"In this comprehensive cookbook, America's Test Kitchen breaks down the often intimidating art and science of bread baking, making it easy for anyone to create foolproof, bakery-quality breads at home,"--Amazon.com.

"A picture book about the five largest lakes in North America - how they formed, the importance of these waters, and how they've become a national treasure"--

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens of millions of people are likely to be driven from the places they call home. Poorer communities will be left behind, while growth will surge in the cities and regions most attractive to climate refugees. America will be changed utterly. Abrahm Lustgarten's On the Move is the definitive account of what this massive population shift might look like. As...

Comic book stories showcasing the rich heritage and identity of indigenous storytelling, from dozens of creators.

For Hương, life in Saigon, Vietnam is mostly normal--at least, as normal as it can be while a war is going on. But when her family decides to take the last flight out of the country to build a new life in America, Hương worries about missing her home. Through new friends and old traditions, Hương learns that no matter where we go, the smell of home and the taste of love can be found anywhere, as long as we have our family. In this timely and...

"A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"-- 1993: David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. Cook gives readers a taste of Koresh's deadly charisma and takes us behind...

"The land down under is halfway around the world from North America. It has summer when we have winter. Just imagine going to a warm beach on New Year's Day! In this book, readers can head there with just the turn of a page. Australia's most famous landmarks, art, and history are all included in the accessible, friendly text, all presented by a kid narrator for readers to relate to. A mix of full-color photographs of notable foods, sports, and festivals,...

"People may have been living in North America 30,000 years ago! Archaeologists are constantly looking for information about how these early people arrived and how they survived. What is known is that the arrival of Europeans forever changed the lives of the Indigenous tribes living in America, often with tragic results. Still, many cultures endured with their languages, customs, and spiritual beliefs intact. This essential book, replete with fascinating...

For years, the Marvel Universe has lived in fear that the artificial intelligence known as Ultron would one day evolve to fulfill its greatest desire: to wipe out all organic life and take over the Earth. That day has arrived! The impossible has happened and Ultron rules the planet! And as the few super hero survivors that remain try desperately to stay alive, Luke Cage learns the staggering secret of Ultron's victory. As a near-broken Captain America...

On a Sunday morning in the spring of 1921, a small boy made a grim discovery as he played on a riverbank in the cotton country of rural Georgia: the bodies of two drowned men, bound together with wire and chain and weighted with a hundred-pound sack of rocks. Within days a third body turned up in another nearby river, and in the weeks that followed, eight others. And with them a deeper horror: all eleven had been kept in virtual slavery before their...