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A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal righ

The story of Theseus, saved from death as a baby, narrowly escaping having his legs sliced off by an axe-wielding inn-keeper, he also has time to defeat hoards of pirates and kill the Minotaur!

A mysterious group called the Green Band makes a shocking, surprise attack on Wall Street. Two unforgettable heroes stand between the clever saboteurs and economic world war...

This is the classic reference on world history, recognized as the most comprehensive general history ever written, the result of four decades of work by Will and Ariel Durant - a set that The New Y

Volume 2 of The Story of Civilization, the Durants' dynamic synthesis of world history, deals with Greek civilization.

Continuing the story begun in Boy, this is the second part of Roald Dahl's autobiography, in which he creates a world as bizarre and unnerving as any you will find in his fiction...

During the days before her sixteenth birthday, Mia records in her diary her fear that her grandmother and friends may be planning to throw an extravagant Sweet Sixteen party.

Two centuries after the building of the elaborate Gothic cathedral in Kingsbridge, its prior finds himself at the center of a web of ambition and revenge that places the city at a crossroad of comm

When India Selwyn Jones, a young woman from a noble family, graduates from the London School of Medicine for Women in 1900, her professors advise her to set up her practice in London's esteeme

Ron Barassi is one of the gladiators of Australian sport.

From the Publisher: When Nora Brennan, fresh to America from Ireland, lands herself a position as nursery maid to a family in Brookline, Massachusetts, she little thinks it will place her at the h

When Delia Chandler, an eighteen-year-old southern girl, marries Viscount Ivor Conisborough just before WWII, it's every girl's dream come true, but when she realizes after the birth of h

A young farm boy who possesses mysterious powers is chosen by the king to be the court's royal magician.

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa.

Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base.