Stefan Merrill BlockFifteen-year-old Seth Waller is devastated when his mother is diagnosed with a rare, early-onset form of Alzheimer's. When he was growing up, his mother always brushed aside questions...

Neal Karlen A delightfully unconventional tale of a people, their place in the world, and the fascinating language that held them together. Yiddish is an unlikely survivor of the ages,...

Kate Summerscale In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to...

Peter Lerangis New Hampshire is nicknamed the Granite State for its many granite quarries, but the state offers much more than just durable construction materials. A True Book: My United...

Beatrix Potter To celebrate Peter's birthday, Frederick Warne is publishing new editions of all 23 of Potter's original tales, which take the very first printings of Potter's works as their...

Jude Morgan From an obscure country parsonage came the most extraordinary family of the nineteenth century. The Brontë sisters created a world in which we still live - the intense,...

Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein"Media organizations should take note of Twitter's power to quickly reach their target consumers." --Tim O'Reilly (@timoreilly), in a Los Angeles Times interview, March 2009This practical...

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Karen J Nolan PhD and Jo-Ann Heslin MA, RD AN ESTIMATED 59 MILLION AMERICANS ARE FOLLOWING A LOW CARBOHYDRATE EATING PLAN. LET THE NUTRITION EXPERTS HELP YOU SORT THROUGH THE...

Author: Usborne This colorful, exciting book responds to the growing emphasis on scientific exploration for young children. All the activities are safe and easy to do, using ordinary household equipment....

Sherri Smith Rome, 63 BC.Offered up by her parents at the age of six to become a Vestal Virgin, one of six hand-picked women who symbolically protected the Roman Republic,...

Richard Zimler It's Autumn 1940. The Nazis seal 400,000 Jews inside a small area of the Polish capital, creating an urban island cut off from the outside world. Erik Cohen,...