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"Take a trip around our world and visit 20 children with very different homes. An apartment building in China with a train running right through the middle. A floating island home on Lake Titicaca in Peru. A house that stands on stilts on the icy Arctic permafrost. From a yurt in...

Fine illustrating and informative text explain how people lived in simple three-room farm houses to elegant courtyard houses that copy on a smaller scale the great palaces of the emperors of China. Explains how the philosophies of feng-shui and Confucianism order how, when and ...

Best friends Nour and August join Grandpa Paolo on an epic two-week bike ride and use a special camera to fulfill their own dreams. Grandpa Paolo is planning a great adventure, and Nour and her best friend, August, have to join him. Together with their dear old friend Aida, they ...

"Quilter Martha Rose must patch together the clues to solve the murder of a cult leader in the California mountains ... Has Martha's fellow quilter and dear friend Birdie Watson become unraveled? Birdie and her new husband have decided to join the Mystical Feather Society, a spir...

Tells the tale of Dion Leonard, a seasoned ultramarathon runner who crosses paths with a scrappy, stray dog while competing in a 150-mile race through the Gobi desert in China and Mongolia. The lovable pup, who would later earn the name "Gobi," proved that what she lacked in size...

"When Mary meets Daniel, a handsome quirky potter, sarod-player, and fire lookout observer, she falls in with a tribe of young people who earn a living by watching for smoke and fire in the mountain foothills of Alberta. For several summers, Mary commutes each weekend from Calgar...

Guy Novel marries a thriller to a shameless love story and fun ride, what Graham Greene might have called "an entertainment." It takes place over one month in 1996, from early August to early September, as the Taliban were about to take over Afghanistan, Bill Clinton was running ...