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The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!! When Jack and Annie got back...

An urgent, on-the-ground report from Pakistan--from the bestselling author of Descent Into Chaos and TalibanAhmed Rashid, one of the world's leading experts on the social and political situations in Pakistan and Afghanistan, offers a highly anticipated update on the possibilities--and hazards--facing the United States...

After decades of near-solitude, terminally ill art professor Miriam Johnson discovers her final student may also be her most extraordinary.Dr. Miriam Johnson has spent years in self-imposed isolation, haunted by the tragic death of her husband Tom and consumed by guilt over choices that...

A little turtle, two little fish, three little bluebirds, four little muskrats, five little honeybees, six little crows, seven little crickets, eight little lizards, nine little frogs, and ten little fireflies all do what their mothers ask.Author: Ezra Jack Keats,Olive A. WadsworthPublisher: Scholastic PaperbacksPublished:...

Acclaimed author-artist Victoria Tentler-Krylov highlights cities that are fighting climate change around the world in this gorgeously illustrated picture book about sustainability and green building As people, animals, and even plants all over the world face environmental changes--rising sea levels, droughts, frequent and intense...

"[Orlando is] a brilliant book that teaches you so much about identity and love--all these fundamental questions that we ask ourselves." - Emma Corrin"I read Orlando and believed it was a hallucinogenic, interactive biography of my own life and future." - Tilda SwintonThe graphic...

A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden. "An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just...

Food cooked in the fireplace tastes better than food cooked in most conventional methods today, say the authors and this book shows how twenty-first century folks can enjoy hearth-cooked meals today. Surprisingly few pieces of special equipment are needed, especially for camping families. The...

Psychotherapist Andrew Jamieson considers ten key principles of psychoanalysis and illuminates them through psychobiographies of twenty extraordinary people, including Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, Cary Grant, and Marilyn Monroe. In the late 1800s, Sigmund Freud began to develop radical theories about sexuality, dreams, and childhood...

Marvel at the true home Jesus has prepared for you and me.Deep in our souls is a longing for a home--a place of beauty and goodness. A place where we--and the ones we love--are not touched by grief and sorrow. We long to live...

"A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism." -- Chicago Daily TribuneFrom Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper's magazine, comes a classic history of 1920s America, from the end of World War I to the stock market crash and the beginning...

"And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly I say to you, inasmuch as you did it unto the least of these, My brethren, you did it to Me.'"Matthew 25:44 As Christians, we are called to love and serve the poor, the...

Three months ago, Kareem Dorsey was supposed to be nothing more than a distant memory.Just the handsome stranger who put me through the mattress in the middle of a hurricane.The career criminal who made me laugh almost as hard as he made me c*m.NOT...

Goosebumps now on Disney+!Siblings Harper and Dylan are reluctantly spending their summer at Camp Bigfoot. Run by an eccentric guy everyone calls Uncle Squatch, Camp Bigfoot is a classic summer camp with wooden cabins, forest trails, lots of outdoor activities-and the occasional Bigfoot sighting.Uncle...

Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. This classic work represents his best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist...

Award-winning historian Alice Albinia takes readers on a journey across oceans and centuries, uncovering the secrets of 20 fascinating islands--each vividly brought to life through firsthand stories and illustrated maps Travel across oceans and through time with award-winning historian and storyteller Alice Albinia in...

Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.This publication offers a compelling exploration of censorship and self--censorship. Drawing on his personal...

Join the hilarious adventures of a seed that turns into a tree, and then into a book . . . THIS book! Get ready to meet Barbara the beetle and Derek the squirrel who (through the power of poo) help a wise-cracking seed turn...

"Should be obligatory reading. . . . A philosophy of life in a nutshell, one that has latched on to the most practical, central, and sensible of all activities, human or cosmic."--Psychology TodayAuthor: Milton MayeroffPublisher: William Morrow & CompanyPublished: 11/07/1990Pages: 144Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize:...

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald wrote alcohol into almost every one of his stories. On Booze gathers debutantes and dandies, rowdy jazz musicians, lost children and ragtime...