The Hopes of Snakes. And Other Tales from the Urban Landscape, Paperback - Lisa Couturier

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Lisa CouturierNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 139 x 214 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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

After forty-something countries on five continents, John Rydzewski thought he saw it all...that is, until he went to China. There, he found the Chi...

Florida's famous swamps--from the Everglades to Mosquito Lagoon to Tate's Hell--serve as fitting backdrops for these chilling original stories. May...

Full of friendship and adventure, this charming story collection from Michael Morpurgo and illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees is perfect to read togeth...

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Reducere. Harry Keogh, the first Necroscope, is arguably Brian Lumley's greatest creation. In the Necroscope series, readers saw Harry learn to use his power...

Reducere. Colorado is steeped in stories as unique as the people who settled it. Each wave of exploration and settlement brought new tales to explain the mys...

Reducere. Fanny Burney would not approve of some of my chapters, but it was my affection for the novels of her school, in which the heroine goes through all ...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

Reducere. DescriptionMary Roach meets Bill Bryson in this uproarious tour of the basest instincts and biggest mysteries of the animal world Whether we're see...

Reducere. Step back into ancient India as Marcia Williams brings her inviting comic-book style to eight animal folktales that continue to enchant children to...

An anthology of bestselling children's author Funke's favourite fairytales from her native Germany and beyond, also including choices from Russia, ...

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Reducere. First published in 1922, this is a wonderful and unique collection of folk-lore, legend and fantasy from Uganda. The author is indebted "to Sir Apo...

Take a Journey with the Master of the Urban Landscape John Salminen is one of the most accomplished watercolor artists working today, earning award...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Cat HopesIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 102Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 275 x 27Cove...

Reducere. The world is a mess. I thought it needed a book that was fun and easy to read. This book is it. It takes you through the tears and terrors of child...

Reducere. Around two hundred years ago the famous writer Lord Byron rented the mansion known as the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva. Accompanying Byron, among o...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 138 x 179 x 17Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Charlie Conn...

DescriptionOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for...

The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning interest in ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed lan...

Strange happenings, unsolved mysteries and seemingly supernatural events have gripped us for centuries. Whether they're based on a grain of truth o...

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

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Publisher: Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty LtdAuthor(s): Lisa Harvey-SmithIllustration(s): 30 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 120Publi...

Reducere. DescriptionThirteen Science Fiction Tales from a Master Storyteller From fighting giant bugs to defeating an interstellar empire without firing a s...

Andy Couturier captures the texture of sustainable lives well lived in these ten profiles of ordinary--yet exceptional--men and women who left behi...