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Shipwrecked on a speck of coral off Madagascar, professional egg hunter Butcher watches his last hope drift to sea—except for one priceless prize: an intact Aepyornis (elephant-bird) egg. When it hatches, the castaway finds unlikely companionship in the towering chick he names Friday. As the...

Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples is a luminous, invigorating walk through orchards, woodlots, and memory. Using the untamed apple as his compass, Thoreau ranges from ancient myth to New England fence lines, celebrating the rugged beauty, sharp flavor, and stubborn independence of nature...

In a sunlit garden that harbors deadly secrets, a young medical student, Giovanni Guasconti, becomes entranced by Beatrice—radiant, brilliant, and mysteriously poisonous. As Giovanni’s fascination deepens, he discovers that Dr. Rappaccini, Beatrice’s fanatical father, has cultivated both...

Step inside the rough-and-ready world of 1890s New York sleuthing with Old King Brady’s plainspoken master class in detection—brought to life by narrator Jason Michael Mann. Part handbook, part casebook, this lively guide lays out the essential qualities of a first-rate detective—courage...

Across a sunlit river, the Australian bush promises adventure. For one lonely little boy, the forest beyond his home seems filled with wonders—and perhaps companions waiting to be found. Despite his mother’s warnings, the child crosses the water and begins exploring. Strange animals...

In Woman’s Sexual Life, writer and sex educator William J. Fielding examines female sexuality through the biological, psychological, and social theories available in the 1920s. Moving across puberty, sexual desire, menstruation, marriage, pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, and mental health...

A humble clerk. A treasured overcoat. A loss that follows him beyond the grave. Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin lives an invisible life in the freezing streets of St. Petersburg. Poorly paid, routinely mocked, and devoted to his monotonous work as a government copyist, he asks for little—until...