Adventuresofafrenchreader

"A playful introduction to design and architecture with cutaway scenes of ten buildings, featuring an interactive guessing game and search-and-find. In this interactive first book of architecture, children discover how architects design everyday...

"Wyatt Gwyon forges not from larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals"- pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit...

A criminal feigns insanity and is admitted to a mental hospital where he challenges the autocratic authority of the head nurse.

"Warm, witty, imaginative. . . . This is a rich and winning book."--The New Yorker Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, one of American literature's...

Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison...