Pulitzer prize–winner Chris Hedges charts the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.Chris Hedges argues that we now live...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: With his acclaimed Emperor novels, author Conn Iggulden brings a dazzling world to life–the rich, complex world of ancient Rome as seen through the eyes of one ex...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The year is 53 B.C. Fresh from victory in Gaul, Julius Caesar leads battle-hardened legions across the Rubicon river–threatening Rome herself. Even the master str...
From School Library JournalGrade 4–6—Emily Windsnap, half-human/half-mermaid, is faced with her biggest challenge yet when she learns that the mermaid village of Shiprock is about ...
Review“[Elric is] among the most memorable characters in fantasy literature.”–Science Fiction Chronicle “The greatest writer of post-Tolkien British fantasy.”–Michael C...
Electronics is fascinating – want to make something of it? This book shows you how!You can make all sorts of things, once you understand what electronics is and how it w...
From School Library JournalGrade 4-8–After 14 years as a slave girl in the village of River Away, Kale is free, because of a dragon's egg. Since she found it, the village elders ha...
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them.' George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and de...
From Publishers WeeklyIn this clear-eyed and compassionate study, Robinson (Coal to Cream), Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist for the Washington Post, marshals persuasive evidence ...
Review“Beautiful . . . funny, heart-hammering, wise . . . Superb entertainment.”_–The New York Times _“A book that should join those few that every literate person will have t...