Don’t miss this sequel to Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year 2022 Skandar and the Unicorn Thief. Skandar and the Phantom Rider is the second book in the international bestselling S...
Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant “sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected...
An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of buildin...
STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY
Each year on December 26, the African American holiday of Kwanzaa begins. What is the purpose of Kwanzaa? How did it get its start? Dolores Johnson's eas...
Put your eyes up here,
put your eyes on me!
Ms Roys asks for her students' attention, but she doesn't really need to. Who can ignore a teacher who wears silly hats and colorful skirts, has a grave...
In this wacky philosophical caper, washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher Eddie Coffin flees scandal and ruin at home to find himself destitute in France. There he hooks up with Hubert, a one-...
Hazelle has been living in the Grace Home, an orphanage in New York City, for almost a year. Now she and several other children have been put on a train headed for Texas, where they will be placed ...
With the popularity of swing and social dancing at an all-time high, the author provides a provocative look at the hottest trend to sweep the nation. 10 line drawings.
Few stories from the "greatest generation" are as unforgettable -- or as little known -- as that of the 10th Mountain Division. Today a versatile light infantry unit deployed around the worl...
From Simon & Schuster, the Adventures of Ideas is Alfred North Whitehead's historical adventure. The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both appli...
A TikTok sensation! Sparks fly when a competitive figure skater and hockey team captain are forced to share a rink.Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It ...
Ray Dalio, one of the world’s most successful investors and entrepreneurs, shares the unconventional principles that he’s developed, refined, and used over the past forty years to creat...
Against the unforgiving landscape of a hospital, I fell in love with a mischievous, sun-eyed boy who became my only joy in that desolate place. That’s what made it all the more soul-crushing ...
This is a small story about big questions.It's a story about family, community, life.It starts with a storm - and a death.But how does it end?Two years have passed sin...