Synopsis: This inside look at real-life princesses will explore the true and often inspiring stories behind happily ever after.A deep dive into the royal world of a princess! Featuring princesses from around the world and all of time. The Real Princess Diaries explores everything it means to be royal. Each spread includes portraits of the princesses, in-depth bios, crowning achievements, and family trees. Learn which princesses have official royal duties…

Synopsis: Left-handed preacher's son Luke Bledsoe has always felt like an outsider, until he discovers he can pitch a baseball faster than anyone else, but his father says that the left is the side of Satan and that baseball is the devil's work, leaving Luke to find a new strength in his life and in himself.

Synopsis: Modern times come to a conservative Southern town in 1906 when the proprietor of the general store elopes with a woman half his age, and worse yet, a Yankee. The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around - fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson - a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to…

Synopsis: Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

Synopsis: Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the underground kingdom of the Emerald Witch.

Synopsis: A beautiful gift edition of Thomas Bulfinch's classic retelling of famous myths and folk legends, with interpretive essays by Princeton classics professor Richard P. Martin.

Synopsis: Manuel quer a aplausos tan sonoros como una tormenta, y quer a impresionar a las muchachas, sobre todo a Petra L pez. Cuando Manuel se lanz en un baile extravagante, hubo un estallido de aplausos y empez a sentirse animado mientras temblaba y culebreaba como Michael Jackson en el escenario. Pero el disco se ator ...

Synopsis: Profiles ten women who work with animals, in such jobs as horse farm owner, veterinarian, and exotic animal trainer, and explains their duties and how they prepared for and got their positions.

Synopsis: Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and habitats of the orangutan.

Synopsis: Kazan searches for companionship while struggling to survive the harsh Canadian wilderness. With his courageous mate, Gray Wolf, he befriends humans and travels with them in an adventurous trek through the frozen Northern wilds.

Synopsis: Over a decade since its publication, Ann Jaramillo's heartbreaking middle grade novel La Linea—about crossing the Mexican border into the US—is more timely than ever.Miguel has dreamed of joining his parents in California since the day they left him behind in Mexico six years, eleven months, and twelve days ago. On the morning of his fifteenth birthday, Miguel's wait is over. Or so he thinks. The trip north to the border—la línea—is fraught with…

Synopsis: For years the Bronze Age societies of Northern Europe/Arctic Europe were regarded by archaeologists as being on the periphery and a bleak contrast to what was going on in Central Europe and the Near East. This is now changing as archaeology is recognizing the Bronze Age as a whole as the first globalised period with new types of societies and new modes of exchange and trade emerging in Northern Europe as well as in Central Europe and the Near…

Synopsis: The fabulous Inca Civilization, with its pyramid-shaped temples and wealth of gold grew up in what is now Peru and then spread its empire up and down the Andes Mountains. "The Inca-Chosen People of the Sun" tells where these people originally came from.

Synopsis: An encyclopedia of world peoples combining anthropological and social information, both historical and current, on the status of ethnic groups worldwide.

Synopsis: In a world where everyone is the same, Trigger 17 convinces Dahlia 16 that she is unique but this proves that both are flawed, which could lead to dire consequences for their entire genomes.

Synopsis: Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.