Summary: A basic education about dinosaurs for the first or second grader, About Dinosaurs is well written and well illustrated. As one of the We Both Read series the left pages contain more difficult words and background information while the right pages have both smaller and fewer words. This design is so reading can be a family experience with the parent reading the left pages and the child the right pages. The final two pages of the book include a dictionary and a section on word roots. About Dinosaurs is educational while still being fun and a recommended children's book.

Summary: Who gets the cheese?

Summary: Now back in print: the "superlative spy novel" (New York Times) by the author of the red-hot forthcoming thriller A Firing Offense. A national bestseller in its hardcover edition, Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Ordered to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.

Summary: Ali Baba finds the gold, but the 40 thieves want it too!

Summary: Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully "non"-moralistic, "non"-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) "--Emilie Coulter"

Summary: Have you ever heard of a hotel made of snow? How would you put a building in space? And who washes the windows on the tallest skyscrapers in the world? Find out about the world's most famous and unique structures, from the ancient Coliseum to eco-friendly stadiums and more.

Summary: コンクラーベを舞台にした誘拐と連続殺人、浮かび上がるルネッサンス期の狂信的科学者集団。宗教的象徴の威でるハーバード大教授の禁断の聖地バチカンの奥深くでの活躍はどこかインディー・ジョーンズの活躍を思わせますが、謎解きと命がけの闘いが最後の最後までぎっしり詰まっています。ダ・ヴィンチ・コードと同様に著者の深い知識には驚嘆させられました。
Try-Giorgio Kostantinos-The Quest.