How the Whale Became and Other Tales of the Early World

Ted Hughes wrote a series of stories for children from the early 1960s through until 1995 about how the world, and the creatures in it, came into b...

John Polidori's classic tale of the vampyre was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Set in Ita...

Reducere. Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893) is a novel by American writer Stephen Crane. Self-published by Crane when the author was only 22 years old, Ma...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: G. W. MullinsIllustrator: C. L. HauseIn Native American history, there are many legends about UFOs, gods and aliens. There ...

Reducere. In Native American history, there are many legends about UFOs, gods and aliens. There has always been a connection between Native Americans and bei...

Reducere. Seventeen BEST OF THE WEST short stories by Charlie Steel, Tale-Weaver ExtraordinaireNo matter the challenge or adversity, Charlie Steel's characte...

Reducere. Sacred myths from Santer a centered on nature and the natural world - Includes more than 40 myths, stories, and histories from the Lucum tradition ...

DescriptionThe Vikings were warlike adventurers with a strong sense of justice, and the high drama of their myths and legends, retold through the c...

Reducere. When vet Alex Tinson was plucked from the Australian outback to be chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President's racing camels, he wa...

John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The ...

Reducere. The seventeen stories selected for this compilation range from the fantastic to the outright bizarre, exposing the dark dreams and obsessions that ...

Reducere. Through people-to-people encounters, we expand our sense of mutual understanding and respect.Welcome Back to Abuja Once Again: How I Became a Citiz...

Reducere. Dad's stories and tales of balderdash is a descriptive collection of diverse stories that are fun and entertaining. Each story is capable of holdin...

Recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession, the slave tra...

Reducere. ``A dynamic work of reportage`` (The New York Times) written ``with clarity and...wit`` (The New York Times Book Review) about what happens when th...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Harold J. (Clarence Robinson Professor of Biology and Natural Philosophy, Clarence Robinson Profes...

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DescriptionThe name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human c...

Reducere. Every September, on the first night of the new moon, there are those who vow they see a flaming ship sail three times past the coast of Ocracoke. N...

Publisher: PS PublishingAuthor(s): Albert E. CowdreyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 220 x 42Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Reducere. DescriptionNow a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-c...

Reducere. The Perfect Turn promises us tales of skiing and skiers-but what gripping tales these are: ski history meets ski adventure. The story of great ski ...

Includes a new workbook"Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old--a full-blown catas...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): M KoyamaNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 230 x 150 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedes...

Publisher: Mortons Media GroupAuthor(s): Patrick Kelly & Will AdamsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 175 x 238 x 6Cover type: P...

Reducere. Truer Than True brings twenty-six wonderful tales from around the world to the home and classroom, and to all who love stories. These favorites of ...

Reducere. A Kirkus Prize Finalist for Nonfiction An Indie Next Pick, September 2019 A Publishers Weekly "Big Indie Book of Fall 2020" A BuzzFeed Best Book of...

Reducere. The Adventures of Darby O'Gill brings together the short stories originally published in Kavanagh's two books, Darby O'Gill and the Good People, an...

Reducere. The twenty-four tales in this book are of the most famous lost treasures in America, from a two-foot statue reportedly made entirely of silver (the...

Now a major film starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek and Casey Affleck, The Old Man and the Gun is joined by two other riveting true-crime tales ...

The stories in this collection reflect my many years of work teaching music to children. True to my approach in education, the stories are based on...

This taut collection stands at the crossroads of sex, violence, and longing - and asks us to interrogate the intersection of these impulses within ...