A city made by people

MEET CAT In Jamaica . . . he learned the art of the "jux" robbing people by studying their everyday movements. By the age of eight, Cat was shoplif...

Reducere. The hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death were turned into tabloid fodder.In the early 1990s, eight people living in a small ...

Reducere. For the millions of girls--and the women they grow into--who are mad about horses, who live to ride, who spend more time in stables than stores, wh...

Reducere. DescriptionViolet Fynne was haunted-haunted by memory. It had been nearly ten years since her father had moved the family from the tiny town of Rat...

DescriptionAn inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson m...

The series that began with The Deceivers continues in Scammed, the second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and Th...

The classic nativity story through verse, artwork, and music. Christmas Eve is the perfect time to create family traditions, and we've made it more...

Reducere. This collection of biographies focuses on the discoverers and explorers of the New World - written for young readers, this is a superb introduction...

Reducere. "Original and arresting.... Jones's] stories will touch chords of empathy and recognition in all readers."--Washington Post "These 14 stories of Af...

The Decameron (c.1351) was written in the wake of the Black Death, a shattering epidemic which had shaken Florence's confident entrepreneurial soci...

DescriptionDid you know that the Aztecs sacrificed 500 to 700 people every year in order to satisfy Gods? For many years, the Aztecs have captured ...

Reducere. Be careful what you touch.My name is Darla, and people think I'm weird. I know this because I'm a telepath.After my second husband bails without a ...

Reducere. The series that began with The Deceivers continues in Scammed, the second twist-filled installment from Kristen Simmons, author of Article 5 and Th...

Reducere. The Artisan Bagel is the most iconic food ever made in the City of New York. It has become identified and synonomous with NYC itself. While people ...

In this fairy tale-like story a beloved tree is saved and children learn how architecture can co-exist with nature. The Austrian artist Friedensrei...

Reducere. *Includes excerpts from the texts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many people interested in biblical themes know ...

This novel, which has always been regarded as one of Scott's finest, opens with the Edinburgh riots of 1736. The people of the city have been infur...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Henry Hudson's expedition around Manhattan and relations with the Lenape natives *Includes accounts of tra...

Reducere. One luxury building holds six penthouse apartments owned by kinky Manhattanites. Their sizzling stories will be told throughout the Penthouse Pleas...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of Henry Hudson's expedition around Manhattan and relations with the Lenape natives *Includes accounts of tra...

Reducere. Description*Includes excerpts from the texts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Many people interested in biblical t...

Reducere. A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive th...

Description"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent."--Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are...

Reducere. Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in the city of Stern Bild while promoting their corp...

Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the frontier towns written by people who lived there *Profiles famous Westerners like Wyatt Ear...

It is 2084. Climate change has made life on the Caribbean island of Bajacu a gruelling trial. The sun is so hot that people must sleep in the day a...

Reducere. Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field in the city of angels. But when an emotional year forces her to walk away from her job as a physical the...

The epic story of a world before Columbus--and a woman bound by a sacred legacy that will live for all time... She is called Antelope, the daughter...

Reducere. Discover the inspiring illustrated true story about one girl's escape from the Holocaust to become a concert pianist against all odds, made popular...

DescriptionThe story of the Town Below the Ground is one of the most disturbing in the annals of Scottish history. For almost 250 years, Edinburgh ...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the building written by participants *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of con...

Reducere. The Birch Bark Books of Simon Pokagon is a collection of articles and legends written for and about the Potawatomi tribe by Simon Pokagon. Original...