Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales, Paperback - Alison Lurie

Reducere. Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. A...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday TimesJust married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman.

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' GuardianVinnie Miner is an American ...

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'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday TelegraphFaculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautif...

Her husband, Henry, manages her every need making certain Delia gets everything she desires including spectacular doses of adulation. Can Delia coa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. Things spiral when a protest a...

Reducere. In the 1980's, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alison Lurie wrote a meditation on clothing as an expression of history, social status and indiv...

Reducere. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children s ...

Reducere. Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature, Paperback

Dark folktales retold for modern times by some of the most exciting women writing today, from Daisy Johnson to Eimear McBride

When some monkeys manage to escape from their safari park, they find themselves in serious danger ...Oxford Reading Tree All Stars stories are imag...

Publisher: And Other StoriesAuthor(s): R. B. RussellNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 132 x 199 x 24Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Follow the trickery and antics of Hyena and Rabbit as they try to out-wit each other in this collection of hilarious traditional tales from West Af...

This volume examines the work of ten sociologists who have been forgotten or neglected within contemporary sociology. Each chapter examines one of ...

One day Roger Welsch ventured to ask his father a delicate personal question: "Why am I an only child?" His father's answer is one of many examples...

Reducere. Welcome the second book in the Folktales of the World seriesEngaging, inspirational, and above all entertaining, these legends come from Native Ame...

When Diane Wolkstein, herself a well-known storyteller traveled throughout the Haitian countryside in search of stories, she harvested a rich colle...

Reducere. Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, writer and storyteller Anne Shelby creates fourteen lively, origi...

Reducere. For thousands of years, Chinese storytellers have delighted listeners with stories about the value of virtues like honesty, respect, courage and se...

Reducere. In the spirit of her blockbuster #1 New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarks on a new project to make home a happier...

Publisher: Walker Books LtdAuthor(s): Rodaan Al GalidiNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 208 x 241 x 20Cover type: HardbackIllus...

Reducere. This collection of Icelandic fairy tales and legends comes from the days of the Vikings. These stories of trolls, magic, Hidden People, and creatur...

Reducere. DescriptionYoung mother dies. A baby disappears. A murderer strikes. In a small Adirondack Mountain town, secrets are hard to keep. No wonder Trout...

Description-Little-known stories and illustrations by 19th century artist Elena Polenova, supported by Polenovo Estate near Moscow -Companion to Wh...

Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group, IncAuthor(s): Alison GlickNumber of pages: 260Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 135 x 202 x 24Cover type: Pa...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Ugly as sin, the ugly duckling--or maybe you fell out of the ugly tree? Let's face it, we've all used the word "ugly" to describe someone we've see...

Reducere. DescriptionTrolls and Hidden Folk are a part of daily life in Iceland. This collection of Icelandic folklore and legends comes from the days of the...

DescriptionThe Cradle of Humankind--a paleoanthropological site about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Brian J. McVeighIn his provocative but critically acclaimed theory about the origin of introspectable mentality, Julian Jay...

Reducere. Preschoolers will have a ball matching stickers, completing puzzles, and playing learning games in this full-color activity book. Chock-full of thi...

Reducere. For 36 seasons, the Expos entertained baseball fans with memories to last a lifetime. In this the 40th anniversary year of the Expos winning a play...

DescriptionA major new edition of this much studied play offering the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page com...

For thousands of years, children all over the world have listened to popular folktales. Each country has its own set of fascinating stories, and le...

DescriptionThis exhilarating book brings together some of the best classic stories told in the United States. Many of the tales were brought to the...

Reducere. Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 is the period study that investigates the causes of the Cold War, three of its key crises and the re...

Explore how animals communicate in Let's Play - and other things animals say. This book is part of Project X Origins, a ground-breaking guided read...

Reducere. Cele patru tendinte: profilurile de personalitate esentiale care iti arata cum sa faci viata mai buna (pe a ta si pe a altora) / The Four Tendencie...

Reducere. CharlotteIt is human nature to erect a protective wall around yourself when life teaches you a hard lesson.Trust doesn't come easily when your perf...