Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Fyodor Dostoevsky
Publisher: Vintage
Product Description
With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Pevear and Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Dostoevsky’s classic novel that presents a clear insight into this astounding psychological thriller. “The best (translation) [...]
Rating: (41 reviews)
Author: David Helm
Publisher: Crossway Books
Product Description
Rather than simply retelling the most familiar short scenes from the Bible, this book presents the big picture the unified story running through the Old and New Testaments. This delightful book will help children learn the Bible s whole story and begin to appreciate [...]
Author: Jessica Blatt
Publisher: Watson-Guptill
Product Description
Suze Orman advises women on how to handle their money–and now Jessica Blatt advises the women of tomorrow on how to handle theirs. The newest addition to the Teen Girl’s Gotta-Have-It series empowers girls by showing them why money matters. From making money, to saving money, to investing money, [...]
Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Sebranek, Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer
Publisher: Great Source Education Group
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It’s meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven’t inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand [...]
Author: Lois H. Gresh
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Product Description
Everyone’s in love with vampires, and if his name happens to be Edward Cullen, then readers of the wildly popular Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer can’t help but be crazy about him. For all those who adore Bella Swan, Edward, and the rest of the Cullen family and [...]
Rating: (11 reviews)
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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The perfect dictionary for students in grades 6-9. This edition has been updated to reflect up-to-the-minute developments in all subject areas, from technology to world affairs.
Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: Richard M. Hannula
Publisher: Canon Press
Product Description
“Thus says the LORD: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; then you will find rest for your souls“(Jer. 6:16). Christianity is a faith in love with history. God [...]
Author: Peterson’s
Publisher: Arco
Product Description
The guide for students AND parents! Master the SSAT & ISEE provides all the prep needed to score higher on the SSAT and ISEE: up-to-date information on the tests, hundreds of practice questions and four full-length practice tests (all with detailed answer explanations), and solid test-taking advice. Also includes [...]
Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Elizabeth Payne
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Product Description
For more than 3,000 years, Egypt was a great civilization that thrived along the banks of the Nile River. But when its cities crumbled to dust, Egypt’s culture and the secrets of its hieroglyphic writings were also lost. The Pharaohs [...]
Rating: (36 reviews)
Author: James Thurber
Publisher: NYR Children’s Collection
Product Description
Once upon a time, in a gloomy castle on a lonely hill, where there were thirteen clocks that wouldn’t go, there lived a cold, aggressive Duke, and his niece, the Princess Saralinda. She was warm in every wind and weather, but he was [...]
Rating: (1 reviews)
Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
Product Description
The Princeton Review realizes that acing the SAT Literature Subject Test is very different from earning straight A’s in school. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about literature–only the techniques and information you’ll need to maximize your score. In [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Children’s Books
Product Description
Combines full-color maps and data sets to introduce students to the importance of the connections between geography and other areas of study. The thematic atlas gives students a clear picture of the recent agricultural, industrial, demographic, environmental, economic and political changes [...]
Rating: (4 reviews)
Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Product Description
Praise for A People’s History of the United States:
“Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid [...]
Rating: (32 reviews)
Author: L. J. Smith
Publisher: HarperTeen
Product Description
Elena: the golden girl, the leader, the one who can have any boy she wants.
Stefan: brooding and mysterious, he seems to be the only one who can resist Elena, even as he struggles to protect her from the horrors that haunt [...]
Rating: (13 reviews)
Author: Adrian Dingle, Simon Basher
Publisher: Kingfisher
Product Description
The Periodic Table introduces budding chemists to the world of the elements as it’s never been seen before. Designed to resemble popular networking Web sites, the pages of this book feature “homepages” for each of the chemical elements — complete with witty and [...]
Rating: (9 reviews)
Author: Fiona Watt
Publisher: Usborne Books
Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Brandon Mull
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Product Description
In the third volume, the peril escalates as an unexplained darkness infects the creatures of Fablehaven.
Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Eoin Colfer
Publisher: Miramax
Product Description
Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. All [...]
Rating: (90 reviews)
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Vision
Product Description
There’s one last chance to save the world in the third book in the Maximum Ride series, SAVING THE WORLD AND OTHER EXTREME SPORTS. The time has arrived for Max and her winged “flock” to face their ultimate enemy and discover their original purpose: [...]
Rating: (31 reviews)
Author: Louise Erdrich
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Product Description
Set in North Dakota at a time in this century when Indian tribes were struggling to keep what little remained of their lands, Tracks is a tale of passion and deep unrest. Over the course of ten crucial years, as tribal land and trust [...]
Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Miriam Cohen
Publisher: Aladdin
Product Description
Library of Congress Children’s Book of the YearWhen Pa was taking Jim to school for the first time, Jim said, “Will I have a friend at school?” “I think you will,” said Pa.But even his father’s gentle reassurance doesn’t make Jim feel any better. The [...]
Rating: (26 reviews)
Author: Patricia Maclachlan
Publisher: Joanna Cotler
Product Description
Within the sanctuary of a loving family, baby Eli is born and, as he grows, “learns to cherish the people and places around him, eventualy passing on what he has discovered to his new baby sister, Sylvie: ‘All the places to love are here [...]