A lackluster, somewhat alcoholic partner at a top law firm, Mack Malloy is assigned to investigate the disappearance of the firm's star lawyer and five million dollars.

"Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displacement, including her own. Part memoir, part communal storytelling, We Are Displaced introduces readers to some of the incredible girls Malala has met on her many journeys and lets each one tell her story--girls who have lost their community, relatives, and often the only world they've ever known, but have not lost hope. Longing for home and fear of an uncertain future binds all of these young women,...

"From tiny orchid seeds to giant coco de mer palm seeds, wind-born seeds to water-born seeds, this poetic illustrated book describes the incredible variety of seeds and how they grow into a diverse array of plants"--

Introduces the Sun and its key role in the solar system, describing how it gives Earth warmth, light, and life, and explains its role in photosynthesis, the water cycle, and developing seasons.

Over the course of a steamy and tense afternoon, twelve jurors deliberate the fate of a nineteen-year-old boy alleged to have murdered his own father. A seemingly open and shut case turns complicated, igniting passions and hidden prejudices.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

A brazen ex-football player who enters the ministry and, through his half-plagiarized sermons, his physical attractiveness, and his unerring instinct for promotion, becomes a successful evangelist and later the leader of a large Middle Western church. Elmer Gantry is one of the Sinclair Lewis's most famous novels. Considered scandalous in its day, it is a vicious satire of preachers and those they fool. Gantry has no redeeming features but is seen...

Brief rhymes for each letter of the alphabet, accompanied by longer explanatory text, present features of the United States. An alphabet book for the United States with colorful illustrations, rhymes, & facts, the wide range of people, places and cultures that make up our hemispere. Young children will gain a good sense of the diversity of the Americas as a whole. The author of the charming fable "Fibblestax" includes a rhyming poem for each letter...

Minamoto Yoshitsune had little going for him. When he was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family and lost. His father was killed, his mother captured, and his brothers sent away. Yoshitsune was raised in his enemy's household until he was exiled to a monastery. He had no money, no allies, and no martial training. He wasn't big or strong or good-looking. His only assets were brains, ambition, and a dream. But childhood dreams...