Introduces core first concepts and animals. Contains six chunky board book with rounded corners in a rigid suitcase with magnetic closure. Animals, Concepts, Town and World in series.

A raccoon with burned feet who refuses to give up, a self-appointed guardian hen who refuses to leave an injured fox, an abandoned emu who plays pickup sticks with an old one-winged vulture, and a traumatized mother mockingbird who adopts an orphaned sparrow are among the characters. The tales are from Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, which Cuny founded in 1977, and are intended to convince readers that non-human species think and feel. She includes black-and-white photographs. No index or bibliography. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A memoir written at 95, by America's oldest living conscientious objector. It tells of the harsh treatment meted out to conscientious objectors during World War I, his upbringing in rural upstate New York, and the impact on his thinking by socialist leaders such as Eugene Dobs and Norman Thomas.

Adapted as the Lifetime original movie ""Custody,"" starring Rob Morrow, James Denton and Kay Panabaker. Winner of the 2007 DIY Book Festival award for Best Teenage Novel. Eleven-year-old Echo lives with her widower father above his New York City bar, a hangout for plumbers and professors alike. It's been a few years since her mother died, so Echo approves when her father begins to date again, especially because it's Darien, a journalist who was once a girl just like Echo. But what happens next will change all three of them---and Echo's understanding of family---forever.

Praise for Dolores Gordon-Smith: “With vision and vigor, Gordon-Smith pulls off another Golden Age delight.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch “A classic postwar country-house mystery with a Christie-like denouement.”—Kirkus Reviews “Dorothy Sayers fans will be most rewarded.”—Publishers Weekly Freezing and hungry, George Lassiter breaks into a stranger’s house where he witnesses a murder. But when the police find no evidence, they—and George’s friend Jack Haldean—believe George was delirious. Dangerous events soon prove everyone wrong. Dolores Gordon-Smith is the author of two previous mysteries in the Jack Haldean series. She graduated from Surrey University in 1981. From the Hardcover edition.

Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English Literature professorship. He frankly portrays the snobberies and rituals of 1950s Oxford, but also his inspiring meetings with writers and poets - Auden, Graves, Larkin, Heaney - and his forty-year stint as a lead book-reviewer for the Sunday Times. This is a book about the joys of reading - in effect, an informal introduction to the great works of English literature. But it is also about war and family, and how an unexpected background can give you the insight and the courage to say the unexpected thing.

Annabelle Stevens is back in the fifth book of the popular Annabelle Unleashed series and this time she means business.