Poetry dedicated to the victims of genocide and war. An Homer award winning book. Sona
Van's subject is the Armenian genocide, also known as the Great Catastrophe. Her family was driven into exile due to this horrific event. Her poems ...
After ten years of being told she can't tell the difference between real life and
a fairy tale, Alice finally stops believing in Wonderland. So when the White Rabbit shows up at her house, Alice thinks she's going crazy. Only ...
Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico, may be the most charismatic figure in the
Democratic Party today and one of its best natural politicians whose name isn't Bill Clinton. He is the man Colin Powell has called for advice, ...
The first volume in Churchill's epic history of English-speaking peoplesThe English-speaking peoples comprise perhaps the
greatest number of human beings sharing a common language in the world today. These people also share a common heritage. For his four-volume work, Sir ...
Thich Nhat Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist monk whose lifelong efforts to generate peace and
reconciliation moved Martin Luther King, Jr. to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967. Thay (pronounced Tie), as his followers call him, has ...
By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson
revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize. At the time, Watson was only twenty-four, a brilliant young zoologist hungry to make his mark. His ...
On a cold January morning in 1973, inside a stately old house in Reykjavik, blood
pools around Jacob Kieler Junior from a fatal gunshot wound to his chest. Detective Jóhann Pálsson, an expert in the emerging field of forensics, is ...
Hasan is 11 years old. He loves cricket, pomegranates, the night sky, his clever, vibrant
artistic mother and his etymologically obsessed lawyer father, and he adores his next-door neighbour Zehra. One early summer morning, while lazing happily on the roof, ...