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At the pinnacle of the Gilded Age, a boycott of Pullman sleeping cars by hundreds of thousands of railroad employees brought commerce to a standstill across much of the country.

All previous biographies of Napoleon have relied more on the memoirs of others than on his own uncensored words.

For every parent deprived of sleep by a restless infant or toddler, now there's hope.

A memoir from screenwriter Jeb Rosebrook about the making of a classic film of the American west.

Jennifer Robson takes us inside the workrooms where one of the most famous wedding gowns in history was created.

Twelve-year-old Mace Blazer gets the chance to pilot a state-of-the-art vehicle, that transforms at the touch of a button from racecar to jet plane to submarine, in the biggest race in the world.

With her powerful new book, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai starts with her own story of displacement to show what it means to lose your home, your community, and the only world you've ev

Norris Kaplan is clever, cynical, and quite possibly too smart for his own good. A Black French Canadian, he knows moving to Austin, Texas won't be easy.

Black Enough is a star-studded anthology edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi that will delve into the closeted thoughts, hidden experiences, and daily struggles of black teens across t

The Unteachables--the misfits, delinquents, and losers in room 117 kept isolated from the student body--never thought they'd find a teacher with a worse attitude than theirs.

Ella Mentry School is having a science fair. Guest scientist Dr. Snow has arrived to help A. J. and his friends conduct their own cool experiments. But what is "the Snowman" really planning?

Journalist Doug Bock Clark tells the stunning inside story of the Lamalerans, an ancient tribe of 1,500 hunter-gatherers who live on a volcanic island so remote it is known by other Indonesians as

Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, this novel is a contemporary twist of Homer's Odyssey.

Nature writer Craig Childs presents a collection of forty essays, each of which focuses on a personal encounter with a particular species.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influenc