THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young Readers
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe navigates her cases a[...]

Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomber's tail--a German Messerschmitt fighter[...]

A detective in the wild.
Precious Ramotswe gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. On her first day in camp, a new lion arrives. But this is no average lion: Teddy is an actor-lion who came with a film crew. When Teddy escapes, Precious and her resourc[...]

A lively 1727 travelogue offering an invaluable historical and geographical picture of south-east Asia, spiced with tales of piracy and poisoning.[...]

Highlights forty painters and sculptors including Leonardo Da Vinci, Claude Monet, Diego Velasquez, Vincent Van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Mary Cassatt and Andy Warhol with information on their life, inspirations, influences, technique and a full-colour photo of one of their works of art. It also includes[...]

Sven T Kjellberg, Director of Goteborgs Historiska Museum (now called the Goteborgs Stadsmuseum), and his assistant Olof Hasslof travelled through the islands of the Outer Hebrides in 1934 for research into the maritime culture of the area, with the emphasis on material culture - the boats, the tool[...]

Alexander Schuessler has done what many deemed impossible: he has wedded rational choice theory and the concerns of social theory and anthropology to explain why people vote. The "paradox of participation" - why individuals cast ballots when they have virtually no effect on electoral outcomes - has [...]

The solo piano series Just for You was one of Dennis Alexander's first publications with Alfred and has remained one of his best-selling series. Just for Two features duet versions of many favorites from each book of the original series. Students will enjoy making music together with these duets tha[...]

"The electrifying true story of the pursuit for the man behind al Qaeda's suicide bombing campaign in Iraq Kill or Capture "is a true-life thriller that tells the story of senior military interrogator Matthew Alexander's adrenalinefilled, "outside the wire" pursuit of a notorious Syrian mass murdere[...]