Guided by a magic rhyme, Jack and Annie travel to ancient Baghdad on a mission to help the Caliph disseminate wisdom to the world.

Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, a military attache at the French embassy in Warsaw in 1937, gathers snippets of information while living the life of an aristocrat in Poland and conducting an affair with a lawyer for the League of Nations, but he finds himself scrambling to save the life of one of his spies and alert authorities to what is going on when it becomes clear the Nazis are preparing to mount a tank attack

Nineteen-year-old Mary Boulton struggles to survive alone in the wild after fleeing west from the law and hiding fr

Presents an introduction to classical music, tracing its history from the early beginnings to the present day, and includes portraits of the lives and music of over ninety composers.

In ninth-century England, Uhtred of Bebbanburg is ordered by King Alfred to secure the borders of London and resist the attacks of the Norse Viking brothers Sigefrid and Erik Thurgilson, but his uncertain loyalties toward the crown, and his daughter's recent marriage, make it difficult for him to carry out the

Thirteen year old Jason finds an old postcard at his recently deceased grandmother's house that leads

When Merlin is weighed down by sorrows, the enchantress Morgan asks Jack and Annie of Frog Creek, Pennsylvania, to use their tree house to travel to a land of fierce samurai and great beauty, in the capital city of Edo (now the city of Tokyo) in old Japan in the 1600s to learn one of the four secrets of happiness.

In India in the 1940s, thirteen-year-old Leela's happy, spoiled childhood ends when her husband since age nine, whom she barely knows, dies, leaving her a widow whose only hope of happiness could come from Mahatma Ghandi's social and polit

Set in an Ibo village in Nigeria, the novel recreates pre-Christian tribal life and shows how the coming of the white man led to the breaking up of the old ways.