She teaches her babies what food to eat, how to swing through trees, how to build a sleeping nest. Life is good... until one day a monstrous machine tears Orangutan's tree from the ground. The family have to leave the emerald forest - but where can they go to? This powerful and m...
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The massive spaceship Terra Venture represents mankind's greatest accomplishment. The giant spacecraft hosts multiple habitat domes with diverse environments ranging from a lake to a mountain range -even a dome with a sprawling city inside -as it takes thousands of human pioneers...
They met in the dark: Discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career. The October man: After a traumatic brain injury, a young engineer tries to repair his life. But his recovery is thwarted when a woman is found ...
The riveting story of a mother who is separated from her newborn son and husband when committed to an involuntary psychiatric ward in New Jersey after a harrowing bout of postpartum psychosis.
Master chef Kate Armstrong is a perfectionist who leads a regimented life, while running the kitchen of an exclusive restaurant. She revels in the sense of power and control her career affords. When Kate's sister is killed in an automobile accident, her 9-year old niece Zoe comes...
Explains displacement and fundamentals of sailing, gives directions for building a catamaran and a hovercraft, and suggests experiments showing how things float.
Alison Read, orphaned when she was two years old, had lived and worked with Paul Aylmer, her appointed guardian. Paul, an experienced antique dealer, had come to rely on Alison, who had quickly learned the trade. But a chain of events was set off that led to the exposure of a sec...
The Final Season revolves around more court machinations, complicated relationships, and coup attempts. Catherine is still in charge, meeting with peasants and nobles to get input on her quest to modernize Russia. She's working on bonding with Peter and their young son Paul. Mean...
"Some kids inherit a family business; Jo Ward inherited a badge. Once voted Most Likely to End Up in Jail, the town wild child has become sheriff-- hell-bent on uncovering the truth about her father's mysterious death. Life is quiet in rustic River Bend, but Jo longs for somethin...
The Great returns in Season Two from Golden Globe and Academy Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite). Catherine finally takes the Russian throne for her own- but if she thought coup-ing her husband was difficult, it's nothing compared to the realities of liberating a country...
"This book is intended to give a broad overview of this radical landscape for public libraries in which librarians are creating innovative, interactive, participatory programming for children and youth by examining seven critical domains that occur across programming as a whole i...
On the eve of her nineteeth birthday, vivacious Caroline looks forward to being free of her oafish guardian, Mr. Falkes. Falkes has other plans, and Caroline must escape. During her flight, she finds herself entangled in mystery and romance.
A killer disease ... an all-powerful Empress ... an extraordinary encounter ... the astonishing true story. No disease sparked as much dread in the eighteenth century as smallpox. It killed children all across Europe with ruthless efficiency and those lucky enough to survive were...
Draws on a wide range of verse forms such as epigrams, street ballads, classical poetry, Augustan satire, and advertising jingles.
Alison Read was orphaned as a small child and became the ward of antiques dealer Paul Aylmer. As Alison matured, so did her love for Paul, a man who had never made the slightest romantic overture toward her. How could she get the man who had been a loving father to Alison the gir...
Beck learns to enjoy living at Grandma's farm with help from a pair of beavers. A moving story of new beginnings with brilliant beaver facts As Beck settles in at Grandma's farm in Scotland, they watch the beavers busily gathering sticks to build a dam, which creates a pool and w...