SUMMARY: "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been devised," wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard in a deceptively jaunty introduction to this cla...

Sniffers, fussy, sneaky, naughty and bad-tempered children are all awful - but who's the worst child ever? Mrs Mackle is sure that it's Susan Solly! But what has snail-mad Susan done that's so terr...

The World's Religions, Revised and Updated,

In this pithy and hilarious book, Karl Pilkington is in conversation with (the often bewildered) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, the writers and stars of The Office and Extras, unwittingly outw...

EDITORIAL REVIEW: *Time* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 *Entertainment Weekly* #1 Nonfiction Book of 2007 Finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award *Salon* Book Awards 2007 Amazon Top 100 E...

SUMMARY: There is a box. Inside that box is a door. Beyond that door is a house.In some rooms forests grow. In some, prisoners wait.At the top of the house, a prisoner sits behind a locked door waitin...

From Publishers WeeklySmith delivers yet another delightful installment to his Scotland Street series. This time out, he focuses mostly on the irrepressible Bertie Pollock, a precocio...

From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. Essayist and public radio regular Vowell (_Assassination Vacation_) revisits America's Puritan roots in this witty exploration of the ways in which ou...

Dorothy is a young girl who lives on a Kansas farm with her Uncle Henry, Aunt Em, and little dog Toto. One day the farmhouse, with Dorothy inside, is caught up in a tornado and deposited in a field in...

Product DescriptionThe treasure that captured a nation's imagination Everyone's favorite farmgirl, Dorothy from Kansas, finds herself on a strange odyssey with three new fr...