the story of an old Cuban fisherman

as well as stories from friends

even when there are no guarantees

So begins William Kennedy's latest novel—a tale of revolutionary intrigue

where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured man on Bellevue Hospital’s psychiatric prison ward

Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science Young Adult Botany Books the story of an oldFor over 700 years of the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders, Jim Al Khalili celebrates the forgotten, inspiring pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world during the golden age of Arabic science, including Iraqi physicist Ibn al Khwarizmi, the greatest mathematician of the medieval world; and Abu Rayhan al Biruni, a Persian polymath to rival Leonardo da Vinci.