The Windy Hill

The Windy HillA pair of teens visiting their wealthy cousin in a sleepy seaside town stumble upon a family mystery in this suspenseful Newbery Honor Book. Oliver and Janet sense immediately that something's wrong with Cousin Jasper, who barely acknowledges their arrival and remains strangely nervous and preoccupied. The brother and sister soon realize that the trouble is not confined to their cousin's house; conflict is brewing all over the hills and farms of

" — Scientific American

the text is elementary in treatment and remarkable for its clarity and organization

Additional subjects include separation axioms

There's always a story behind the story

Brahms conducted the first major performance of the German Requiem in Bremen Cathedral in April 1868

rebellious machines

folklore and mythology

Jean Cocteau labeled this revolutionary work "a pastorale of the prehistoric world" at its premiere in Paris in 1913

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) experienced the horrors of bondage but gained freedom and world renown as a lecturer

chronological survey of Colonial architecture in Salem — from the town's settlement in 1626 to the end of its Colonial development in 1818

Bessel Function

this decorative tour de force marks the shift of popular taste from Neoclassicism