Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean islands she has left behind. She is like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world. And in the stern Puritan community of her relatives, she soon feels caged as well, and lonely. In the meadows, the only place where s…
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People • The New York Times Magazine • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • New York • The Telegraph • BuzzFeed • Kirkus Reviews • BookPage • Shelf Awareness Includes an extended conversation with David Sedaris One of the m…
Charlie's beloved grandfather is ill, and Charlie will do anything to save him. He brings home a baby raven, Blue Sky, because his Native American friends claim they have powerful medicine. But caring for and protecting a wild creature is a huge responsibility. Charlie learns wondrous things about ravens — and some surprising lessons about humans.
Share in fifty years of magic… The classic story of Sophie and her extraordinary teatime guest is loved by millions of children and was first published fifty years ago. Now available in a new, cased board book format. The Tiger has been coming to Tea for 50 glorious years! Celebrate this incredible anniversary with this brand new cased board book edition of the beloved classic. The …
Gordon Comstock, seorang terpelajar dari keluarga miskin Inggris era 1930-an, membenci uang dan sistem kapitalisme. Ia rela meninggalkan pekerjaan mapan demi idealisme. Ia menyatakan perang terhadap uang, dan bertekad hidup mandiri tanpa menghamba pada barang yang dipuja banyak orang itu. Bencana pun datang! Satu demi satu masalah pelik menyerbu seiring terjun bebasnya Gordon menuju kemiskin…
Suatu malam, Major, si babi tua yang bijaksana, mengumpulkan para binatang di peternakan untuk bercerita tentang mimpinya. Setelah sekian lama hidup di bawah tirani manusia, Major mendapat visi bahwa kelak sebuah pemberontakan akan dilakukan binatang terhadap manusia; menciptakan sebuah dunia di mana binatang akan berkuasa atas dirinya sendiri. Tak lama, pemberontakan benar-benar terjadi. Ke…
from the back cover: In a city in Arabia there lives a boy called Aladdin. He is poor and often hungry, but one day he finds an old lamp. When he rubs the lamp, smoke comes out of it, and then out of the smoke comes a magical jinnee. With the jinnee's help, Aladdin is soon rich, with gold and jewels and many fine things. But can he win the love of the Sultan's daughter, the beautiful Prince…
Get under the skin of the human body with this interactive and informative book. Explore each of your body’s organ systems with our pull-out booklet and get the answers to questions you’ve always wondered about: How does skin heal itself? What is blood made of? What happens to food when we eat it? How does memory work?
Judith Glaser shows how self-centred, unimaginative, noncollaborative, 'I-centric' work environments cause 'cancer cells' to form in the workplace, dooming countries to failure, and what can be done about it.