A world-wide bestseller, major motion picture and upcoming "Director's Cut" TV mini-series exclusively for the U.S
""Pope Joan" has all the elements one wants in a historical drama-love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets. Cross has written an engaging book.""-Los Angeles Times B[...]

By encouraging engagement with the modern world and a refocusing of traditional teaching, the Second Vatican Council brought new life into the practice of Catholicism. The council's impact on the Church is still playing out today, and with many current church issues finding their roots in differing [...]

If kids get hooked on Magic Tree House, they're hooked on reading This is one series that kids, teachers, librarians, and parents all agree on. A perfect blend of magic, adventure, history, science, danger, and cuteness--the topics range from kid pleasers (pirates, the "Titanic," pandas) to curricu[...]

Just in time for the 2014 Fifa World Cup, Magic Tree House #52: "Soccer on Sunday" will take Jack and Annie to a soccer field in Mexico where they must find the final secret of greatness for Merlin. On the field, they'll meet a young soccer player who dreams of one day playing in the World Cup just [...]

Accused of being "silent" during the Holocaust, Pope Pius XII and the Vatican of World War II are now exonerated in Gordon Thomas' newest investigative work, "The Pope's Jews". Thomas' careful research into new, first-hand accounts reveal an underground network of priests, nuns and citizens that ris[...]

Provides a comprehensive overview of range of approaches and methods available for synthesising qualitative and quantitative evidence and an explanation of why this is important. This book looks at different types of review and examining place of synthesis in reviews for policy and management decisi[...]

Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.[...]

Questions about the sinking of the "Titanic" are answered in this companion to "Tonight on the Titanic." This resource includes information on the people who sailed on the "Titanic," life on board the ship, and artifacts today. Illustrations.[...]

Books 5-8 of the "New York Times" bestselling Magic Tree House series boxed together for the first time
These four titles are the perfect gift for a Magic Tree House fan or any child who loves a good adventure. Parents, teachers, and librarians hail the chapter-book series as a tool to promote[...]

Jack and Annie are off on another mythical mission at the request of Merlin the magician. Luckily, they have a young sorcerer, Teddy, to help them. From underwater caves to a Spider Queen, from mystical selkies to a magical sword, this is a Magic Tree House adventure kids won't want to miss. Acce[...]

Merlin has asked Jack and Annie to help on another "Merlin Mission." This time they head back into history to Venice, Italy, in the 1600s to save the beautiful city from a flood. Illustrations.[...]

When Jack and Annie are given the task of discovering one of the four secrets of happiness, they head off in the magic tree house to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo), in ancient Japan in the 1600s.[...]