Under the Chinaberry Tree: East Texas Folkways, Paperback - Tumbleweed Smith

Reducere. Tumbleweed Smith loves to bring the sounds and stories to radio and newspaper audiences across Texas. "Texas Highways" magazine says he has probabl...

Reducere. Chilling Tales Beneath the Chinaberry Tree: A Collection of Alabama Folklore and Ghost Stories is a selection of scary stories as told by my grandm...

A beautiful new edition of Dick King-Smith's Tumbleweed, from the renowned author of Babe The Sheep-Pig.Publisher: Sweet Cherry PublishingAuthor(s)...

Reducere. A visit from the President of the United States always brings with it excitement. In Maine, perhaps part of that excitement stems from the fact tha...

DescriptionHistorians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands af...

Reducere. Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith ...

Swim with prehistoric plesiosaurs, explore Poseidon's palace and gather up gold from lost pirate galleons as you dive beneath the waves with this e...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985Texas Literary Festival Award...

Reducere. It was perhaps inevitable that Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) and Samuel Loveman (1887-1976) would become close friends and correspondents. Both we...

Reducere. It's 1985, and Ellen Black's parents have unexpectedly shown up at her New York City apartment on a mission to kidnap her baby daughter.Ellen's poi...

Reducere. The heritage of East Texas partakes in the same degree of unexpected turns and hidden depths as its backroads and bayous. One line of inquiry meand...

Reducere. Big families cultivate chaos. Mary Havens knows this all too well. One of twelve children, she grew up on a picturesque Wisconsin dairy farm. Holid...

As the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Quetzal and a scholar of Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, Martha Gonzalez is uniquely posit...

Reducere. One of the greatest historical fiction adventures in children's literature. Marita Conlon-McKenna's Children of the Famine series brings to life as...

DescriptionSimply put, Memories Under the Giving Tree explores the daily life of a young girl, who is placed in an orphanage by the Courts, after h...

The first edition in an installment of non-fiction poetry books. Each poem has a significant connection to a time in the author's life over the las...

Reducere. Under a Texas Sky - Annie's Temptation, a touching and sweet historical western romance. Large Print Edition Annie and Patrick fell in love when th...

Reducere. Mainers on the Titanic traces the stories of passengers on that fateful ship who had ties to Maine. Many of them were wealthy summer visitors to Ba...

Reducere. In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Per...

A nonsense story about Og and Ut, the gombrizils, who make friends with Tumblerum Wollycobble, the slobbadunk. They cure his indigestion and he hel...

Reducere. When the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anoma...

Reducere. Jefferson, Texas has been called the most haunted town in the entire Lone Star State. This book takes an up-close and personal look at many of the ...

Reducere. DescriptionA sweet western historical romance story that will touch your heart... LARGE PRINT EDITION Annie Price is as wild as the land she lives ...

Under the Greenwood Tree is Thomas Hardy’s one and only rural idyll, a startling contrast to his other Wessex tales. In Mellstock, its surrounding ...

Reducere. Poems that explore the wilderness in order to find rest and divine providence. In the story of the prophet Elijah, he must flee his home, and, afte...

Spanning her last five collections and bringing together her finest work from the past fifteen years, this new selection of Alice Munro's stories i...

A tale of tragedy, love and the charming life in a traditional village facing the reality of modernity, Under the Greenwood Tree is one of the more...

Eugene Smith lost his mother, wife, and infant son in the mass murder-suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978. Repatriated by the US aut...

Reducere. A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than...

Reducere. By now the world knows well the exploits of World War II admirals Ernest King, Chester Nimitz, and "Bull" Halsey. These brilliant strategists and c...

This book explores pre-clan history, the formation of clans, the geography of the settlements and the development of farming techniquesand crofting...

Reducere. "You talk of him as if he were alive." "He is alive, " said Benbow Smith. "And you think he would do murder?" "I am quite sure that he would do mur...

Describes the horrific ordeal of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders at the hands of the Japanese.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books...

Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in an...

Reducere. This engrossing and charming work by a noted scholar, widely regarded as a classic in its field, explores the vital Irish past, noting the diversit...

'I was 11 years old. I witnessed the mindless cruelty of human beings. The only peace was when I was surrounded by the dead.'Publisher: The History...

Natural Magic and Folkways from Those Who Call the Blue Ridge Mountains Home The southern Appalachians are rich in folk magic and witchery. This bo...

When the first logging railroad was built in Jasper County in the 1870s, the virgin East Texas forest spread across a vast area the size of Indiana...

Reducere. A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than...

Reducere. 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 ...

Megan Viets, a mystery writer, witnesses a real murder in a resort town in the San Bernardino Mountains, where she lives with her disabled husband ...

This debate style textbook allows students to explore diverse, well-founded views on controversial African issues, pushing them to go beyond superf...

Transports curious kids and inquisitive adults on an incredible journey through the night sky. Astrophysicist Lisa Harvey-Smith brings the night sk...

Reducere. The Bible is clear about nothing being new under the sun. What we're experiencing in our lives is prophecy being fulfilled. I still believe in the ...

Reducere. "The Complete Poetry of Cicely Fox Smith" 2nd Edition, is now fully revised and edited with 74 new poems, edited by Charles Ipcar and James Saville...