When Flora dreams of happiness, she doesn't expect to be thrown on to the back of a great, black bull! But as Flora and the bull travel from glen to glen, is the silent beast all that he seems?Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and dedu[...]

The essential career handbook for creative working women. Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women is the modern career guide every creative woman needs, whether you're just starting out or already have years of experience. Packed with fresh ideas and no-nonsense practical advice, this travel-[...]

`Little Black Book is THE book of the year for working women with drive' Refinery 29 The essential career handbook for creative working women. `A compact gem' Stylist Little Black Book: A Toolkit For Working Women is the modern career guide every creative woman needs, [...]

A fascinating work of detective history, "The Black Death" traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to 1351. Drawing on sources as diverse as monastic manuscripts and dendrochronological studies (which me[...]

The Black Death was the fourteenth century's equivalent of a nuclear war. It wiped out one-third of Europe's population, takingmillion lives. And yet, most of what we know about it is wrong. The details of the Plague etched in the minds of terrified schoolchildren -- the hideous black welts, the hig[...]

One of her best collections to date. EssenceQuilting the Black-Eyed Pea is a tour de force from Nikki Giovanni, one of the most powerful voices in American poetry and African American literature today. From Black Feeling, Black Talk and Black Judgment in the 1960s to Bicycles in 2010, Giovanni s poe[...]

Three perspectives -- one truthThe victim: After his windshield was shattered with a baseball bat, HIV-positive Alex Crusan ducked under the steering wheel. But he knows what he saw. Now he must decide what he wants to tell.The witness: Daria Bickell never lies. So if she told the police she saw Cli[...]

"Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them."Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won powerful allies--including Lord Dannyl, newly promoted[...]

Explores the sixty-year-old murder mystery of Elizabeth Short, revealing both the identity and motivation of the killer, while discussing the corruption within the Los Angeles police department that prevented the case from being closed.[...]

In the aftermath of several bizarre crimes, including three thefts and a grisly murder, Tom Kirk follows an elaborate trail of clues laid by SS secret agents throughout America and Europe in the final days of Nazi Germany that are believed to lead to a fabled treasure. By the author of The Double Ea[...]

The last thing Lacy Green needs is trouble--and handsome Mayor Drake Randolph has "danger" written all over him . . . especially when "His Fineness" accidentally runs her off the road. Despite Drake's sensuous charm, irresistible magnetism, and unwavering determination to make amends, she's thinking[...]

Acclaimed visionary and intellectual bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation in the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love.Whether talking a[...]