702 illustrations referencing Proverbs
Carl Fredricksen spent his whole life saving for an adventure with his wife Ellie—to Paradise Falls. She died before they could go. So Carl ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies there alon
In The King's Speech, Lionel Logue isn't a credentialed speech therapist—he's an Australian actor. But he sees something in stammering King George VI that others don't: a voice worth hearing. Through
On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded two hundred miles...
On May 20, 2013, an EF5 tornado carved a seventeen-mile path through Moore, Oklahoma, flattening entire neighborhoods in minutes. Wind speeds exceeded two hundred miles...
When the fire alarm shrieked at 2:47 a.m., six-year-old Lily Chen couldn't see anything. Smoke filled the upstairs hallway of their Cedar Rapids bungalow, black...
In the hill towns of central Italy, Roman aqueducts still stand after two thousand years. Engineers in Segovia, Spain, walk beneath arches built before the...
On a moonless night in 1862, missionary John G. Paton crouched inside his small mission house on the island of Tanna in the New Hebrides....
During the Nazi occupation of Holland, Corrie ten Boom and her family hid Jewish refugees in a secret room behind a false wall in their...
In 2019, Maria Gutierrez signed a five-year lease on a tiny storefront in downtown Waco, Texas, determined to open a Mexican bakery. She had spreadsheets,...
In 1921, George Washington Carver stood before the United States Congress with a box of peanut products — milk, flour, dyes, wood stains, face cream...
In 2019, a furniture maker named David Chen nearly closed his workshop in Asheville, North Carolina. Orders had dried up. His savings account showed eleven...
Every morning before dawn, George Washington Carver walked the fields near Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, collecting plant specimens and praying. He called these walks his...
In May 1521, Martin Luther was the most wanted man in Europe. Declared a heretic by the Diet of Worms, stripped of all legal protection,...
In 2019, master woodworker Jimmy DiResta nearly walked away from his craft. After twenty years building custom furniture in his New York workshop, a warehouse...
Margaret Thornton was eight years old the first time the air raid sirens wailed over Birmingham in November 1940. She remembers the sound cutting through...
On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras, Louisiana, with 175-mile-per-hour winds and a storm surge that swallowed entire neighborhoods. In the Lower...
The feather drifts through the opening and closing of Forrest Gump—carried by winds it cannot control, landing where it will. Forrest wonders: "I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all
The Kim family lives in a basement apartment that floods with sewage. The Park family lives on a hill in architectural splendor. When Ki-taek, the poor father, asks what the rich Mr. Park's plan is, h
In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indy faces the "leap of faith"—a chasm with no visible bridge. His dying father's only hope is the Holy Grail on the other side. The clue says: "Only in the leap
Marcus Reinhardt had been building furniture in his small Asheville workshop for twenty-two years. He knew red oak like he knew his own hands. So...
In The Impossible, the Belon family is separated by the 2004 tsunami. Maria and Lucas are swept miles away; Henry searches with the younger boys. Against all odds, they reunite. What survived the wave
In Ford v Ferrari, Carroll Shelby and Ken Miles clash constantly—about design, about driving, about ego. But the clash produces the GT40 that beats Ferrari at Le Mans. Miles pushes Shelby past bureauc
When Dr. Sarah Chen sets a broken femur at Massachusetts General Hospital, she doesn't heal the bone — she positions it. She aligns the fractured...
Elena Vasquez spread her business plan across the kitchen table at 5:00 a.m., the way she had every morning for three weeks. The numbers never...