Author: Stephen Brennan
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: gigantic, book, stories, sailing
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2008-04-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1602392099
ISBN-13: 9781602392090

Here is the ultimate collection of stories about the sea for sailors old and young, experienced seamen and armchair admirals.For thousands of years, we have set out sailing for all kinds of reasons—for battle, for wealth, for excitement, and for escape. We have always had a primal relationship with the sea. Even those who have never been to sea are fascinated by the seafaring life and tales of salty adventure. This oversized collection of the greatest sailing stories of all time brings together such diverse authors as James Fenimore Cooper, Daniel Defoe, Homer, Jack London, Rudyard Kipling,

Author: Thomas Meagher
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Keywords: gigantic, book, wisdom, horse
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2007-11
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1602390967
ISBN-13: 9781602390966

Can you recall the first time you rode a horse or galloped down an empty beach?  The first time you heard the knowing “neigh” as the saddle shifted on the proud stallion’s back? Bring back those wonderful memories with this enormous 800-page anthology. Featuring personal insights from some of the world’s foremost equestrian writers, including Anna Sewell, Nicholas Evans, Cormac McCarthy, and others, it will surely pull the heartstrings of serious jockeys and casual riders alike. Traveling from the open plains to the cattle ranches of the beauteous Midwest, from the quiet seclusion of

Author: Mickey Z.
Publisher: Wildside Press
Keywords: mistake, gigantic
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-05-17
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1930997973
ISBN-13: 9781930997974

Author: Marc Nesbitt
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: gigantic
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-01-08
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0802139639
ISBN-13: 9780802139634

An extraordinary collection of dynamic stories by an exciting new voice in American fiction, Gigantic features ten powerful stories of emotional stagnation and personal transformation, passion and violence, race and community, that are viscerally immediate in their impact and otherworldly in their scope. Rich with language, and at turns comic and heartbreaking, Gigantic marks the arrival of an exciting voice in American fiction.

Author: M. H. Goldberg
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Keywords: gigantic, book, blunder
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 1988-02-25
List price: $11.99
ISBN-10: 0688077579
ISBN-13: 9780688077570

The Blunder Book: Colossal Errors, Minor Mistakes, and Surprising Slipups that have changed the course of history. The pantheon of error making is large and always growing. History is replete with notables who have made serious mistakes, who have every right to hide their red faces from the limelight: people like Columbus, Gutenburg, Washington, Einstein. All of them -- and many others -- have had to overcome the errors of their ways to make their marks in the world.This book presents the many ways in which error has become ingrained in our government, science, medicine, and the arts, how erro

Author: Julian Symons
Publisher: House of Stratus
Keywords: shadow, gigantic
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2008-01-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1842329200
ISBN-13: 9781842329207

Bill Hunter, TV personality, made his living by asking the rich and famous difficult and highly personal questions. But when the tables were turned and he found himself being asked about his own rather murky past, he wasn’t quite so sure of himself. Out of a job and little hope of finding another, he teamed up with the reckless Anthea to embark upon a dangerous and deadly plan that was to have murderous consequences.

Author: Joseph Rosenbloom
Publisher: Sterling
Keywords: book, joke, gigantic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1981-03-15
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0806975148
ISBN-13: 9780806975146

Over 1,000 jokes, 96 drawings. Index. "Gr.4-6. A gigantic compendium of rib-tickling, giggle-inspiring one liners, puns, funny stories, put-downs...Clever and witty."--SLJ. "True kid appeal."--Learning. 256 pages, b/w illus. throughout, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.