After learning to play guitar at the age of ten, the author was determined to make a life in music - a decision that would send a small-town girl out on the open road for good. In 1997, two decades after she started, she got her big break. This title captures her years of touring cross-country in ba[...]

The sequel to the national bestseller The Trouble with Chickens After his last run-in with Vince the Funnel and the mystery of the missing chicks, J.J. the search-and-rescue dog is ready for some much-needed R & R. But just when he thinks he has everything under control, there's a new problem to wor[...]

A sweeping debut, crossing from China to Hawaii, that follows three generations of a wealthy dynasty whose rise and decline is riddled with secrets and tragic love from a young, powerful new voice in fictionFrank Leong, a prominent shipping industrialist and head of the celebrated Leong family, brin[...]

A secret world of their ownJess Aaron's greatest ambition is to be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. He's been practicing all summer and can't wait to see his classmates' faces when he beats them all. But on the first day of school, a new kid, a new girl, boldly crosses over to the boy's side o[...]

Once upon a time Linus Torvalds was a skinny unknown, just another nerdy Helsinki techie who had been fooling around with computers since childhood. Then he wrote a groundbreaking operating system and distributed it via the Internet -- for free. Today Torvalds is an international folk hero. And his [...]

Whether it's making a sale, managing a business, or handling any tough scenario, the Perfect Phrases series has the tools for precise, effective communication in any situation. With Perfect Phrases books, readers have all the phrases they need to get things done, right at their fingertips![...]

Puts the spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. This book talks about people who set forth on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back where they started from. Caught up in the cycles of hope and disappointment[...]

Tells the story of an operation responsible for smuggling millions of pounds worth of precious gems out of Africa. In this title, the author drew on interviews with the reluctant hero of the diamond companies' counter-attack to explore the world of the real master criminals of his time.[...]

Diamond Street is Rachel Lichtenstein's fascinating account of London's Hatton Garden. Enter Hatton Garden, one of London's most mysterious streets. Home to ancient burial sites, diamond workshops, underground vaults, monastic dynasties, subterranean rivers and forgotten palaces. Here you'll meet se[...]

You're always negotiating. Whether making a business deal, talking to friends or booking a holiday, negotiation is going on. And most of us are terrible at it. Stuart Diamond is often described as 'the world's leading negotiator'. He runs the most popular course at Wharton business school, he advise[...]

Celebrate more than 25 years of Horrible Harry with the 30th book in this beloved classroom chapter book series
Catastrophe strikes Room 3B when the diamond on Miss Mackle s engagement ring disappears. Fortunately, Harry is on the case The third-grade talent show is coming up, and he wants to [...]

In Jared Diamond's follow-up to the Pulitzer-Prize winning "Guns, Germs and Steel," the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilization
Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population [...]

Helen Keller--author, scholar, advocate
An NCSS-CBC "Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies"
"Forget that I am deaf and blind and think of me as an ordinary woman," wrote Helen Keller--but she was anything but ordinary.
When Helen was growing up, there were no fac[...]