The poetic son of a briney Cape Cod fisherman saves his father and their craft by reciting an ode to a shark.

A dramatization of the Biblical story of Jonah, unwilling prophet to Nineveh, who spent three days in the belly of a whale and learned a lesson of compassion from a withering vine.

Describes the capture and transportation of African slaves and their treatment in the New World.

When the six Eunson children were left orphans the day before Christmas, 1868, the oldest, twelve-year-old Robbie, took the responsibility of finding homes for his younger brothers and sisters.

Traces the origins and history of the legend of Tristan and Iseut, examines its many variations, and discusses its appearance inand influence on modern opera and poetry.

The biography of the nineteenth-century Pennsylvania woman who became one of America's best known artists.

Alors qu'elle fréquente l'unité de formation d'élite ultrasecrète, Ariel doit combiner cours de future espionne, questions existentielles sur l'amour et la vie, classes de français et de mathématiques, rumeurs, meilleures amies, pires ennemis et. . . secrets d'État. Une nouvelle série originale, fascinante et palpitante remplie de bombes, de complots et de gadgets ultrasophistiqués, mais aussi avec un certain Guillaume au sourire craquant,...

There are two Jewish cops in all of Helsinki. One of them, Ariel Kafka, a lieutenant in the Violent Crime Unit, identifies himself as a policeman first, then a Finn, and lastly a Jew. He's willing to risk his career to get an answer. Murky circumstances surround his investigation of a Jewish businessman's murder. Neo-Nazi violence, intergenerational intrigue, shady loans-- predictable lines of investigation lead to unpredictable culprits. But a second...

Inmenso y lujoso, el Lusitania, que zarpó de Nueva York el 1 de mayo de 1915, era un monumento al orgullo y el ingenio de la época, el barco civil más rápido. Con el pasaje completo, partió con tranquilidad pese a la atmósfera bélica existente. La idea de que un submarino alemán pudiera hundirlo parecía absurda, un sentimiento del que se hacía eco la naviera: «El Lusitania es el barco más seguro del mar. Es demasiado rápido para cualquier...