A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in the first two novels of her critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years trilogy. When Golden Age opens in 1987, the next generation of Langdons face economic, social, cultural, and political challenges unlike anything their ancestors had encountered before....

Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdons at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch Walter, who with his wife had sustained their Iowa farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children looking to the future....

It\"s 1953, and the Langdons are at a crossroads. Their stalwart patriarch has died unexpectedly and his wife must try to uphold the Iowa farm they had sustained together for three decades. But of their five children, only one will remain to work the land; the others scatter from Washington, DC, to California, and everywhere in between....

A lot can happen in 100 years, as Jane Smiley has shown to dazzling effect in her astonishing, critically acclaimed Last Hundred Years Trilogy....

1920, Denby, Iowa: Rosanna and Walter Langdon have just welcomed their firstborn son, Frank, into their family farm. He will be the oldest of five. Each chapter in this extraordinary novel covers a single year, encompassing the sweep of history as the Langdons abide by time-honored values and pass them on to their children....

Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war--a war that has already claimed her twin brother. When she comes across a severely injured Union soldier lying in an abandoned lodge deep in the woods, things begin to change....

Over the years millions of parents have used the amazingly effective strategies of Positive Discipline to raise happy, well-behaved, and successful children....

Veteran author Jane Yolen joins forces with Heidi E. Y. Stemple to present women through history, each of whom has a rotten reputation. The reader decides whether Tituba was really a conspiring witch or just a humble housemaid and analyzes the evidence stacked for and against Lizzie Borden....

In The Hostage Prince, Prince Aspen and midwife\"s apprentice Snail tried to prevent the Seelie War by making a perilous journey to Aspen\"s father\"s kingdom. Their journey started the war instead....

A little girl and her brother live happily with their parents in Paris, until their world starts to change. They must wear yellow stars on their clothes and can no longer eat at their favorite boulangerie. Soon, the Nazi soldiers are marching across the city, and the little girl and her family must flee or risk being sent to a concentration camp....

This new collection opens with a series of \\\"My\\\" poems--\\\"My Skeleton,\\\" \\\"My Corkboard,\\\" \\\"My Species,\\\" \\\"My Weather\\\"--in which Hirshfield uses the familiar materials of the self to explore the profundities and quirks of existence....

Jane Hirshfield offers ten eloquent and highly original explorations into how great poems transform our experience of the world....

In 2009, game designer and author Jane McGonigal suffered a severe concussion that wouldn\"t heal. Unable to work or think clearly, she decided to get better by doing what she does best: by turning her recovery process into a game....

Count along on the farm with the Fuzzy Little Duckling in this classic Little Golden Book! Featuring the beloved art of the Provensens and a charming text about a determined duckling on a search for someome to take a walk with, this endearing story is now - for the first time in decades - available as a Little Golden Book!...

In 1881, in the hills of Virginia, life can be harsh. Tommy Medlin, a grown man who is called Pretty Boy, a nickname he loathes, is as handsome as he is shy. All his life, he\'s been told he\'s slow, and he\'s accepted that it\'s true. His lot in life is to keep his head down and work hard....