A Vogue Best Book of the Year "What Ferrante did for female friends--exploring the tumult and complexity their relationships could hold--Spiegelman sets out to do for mothers and daughters. She's essentially written My Brilliant Mom." --Slate A memoir of mothers and daughters--and mothers as daught[...]
Looks behind the curtains at the adventures, challenges and pitfalls of the author's life in linguistics. This book answers the question that the author is most frequently asked: 'How did you become a linguist?'[...]
Subtitled, )My Life In Language(. Abridged reading by the author, introducing listeners to the study of languages. 4 CDs, running time: 5 hrs.[...]
The essential guide to landscape and visual impact assessments for landscape architects from the Landscape Institute and the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.[...]
Harvey thinks school is the most boring place on earth - and so he and his friends devise a way to help relieve their boredom. Lessons are actually quite interesting when you have more at stake than just whether you'll get through it without being sent to the head. Harvey and his fellow gamblers sta[...]
Focuses on the interaction between elemental metals and (in)organic ligands in different reaction conditions. This book generalizes the information in the area of direct reactions leading to the coordination and organometallic reactions.[...]
Who'd have thought mind reading could be such a pain? I mean, I expected to discover everyone's silly secrets. But someone is planning something very strange--and it's no joke[...]
When Zack's friend Spencer brings a 60's-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they get back in?[...]
As the notorious Reva Shayne on the daytime television drama "Guiding Light, " Kim Zimmer portrayed a vixen, a manic-depressive, an Amish woman, a time traveler, a Civil War belle, a talk show host, a cancer survivor, a loving mother, and a devoted wife. In her more than two decades on the show, she[...]
Geronimo Stilton's ancient ancestor is back in another prehistoric adventure
Geronimo Stiltonoot and his family save a young dinosaur from the river The dinosaur and Benjamin quickly become good friends. But the dino turns out to have a tremendous talent . . . for mischief Can Geronimo get hi[...]
Printed on toddler-tough card with rounded corners Sometimes I'm an angel, helpful, sweet and kind. But sometimes I'm a Monster with mischief on my mind! This book brings to life these four lovable friends as they show that every child has a monster, and a little angel, inside them. It looks at good[...]
"Truck-loving preschoolers will love this charming, busy bulldozer hero "
"Push" McCallahan is a hardworking bulldozer who's on the construction site before the other big work machines have had their first cup of morning diesel. After he's finished moving dirt and rock, it's off to build a road[...]
A little girl invites us into her ballet class, and later performs onstage (gulp ) in her first recital. Young readers will enjoy seeing what happens in a class, and young ballerinas will see themselves in this book.[...]
I'M A PRETTY LITTLE BLACK GIRL introduces adorable Mia, who wakes with her hair just-a-going every which-a-ways With her abundant energy and joy leading the way, readers follow Mia as she plays with her friends who are all shades, shapes and sizes. There's tall Kia, Keisha the reader, Charlotte he[...]
Help your child with their early phonics learning with this "Ladybird I'm Ready for Phonics" book. Focusing on the initial letter sounds at the beginning of simple words, this fun and bright book is a great way to introduce phonics, letters and sounds to your little one. Other products in the "Ladyb[...]
Get the brutal truth about coding, testing, and project management from a Microsoft insider who tells it like it is. I. M. Wright's deliberately provocative column "Hard Code" has been sparking debate amongst thousands of engineers at Microsoft for years. And now (despite our better instincts), we'r[...]
"There's something I need to tell you...I'm gay."These are hard words to hear from a beloved family member. But as hard as they are to hear, they are also hard for the same-sex-attracted person to utter. No matter the relationship--parent, child, grandparent, spouse, sibling, or other, that admissio[...]
After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had been abducted by aliens--as he later put it, "it was clear my people needed me"). They were g[...]
From the bestselling author of "She s Not There" comes another buoyant, unforgettable memoir "I m Looking Through You" is about growing up in a haunted house...and making peace with the ghosts that dwell in our hearts.
For Jennifer Boylan, creaking stairs, fleeting images in the mirror, and the [...]