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Tomatoes, potatoes, corn, and beans: how the foods of the Americas changed eating around the world
Par Sylvia A Johnson, Sylvia A. Johnson. 1997
Traces Europe's discovery and adoption of foods that were unique to the Americas before explorers landed in the New World.…
Discusses corn, tomatoes, chocolate, and other American staples, describing their history, economic significance, and uses in their adoptive cultures. For grades 6-9A life in letters: A New Collection
Par F. Scott Fitzgerald, Matthew J. Bruccoli, Judith S. Baughman. 1994
Collection of Fitzgerald's correspondence portraying his life and work. The chronological arrangement of letters reflects his literary development through the…
years, his friendships with Hemingway and other writers, and his tragic marriage and personal lifeV
Par Thomas Pynchon. 1986
A wild, discursive tale of two men and an unknown woman called "V." Benny Profane, inveterate victim, is set in…
contrast to the young adventurer called Stencil, whose life quest is to discover the identity of V., whose initial appears in his dead father's journal. Some strong language and some violenceRob Roy (Everyman Ser.)
Par Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott. 1995
First published in 1817. In eighteenth-century England, when the poetic Frank Osbaldistone refuses to enter the family business, he is…
banished to his uncle's home. There he learns he has falsely been named an outlaw by his corrupt cousin because they love the same woman. Jacobite outlaw Rob Roy helps Frank clear his name. Some violenceDear Peter Rabbit
Par Alma Flor Ada, Leslie Tryon. 1994
Remember the three pigs who built houses of straw, sticks, and bricks? Goldilocks, who broke Baby Bear's chair? Peter Rabbit,…
who barely escaped from Mr. McGregor's garden? Now Pig One wants Peter Rabbit to come to a housewarming at his new straw house, and the Bears have invited Goldilocks for cake. Peter Rabbit has a cold from hiding in Mr. McGregor's watering can, but finally they all gather for a party at Goldilocks's house. For grades K-3Gold, one of the heaviest metals, is so soft that it can be shaped into a variety of beautiful forms.…
The world has known about gold for at least 5,000 years. And, as the author explains, throughout history gold has been a sign of wealth and power and a driving force for adventure and discovery. For grades 3-6 and older readersAmerican dragons: twenty-five Asian American voices
Par Laurence Yep. 1993
An anthology of twenty-five stories, poems, and essays by Asian Americans that enlighten, probe, and examine the experiences and emotions…
of young people with roots in Japan, China, India, Korea, and Southeast Asia. Selections are set in the past, present, and future, and most raise questions about identity and about preserving or rejecting the values of ancestors. For junior and senior high readersThe moon of the bears (The Thirteen Moons Ser.)
Par Jean Craighead George, Ron Parker. 1993
A black bear, asleep in a shallow den in a Tennessee wilderness, begins to awaken after three days of warm…
February weather start the snow thawing. As a freeze returns at nightfall, the bear sleeps again. Bears are not true hiberna- tors: they awaken if hungry and on warm days during winter. But mostly, they sleep. February is the month of awakening and sleeping, the "moon of the bears." For grades 3-6 and older readersThe man who tasted shapes: a bizarre medical mystery offers revolutionary insights into emotions, reasoning and consciousness
Par Richard E. Cytowic, Richard E Cytowic. 1993
Report of a neurologist whose research concluded that the limbic system of the brain--related to emotions and motivation--is responsible for…
synesthesia, a rare medical condition in which the stimulation of one sense elicits response in another. The author includes essays on the implications of his findingsComplete collected essays
Par V. S. Pritchett, V. S Pritchett, V. S. Pritchett. 1991
The essays--all 203 of them--are among the numerous publications of this British biographer, short story writer, travel writer, memoirist, literary…
critic, and novelist. An avid reader, Pritchett reveals his delight in other authors ranging from the classic to the modern. And, although his emphasis is on English writers, the essayist explores and comments on foreign prose writing from America to RussiaThe best short stories of Theodore Dreiser
Par Howard Fast, Theodore Dreiser. 1989
Although Dreiser worked as a newspaperman in St. Louis, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and New York, he is best remembered for his…
fiction. This collection of his short stories includes "The Shadow," "The Old Neighborhood," and "The Prince Who Was a Thief."Dear Dad: letters from an adult child
Par Louie Anderson. 1989
Stand-up comic Louie Anderson's letters to his deceased father are an effort to exorcize the demons of a childhood spent…
with an alcoholic father. For Anderson, a member of Adult Children of Alcoholics, his letters were a journey of self-discovery in which he came to understand that his own addiction to food stemmed from his father's addiction to alcohol. Some strong languageThe confidence-man: his masquerade (World's classics)
Par Herman Melville, Tony Tanner, John Dugdale. 1989
First published in 1857, this social satire attacks all humankind and reveals the ease with which most people can be…
duped. It features a group of objectionable characters on a passenger boat from St. Louis to New OrleansNot under forty
Par Willa Cather. 1988
Dangerous dossiers: exposing the secret war against America's greatest authors
Par Herbert Mitgang. 1988
A correspondent for the "New York Times," with a background in Army Air Corps counterintelligence during World War II, brings…
to light the policies and procedures by which the FBI developed dossiers on authors thought to be subversive. His purpose is to demonstrate how dangerous the practice is--damaging not only to individual freedom, but also to national valuesThe story of language: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King
Par Chuck Miller, Mario Pei, Tim Underwood. 1965
Of Pei's more than fifty books, this was his best-known effort to put all of language--its origin, history, growth, forms,…
and functions--into perspective. Pei's love for languages began at the age of seven when his family emigrated from Italy to the United States. As a teacher, he considered language study as part of the humanities, and promoted his hope of achieving a better understanding among peoples with a universal languageStress passages: surviving life's transitions gracefully
Par John Mason, John O'Hara, L. John Mason, Hara John O. 1988
Divided into chapters on the major stress causing stages of life; pregnancy, parenting, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and work, midlife transition,…
aging, and death. This book presents techniques and exercises that are designed to help people relax in order to more effectively handle these stages and stresses. 1988The casualty
Par Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz, Heinrich Boll. 1987
Twenty-two sketches and stories written by the Nobel laureate, who died in 1985. They reflect his experiences as an infantry…
corporal during World War II, along with his perceptions of everyday life in postwar GermanyThe stories of Heinrich Böll
Par Heinrich Böll, Leila Vennewitz. 1986
Taking into account his World War II experience as a young man and the political utterances of his later years,…
these stories by the Nobel laureate grow out of Boll's entire career. They display his humane sensibility and eye for the mindless cruelty and desolation of war. Some strong languageThe talking earth
Par Jean Craighead George. 1983
Now that Billie Wind is going to school at the Kennedy Space Center, she finds it more and more difficult…
to understand the old ways of her people, the Seminole Indians. But when the tribal council sends her into the wilds of the Florida Everglades to rethink her doubts, Billie discovers that she must listen to the earth and the animals to survive. For grades 5-8