Looks behind fortress walls to explore how they were built to house hundreds of people and animals, how a boy rose from page to knight, and what castle life was like.
Text and detailed drawings follow the planning and construction of a "typical" castle and adjoining town in thirteenth-century Wales.
Working from plans of an actual 14th century European castle, Stephen Biesty has sliced the building into various cross-sections, each one teeming with life and detail.
The story of K and his arrival in a village where he is never accepted, and his relentless, unavailing struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the castle that seems to rule it.
Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered. The Glass Castle is truly astonishing—a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
The Classic Bestselling Saga by Science Fiction Grand Master Robert Silverberg Lord Valentine’s Castle He is a man with no past— a wanderer without memory of his origins.
In their magic treehouse, Jack and Annie are again transported to King Arthur's realm, where invisible beings, giant ravens, and mistaken magic spells have a duke's castle in an uproar on Halloween night.
When a dusty old trophy awarded to her aunt's high school singing group turns up and brings back memories of an unsolved murder, chocolate shop manager Lee McKinney Woodyard realizes it is actually a clue to a present-day killing.
650 The Big Cage Clyde Beatty 1958—1966 Excerpted from The Big Cage (Universal, 1933). A good choice for the home-movie market, this was edited from a 1933 Universal feature starring wild-animal trainer Clyde Beatty.
Two children go on a creative journey to discover the answer to the question ́Why do we need books?́+ As they pore over piles of books and discover the incredible worlds and words within, they find lots of answers to this question: to ...
William wants to know what's making the strange moans that drift through the castle where he was raised.