Be the LightThe life of civil rights icon Angela Davis is illuminated in an extraordinary picture book biography. Booklist praised this profound exploration of American history, activism, the civil rights movement, and the power of the people as a one that should be part of all social studies curricula. For fans of Maya's Song, Nina, and There Was a Party for Langston. Before she was an iconic civil rights activist, before she was one of the FBIs Most Wanted,

and surprisingly intimate memoir

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author of A Deadly Wandering comes a pulse-pounding technological thriller—as ingenious as the works of Michael Crichton and as urgent and irresistible as an episode of 24—in which one man has three days to prevent annihilation: the outbreak of World War III

” a woman reminisces about her charming daredevil of a lover and his ultimate—and final—act of foolishness

Throwing deadly U-boat “wolf packs” in the paths of the convoys

or lack thereof

Nothing makes David happier than to keep the incense lit

find his way to the White House

to the river

captures the excitement of being a kid

the Chicago Public Library

Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic is now available in a special edition containing the classic hardcover book and a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album

‘The perfect antidote to the winter blues…a sweet