Robert Roper

Writing about the author of the immortal Lolita and Pale Fire, bornto anRobert Roper fills out Vladimir Nabokov's American period, covering Nabokov's critical friendship with Edmund Wilson, his time at Cornell, his role at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. But Nabokov in America finds its narrative heart in his serial sojourns into the wilds of the West, undertaken with his wife, Vera, and their son over more than a decade. Nabokov covered...

Dora and Diego meet a lonely giant tortoise and help it find a friend.

Drawing on the searing letters that Walt, George, their mother Louisa, and their other brothers, wrote to each other during the Civil War, and on new evidence and new readings of the great poet, Now the Drum of War chronicles the experience of the Whitman family--from rural Long Island to working-class Brooklyn--enduring its own long crisis alongside the anguish of the nation.

Dora visits the dental office.

Ice-Cream Truck is stuck, and it's up to Dora and Boots to save him. They call on Ten-Wheeler, Giant Crane, and Bulldozer to help out too.

Dora and Boots go into the sea in a submarine to help Pirate Pig find his lost treasure chest. Features rebuses.

When the Witch locks the Snow Princess in a tower, the Snow Fairy must save her quickly before the Snowy Forest melts away forever.

Dora and Boots are on their way to her birthday party when they are whisked away to Wizzle World, where they need to find the Wishing Wizzle to wish them home.

Dora's friend Benny the bull wants to pick a bouquet of flowers from Isa's garden as a birthday gift for his grandmother, but getting close to flowers makes him sneeze until Dora thinks up a solution.

"It's springtime and love is in the air! Even Tommy's dog, Spike, has fallen for Kimi's dog, Fifi ..."