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"A reef is a place in the ocean made of the skeletons of tiny animals called corals. You might know that some fish live in reefs. But did you know that many other creatures such as sea turtles and eels also live there? With amazing photos and lively text, this book explores how c...

An American expatriate painter living in Paris falls in love with an engaged French woman.

Eddie is a confirmed bachelor who is forty and owns a sporting-goods store. After watching his ex-fiancé walk down the aisle, he meets Lila who is an environmental researcher. Lila seems too good to be true. Pressured by his father and best friend, Eddie pops the question and ma...

The far country: A loner and his sidekick, who figure to get rich quick by selling a herd of cattle at a fancy price during the gold rush of the Yukon Territory, are soon caught up in a conflict with the local self-appointed lawman and claim-jumping henchmen.

After draining his life savings to enter a team in the Rucker Classic street ball tournament in Harlem, Dax is dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks, including losing his team to his longtime rival. Desperate to win the tournament and the cash prize, Dax stumbles upon the man, t...

"Let's learn all about newly discovered animals! Have you ever seen a Salazar's pit viper or a nano chameleon? Now you can! With amazing photos and lively text, this book explores five new species of reptiles. Get ready to learn all about how, when, and where these animals were d...

"An uplifting picture book biography about the unwavering bond between sisters and tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams." -- Provided by publisher.

"A nest is a home that animals build to keep their eggs or babies safe. You might know that some birds live in nests. But did you know that some squirrels and mice do too? With amazing photos and lively text, this book explores how animals build their nests and introduces the dif...

Jerry Mulligan is an ex-G.I. and a struggling American painter in Paris. He is 'discovered' by an influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art. Jerry in turn falls for Lise, a young French girl already engaged to a cabaret singer. Jerry jokes, sings and dances wi...

A boy creates a scheme which involves helping three people who must each help three people and so on. His plan actually works, though not in the way he anticipated, and not until his own world is forever changed for better and worse.

The dancing of Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, a thrilling score by George Gershwin, and the romantic settings of Paris make for a timeless musical delight that garnered six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Inspired by Gershwin's 1928 symphonic tone poem of the same name, the...

A perfect book to teach kids about dens and the animals that make them their home! A nest is a home that animals build to keep their eggs or babies safe. You might know that some birds live in nests. But did you know that some squirrels and mice do too? With amazing photos and li...

They say that opposites attract. Well, for slacker Ben and career girl Alison that's certainly the case -- at least for one intoxicated evening. Two months and several pregnancy tests later, Ben and Alison go through a hysterically funny, anxious and heartwarming journey that l...

Oliver is mourning the death of his father and has learned his father had a relationship with a younger man. Oliver looks back at time spent with his father and his father's relationship with his mother, while beginning his own with a French actress.

"Lorraine Hansberry soared to fame when her play A Raisin in the Sun debuted on Broadway, and her work would go on to influence generations of artists. But before the spotlight, Lorraine was a little girl who walked everywhere with a notebook, eager to capture the sights, sounds,...

CASABLANCA Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) sticks his neck out for nobody. Then she (Ingrid Bergman) walks back into his life…with her Resistance-leader husband. Our candidate for the best Hollywood movie of all time (Leonard Maltin's Movie Guide), directed by Michael Curtiz. MRS. ...

The animals at the Franklin Park Zoo love their kindhearted caretaker, Griffin Keyes. Finding himself more comfortable with a lion than a lady, Griffin decides the only way to get a girl in his life is to leave the zoo and find a more glamorous job. The animals, in a panic, decid...

The killer shrews: A sea captain is stranded on an island overrun with genetically engineered, giant, toxic shrews! The brain that wouldn't die: Dr. Bill Cortner is a brilliant young surgeon who experiments illegally with the bodies and minds of fellow humans. When his fiancee is...