Stewart Ross

In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure.

Allows readers to get an idea of ancient Egyptian civilization by examining a series of detailed cross-section and cutaway illustrations.

The true story of the knights and their world in times of peace and war. Also tells of peasants and popes, Turks and Saracens, lords and ladies.

"A bright, talented junior at Catamount College in the druggy 1970s, Gillian Brauer strives to realize more than a poet's craft in her workshop with the charismatic, anti-establishment professor Andre Harrow. For Gillian has fallen in love - with Harrow, with his aesthetic sensibility and bohemian lifestyle, with his secluded cottage on Brierly Lane, with the mystique of his imposing, russet-haired French wife, Dorcas. A sculptress, Dorcas has outraged the campus and alumnae with the crude, primitive, larger than life-sized wooden totems that she has exhibited under the motto "We are Beasts and This is Our Consolation."". "As if mesmerized, Gillian enters the rarefied world of the Harrows. She surrenders to their cassoulets, Quaaludes, and intimacies. She is special, even though she knows her classmates Marisa and Sybil and the exotic, mysterious Dominique have preceded her here. She is helpless, she is powerful. And she will learn in full the meaning of Dorcas's provocative motto."--BOOK JACKET.

Irish history is a long, dark road, with many blind alleys, many

Start-Up History is a new series, designed to introduce history to young children. Key information is presented through a combination of clear, simple text and strong visual images.

The Ancient Greeks invented two forms of entertainment that we love today: track and field competitions and theater. But they also enjoyed giving parties, hunting and fishing, and storytelling. Examine the many festivals held to honor the gods, the Greek-style of theater, and learn about the very first Olympic Games. This series explores the world of Ancient Greece through the works of playwrights, philosophers, and historians of the time. These works offer a fascinating window into another era. Each page features a quotation that explains a unique aspect of life in Ancient Greece.

This is a topical UK-based book that looks at how life in Britain has changed since the end of World War II.

"This high-interest series, aimed at reluctant readers, looks at secret campaigns behind the major conflicts of the past 100 years. Biographical sidebars focus on heroic or notorious personalities. Highlighted fact features include special operations and their results, resistance movements, propaganda and the history of the time - as is known....and not readily known"--Provided by publisher.

A biography of the child prodigy who wrote more than 800 pieces of music before his untimely death at thirty-five.