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Bestselling author McPhee takes us on another exciting geological excursion with this engaging account of life--past and present--in the high plains of Wyoming.

In this unique book, John McPhee takes us into the world of several fascinating people. His inimitable style reveals the intricate details of his characters lives.

Author Jack Gantos ("Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key") shares the true story of how he became a writer the hard way by learning a valuable lesson while he was in college.

In a suspenseful, chilling, and fascinating report like no other, bestselling author John McPhee investigates the plight of dissident Soviet artists and the American professor, Norton Dodge, who smuggled their work abroad. 40 color plates.

By the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The LibraryLydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, bit by bit brightening the shop and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows. But it is in a secret place that Lydia Grace works on her masterpiece -- an ambitious rooftop garde...

Wizzil the witch is bored and causes trouble when she decides to take revenge on an old man, but her mischief leads to a happy ending. Full color.

Pearl (a piglet) discovers a talking bone, which had fallen out of a witch's basket...This is a tight mesh of witty storytelling and art, bound to please any audience." --Starred, "Booklist

Despite a raging snowstorm, Irene, a dressmaker's daughter, offers to deliver the duchess's newly finished ball gown...With sure writing and well-composed, riveting art, Steig keeps readers with Irene every step of the long way."--Starred, "Booklist "One of Steig's simplest stories (and) one of his best, a tale that has the force of a legend." --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.

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Lorca's essential poems, in an attractive bilingual edition This new edition of "Selected Verse" incorporates changes made to Federico Garcia Lorca's "Collected Poems, " and will be an essential addition to any poetry lover's bookshelf. In this bilingual edition, Lorca's poetic range comes clearly into view, from the playful Suites and stylized evocations of Andalusia to the utter gravity and mystery of the final elegies, confirming his statu...

Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.

But then, from way off, with cranking"comes my night, and when it arrives"I go to it like a callboy to a c-note."--"My Interior" "Jeff Clark's poems . . . marry the stoned reveries of our postmodern era with the symbolist bliss of a previous one . . . In meticulously crafted verse and prose poems, "The Little Door Slides Back" offers the reader glimpses of a shadow world, seen by a visionary who has a clear strategy for depicting them." --*Rut...

Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy, and Flannery OConnor.

Anger be now your song, immortal one, Akhilleus' anger, doomed and ruinous, that caused the Akhaians loss on bitter loss and crowded brave souls into the undergloom, leaving so many dead men-carrion for dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was done. -Lines 1-6 Since it was first published more than twenty-five years ago, Robert Fitzgerald's prizewinning translation of Homer's battle epic has become a classic in its own right: a standard ag...

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Philadelphia. Yet in the low center of the state is a near wilderness, larger than most national parks, which has been known since the seventeenth century as the Pine Barrens. The term refers to the predominant trees in the vast forests that cover the area and to the quality of the soils below, which are too sandy and acid to be good for farming. O...

When 12-year-old Eric's parents are deployed to Iraq, he goes to live with grandparents he hardly knows in small-town North Dakota, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he has rescued are too much and Eric runs away.

The true history of a legendary American folk hero In the 1820s, a fellow named Sam Patch grew up in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, working there (when he wasn't drinking) as a mill hand for one of America's new textile companies. Sam made a name for himself one day by jumping seventy feet into the tumultuous waters below Pawtucket Falls. When in 1827 he repeated the stunt in Paterson, New Jersey, another mill town, an even larger audience gathered ...

Based on the author's childhood, this story is brought to life with lush acrylic paintings, giving readers a touching portrait of a book-hungry child growing up in a family of migrant workers. Full color.

In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's "Phedre, " Euripedes' "Alcestis, " and the trilogy of plays known as at "The"Oresteia, " a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry. "The Oresteia"--Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his ...