Presents a history of ships, describing the different types of vessels that have appeared through the ages, from Spanish galleons, to merchant ships, to modern ocean liners, in a text with pop-up illu
THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE—IF IT DOESN’T KILL YOU FIRST?Lara Jansen is a truthseeker, gifted—or cursed—with the magical ability to tell honesty from lies. Once she was a tailor in Boston, but now she
Celebrated caterer Peter Callahan knows how to throw a party. With a career spanning more than two decades and a client list including celebrities, politicians, Fortune 500 companies, and New York Cit
Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock make a mean Chicken Pot Pie, elevating the classic recipe with white wine and fresh tarragon. Their recipe won them such a following in Texas that Bobby Flay took notic
Finalist for the 2011 National Book AwardJulie Otsuka’s long awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine (“To watch Emperor catching on with teachers and students in vast numbers is to grasp what
In this set of novellas, a few facts are constant. Sergio is a young intellectual, poor and proud of his new membership in the Communist Party. Maurizio is handsome, rich, successful with women, and m
“God Is Up to Something Great will thrill you with its message about our wise and sovereign Heavenly Father’s plan for your life.” —Franklin Graham, President of Samaritan’s Purse and The Billy Graham
Don Quixote has travelled the land, taking part in many adventures along the way.Most of these adventures have ended in disaster, and now Don Quixote is back where he belongs - at home, with his niece
Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dresses tells the story of three women grappling with heartbreak and career change, family pressure and new love—all while suffering through
Full-color guide ‧ Make your trip to Israel unforgettable with illustrated features, 64 maps, and 265 color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Top experiences and attractions ‧ He
On September 11, 2011, the world will be watching as the National September 11 Memorial opens on the site of the World Trade Center. With photographs and architectural plans never before published, pa
Many of us with busy families yearn for a slower and simpler life with our kids—one that is connected to the seasons and the natural rhythm of the year, one that has our children spending more time ou
If you need to know it, it’s in this book. Cracking the AP European History, 2012 Edition, includes: ‧ 2 full-length practice tests with detailed explanations ‧ Timelines, keywords, and review qu
In this extraordinary World War II alternate history, master storyteller Harry Turtledove begins with a big switch: what if Neville Chamberlain, instead of appeasing Hitler, had stood up to him in 193
Critical praise for ABSOLUTE MONARCHS“Absolute Monarchs sprawls across Europe and the Levant, over two millenniums, and with an impossibly immense cast: 265 popes, feral hordes of Vandals, Huns and Vi
"Laura is a happily married mother of two. But when her college boyfriend resurfaces after twenty years, she's forced to compare the passion of that first love with the domesticity of her suburban lif
PLAN your Perfect GetawayFull-color guide ‧ Make your travels through the USA unforgettable with illustrated features, 40 maps, and 200 color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ To
Easy planning. Hit the ground running with convenient overviews of each region, along with advice on the best wineries and golf courses, suggestions for top tours and itineraries, and tips for making
PLAN THE TRIP OF A LIFETIMEFull-color guide ‧ Make your trip to India unforgettable with illustrated features, maps, and color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Convenient overvi
A?group of traders huddles around a pile of dried shark fins on a gleaming white floor in Hong Kong. A Papua New Guinean elder shoves off in his hand-carved canoe, ready to summon a shark with ancient
SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for FictionA thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick,
Pop diva Clarion Calhoun has packed the house with a celebrity appearance in Bath's Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera.? But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, she's pul
Easily the most recognizable architectural style in America, with its brick or shingled facades trimmed in white and ornamented with restrained classical detail, the Colonial Revival emerged in the
FODOR’S THE COMPLETE AFRICAN SAFARI PLANNEREverything You Need to Plan the Adventure of a Lifetime.?Fodor’s full-color travel guide can help make your trip to Africa unforgettable with 8 pages of deta
American Iraq War veteran Ellie Cooper is down and out in Beijing when a chance encounter with a Uighur—a member of a Chinese Muslim minority—at the home of her sort-of boyfriend L
If it’s on the TOEFL iBT, it’s in this book. Cracking the TOEFL iBT with CD includes:?‧ A full-length simulated TOEFL iBT with accompanying audio sections on an MP3 CD ‧ Audio exercises on the CD to h
At Riverhead Long Island splits into two narrow strips of land, each about forty miles long and each with a distinct character and topography. The South Fork stretches east into the Atlantic Ocean fro
Right now, over 100 million Americans secretly feel frustrated and bored with their lives.? You may be one of them if… ? *you’ve come to regard yourself as “your own worst enemy” ? *you’ve developed a
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle him
With a head more suited to bookkeeping than a bridal veil, Ida’s dreams include big business- not beaus.??Ida Sinclair has joined her sisters, Kat and Nell, in the untamed mining town of Cripple Creek
After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen stories about longing and loss, friendship and love, whose mysterious natures he examine
Here is Knopf’s unique pocket-size MapGuide to the historic city of New Orleans: with six full-color, fold-out street maps of the most popular neighborhoods, plus bus, rail, and streetcar maps, as wel
A revelatory account of the aspirations and accomplishments of the people who founded the New England colonies, comparing the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of
Stop following, start knitting!?When you lovingly make something stitch-by-stitch, it shouldn’t fit like it came from a department store. However, that’s exactly what happens when you knit to fit a ge
When twentysomething reporter Miranda Kennedy leaves her job in New York City and travels to India with no employment prospects, she longs to immerse herself in the turmoil and excitement of a rapidly
Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Convenient overview of each region and its highlights ‧ Top experiences and attractions ‧ Easy-to-read color regional mapsExplore Atlanta, Charleston,
Full-color guide ‧ Make your trip to Beijing unforgettable with illustrated features, 13 maps, and 146 color photosCustomize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Top experiences & attractions ‧
Full-color guide ‧ Make your trip to Northern Italy unforgettable with illustrated features, 40 maps, and 200 color photos.Customize your trip with simple planning tools ‧ Top experiences & attrac
With food-truck fever sweeping the nation, intrepid journalist Heather Shouse launched a coast-to-coast exploration of street food. In Food Trucks, she gives readers a page-by-page compass for finding
Celebrate new parenthood (and the power of delegation) with this checkbook full of playful (and useful) U.O.MEs for moms and dads to dole out to each other for a variety of occasions new parents will
