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The remarkable true story of Max, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko, who hides him in plain sight until a tense standoff with Nazi police. Afraid for his own family's life...
The incredible flash-biography collection covers the entire spectrum of achievement. It's like being invited to a party with 117 of the most intelligent, most athletic, most expressive, and most attractive people who have ever lived. Whether interested in science, politics, sport...
When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyperviolent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow worl...
When an American family moves into a remote English house in the woods, the two daughters begin to see a young girl who vanished in the woods during a solar eclipse 20 years ago. Is it a ghost, or something more?
"In Walden, Thoreau explains how separating oneself from the world of men can truly awaken the sleeping self. Thoreau holds fast to the notion that you have not truly existed until you adopt such a lifestyle--and only then can you reenter society, as an enlightened being. These s...
"It's all her grandmother's fault. For the last few month, Abigail Stoltzfus has helped her father with his genealogical research, hoping that breaking through a client's brick wall would also break his melancholy. But now her intrusive grandmother has set her sights on marrying ...
Cinderella has faith her dreams of a better life will come true. With help from her loyal mice friends and a wave of her Fairy Godmother's wand, Cinderella's rags are magically turned into a glorious gown, and off she goes to the Royal Ball. But when the clock strikes midnight, t...
Still reeling from the heartbreaking death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves hounded by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it's too late.
Five classic Weston Woods titles based on the works of Robert McCloskey are presented. Make way for ducklings: After raising her ducklings on an island in the Charles River in Boston, Mrs. Mallard leads her brood to their permanent home in the Public Garden. Burt Dow, deep-water...
Set in New York's lower East Side, this is the story of two childhood friends who form an uneasy partnership in crime which leads to death. The film shows ghetto life and its resulting gangster involvement for those involved.
In this volume, MWA brings together some of today's biggest crime writers--and some of our most exciting new talents--to consider this question. Each writer has defined home as they see fit: a place, a group, a feeling. The crime can come from without or within. What happens when...
"Experience a year in the life of Thoreau at Walden Pond in this classic work. Visit the bean-field, the village, and the ponds; learn about our brute neighbors, the higher laws of nature and humankind, and the benefits of reading and solitude. Henry David Thoreau was an America...
In the Tenth Season, suspense is at an all-time high as Booth is framed and jailed for the murder of three FBI agents while Bones considers committing blackmail to get him out of prison. Meanwhile, the team at the Jeffersonian sets out to solve a whole new roster of bizarre cases...
The darkness grows on Gotham, as super villains more ambitious and depraved are introduced, and a realignment of alliances shakes up the fight for power in Gotham City. With Detectives Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock at the forefront of the fight against crime in this dangerously c...
Trixie, Daddy, and "Knuffle Bunny" take a trip to the neighborhood Laundromat. But the exciting adventure takes a dramatic turn when Trixie realizes somebunny was left behind. Alone or with her friend Opal, "Shrinking Violet" is a master mimic with razor-sharp wit, but real-time...
"Hilarious childhood biographies and full-color illustrations reveal how Leonardo da Vinci, Beatrix Potter, Keith Haring, and other great artists in history coped with regular kid problems."-- Provided by publisher.
The Boy in the Woods tells the remarkable true story of Max, a Jewish boy escaping Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. After he is separated from his family, Max finds refuge with Christian peasant Jasko, who hides him in plain sight until a tense stand-off with Nazi police. Afra...