"The Shining meets Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette in this gripping debut from an award-winning talent The Gift is a fantastical / horror retelling of the story of Anastasia Nikolaevna and the Romanov family, the last rulers of Imperial Russia before the revolution. Her childhood days are filled playing on the palace grounds, the guards always on watch. She recieves a gift of a camera on her thirteenth birthday and begins to document her days. It...

Nelson Mandela: the story of a young boy who grew up to become president of South Africa. Each Kindness: with a little help from her teacher, Chloe realizes how kindness can change the world. Coretta Scott: this story captures the movement for civil rights and honors its most elegant inspiration. Mufaro's beautiful daughters: Mufaro's daughters are tested to determine which one is worthy enough to marry the King.

"King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres--including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama--and in the different media of performance, manuscript and print....

A multi-sensory language immersion system that uses a story about Muzzy, an extraterrestrial being who pays a visit to the kingdom of Gondoland, to introduce Brazilian Portuguese to learners at the beginning to early intermediate levels. Features words and phrases related to greetings, numbers, shapes, colors, clothing, people, house and home, school, transportation, parts of the body, days, months, seasons, and more.