“Rich with sensual detail, making for vivid impressions.”??— Publishers WeeklyJustine Hardy is an English journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who has spent much of the past fifteen year
Thomas Friesen has three goals in life. Get a job. Make friends. Find a good book to curl up with. After landing a job at READ, the newest hypermegabookstore, he feels he may have accomplished all thr
In 1958, Doris Muscatine's husband was awarded a Fulbright that required them to live a year in Rome, and so began a love affair with Italy that would continue for the rest of their lives.This is a me
Scary stories are a perennial favorite among youngsters, and Robert D. San Souci obliges them with 13 more spine-tingling horror stories in Triple-Dare to Be Scared. Each elegantly crafted vignette dr
A merry band of Newfoundland smugglers carrying on a grand tradition. A high-powered RCMP inspector obsessed with their capture. A day-dreaming police scientist caught in a dilemma between the call of
"A story is a living thing." So begins Way of the Screenwriter, a book with a novel, refreshing approach to the long-practiced art of screenwriting. Amnon Buchbinder brilliantly reinterprets screenwri
A portrait of the twentieth-century American woman who has been credited with bringing Zen Buddhism to the western world discusses her relationships with such individuals as Burton Watson, Gary Snyder
Kabbalah is often associated with pop-stars, their distinctive red wrist bands, and media scepticism. In this fascinating work, Dan Cohn-Sherbok bypasses the hype, exploring the mystical tradition's s
Howard Hordinary is convinced that he’s the bastard grandchild of Harry Houdini. An unemployed executioner with a fetish for electric chairs, Howard is tormented by multiple perversities and obsessed
Exotic environments like the African savanna have long held a fascination for young readers. This colorful picture book beautifully evokes that realm with images of giraffes, lions, hippos, elephants,
California-based Euser is a Master Gardener, author, and former political officer with the U.S. Dept. of State Foreign Service who worked on community development projects in several countries. She pr
Ever since his emergence from the Canadian cinematic underground during the late 1960s, David Cronenberg has challenged and disturbed audiences with works that range from cutting-edge commercial to cu
One fall day, Kate goes with her father, a fish biologist, to the river where he works — a river in the Pacific rain forest — the “salmon forest,” as he calls it. Together they watch the sockeye salmo
Having moved from the richest suburb in America to a plantation in Florida (which his father dreams of recreating as Tara, the mansion from Gone with the Wind), George Tabb enters late adolescence wit
Published to coincide with the 1969 Nobel Prize winner's one hundredth birthday, a portrait by one of his closest friends is based on their more than four-decade relationship and offers insights into
Sharing his 'overwhelming enthusiasm for the humble spud' and a lifetime's experience in the seed potato industry, Alan Romans combines an engaging account of potato growing with an expert guide to po
Discovering Hawaii is likely to be a lifetime labor of love, not easily accomplished during a two-week vacation. Yet insights do reward those travelers who approach the Islands and their people with o
The sestina is a traditional poetic form that has enjoyed a recent surge in popularity, which promises to expand further with this witty illustrated cycle of poems. Casting themselves as poetic superh
First published in 1889, The King of the Golden River tells the story of young Gluck, a headstrong boy with two dreadful brothers who consistently mistreat him. One day, Gluck and his brothers go off
Zen Tails: Up and Down is the story of a very bored monkey with absolutely, positively nothing to do. Shri Shelley, a sagely tortoise, thinks she knows what to teach the monkey so that he can conquer
Interspersed with charts, graphs, and various crossword puzzles, A Book of Noisy Outlaws, Evil Marauders, and Some Other Things . . . features some of today's best authors spinning new tales ranging f
With Writing Open the Mind you can inject a sense of playfulness and possibility into your writing!Powerful writing comes naturally when your mind is energized and experimental, when it can take risks
Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia's Golden Age, spent forty years in love with the diva Pauline Viardot. He followed her and her husband around Europe until the day he died.And ye
For the first time since Hitchcock, moviegoers have embraced a film director whose name is synonymous with his own genre ? a culmination of the crime, gangster, and film noir genres that both celebrat
On his wedding day in 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne escorted his new wife, Sophia, to their first home, the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts. There, enriched by friendships with Thoreau and Emerson, he
Every poem in this book is made with a special formula-part media imagery, part satiric humor, and a secret ingredient the author refuses to divulge. Imbibing its avant-garde commercialism, its transc
Twelve-year-old Donovan's summer with his aunt and uncle on Puget Sound becomes a test of his own convictions when he suspects his uncle's involvement in a local racist group.
Lavina Cumming has spent her entire first ten years of life on the Bosque Ranch in Arizona Territory with her mother and father, five brothers, and her black mustang pony, Chummy. When her mother dies
The rainforest ranks with dinosaurs as an enduring source of fascination for children, but has the advantage of still being around to be experienced - at least for now. In 42 color photographs, The Se
Nothing is more beautiful than a field covered with monarch butterflies - in fact, a field full of any butterfly species is quite magical. Recognized across cultures as a symbol of hope and rebirth, t
These 11 essays trace the 300-year struggle that the peoples of San Antonio have waged with their environment. With the underlying question of whether people define San Antonio's environment or vice v
In his latest adventure, third-grader Robert Dorfman endures a triple-rotten day, complete with a trip to the orthodontist, a new palate expander, and mushed-up baby food. An emergency visit to the ve
In this, her first novel in more than nine years, in a career studded with distinctive and unique accomplishments, award-winning Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written her most unusual book. My Nine Lives,
In these 51 short stories, first published as a collection in 1953, Carr works through some of her favorite subjects, including her experiences with Native people at the turn of the twentieth century,
The charming baby Krishna, or Damodara, can be a naughty boy. He'll keep your children entertained, though, as they color him in along with is funny monkey friends.
They say dogs have it made. Well, these dogs certainly do. This engaging collection of stories shows how much fun it can be to say "yes" to your pooch and take him along with you rather than abandonin
A guide to using color in the garden that explores how to achieve the effect you require, whether you want an instant splash of brilliant seasonal color, or a border with subtle year-round appeal. It
Little Marty hatches a plot to trick the Tooth Fairy with a paper tooth. But when the clever fairy finds out what he's done, watch out! He's about to learn that she has a strong sense of justice?and a
The White Stripes ? guitarist Jack White and drummer Meg White ? have managed to combine high album sales with high praise from the critics, moving quickly from cult to commercial success, generating
The ever-adventurous author of Louise in Love looks to the visual arts for inspiration with this astonishing fourth collection. The poems in The Eye Like a Strange Balloon find their seed in paintings
