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The grand master of cooking has a new apprentice in the kitchen: his granddaughter. Jacques Pepin is one of the nation's most famous cooking teachers, renowned for his knife skills.

On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the "white" beach.

Betty Crocker updates a beloved classic, with more than 200 recipes and 125 photos that showcase the best of the Christmas season.

On November 14, 1963, a volcano fifteen miles off the shore of Iceland exploded under the sea, resulting in a brand-new island.

Chris P. Bacon was born with malformed legs, but with the help of a wheelchair made of construction toys, he's become a hero to people with similar challenges.

Tasting Table calls the Instant Pot "the hottest kitchen tool since George Foreman's pint-size grill" and everyone from Ruth Reichl to top food bloggers rave about its efficiency, convenience, and

From the legendary civil rights activist and author of the million-copy selling Warriors Don't Cry comes an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up while facing adversity in the Jim

Every kid knows that pirates talk funny, swing a big sword, and seek buried treasure-don't they' What do we really know about Blackbeard, Madame Cheng, Sir Francis Drake, and other men an

Pete Ferry, our narrator, teaches high school English in the wealthy Chicago suburb of Lake Forest and moonlights as a travel writer.

For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction.

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume...'ever once fails to instruct and stimulate.

During a dark night in December, a man sits in his room sadly thinking about his lost love, Lenore. Suddenly, he hears a tapping on the door, but no one is there.

King Hrothgar of Denmark has a problem: though his land prospers, his great mead-hall is plagued nightly by a horrible beast, Grendel, that pillages and kills his men.