The latest in the successful Cartoon Guides series tackles the world's touchiest subject: human sexuality.

Minchiate was a popular card game in Florence in the 16th century. In this 97-card deck, we find the traditional Tarot trumps and minors along with additional cards. The Major Arcana includes the seven virtues, the four elements, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac. In this carefully and beautifully reproduced deck nothing is added -- it's simply...

Delightfully zany rhymes about a giraffe who accumulates some ridiculous things--like glue on his shoe and a bee on his knee--only to lose them again, one by one. Infectiously funny . . . a good nonsensical text and illustrations .--Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books.

This exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of Infinite Jest -- reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his generation's preeminent talents ( New York Times ). 368 pp. 5-city author tour. Print ads. 20,000 print.

The epic story of two cities and two men. Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton are alike in appearance, very different in character, but in love with the same woman. Darnay, who has abandoned the cruelty of the French nobility for London, must return to Paris during the violent Revolution to rescue his faithful servant from the guillotine. But what ...

It's riches to rags for Sara Crewe, the pampered but generous child of a widowed British officer. When her father dies penniless in India, eight-year-old Sara becomes a cold and hungry drudge at Miss Minchin's boarding school. A favorite by the author of The Secret Garden.

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