Librairie

Popcorn!

de Frances Towner Giedt

Popcorn may be America's favorite snack food. Preserved cobs of popcorn thousands of years old have been found in Peru, Mexico, and the American Southwest. Memories are made of popcorn balls at Halloween and...

No Strings Attached

de Carolyn Keene

How many strings will fray before a family business falls apart?

Nancy, George, and Bess are going on a vacation to Paris, and Nancys father pulled a few strings to get the girls some quaint accommodations: a...

The Fran with Four Brains

de Jim Benton

Being a mad scientist in the modern world is very hard work. With so much that needs to be done in such a short period of time, multitasking can become overwhelming. Franny needs some additional help.

But for...

The Frandidate

de Jim Benton

Franny K. Stein, Mad Scientist, has always had her eye on world domination, and she has to start somewhere...like her class elections! If people vote for her, theyll be giving her all the control she wants.

But...

Second Suns: Two Doctors and Their Amazing Quest to Restore Sight and Save Lives

de David Oliver Relin

From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable...

The Treasures of Weatherby

de Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Three-time Newbery Honor winner Zilpha Keatley Snyder combines a cast of quirky characters with an eerie old mansion to create a spellbinding tale of mystery and magic.

Harleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood....

America: Who Really Pays the Taxes?

de Donald L. Barlett

A disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system gone out of control.

Originally designed to spread the cost of government fairly, our tax code has turned into a gold mine of loopholes and giveaways manipulated...

Great Books

de David Denby

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER

At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical...

New College School, Oxford: A History

de Matthew Jenkinson

New College School is one of the oldest continually functioning schools in the United Kingdom and, indeed, the world. It was founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, to provide choristers...

The Secret History of Dante: Unearthing the Real-Life Mysteries of the Inferno

de Mark Booth

Mark Booth, author of the international bestseller The Secret History of the World, uncovers the real-life stories of Dante and The Inferno.

Why does Dante describe the Inferno as a real place? What secret society...

More Bitter Than Death: A Novel

de Camilla Grebe, Åsa Träff & Tara Chace

Its arainy evening in a Stockholm suburb and five-year-old Tilda is hiding under thekitchen table playing with her crayons when a man enters and beats her motherto death in cold blood. The only witness, Tilda...

Dexter the Tough

de Margaret Peterson Haddix & Mark Elliott

Im the new kid. I am tuf. This morning I beat up a kid.

Its only the first day of school for Dexter, but hes already mad at the principal, and the secretary, and the janitor, and the kids who laugh at him. When...

Frantastic Voyage

de Jim Benton

Frannys faithful Lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For a regular scientist, it might seem like theres only one way to get the device outum...make that...

Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Ganster Dreams

de Richard Cohen

Award-winning writer Rich Cohen excavates the real stories behind the legend of infamous criminal enforcers Murder, Inc. and contemplates the question: Where did the tough Jews go?

In 1930s Brooklyn, there lived...

Star Cursed: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book Two

de Jessica Spotswood

With the Brotherhood persecuting witches like never before, a divided Sisterhood desperately needs Cate to come into her Prophesied powers. And after Cate's friend Sachi is arrested for using magic, a war-thirsty...

The Engine of Complexity: Evolution as Computation

de John Mayfield

The concepts of evolution and complexity theory have become part of the intellectual ether permeating the life sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, and more recently, management science and economics....

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods

de Matt Bell

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the...

Hour of the Rat

de Lisa Brackmann

Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe has a pretty good life in Beijing, representing the work of controversial dissident Chinese artist Zhang Jianli. Even though Zhang’s mysterious disappearance of over a year ago has...

Masaryk Station

de David Downing

Berlin, 1948. Still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, the city has become the cockpit of a new Cold War. The legacies of the war have become entangled in the new Soviet-American conflict,...

A Necessary Action

de Per Wahloo

From Per Wahlöö—co-author with his wife, Maj Sjöwall, of the internationally bestselling Martin Beck series of mysteries—comes a suspense novel about a former German soldier wanted for questioning about...