Encompassing detailed instructions for beginning and advanced knitters alike, this colorful guide with more than two hundred illustrations provides an array of fun and practical projects, including sweaters, bags, wraps, and cool belts.

Isabel Bookbinder dreams of pearly white weddings, happy brides, handsome grooms. And champagne towers that don't topple over. She dreams of the perfect wedding. But not for herself ... for her clients. It's all about bride management as far as Isabel's concerned. Even when she misplaces a couple of brides and loses her job working for wedding guru Pippa Everitt, Isabel isn't disheartened. She throws herself straight into launching Isabel Bookbinder,...

Perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives, Twelve Years a Slave is a harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. It recounts how Solomon Northup, born a free man in New York, was lured to Washington, D.C., in 1841 with the promise of fast money, then drugged and beaten and sold into slavery. He spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, Northup published...

Hopper, a grumpy bunny, reluctantly agrees to play Santa Claus at the mall and finds the job tiring but rewarding.

Hoppy O'Hare doesn't like to share his paints in art class, but when he is asked to paint a poster with Corny, he learns that sharing can be fun.

Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.

A World War II melodrama about the escape of British and American flyers from a maximum-security German prison camp.