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
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
What don't Christians believe? Is Jesus really divine? Is Jesus really human? Can God suffer? Can people be saved by their own efforts?The early church puzzled over these questions, ruling in some bel
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
How free-market economies really work (and why they work so well) Are free market economies really based on fleecing the consumer? Is the U.S. economy truly just a giant free-for-all that encourages
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.
The University of Washington’s Study of Undergraduate Learning (UW SOUL) tracked 304 entering freshmen and transfer students as they moved through their college experience from fall 1999 to spring 200
This six-session short-term study series from James W. Moore is organized around the general theme of "Making Choices." This study serves as a fourth volume to Jesus’ Parables of Grace (Spring 2004),
"The farm and Amish ways spring to life with full characters and carefully chosen details. . . . A story animal lovers will enjoy." — KIRKUS REVIEWSOn the Amish farm where he lives and works with his
Count on these frogs for a luminous read-aloud bursting with lyrical sound play and visual surprises.On a wet spring night, one big frog sings KA-BLU-URP! Two tiny frogs sing PREEP, PREEP, three youn
Blue-eyed, freckle-faced Wanda is back, and with her comes spring, puddles, and wriggling black tadpoles. Wanda is enchanted. On the way to school one morning, Wanda scoops some tadpoles into her sand
From the singing of little wrens in spring to paper wasps building their nests in summer; from baby bats drinking mother’s milk in fall to baby possums climbing into mother’s pouch in winter, In My Ba
When The Search for Major Plagge was published last spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero-and about one American doctor's extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge's story.Part detect
When hearts start thumping in March throughout America, it’s not because it’s spring, but because it’s time once again to crown a victor among the elite college basketball teams. Co
Proceedings of the Society's conference held at the University of York in April 2002.This book brings together the papers presented at the Society for Medieval Archaeology's spring conference held in
Every spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the oddest, most obsessive, and most engrossing rituals in the sports pantheon: Rotisserie baseball, a fantasy game where armchair fa
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in interst
Does Farmer Field really know his prize cow, Daisy, is in the field? When is an unexpected exam not wholly unexpected? Are all bachelors (really) unmarried? Martin Cohen's bestselling 101 Philosophy P
Does Farmer Field really know his prize cow, Daisy, is in the field? When is an unexpected exam not wholly unexpected? Are all bachelors (really) unmarried? Martin Cohen's bestselling 101 Philosophy P
Emerging from a session of the spring 2001 International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, 12 essays explore what exactly was taught at the cathedral schools and incipient universities during the period
