Author: Alison Lurie
Publisher: Backinprint.com
Keywords: folktales, forgotten, gretchen, clever
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2005-04-26
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0595345212
ISBN-13: 9780595345212

Sleeping beauties? Not Clever Gretchen or Kate Crackernuts or Manka or any of the other young heroines in this wonderful collection of folktales. Active, witty, brave, and resourceful, these girls and young women can fight and hunt, defeat giants, answer riddles, outwit the Devil, and rescue friends and family from all sorts of dangers and evil spells. These stories and many others like them were gathered by scholars from all the countries of Europe, but are usually left out of the popular collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when women were supposed to be beautiful, in

Author: Alison Lurie
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, affairs, foreign
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0812976312
ISBN-13: 9780812976311

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is drawn into a mortifying and oddly satisfying affair with an Oklahoman tourist who dresses more Bronco Billy than Beau Brummel.Also in London is Vinnie’s colleague Fred Turner, a handsome, flat broke, newly separated, and thoroughly miserable young man trying to focus on his own research. Inst

Author: Alison Lurie
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books
Keywords: baby, stolen, yaga, baba
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2008-02-04
List price: $7.95
ISBN-10: 1845077539
ISBN-13: 9781845077532

Black geese are flying over little Elena’s village, looking for children to snatch up for the witch Baba Yaga to feast upon. When her parents leave Elena in charge of her baby brother, she should be giving him her undivided attention. Instead, she runs off to play, leaving the baby alone in the yard. Brilliant color collages depict the fascinating elements of this gleefully macabre story, from Baba Yaga’s bizarre house, which moves around on giant chicken feet, to the forest animals that help Elena outwit the witch.

Author: Alison Lurie
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Keywords: novel, consequences, truth
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0143058185
ISBN-13: 9780143058182

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author dishes up a surprising satire about two couples making mischief on a college campus. Unabridged CDs - 7 CDs, 9 hours

Authors:J. M. Barrie,  Alison Lurie,
Publisher: Signet Classic
Keywords: classics, signet, pan, peter
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1987-05-05
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0451520882
ISBN-13: 9780451520883

The old favorite, newly repackaged-Wendy, John, and Michael Darling’s adventures in Never-Never Land with Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.

Authors:Alison Millar, Alison MacTier, Peter Fox, Gary Cli
Publisher: Folens Publishers UK
Keywords: grammar, english, rules, basic
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1996-01-31
List price: $12.93
ISBN-10: 1852762322
ISBN-13: 9781852762322

A series of activities that will help to develop children’s understanding of the basic rules of grammar: forms of spoken and written language, sentence structure, parts of speech, punctuation and vocabulary.

Author: Alison Tokita and David W. HughesAlison McQueen T
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: soas, musicology, series, music, japanese, research, companion, ashgate
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2008-10-01
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 0754656993
ISBN-13: 9780754656999

Music is a frequently neglected aspect of Japanese culture. It is in fact a highly problematic area, as the Japanese actively introduced Western music into their modern education system in the Meiji period (1868-1911), creating westernized melodies and instrumental instruction for Japanese children from kindergarten upwards. As a result, now most Japanese have a far greater familiarity with Western (or westernized) music than with traditional Japanese music. Traditional or classical Japanese music has become somewhat ghettoized, known and practised only by small groups of people in social stru