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Our Best Easy Weeknight Favorites (0848716868)

Offers twenty-one easy menus that take less than an hour of preparation, and recipes for entrees, salads, soups, sandwiches, side dishes, breads, and desserts Product details Format Hardback | 240 pages Dimensions 225 x 280 x 19.05mm | 25g Publicati...

Lines (9781452156651)

It starts with a line. Whether made by the tip of a pencil or the blade of a skate, the magic starts there. And magic once again flows from the pencil and imagination of internationally acclaimed artist Suzy Lee. With the lightest of touches, this masterwork blurs the lines between real and imagined, reminding us why Lee's books have been lauded around the world, recognized on New York Times Best Illustrated Books lists and nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international honor given to children's book creators. This seemingly simple story about a young skater on a frozenpond will charm the youngest of readers while simultaneously astounding book enthusiasts of any age. Product details Format Hardback | 40 pages ...

What Can a Citizen Do? (9781452173139)

"[This] charming book provides examples and sends the message that citizens aren't born but are made by actions taken to help others and the world they live in." -The Washington Post This is a book about what citizenship-good citizenship-means to you, and to us all: Across the course of several seemingly unrelated but ultimately connected actions by different children, we watch how kids turn a lonely island into a community-and watch a journey from what the world should be to what the world could be. * What Can a Citizen Do? is the latest collaboration from the acclaimed behind the bestselling Her Right Foot: Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris. * For today's youngest readers about what it means to be a citizen and the positive role they can play in society. * Includes beautiful illustrations and intriguing, rhyming text. "Obligatory reading for future informed citizens." -The New York Times What Can a Citizen Do? is an empowering and timeless read with an importa...

LEGO (R) Minifigure 1000-Piece Puzzle (9781452182278)

This challenging 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle comes together to reveal a collection of your favorite LEGO (R) minifigures! Whether you are a Master Builder or have just started clicking bricks together, this puzzle creates LEGO fun the whole family can enjoy together. * MINIFIGURES ARE THE HEART OF THE LEGO BRAND: The minifigure-the humble yellow character found in LEGO creations-has become a global icon. In this puzzle, minifigures get their starring role. * UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY FOR LEGO FUN: If you love both LEGO minifigures and puzzles, don't miss this opportunity to combine the two! * GREAT FAMILY ACTIVITY: Both AFOLs (adult fans of LEGO) and kids nine years and older will love putting this puzzle together * INCLUDES: 1000-piece full color puzzle in box Product details Format ...

Six Days of War : June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (9780345461926)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first comprehensive account of the epoch-making Six-Day War, from the author of Ally--now featuring a fiftieth-anniversary retrospective Though it lasted for only six tense days in June, the 1967 Arab-Israeli war never really ended. Every crisis that has ripped through this region in the ensuing decades, from the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to the ongoing intifada, is a direct consequence of those six days of fighting. Writing with a novelist's command of narrative and a historian's grasp of fact and motive, Michael B. Oren reconstructs both the lightning-fast action on the battlefields and the political shocks that electrified the world. Extraordinary personalities--Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin--rose and toppled from power as a result of this war; borders were redrawn; daring strategies brilliantly succeeded or disastrously failed in a matter of hours. And the balance of power changed--in the Middle East and ...