Flash imprint: 123 books
King George: What Was His Problem?
Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
KING GEORGE NEVER DID UNDERSTAND AMERICANS
"Entire books have been written about the causes of the American Revolution. This isn't one of them." What it is, instead, is utterly interesting, antedotes (John Hancock fixates on salmon), from the inside out (at the Battle of Eutaw Springs,...
by Susan Pearson
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
AN INTREPID VOYAGE. A GROUNDBREAKING THEORY. The life and work of one
of the world's most influential scientists.
Young readers of this altogether fascinating biography follow Charles Darwin not only on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle but also through the thinking that led him to his world-changing...
Digital Revolutionaries
The Men and Women Who Brought Computing to Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
In the beginning, there was the computer. And it was big. As big as a room. Sometimes as big as a house. Early computers required teams of white-coated scientists to keep them running, yet one of those giant behemoths could not match the computing power of a single microchip today. From the first...
Coral Reefs
A Journey Through an Aquatic World Full of Wonder
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt,...
Which Way to the Wild West?
Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
History--with the good bits put back. Discover the drama, discoveries, dirty deeds and derring-do that won the American West.
With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin's Which Way to the Wild West? delivers America's greatest...
Short
Walking Tall When You're Not Tall At All
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
A SURVIVAL GUIDE TO GROWING UP SHORT. Part science book, part memoir—a
book for everyone concerned about looking (or feeling) different.
When veteran journalist John Schwartz took a close look at famous height studies, he made a surprising discovery: being short doesn't have to be a disadvantage!...
Ballet for Martha
Making Appalachian Spring
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance
Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer
Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer
Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman
Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg...
by Svetlana Alexievich
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2019
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 25, 2019
La ganadora del Premio Nobel de literatura, Svetlana Alexiévich, le da vida a las numerosas voces de aquellas mujeres silenciadas por la guerra.
Deberíais crecer, niñas... Estáis muy verdes aún... Es uno de los fragmentos del ensayo La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer: un corpus formado...
Bootleg
Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitions, and activism paid off—when a Constitional Amendment banning the sale and consumption...
America Is Under Attack
September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011One of Horn Book's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011
On the ten year anniversary of the September 11 tragedy, a straightforward and sensitive book for a generation of readers too young to remember that terrible day.
The events...
Boy on the Lion Throne
The Childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
From humble beginnings to world leader, a new biography focuses on the childhood of the Dalai Lama, as his country remains at the center of the world stage.
On a quiet winter morning in 1937, several men on horseback rode into the tiny Tibetan village of Taktser. Disguised as peasants, the...
Stephen King
El escritor constante
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Una interesante introducción a la vida y obra del maestro del horror.
De la mano de Ariel Bosi, uno de los mayores expertos en la vida y obra del Rey de Reyes, conocerás los inicios como escritor de Stephen King, sus muchos fracasos, sus penurias económicas y sus principales logros como...
by Bruce Weinstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
It's not always easy to figure out what's right or wrong.
Your parents say one thing, your teachers say another, and your friends say something else entirely. Is it okay to tell a friend that her cookies taste awful? How should you respond when you see someone cheating on a test? And what's...
Bird Talk
What Birds Are Saying and Why
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
A gorgeously illustrated tribute to birds of all kinds and the fantastic, funny, fascinating things that they do.
Birds have lots of ways of communicating: They sing and talk, dance and drum, cuddle and fight. But what does all of the bird talk mean?
Filled with gorgeous illustrations, this...