Mystery on the docks: Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Singer Mysteriously Vanishes! Two mean-looking rats slink into Ralph's diner -- and they're pretty tough customers. Before the night is over, the villainous rats have kidnapped Ralph and the world-famous opera star, Eduardo Bombasto. The rats will stop at nothing. But Ralph has a few tricks up his sleeve! Art dog: Late one night Leonardo Dog Vinci's masterpiece Mona Woofa is stolen from the Dogopolis...

At once a subversive autobiography of a mercurial woman and a mesmerizing history of the body as a site of resistance to power. "I bite my friends to heal them."-Diogenes the Cynic, c. 350 BCE From a Roman amphitheater where 4th century martyrs are

Stuart Palley's memoir Into the Inferno documents eight years of devastating wildfire in California, showing how fire can transform a landscape as well as a soul... For nearly a decade, Palley has been on the frontline of fire. He has witnessed homeowners on the worst day of their lives. He's seen puddles of aluminum where cars were once parked. He's watched as 150-foot walls of flame cascaded down mountainsides and crashed into the Pacific Ocean....

Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and scientist was famed for the astoundingly breadth of his genius. His many notebooks detailed the reach of his inventive mind across multiple fields of inquiry.

Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Alberto Giacometti. Includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.

Traces the brief and troubled life of van Gogh: his birth in a Dutch village, his travels in Belgium and England, his arrival in Impressionist Paris and his discovery of the delights of the south of France, where he died at 37. Shows how, in spite of suffering mental crises and inner turmoil, van Gogh always continued to search for ways of painting that expressed the true essence of his subjects.

"El pequeño Pablo creció en un hogar artístico y después de dibujar su primera pintura a los nueve años. Su padre era profesor de arte y ayudó a desarrollar el talento de su hijo, enseñándole a usar pinturas al óleo. Primero se mudó a Barcelona y luego a Francia, donde logró un éxito significativo y se convirtió en uno de los artistas más influyentes del siglo XX. Su estilo artístico inspiró muchos movimientos en el arte, la música...