Author: Laura Robinson
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
ISBN: 9780878465965
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
William and the Christmas Moon
Author: Laura Robinson
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
ISBN: 9780878465965
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
ISBN: 9780878465965
Category : Christmas stories
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Columbus in the Americas
Author: William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1118039661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold." With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Columbus's subsequent dealings with the cultures he encountered not only did considerable immediate harm, but also set the pattern of behavior for those who followed him. Based on the logbook of Columbus and numerous other firsthand accounts of his four voyages to the New World, this vividly detailed history also examines the strengths and weaknesses of Columbus as a navigator, explorer, and leader. It recounts dramatic events such as the destruction of Fortress Navidad, the very first European settlement in the New World; a pitched battle in northern Panama with the native Guaymi people; and an agonizing year Columbus and his men spent marooned on a narrow spit of land in southern Jamaica. Filled with stories of triumph and tragedy, courage and villainy, Columbus in the Americas offers a balanced yet unflinching portrait of the most famous and controversial explorer in history.
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1118039661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it would be tiresome to write down, and they gave everything for anything that was given to them. I was attentive and labored to find out if there was any gold." With these portentous words, Christopher Columbus described one of his first encounters with Native Americans on the island of Guanahani, which he had named San Salvador and claimed for Spain the day before. In Columbus in the Americas, bestselling author William Least Heat-Moon reveals that Columbus's subsequent dealings with the cultures he encountered not only did considerable immediate harm, but also set the pattern of behavior for those who followed him. Based on the logbook of Columbus and numerous other firsthand accounts of his four voyages to the New World, this vividly detailed history also examines the strengths and weaknesses of Columbus as a navigator, explorer, and leader. It recounts dramatic events such as the destruction of Fortress Navidad, the very first European settlement in the New World; a pitched battle in northern Panama with the native Guaymi people; and an agonizing year Columbus and his men spent marooned on a narrow spit of land in southern Jamaica. Filled with stories of triumph and tragedy, courage and villainy, Columbus in the Americas offers a balanced yet unflinching portrait of the most famous and controversial explorer in history.
Devil's Moon
Author: Matthew Marine
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985273750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Secrets shrouded in a tourist town An FBI agent tortured by his past A murder the local police don't want solved Sedona, Arizona: A young woman is found mutilated in a police officer's basement, his confession scrawled on the wall above his lifeless body. The local police rule the case a murder-suicide, but the dead officer's sister isn't convinced. She persuades rundown FBI Agent Stuart Ransom to conduct an off-the-books investigation. With her help, Ransom realizes that the police appear to be hiding the truth behind the gruesome murder. Now he must question everything-from the case to his own beliefs-before his past becomes the killer's next target. "Fast-paced yet beautifully evocative, Devil's Moon is a thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end." - J Carson Black, Author of "The Shop" and the Laura Cardinal crime fiction series
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985273750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Secrets shrouded in a tourist town An FBI agent tortured by his past A murder the local police don't want solved Sedona, Arizona: A young woman is found mutilated in a police officer's basement, his confession scrawled on the wall above his lifeless body. The local police rule the case a murder-suicide, but the dead officer's sister isn't convinced. She persuades rundown FBI Agent Stuart Ransom to conduct an off-the-books investigation. With her help, Ransom realizes that the police appear to be hiding the truth behind the gruesome murder. Now he must question everything-from the case to his own beliefs-before his past becomes the killer's next target. "Fast-paced yet beautifully evocative, Devil's Moon is a thriller that will keep you guessing until the very end." - J Carson Black, Author of "The Shop" and the Laura Cardinal crime fiction series
Santa Calls
Author: William Joyce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481489607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Three kids venture to the North Pole to help Santa defeat an army of evil elves in this holiday classic from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Art Atchinson Aimesworth—inventor, crime fighters, and all-around whiz kid—journeys north with his sister, Esther, and his pal Spaulding, by special invitation from Santa himself. Why did Santa call them to the North Pole? Art wants to know. But when Esther is taken by the Queen of the Dark Elves, Art must put his questions aside and save his sister. This reissue of William Joyce’s epic Christmas adventure now comes complete with lift-the-flap letters from Santa himself!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481489607
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Three kids venture to the North Pole to help Santa defeat an army of evil elves in this holiday classic from the brilliant mind that brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore. Art Atchinson Aimesworth—inventor, crime fighters, and all-around whiz kid—journeys north with his sister, Esther, and his pal Spaulding, by special invitation from Santa himself. Why did Santa call them to the North Pole? Art wants to know. But when Esther is taken by the Queen of the Dark Elves, Art must put his questions aside and save his sister. This reissue of William Joyce’s epic Christmas adventure now comes complete with lift-the-flap letters from Santa himself!
