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A 2018 Caldecott Honor Book that Kirkus Reviews calls "a must-read for our times," A Different Pond is an unforgettable story about a simple event - a long-ago fishing trip. Graphic novelist Thi Bui and acclaimed poet Bao Phi deliver a powerful, honest glimpse...

A Difficult Problem - 1900 I looked up and was at once impressed by the grace and beauty of the person thus introduced to me. She cast me a child-like look full of trust and candor as she seated herself in the chair I...

A Digit of the Moon: A Hindoo Love Story The better to illustrate how, in Hindoo mythology, the ideas of a beautiful woman, the Moon, and the Sea, dissolve and disappear into one another, I have placed on the fly-leaf of this edition a...

Discover a new dinosaur for every day of the year! The perfect gift for dinosaur fans ages 6 and up. New day, new dino! Immerse yourself in this unforgettable year-long encounter with the most astonishing creatures ever to walk the Earth. In this gorgeous...

Embark on a prehistoric journey with this picture book series teaching children incredible facts about dinosaurs. Introducing A Dinosaur's Day: Spinosaurus Makes a Splash - a storytime adventure that teaches kids aged 3-6 exciting dinosaur facts. Packed with beautiful pictures and compelling facts, this...

A Diplomat in Japan - The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account...

A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870 - being the account of a balloon escape from the siege of Paris and a political mission to London and ViennaIt is a record of a somewhat remarkable episode in a stormy and remarkable year. It describes, possibly not...

A Diplomatic AdventureNo man has ever been able to write the history of the greater years of a nation so as to include the minor incidents of interest. They pass unnoted, although in some cases they may have had values influential in determining the...

A Diplomatic Woman"Saints defend us!" I pettishly exclaimed. "Is there no one in the world with an atom of brains? I don't want to go as 'Night' or 'Morning,' nor as 'Marguerite' or 'Pierrette,' or 'Madame la Pompadour'; I want something original!" And I...

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay--until people start dropping dead around him, and...

The first book to cover the entirety of disability history, from pre-1492 to the present Disability is not only the story of someone we love or the story of whom we may become; rather it is undoubtedly the story of our nation. Covering the...

A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759)The text of this reprint of Sheridan's Discourse is reproduced from a copy in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. It has been a long time since all men,...

A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729)Between 1710 and 1729 Anthony Collins was lampooned, satirized, and gravely denounced from pulpit and press as Englands most insidious defiler of church and state. Yet within a year of his death he became the model...

A Discourse for the Time, delivered January 4, 1852 in the First Congregational Unitarian ChurchIn speaking from these words last Sunday morning, and in endeavoring to enforce the great truth which they express, I began with referring to certain facts which characterize that most...

A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason - and the Discovery of Truth in the SciencesThe Great DESCARTES (who may justly challenge the first place amongst the Philosophers of this Age) is the Author of this Discourse; which in the...

A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph appear as garbage, you may have an incompatible browser or unavailable fonts. Make sure that the...

In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as...

A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing Harrisburg, March 11, A. D. 1846. Rev. John F. MesickDear Sir: On last Sabbath evening, 8th inst., you preached a sermon to our congregation on "The Evils of Dancing." As this is a custom which is in...

A Discourse on the Life, Character and Writings of Gulian Crommelin Verplanck - Delivered before the New-York Historical Society, May 17th, 1870At a special meeting of the New York Historical Society, held at Steinway Hall, on Tuesday evening, May 17, 1870, William Cullen Bryant...

A Discourse on the PlagueThis Book having at first been written only as a Plan of Directions for preserving our Country from the Plague[1] was then very short and concise. An Act of Parliament being immediately after made for performing Quarantaines &c. according to...