Dan Smith Books

Rooted in the rural Midwest, this collection of poetry reflects Daniel Smith's three decades of experience on his family's dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. It delves into themes of familial bonds to the land, the labor of farming, and the emotional turmoil that arises when that way of life becomes untenable. The poems vividly capture the transformations affecting agriculture and the rural communities, offering a poignant exploration of heritage and sustainability.

Take your quizzing up a notch with the new Genius Edition of this bestselling adult activity book, a compendium of questions that will delight and infuriate - and the answers are all in the back, if you need them!

In the snow, death is not the coldest thing waiting for you...

Empty pipes and H2O entrepreneurs: boreholes, cart pushers, and "pure water" -- Problem has changed name": electric power and consumer citizenship -- Okadas and danfos: "public transportation" in Nigeria -- "Be what you want to be": cell phones and social inequality -- "They don't know what i have not taught them": the privatization of public schooling -- "Sleeping with one eye open": infrastructural insecurity.

When Pete, Nancy and Krish arrive at Heathland Camp for a school trip, they're in for an adventure - just not the kind they were expecting. Nearby sits the abandoned Harwood Institute. The crumbling buildings reek of secrets and at night strange screams come from the surrounding forest. Nobody knows what experiments took place at the institute during the war, so Pete and his friends make it their mission to find out. But the forest is hiding a sinister secret, and the trio could be in real danger... Are some mysteries best left undisturbed?

One night in 1941, the war comes to Peter when a German plane crashes into woods near where he lives. Peter rushes to the crash hoping to find something exciting to keep. But what he finds instead is someone: a young and injured German airman in need of his help.

Animals behaving oddly, people falling suddenly ill - what's creeping around down at the farm? Crooked Oak's mystery-solving team return with another spine-tingling adventure.

A milestone of graphic reporting, this groundbreaking 'atlas with attitude' keeps pace with the speed of change with informed analysis and graphically analyses every key indicator and vital statistic of modern life. This statistically meticulous and beautiful presentation of trends is essential to understand the world today.

A beautiful gift volume of the private love letters of kings and through the ages - Letters of Note meets Lady in Waiting.

Nisha and her mother, Amma, flee the war in Malaya to take refuge at her father's ancestral home in England. Here, however, Nisha must follow her stern grandmother's countless rules - and most of all ignore the ghost child beckoning her from the weeping tree high on the cliff top ...