In the summer of 1920, a young man escapes London to embark on the unveiling of a medieval church wall painting in a small north country village. As he becomes absorbed by his work so too does he get drawn into the lives of those around him.
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Rhyming text and illustrations celebrate the pleasures of fall, from turning leaves and apple picking to pumpkins and Halloween.
"Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. Living in the bell tower, surrounded by the resplendent countryside of high summers, and laboring...
"This great story explores themes of England's loss of spirituality after the war, and of happiness, melancholy, as the protagonist Birkin recalls healing from wartime experiences and a broken marriage." -- Amazon.ca
All the planets in the solar system decide to throw Sun a birthday party. Includes facts about the planets.
Illustrations and rhyming text describe some of the delights of spring.
Season Five of BULL finds Dr. Jason Bull settling into fatherhood and navigating his renewed, but still complicated, romantic relationship with his ex-wife and Benny's sister, Isabella Colon. As Bull acclimates to his vastly changed domestic life, he and the entire TAC team strug...
Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seem...
Brilliant, brash, and charming, Dr. Bull is the ultimate puppet master as he combines psychology, human intuition, and high-tech data to learn what makes jurors, attorneys, witnesses, and the accused tick.
Describes the delights of such winter activities as throwing snowballs, making a snowman, and going ice skating.
Buddy (who is reserved and thoughtful), Bea (who is boisterous and bossy) and the other second graders in Ms. Maple's class are trying to come up with a name for their class, but it is proving harder then they thought it would be.
Chased into a theater by a cat, a mouse becomes entranced by the ballet dancers on stage and comes to be friends with one of them.
Big Truck and Little Truck work together on Farley's Farm, until the day that Big Truck is towed away for repairs and Little Truck must haul produce to the city all by himself.
It is the first day of second grade and already Buddy is disappointed because his class has a new teacher, not the one he wanted, and there is a new student, Bea, who is boisterous and much too pushy for the reserved Buddy--and who insists that they are friends.
Discover bizarre truths about victims' final moments from a woman's horrific encounter that only DNA analysis can untangle, to the cosmetic clinic that produced to-die-for results for a pregnant client. When an assassin poses a US diplomat's body for a macabre photo opportunity, ...
With unprecedented access, this gripping behind-the-scenes chronicle follows award winning director Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald's remarkable encounters with whistle-blower Edward Snowden in a hotel room in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents that pro...