Great White Sharks is a beautifully designed reader all about sharks. We might be scared of their special senses, sharp teeth, and super-speed swimming, but humans are a risk to sharks too. The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexile's so that children are set up to...
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A bear, befriended by two sisters during the winter, returns one day to reward them royally for their kindness.
From creator Aaron Sorkin ("Sports Night") comes this compelling drama focusing on the inner workings of the White House under the leadership of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen). As the commander-in-chief deals with his stressful position, he also contends with the problem...
Blubbery belugas, capering caribou, lingering ladybugs, rummaging ravens, and waiting walruses, all make an appearance in this beautifully illustrated children's book about the Arctic. The map, a glossary of key words, and a page of interesting facts about the four unique territo...
Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.
"Once thought to be extinct in the wild, the southern white rhino is now classified as near threatened and lives mostly on protected reserves. Over 100 years of conservation efforts have made it the only rhino of the five rhino species not listed as endangered. This engaging book...
From creator Aaron Sorkin ("Sports Night") comes this compelling drama focusing on the inner workings of the White House under the leadership of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen). As the commander-in-chief deals with his stressful position, he also contends with the problem...
"Set entirely in the staid but often deadly English manor house, this murderous anthology features works by Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, and others." -- Amazon.ca
From creator Aaron Sorkin ("Sports Night") comes this compelling drama focusing on the inner workings of the White House under the leadership of President Josiah Bartlet (Martin Sheen). As the commander-in-chief deals with his stressful position, he also contends with the problem...
Audrey Hepburn portrays a nun whose life journey takes her from the staff of a mental asylum to a surgical nurse in the Belgian Congo. She returns to Belgium as WWII breaks out and is torn between the needs of the Resistance and the church's neutrality.
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve children. James McBridge, journalist, musician and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant an...
Destry rides again: Destry, a mild-mannered deputy who does not like guns is called to restore order to the hopelessly corrupt frontier town of Bottleneck and also falls for an alluring saloon girl.
"The book expands Teaching Banned Books to include more titles and more genres (such as graphic novels and nonfiction)"-- Provided by publisher.
"Far from being a travelogue, these beautiful black-and-white photographs portray the wall in landscape, the wall as abstract form, and the return of rocks to nature. Cook is fascinated with the juxtaposition of stones and geometric composition, as well as with the resonance betw...
"For people with bipolar disorder, the path to wellness often involves psychiatric visits and medication adjustments. But what if there was a way to avoid future episodes? In Preventing bipolar relapse, bipolar expert Ruth C. White shares her own personal approach to relapse prev...
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s. When they decided to marry, just as apartheid was being introduced into South Africa, it caused an international uproar. However, their passionate romance tr...