When the Astors Owned New York

When the Astors Owned New YorkBy: Justin Kaplan In this marvelous anecdotal history, Justin KaplanPulitzer Prize winning biographer of Mark Twainvividly brings to life a grand story from the glittering Gilded Age. Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, cousins John Jacob Astor IV and William Waldorf Astor lived incomparably privileged lives. For three decades around the turn of the nineteenth century, they vied for primacy in New York society, producing the

By: Fay Wolf     For readers of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and The Power of Habit comes a revelatory

toddlers and young children will love reading along and engaging in this story that celebrates all different types of families

Abdullah spent his time daydreaming

Velociraptor and Pterodactyl

By: DK   | Series: DK Super Readers Help your child power up their reading skills and learn all about animals that sleep all day and hunt at night with this fun-filled nonfiction reader carefully leveled to help children progress

The feud between this nation’s great air pioneers

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with playful designs and informative text

this all-time favourite story of Dr

Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism

Peril sets off to find her former queen