Young Dr. Bromgard has come to a small country town to assume a new practice. No sooner has he arrived than he receives word that a colleague, Dr. Polyakov, has fallen gravely ill. Before Bromgard can go to his friend’s aid, Polyakov is brought to his practice in the middle of the night with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and, barely conscious, gives Bromgard his journal before dying. What...

Explores various trains and their uses, from steam locomotives to magnetic levitation trains.

A fascinating and colorful book will introduce the child to the world around him, broaden his horizons and awaken interest in knowledge.

Introduces the different types of big and wild cats, including tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, and pumas.

Ten-year-old Rupert Brown inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas with the wealthiest family in town and is astonished to discover a world he never knew existed. Rupert lives with his parents and many siblings in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio. When he spends Christmas with his classmate Turgid Rivers, he is offered all the food he can eat, and the opportunity...

From Newbery Honor and National Book Award–winning author Polly Horvath is this magical middle-grade novel about a garden that grants wishes. It is World War II, and Franny and her parents, Sina and Old Tom, enjoy a quiet life on a farm on Vancouver Island. Franny writes, Sina sculpts, and Old Tom tends to their many gardens?including the ancient, mysterious night garden. Their peaceful life is...

Viktor Petrovich Astafiev is a classic of 20th-century Russian prose, a laureate of two USSR State Prizes, the independent Triumph Prize, the State Prize of Russia and others. He received his first prize in 1978 for narrating in the stories 'King of the F

'Just Masa' is Masahiro Shibata alone, without Fandorin. The orphaned assistant of the great detective returns to his native Japan, which has changed very much during the wanderings of his prodigal son - and has remained forever unchanged. An incredible s

Winner Pulitzer Prize. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhoodùwhere even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as...

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.