On an early spring night in 1991, Sophie and Crow, flushed with anticipation, slip away from a rowdy high school party and sneak off into the woods. Tonight, for the first time, they will make love. A
Fasting for days, or even weeks, while drinking a lemonade-like blend of clear spring water, cayenne pepper and citrus juice has proven to be a safe, simple and yet powerful way to cleanse the body o
The setting is Bath, England's most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787. Haughty aristocrats, wealthy upstart businessmen, social climbers, adventurers, courtesans, sharpers, addicted ga
Paul James Toscano embraces his doubts—doubts that spring from an awareness intimately connected to faith. His doubts extend beyond the incidental aspects of Christianity and Mormonism to the fundamen
As the F”hnblew the first breaths of spring into the Alps in March 1845, two Swiss men embarked on a circuitous voyage that took them from the impoverished canton of Glarus in eastern Switzerland to
When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with a commitment to democracy but also to Jim Crow practices. Race after Hitler tells the story of how troubled r
The students of Hill Street School are getting ready for their spring carnival, and the third-grade class is making the fliers and maps, but when a big mistake is made on the flier, it threatens to sp
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mi
It’s spring in New York City, but in the lives of these four friends there’s already plenty of HEATGeneva Holliday got your Groove on, gave you Fever, and now she turns up the Heat, in her wildest nov
In a devastating exposAc in the tradition of Silent Spring and Fast Food Nation, investigative journalist Randall Fitzgerald warns how thousands of man-made chemicals in our food, water, medicine, an
Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund’s Ivy League novels—Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has be
"I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret." For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion
In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIt was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne
Three conferences were held in England and California during the spring and summer of 2001 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London, and from them 15 e
Spring semester at the Lab School in Hyde Park finds Petra and Calder drawn into another mystery when unexplainable accidents and ghostly happenings throw a spotlight on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie Hou
I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for awhile. Just cause people saw my nam
More than any other English monarch before or since, Queen Elizabeth I used her annual progresses to shape her royal persona and to bolster her popularity and authority. During the spring and summer,
Days and nights of heavy spring rain threaten to cripple New York City. Neighborhoods are experiencing periodic blackouts. People have been reported electrocuted by fallen power lines. Flooding of so
Three volumes provide alphabetically-arranged entries covering medical, agricultural, and industrial aspects of biotechnology, exploring its real-world applications and impact on society.
These are the informal notes of two seminars held at the Universita di Roma “La Sapienza”, and at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in spring and autumn 1997. We discuss in detail the content of th
Fans of Beautiful Disaster will devour Diana Peterfreund’s Ivy League novels—Secret Society Girl, Under the Rose, Rites of Spring (Break), and Tap & Gown. At an elite university, Amy Haskel has be
Until recently, little was known about the lives of songbirds during their travels from autumn until spring. Now scientists have documented mass migrations over the Gulf of Mexico, identified the voic
One late spring morning the American artist Jackson Pollock began work on the canvas that would ultimately come to be known as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist).Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and S
Offers a new compilation of quilts, runners, wall hangings, pillows, and place mats in a patchwork garden of sixteen quilting projects that celebrate the seasons with spring blossom, summer sunshine,
Adventures on Amelia Island: A Pirate, A Princess, and Buried Treasure continues the escapades of the Johnson family as they spend their spring break on Amelia Island during the annual Isle of Eight F
Spring is a long time coming on the Great Prairie. The Sioux tribe awaits the return of the bison. The tribe is hungry.Yakari, who lives his dreams, goes with Little Thunder looking for the herd led b
Little Squire was born in an Irish meadow on an early spring day. The colt was beautifully formed with strong, straight legs and a pretty head. But due to his small size, it was unlikely he would be m
During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's "cleansing" of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many
Rachel Carson combined her love of science and writing in her awardwinning and controversial book, Silent Spring. Revealing the dangers of pesticide use, it brought readers a new awareness of man?s co
In the spring of 1757, the Lynch brothers established a ferry across the James River to transport settlers on their way to the Ohio Valley. Within a decade, the settlement clustered around the ferry h
For the centennial of the birth of Silent Spring author Rachel Carson, a new edition of her groundbreaking paean to the sea Celebrating the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their nat
In the spring of 1963, the quiet suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, is rocked by a shocking murder that fits the pattern of the infamous Boston Strangler, still at large. Hoping for a break in the case
Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civil War-vividly re-creates the battles and maneuvers fr
Even in the gloom of a London fog, Sherlock Homes sees and observes everything ... About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconce
The perfect gift!This gorgeous boxed set includes the first three books of The Wheel of Time: The Eye of the World, The Great Hunt, and The Dragon Reborn, as well as New Spring: The Novel, the exciti
When he took ship for France in the spring of 1918, Horace Baker was ill prepared for war. A private in the American Expeditionary Forces, the unassuming Mississippi schoolteacher joined the renowned
This volume gathers eight essays on African-American sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois from the spring 2001 conference, W.E.B. Do Bois and Frantz Fanon: Post-colonial linkages and Trans-Atlantic Receptions.