In this Coretta Scott King Award-winning novel and sequel to the New York Times bestseller and Newbery Honor Book One Crazy Summer, the Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn and find that changes large and small have come to their home. This extraordinary novel earned five starred reviews, with Publish[...]

"Do not stay past midnight. If you remain at the ball a minute longer, your coach will again become a pumpkin."Initially published in 1697, Charles Perrault's Cinderella is one of the most beloved and widely known fairy tales. Cinderella has been ordered into servitude by her cruel stepmother and st[...]

Dear fans of Dork Diaries and Middle School: The Worst Year of My Life--meet your new favorite kid-next-store hero Gabby Garcia an overly confident baseball-obsessed sport nut who's going to win your heart.If life were a baseball game, all-star pitcher Gabby Garcia would be having her Best. Season.[...]

Provides seven ways to create leaner, more efficient ways to maintain competitive advantage in an economy where emerging market multinationals are ruling the day.[...]

For Database Systems and Database Design and Application courses offered at the junior, senior and graduate levels in Computer Science departments. Written by well-known computer scientists, this introduction to database systems offers a comprehensive approach, focusing on database design, database[...]

For courses in Computational Physics and or Numerical Methods.The second edition updates programs, graphics, includes a significant number of new and revised exercises, and revises throughout for clarity. Organized around the numerical algorithms that should be in every physicists' â Computational[...]

"Memories of My Melancholy Whores" is a powerful novel about a man who so far has never felt love from Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of the "One Hundred Years of Solitude". "The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin."[...]

'Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.' Pipes and kettledrums herald the arrival of gypsies on their annual visit to Macondo, the newly founded village where Jose Arcadio Buendia and [...]

"Chronicle of a Death Foretold" is a compelling, moving story exploring injustice and mob hysteria by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera". "On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty [...]

"The General in his Labyrinth" is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar, a hero who has been forgotten and whose power is fading, retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera". "It[...]

In "Living to Tell the Tale" Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - recounts his personal experience of returning to the house in which he grew up and the memories that this visit conjured. 'My mother asked me to go with[...]

Spain's greatest and most well-loved modern poet, Lorca has long been admired for the emotional intensity and dark brilliance of his work, which drew on music, drama, mythology and the songs of his Andulucian childhood. From the playful "Suites" and stylized "Gypsy Ballads", to his own dark vision o[...]

The bestselling success book Beautiful Creatures is the book behind the movie that goes up in theaters spring 2013. A captivating story set in the small town of Gatlin in the south is love the beginning of the story, or the end?

Lena and Ethan become bound together by a deep, powerful lov[...]