Product Description: Gaskell's witty and poignant comedy of country-town life, and a gently comic picture of life in an English country town in the mid-nineteenth century, Cranford describes the small adventures of Miss Matty and Miss Deborah, two middle-aged spinster sisters striving to live with dignity in reduced circumstances...read more

Product Description: Max Stone hated school. He was always in trouble with a capital T. But now even Max's teacher, Mrs What-a-Shocker, thinks Max must have some brains! Max and his partner Ruby are in the final round of THE BRAIN, the most popular TV show of the year...read more

Product Description: Take an alphabetical journey through a rich and colorful steampunk world in this lavishly illustrated volume that invites readers to linger over every intricate detail.        Steampunk, with its irresistible combination of Victorian-era style and futuristic sensibility, comes to children's books with this stunning alphabet...read more

Product Description: Otto, a young cat, and his father spot some weird and wonderful sights as they drive through the village, around the traffic circle, along the highway, and into the dazzling heart of the city. Here is a bus carrying a school of fish, Santa’s reindeer at the shopping mall, and mice racing pen- and pencil-shaped cars! This wonderfully boisterous book, from renowned Belgian illustrator Tom Schamp, can be read from front to back and then, after being turned upside down, read again from back to front! The sturdy cardboard pages make it perfect for children to follow along the road themselves with their own toy cars! Children and parents alike will delight in Schamp’s highly detailed illustrations filled with clever references and visual jokes...read more

Product Description: Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Ville cruelle (Cruel City) in 1954 before he came to the world's attention with the publication of Le pauvre Christ de Bomba (The Poor Christ of Bomba). Cruel City tells the story of a young man's attempt to cope with capitalism and the rapid urbanization of his country...read more

Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author -- Faith Harrington was the classic girl of privilege -- until her father was convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, and then her marriage crashed and burned. Now Faith is back in her hometown hoping for a fresh start...read more

Product Description: "I've seen a ghost," said Emily. "Well, not seen one exactly. Heard one. At least, I think I have…"Everything has a rational explanation. Unless it doesn’t. Welcome to Weirdsville…Woodsville is not like other towns. Night falls a little earlier there, the shadows are darker and denser, and everyone knows it's a place where strange things happen...read more

Product Description: Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion souls, the massive Urbmon system is humanity's salvation...read more