Empire of pain: the secret history of the Sackler Dynasty

The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxfor…

The Balmaha Bears

Thick, crunchy layers of ice and snow once covered land — too cold for even the thickest fur coat and the most padded of paws. A few chilly bears took shelter deep under ground and there they stayed for hundreds of years. Until one little bear went exploring... The Balmaha Bears are back!

Revolusi: Indonesia and the birth of the modern world

Praise for revolusi Drawing on hundreds of interviews and eyewitness testimonies, David Van Reybrouck turns this vast and complex story into an utterly gripping narrative, written with remarkable historical clarity and filled with tragedy and passion. A landmark history, Revolusi cements Indonesia’s struggle for independence as one of the defining dramas of the twentieth century and entire…

Don't say that Willy Nilly!

Willy Nilly is off to the shop to buy a cabbage. “Yuk!” he says. “Don’t say that, Willy Nilly!” says his mum. So Willy Nilly tries very hard to always say the right thing but somehow he always says it just at the wrong moment. “Don’t say that, Willy Nilly!” he’s told. Will Willy Nilly ever get it right?

What it was like to be an ancient maya

Largely forgotten for centuries, the ancient Maya were incredible. Their cities across Central and South America featured astonishing pyramids and palaces, while they were also successful farmers and highly creative artists. The Maya were the first people in the Americas to learn how to read and write, and they invented things like rubber, chocolate and chewing gum. They had a deep understandin…

Living Things

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9780751649147

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29 p. ; ill. ; 25 cm

Series Title

Let's Explore Science

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570 EVA l

The story of William Wallace

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9781902407067

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29 p. ; ill. ; 17 cm

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920 ROS t

Elmer and the lost teddy

Baby Elephant cannot get to sleep when he loses his teddy bear, so Elmer sets out to find it

The day moon and earth had an argument

Sometimes we have to travel a few billion miles to find our way home.

Kitten construction company: meet the house kittens

She is, after all, a trained architect. She’s also a distractingly adorable kitten. Fed up with not being taken seriously because she's so cute, Marmalade bands together with a handful of other aspiring builders―all of them kittens. But in a world where humans call the shots, can the Kitten Construction Company prove their worth . . . without giving up the very things that make them k…