Crude World

Crude WorldBy: Peter Maass The catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has brought new attention to the huge costs of our oil dependence. In this stunning and revealing book, Peter Maass examines the social, political, and environmental impact of petroleum on the countries that produce it. Every unhappy oil producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the resource cursethe power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new

“Nothing in Billy Collins’s twelfth book

Ideal for sharing with younger children

Working undercover

According to Sabine Hossenfelder

The narrative rotates among three main characters: Paul Doll

Wendy Wasserstein put her finger on the pulse of her past-modern

as pertinent today as in the 1940s

Steinberg | Illustrator:  Ruth Hammond   From the best-selling author of the hugely popular Kindergarten

When a group of Colombian terrorists take responsibility for the brutal act

Delve into a strange

When a chatty chicken named Nugget makes it to the zoo to beg for help ridding his little Western town of a gang of feral cats

Rosie is determined to help