"Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. The problem was how to get them there through the busy streets of Boston. But with a little help from the Boston police, Mrs. Mallard and Jack, Kack...
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"The extraordinary breadth and scope of the work of Toni Frissell (1907-1988) left an indelible mark on American photography. Beautiful, exuberant, and adventurous, Toni Frissell stretched the boundaries of the privileged world into which she was born and became one of the most i...
"Since photography's invention in the early nineteenth century, the medium has produced countless thought-provoking images. The Library of Congress holds more than seventeen million photographs in its collections, ranging from some of the earliest images ever taken to photographs...
During the 1920s, as the five remarkable projects in this book show, Frank Lloyd Wright developed architectural prototypes of far-reaching consequence. None of these schemes - Doheny Ranch, the Lake Tahoe summer colony, and the A. M. Johnson desert compound, all in California, th...
The lives of two 18th century British astronomers who surveyed the boundary which settled a dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania, and was later extended to become the boundary between free and slave states, the Mason-Dixon line. The novel describes their work in Africa and A...
"Welcome back to Wells Landing, Oklahoma, the tranquil Amish community where still waters run deep and a brave young woman sets out to discover her faith, her family, and herself. . . Lorie Kauffman is grief-stricken when her father passes away unexpectedly. But her heartache qui...
Camille Westcott, who has been declared illegitimate and without a title, moves to Bath to teach at an orphanage, where she meets artist Joel Cunningham, for whom she feels a mutual contempt until things take a passionate turn.
A cowboy of mixed Indian and black blood is the hero of this tale of discrimination and fight for justice, now a TV series. The setting is the 1880s land rush in Oklahoma. By the author of Honkeytonk Man.
From bridesmaid to bride-to-be? Jolie arrived at her sister's wedding expecting to keep a low profile--as usual. Yet when her cheating ex makes a surprise appearance, she panics and introduces her school crush as her fiancé! Now she's accidentally engaged to billionaire Jay, who...
Rowan Summerwaite is many things. She knows how to land a punch but has learned there's more than one way to solve a problem. She was once a loner, but the family she's made over the years--including her husband, Clive, the Vampire Scion of North America--mean more to her than sh...
A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dea...
Diane Asseo Griliches has photographed libraries all over the world, from the grand reading room in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, to the humble remodeled train depot that serves as the library in Cleveland, Mississippi. Libraries are inhabited by books and people. Diane Gr...
Kate Daniels is beset by a vast array of supernatural problems after starting her own business, as she struggles to deal with potential clients who are afraid of her mate while helping the Master of the Dead stop a rogue vampire.
"Seattle-based photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) spent the first three decades of the twentieth century compiling an unparalleled photographic record of North America's indigenous peoples. His written and photographic records were published in twenty volumes as The North ...
An old Indian woman rescues a child with smallpox in one of the epidemics which decimated the Indians in the 18th Century. The child is the only survivor of another tribe and Running Deer's people warn her not to touch the girl. But Running Deer has no reason for living. Since he...
"What is the difference between fear and excitement and how can you tell them apart? How do the mind and body make emotions? When can anxiety be good? This science-based graphic book addresses these questions and more, revealing just how strange anxiety is, but also how to unrave...
The education in real life of a 19th Century dilettante. Philip Hamilton interrupts his philosophy studies at Harvard to deliver money for his father to St. Louis, but his snobbish ways get him into trouble. He is robbed and sold for indentured labor on the frontier in wild and d...
A fleeing outlaw stumbles upon two wagonloads of nuns and orphans beset by Apaches. Like it or not, he has to help them because in charge of the group is Sister Agnes, a very persuasive 76-year-old.
"Gunning for the groom: As an ex-Interpol agent, PI Aidan Abbot knows his way around covert operations. But nothing could prepare him for his latest mission: infiltrating family dynamics. His client, Francesca Leone, believes her late father, a US Army general, was framed for tre...