American Tall Tales

Reducere. The perfect addition to every family's home library and just right for sharing aloud, American Tall Tales introduces readers to America's first fol...

Reducere. Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated What Your Second Grader Needs to Know What will your child be expected to learn in the s...

Reducere. We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer sk...

Ambrose Bierce's satirical flair is most prevalent in his tall tales and similar sketches, where all manner of human foibles are lampooned: the exc...

Reducere. John Chapman--better known as Johnny Appleseed--had wilderness adventures that became larger-than-life legends. Pioneering west from Massachusetts ...

Reducere. The REAL Story of Pirates - Fun Facts, Tall Tales, and Awesome Activities offers fascinating information about life at sea during the "golden age o...

Braided with haunting saloon tunes and just the right dose of magic, The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All is a novel bursting with heart, humor and...

Reducere. American Literary Cultures highlights literature written by regional authors--particularly those of Texas and the Southwest--and includes readings ...

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Neil Gaiman returns to the territory of his masterpiece, American Gods (soon to be a Starz Original Series), ...

Reducere. Wisconsin is a land rich with stories. It was the "mother of all circuses, " a place of buried treasure and home to eerie ghosts and monsters. Nati...

Reducere. Hailed by Ezra Pound as the "American Ovid" and renowned as a linguist and a self-described "amateur anthropologist, " Jaime de Angulo drew on his ...

Reducere. Our images of the big names and places of the Old West often come from the tales of gunfights and violence that were sensationalized by dime novels...

Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and ...

The images are ingrained into the American psyche: cowboys and Indians, gunslingers and stagecoach robbers, lassos and saddles, six guns and nooses...

Reducere. Did you know that the Lone Ranger was likely inspired by a black cowboy? Or that some of the most famous sharpshooters in the West were women? Or h...

Reducere. Winner: Kirkus Reviews, Best Historical Teen Book of 2016 Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continenta...

Reducere. Winner Best Travel Book - American Book Fest Winner of Excellence in Craft Award from Florida Outdoor Writers Association Finalist Best Interior Gr...

Reducere. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, s...

Reducere. Tom Van Arsdale was born in the great state of Indiana, the heartbeat of the game of basketball. He and his twin brother became Co-Mr. Basketball i...

Reducere. Before he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the ...

Nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he's got some mighty tall odds stacked against him - a brutal sh...

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Reducere. Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods t...

Reducere. Tor Essentials presents science fiction and fantasy titles of proven merit and lasting value, each volume introduced by an appropriate literary fig...

At a New Year's Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station located on another planet,...

A classic fictional chronicle of life on the open trail, THE LOG OF A COWBOY has long been considered the best and most reliable account of real co...