Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as...

Nature Guide Stars and Planets

DORLING KINDERSLEY

Have the world in your hands with these compact, illustrated natural history guides. From the planets in our solar system to the constellations that brighten up the night skies, leaf through "Nature Guide Stars and Planets", a beautiful guide to our solar system and beyond. Part of a new generation of c...

Artemis Fowl and the Last Guardian (#8)

Eoin Colfer

IS THIS ARMAGEDDON FOR ARTEMIS FOWL? Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen. If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction. But what happens if those ...

The Opposite of Falling Apart

Micah Good

An unmissable and uplifting debut novel for fans of John Green and Jennifer Niven. Jonas had done two things when he'd come home from the hospital for the first time after The Accident. 1. He'd taken a permanent marker and scribbled out the lower half of the left leg on his Bones of the Human Skeleton p...