The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins

Simon Winchester

Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper-...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Young Readers Edition

William Kamkwamba

The bestselling story of the young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village, now in an accessible middle grade edition. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to s...