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The good Doctor Dolittle, accompanied by his devoted animal friends, sets sail once again, to learn the secret of the Shellfish language and to teach his young protégé all there is to know about

The story of a young Navajo who is raised by white parents and struggles to find a place in society.

Five international agents embark on a car trip in a Cadillac, traveling from Switzerland to the Sudan.

Henderson explores the entire Maya cultural tradition, from the earliest traces of settlement through the period of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century. 

She's a fashion model who has everything--until a sudden freeway "accident." Enter Brandy Alexander, Queen Supreme, one operation away from becoming a real woman, who will teach her the real meanin

Six-year-old Emma vanished into the thick San Francisco fog. Or into the heaving Pacific. Or somewhere just beyond: to a parking lot, a stranger's van, or a road with traffic flashing by.

Spencer offers a telling portrait of the founder of Islam, detailing Muhammad's development from a preacher of hellfire and damnation into a political and military leader who expanded his rule by f

This classic thriller of human triumph over an alien threat inspired the acclaimed 1956 film directed by Don Siegel.

Young Alvin Maker is born into an alternative frontier America, where folk magic is real and he himself is gifted with power.

In 1994, the Rwanda government began killing its Tutsi minority people and 800,000 were murdered. Gourevitch details the genocide's background and aftermath.

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of China, farmer Wang Lung glories in the soil he works.

The Spartans of ancient Greece were a powerful and unique people, radically different from any civilization before or since.

From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London.

It was the first war we could not win.

For twelve-year-old Douglas, summer means new tennis shoes, dandelions for Grandfather's intoxicant, and the clang of a trolley on a hazy afternoon.