P.D. Eastman, the author of Go, Dog, Go! and Are You My Mother? takes you on a silly romp through the alphabet.
From American Ants to a Zebra with a Zither, there are laughs in store: an elephant on eggs! A walrus in a wig!
And there's a handy alphabet down the side of each page so that everyone can keep track of where they are in the ABC's. Views: 669
"He had all but cut his jugular vein in two, right in front of his class and the watching world. The murderer inside of his head was getting very strong and sure..."
On the campus of a vast televisual university a suicidal madness locks into men's minds. If Cornut cannot resist, it is the end...for all men. Views: 669
A Fawcett gold medal book.The previous agent of the assignment has been killed and Durell, not knowing yet what the mission is, has to fly to Rome to take the slain agent's place. He may be ignorant of the true nature of the job, however, he is not ignorant of the fact that he is being followed by the killer.
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The Romans have abandoned Britain, leaving it open to the twin threats of civil war and Saxon invasion. When his home and all he loves are destroyed, Aquila endures years of torment before deciding to put some meaning back into his life. Views: 669
When the old woman died, she left her grandchild Nancy with the extraordinary gift of magic. Nancy can read people's minds, know their thoughts, and make them do what she wants. Will she use her gift for good, or satisfy her own selfish desire?
Lois Duncan presents a paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn.
This edition features updated text and an exclusive Q&A with author Lois Duncan! Views: 668
Having lost their parents in an earthquake, Anna and her siblings live with their prim uncle and feeble aunt. Anna lives only to dance – but her uncle forbids her to have anything to do with ballet. How will she survive?
For Anna, everything takes second place to her burning desire to dance. Even the earthquake that destroyed her Turkish home has not made her think differently, only now she's stuck in a prim suburban household with an uncle who "doesn't approve" of dancing.
What can Anna do? Not only is there no one to give her lessons, but there's no money for them either, and, anyway, dancing's forbidden. Will she ever become the ballerina she longs to be? Views: 668
A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancée who grew tired of waiting. Faulkner's first novel deals powerfully with lives blighted by war. Views: 668
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX
Somerset Maugham's success as a writer enabled him to indulge his adventurous love of travel, and he recorded the sights and sounds of his wide-ranging journeys with an urbane, wry style all his own. "The Gentleman in the Parlour" is an account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. Views: 668
Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials and confessions of this grotesque and still-horrifying 15th-century child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and practitioner of the Black Arts. Gilles de Rais began his remarkable career as lieutenant to the devout martyr and saint Joan of Arc; after her execution, he fled to his estates in the countryside of France, where he began to ritually slaughter hundreds of children. After his arrest and subsequent trials, he was hanged and burned at Nantes, France on October 25, 1440. The latter section of The Trial of Gilles de Rais consists of the actual ecclesiastical and secular trial transcripts, annotated by Bataille, and translated from the ecclesiastical Latin by Pierre Klossowski." Views: 668
Considered one of the greatest dramatists of all time, Anton Chekhov began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. Scattered throughout periodicals and literary journals from 1880-1890, these early psychological suspense stories provide a fresh look into Chekhov’s literary heritage and his formative years as a writer. In stories like "A Night in the Cemetery," "Night of Horror," and "Murder," not only will Chekhov’s dark humor and twisted crimes satisfy even the most hardboiled of mystery fans, readers will again appreciate the penetrating, absurdist insight into the human condition that only Chekhov can bring. Whether it is the death of a young amateur playwright at the hands of an editor who hates bad writing, or a drunken civil servant who ends up trapped in a graveyard, these stories overflow with the unforgettable characters and unique sensibility that continue to make Chekhov one of the most fascinating figures in literature. Views: 667
One morning a young wanderer wakes up to see a band of karate students engaged in deadly combat. Seduced by the sheer impossibility of their feats, and by the stunning female brown belt in their midst, he is soon absorbed into their world—in which the spirit of karate supplants all else. “A fitting celebration of man’s search for absolutes . . . [Crews’s] subject is man in the microcosm of the freak show, a performer in a species of southern Gothic carnival where the only salvation is his continuing erratic quest for The Way and The Way is as dark and elusive as the picaresque surroundings are bright. . . . Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit is an intense and dazzling book.”—Maxine Kumin “The novel takes off, in the manner of a fire storm, rushing at amazing speed, eating up the oxygen, scorching everything it touches. . . . [Crews’s] stock in trade is the unexpected. His humor produces something between a laugh and a gasp, and he writes with a hand as sure, tough and trained as [a black belt’s] destructive paws. He is always on his own, absolutely sure of himself, and very good.” —The New York Times Book Review Acclaimed as “a comic novelist of magnificent gifts” (National Review), a “verbal alchemist” (Kirkus Reviews), “a natch’ral bom teller of tales, a spinner of dreams” (Los Angeles Times), and “amadgenius” (Dan Wakefield), Harry Crews has been a student of the martial arts and is the author of ten books including Car and A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. He lives and teaches in Florida.From Kirkus ReviewsHarry Crews is a verbal alchemist whose plots can leave you hanging your hat on the outer reaches of insanity and calling it home. Someday someone will be forced to write a thesis on him. In an attempt to bring it all together -- his excesses -- John Kaimon "got very little sleep because the members of the motorcycle gang circumcised him, raped his mouth, anus and armpits and did some other things to him that he had never thought of"; and his simplicity: "I don't know what this place is like around here, but I've found in most cities people'll give you for a day's begging about what you could make for a day's work. I mean I usually make about sixteen dollars for an eight-hour beg." In reluctant summation this plot is about Faulkner fan John Kaimon getting mixed up with the Ultimate Tranquility group, an "Outlaw" Karate set that worships "Jefferson Davis Munroe" (the midget protagonist of This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven) and especially Gaye Nell Odell, a brown belted beauty who divides her time between Kartekas and Beauty Contests and who teaches in a dried out swimming pool in an abandoned motel. But that's not even the beginning, middle, or end. . . . Mr. Crews is a master of the uncommonplace and consistently fascinating. Views: 667
Full of enthusiasm, young English schoolmaster Mr. Chipping came to teach at Brookfield in 1870. It was a time when dignity and a generosity of spirit still existed, and the dedicated new schoolmaster expressed these beliefs to his rowdy students. Nicknamed Mr. Chips, this gentle and caring man helped shape the lives of generation after generation of boys. He became a legend at Brookfield, as enduring as the institution itself. And sad but grateful faces told the story when the time came for the students at Brookfield to bid their final goodbye to Mr. Chips.There is not another book, with the possible exception of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," that has quite the same hold on readers' affections. James Hilton wrote "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" in loving memory of his schoolmaster father and in tribute to his profession. Over the years it has won an enduring place in world literature and made untold millions of people smile--with a catch in the throat. Views: 666
