Ruby Sisson Library

Discusses the history, religions, resources, infrastructure, and provides a timeline of major events, a fact file, and glossary of terms.

Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.

Through interviews and photographs, presents an intimate profile of the Hopi people in the 1970s.

Hiroshima was once a city of seven beautiful rivers, where families lived and worked and children grew up. When war came, and when the bomb fell, everything changed, including the life of one small girl who saw her world shattered.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing...

Surveys the treatment of gods, goddesses, the heavens, creation, death, and evil as expressed in various mythologies around the world. Here is an intriguing and captivating introduction to the culturally diverse world of mythology. Photographs of masks, jewelry, and sculptures offer a unique view of mythology and its gods, heroes, and monsters.

For kids who cook in a play kitchen or a real kitchen, this interactive recipe book invites readers to chop the vegetables, mash the avocado, warm the tortillas, and more - all inside the book!Step one: Cut the chicken into cubes and toss it in a bowl with the spices.Step two: Warm oil on a skillet on the stove, then add the chicken.Step three: While the chicken cooks, chop the scallions, slice the radishes, shred the cabbage, mince the cilantro.Simple...

Explores the similarities and differences between languages.

urassic Classics: The Prehistoric Masters of Art uses prehistoric dinosaur humor to introduce young readers to art history in a fun and inviting new way. The Prehistoric Masters of Art features an assortment of artist biographies, each with a "prehistoric" twist, such as Leonardo da Vilociraptor, Vincent van Guanadon, and Frida Kahlopholus. After a brief "dino" history of each artist, a clever parody of his or her most famous sketches and paintings...