Orson Scott Card offers a Christmas gift to his millions of fans with this short novel set during Ender's first years at the Battle School where it is forbidden to celebrate religious holidays. The ...
See how it starts for Callie and Michael in this digital-only short story set in the STARTERS world, told from Michael's pov. STARTERS received rave reviews, including this from the Los Angeles Times:...
Sabato Efisto was born from an unholy union, the bastard son of a martyred saint and the Devil. At least, that's what he's believed, for most of his life. His father is an Italian crime lord, a man s...
In World War One, pilots flew alone, engaging in aerial duels using rifles or revolvers. Solo planes evolved into two-seaters, then into ones capable of carrying entire squadrons. But, as aircraft gai...
The gripping memoir of a Black Hawk pilot shot down in Mogadishu, his capture, torture and fight for survival.
The South African folktale of how a boy and his father use their unusual talents to vanquish a terrible giant from the town that banished them.
Award-winning author Jim Haskins tells the story of the Underground Railroad. This colorful history weaves together personal stories, historical material, and letters of "conductors" and "stationmaste...
Semler turned his family's business, the aging Semco corporation of Brazil, into the most revolutionary business success story of our time. By eliminating uneeded layers of management and allowing emp...
On 17th December, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright changed our world with their first successful flight. Stunning photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in ...
There's a story about Ring Lardner, told of him (or against him) by his editor, Harold Ross, that claims his method of writing a story was to put down a few wildly distinct phrases on a piece of paper...
A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea The international bestseller with a radically simple message. The Go-Giver tells the story of an ambitious young man named Joe who yearns for success. Joe...
From Rwanda to Afghanistan, from Sudan to Iraq, this brilliantly written and at times blackly funny work of reportage shows how the humanitarian aid industry, the media and warmongers the world over a...
Marie Curie tells the story of the discoverer of radium, from her childhoodin Warsaw, to her experiments with radioactivity in Paris, to herrecognition as one of the preeminent scientists of her time....
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories not just of rabbis and philosophers but...
The stunning history of autism as it has been discovered and felt by parents, children and doctors Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnose...
Are all Enders evil? Not quite. Go inside the mind of a Marshal in this digital-only short story set in the STARTERS world. STARTERS received rave reviews, including this from the Los Angeles Times: “...
What does Drew Evans have to say next? Find out in this forty page short story, filled with his sexy charm, unique advice and hilarious one-liners. Marriage: the final frontier. Steven went first. He...
Kaiya escapes her ordeal at the hands of the Teleri Emperor, only to return to a homeland beset by enemies on all sides, and crumbling from within. As a teenager, she quelled a rebellion with the Dra...
This book is a visual chronicle of the Lucasfilm art department’s creation of new worlds, unforgettable characters, and newly imagined droids, vehicles, and weapons for the first movie in the Star War...
The Art of Solo: A Star Wars Story reveals, for the first time, the design evolution of each new fantastical set, otherworldly machine, and unforgettable character in the film. Packed with hundreds of...
War is part of American history. This book examines how military technology both moulded and reflected interactions between the American military and other American institutions. The growth of enginee...
The life of Martin Luther King, Jr., from his childhood to his role as leader of the civil rights movement. "An inspiring portrait.... Well documented, clearly written, and illustrated with captivatin...
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americanas Night of Golden Memories, coalesce in a magical fashion to become an irresistible piece of Americana, quite the equal of the film in...
While the battle for the compensation of Thalidomide victims was raging in the 1970s, former Labour MP Jack Ashley asked in a parliamentary debate how Louise, then 11 years old, could look forward to ...
The life story of former world boxing champion Harry Greb, detailing his battles in and out of the ring.
'I do not pretend to have given an exhaustive picture of the PolishUnderground, its organization and its activities. Because of our methods, Ibelieve that there is no one today who could give an all-e...
Cambridge University Press in partnership with Discovery Education has developed next generation graded Readers that will inspire curiosity and motivate your students with high interest topics, embedd...