Eddie and MJ are suddenly transported to India where they must use their word knowledge to solve a mystery and help their new friend Dev save his school.

"A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume translation A shape-shifting trickster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that...

"Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And...

Secret of the Andes: "A young girl who is always in trouble travels to Argentina with her archeologist father"--Container Hollywood safari: "An animal-training family loses their lion who is then blamed for the actions of a wild look-alike"--Container Lassie: the painted hills: "After Jonathan Harvey strikes gold, he goes with his new partner to sort out his findings and leaves his collie Shep to care for the orphaned son of his former partner"--Container River's...

This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting effects these civilizations have had on Western civilization....

Prem Sharma, a highly educated Indian doctor, and Kamini, his beautiful upper-class wife, leave India in 1963 attracted by the promise of opportunities in the new National Health Service and a glamorous lifestyle in London. It comes as a shock for both the Sharmas and the residents of a small Welsh coal-mining village when they are assigned there instead.

"When Tenzing was young, he spent much of his childhood tending to the family's yaks and gazing up at the Himalaya mountains, dreaming of the day he would reach the top. Once he grew up, he joined many other Sherpas who were offering to take Europeans up the highest mountain of all--Chomolungma or Everest. It was the chance he needed to make his childhood dream a reality. He went on many expeditions, some more dangerous than others, but Tenzing never...