Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429955260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Devil's Storybook is a 1974 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1975 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books. An ALA Notable Book Chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best of the Best Books
The Devil's Storybook
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429955260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Devil's Storybook is a 1974 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1975 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books. An ALA Notable Book Chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best of the Best Books
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429955260
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
The Devil's Storybook is a 1974 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and a 1975 National Book Award Finalist for Children's Books. An ALA Notable Book Chosen by School Library Journal as one of the Best of the Best Books
The Devil's Storybooks
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1466802200
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Every now and then, the Devil likes to pop up into the world for an adventure. He's a trickster and a mischief-maker, and just as full of vanity and other human failings. But he's also a gifted storyteller. The Devil's antics are presented in these two collections of stories, The Devil's Storybook and The Devil's Other Storybook, together in one volume. They make for delightfully wicked reading and are accompanied by charming illustrations by Natalie Babbitt.
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1466802200
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Every now and then, the Devil likes to pop up into the world for an adventure. He's a trickster and a mischief-maker, and just as full of vanity and other human failings. But he's also a gifted storyteller. The Devil's antics are presented in these two collections of stories, The Devil's Storybook and The Devil's Other Storybook, together in one volume. They make for delightfully wicked reading and are accompanied by charming illustrations by Natalie Babbitt.
The Devil's Other Storybook
Author: Natalie Babbitt
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429955457
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human feelings as he was in Natalie Babbitt's first collection, The Devil's Storybook.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1429955457
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Devil is back, just as full of vanity and other human feelings as he was in Natalie Babbitt's first collection, The Devil's Storybook.
Devil's Gate
Author: Tom Rea
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail—to show how ownership of a place can translate into owning its story. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Devil’s Gate is the center of a landscape that threatens to shrink any inhabitants to insignificance except for one thing: ownership of the land and the stories they choose to tell about it. The static serenity of the once heavily traveled region masks a history of conflict. Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. The Sun name was linked with the land for generations. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martin’s Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856. The treeless, arid country around Devil’s Gate seems too immense for ownership. But stories run with the land. People who own the land can own the stories, at least for a time.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806182008
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail—to show how ownership of a place can translate into owning its story. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Devil’s Gate is the center of a landscape that threatens to shrink any inhabitants to insignificance except for one thing: ownership of the land and the stories they choose to tell about it. The static serenity of the once heavily traveled region masks a history of conflict. Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. The Sun name was linked with the land for generations. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martin’s Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856. The treeless, arid country around Devil’s Gate seems too immense for ownership. But stories run with the land. People who own the land can own the stories, at least for a time.
Duffy and the Devil
Author: Harve Zemach
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name. Now back in print, this book is a Caldecott Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book. Full-color illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire's name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil's name. Now back in print, this book is a Caldecott Medal winner and ALA Notable Children's Book. Full-color illustrations. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
The Good Little Devil and Other Tales
Author: Pierre Gripari
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782690387
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Absurd fairy tales, very sensibly told ;There once was a good little devil - did you read that right? Yes you did: not a wicked little devil but a good one, and boy, was he in a fix! ;Instead of doing bad things like forgetting his homework and playing tricks on his teachers, this little devil kept trying to be good. He did all his homework - and sometimes enjoyed it! He was never rude and he even encouraged sinners to say sorry. His parents were at their wits' end. So the little devil struck out on his own.On his quest to learn to be good, our little devil meets all kinds of people, from priests to police and from the Pope in Rome to Little Jesus himself. But will the angels let a little red devil with black horns into Heaven? ;In these thirteen tales, clever young people find nifty ways to overcome greedy kings, wicked witches, unlucky spells and even silly names. And there's a big dash of magic to help them on the way!
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782690387
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Absurd fairy tales, very sensibly told ;There once was a good little devil - did you read that right? Yes you did: not a wicked little devil but a good one, and boy, was he in a fix! ;Instead of doing bad things like forgetting his homework and playing tricks on his teachers, this little devil kept trying to be good. He did all his homework - and sometimes enjoyed it! He was never rude and he even encouraged sinners to say sorry. His parents were at their wits' end. So the little devil struck out on his own.On his quest to learn to be good, our little devil meets all kinds of people, from priests to police and from the Pope in Rome to Little Jesus himself. But will the angels let a little red devil with black horns into Heaven? ;In these thirteen tales, clever young people find nifty ways to overcome greedy kings, wicked witches, unlucky spells and even silly names. And there's a big dash of magic to help them on the way!
The Devil's Story
Author: Herman Franck
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522993315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
It's not treason when you're taking back your own kingdom. Forgive me but the evidence shows the devil was wrongly convicted of high treason. Begin with this biblical fact: He was the number one angel in heaven known as God's cover angel. He sat next to God and was promised to be god's successor to rule the kingdom of heaven. Lucifer was the Minister of Music and was actually a musical instrument. He wore a sheet with colored jewels that when turned made music. He was the one who brought us music. All this went to hell when God had a son named Jesus. God promised the kingdom to his new son, a breach of promise that Lucifer forbeared. Jesus enacted laws restricting angels. A group of angels believed the new laws enslaved them. Lucifer was their leader and led the angel revolt. The Devil's Story is a rock musical of his retrial for high treason. Don't worry it has a happy ending, sort of.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522993315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
It's not treason when you're taking back your own kingdom. Forgive me but the evidence shows the devil was wrongly convicted of high treason. Begin with this biblical fact: He was the number one angel in heaven known as God's cover angel. He sat next to God and was promised to be god's successor to rule the kingdom of heaven. Lucifer was the Minister of Music and was actually a musical instrument. He wore a sheet with colored jewels that when turned made music. He was the one who brought us music. All this went to hell when God had a son named Jesus. God promised the kingdom to his new son, a breach of promise that Lucifer forbeared. Jesus enacted laws restricting angels. A group of angels believed the new laws enslaved them. Lucifer was their leader and led the angel revolt. The Devil's Story is a rock musical of his retrial for high treason. Don't worry it has a happy ending, sort of.
