"Magda Ritter is pressed into service for her country and, now, every meal could be her last. She is one of a handful of young women given the dubious honor of tasting Adolf Hitler's food, protecting the paranoid dictator from death by poisoning. Pampered compared to most in wartime Germany, the girls live on a knife's edge of fear and suspicion."-- Library Journal.

"Describes some of the craziest, silliest, and most extraordinary records achieved by people around the world"--

"The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place." A book to be read for pleasure as well as a practical identification guide, The Edge of the Sea introduces a world of teeming life where the sea meets the land. A new generation of readers is discovering why Rachel Carson's books have become cornerstones of the environmental and conservation movements. New introduction by Sue Hubbell

"Describes some of the weirdest, craziest, and oddest animals from around the world"--

Science and technology are advancing at a pace human have never seen before, and it's changing out world. Rockets blasting into deep space are revealing the secrets of the outer solar system. Neurologists are making it possible to control artificial limbs using thoughts. Revolutionary energy and agriculture technologies are building a cleaner, more sustainable future. The pace of innovation will continue to accelerate in the years to come. Learn...

Secrets from the Past is an epic, emotional novel of deeply-buried secrets, passionate love, obsession, and redemption from blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford... At thirty years old, American photojournalist Serena Stone has already made a name for herself with her dramatic coverage of wars in the Middle East, following in her famous father's footsteps. But after his unexpected death in France, Serena leaves the front lines behind,...

Jenny Weston and her mother, Dora, have been receiving strange midnight visits. Bear Falls's own elusive and highly secretive poet, Emily Sutton, has lived her life cloistered away with her sister in a house at the edge of Pewee Swamp. But now, Emily's started leaving scraps of poetry in Dora's Little Library, and Dora makes it her mission to befriend the sheltered woman. Meanwhile Zoe Zola, almost famous author, Little Person, and the Weston's quirky...

A trio of noble sisters, all mighty mages and steam-tech experts, continue to use their wits and combat savvy to face down a smug emperor and his warrior hordes in a Colosseum of Carnage! Rod Espinosa, steampunk story-weaver extraordinaire, forges a world of grand adventure, where magic and mechanisms mix marvelously!

Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned...

For the first time ever, a visual presentation of the much-discussed, unrevised, unadulterated version of Harlan Ellisons award-winning Star Trek teleplay script, The City on the Edge of Forever! See the story as Mr. Ellison originally intended!