Author: Ann Rinaldi
Publisher: Harcourt Children’s Books
Keywords: episodes, bird
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0152026207
ISBN-13: 9780152026202

Now that her father is dead, CeCe McGill is left to wonder why he risked his life for the ragged slaves who came to their door in the dead of night. When her uncle, an ornithologist, insists she accompany him to Georgia on an expedition in search of the rare scarlet ibis, CeCe is surprised to learn there’s a second reason for their journey: Along the way, Uncle Alex secretly points slaves north in the direction of the Underground Railroad.     Set against the backdrop of the tumultuous pre-Civil War South, The Ever-After Bird is the story of a young woman’s education about th

Author: Blaze Ginsberg
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Keywords: life, episodes
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 1596434619
ISBN-13: 9781596434615

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Author: Acheta Domestica
Publisher: Ghose Press
Keywords: life, insect, episodes
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2008-05-16
List price: $31.95
ISBN-10: 1409728978
ISBN-13: 9781409728979

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Michael Baxandall
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Keywords: book, memory, episodes
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2010-08-24
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 071123115X
ISBN-13: 9780711231153

Presenting a mesmerizing picture both of British intellectual life in the 1940’s and ‘50’s and the mental, emotional, and cultural formation of a man destined to transform many aspects of that world over the next 40 years, Episodes is both a gripping story and a vividly analytic tour de force. From early childhood in Cardiff and the valleys of South Wales to school and adolescence in Manchester and more, the book brilliantly recaptures the formation of the young man who finally decides not to write novels but to become a scholar. First recounting, in coruscating detail, life and

Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher: Sandpiper
Keywords: episodes, dawn, earthquake
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 015204681X
ISBN-13: 9780152046811

It’s April 18, 1906, and a powerful earthquake has just rocked San Francisco. Photographer Edith Irvine and her assistant, Daisy Valentine, survive the tragedy. Armed with Edith’s camera, the two women set out to document the devastation--even as buildings crumble around them and soldiers promise to shoot anyone trying to photograph the crippled city. Based on the real-life experience of photographer Edith Irvine, this harrowing tale of bravery and survival includes many of Irvine’s now-famous photographs.

Author: Kristiana Gregory
Publisher: Graphia
Keywords: episodes, tetons, jenny
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $6.00
ISBN-10: 0152167706
ISBN-13: 9780152167707

Carrie Hill hates Indians. Indians killed her parents and ruined her life. With nowhere else to go, fifteen-year-old Carrie signs on to help care for the family of Beaver Dick Leigh, an English trapper. To her dismay, Carrie discovers that Beaver Dick’s wife, Jenny, is a Shoshoni Indian! But as Carrie’s wounds heal under Jenny’s gentle care, she begins to respect and love this kind woman. Beginning each chapter with an excerpt from Beaver Dick Leigh’s actual journals, Kristiana Gregory brings alive the people and the dramatic setting of a bygone era.

Author: Asger Aaboe
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: astronomy, history, episodes
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2001-06-26
List price: $109.00
ISBN-10: 0387951369
ISBN-13: 9780387951362

The author does not attempt to give a general survey of early astronomy; rather, he chooses to present a few "episodes" and treats them in detail. However, first he provides the necessary astronomical background in his descriptive account of what you can see when you look at the sky with the naked eye, unblinkered by received knowledge, but with curiosity and wit. Chapter 1 deals with the arithmetical astronomy of ancient Mesopotamia where astronomy first was made an exact science. Next are treated Greek geometrical models for planetary motion, culminating in Ptolemy’s equant model