The Devil's Derivatives
Author: Nicholas Dunbar
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422143163
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A compelling narrative on what went wrong with our financial system—and who’s to blame. From an award-winning journalist who has been covering the industry for more than a decade, The Devil’s Derivatives charts the untold story of modern financial innovation—how investment banks invented new financial products, how investors across the world were wooed into buying them, how regulators were seduced by the political rewards of easy credit, and how speculators made a killing from the near-meltdown of the financial system. Author Nicholas Dunbar demystifies the revolution that briefly gave finance the same intellectual respectability as theoretical physics. He explains how bankers worldwide created a secret trillion-dollar machine that delivered cheap mortgages to the masses and riches beyond dreams to the financial innovators. Fundamental to this saga is how “the people who hated to lose” were persuaded to accept risk by “the people who loved to win.” Why did people come to trust and respect arcane financial tools? Who were the bankers competing to assemble the basic components into increasingly intricate machines? How did this process achieve its own unstoppable momentum—ending in collapse, bailouts, and a public outcry against the giants of finance? Provocative and intriguing, The Devil’s Derivatives sheds much-needed light on the forces that fueled the most brutal economic downturn since the Great Depression.
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
ISBN: 1422143163
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A compelling narrative on what went wrong with our financial system—and who’s to blame. From an award-winning journalist who has been covering the industry for more than a decade, The Devil’s Derivatives charts the untold story of modern financial innovation—how investment banks invented new financial products, how investors across the world were wooed into buying them, how regulators were seduced by the political rewards of easy credit, and how speculators made a killing from the near-meltdown of the financial system. Author Nicholas Dunbar demystifies the revolution that briefly gave finance the same intellectual respectability as theoretical physics. He explains how bankers worldwide created a secret trillion-dollar machine that delivered cheap mortgages to the masses and riches beyond dreams to the financial innovators. Fundamental to this saga is how “the people who hated to lose” were persuaded to accept risk by “the people who loved to win.” Why did people come to trust and respect arcane financial tools? Who were the bankers competing to assemble the basic components into increasingly intricate machines? How did this process achieve its own unstoppable momentum—ending in collapse, bailouts, and a public outcry against the giants of finance? Provocative and intriguing, The Devil’s Derivatives sheds much-needed light on the forces that fueled the most brutal economic downturn since the Great Depression.
The Devil's Highway
Author: Luis Alberto Urrea
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 031604928X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 031604928X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This important book from a Pulitzer Prize finalist follows the brutal journey a group of men take to cross the Mexican border: "the single most compelling, lucid, and lyrical contemporary account of the absurdity of U.S. border policy" (The Atlantic). In May 2001, a group of men attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadliest region of the continent, the "Devil's Highway." Three years later, Luis Alberto Urrea wrote about what happened to them. The result was a national bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a "book of the year" in multiple newspapers, and a work proclaimed as a modern American classic.
The Devils' Due
Author: Steve Berry
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488074240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A heart-pumping short story from the New York Times–bestselling author featuring one of operative Cotton Malone’s earliest missions . . . In this alternate-history-with-a-twist Thriller Short, Steve Berry explores one of Cotton Malone’s early missions, from a time when Malone was still employed as one of the Magellan Billet’s twelve agents. Malone is sent on a mission to a small central Asian country run by an enigmatic dictator, Yossef Sharma, whose alliance with the United States must be kept under wraps. It’s not a mission Malone enjoys, since Sharma has a penchant for burning books. Things get even more interesting when Sharma connects Malone with the world’s most infamous criminal, a man who wants to surrender. Things are not always what they seem, and Malone will need Sharma’s help if he plans to set things right and give the devil his due. This story was originally published in the “outstanding anthology” Thriller (Publishers Weekly), edited by #1 New York Times–bestselling author James Patterson. Many other Thriller Shorts are available from such blockbuster authors as Lee Child, David Morrell, Brad Thor, Katherine Neville, Heather Graham, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Praise for Steve Berry “Berry pumps the veins of history with action-packed adrenaline.” —Chicago Tribune “A fast-moving, globe-hopping tale of long-lost treasure and shadowy bad guys.” —San Francisco Chronicle
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 1488074240
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
A heart-pumping short story from the New York Times–bestselling author featuring one of operative Cotton Malone’s earliest missions . . . In this alternate-history-with-a-twist Thriller Short, Steve Berry explores one of Cotton Malone’s early missions, from a time when Malone was still employed as one of the Magellan Billet’s twelve agents. Malone is sent on a mission to a small central Asian country run by an enigmatic dictator, Yossef Sharma, whose alliance with the United States must be kept under wraps. It’s not a mission Malone enjoys, since Sharma has a penchant for burning books. Things get even more interesting when Sharma connects Malone with the world’s most infamous criminal, a man who wants to surrender. Things are not always what they seem, and Malone will need Sharma’s help if he plans to set things right and give the devil his due. This story was originally published in the “outstanding anthology” Thriller (Publishers Weekly), edited by #1 New York Times–bestselling author James Patterson. Many other Thriller Shorts are available from such blockbuster authors as Lee Child, David Morrell, Brad Thor, Katherine Neville, Heather Graham, and Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Praise for Steve Berry “Berry pumps the veins of history with action-packed adrenaline.” —Chicago Tribune “A fast-moving, globe-hopping tale of long-lost treasure and shadowy bad guys.” —San Francisco Chronicle