Gaetano Cafiero The Atlantic, the Red Sea, the Caribbean, the South Pacific-here are all the oceans in all colors and clear, tropical waters; turbulent open seas; immense plains of water...

Esther Freud The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life, despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's...

Ann Brashares With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the Sisterhood that wears them embark on their second summer together.Bridget: Impulsively sets off...

Janet Gleeson Summer, 1765. The renowned portrait painter Joshua Pope is eager to escape London and his unhappy past and accepts a commission to paint a wedding portrait for Herbert...

Christopher Rice In the darkening chill of winter, three Atherton University freshmen are being mysteriously drawn together by fate, and a compulsion they cannot comprehend. Though they come from vastly...

Raymond-Briggs A wonderful hand puppet book based on Raymond Briggs's classic, The Snowman. A little boy built a Snowman, and the Snowman came to life! Re-enact the magic of The...

Michael SnunitDeep within us lies a soul and in the soul lives a special bird. The soul bird opens and closes the drawers of our soul, which contains all our...

Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black It all started with a mysterious letter left at a tiny bookstore for authors Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. Its closing lines: "We just want...

Eoin Cole Satellite City is a world built on technology and dark secrets. Cosmo Hill is one of those dark secrets, as well as hundreds of other boys who live...

Lynne Kositsky When trapped or frightened, Esther sees windows -- and flying out of them -- as her only salvation. Young, Jewish and on the run from the Nazis, Esther...

Clayton E Swisher The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the...

Colin White and Laurie Boucke "Presents an in-depth humorous look at Dutch life, quirks, customs, and character, with observations of Dutch behavior in the Netherlands and abroad; includes appendices on...