Low Down: Junk, Jazz, and Other Fairy Tales from Childhood, Paperback - A. J. Albany

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...

Reducere. Something wretched crawls beneath the skin of this world... Peel back that rotting skin and behold the improbable creatures, nightmarish places, an...

From the author of People in the Room, a literary memoir from Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer, a friend of Borges, Neruda and Lorca.

Reducere. Step into a magical world of enchanted forests, talking animals and wicked witches... A breathtaking collection of six brand-new fairytales by awar...

DescriptionWho wrote Cinderella? It may sound like a trick question but few would immediately think of a French author writing to entertain the cou...

Reducere. The Little Mermaid is one of the most haunting stories ever written. Its author, Hans Christian Andersen, made the literary fairy tale so much his ...

This book collects 17 of Andersen's incomparable stories, among them The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Red Shoes; The wild Swans an...

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 ...

Some of the best-loved stories in the world, originating in Persia, India and Arabia, retold especially for children.

Reducere. Marilyn Carr's family arrived in Deep River, Ontario in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called "the plant." The quirky, isolat...

DescriptionINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Thank you to Sheila Nevins for putting all this down for posterity. Women need this kind of honest exc...

Reducere. Description'Beauty and the Beast - Origins of the Fairy Tales from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Beauty and the Beast...

Reducere. Choice collection of nine classic tales -- gathered by British author on his journeys to Russia in the early twentieth century -- tells of magical ...

DescriptionBassists are on a mission to create hip bass lines, but don't always have the right tools to do it. Topics in Jazz Bass: Harmony offers ...

Reducere. Timothy Ryan had an ideal upbringing. He was born into a loving family, had many friends, grew up in a nice neighborhood, and received a good educa...

Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Snow White. We've known these characters since we were children, but in this elegant new ...

DescriptionTHIS IS A SERIES OF TALES, MOSTLY IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, ABOUT THE SHORT RHODESIAN COLONIAL PERIOD UP TO 1980, AFTER WHICH TIME THE COU...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Snow White' story. It ...

Memoirs of a Hebridean childhoodPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Finlay J. MacdonaldNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 1991Dimensio...

Publisher: Princeton University PressIllustration(s): 12 b/w illus. 2 tables.Number of pages: 240Collection: Oddly Modern Fairy TalesPublication da...

Reducere. Pete Oxford is an award-winning photographer with images and stories appearing in the likes of National Geographic, BBC Wildlife, Time and Outdoor ...

Reducere. MY turnshout MORE characters from some of the worlds best classic fairy tales. This time the beast, the dwarves, Dame Gothel, the fairies, and the ...

Reducere. DescriptionOnce upon a time, there were pretty princesses, wicked witches, hungry wolves, and magical kingdoms. Turn the pages of Fairy Tales to me...

From hunting and gathering to GMOs and ultra-processed foods, this expansive tour of human history rewrites the story of our species and points the...

Reducere. Karen, a crack cocaine addict, lived in a drug induced psychosis most of the time. Kelly, a high-functioning drunk, kept up a great façade while he...

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 ...

Reducere. King Red is a red king, everything is red, his cape, his crown, even his little finger. One winter's day it snows. The snow is the whitest King Red...

Hilarious, heartfelt stories of a mother and her two sons from egg to empty nest.

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): GrimmPublication date: 2017Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farme...

"Epic and engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and pioneering journalist, an expansive look ...