The NutcrackerCelebrate the holidays with this bestselling Christmas classic. Adults as well as children look forward to attending an annual performance of The Nutcracker. To sweeten the anticipation and prolong the joy or just to establish a lovely tradition settle in with this charming retelling of a young girl's dreamy visit to the Land of the Sugarplum Fairy. The story is enhanced with magnificent color illustrations created especially for this edition by the

From Boston's Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942 to the treatment of the victims of the Rhode Island nightclub fire in early 2003 we watch everyday heroes do their incredible but punishing work against the backdrop of history

while she tries her darnedest to resist

Why do some places experience conflict

rulers and hostile neighbours and the fate of cities built to celebrate religious beliefs and enshrine gods and deities

rites of passages

when Na’ya’s little brother D’esh disappears—It’s time to confront the secrets of the forbidden mansion in the Silent Woods

ideal for giving

shows up just in time

Heidi Hawthorne is a thirty-seven-year-old FM radio DJ and a recovering drug addict

motor skills

is dead-set on causing as much trouble as possible for everyone

And yet somehow they each find themselves on that plane