"In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron's doctor has died. The doctor's replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies. For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and...

A seventeenth-century Dutch anatomist discovers the Achilles tendon by dissecting his own amputated leg. Chopin's heart is carried back to Warsaw in secret by his adoring sister. A woman must return to her native Poland in order to poison her terminally ill high school sweetheart, and a young man slowly descends into madness when his wife and child mysteriously vanish during a vacation and just as suddenly reappear. Through these brilliantly imagined...

Hoping for hippos? Take a look! They're in this Belly Button Book ! Featuring a beachful of bare-bellied hippos--including one tiny baby who only says BEE BO! --this quirky book captivates with inimitable illustrations and joyful rhyming text. It's BIG fun.

Orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is eager to start a new life in her aunt's lucrative business selling corpses to medical students, but she quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.

The owner of a human body celebrates it by pointing out various parts and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing" to the "skin that bundles me in."

A loveable monster from planet tickle is on a mission to spread laughter on earth.

A group of toddlers demonstrate all the fun things that they can do with their eyes, ears, mouths, hands, legs, feet--and everything in between.

Bohaterami tej ksiazki sa nomadzi i koczownicy nieprzywiazani do wlasnych korzeni. Kobiety wozace w torebkach zapasowe szczoteczki do zebow na wypadek naglej podrozy i mezczyzni umiejacy spakowac caly swoj dobytek w 10 minut, zawsze gotowi do drogi. Proza Olgi Tokarczuk przekonuje iz poczucie ladu wszechswiata dostepne jest kazdemu, o ile tylko podrozuje. This novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most...

A group of toddlers demonstrate all the fun things that they can do with their eyes, ears, mouths, hands, legs, feet--and everything in between.

Fact-filled audio adventures that will transport you from the farm to the rainforest and around the human body!