Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.

In this story without words, a boy and his dog play inside and outside of their home.

For as long as she can remember, Gabrielle Hope has had the gift of knowing--visions that warn of things to come. When she and her mother joined the Pleasant Hill Shaker community in 1807, the community embraced her gift. But Gabrielle fears this gift, for the visions are often ones of sorrow and tragedy. When one of these visions comes to pass, a local doctor must be brought in to save the life of a young man, setting into motion a chain of events...

The six stories in Outside show Barry Lopez's majestic talent as a fiction writer. Lopez writes in spare prose, but his narratives resonate with an uncanny power. With a reverence for our exterior and interior landscapes, these stories offer profound insight into the relationships between humans and animals, creativity and beauty, and ultimately, life and death. In "Desert Notes," the narrator says, "All my life I have wanted to trick blood from a...

Grief over the death of his twelve-year-old daughter stalls Nathan Learner. having little emotional energy for his wife, and barely able to maintain his apartment building across the street, Nate just gets by. Somehow, he manages to help Herman Viereck into a cab to the Little Sisters to live out his final days. Left to dispose of Herman's goods in the vacated apartment, Nate discovers a pack rat's trash or treasure? Balls of string, small to gargantuan,...

10-year-old Lee lives with her family and about a hundred thousand others in a dome that keeps them safe from all the dangers of the Outside. Usually, every day in the dome is pretty much exactly like all the others, but lately, Lee has been feeling restless and unsettled in a way she has never experienced before. Finding out that she is about to become a big sister adds to the disturbances of her usually strict routines, and one night, Lee sees...

A new collection of 30 projects that will take you on knitting adventures. Gardiner and Shayne wind their way through patterns for adults, children and homes, including patterns by other knitwear designers such as Bonne Marie Burns. Helpful and humorous sidebars discuss the pitfalls of the sweater coat (including bathrobe syndrome), the beauty of Shetland wool, how to make a stitch marker out of citrus peel or tin foil, and the Holy Crap moment, where...

The Cat in the Hat takes Sally and Dick on a trip in his Inside Your Outside Machine.

The most hated man in the most dour town in Scotlandis sleeping with the fishes, or--more accurately--dumped into a tank filled with crustaceans. All that remain of the murdered victim are his bones. But after the lobsters are shipped off to Britain's best restaurants, the whole affair quickly lands on the plate of Constable Hamish Macbeth.

[The author] presents a compelling story of a black man's attempt to escape his past and start anew in Harlem. Cross Damon is a man at odds with society and with himself, a man who hungers for peace but who brings terror and destruction wherever he goes.