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50 Cities of the U.S.A.
Explore America's cities with 50 fact-filled maps
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Explore skyscraper streets, museum miles, local food trucks and city parks of the United States of America and discover more than 2,000 facts that celebrate the people, culture, and diversity that have helped make America what it is today. From Anchorage to Washington D.C., take a trip through America’s...
by James Newton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Sample these great Maine - New England seafood dishes, the pride of the East Coast of the USA.
Delancey
A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
The New York Times bestseller from the author of A Homemade Life and the blog Orangette about opening a restaurant with her new husband: “You’ll feel the warmth from this pizza oven...cheerfully honest...warm and inclusive, just like her cooking” (USA TODAY).
When Molly Wizenberg married...
The First Step
How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The inspiring read-to-me eBook about four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first African American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion.
Junior Library Guild Selection
2017 Orbis Pictus Honor Book
Chicago Public LibraryKids Best of the...
A Geography of Oysters
The Connoisseur's Guide to Oyster Eating in North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2010
In this passionate, playful, and indispensable guide, oyster aficionado Rowan Jacobsen takes readers on a delectable tour of the oysters of North America. Region by region, he describes each oyster's appearance, flavor, origin, and availability, as well as explaining how oysters grow, how to shuck...
The Essential Oyster
A Salty Appreciation of Taste and Temptation
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
From Rowan Jacobsen, America's go-to expert, the author of the trailblazing A Geography of Oysters, comes the ultimate oyster guide--a gorgeous, full-color, must-have book.
A decade ago, Rowan Jacobsen wrote a book called A Geography of Oysters that celebrated the romance of oysters, the primal...
by Nathan Aaseng
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers-a group of Navajos communicating in a code...
by Mr. John J. Bonk
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
Lexi and her younger brother, Kevin, are spending the summer in New York City with their colorful actress aunt while their father is away on his honeymoon with his new wife. Still mourning the loss of their mother, time in NYC should be a welcome change for Lexi and Kevin-assuming that the day camp...
Ben's Revolution
Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Bunker Hill
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
History comes alive in this gripping account of a young boy caught up in the start of the Revolutionary War. Based on an episode in National Book Award–winning author Nathaniel Philbrick’s New York Times bestseller Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution, this engrossing story allows readers...
by Juan Felipe Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
An inspiring tribute to Hispanic Americans who have made a positive impact on the world
This visually stunning book showcases twenty Hispanic and Latino American men and women who have made outstanding contributions to the arts, politics, science, humanitarianism, and athletics. Gorgeous portraits...
One Last Word
Wisdom from the Harlem Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
"One Last Word is the work of a master poet." --Kwame Alexander, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Crossover
From the New York Times bestselling and Coretta Scott King award-winning author Nikki Grimes comes an emotional, special new collection of poetry inspired by the Harlem Renaissance--paired...
Champion
The Story of Muhammad Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
"I am the greatest! I am the king!"
Muhammad Ali was one of the most electrifying, inspiring, and confrontational athletes of his generation. At the height of his boxing career, Ali was as despised as he was adored. Loud and aggressive as well as confident and dedicated, he was the...
Path to the Stars
My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The inspiring memoir for young readers about a Latina rocket scientist whose early life was transformed by joining the Girl Scouts and who currently serves as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA.
A meningitis outbreak in their underprivileged neighborhood left Sylvia Acevedo’s family forever...
The Year of the Monkey
Tales from the Chinese Zodiac
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Only English children's book series on the animals of the Chinese New Year
11th in the annual series (12 planned)
60,000 copies sold across the series to date
appeals to families with pre-school & elementary school age children, teachers, librarians, educators
growing...