Hunwick's Egg (PB)

Mem Fox

When a mysterious egg appears outside Hunwick's burrow, no one is quite certain what to think. And when it doesn't hatch right away, everyone is even more bewildered. Everyone except Hunwick, that is. Hunwick understands that the egg is his friend, and he is the only one who knows its secret. This treas...

The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon

Aaron Blabey

Life is cursed for the townsfolk of Twee. The ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon haunts their every waking hour and they've had enough But then one day, the brave and practical young Herbert Kettle has the most extraordinary idea....

The Ghost Riders of Ordebec: A Commissaire Adamsberg novel

Fred Vargas

'People will die,' says the panic-stricken woman outside police headquarters. She refuses to speak to anyone besides Commissaire Adamsberg. Her daughter has seen a vision: ghostly horsemen who target the most nefarious characters in Normandy. Since the middle ages there have been stories of murderers, r...

What's Eating the Universe?: And Other Cosmic Questions

Paul Davies

Combining the latest scientific advances with storytelling skills unmatched in the cosmos, an award-winning astrophysicist and popular writer leads us on a tour of some of the greatest mysteries of our universe. In the constellation of Eridanus, there lurks a cosmic mystery: It's as if something has tak...

Rise and Fall of Athens

PLUTARCH

Nine Greek biographies illustrate the rise and fall of Athens, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias, and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander.   For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading pu...