The moon presents a childless couple with twelve tiny babies, which they care for with tenderness and love. In the end they are rewarded with their heart's desire - a real child to cherish forever....
It's 1964 and ten-year-old Felix is sure of a few things: the birds and the bees are puzzling, television is magical, and this is one Christmas he'll never forget.
Strega Nona's meddling assistant Big Anthony is determined to prove to the townspeople his knowledge of the magic secrets contained in the pasta pot of Strega Nona. In so doing, he unleashes a torrent...
The stars of the Big Dipper have led a runaway slave family to Deacon Fuller's house, a stop on the underground railroad. Will Tommy Fuller be able to hide the runaways from a search party -- or...
At age fifty, Pippa Lee is in a good place. She’s the devoted wife of Herb, a brilliant and successful older publisher, the proud mother of successful twins, and a lovely and adored friend and...
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Nicholas D. Kristof
Two Pulitzer Prize winners expose the most pervasive human rights violation of our era—the oppression of women in the developing world—and tell us what we can do about it.
The five little Peppers are an adorable family of children growing up in a small town and cared for by their widowed mother. She is so poor that the pittance she earns as the town seamstress fails...
In their world they are alone...a family haunted by banishment, struggling for survival in a harsh new land. A woman who has borne and buried children, Eve sees danger shadowing those she loves, while...