PrairyErth
Author: William Least Heat-Moon
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547527470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547527470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 637
Book Description
This New York Times bestseller by the author of Blue Highways is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County—a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas—exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a “modern-day Walden” by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through a place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. “A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country.” —Paul Theroux, The New York Times
Moons and Planets
Author: William K. Hartmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Full Moon at the Napping House
Author: Audrey Wood
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544308328
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0544308328
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
In this cumulative tale, a chirping cricket calms a worried mouse, a prowling cat, and other restless creatures, helping them to finally fall asleep.
The Man in the Moon
Author: William Joyce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435518
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
In the first book of a multibook series, find out how a round, jolly baby became the great white hope of the Milky Way—and ringleader of the Guardians of Childhood. Up there in the sky. Don’t you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn’t always a man. Nor was he always on the moon. He was once a child. Like you. Until a battle, a shooting star, and a lost balloon sent him on a quest. Meet the very first guardian of childhood. MiM, the Man in the Moon.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442435518
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
In the first book of a multibook series, find out how a round, jolly baby became the great white hope of the Milky Way—and ringleader of the Guardians of Childhood. Up there in the sky. Don’t you see him? No, not the moon. The Man in the Moon. He wasn’t always a man. Nor was he always on the moon. He was once a child. Like you. Until a battle, a shooting star, and a lost balloon sent him on a quest. Meet the very first guardian of childhood. MiM, the Man in the Moon.
Moon Tiger
Author: Penelope Lively
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219737X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.” —The Boston Globe Winner of the Man Booker Prize Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she’s carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her life, her own story tangled with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the center of her life, Tom, her one great love found and lost in war-torn Egypt. Always the independent woman, often with contentious relationships, Claudia’s personal history is complex and fascinating. As people visit Claudia, they shake and twist the mosaic, changing speed, movement, and voice, to reveal themselves and Claudia’s impact on their world. “Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This is one of the best novels I have read for years.” —The London Sunday Telegraph “It pulls us in; it engages us and saddens us. It is also unexpectedly funny . . . It leaves its traces in the air long after you’ve put it away.” —The New York Times Book Review “One of the very best Booker winners . . . it asks hard questions about memory and history and personal legacy; it’s stylistically demanding and inventive . . . a wonderful book.” —The Guardian
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 080219737X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
“A powerful, moving and beautifully wrought novel about the ways in which lives are molded by personal memory and the collective past.” —The Boston Globe Winner of the Man Booker Prize Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she’s carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her life, her own story tangled with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the center of her life, Tom, her one great love found and lost in war-torn Egypt. Always the independent woman, often with contentious relationships, Claudia’s personal history is complex and fascinating. As people visit Claudia, they shake and twist the mosaic, changing speed, movement, and voice, to reveal themselves and Claudia’s impact on their world. “Emotionally, Moon Tiger is kaleidoscopic, deeply satisfying. The all too brief encounter between Claudia and Tom will surely rate as one of the most memorable of contemporary fictional affairs. This is one of the best novels I have read for years.” —The London Sunday Telegraph “It pulls us in; it engages us and saddens us. It is also unexpectedly funny . . . It leaves its traces in the air long after you’ve put it away.” —The New York Times Book Review “One of the very best Booker winners . . . it asks hard questions about memory and history and personal legacy; it’s stylistically demanding and inventive . . . a wonderful book.” —The Guardian
The Sandman
Author: William Joyce
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442430427
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The second picture book in Academy Award winner Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood series tells how the Sandman dreamed up his sweet-dreams legacy. Full color.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442430427
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The second picture book in Academy Award winner Joyce's The Guardians of Childhood series tells how the Sandman dreamed up his sweet-dreams legacy. Full color.