Earth is only a memory. It was destroyed by the Drej, a deadly race of alien beings composed entirely of energy. What's left of the human race has scattered across a hostile, alien-dominated galaxy. On Tau-14, a third-rate asteroid, Cale Tucker

One day, a failed suicide, Elizabeth Cruikshank, is admitted to the care of psychiatrist Dr. David McBride. She is mysteriously reticent and it is not until he recalls a painting by Caravaggio that she is moved to recount her story. As her accou

The Lady and the Unicorn tapestries are a set of six medieval tapestries. Beautiful, intricate and expertly made, they are also mysterious in their origin and meaning. Tapestries give an appearance of order and continuity, as if designed and mad

Stifling quiet and claustrophobic, Iris Black's house in old Cairo is disturbed by the unexpected arrival of her troubled and willful granddaughter, Ruby. Laboring under a fraught relationship with her family, Ruby has run away from England to s

It's your graduation. We're so proud of you. You always shine brightly at all that you do. Press the button to hear this classic graduation tune. Sing and read along as you share this book with your little graduate. Baby to preschool.

Roper is illiterate. He is a poor, hard-working black man in the unforgiving heart of south Georgia, striving each day to put distance between his new life and his probation for a petty crime one year earlier. His routine is his savior: At sunri

The inimitable Claire Montrose is back, and as delightful as ever, in this third installment of April Henry's acclaimed mystery series. Claire wasn't part of the in-crowd at Minor High. In fact, she didn't have many friends at all, spending most

Sticky children playfully spread their stickiness around until bathtime changes everything.

In this collection, Daniel Alarcon takes the reader from Third World urban centers to the fault lines that divide nations and people. Wars, both national and internal, are waged in jungles, across borders, in the streets of Lima, in the intimacy

Livvy Weller wants her twin sister, Destiny, to join her on the darker side as a vampire, but Destiny is determined to restore Livvy to her human condition and bring her back home to their family.

Anooshka Stargirl sometimes sees her life as a movie. But she can't escape the realities. At home there's a depressed mother who often won't emerge from bed. And a dad who's not in the picture. There are two best friends but a stifling pack of a

The ideal reference/workbook for beginning to intermediate German-language learners, Practice Makes Perfect: German Verb Tenses shows you when and why to use certain verb tenses and gives you plenty of examples, increasing your confidence in cho

Looks at the careers of this generation's top CEOs, and turns the wisdom, strategies, and tactics of these business-world icons into a step-by-step handbook for the pursuit and achievement of breakthrough corporate leadership - at any level, in

Most introductions to gardening bog down the eager beginner with bewildering theory that has little to do with the pleasures of seeing a flower bloom. The Self-Taught Gardener reveals its differences from the first page. It covers all the essent

Thomas Hardy's short stories reveal a literary persona, a creative intelligence and an imaginative vision uniquely and unmistakably his own. 361 pages.

At the request of the nun with whom he is in love, eighteen-year-old Felix embarks on a perilous rescue mission across the strife-torn countryside of Spain in the late 1820s. Ages 12 and up.

Old-couple Berger and Mitry are back in a new spin on the classic locked-roommystery.

Completed shortly before Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, the vysotkii, or "sky houses," still dominate the Moscow skyline today. Seven in all, they were the Soviet answer to the American skyscraper, transforming the Soviet capital from a feudal b

Full of eye-opening fish facts, helpful seafood secrets, and delicious recipes, this book addresses the biology, catch methods, preparation, and cooking of all popular sea creatures like crab, salmon, lobster, squid, tuna, clams, mussels, scallo

Once the college football season draws to a close for the Fighting Irish, there is little reason to ride out the winter in South Bend, Indiana. Those who can leave do, but P.I. Philip Knight stays on at Notre Dame when the university asks him to