Books

The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement;...

This book has been my effort to chronicle the existence of an international child sex trafficking network involved in the dissemination of the pederast ideal, the facilitation of political blackmail beneath it, and the production of sadomasochist child pornography, including snuff films, at its...

"I have never seen [its] theme handled with greater technical dexterity or given more psychological meaning."--Fantasy and Science Fiction When a routine tour of a particle accelerator goes awry, Jack Hamilton and the rest of his tour group find themselves in a world ruled...

A visual feast of fifty wonderfully distinctive and architecturally astounding swimming pools from around the world Extraordinary Pools is a mosaic of exceptional public and private examples of pools, reasserting the protean quality of the swimming pool as a space of activity, pleasure, and...

Discover more than 100 dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in this exciting children's dinosaur encyclopedia! Extraordinary Dinosaurs Visual Encyclopedia is the perfect book for young readers who want to get up close and personal with their favourite prehistoric creatures! Children will be excited to...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE One of Annie Ernaux's most exciting and idiosyncratic works now in paperback for the first time. In this novel, which takes the form of journal entries made over the course of seven years, Annie Ernaux concentrates...

When wildlife photographer Ray Ingalls is murdered in the new owl-protection zone in rural White Rock, New Hampshire, Chief Sam Mason's number-one suspect is his archenemy Lucas Thorne. ... Until a mysterious stranger reveals that the victim was up to a lot more than...

Whether you're Upgrading from Windows 10, running Windows 11 on a standard desktop, a touchscreen device, or the latest ARM-powered Copilot+ PC, Exploring Windows 11: 2025 Edition is your comprehensive and up-to-date companion for Microsoft's latest operating system. Ideal for students, seniors, home users,...

How were the Appalachian Mountains formed? Are the barrier islands moving? Is there gold in the Carolinas? The answers to these questions and many more appear in this reader-friendly guide to the geology of North Carolina and South Carolina. Exploring the Geology of the...

Go behind the scenes of Calvin and Hobbes with an in-depth look at Bill Watterson's creative process. Exploring Calvin and Hobbes blends original artwork, commentary, and interviews--essential for fans, collectors, and comic scholars alike. Exploring Calvin and Hobbes offers an intimate view of Watterson's...

When one encounters the illumined instructions found in St. Nikodemos the Hagiorite's Manual of Confession, he feels himself freed from both the delusions of this age and his own blindness to sin. St. Nikodemos, as an inheritor of the Apostolic Tradition and exponent of...

Solve a new puzzle each day--24 total--on a madcap romp through Santa's headquarters! Billy the Elf works at Santa's Workshop in the Arctic. A calm, comfortable life. But all that changes in the blink of an eye when someone slips him secret documents that...

When ESG concerns cause Reeperbahn Landesbank to sell his $750 million credit facility to "Loan-Own-Capital," a New York distressed fund, Norwegian shipping magnate Coco Jacobsen is forced to make a tough decision: put in another $100 million to defend his fossil fuel dependent company...

The New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series returns with this "fast-paced spy thriller" (People) following the country's best assassin as he finds himself in the crossfire of America's deadliest enemies. Returning from a covert mission, Mitch Rapp was publicly hailed by the president...

Until now, you've only heard one side of the story, but Chinese American history extends far beyond the railroads. Here's the true story of America, from the Chinese American perspective. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection If you've learned about the history of...

In an ambitious blend of fact and fiction, including family secrets, documents from the era, and a thin, fragmentary case file unsealed by the court, novelist Sheila O'Connor tells the riveting story of V, a talented fifteen-year-old singer in 1930s Minneapolis who aspires to...

Step-by-step instructions and symbol charts put these 139 creative new border designs within reach for beginning and advanced crocheters alike. If you're ready to chart your own crocheted course, Edie Eckman offers plenty of helpful design advice, including how to choose an appropriate border...

Jeff Ashworth, author of the bestselling Game Master series of resource books for the world's most popular roleplaying game, combines his depth of knowledge about the mechanics of dice-based RPGs and the universal experiences gathered while playing a campaign to create a ruleset for...

Learn everything that's AWESOME about dinosaurs, in this nonfiction Reader that combines cartoon illustrations and photographs!Do you know which dinosaur has the most horns? Or which dinosaur has a clubbed tail that could break a T. Rex's bones? It's time to meet... the DANGEROUS...

Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks, and covers...