Product Description: Where is the beautiful butterfly going and why? The curious child follows the butterfly on a sunny afternoon in search of answers. Readers young and old who have ever wished they had wings will feel their spirits lift with this enchanting illustrated tale...read more

Product Description: Built on the shores of the Delaware Bay in 1925, Sequoia is a Trumpy-designed 104-foot wooden motor yacht that has hosted eight U.S. presidents and has become a Chesapeake Bay icon. Giles M. Kelly served as the yachts skipper from 1983 to 1988, and was surprised to find no book chronicled her history...read more

Product Description: In this simple tale, the novel's hero is the talented heir to a notable family in Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts, and in politics. But he enters a society affected by powerful international influences—French intellectual developments, English trading practices—that trouble and frustrate him...read more

Product Description: 'Fascinating and engrossing... I thoroughly enjoyed it' -MADELINE WICKHAM Rowena and Phyllida are both sixty-something, and both on their own - so what better than sharing their declining years? They have known each other for fifty years - and there's something to be said for the devil you know...read more

Product Description: Eca de Queiros was Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, whose works brilliantly evoke -- and condemn -- the rapidly changing society of his times. The Maias (1888) depicts the declining fortunes of a landowning family over three generations as they are gradually undermined by hypocrisy, complacency, and sexual license...read more

Product Description: Exhibition catalogue by one of the outstanding talents of present-day print making.

The Romper Room characters help to build vocabulary through the celebration of birthdays and other holidays throughout the year. Also includes a list of special days and interesting facts for each of the twelve months.