Lester Young | Lester Young

Packed with eccentric characters and scenes of wild adventure, this funny and exciting book for young readers is by favourite author-illustrator Al...

Reducere. The Grate Adventure of Lester Zester is the heart-warming story of a young kitchen tool that longs to understand his true purpose and know that he ...

Reducere. The Grate Adventure of Lester Zester is the heart-warming story of a young kitchen tool that longs to understand his true purpose and know that he ...

Rod Brown and Julius Lester bring history to life in this profoundly moving exploration of the slave experience. From the Middle Passage to the auc...

A Danish musician here presents the most accurate, comprehensive work on a major figure in American jazz: Lester Willis Young (1909-1959), better k...

Reducere. DescriptionThe formerly glorious god Apollo, cast down to earth in punishment by Zeus, is now an awkward mortal teenager named Lester Papadopoulos....

Committed to the struggle for civil rights, in the late 1950s Joan Steinau marched and protested as a white ally and young woman coming to terms wi...

A brave young woman chases her dream despite society's disapproval in 1920s New York. Perfect for fans of Gill Paul, Kate Furnivall and Penny Vince...

So begins author Lester Laminack's poetic memory of the adult who made him feel incredibly special--his grandmother. Every Saturday, the narrator, ...

Reducere. If wealth could be measured in great health, vitality and happiness, then I hope this short book enriches you a little further as the second half o...

Nothing can stop John Henry-no boulder, no mountain, and definitely no steam drill. Newbery Honor winner Julius Lester writes with such power that ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) has been pulled onto three cases at the same time; meanwhile, VBI head Joe Gunther has to take...

Reducere. Henry can't wait until he can have a bee-suit of his own so he can help his Aunt Lilla with the sister bees. Day after day as Henry observes his Au...

Send Me No Flowers is the story of a young woman's fight for survival. Donna Stewart's family is poor but respectable and hard working. Celebrating...

In Super Coldo, Super Coldo has escaped from prison, and he wants his ice blaster back. Can the heroes stop him?This book is part of Project X Hero...

Reducere. Imagine there was an easy way you could keep your heart strong, your mind sharp, and your body youthful. Imagine this program could keep you young,...

Come to the beach with Noni - the nicest pony you could ever meet - in this purely delightful rhyming story for young children. Noni the Pony is fr...

Reducere. How do you keep a crowd of energetic young penguins entertained? Put on a play, perhaps? But will they pay attention through an entire performance?...

Reducere. Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young child...

New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles ...

Reducere. Alice McKinley comes home on the first day of junior high with a list of seven things about seventh grade that stink. Just about the only good thin...

Reducere. For readers of Lilac Girls and The Nightingale comes an internationally bestselling World War II novel that spans generations, crosses oceans, and ...

DescriptionThe first-ever collection of interviews with the tortured but groundbreaking singer Billie Holiday, part of Melville House's beloved Las...

Reducere. DescriptionThe pulp magazine era was bristling with brawny men and statuesque women trotting all over the globe, getting into and out of danger. Th...

DescriptionHorace Silver is one of the last giants remaining from the incredible flowering and creative extension of bebop music that became known ...

Reducere. Legendary jazzman Johnny Otis has spent a lifetime at the center of L.A.'s black music scene as a composer, performer, producer, d.j., activist, an...

Reducere. Description"THE GREEN-EYED LAMA" IS THE BEST NOVEL EVER WRITTEN ABOUT MONGOLIA" (JACK WEATHERFORD)THE FIRST MONGOLIAN NOVEL EVER PUBLISHED IN THE W...

DescriptionThe pulp magazine era was bristling with brawny men and statuesque women trotting all over the globe, getting into and out of danger. Th...

A family's secret, a pair of young, weatherbeaten brothers, and the long and desolate miles before them. When the death of their beloved mother sad...

Reducere. "Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book,...

Reducere. Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock 'n' roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated wri...

Reducere. The late Count Basie is one of the jazz immortals. The master of swing, whose beat was the subtlest and supplest of all the bandleaders, Basie feat...

Birdland was a legendary nightclub in New York City and, from 1949-65, was the scene for the greatest jazz music and musicians in the world. This i...

Reducere. This USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller is a heartbreaking and unforgettable WWII story of two orphaned young sisters -- perfect for fans...

Reducere. Eleven essential classics in one volumeThis volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 196...

Reducere. Private investigator Jack Morgan is on the hunt for a murderer in Las Vegas-and the murder ring he uncovers is unlike anything he's ever seen.Las V...

A. J. Albany's recollection of life with her father, the great jazz pianist Joe Albany, is the story of one girl's unsentimental education. Joe pla...

"An extraordinary profile of immense courage and daring."--Chanel Cleeton, New York Times bestselling author of Before We Left Cuba "If you only re...

Reducere. Evangellyfish is a ruthless, grimly amused, and above all honest look at one of the darkest corners in the western world. Douglas Wilson, a pastor ...

Reducere. A forty-year-old skeleton is found encased in a concrete slab at a recently decommissioned nuclear energy site. It becomes a case for the Vermont B...

Reducere. Sequel to The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning.Fairy tales are just the beginning. The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it's ...

Reducere. There were four major galaxies in the early jazz universe, and three of them--New Orleans, Chicago, and New York--have been well documented in prin...