Washoe County Library System

"Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a famous children's book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. Severely dyslexic and wanting to know more, he took it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, not realising the chain of events that he was setting in motion. Miss Iles became convinced that the book was the key to solving a puzzle, and that a message in secret code ran through all Twyford's...

"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"-- "The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious...

Illustrations present the Spanish and English words for numbers, parts of the body, clothing, family members, household items, vehicles, foods, animals, actions, opposites, colors, and other familiar concepts.

Singing sensation Susan Boyle returns with an album featuring her favorite classic Christmas songs. Included is a special duet with Elvis Presley on O Come, All Ye Faithful. She also records a track with legendary Johnny Mathis.

The illustrations set the classic nonsense poem taken from "Through the Looking Glass" in medieval times.

"A modern, illustrated fable for readers of all ages that explores life's universal lessons from beloved British illustrator Charlie Mackesy"--