Synopsis: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling novel.“Packer knows just how to make a story build: the novel reveals a sure sense of pace and pitch, a brilliant ear for character . . . a searching emotional generosity.” –The New York Times Book ReviewAt the age of twenty-three…

Synopsis: When curious little Penguin finds a lost pinecone in the snow, their friendship grows into something extraordinary!

Synopsis: In the movies, there's Indiana Jones, but in the real world, there was Roy Chapman Andrews. From 1910 to 1930, Andrews led countless expeditions for the American Museum of Natural History, facing such dangers as killer pythons, man-eating wild dogs, marauding bandits, blinding sandstorms and imprisonment by corrupt officials.

Synopsis: The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, is part of the Barnes…

Synopsis: Each book in this series introduces a different category of fast and powerful machines--aircraft, boats, motorcycles, trains, trucks, and cars. Simple text describes each vehicle's history, equipment, and flashiest features, and dazzling full-color photographs take readers inside the action-packed world of high-speed motorsports.

Synopsis: What are the seven signs of life?How is a compound different from a mixture?What are the different types of muscle tissue?These are just a few of the topics covered in the colorful, information-packed Science Topics books. Designed to expand the middle school curriculum, these books guide readers through specific areas of science, explaining key concepts and providing essential facts. Each topic is then further explored through direct scientific…

Synopsis: Research on the brain has shown that emotion plays a key role in learning, but how can educators apply that research in their day-to-day interactions with students? What are some teaching strategies that take advantage of what we know about the brain? Engage the Brain answers these questions with easy-to-understand explanations of the brain's emotion networks and how they affect learning, paired with specific suggestions for classroom…

Synopsis: For over 30 years, the LEGO minifigures have make is possible for children to populate their LEGO worlds with a diverse cast of characters. Learn fascinating facts, learn how minifigures are made, and see fans' customized minifigures.

Synopsis: A little girl and father purchase "a garden" and board the bus to carry it home. The pansies, tulips, daffodils, geraniums, and daisies are hurriedly and lovingly planted in a window box, and the candles on the cake are lighted -- just as Mom walks in the door to find her daughter, her husband, and her birthday surprise.

Synopsis: Yold in Miranda's diary entries, this is a heart pounding account of her struggle to hold on to the most important resource of all- hope- in an increasingly desperate and unfamiliar time.

Synopsis: Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers an invalid cousin and the mysteries of a locked garden.

Synopsis: Jenna's summer is an "on-the-road" adventure when the head of Gladstone Shoes--Madeline Gladstone--hires the teen to drive across the country in an effort to stop a company takeover. Winner of the 1998 "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize and Golden Kite Award. An ALA Notable Book.

Synopsis: Zara and Nick are soul mates, meant to be together forever. But that's not quite how things have worked out. For starters, well, Nick is dead. Supposedly, he's been taken to a mythic place for warriors known as Valhalla, so Zara and her friends might be able to get him back. But it's taking time, and meanwhile a group of evil pixies is devastating Bedford, with more teens going missing every day. An all-out war seems imminent, and the good guys…

Synopsis: Fluent from birth in French as well as his native Polish, Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) learned his third language, English, as an adult. And it was in English that he wrote his evocative stories and novels, drawing upon his experiences in the British and French navies to portray the struggles of humanity amid the world's vast indifference. This anthology offers readers the essential Joseph Conrad, including his debut novel, Almayer's Folly. Other…

Synopsis: An abundance of science projects dealing with earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, hydrogeology, rocks and minerals, crystals, and more.

Synopsis: "This playful but gently probing novel portrays Shakespeare as one has never seen him before, through the eyes of Anne, a tamed but not unloving shrew. Writing her memoirs seven years after his death, she reminisces about her now-famous husband, recalling in particular that unforgettable week in April 1594 and what happened to her in a certain strange bed in his lodgings above a fishmonger's shop - an enormous four-poster that the playwright…

Synopsis: The five-time Tour de France winner and Number 1 New York Times bestselling author returns with an inspirational account of his recent personal and professional victories—and some failures—and an intimate glimpse into how almost dying taught him to really live. Since the release of his megabestseller, It’s Not About the Bike, Lance Armstrong has enjoyed a new series of thrilling rides, culminating with the extension of his string of Tour de…

Synopsis: Adapted from In the Heart of the Sea, soon to be a major motion picture starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Wishaw, and Brendan Gleeson, and directed by Ron Howard. On November 20, 1820, the whaleship Essex was rammed and sunk by an angry whale. Within minutes, the twenty-one-man crew, including the fourteen-year-old cabin boy Thomas Nickerson, found themselves stranded in three leaky boats in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with…

Synopsis: - Some of the modern world's most devastating disasters are profiled- The reforms and improvements that grew out of these tragedies are explained and put in perspective- Historically accurate, compelling accounts

Synopsis: Babies show love in all kinds of ways.