This best-selling Spanish novel (translated into English by Lucia Graves) begins with a young boy named Daniel, who discovers a strange, forgotten novel in a bookstore: it's called THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, and the rumor is that its author is being plagued by a man who is trying to track down copies of the book so he can destroy them. As the story moves out of the 1940s and Daniel grows up, he becomes consumed with investigating this bizarre story and the life of the book's author, and the search for the truth takes him not only into the lives of others but deeply into his own background.

A guide to spiritual retreat. Zaleski, a professor of religion and literature at Smith College and Wesleyan University, suggests locations, equipment and reading material, and schedules for a three-day retreat. He also discusses his own retreats, and those of historical figures and people he knows.

A gallery of contemporary writers write about some of the books that they have been unable to forget in this celebration of literature and reading.

Practical information (everything from staying healthy to dealing with sexual harassment) plus tales of cross-cultural encounters and self-discovery by a variety of female travelers.

A renegade scientist, working out of an enormous floating research station and about to lose her funding, has discovered evidence of life on Venus. Though the discovery is denounced by the establishment, she and her crew continue to investigate, eventually learning that the life they have discovered is not native to the planet at all....

When baby-o wakes up and starts crying, nothing her family does seems to comfort her. Luckily, baby-o's big sister figures out just what to do to dry baby-o's tears and get her to go back to sleep. Color illustrations accompany this picture-book version of an Appalachian folk song. Musical notation is included.