"Who doesn't love a great mystery? This book presents the eerie accidents and unexplained disappearances that have occurred in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle. Even before it was named, the Bermuda Triangle--roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico--had gained a mythic reputation. The Bermuda Triangle became famous for making boats and ships vanish, and for snatching planes right out of the sky. But are these stories true? And if...

Rhyming verses ask readers to find hidden objects in the phohotographs.

The riveting story of the Russian Revolution as it unfolded. When Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, inherited the throne in 1894, he was unprepared to do so. With their four daughters (including Anastasia) and only son, a hemophiliac, Nicholas and his reclusive wife, Alexandra, buried their heads in the sand, living a life of opulence as World War I raged outside their door and political unrest grew.

Introduces the Sun and its key role in the solar system, describing how it gives Earth warmth, light, and life, and explains its role in photosynthesis, the water cycle, and developing seasons.

Set in the closing months of World War II, in an American bomber squadron on a small island off Italy. Its hero is a bombardier named Yossarian, who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he hasn't even met keep trying to kill him. (He has decided to live forever even if he has to die in the attempt.) His problem is Colonel Cathcart, who keeps raising the number of missions the men have to fly. The others range from Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder,...

The trial of a midwife in 1980s Vermont. Sybil Danforth, with several hundred deliveries to her name, claims the mother was dead when she opened her to save the baby. The prosecution claims the mother was alive and the operation was illegal. The story is narrated by Sybil's daughter, portraying the trial as another round in the persecution of midwives by the New England medical profession.

They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a federal prison in Florida. Meeting daily, these judges-turned-felons reminisce about old court cases, and contemplate where they went wrong in their lives. They decide to use their jail time in a more profitable manner: devising an extortion scam so perfect that they won't know why it fell apart until it's too late.

A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson.

"Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now, that the boy and girl are four, it is time to go....

When the wife who had hired an assassin to kill him escapes from police custody, attorney Ed Eagle struggles to survive and protect the life of his new girlfriend, a situation that is further challenged by the questionable credibility of a new client.