John Coltrane's musical composition is performed by a box, a snowflake, some raindrops, and a kitten.

Sixth-grader Emmy tries to find her place in a new school and to figure out how she can create her own kind of music using a computer.

Introduces the planet Uranus, discusses its history, its composition, and its role in the solar system.

Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to -- so when she finds out whom they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.

"How close would you hold those you love, when the end comes? In a society where self-preservation is as much an art as a science, Norah and Arthur are learning how to co-exist in their new little world. Though they hardly know each other, everything seems to be going perfectly - from the home they're building together to the ring on Norah's finger. But survival in this world is a tricky thing, the air is thicker every day and illness creeps fast...

An authoritative guide to the lives and works of over 100 of the most famous classical composers, encompassing all styles of composition from medieval times to the present day. Including biographies for each composer, and historical information about the musical eras, events and artistic movements of that time, also how the composers influenced or changed the development of their art form.

"Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter journal ... novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world ... From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American...

"With this anthology, everyday folk from Hispanic and Anglo cultures build a composite picture of life today and yesterday in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico. The once isolated region has undergone rapid change. As new generations of Hispanics no longer speak Spanish, the culture of their forebears vanishes. And Santa Fe, once The City Different, is much like other cities now. And yet, despite the arrival of modernity, both city and region retain...