In a house in Oxford three people are having breakfast - Carol, her husband Jan, and his father Josef. They are talking about Prague, because Carol wants them all to go there for Christmas. Josef was born in Prague, but he left his home city when he...

One d ay, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out an old building and throw it away. 'It's all rubbish', he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beatiful old piano. He jas never played before, but now, when his fingers tou...

In her first novel since "The One and Only Ivan", winner of the Newbery Medal, Katherine Applegate delivers an unforgettable and magical story about family, friendship, and resilience. Jackson and his family have fallen on hard times. There's no more...

Thirty years after her stepbrother's unsolved murder, a reluctant Mary Byrd Thornton is forced by a detective's call to return to her family and again confront the crime's irremovable stain. This stunning debut-from the cofounder of the legendary Squ...

Richard Gilman referred to How to Read a Film as simply "the best single work of its kind." And Janet Maslin in The New York Times Book Review marveled at James Monaco's ability to collect "an enormous amount of useful information and assemble it in...

What is motion?’ Why is every snowflake different?’ Why is life symmetrical?’ To answer these and many other questions, Professor Brian Cox uncovers some of the most extraordinary natural events on Earth and in the Universe and beyond. From the immen...