Juliette Benzoni

Anne Carter

Marianne and the Masked Prince

Robert Irwin

Maxime Rodinson

Maxime Rodinson, both a maverick Marxist and a distinguished professor at the Sorbonne, first published his biography of Muhammad in 1960. The book, a classic in its field, has been widely read ever since. Rodinson, though deeply versed in scholarly studies of the Prophet, does not seek to add to it here but to introduce Muhammad, first of all, as “a man of flesh and blood” who led a life of extraordinary drama and shaped history as few others have. Equally, he seeks to lay out an understanding of Muhammad’s legacy and Islam as what he called an ideological movement, similar to the universalist religions of Christianity and Buddhism as well as the secular movement of Marxism, but possessing a singular commitment to “the deeply ingrained idea that Islam offers not only a path to salvation but (for many, above all) the ideal of a just society to be realized on earth.”

Rodinson’s book begins by introducing the specific land and the larger world into which Muhammad was born and the development of his prophetic calling. It then follows the steps of his career and the way his leadership gave birth to a religion and a state. A final chapter considers the world as Islam has transformed it.

Muhammad

Amani, a young Palestinian girl, looks to the meadows of the Firdoos to get her sheep the food they need, but when Israeli settlers impede her ability to get to the pasture, she must try to find a peaceful solution to the problem.

The Shepherd's Granddaughter

Marianne

Nova Scotia, 1762: Elizabeth and Mathilde have become best friends, but the animosity between Mathilde's Acadian family and the local settlers may force the LeBlancs to move away from the place they call home. Elizabeth cannot imagine her life without Mathilde, with whom she plays and shares stories. Even the birth of her new brother doesn't stop her from thinking about losing her friend. She is determined to do everything she can to keep the LeBlancs where they belong. Will Elizabeth's prayers be answered?

Wide as Wings

Night is a boy who knows it's much more fun to play than go to sleep. When the sun sets, he travels through the night sky in a spaceship with his teddy. Night's favorite game is hide-and-go-seek, which he plays each evening with his older sister, Day. But why can't he ever find her? Night Boy is a unique playful picturebook about a brother and a sister named Night and Day. The rhythmic text and rich illustrations make for a bedtime story that is sure to lull children who say "I can't sleep" into dreamland. Through the personas of a brother and sister, Night Boy offers a unique explanation of how night turns to day astronomically.

Night Boy

Jacob Grimm

Wilhelm Grimm

Twelve Dancing Princesses

Early Pioneers in Western Australia

The CArter Brothers of Norfolk

After surviving the horrors of polio and painful physical therapy, Pauline realizes that she must overcome her fears of playing hockey again and break away from her overprotective mother when her father builds a rink in the backyard.

In the Clear

Slipping into a coma after bullies severely beat him, Michael Denshaw finds himself in Nova Scotia where he must save the beautiful Marie from being killed along with the rest of the Acadian people before he can save his own life.

Anne Carter

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