Wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise, this novel of the life of Marie Antoinette finds the characters struggling to mind their step in the great ballroom of the world.

A brilliantly acclaimed novel, Versailles tells the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an im[...]

* A "New York Times Book Review "Notable Book of the Year * A "San Francisco Chronicle, " "Kansas City Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "New Hampshire Public Radio, "Flavorwire, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Largehearted Boy, "and "Slaughterhouse 90210 "Best Book of the Year ** A "New York Times Book Review "Edito[...]

Capturing an engineer's creative vision and mind for detail, this fully illustrated picture book biography sheds light on how the American inventor George Ferris defied gravity and seemingly impossible odds to invent the world's most iconic amusement park attraction, the Ferris wheel.
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Nature and humans build their devices with the same earthly materials and use them in the same air and water, pulled by the same gravity. Why, then, do their designs diverge so sharply? Humans, for instance, love right angles, while nature's angles are rarely right and usually rounded. Our technolog[...]