"Today's trip around the world takes us to Japan […] Two young children serve as tour guides, taking kids all over Japan to highlight aspects of everyday life, holidays, language, and so much more. A huge thank you to [Tuttle Publishing] for this fantastic resource!" -- Jazmin, bookstagram reviewer

A collection of stories inspired by the January 1995 Kobe earthquake and the poison gas subway attacks two months later takes place between the two disasters and follows the experiences of people who found their normal lives undone by surreal events.

Resurrection, the last of Tolstoy's major novels, tells the story of a nobleman's attempt to redeem himself for the suffering his youthful philandering caused a peasant girl. Tolstoy's vision of redemption achieved through loving forgiveness, and his condemnation of violence dominate the novel. An intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger, and forgiveness, Resurrection is at the same time a panoramic description of social life in Russia at the...