By all appearances, John Lennon was working on a tell-all memoir in the final years of his life. Every day he poured into diaries his raw thoughts and feelings—about his jealous rivalry with Paul McCartney; his tumultuous marriage to Yoko Ono; his love for his sons, Julian and Sean; his hatred of the music business; his escape into programmed dreams; his acerbic opinions of England and America.Written by one of the few people to have read those diaries, and based on decades of rese...

For sixteen years Robert Rosen worked behind the X-rated scenes of such porn magazines as High Society, Stag, and D-Cup. In BEAVER STREET: A HISTORY OF MODERN PORNOGRAPHY, Rosen blows the lid off the lucrative and politically hounded adult industry, providing a darkly engaging account of its tumultuous decades-from the defining Traci Lords scandal and the conception of ‘free’ phone sex to the burgeoning success of smut in cyberspace in the twenty-first century. When Robert Rosen came to ...

Oscar and Olivia are watching the Olympics. Find out what each country’s flag looks like and what sport each country is good at.

A darkly comic and deeply moving story of a New York City lost to time. From the final days of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the mid-1950s to the arrival of the Beatles in 1964, A Brooklyn Memoir is an unsentimental journey through one rough-and-tumble working-class neighborhood. Though only a 20-minute and 15-cent subway ride from the gleaming towers of Manhattan across the East River, Flatbush remained insular and provincial—a place where Auschwitz survivors and WWII vets lived side by side an...

Jake and Lucy are at the park. They hear some hungry baby birds. Who is going to feed the birds and where is their mother?

Annie wants to read. But everywhere is so noisy! Where can she go that is quiet to read in peace?

Barry and Terry are making a rocket. How will they make their rocket? And will they get to the moon?

Zoe and Zak clean the house. However, Zak keeps making a mess. Will they ever get the house clean?

Look at the boy’s family in the photo. Find out who each person is and what they enjoy doing with the boy.

Annie wants to read. But everywhere is so noisy! Where can she go that is quiet to read in peace?

Amy and Tiffany are having a picnic. However, ants keep ruining their lunch. Where can they go to eat their food?

Look at the boy’s family in the photo. Find out who each person is and what they enjoy doing with the boy.