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The unforgettable true story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker who uncovered one of the most controversial scandals of recent times: the organized deportation of innocent children from the UK to Australia, where they were thought to be lost in the system forever. Against ove...

Sid the Science Kid inspires children to ask questions about how the world works, embracing every child's natural passion for fun and discovery! In this Encyclopedia of Discovery, Sid and his friends investigate over 26 exciting topics with the help of Teacher Susie, Sid's dad an...

Presents twenty of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources.

This is the book about one of the world's great authors, Alice Munro, which shows how her life and her stories intertwine. For almost thirty years Robert Thacker has been researching this book, steeping himself in Alice Munro's life and work, working with her co-operation to ma...

This new collection brings together some of Joyce Carol Oates's most brilliant and provocative pieces, covering a diverse range of subjects and ideas. The rough country is both the treacherous geographical/psychological terrains of the writers she analyses--Flannery O'Connor, Shi...