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Winner of the 2015 Strega Prize for Young AuthorsA young girl struggles with her beloved brother's accidental death, her mother's depression, and fitting in at school in Fabio Genovesi's touching, funny, and imaginative new novel.Thirteen-year-old Luna lives in a small town on the coast of Tuscany. ... More

Errol can make a fortune from the virgin rainforest owned by his aunt, Mrs Nichols, if only he can force her to sell it to him. But the forest is haunted by an Aboriginal devil called The Follower, and The Follower is highly displeased with Errol.... More

Bill Scott uses elements of Aboriginal folklore to create a powerful, compelling novel in the best traditions of heroic fantasy.... More

Throughout the years Australians have used a variety of transport - horses, wagons pulled by horses or bullocks, riverboats, camels, trains, ships (along the coast), and finally cars, trucks and aeroplanes. In this book you will travel throughout Australia and to Papua New Guinea in different times ... More

A collection of stories. Many Australian's like to "go bush" - to get away from cities and towns and to enjoy nature.... More

In this book you will read a variety of success stories about Australians who lived at different times and who did things the way they felt they had to do them.... More

A collection of folk tales from islands neighbouring Australia.... More

A collection of sea stories. In this book you will have some adventures on the sea. You will meet some unusual people and fish! You will also find out how surfing began and what it is like to photograph the great white shark.... More

In this story, Peter, a boy, and Sailor, a big, seafaring man, are sailing on the Dancing Lady when it is shipwrecked out from Sydney on a lonely, unknown spot of the coast in the early 1800s. They make friends with an Aboriginal tribe.... More

We hope you will enjoy these tales of the Northern Territory in which you will meet its characters, animals, traditions and humour.... More

THE DAY SATAN CALLED is Bill Scott's account of an excruciating 18-month period in his life. Out of Christian love he and his wife invited a young lady who was demon possessed and the member of an active satanic network into their home. They prayed the sinner's prayer with her and believed that they... More

“Surprising. Impressive. Cannibalism restores my faith in humanity.” —Sy Montgomery, The New York Times Book Review For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to star... More

"Fascinating . . . Surprising entertainment, combining deep learning with dad jokes . . . [Schutt] is a natural teacher with an easy way with metaphor.&” —The Wall Street Journal A journey into the heartbeat of life on Earth.   Millennia ago, when we first began puzzling over the mysteries of the hu... More

In the spirit of Robert Sullivan's "Rats" and Mary Roach's "Stiff" comes this richly informed and at times very funny exploration into the world of blood-feeding animals--from vampire bats and leeches to ticks, bedbugs, and vampire fish. Line drawings throughout.... More

A groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, forged an enduring friendship that... More

Longlisted for the National Book AwardA groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American Revoluti... More

Longlisted for the National Book AwardA groundbreaking book—two decades in the works—that tells the story of how a brilliant writer-turned-activist, granddaughter of a mulatto slave, and the first lady of the United States, whose ancestry gave her membership in the Daughters of the American Revoluti... More

Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience at Sabre, Yahoo!, and Netflix, these... More

A prophetic memoir by the activist who “articulated the intellectual foundations” (The New Yorker) of the civil rights and women’s rights movements. <P><P> First published posthumously in 1987, Pauli Murray’s Song in a Weary Throat was critically lauded, winning the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award an... More

"Looks like Schutt and Finch are filling the void left by the passing of Michael Crichton."--James Cameron, director/writer/explorerIn the wake of World War II, zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready is sent to the frozen mountain valleys of Tibet to find a creature of legend that may hold... More

When a Japanese submarine is discovered abandoned deep in the Brazilian wilderness, a smart, adventurous, and tough zoologist must derail a catastrophic plot in Hell's Gate.1944. As war rages in Europe and the Pacific, Army Intel makes a shocking discovery: a 300-foot Japanese sub marooned and empty... More

The authors of Hell’s Gate and The Himalayan Codex deliver their third high-octane thriller—a page-turning blend of science, history, and suspense featuring zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready.“Looks like Schutt and Finch are filling the void left by the passing of Michael Crichton.”—Ja... More

This ground-breaking collection provides hours of enjoyment for the general reader and a wealth of materials needed to develop course units on black women; political theory, literary essays on major writers, guidelines for consciousness-raising about racism, and surveys of black women's contribution... More

"“The People’s Victory is a mirror for each of us to see our own power to fight for justice and create the change we want to see in our world.” – Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of CaliforniaIn 1996, a small group of Americans from all walks of life banded together to create one of the most miracu... More

The revolutionary work of graphic storytelling that inspired a new art form. Will Eisner was present at the dawn of comics. In the 1940s, he pushed the boundaries of the medium with his acclaimed weekly comic strip The Spirit, and with the publication of A Contract with God in 1978, he created a ne... More