Is it possible to be at your best even when you are underqualified or doing something for the first time? Is it still possible, even after decades of experience, to recapture the enthusiasm, curiosity, and fearlessness of youth to take on new challenges? With the right mindset--with Rookie Smarts--y[...]

New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice"Kids won't just love this book. They need it." --Soman Chainani, New York Times bestselling author of The School for Good and Evil

"Each page crackles as we embark on the greatest adventure of all." --Gary D. Schmidt, Newbery Honor winner and author [...]

A remarkably bold and inspiring story of crime, motherhood, and redemption--not since Cupcake Brown's A Piece of Cake has there been a memoir this unforgettable.You want to know about the struggle of growing up poor, black, and female? Ask any girl from any 'hood. You want to know what it takes to r[...]

This is the story of ups and downs, and tangles, in the life of the keen mountain climber, Clara Cliff. She marries, has children, divorces, remarries, has more children and all in all has more than the usual quota of family fun and adventure.[...]

The Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible enables readers to easily compare a quartet of modern translations that span the full range of approaches, from the most precise and literal to the most dynamic and reader-friendly. The New King James Version and English Standard Version permit close word-stu[...]

British Library MS Harley 913 is known as the 'Kildare Manuscript' from the authorship of one of the poems by the Franciscan, Friar Michael of Kildare. The collection was written in the 1330s, in Ireland, perhaps in Waterford. It is chiefly known for two poems in particular, often anthologised, but [...]

Despite its association with the broadly disparaged rape-revenge category, Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45 is today considered one of the most significant feminist cult films of the 1980s. Straddling mainstream, arthouse, and exploitation film contexts, Ms. 45 is a potent case study for cult film analysis. At[...]

What causes multiple sclerosis? When will there be a cure?
Dr. Howard Weiner has spent nearly three decades trying to find answers to the mysteries of multiple sclerosis, an utterly confounding and devastating disease that afflicts almost half a million Americans. "Curing MS is his moving, perso[...]

The NIV and The MessageParallel Study Bible combines three powerful study resources into one. First, there s the complete text of the clear, accessible New International Version, the world s most popular modern-English Bible. Next, there s the penetrating insights and conversational style of The Mes[...]