In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."

During the Depression, sisters Lila and Jane, intrigued by the beautiful dollhouse they see in a house window, befriend its elderly owner and ultimately have a very different Christmas.

"Many girls in elementary and middle school fall in love with the Little House books by Laura Ingalls Wilder. What they don't always realize is that Wilder's books are autobiographical. This narrative biography describes more of the details of the young Laura's real life as a young pioneer homesteading with her family on many adventurous journeys. This biography, complete with charming illustrations, points out the differences between the fictional...

Ten years after losing her husband, Christina Connelly has worked through the pain, focusing on raising her teenage daughter and managing her small decorating business. But her romantic life has never recovered. Still, it's irksome to be set up with arrogant, if handsome, doctor Andy Stern at her friend's wedding. If he wasn't also a potential client, needing his Upper East Side apartment redesigned, she would write him off. This is never going to...

"Miranda is a thirtysomething career woman who lives in Brooklyn and likes to hang out with her three besties in New York City--she's a bit like the Miranda of "Sex and the City", even though that Miranda only moved to Brooklyn as part of a couple and under duress while this Miranda thinks Brooklyn is the place to be. The Miranda of this story also becomes a single mother by accident--but instead of giving birth, she finds the baby at a subway station....

"Here is the story behind the ten laws that have been the guiding light of Judeo-Christian belief. Not just about Moses, whose origin story leaves open questions, this book looks back at the time when the commandments were written, how the belief in one all-powerful God set the Israelites apart from other ancient peoples, and the roles the Ten Commandments have played in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It also looks at what each individual commandment...