Inside the abbey of a Benedictine monastery on tiny Egret Island, just off the coast of South Carolina, resides a beautiful and mysterious chair ornately carved with mermaids and dedicated to a saint who, legend claims, was a mermaid before her conversion. Jessie Sullivan´s conventional life has be[...]
Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees," a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina, a multi-million copy "New York Times "bestseller, now an award-winning film starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson and Alicia Keys
Fans of Kathryn Stockett's "The Help "and B[...]
The New York Times bestselling memoir of pilgrimage and metamorphosis by the author of "The Secret Life of Bees" and her daughter.
Sue Monk Kidd has touched the hearts of millions of readers with her beloved novels and acclaimed nonfiction. Now, in this wise and engrossing dual memoir, she and [...]
A beautiful slipcased special edition commemorating the 10th anniversary of Sue Monk Kidd's "The Secret Life of Bees," a heartwarming coming of age tale set in 1960s South Carolina and a multi-million copy "New York Times "bestseller as well as a Good Morning America "Read This" Book Club pick Fans [...]
From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers--featuring cover art by Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustra[...]
The Spanish-language edition of"I Went Walking."
"I went walking.
What did you see?
I saw a black cat
Looking at me."These catchy stanzas frolic through the Australian author Sue Williams's simple, funny read-aloud picture book that tracks a crazy-haired boy's stroll through the countryside. The boy sees a black cat, then a brown horse, t[...]
A lap-sized board book edition of a classic picture book features lively watercolor illustrations in a tale that finds a menagerie of familiar barnyard animals who gather together for a parade. An ALA Notable Children's Book.[...]
A little boy sets out to take a walk and manages to collect a whole menagerie of colorful animals along the way[...]
India has a long, rich, and diverse tradition of philosophical thought, spanning some two and a half millennia and encompassing several major religious traditions. This Very Short Introduction emphasizes the diversity of Indian thought, and is structured around six schools which have achieved classi[...]
A two-level, topic-based course with an emphasis on culture for children who have done two years of reading and writing. Happy Earth bridges the gap between primary and secondary courses.[...]
Family and Friends is a seven-level primary course which offers you an exceptionally strong skills training programme covering language, phonics, and civic education.[...]
For more than twenty years, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh has been studying the linguistic and cognitive skills of a number of laboratory-reared primates. Recently, her work with Kanzi (a bonobo) has been acknowledged as having achieved a scientific breakthrough of stunning proportions: Kanzi has acquired lin[...]
This collection presents new essays on emotion and its relation to the arts contributed from fifteen leading aestheticians. The essays will consider such topics as the paradox of fiction, emotion in the pure and abstract arts, and the rationality and ethics of emotional responses to art. Among the c[...]
This essential desk reference will meet the demand for a broad and convenient collection of normative data in child neuropsychology. In a clearly written, well-organized manner, it compiles published and previously unpublished normative data for the neuropsychological tests that are most commonly us[...]
Studies in religion are flourishing internationally, and one of the central topics discussed in the field today-perhaps the most discussed topic-is religious diversity. With the influx of religious traditions in the West and the growing diversity of religious adherents and practitioners worldwide, p[...]
The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place, David Weisburd, Elizabeth Groff, and Sue-Ming Yang present a new and different way of looking at the crime problem by examini[...]
It is Sue Kangaroo's first day at school in Sue Kangaroo. Level 5 Songbirds Phonics books focus on different spelling patterns for the long vowel sounds oo as in moon, oo as in good, ow as in down, oi as in coin and soft c as in dice. The focus phonics in this book areoo as in moon.Oxford Reading Tr[...]
The Living Faiths series offers an in-depth look into how faiths are practised and lived in people's daily lives through relevant print and digital content. This Teacher Guide covers Judaism and offers guidance to help you encourage students to ask questions, actively engage with different faiths, a[...]