Featured Book of the Month

September 2017

Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest Episode 1: The Quest for Screen Time Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest series

By Marti Dumas '98

"This charming first installment in the Jaden Toussaint, the Greatest chapter-book series features succinct but vivid characterizations and abundant humor." —Publishers Weekly

Jaden Toussaint is a five-year-old who knows it all. I mean, really knows it all. Animal Scientist. Great Debater. Master of the art of ninja dancing. There's nothing Jaden Toussaint can't do.

 

 

Future Features

Gorbachev: His Life and Times

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era comes the definitive volume on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century.

Professor William Taubman

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