Describes the country of France, including its history, geography, language, customs, and tourist attractions.

Mice carefully dress for an evening out, journey across Paris in a hot air balloon, and finally arrive at a secret place to see the circus that only they know about.

"Sylvie and her mother and grandmother are beloved, trusted healers in their medieval French village, though some whisper that fifteen-year-old Sylvie and her grand-mere deal in more than herbs and medicines ... After her grandmother dies, and an attempt to use magic to heal her mother's grief brooks tragic consequences, Sylvie leaves her village in search of a teacher"--

""I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it."--David Brooks. With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored...

What happens when Maria Brooks, now Elena Johnson, a woman hiding out in Provence from the legal authorities in California, meets Jordan Cramer, a handsome art theft detective from Los Angeles? He's looking for stolen paintings reportedly for sale in Provence. She's trying to stay under the radar. Both share a love for food and wine. Will Jordan find Pierre, the French chef who's suspected of being the art thief? And who are the young Afghani girls...

"Learn how iconic sports figure Muhammad Ali became a boxing champion, a gold-medal Olympian, and a civil rights activist" -- page 4 of cover.

An anthology of African-American poetry represents 250 years of the black experience, with selections from a wide variety of poets.

A collection of poems by African-American writers, including Lucy Terry, Gwendolyn Bennett, and Alice Walker.

An anthology representing more than two hundred years of African American creative poetic endeavors features the work of fifty-two poets.

Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...