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Follows the travels of Italian explorer John Cabot, born Giovanni Caboto, who moved to England and got King Henry VII to back an expedition across the Atlantic, where Cabot found what is now Canada. Eager to discover more, Cabot soon set sail on another voyage -- never to be heard from again.

Because Befana's household chores kept her from finding the Baby King, she searches to this day, leaving gifts for children on the Feast of the Three Kings.

"The son of a traveling merchant, Marco Polo spent his early years among the ports of Venice, Italy. As a young man, he headed eastward with his father and his uncle toward the lands of the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan. Their journey from Europe into Asia, marked by risks, setbacks, and discoveries, transformed every person involved. It also led to one of the world's most studied and most debated travelogues. Narco Tabilio ... creates a graphic novel in the form of a puzzle and finds the coming-of-age tale within the legend of Marco Polo"--Provided by publisher.

A young woman is at war with the snobbery of her class and her desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.

"The first full-scale biography of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the fathers of the atomic age, Enrico Fermi, ... known as The Pope of Physics. A modest, unassuming man, Fermi was nevertheless one of the most productive and creative scientists of the twentieth century, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb and a Nobel Prize winner whose contributions to physics and nuclear technology live on today, with the largest particle accelerator in the United States and the nation's most significant science and technology award both bearing his name.... An examination of the human dramas that touched Fermi's life as well as a thrilling history of scientific innovation in the twentieth century--including the birth of one of its most controversial disciplines, nuclear physics"--.

"A portrait of physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi assesses his pivotal role in achieving a nuclear chain reaction and shares insights into his complex personality, family ties, and relationships with the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project."--OCLC.

"The story of Mario Balotelli's journey from near death as an infant to becoming one of the world's best known strikers"--Back cover.