Author: George B. Schaller
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: gorilla, year
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1997-04-17
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0226736482
ISBN-13: 9780226736488
"A sensitive and articulate observer, [Schaller] is at his best when he is describing the forest itself . . . . This is an exciting book. Although Schaller feels that this is ’not an adventure book,’ few readers will be able to agree."--Irven DeVore, Science
Author: Richard Ammon
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press
Keywords: year, amish
Number of Pages: 36
Published: 2007-08
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1590784650
ISBN-13: 9781590784655
Spend a year with Anna and her family and learn what it is like to be Amish, from day to day and season to season. In the springtime, Anna looks forward to Easter festivities, planting the garden, and spring cleaning. Sumer begins with the school picnic. On a clear summer day, Anna’s family makes hay and afterwards enjoys a picnic with ice cream. In fall, Anna begins fourth grade in the one room schoolhouse, and at home she helps her mother can fruit for the winter. November is wedding season for the Amish, and Thanksgiving and Christmas follow soon after. Winter is a time for feas
Author: Peter Mayle
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: year
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375705627
ISBN-13: 9780375705625
The writer with a claim to being the world’s foremost literary escape artist is back, with an intoxicating novel about the business and pleasure of wine, set in his beloved Provence. Max Skinner has recently lost his job at a London financial firm and just as recently learned that he has inherited his late uncle’s vineyard in Provence. On arrival he finds the climate delicious, the food even better, and two of the locals ravishing. Unfortunately, the wine produced on his new property is swill. Why then are so many people interested in it? Enter a beguiling Californian who knows more
Author: Ruth L. Ozeki
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: meats, year
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-03-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140280464
ISBN-13: 9780140280463
Veteran filmaker Ruth Ozeki’s novel has been hailed as "one of the heartiest and yes, meatiest debuts in years" (Glamour). It tells the story of a year in the lives of two ordinary women on opposite ends of the earth, brought together by a convergence of extraordinary circumstances. Jane, a struggling filmmaker in New York, is given her big break--a chance to travel through the U.S. to produce a Japanese television program sponsored by an American meat exporting business. But along the way, she discovers some unsavory truths about love, honor, and a particularly damaging hormone called D
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Publisher: Heinemann Secondary Education
Keywords: sorted, year, fiction, navigator
Number of Pages: 48
Published:
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0433077492
ISBN-13: 9780433077497
"Navigator" is a KS2 reading scheme which covers fiction and non-fiction. It provides material to give pupils a 20-minute guided reading sesson per week during each school year.
Author: Linzi Glass
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Keywords: gypsies, year
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2006-03-21
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0805079998
ISBN-13: 9780805079999
Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass?s debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents? continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers?a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys?comes to stay, and their strange
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: year, last, wait
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1993-06-29
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0679742204
ISBN-13: 9780679742203
In a novel that makes our notions of politics, personality, and time seem terrifyingly provisional, Dick tells of a hapless doctor, whose planet is enmeshed in endless war, whose wife is addicted to a time control drug, and whose newest patient’s demise could decide the fate of the world.
