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Describes the life and work of the renowned nineteenth-century biologist who transformed conventional Western thought with his theory of natural evolution.

Alice Rose, an irrepressible twelve-year-old, shares adventures with Mark Twain, an outlandish reporter on her father's newspaper in Virginia City, Nevada, during the 1860s.

An exploration of Canadian Remembrance Day history, customs, and traditions. Who are the people who offered their lives in war? Why do we remember them? How do we honour their memory?

In the midst of war, Soren's sister, Eglantine, unwittingly becomes a spy for Kludd, leader of the Pure Ones, a group of evil owls.

An ancient malevolence that will threaten the very existence of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree has been loosed from the past.

Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, and one day Soren is captured and imprisoned with other owls in a dark canyon.

It began as a dream, a quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds.

Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again.

Soren's beloved mentor, Ezylryb, is finally back at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. But all is not well. There's a war between good and evil in the owl kingdom.

Soren and his band are sent to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to gather allies and learn the art of war in preparation for the coming cataclysmic battle against the sinister Pure Ones.

Nyroc has exiled himself from the Pure Ones.

A tale of chaos, betrayal, and nachtmagen unfolds in the second of three ancient legends.

The eleventh title in this best-selling series brings Hoole to kingship and the legends to fulfilment signaling a return to the adventures of Coryn, Soren and the Band.

After the time of the legends, the tale of the Guardians returns to the present in which Soren, the hero of books 1- 6 in the New York Times bestselling Guardians of Ga' Hoole series, must train a

"Night Watch" was radio's first "reality show", a program that brought live and authentic police drama to the airwaves.