Edward Herrmann

Presents a portrait of the third president that considers his early life, role as a Founding Father, and considerable achievements as a master politician.

The latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which Amy emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus.

Two youngsters' determination to own a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...

A young adult edition of the bestseller documents the story of how Louis Zamperini, a juvenile delinquent-turned-Olympic athlete and World War II pilot, crashed into the ocean and survived for weeks on a life raft only to become a prisoner of war.

Presents three stories about the adventures of the mouse journalist in which he goes on a rescue mission to a land of vampire bats, is attacked by a ship of pirate cats, and takes a vacation only to find himself rooming with Gerbil Scouts.

Historians explain the causes and effects of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase agreement between France and the United States that doubled U.S. territory. Relevant letters and diary excerpts from Napoleon, Jefferson, Madison, and Talleyrand help put the purchase in perspective.

A likable but isolated kid has everything money can buy except friends--until he hits it off big with a group of sandlot kids.

A true story of conflict and compassion, Redemption follows the saga of Henry Heath, a lawman on the western frontier in 1862. After the grieving sheriff buries his only child, he learns that Jean Baptiste, an impoverished French immigrant, has been robbing the graves of the recently deceased. Torn between duty, outrage, and guilt about his own past, Heath becomes Baptiste's only defense against the bloodthirsty contempt of the community and the brutal...