The Giant Book of Poetry is an illustrated anthology of over 575 poems, more than 750 pages and over 60 illustrations representing ancient, classical, modern, and contemporary time...
With irresistibly persuasive vigor, David Shenk debunks the long-standing notion of genetic “giftedness,” and presents dazzling new scientific research showing how greatness is in ...
SUMMARY: And what happens when Bernie Karp, the impressionable fifteen-year-old son of the couple in whose home the rabbi lies frozen, inadvertently thaws out the ancient man? Such...
Amazon.com ReviewMario Vargas Llosa, a former candidate for the presidency of Peru, is better placed than most novelists to write about the machinations of Latin American politics....
ReviewRip-roaring, heart-tugging, flag-flying, hair-raising, hoof-beating ... the very presence of India The Times A long, romantic adventure story of the highest calibre ... wildl...
From Publishers WeeklyForensic artist Paul Bern uses his impressive talents as a sculptor to reconstruct a face on an anonymous skull brought to him under mysterious circumstances ...
SUMMARY: Interweaving past and present, Sweden and Zambia, rich and poor, The Eye of the Leopard is a stunning novel from a modern master.Hans Olofson arrives in Zambia not long af...
Pressure cookers will boost flavor and cut cooking time a whopping 70 percent-but only if you know how to use them. In this cookbook, author Pamela Rice Hahn teaches you about the ...
From School Library JournalGrade 7–10—Senior Hailey Kendrick is student government vice-president at her exclusive boarding school and she dates the most popular boy at Evesham. Al...
The Eden Express describes from the inside Mark Vonnegut's experience in the late '60s and early '70s--a recent college grad; in love; living communally on a farm, with a famous an...