Throughout history, poets have felt the ancient pull of the sea, exploring the full range of mankind's nautical fears, dreams, and longings. The colorful legends of the sea-pirates and...
Offering an affirming and constructive way of seeing the world anew, this title explores the emerging new science of "positive psychology," which seeks to understand what causes a sense of...
Calling all Raina Telgemeier fans! The bestselling graphic novel series Katie the Catsitter is now available in a purr-fectly irresistible boxed set! Includes two books filled with friendship,...
With the world slowly sliding into war, enemies of the Reich flee Europe. One night in Lisbon, as a poor refugee gazes hungrily at the boat enroute to America, a man approaches with two...
This is the story of the adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of Earth. Beginning with Linnaeus, a colourful band of explorers made it their mission...
London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll call of storytellers includes cultural giants like Shakespeare, Defoe, and Dickens, and an innumerable host of writers...
Beloved for his fanciful and engrossing children's literature, controversial for his enthusiasm for British imperialism, Rudyard Kipling remains one of the most widely read writers of Victorian...
"A deeply engrossing portrait of what life physically felt like.... [An] intimate picture...of early Kenya." -[London] Times Literary Supplement
This Newbery Honor winning, New York Times bestseller celebrates the true spirit of independence on the American frontier. For most of her life, sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks has been shuttled...
New York City is not only "The New Yorker'"s place of origin and its sensibility's lifeblood; it is the heart of American literary culture. Wonderful Town collects superb short...
A narrative portion of the Hebrew Bible overflowing with action and character, the books included in Ancient Israel move from folk memories of magically powerful figures to a finely wrought...
"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children's experiences in World War II across Russia NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR aby...
Hired by Carl Hallman, the desperate-eyed junkie scion of an obscenely wealthy political dynasty, detective Lew Archer investigates the suspicious deaths of his parents, Senator Hallman and his...
A. R. Ammons's selection of his work once again, as the critic Harold Bloom wrote of the earlier version, "makes available the very best of him."
Born out of the excitement of a convergence of ideas and passions, this book provides a synthesis of the work of researchers, clinicians, and theoreticians who are leaders in the field of trauma,...
The chilling classic ghost stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. It includes stories żeby such legendary writers as Robert Louis Stevenson, P.F....
In 1938 the Japanese Imperial Forces established a "comfort station" in Shanghai. This was the first of many officially sanctioned brothels set up across Asia to service the needs of the...
Joe McQ., an internationally respected teacher/ lecturer on the Twelve Step method, offers countless analogies, insight, explanations and elucidations of these principles, drawing from his own...
El hijo único del presidente de Estados Unidos ha sido secuestrado. El FBI, la CIA y Scotland Yard intervienen con todos sus medios para descubrir a los secuestradores, pero es Quinn, el...
This logical yet revolutionary approach to fitness untangles the mystery of why diets usually fail -- even those backed by convincing scientific research. Derived from his years of Ayurvedic study,...