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Ada Twist and the Perilous Pants - The Questioneers Book #2 by Andrea Beaty; David Roberts (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: The\Questioneers Ser.
New York Times bestseller! Now a Netflix series! "Packs plenty of information into a high-flying adventure." --School Library Journal "Adventure, humor, and smart, likable characters make for a winning chapter book." --Kirkus Reviews From the #1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Ro ...Show more
Aliens! by David Roberts (Illustrator); Alan MacDonald
Category: Picture Books | Series: Dirty Bertie Ser.
Join Bertie in Aliens! his 26th adventure, as he prepares for an alien invasion, has a go at bird watching and tries to improve his school report!
All About Plants! (Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files #2) by Andrea Beaty, Theanne Griffith, David Roberts
Category: Education | Series: The Questioneers
What do plants eat? Why do some plants have flowers and others don't? And what's the tallest plant out there?Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files is the perfect nonfiction resource for all these questions and more. Based on the bestselling series and the new Netflix show, this new nonfiction series is pe ...Show more
Alone on the Ice: The Greatest Survival Story in the History of Exploration by David Roberts
Category: History
On 17 January 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Then Mawson plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will t ...Show more
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold; David Roberts
Category: Sport
On June 3rd, 2017, Alex Honnold became the first person to free solo Yosemite's El Capitan--to scale the wall without rope, a partner, or any protective gear--completing what was described as "the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport" (National Geographic) and "one of the grea ...Show more
Alone on the Wall: Alex Honnold and the Ultimate Limits of Adventure by Alex Honnold, David Roberts
Category: Biography
Alex Honnold is one of the world's best 'free solo' climbers, he scales impossible rock faces without ropes, pitons or any support of any kind. Exhilarating, brilliant and dangerous, there is a purity to Alex's climbs that is easy to comprehend, but also impossible to fathom; in the last forty years, on ...Show more
Animal Diversity by Cleveland P. Hickman Jr.; David J. Eisenhour; Susan L. Keen; Allan Larson; Larry S. Roberts
Category: Education
This text provides a concise introduction to the field of animal biology. Readers discover general principles of evolution, ecology, classification, systematics, and animal body plans. After these introductory chapters, readers delve into the biology of all groups of animals. The basic features of each ...Show more
Bathe the Cat by AliceB. McGinty, David Roberts, Alice B. McGinty
Category: Picture Books
Bathe the floor? Sweep the dishes? This riotous romp of a picture book follows a frantic family as they try to get some chores done--with no help from the family cat, who keeps scrambling the list of chores with hilarious effects. Get ready for a rollicking read-aloud with a truly purrfect ending. I ...Show more
Bogeys! by Alan MacDonald; David Roberts (Illustrator)
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Dirty Bertie Ser.
Dirty Bertie, the boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits is back! Join Bertie in three brand new stories, Bogeys!, Magic!and Potty!, as he tries to stop picking his nose, gets more than he bargained for with a magic trick and drives a museum potty on a school outing!
Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare From 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus, Andrew Roberts
Category: Military
Two leading authorities – a bestselling historian and the outstanding battlefield commander and strategist of our time – collaborate on a landmark examination of war since 1945. Conflict is both a sweeping history of the evolution of warfare up to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, and a penetrating analy ...Show more
Conflict - The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Gaza by David Petraeus; Andrew Roberts
Category: Military
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A rigorous and thoughtful study of what has happened on battlefields over the past eight decades' THE TIMES 'A hugely important book ... elegantly written and persuasively argued' DAILY TELEGRAPH ** FULLY UPDATED TO INCLUDE NEW MATERIAL ON THE ISRAEL/GAZA CONFLICT ** Confli ...Show more