"In her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean. Now, drawing on more than thirty years of teaching and writing about Roman histor...
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Presents an anthology of twenty works about vampires, including contributions by Robert Bloch, Harlan Ellison, and F. Paul Wilson.
"This dual-language book celebrates happiness and invites children to reflect on the little things in life that bring them joy."-- Provided by publisher.
From Augustine to Mother Teresa, officially canonized as St. Teresa of Calcutta, discover seventy of the best-known and best-loved saints and read their riveting stories. Meet Joan of Arc, whose transcendent faith compelled her to lead an army when the king's courage failed. Fra...
"Who wants to vacation next to a volcano? Jack and Annie are about to find out when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the days of the Roman Empire. They arrive in Pompeii and soon discover that it is the very day the city will be destroyed. Now Jack and Annie must race aga...
"The first comprehensive and lavishly illustrated volume to document the influences and life work of Manolo Blahnik, one of the most influential and talked-about icons in contemporary fashion. Featuring more than forty years of shoe design, this is the definitive monograph of the...
"The very first Christmas is one of the most famous stories in the world. But it's also a very old story, from around 2,000 years ago. So how do we know if it's true? And what are the facts behind it? Dig in to the Christmas story from the Bible books of Matthew and Luke; investi...
Follow the disaster magnets of St. Mary's as they hurtle around history! The ninth book in The Chronicles of St. Mary's Series collects the bestselling short stories in print for the first time. When a Child is Born - A jump back to 1066 to witness the coronation of William the C...
"A dual-language poem for newborns by well known First Nations writer Richard Van Camp accompanied by photographs."-- Provided by publisher.
Troubled by the death of her twin sister, a young woman unwittingly falls in love with an ambitious man. As she investigates her sister's death, she discovers that what she doesn't know about her boyfriend may kill her.
A celebration of English verse. Includes poems by William Blake, Christopher Smart, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare, Eleanor Farjeon, Ted Hughes, Charles Causley, and many others.
Britain is full of ancient wonders: not grand like the Egyptian pyramids but small, strange places and objects that hint at a deep and enduring relationship with the mystic. This book unearths more than seventy of our most intriguing mysteries: archaeological sites and artefacts ...
Join Marty McFly and Doc Brown, along with his wife Clara and their kids, Jules and Verne, as they travel throughout time. With a little help from a DeLorean, the time travelers find themselves back in the Prehistoric and Medieval Times, witnessing the Civil War and Salem Witch T...
"What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book-against a background of today's "sculpture wars"-Mary Beard tells the story of how for more than two millennia portraits of the ric...
Cunneen's search for Mary is in the spirit of the best of the various historical Jesus quests. She is concerned with a contemporary, living symbol; a history of interpretation that reaches beyond the boundaries of Christianity; and a particular woman whose particular life in Roma...
Another rollicking short story from the Chronicles of St Mary's. Question: What sort of idiot installs his mistress in his wife's house? Especially when that mistress is Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator, Queen of Egypt and the most notorious woman of her time? Answer: Julius Caesar ...
In England, 61 CE, 16 year-old Victoria flees from her Roman family and an arranged marriage to settle with her Iceni cousins. A tomboy, a fighter and a natural warrior, she becomes caught up in Queen Boudicca's revolt.
"Over the century between the first Oblate mission to the Canadian central Arctic in 1867 and the radical shifts brought about by Vatican II, the region was the site of complex interactions between Inuit, Oblate missionaries, and Grey Nuns-- interactions that have not yet receive...
An English June in the Roman Wall countryside; the ruin of a beautiful old house standing cheek-by-jowl with the solid, sunlit prosperity of the manor farm - a lovely place, and a rich inheritance for one of the two remaining Winslow heirs. There had been a third, but Annabel Win...