From the moment sixteen-year-old Lilly Deluca arrives in the ancient Italian town of Castello, she knows it is deadly. The town is divided by an invisible line, keeping the warring families of...
Readers of all ages have long turned to Rilke's Letters for inspiration, insight, and to learn what it means to be a writer in the words of one of the great poets of all time. Intimate,...
Nicknamed Chesty for his barrel chest, Lewis B. Puller is considered the greatest Marine Corps hero of all time. Hoffman, in this balanced and much-noticed biography, deftly interweaves the...
ESPN's beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now."The Red Sox won the...
Fans of Clare Balding and Jacqueline Wilson will love this fun and heartwarming new adventure series for animal-mad 8-12 year olds from superstar equestrian influencer Esme Higgs!
Faulkner was a master of the short story. Most of the pieces in this collection are drawn from the greatest period in his writing life, the fifteen or so years beginning in 1929, when he published...
Flush with scandal, real historical figures, accurate period detail from the English Restoration, and an enduring love story, this novel tells the story of actress Nell Gwynne who became mistress...
From the best-selling author of The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton's Taming the Star Runner explores loneliness and the need to belong, and the inevitability of change--universal struggles associated...
Confucious is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of...
The brilliant debut novel from author, presenter and LGBTQ+ advocate Calum McSwiggan!Seventeen-year-old Max has always been out, proud and just a little spoiled. Frustrated żeby the lack of...
Babe Paley--known for her high-profile marriage to CBS founder William Paley -- was one of the reigning monarchs of New York's high society in the 1950s. Truman Capote was the literary genius...
An admired historian offers a unique account of the events at Salem, Massachusetts, helping readers to understand the witch hunt as it was understood by those who lived through the frenzy.
A couple determined not to end up like their divorced friends try a radical experiment and get in way over their heads in this hilarious, heartfelt novel from the author of We re All Damaged.New...
It all begins on a hot day in June, and a volcano dropping black ash on Moominmamma's washing. A crack appears in the ground, and Moomintroll's toothbrush slips straight down into it! When...
Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the...
This nonfiction companion book to the Magic Tree House title "Mummies in the Morning" provides in-depth information about Ancient Egypt. In this research guide, Jack and Annie, along with...
Colors, feelings, images, and words jostle and bounce off one another in this lively, full-color picture book, creating as much fun as any box of crayons has ever had. Full color.
An Arab and a Jew open a restaurant together across the street from the United Nations.... It sounds like the beginning of an ethnic joke, but it's the axis around which Robbins spins this...
The definitive account of the contest between Britain's Robert Scott and Norway's Raoul Amundsen for the most coveted prize in the age of modern exploration: Antarctica. "One of the...
Before she had arrived at Green Gables, Anne Shirley had a difficult early life. Orphaned as a baby, she was sent from one foster-home to the next, caring for other people's children even...
At its peak, the Inca empire was the largest on Earth. Yet in the year 1532, it was conquered aby fewer than 200 Spanish adventurers. How could this happen? Approaching the answer clue aby clue,...