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This is a story of a Mexican-American family who lived in the same fertile valley that was the setting for John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. Several decades after Steinbeck's 1939 novel, this family realized the American dream of creating a financially successful business, sending their children to private school, and owning their family home. They also experienced a father's alcoholism, a brother's Down syndrome, a twin brother's HIV infectio...

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This is another story about Dak, an adventuresome cat, and his first trip to the city. After receiving a letter from cousin Ludwig, Moon, and aging house painter, decides it's time for a little vacation and a good visit.Dakota (Dak, for short) has never been to the city, but is full of excitement and apprehension, thinking of the stories Moon has told him about a place so full of mystery.This tale takes an interesting turn of events when Dak v...

Darkness Hides the Flowers is the true-life adventure story of a Jewish teenage girl running from the Gestapo. An artistic girl, who dreams of being a pianist, young Ida is abruptly thrown into the wilderness of rural France and must survive alone. Ida's narrative is illustrated with her original paintings and the poems that she wrote to endure an ordeal of loneliness, fear, abuse and starvation. Her paintings of the experience are captured in...

Wer liest, hört mehr. Wer eine Komposition wirklich begreifen will, greift zur Studienpartitur. Die Feinheiten einer Komposition erschließen sich erst über den Notentext. Die Reihe Eulenburg Audio+Score zeichnet sich durch lesefreundliches Format und ausgezeichnetes Druckbild, hochwertiges Papier und ein zweisprachiges Vorwort in Deutsch und Englisch aus. Wir liefern Ihnen nicht nur eine Partitur, sondern gleichzeitig die Musik dazu. Alle Bänd...

Wer liest, hört mehr. Wer eine Komposition wirklich begreifen will, greift zur Studienpartitur. Die Feinheiten einer Komposition erschließen sich erst über den Notentext. Die Reihe Eulenburg Audio+Score zeichnet sich durch lesefreundliches Format und ausgezeichnetes Druckbild, hochwertiges Papier und ein zweisprachiges Vorwort in Deutsch und Englisch aus. Wir liefern Ihnen nicht nur eine Partitur, sondern gleichzeitig die Musik dazu. Alle Bänd...

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Homespun Iowa is a compilation of short stories and essays. A few were told by my grandmother, born in 1858, some by my mother, who died in 1992 at the age of 95, others by her friends, and mine. Most, however, are personal memories and musings - about ordinary people and animals - everyday events that make up our lives, and give them meaning. Some bring laughter, others tears. There is no violence in these anecdotes. Homespun Iowa is an easy ...

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The Magic Feet, set in the years 1792-7198, continues the themes of the author's Plans of the Deathless Gods. It describes the New Zealand before the French Revolutionary wars sever contact between old and new worlds.Taking up where the author's Plans of the Deathless Gods left off, The Magic Fleet recounts the arrivals in the settlement of Fridericus, South New Zealand, of New Prussia Company ships Hera and, after significant delay, Apollon a...

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These articles lend themselves to active reading, giving kids a great place to annotate and work out their thinking as they read." --Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis In response to the overwhelming demand for more high-quality, age-appropriate nonfiction texts, Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis have developed the four-volume series Toolkit Texts: Short Nonfiction for Guided and Independent Practice. Each volume provides a library of age-appro...

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- Johnnie related how he asked his future father-in-law for his daughter Anna's hand in marriage, when there was in the family an older daughter, Madeline. Johnnie said, "Him say 'no, you can't a hava Anna, you take a Madeline.' I say, 'Donta wanta the Madeline, wanta the Anna, 'Him say' no, damma haffa take a the Madeline." Johnnie and Madeline had eleven children. - The first day you started cutting tobacco you thought surely you would die. ...

September Song is a collection of stories and a full-length play, written over a span of fifteen years in the author's long writing career. The settings of the stories range from China to California and Vermont, the play, Guests of Summer, is set in Nebraska. Orville Prescott in the New York Times called one of the stories, "O'Hara's Creation, " "a provocative study of an artist lost in alcoholism, given an extra push downward by the monotony ...