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Adapted from a traditional tale, this beautifully illustrated picture book tells of hundreds of birds gathering to choose a king. They cannot decide if the king should be the bird with the biggest beak or the one with the most colorful feathers. Finally, after considerable debate, they decide their king will be the bird who can fly the highest. And the winner would seem to be obvious-until a small wren outsmarts them all. From the biggest to t...

An illustrated fantasy, told as fact, with a message for children and adults. The tale of a lost race of giants and what happens when their existence, and their location, becomes known by the outside world. After finding a huge tooth on the docks, English explorer Archibald Leopold Ruthmore sets out to seek the race of giants to whom the tooth belongs and discovers nine giants, the survivors of a singularly gentle and kindly race. He lives amo...

Short stories by a modernist master, the author of The Man Without Qualities.Extravagant, sensual, mystical, and autobiographical, these stories by Robert Musil are, as Frank Kermode has written, "elaborate attempts to use fiction for its true purposes, the discovery and regeneration of the human world."V. S. Pritchett wrote, "In his descriptions of love affairs and especially in the portraits of women in love, Musil is truly original, in mana...

Christa Wolf's mesmerizing short novel-a bestseller in Germany-is a supreme work of political and philosophical insight by one of Europe's great writers. Alive with myth and metaphor, rich in historical and literary allusion, it draws a nuanced, witty, and utterly compelling portrait of a person and a society close to death yet still capable of recovery.

An undertaker's son uncovers the true dark heart of a town's mystery in this macabre comedy. Larkin Mills is a place where Competitive Basket Weaving is the favorite sport, and the only hotel is a funeral parlor, a place with toad infestations and locust nests and strange things lurking in the sewers, a place with an exquisite ice cream parlor, and a lot of death.We meet apparently healthy Albert Dance, called a sickly child and booked into La...

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Irving Goodman, self-confessed dirty old man, is 83 years old and has just fallen in love. Unfortunately, Justine Trimble, satr of 1950s cowboy B-movies, has been dead for 47 years. He saw her first in Last Stage to El Paso, a lowlife black-and-whie Western, and has been unable to think of anything else since. Desperate, Goodman invokes the help of his old friend, Istvan Fallock, to see if they can't somehow coax a videotape to yield the 25-ye...

How a dog who loved the water became a hero. Riptide may be an unusual name for a dog, but it is one that suits this one well. Rip is drawn to the salty ocean breeze, and the crash of the waves, and he simply cannot be discouraged-even in summer when he is forbidden to follow his instincts and race miles along the coast. "No Dogs on Nauset Beach!" the sign reads, and the guards protest, calling for his young owner Zach to come retrieve him dai...

Here is a selection of letters, envelopes, and illustrations by an artist who could never resist the temptation of filling his letters to family and friends with enchanting vignettes and sketches, done quickly, humorously and lovingly, with a sure touch for outline, wash and colour that always distinguished his work.

An Israeli returns to Austria, thirty years after the Holocaust, to understand his own father's fate. "A marvelous and disturbing book . . . an experience both painful and joyous."-Times Literary SupplementThe secure world of a well-established and apparently perfectly assimilated Jewish writer living in an Austrian town before World War II, disintegrates under the force of political and social realities that daily sanctify the old and endemic...

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National Book Award Winner in poetry. Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork, translated into English by acclaimed poet Richard Howard, along with the original French text. Scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, love, death, the corrupting and oppressive power of the modern city and lost innocence, Les Fleurs Du Mal remains powerful and relevant for our time.In "Spleen et idéal, " Baudelaire dramatizes the erotic cycle of ecstacy and a...

The essential history of pizza, told by a charming Italian girl who lives in Pienza and whose favorite food is . . . well, you can guess it-pizza. Life in Pienza is pretty old-fashioned, and our young narrator knows everyone on the street and at the market by name. Her grandmother, of course, makes pizza by hand and teaches her how to make it too. While children will love the vibrant illustrations and simple story, adults will be riveted by th...

Seven short stories and a novella portray the emotional struggles of life and love.

A reminiscence of Christmas, from the viewpoint of a young boy, that has been a holiday favorite for decades. In rich, humorous, magical prose, poet Dylan Thomas recalls the church-going, the tree-trimming, the food, the carols and games of his childhood Christmases. And, of course, Mrs. Prothero and the firemen. It is one of Thomas' most popular works.Always on Christmas night there was music, he writes. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin s...

A fantasy read-aloud filled with humor, suspense, and adventure by the author of the classic, Watership Down.A gentleman tyger and his son set sail on a boat into the unknown. Together they roam across the seas, through jungles, past ice-covered mountains and erupting volcanoes to be rescued at last by a troupe of gypsies. Eventually they return in triumph to Victorian England with many an extraordinary tale to tell.A wonderfully rich read-alo...

In 1948, young Le Clezio, with his mother and brother, left behind a still-devastated Europe to join his father, a military doctor in Nigeria. In this title, the narrative relates both the dazzled enthusiasm the child feels at discovering newfound freedom in the Africa and his torment at discovering the rigid authoritarian nature of his father.

Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. By the 1940s, his fiction, plays, and journalism had catapulted him to the forefront of Swedish letters. This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories, is unified by the theme of the loss of innocence.

This book accompanies the exhibition "Writing the Garden" organized in 2011 by the New York Society Library.

A classic for young readers, and parents, who believe in the magic of Christmas. "I absolutely adored it. It had a cracking plot and a perfect tone throughout."-J. K. Rowling Little Polly Flowerdew lives with her two maiden aunts, and she is absolutely sure that something special is going to happen this Christmas. Her aunts will not leave the door unlocked on Christmas Eve so Polly leaves her bedroom window open, just in case the three wise me...