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by Ellen Cooney
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
“Love is a great teacher and we are all a little unadoptable. Readers of Garth Stein and Carolyn Parkhurst will adore this” (Library Journal).
A People Best New Book of the Week
The Sanctuary is a refuge for strays and rescued dogs. Evie has joined a training program there despite...
Pukka's Promise
The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
This guide by the author of Merle’s Door is “beneficial for anyone who wants to ensure that their dogs will be healthy and well” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
From the bestselling author who offers “the most utterly compelling translation of dog to human I have ever seen” (Jeffrey...
Where They Lay
A Forensic Expedition in the Jungles of Laos
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
PEN/Martha Albrand Award Finalist: The suspenseful, “poignant” true story of the search for an American military pilot’s remains in Southeast Asia (James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers).
Where They Lay is both an account of an elite military team’s high-tech, high-risk search for...
by Gail Stein
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
PROGRESS FROM VOCABULARY TO PROFICIENCY
Vocabulary words let you communicate basic ideas, but proper grammar enables you to communicate concepts, feelings, and subtle nuances much more effectively. Now mastering Spanish grammar is easier than ever. Whether you're a student, a business professional...
The Seven Sins of Memory
How the Mind Forgets and Remembers
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2002
A New York Times Notable Book: A psychologist’s “gripping and thought-provoking” look at how and why our brains sometimes fail us (Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works).
In this intriguing study, Harvard psychologist Daniel L. Schacter explores the memory miscues that occur in...
by Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
This A-to-Z reference is a fun way for elementary-school kids to improve their vocabulary—and become better readers and writers.
With 100 Words Every 4th Grader Should Know, parents and teachers can present new and challenging words that will prepare kids to excel in their classes and in...
by Kelly M Vlcek
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format.
CliffsNotes on The Grapes of Wrath explores John...
The Trouble with Physics
The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
“A splendid, edifying report from the front lines of theorectical physics” (San Francisco Chronicle).
In this illuminating book, renowned physicist Lee Smolin argues that fundamental physics—the search for the laws of nature—is losing its way.
Ambitious ideas about extra dimensions,...
Storm World
Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
An investigation into climate change and increasingly dangerous hurricanes from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Republican War on Science.
A leading science journalist delves into a red-hot debate in meteorology: whether the increasing ferocity of hurricanes is connected to global...
The Beauty of the Beastly
New Views on the Nature of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 1996
“An awe-inspiring tour of nature” from a Pulitzer Prize–winning science writer (San Francisco Examiner).
Natalie Angier has taken great pains to learn her science from the molecule up. She knows all that scientists know—and sometimes more—about the power of symmetry in sexual relations,...
The Eye of the Elephant
An Epic Adventure in the African Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 1993
The authors of Secrets of the Sahara battle the elephant poachers of Zambia in this “exciting . . . part adventure story, part wildlife tale” (The Boston Globe).
Intelligent, majestic, and loyal, with lifespans matching our own, elephants are among the greatest of the wonders gracing the...
Dakota
A Spiritual Geography
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2001
“A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review).
“With humor and lyrical grace,” Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate...
Glory in a Camel’s Eye
A Perilous Trek Through the Greatest African Desert
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
An “amazing” true account of traveling with Bedouins through a drought-stricken North African landscape (The Boston Globe).
Having journeyed in the past across Siberia and up the Congo, Jeffrey Tayler was well accustomed to adventure and danger. But even this experienced travel writer was unprepared...
Warm Springs
Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
An “engrossing” memoir of finding comfort, company—and mischief—at the famed Georgia retreat for children with polio (Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air).
Just after her eleventh birthday, Susan Richards Shreve was sent to the Polio Foundation in Warm Springs, Georgia. Famously founded...