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A Smidgen of Sky

Winget, Dianna Dorisi
A Smidgen of Sky
In this warm and witty middle-grade debut set in the deep South, ten-year-old Piper Lee struggles to accept her daddy's death, hermama's upcoming marriage, andthe new step-family thatwill come along with it. But when her plan to call off the wedding spirals out of control, Piper Lee must face the consequences and figure out how to fix things.

CHF 24.90

The American Songbag

Sandburg, Carl
The American Songbag
Sandburg was not only a poet but also a noted collector and performer of american folk music. This anthology contains words and music to 290 songs that people have sung in the making of americanca. New Introduction by Garrison Keillor, Prefatory Notes by the Author, Index.

CHF 53.90

The People, Yes

Sandburg, Carl
The People, Yes
A long poem that makes brilliant use of the legends and myths, the tall tales and sayings of America. "If America has a folksinger today he is Carl Sandburg, a singer who comes out of the prairie soil... who can hand back to the people a creation that has scraps of their own insight, humor, and imagination" (Padraic Colum).

CHF 48.50

Tyranny of Words

Chase, Stuart
Tyranny of Words
A popular approach to semantics in which the author discussess how to clarify the meaning of words and achieve more exact communication. Index

CHF 46.90

Memoirs Found in a Bathtub

Lem, Stanislaw
Memoirs Found in a Bathtub
The year is 3149, and a vast paper destroying blight-papyralysis-has obliterated much of the planet's written history. However, these rare memoirs, preserved for centuries in a volcanic rock, record the strange life of a man trapped in a hermetically sealed underground community. Translated by Michael Kandel and Christine Rose.

CHF 46.90

Man Against Himself

Menninger, Karl
Man Against Himself
In this landmark book, the impulse toward self-destructiveness is examined as a misdirection of the instinct for survival, a turning inward of the aggressive behavior developed for self-preservation. "One of the most absorbing books I have read in recent years" (Joseph Wood Krutch, The Nation). Index.

CHF 46.90

The Death of the Moth and Other Essays

Woolf, Virginia
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker), "The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.

CHF 46.90