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Get Your Head in the Game!
"Whether you're tuning into the Superbowl, the Olympics, or Heated Rivalry, there's no question that sports are in the spotlight. Check out one of these sports novels to tide you over until the next game."
In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Soviet Union. Nearly twenty years later, Ioffe returned to Moscow-only to discover just how much Russian society had changed while she had been living in America. The Soviet women she had...
"Though aimed at young readers, we think it also works as a great collector's item for all ages - a keepsake to remember this moment in history (even if you're just watching from afar, in some place like Wisconsin)."- Rolling Stone "...promises...
The political and the personal become blurred in a series of tense, tantalizing conversations about resistance. A pared-back yet gripping psychological novel from the acclaimed author of Death and the Maiden and Allegro . A woman travels to...
In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their home in Kobe, leaving them searching for shelter and scrambling to survive in the depths of the countryside. But, as their suffering becomes...
