Do you wear jeans? Or do you prefer inexpensive t-shirts that you can get almost anywhere? How about designer clothes like Levi’s, Gap, or Disney? Guess what? While on the outside, the clothes made by these brands seem like they were made in a clean, safe space and don’t harm the environment, behind the scenes,Continue reading “FASHIONOPOLIS: The Secrets Behind the Clothes We Wear(Young Readers Edition)”
Author Archives: Shantanu
Lockwood and Co. The Screaming Staircase
Plot: Lucy Carlyle is a girl living in a dark age of England. For around 50 years, ghosts have been coming back from the dead. Some of these ghosts are harmless and pose no real danger to people, while some are murderous and an misadventure with one can lead to catastrophic results. To help stopContinue reading “Lockwood and Co. The Screaming Staircase”
BAN THIS BOOK
Plot: Fourth grader Amy Anne Ollinger gets the shock of her life when her favorite book , “From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” gets banned from the library of Shelbourne Elementary school. She finds out that her pet peeve Trey’s mother has been banning all the books she deemed “inappropriate”. AmyContinue reading “BAN THIS BOOK”
LIFEBOAT
Plot: 13 year old Kenneth Sparks is about to make a life changing journey across the Atlantic. The year is 1940 and the Nazis are bombing London, day and night. To keep their child safe, Ken’s parents enroll him in the CORB(Children’s Overseas Reception Board) program in which children leave UK and go to differentContinue reading “LIFEBOAT”
WEAPON A Visual History of Arms and Armor
People have used a lot of weapons since we learned how to make tools. From flint knives and stone axes, broadswords and claymores, Berettas and AK47s, this book covers them all! Each page in this encyclopedia is about weapons like combat knives, katanas and wazikashis, halberds(crosses between spears and axes), flintlocks and pre world warContinue reading “WEAPON A Visual History of Arms and Armor”
BATTLE -A Visual Journey Through 5,000 Years of Combat
This book by R.G. Grant is completely about warfare. From Egyptian Chariots to modern day helicopters, this book has it all. It has chapters like Warfare in the Ancient World like Greco-Persian Wars, Conquests of Alexander, the Punic Wars, etc., to the Era of the World Wars. The book has images of weapons like flintlocks,Continue reading “BATTLE -A Visual Journey Through 5,000 Years of Combat”
THE CRIME BOOK
Although the world is usually a safe place, there is still quite a lot of bad out there. From serial killers to drug smugglers, the world can also be a place of crime. This book contains some of the most hideous and notorious crimes in the history of the world. From the kidnapping of CharlesContinue reading “THE CRIME BOOK”
THE ESCAPE ARTISTS
Plot: This is a book by Neal Bascomb. It is a true story of one of the most daring prison breaks of all times. During WWI, POWs (Prisoners of War) were kept in prison camps. In Germany, one such camp was Holzminden, which was one of the most brutal and unforgiving camps for POWs inContinue reading “THE ESCAPE ARTISTS”
THE PERFECT HORSE
Plot: During WWII, Poland housed some of the most expensive and sought after horses in the world, Arabians and Lipizzaners. During the war, they were in danger of being killed by the advancing Russian Army and being stolen by the retreating Germans. A small group of Americans and Poles attempt to defend the horses andContinue reading “THE PERFECT HORSE”
ASTERIX Compact Omnibus I
Plot: Vercingetorix has laid his arms down at the feet of Julius Caesar. All of Gaul has fallen to the Roman Empire. All? No…one small village still defies the Roman Empire and life is not easy for the surrounding Roman Camps of Aquarium, Totorum, Laudanum and Compendium. This compact omnibus has four stories of AsterixContinue reading “ASTERIX Compact Omnibus I”
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