The Elements of Style, the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. A new Foreword by Roger Angell reminds readers that the advice of Strunk & White is as valuable today as when it was first offered

A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which unlimately leads her to reality

It explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all thongs

This book said that it helped launch the modern revolution in biology and genetics, and inspired a generation of scientists, including Watson and Crick, to explore the riddle of life itself

For over 1500 years books have weathered numerous cultural changes remarkably unaltered.

Xinjiang, or the "New Territory", also known as Eastern Turkistan, makes up a sixth of China

After years of standing against the U.S. government, Geronimo, the great warrior and spiritual leader, is coming to the end of his life. His grandson visits him where he is imprisoned, in Fort Sill, Oklakhoma, in 1908, a visit which ignites a story brimming with a little-known, thoroughly researched details about the man who said to "see into the future and walk without creating footprints." In this gripping novel, Joseph Bruchac brings history alive with one of the most legendary and fascinating figures of our time

Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine: with her eccentic great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters

The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation