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Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who bec

Critically acclaimed for his international bestseller, A Case of Curiosities, Allen Kurzweil has been called one of today's most gifted new voices in fiction.

Íso, a young Guatemalan woman, works at a fertility clinic at Ixchel, in the highlands of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas.

"Legendary war photographer Vivienne Pink has five days to photograph servicemen about to deploy for active combat.

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Aux belles heures de sa bibliothèque, le Mont-Saint-Michel était connu comme la Cité des livres.

Mikael Dionne a seize ans, bientôt dix-sept. Il a quitté la Beauce pour une dérive montréalaise qui l'a conduit, après un vol à l'étalage raté, à devenir un dévot de Krishna.

In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital.

In Joseph Boyden's novella, an Ojibwe boy runs away from a North Ontario Indian School.

Stanley's people go out a lot. Stanley is a good dog, but one night, while they're away, the temptation becomes too great and he sneaks up onto the couch. What a wonderful experience!

Eleven-year-old Nora K. received Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World as a birthday present, and in it she read about Plato’s theory of ideas.

Take a step back in time and enter the world of Ancient Greece, the birthplace of western civilization.

Provides an overview of the types of games children played during the Middle Ages.

"Shh! My brother's napping. He really needs his sleep," admonishes our adorable narrator at the outset of this story.