From the publisher: How Many Hands to Home is a journey of compassion, traveling through fire, war and displacement to arrive at a place of acceptance and embrace of the expansive human spirit. The many voices of the poems engage with both individual and shared experience, exploring the two sides—the… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Hitch the Hedgehog wants nothing more than to nap. But when his informant, Vinnie the Rat, reveals the City Zoo’s panda has gone missing, Hitch is (reluctantly) on the case. Author Heather Preusseur expertly weaves witty and playful text in this chapter book series opener with black-and-white… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Within You Without You is a highly personal exploration of George Harrison’s essential contributions to the Beatles and his solo work, as well as his significant role as a Western proponent of Indian music and beliefs. Through close examination of his guitar playing in the Fab… Continue reading »
From the publisher: A globetrotting Gold Rush heiress. An awkward Paris schoolmaster. A celebrated French actor. And a museum of history and art in California’s Central Valley. What do they have in common? They are all connected by an oil painting, a still life called Flowers and Fruit, that may or… Continue reading »
From the publisher: In 2018, lumps of frozen soil, collected from the bottom of the world’s first deep ice core and lost for decades, reappeared in Denmark. When geologist Paul Bierman and his team first melted a piece of this unique material, they were shocked to find perfectly preserved leaves,… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Mental health problems in young people are on the rise, and teens want resources to help friends in crisis. I’m Here: A Peer Counseling Guide for Teens fills that need, discussing teens’ mental health and providing information about the skills needed to help others. With advice around… Continue reading »
From the publisher: From Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas leader Hassan Yousef as he breaks away from his culture’s practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to finally fleeing to America and becoming a U.S. citizen, and… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Chet the dog and his human partner PI Bernie Little are on to a new case, and this time they’re entangled in a web of crime unlike anything they’ve ever seen before. Their elderly next door neighbor, Mr. Parsons, thought he was doing the right thing by… Continue reading »
From the publisher: Congratulations on your acceptance to the Apprentice Academy, one of the world’s finest institutions for knightly education. Your course of study here will prepare you for a career as a knight, samurai, Viking or really any type of sword-swinging warrior. Swinging a sword is inherently dangerous, but… Continue reading »
From the publisher: The Metamorphoses, written by the Roman poet Ovid, has fascinated readers ever since it was written in the first century CE, and here Celia Campbell offers a bold new interpretive approach. Reasserting the significance of the ancient hymnic tradition, she argues that the first pentad of Ovid’s Metamorphoses draws… Continue reading »