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  • Immigrant Architect: Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream

    Berta de Miguel, Kent Diebolt, Virginia Lorente

    Paperback

    Rafael Guastavino Sr. was 39 when he left a successful career as an architect in Barcelona. American cities—densely packed and built largely of...

  • Making More: How Life Begins

    Katherine Roy

    Hardback

    This ground-breaking book from award-winner Katherine Roy explains and demystifies how everything from fish to mammals and plants to insects reproduce

  • Punching Bag

    Rex Ogle

    Paperback

    The companion to Rex Ogle’s award-winning Free Lunch (ISBN 978 1 324 01694 6) is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence

  • Amadi's Snowman: A Story of Reading

    Katia Novet Saint-lot, Dimitrea Tokunbo

    Paperback

    Why does Amadi’s mother insist he learn to read words? Why should an Igbo boy of Nigeria, who will become a great trader, waste precious time on books?

  • Youniverse: The Quantum Kaleidoscope of You

    Lizelle van der Merwe

    Hardback

    This nonfiction picture book, by a South African writer, explores how light weaves the universe together and how much we have in common with a quivering aspen leaf and the dust of a distant nebula.