[Read by Christopher Lane]The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi Williams reimagines the historical La Perouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage -- natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world -- ranging from London to Alaska, from remote South Pacific islands to Siberia, and eventually back to France. The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era. By turns elegiac, profound, and comic, Landfalls reinvents the maritime adventure novel for the twenty-first century.

Product Description: The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discoveryIn her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi Williams reimagines the historical La Perouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France...read more

A portrait of the legendary blues artist chronicles his rise from the rural poverty of the Mississippi Delta to become a world-famous musician, in a memoir set against a backdrop of growing blues and rock-and-roll movements. Reprint. AB.

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Nestled in the grass under the big palm tree by the edge of the desert there is an entire civilization--a civilization of beetles. In this bug's paradise, beetles write books, run restaurants, and even do scientific research.But not too much scientific research is allowed by the powerful and elders, who guard a terrible secret about the world outside the shadow of the palm tree. Lucy is not one to quietly cooperate, however. This tiny field scientistdefies the law of her safe but authoritarian home and leads a team of researchers out into the desert. Their mission is to discover something about the greater world...but what lies in wait for them is going to change everything Lucy thought she knew. Beetles are not the only living creatures in the world. Deftly combining suspenseful adventure storytelling with the principles and tools of scientific inquiry, entomologist and cartoonist Jay Hosler has created in Beetles &Bones a tale that satisfies and fascinates even the most bug-averse among us.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Joining a scientific expedition gives Max and the flock a perfect opportunity to distance themselves from the heated debate over their future, but frostbite isn't the only danger in the Antarctic! A powerful figure in the underworld has promised the super-human kids to the highest bidder-and he has the robotic army to ensure the goods are delivered...read more

Product Description: Emma Parks joins a monkey research project deep in the South American rainforest on a whim. She refuses to admit it might have something to do with a close friend's death from which she has not recovered, but it's certainly not because she knows anything about spider monkeys, least of all what they look like...read more

Product Description: More than anything, Maya wants to discover something incredible. Her parents are scientists: Her mother spends most of her time in tropical rainforests, uncovering ancient artifacts, and her dad is obsessed with digging up mammoths...read more

Twenty years after a wealthy British financier disappears near the site of a lost fabled city, the man's daughter leads an expedition of scientists in search of the city, which harbors a powerful but dangerous energy source.

In a period five thousand years into the future in which the human race maintains an uneasy peace throughout thousands of planets, scientists discover a first sign of intelligent alien life when they locate a mobile planet, a finding that a shuttle pilot, an artist, and a history professor are dispatched to investigate. By the author of Flash. Reprint.

Authoritative editions of great classics of world literature feature introductions by acclaimed writers, meticulous translations of foreign literature, commentary by distinguished writers and critics, biographical notes, and a comprehensive Reading Group Guide bound into each volume.

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After surviving a strange car accident, a gambler heads to Antarctica where he accidentally discovers a dinosaur preserved in the ice--a discovery that raises important questions about genetics as well as the strange nature of fate and prediction. Original.

A group of people who still carry wounds from the Civil War heads West in 1876, after the Battle of Little Bighorn, on an expedition to a dinosaur fossil dig, in a story narrated through the reminiscences of scientific illustrator Eleanor Peterson. By the author of Letters from Yellowstone. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

America's greatest living bluesman shares a candid look at his life and his music, disclosing details of his life as a poor boy in the Mississippi Delta, his various relationships, his struggles with racism, and the evolution of his sound, from rural acoustic to urban electric blues. Reprint.

Sent on a research project to the jungles of New Guinea with her naturalist aunt and uncle, Lindalee finds herself attracted to Bob Brewster, a member of the expedition who has a knack for getting into trouble.