Poetry. A new book of poems by the author of The Fish Soup Bowl Expedition and the publisher of Straw Gate Books. "Like a Zen master, Wat's poems are bending reeds: in seeking knowledge she's unl
Little Bear is looking for the most precious thing in the world. She finds a beautiful blue stone, a fluffy feather and a soft rose, but Mummy Bear says she can think of something even more precious.
Ainelle is a village high in the Spanish Pyrenees. Its houses now stand deserted - and have done so for many years - most of them in ruins. Its last surviving inhabitant, an old man at death's door, l
The Pastor's Handbook (KJV) is intended to meet the continuing need of the Christian minister for guidance and forms as he does the work of the ministry. It seeks to offer options to suit the tastes o
Where does pepper come from? Why do bears hibernate? And why do snails carry their houses on their backs? Because they like to go camping? Of course not! This book asks some of the things kids wonder
In one of the most impressive debut novels ever written by a teenager, Shut the Door,says the New York Post, is "a raw and disturbing portrayal of a suburban family."In a household spiraling
By scheming and theft, the Thief of Eddis has become King of Attolia. Eugenides wanted the queen, not the crown, but he finds himself trapped in a web of his own making. Attolia's barons seethe with r
Business Start-up is a two-level (CEF level A1/A2) Business English course for adults who need English for their work. It takes beginners and false beginners from basic English up to the point where t
My disability isn’t in charge of my life. I am.These are the wise words of Terry Scott Cohen, who from a very young age began learning to accept and conquer the many challenges he faces with myotonic
A picture book for children of LGBT and diverse families. Flying Free is narrated by a firefly captured by a five-year-old girl named Violet. Violet plans to use the firefly as her very own nightlig
Ruth, Lizzie, and Heather each have their own reasons for greeting the end of the war with mixed feelings. For Ruth, it means she must face the possibility of losing Sammy, the evacuee boy she has co
When thirty-three-year-old Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief made the decision to risk his life and his family to save Private First Class Jessica Lynch -- an American soldier he did not know -- it was more th
A walk down memory lane for some baby boomers, this story will also be familiar to Generations X and Y. From the drug filled shores of San Francisco's Haight Ashbury to the power elite of Washington D
Mark's class is putting on a Thanksgiving play, and Mark is going to be the turkey! He is very excited -- until his big brother, Tim, tells him what the turkey's real role in the first Thanksgiving di
Mrs Rabbit has called all her children for bathtime and they all come running. All except her youngest little bunny. Little Bunny doesn't want to have a bath, he wants to play! But he doesn't want to
The debut album Permission to Land has gone four times platinum in the United Kingdom, and the album folio is the fastest-selling in the history of the U.K. This folio includes five pages of color pho
As a girl, Alice loved to dance, but the rhythms of her life offered little opportunity for a foxtrot, let alone a waltz. World War II erupted soon after she was married. Alice and her husband, along
There was a sign on Rosie's door that said, "If you want to know a secret, knock three times." Kathy, Rosie's good friend, knocked three times and learned the secret-that Rosie was no longer Rosie, bu
(Lyric Library). Lyrics to 200 top tunes, including: Adia * After the Love Has Gone * Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now) * Always on My Mind * Amazed * And So It Goes * Baby What a Big Surprise
In a delightful sequel to Love Is A Handful of Honey, Grandma tells Little Bear her definition of heaven, which is eating homemade cookies, wrapping him up in a warm towel after a bath, and reading a
The poems in this volume were selected by Glyn Maxwell from TALE OF THE MAYOR'S SON (published in 1990, when he was twenty-eight), OUT OF THE RAIN (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize), and REST FOR T
If you want to teach children to pray, there's no better place to begin than with the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples to pray. In Our Father, author Mary Joslin offers a simple and beautiful re
Three generations of women fall prey to the ecstasy and danger of desire.Anna Berter is a teenager growing up in a privileged home in Iowa just before World War I. Anna's life is dominated by two wome
The Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi is one of those places in Italy - there are a certain number of them, though not an enormous number - in which history and art combine to bear witness
"Bone is one of the most interesting and unique tissues of the human body. All About Bone: An Owner's Manual tells the intelligent lay reader everything that he or she might want to know about th
Welcome to Judge Roy Bean Country! The landscape is big enough and wild enough to contain any legend?even one the size of Judge Roy Bean. Jack Skiles started with a determination to learn the truth b
Experience is the best teacher if only it didn't take so long! And if only you didn't have to suffer the consequences while learning your lessons. Now you don't. The answers - or many of them - are co
The Depression era closing of a Ford plant sends Andy and two companions to Moscow to find work in a Soviet automotive plant, where he meets Natasha, an exemplar of the "new Soviet woman." Based on My
When Olamaiileoti Monroe takes her seventy-five-year-old father, Finau, on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, both are caught up in a search for understanding of each other and the ties that bind them. T
September 17, 1862, at Antietam Creek was the bloodiest day of the Civil War, as both armies made heavy use of field artillery, the "long arm."In Artillery Hell Curt Johnson and Richard C. A
FOOLS RUSH IN. . . I'd done some crazy stuff off-and-on the last couple of years. My life had gone off in some weird directions. But nothing could match yanking a stoned, naked, sick seventeen-year-ol
Roderick Haig-Brown, an author best known for his classic books on fly fishing, also wrote two novels about life and work in the northwest woods. On the Highest Hill tells the story of Colin Ensley, a
The "unwritten" final chapter of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl tells the story of the time between Anne Frank's arrest and her death through the testimony of six Jewish women
News junkies of the world, rejoice! Here's a follow up to the bestselling News of the Weird that once again shows what you've always known to be true—fact is indeed stranger than fiction. And we
The Half-Inch Himalayas is a stellar collection of early work by the poet Agha Shahid Ali (1949-2001). His most recent volumes of poetry are Rooms Are Never Finished and The Country Without a Post Off
Phoebe Judson was a young bride in 1853 when she and her husband crossed the plains from Ohio to the Puget Sound area of Washington Territory. She was ninety-five when this book was first published in
Mabel Barbee Lee has written a rousing tale of early days in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She speaks with authority because she arrived there as a child in 1892, and with wide-eyed wonder saw the whole pl
The farmer’s boy from Ayrshire who went on to be the most acclaimed of all Scottish poets, celebrated around the world, Robert Burns is a greater and more varied artist than those that know him only t
One day Lindy Simpson cycles home from school and straight into a trap: someone is lying in wait for her, a wire strung between lampposts blocking the path. She is raped just yards from her front door
The history books record that John Brown led the failed raid on the federal armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and was hanged for his crimes on December 2, 1859. It is perhaps less well known that he
