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In Holland in the 1600s, a birthday gift of eight precious tulip bulbs is traded into livestock, furniture, and a valuable painting.

Ethan and Emily Tuttle are taken on adventures through time by their Grandma to learn about liberty and freedom.

Learn about butterflies: the roles they play, how many types there are, how they change from caterpillars, how they're collected, how they migrate, and where they live. Includes an activities section.

"The Incrementalists -- a secret society of two hundred people with an unbroken lineage reaching back forty thousand years. They cheat death, share lives and memories, and communicate with one another across nations, races, and time. They have an epic history, an almost magical m...

"Hawk, the latest in Stephen Brusts's New York Times bestselling Vlad Taltos series. Years ago, Vlad Taltos came from the East, to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran Hou...

Vlad Taltos returns to Adrilankha to find the rackets he used to run under the control of a secretive cabal of women who answer to no one. To make matters worse his ex-wife, old enemies, a goddess and the Great Weapon he's carrying all seem to have their own plans for Vlad.

Vlad Taltos is an Easterner-an underprivileged human in an Empire of tall, powerful, long-lived Dragaerans. He made a career for himself in House Jhereg, the Dragaeran clan in charge of the Empire's organized crime. But the day came when the Jhereg wanted Vlad dead, and he's been...

Describes the two different types of hippos, how they swim, what they eat, and how they live in herds.

Once, Vlad Taltos knew his trade: he killed people for a living, a skill which got him his foothold in House Jhereg, running the rackets for a chunk of urban Adrilankha. Vlad is now a changed man, on the run from the Jhereg, and frequently involved in the affairs of Dragonlords, ...

Reader, you will undoubtedly have had the misfortune of consuming the rotten fruit of fallacies that we -- Paarfi of Roundwood (esteemed historian of House of Hawk and exquisite artisan of truths) -- borrow our factual recount of Dragaeran history from some obscure fellow who goe...

House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head in Draegara City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera--longtime friend, sometime ally--has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a ca...

"First comes love. Then comes marriage ... Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may just be better than he is at the Game. Women like this don't come along every day and no way is he passing up a sure bet. So a wedding is being planned. Along with a shady deal gone ...

Collects the first three adventures of the swashbuckling assassin Vlad Taltos and his smart-mouthed reptile familiar Loiosh

Describes the physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and daily activities of this member of the weasel family

An omnibus featuring assassin Vlad Talot and his dragon companion contains "Taltos," in which Vlad pursues a thieving Dragaeran employee to the lair of Sethra Lavode, and "Phoenix," in which he must repay a debt to the Demon-Goddess with his professionalservices as an assassin.