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This picture book by a bestselling author addresses the emotional side of death for children. It asks where loved ones go after they die and ponders whether they watch over us. Illustrated by a Vermont woodcut artist, the book is a beautiful and comforting meditation on death that is perfect for young readers who have questions about what happens next. A Spanish-language edition is also available.
Jennifer Ouellette
2022-11-05T17:03:34.000ZDiscover how to survive and resist America's potential slide into authoritarianism. From a historian of fascism, Twenty Lessons draws from the darkest hours of the twentieth century to provide hope for the twenty-first. With invaluable ideas for preserving our freedoms, this guide to resistance is a call to arms for uncertain years to come.
Jennifer Ouellette
2021-10-19T17:06:51.000ZA poignant memoir of poverty, illness, and a love for family, nature, music, and literature. The Journal of a Disappointed Man is a masterpiece that captures the exquisite beauty of life in the face of its most tremendous challenges. Written with eloquence and passion and accompanied by a thoughtful introduction from H.G. Wells, this book is a testament to the life and struggles of the author, a naturalist who battled multiple sclerosis.
Jennifer Ouellette
2021-08-27T16:09:23.000ZDiscover the thorniest scientific dilemma of the eighteenth century in this suspenseful tale. With thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations at stake, follow one man's forty-year obsession with building a perfect timekeeper to solve the "longitude problem" and keep sailors from getting lost at sea. Full of heroism, chicanery, and fascinating glimpses into astronomy, navigation, and clock-making, this epic quest will leave you rethinking our world.
Jennifer Ouellette
2021-07-28T18:51:01.000ZThe Mystery of the Exploding Teeth
And Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine
This historical curiosity book explores some of the strangest and most perplexing medical cases across the world, from a mysterious epidemic of dental explosions to a remarkable woman who spurted urine from every orifice. With anecdotes from seventeenth-century Holland to Tsarist Russia, uncover the monuments to human stupidity and exceptional surgical ingenuity long before the advent of anesthesia. Delve into weird, hilarious remedies and miraculous recoveries from apparently terminal injuries.
Jennifer Ouellette
2019-03-24T16:23:01.000Z