Nearly seventy years after its original publication, Ray Bradbury's internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before.
Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction...

Ruby Bridges recounts the story of her involvement, as a six-year-old, in the intergration of her school in New Orleans in 1960.

"If you were the moon, what would you do? You'd spin like a twilight ballerina and play dodgeball with space rocks! Find out more in this lyrical list poem accompanied by stunning illustrations."--

Lady prosecutor Stella Marz investigates a murder linked to the building of a new sports stadium in her town. In the guise of a mystery, a look at who exactly benefits from these stadiums that are the rage, the working class or the rich? By the author of No Safe Place.

A tale spanning 150 years and two continents reimagines the peace efforts of democracy champion Frederick Douglass, Senator George Mitchell and World War I airmen John Alcock and Teddy Brown through the experiences of four generations of women from a matriarchal clan.

A blow on the head transports a Yankee to 528 A.D. where he proceeds to modernize King Arthur's kingdom by organizing a school system, constructing telephone lines, and inventing the printing press.

In a federal prison, three former judges who call themselves "the brethren" meet in the law library to run a rougher form of justice inside their community and make some money, but when one of their scams derails, they are forced to confront the world of their own creation.

"There's so much to learn about our home in space. Simple diagrams, satellite images, and tons of interesting facts guide first readers through this engaging book about our extra-special planet. An easy-to-understand fact file sums up Earth's most interesting facts and features, and a solar system concentration game boosts memory and social skills. Back matter includes glossary, index, and further reading"--

In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving enormous pressure from the CIA. It seems Backman, in his power broker heyday, may have obtained secrets that compromise the world's most sophisticated...