Considers the pleasures to be found in one's very own private place, whether it be a hollow in a tree, a sandy gully, or a secret sand dune.

At the age of fourteen, Lakshmi leaves behind her childhood among the mango trees of Ceylon for married life across the ocean in Malaysia, and soon finds herself sturggling to raise a family in a country that is, by turns, unyielding and amazing, brutal and beautiful.

To escape the Inquisition, Esther Marchadi, the sixteen-year-old daughter of a murdered Jewish rabbi, disguises herself as a boy and joins the crew of Christopher Columbus's "Santa Maria."

In the village of Alesford, Massachusetts, a dispute breaks out between commercial interests, intent on building apartments on the town's wetlands, and environmentalists who oppose them. When the dispute escalates to arson and murder, it is time for sleuth and cook Faith Fairchild to step in. By the author of The Body in the Kelp.

Insights from the daily life of a guide dog puppy explore life, love, loyalty, and forgivness

Princess Contessa of Costenopolie knows everything a royal should about diplomacy, self-defense, politics...and shopping. She ought to. She had every reason to believe that she was groomed to rule. But her next lesson is in betrayal...The sudden arrival of her betrothed, a prince from the kingdom of Misdev, has forced Tess's parents to come clean: She's no princess. Their real daughter was raised in a nunnery for fear of asassins...

Two sisters find a good use for the roses they have grown when a flower show in New York City is canceled due to the attack on the World Trade Center.

As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.

"Often cited as Campbell's best book, this classic study traces the story of the hero's journey and transformation through mythologies from across the world, revealing the one archetypal hero in them all. Originally published in 1949, it has inspired generations of students and has become enormously influential. It has sold nearly a million copies. ... Building on the ideas of Freud and Jung, Campbell uses myth, like dream, as a revelation of human...