Jo: 4296 books
by Jo Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sixteen year old Wendy never knew the world before the Starvation. She’s learned to put her trust in her knives, and her confidence in her fighting ability. When the Skinnies attack her compound, she's the lone survivor.Injured and near death, Wendy is rescued and nursed back to health...
by Jo Grix
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Aliens on Earth? Someone has to be playing an elaborate joke. That's what Jessica Fields thought.
Product of a troubled childhood and distrustful of strangers, she's not sure what to think of her new foster brother Daniel, especially since he claimed that he was an alien.
When Jessica...
by Donna Jo Napoli
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008
YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND.
Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound to be alone and unmarried, with no parents to arrange...
by John M. Cusick, Jo Knowles, Steve Watkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The sampler includes chapters from Steve Watkins’s Juvie, John M. Cusick’s Cherry Money Baby, and Jo Knowles’s Living with Jackie Chan. JuvieHeart-wrenching and real, Juvie tells the story of two sisters grappling with accountability, sacrifice — and who will be there to help you after you take...
Mama Miti
Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya (with audio recording)
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
“Nelson’s pictures, a jaw-dropping union of African textiles collaged with oil paintings, brilliantly capture the villagers’ clothing and the greening landscape…This is, in a word, stunning.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Nelson’s (We Are the Ship) breathtaking portraits...
Treasury of Egyptian Mythology
Classic Stories of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters & Mortals
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2015
The new National Geographic Treasury of Egyptian Mythology is a stunning tableau of Egyptian myths, including those of pharaohs, queens, the boisterous Sun God Ra, and legendary creatures like the Sphinx. The lyrical storytelling of award-winning author Donna Jo Napoli dramatizes the timeless tales...
by Jo Nesbo
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Doctor Proctor, Nilly, and Lisa take a sporty approach to saving the day in this fart-tastically funny adventure from New York Times bestselling author Jo Nesbø.
When a Russian billionaire robs the Norwegian Gold Reserve and melts the last remaining gold bar into the Premier Soccer League...
The Redeemer
A Harry Hole Novel (6)
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Inspector Harry Hole pursues an assassin bent on revenge in this installment of Jo Nesbø’s New York Times bestselling series. Look out for the latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, available now.
Shots ring out at a Salvation Army Christmas concert in Oslo, leaving one of the singers dead...
Police
A Harry Hole Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Inspector Harry Hole investigates a serial killer targeting Oslo’s police officers in this installment of Jo Nesbø’s New York Times bestselling series. Look out for the latest Harry Hole novel, The Thirst, available now.
For years, detective Harry Hole has been at the center of every major...
Fierce
The History of Leopard Print
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
In this lush compendium illustrated with full-color images, the author of The Burlesque Handbook chronicles the history of one of the world’s most beloved fashion patterns—leopard print—celebrating its beauty and place in couture, and the women who have dared to wear it.
In nature, the...
Reading People
How to Understand People and Predict Their Behavior -- Anytime, Anyplace
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Did you know that when you walk into a room, everything about you--from what you're wearing to the way you sit to the way you speak--says something about you? Do you realize that as you're taking stock of someone, he or she is also taking stock of you?
For fifteen years, Jo-Ellan Dimitrius, America's...
Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos
How to Help the Child Who Is Bright, Bored and Having Problems in School
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Does your imaginative, computer-proficient daughter tune out in the classroom? Does your spirited son become headstrong and aggressive when faced with the simplest decisions? Does your bold, energetic child have trouble focusing on basic tasks?
Millions of children--one in five--have what psychologist...
Cure
A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
A rigorous, skeptical, deeply reported look at the new science behind the mind's surprising ability to heal the body.
Have you ever felt a surge of adrenaline after narrowly avoiding an accident? Salivated at the sight (or thought) of a sour lemon? Felt turned on just from hearing your partner's...
Eating on the Wild Side
The Missing Link to Optimum Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Winner of the 2014 IACP Cookbook Award in the category of "Food Matters."
The next stage in the food revolution--a radical way to select fruits and vegetables and reclaim the flavor and nutrients we've lost.
Ever since farmers first planted seeds 10,000 years ago, humans have...