatal ambush in the Capitol, as a conspirator predicts: “But when I tell [Caesar] he hates flatterers,/He says he does, being then most flatterèd.”'

Remarkably, an outdoor performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar opened in Central Park, New York, on the very same day as the strange demonstration of forced flattery.   Needless to say, Trump's adoring fans did not like it, especially as Caesar had an odd resemblance to the man who calls himself America's leader.  Donald Trump jr. waxed furious, and the NEH hastily denied funding the thing.

So, how did Trump himself view the stomach-turning display of craven adoration?  Did he take it at face value, considering the lavish praise well-earned?  Or did he simply enjoy seeing powerful men prostrate themselves?  Is he, in fact, a bully?

Also unanswered is the question of why those powerful men were so willing to publicly humiliate themselves.  Were they like Lear's conniving daughters, intent on enriching themselves?  Do they see themselves as the future oligarchs of America?

Sadly, it seems all too possible.

Nineteenth century wonder rediscovered in New Zealand

In the nineteenth century any tourist in New Zealand made the trek from Rotorua to see one of the world's marvels -- a system of pink and white terraces created by volcanic activity.

Then, on June 10, 1886, a mountain erupted.  A village and its inhabitants were overwhelmed, just like the victims of Pompei.  If you go to the museum in Rotorua, you can watch a riveting documentary, complete with sound and bump effects.

And, in the midst of chaos, the pink and white terraces were lost.

It was assumed that they had sunk, gone forever.  But now geologists think they just might have found them.

As Alice Guy in the New Zealand Herald reports: New research has sparked new hope of returning the terraces to public view - 131 years on from the Mt Tarawera eruption -- much to the joy of local iwi, who are descendants of the original victims of the disaster.

Hannah Martin describes the find in greater detail.  Using reverse engineering and a translation of the records kept by nineteenth century geologist Dr. Ferdinand von Hochstetter, researchers Rex Bunn and Dr. Sascha Nolden, have plotted the precise locations of the terraces -- and have found that they are buried under tons of rock and soil, instead of beneath the waters of Lake Rotomahana, as previously believed.

Nolden, a research librarian, discovered von Hockstetter's notes while curating the geologist's collection at Basel -- and found that they gave detailed coordinates for the terraces, calculated and written down in 1859.  Then she and Bunn worked backwards, first of all locating the place the geologist stood when he made his survey, and then following the leads he gave.    

Visions of Tahiti

Memories of one of our favorite island groups

TAHITI

Memorial to Captain Wallis, first European discoverer of the island

The somewhat smaller memorial to Captain Cook

What the locals really do at Matavai Bay

The river where the discoverers' crews collected fresh water - and where Tahiti was first claimed as a British possession "by right of conquest"

Arahurahu, a restored marae outside Papeete

Another memorial -- to Moruroa, where the French tested nuclear bombs

And yet another -- to the replica voyaging canoe, Hokulea

Even the supermarkets are worth a camera

Further afield, there are mountains, beaches, and waterfalls

Take to the sea, and voyage north,  and findthe island of Bora Bora, haven for pirates in the past, and now a resort for the rich and famous

Over-water bungalows dot the shores

While the local women have an interesting method for pareu-dyeing, using the sun to make patterns

Closer to Tahiti is beautiful, mystic Moorea

And then there is Raiatea, where Tupaia, Captain Cook's Polynesian navigator, was born...

A Trumpish bookstore display

Interesting titles to complement a bookstore display for Ivanka Trump's new book, "Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success." 

Among them: "Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents," "Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed," and "Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life."

With thanks to Gerry Gray

The Buro has more to say:  

The First Daughter isn't having a good retail run. Having made her business selling clothes, shoes, accessories and products targeted at working mums she assumed the natural extension would be to write a book about the steps for working mums to succeed. Unfortunately, since her Dad stepped into the Oval Office a number of high profile stores like Nordstrom have dropped Ivanka's brand (apparently it wasn't selling) and her book has also proved joke-worthy to the book club crew.  

And then this harmless prank was played.

Source: http://www.buro247.com.au/culture-lifestyle/news/ivanka-trump-s-book-display-was-rearranged-to-hila.html

According to The Cut,  Librarian Chloé Pascual has taken credit for rearranging this display at a Barnes & Noble in Long Beach, California. “I was acting in my role as a cheeky bookstore customer,” she explained.