After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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White Pomelo
Christopher Fowler's foray into the back catalogues and backstories of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, flash-in-the-pan or prolific, mega-seller or prize-winner - no author, it seem...
Published to accompany an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Victorian Fairy Painting reveals the enormous popularity of the fairy world as depicted in Victorian English painting, literature, and the theatre.
Activities that relate to every learning center--science, art, language, math, motor skills, drama, social studies, and cooking--all prompted by children's songs. Organized by the calendar, the words to each song are accompanied by things to talk about, thematic connections, curr...
The flat upstairs from Sav is empty, so who or what is making the strange yowling noises she can hear at night? Could it be a ghost cat?! Sav and her best friend Liam decide to investigate, but their ghost hunt takes a very strange turn when Liam gets stuck in the stinky bin room...
A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle.
Presents more than 250 songs, rhymes, and chants designed to help teachers provide opportunities for children to develop reading readiness and literacy.
Beatriz, an immigrant from a poor town in Mexico, has drawn on her innate kindness to build a career as a spiritual health practitioner in Los Angeles. Doug Strutt is a cutthroat, self-satisfied billionaire real estate developer. When these two opposites meet at a dinner party, t...
Princess Betony is delighted to have found a proper friend at last - Rosie's niece, Clover Pink. But having a friend isn't as easy as Betony first thought. Especially when Clover decides she wants to be a witch and desperately needs to discover the Rule of Wishing.
Hank Hill is a propane salesman, his wife, Peggy, is a substitute teacher, and their 12-year-old son, Bobby, who is confused about the ways of life and the world, all live in a blue collar town in Texas.
"From the internationally award-winning creator of Broadchurch comes a brilliant new detective story following one man's death and the secrets that unravel in a coastal English village Nothing keeps a village together like secrets. The villagers of Fleetcombe like to think of it ...
"Power and Resistance debunks the dominant neoliberal, hyper-individualist approach to society's problems, which claims that people are poor because they are lazy, environmental crises stem from individuals' consumption habits, and Indigenous Peoples are oppressed because they re...
[Killers from Space]: A nuclear scientist disappears after an atomic bomb test. Taken into custody after caught spying, he tells incredible stories of alien abduction, world conquest and control of animals and insects.
A single, working actor with no filter raising her three daughters, Max, Frankie and Duke in Los Angeles. She's mom, dad, referee and the cops. Sam also watches out for her mother, Phil, an English expatriate, who lives across the street. Sam is flawed and fierce with her love fo...
The hobgoblin is not happy! The kitchen staff have stopped leaving milk out for him. And an unhappy hobgoblin means trouble! Princess Betony is sure she can win him over. But can she do it before all the hobgoblins attack?
Princess Betony has been chosen to collect a gift from the Wild Magic - a precious thunder egg that has to be protected at all costs. Betony must journey alone through the Dark Forest to Teapot Mountain and bring the egg back safely. If not, the Wild Magic will seek revenge.
Tells the compelling story of the author's life. Through dramatic reenactments and interviews with top Mitchell scholars, Margaret Mitchell emerges as a complex and fascinating woman who had much in common with her iconic creation, Scarlett O'Hara.
"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and locat...
"Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn't exist. The identity comes first: Evie Porter. Once she's given a name and locat...