After her sister's death, seventeen-year-old Violet Saunders finds herself dragged to Four Paths, New York. Violet may be a newcomer, but she soon learns her mother isn't: They belong to one of the revered founding families of the town, where stone bells hang above every doorway and danger lurks in the depths of the woods. Justin Hawthorne's bloodline has protected Four Paths for generations…
Explore space, planet earth, plants, animals, history, science, technology, and culture with this wonderfully comprehensive encyclopedia. Useful features include visual factfiles, bulleted facts, charts, world records, bizarre facts and top tens. The book is fully crossreferenced throughout and is packed with diagrams, illustrations and photos, making it a brilliant guide to everything you have…
Take a time travelling adventure around the globe with this delightful atlas, which is packed full of fascinating facts and incredible history from the first people leaving Africa right up to how the world looks now.
This attractive fun-to-learn board book for preschoolers comes with its own wipe-clean pen. It has a wheel that changes picture details on both the front cover and its reverse side, along with a fold-out feature on every right-hand page. Kids turn the wheel and open the fold-out pages to identify shapes and sizes. They identify squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles as they examine picture…
Readers find out what it's like for astronauts to eat, sleep, and work on a manned space flight in this adventurous nonfiction reader. Children will discover what it's like to be weightless in zero gravity, how Mission control helps keep astronauts safe, and what astronauts do during their free time through vivid photographs, interesting, informative text, and stimulating facts.
"The Best of Dilbert Volume 1" invites you to enter Dilbert's extraordinary world and - along with his sardonic, megalomaniacal dog Dogbert, and his two dinosaurs Bob and Dawn - watch this modern male cope with work, women, blind dates, rejection and...er...rejection.
Join Arthur Dent, earthling, "jerk", kneebiter and time-traveler; sexy space cadet Trillian; mad alien Ford Prefect; unflappable Slartibartfast; two-headed, three-armed ex-head Honcho of the Universe Zaphod Beeblebrox... and learn to fly. Is it the end? With Douglas Adams it's always up in the air!