"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of...
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"Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries"-- Provided by publisher.
An abridged retelling of the adventures of the three Darling children in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.
"One night, a magical boy named Peter Pan visits Wendy Darling and her brothers. Together, they fly away to Neverland--home to Tinker Bell the fairy, a band of lost boys, and the menacing Captain Hook. The Darling children are enchanted by Neverland and Peter's ability to never g...
"Goldfinger, the man who loves gold above all else, is one of Bond's most iconic adversaries and 007's mission to defeat the man with the Midas touch is the introductory adventure in this new collection of six classics 1960s comic strips. Also featuring Risico, from A View to Kil...
An abridged version of the adventures and exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.
"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of...
"Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of...
Art21 films, educational programs and publications provide a diverse audience with unprecedented access to the personal and professional lives of the greatest creative minds of our time. Art21 is unique in that it collaborates with each artist on every program produced, providing...
From the highly acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns ("Dazzling...One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smith's White Teeth" --San Francisco Chronicle ),a bravura collection of short stories set in locales as varied as London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwes...
From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes , a tour de force set in South India that plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade through the eyes of a poacher, a documentary filmmaker, and, in a feat of audacious imagination, an infamous ele...
"Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring story of the half-French Violette Szabo who was born in Paris in 1921 to an English motorcar dealer, and a French mother. She met and married Etienne Szabo, a captain in the French Foreign Legion in 1940. Shortly after the birth of her ...
"A selection of short work by Franz Kafka, including stories, diary entries, and letters, selected and with a new foreword by Joshua Cohen"-- Provided by publisher.
The Exodus Towers features all the high-octane action and richly imagined characters of The Darwin Elevator -but the stakes have never been higher. The sudden appearance of a second space elevator in Brazil only deepens the mystery about the aliens who provided it: the B...