49 results for 'fountain biancamaria'

A fountain begins to offer up unexplained gifts to a town's residents--a garden gnome, roller skates, a mountain of bananas--until they find the gift of each other's company.One Tuesday morning, a...

"Casey Scieszka's debut novel is absolutely delicious, like Tuck Everlasting for grown-ups. The premise is so good--an immortal woman's search for the fountain of youth--that the writing, crisp and...

The first in-depth look at Staël's political life and writingsGermaine de Staël (1766–1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker. Yet she...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt to the Sea and Between Shades of Gray comes a gripping, extraordinary portrait of love, silence, and secrets under a Spanish dictatorship.Madrid,...

"Grantland Rice was the greatest man I have known," Red Smith once wrote. "The greatest talent, the greatest gentleman." Most of Rice's contemporaries would have shared this assessment. One of the...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award“Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book ReviewFrom the...

This popular introduction emphasizes the creative tension between solitude and contemplation and the call to be open to contemporary circumstances. McGreal shows how the figures of Elijah and Mary...

THE POWERFUL STORY OF TWO SIBLINGS TRYING TO SURVIVE EXTREME POVERTY BY THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF REFUGEE 87LOLA'S LIFE IS ABOUT TO BECOME UNRECOGNISABLE. SO IS LOLA.Everything used to be...

Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award * A National Bestseller“An exceptional story collection.” —New York Times Book ReviewThe well-intentioned protagonists of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera—including...

The revolutionary literary vision that sowed the seeds of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's groundbreaking philosophy, and brought her immediate worldwide acclaim.This modern classic is the story of...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA dreamlike collection from the Nobel Prize-winning poetA Village Life, Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poems, begins in the topography of a village, a...

Dodsworth makes his Green Light Reader debut! Independent Level 3 readers will enjoy scootering through Italy and four easy-to-read chapters with Dodsworth and one very mischievous duck. The amusing...

(P/V/G Composer Collection). 61 of his best, including: Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend * Everything's Coming Up Roses * Funny Girl * Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! * Let Me Entertain You *...

This elegant exhibition catalog includes sixty-six works of art by this virtuoso sculptor, plus accompanying essays. Born in The Hague, Adriaen de Vries worked with the official sculptor to the...

Houghton Mifflin Company Another inky evening's here-- The air is cool and calm and clear. Can it be true? Oh, can it be? Yes!--Bat Night at the library! Join the free-for-all fun at the public...

This invaluable reference work provides an account of the development of African society from 175 million years ago, through the first appearance of humans to the complex polity of the twentieth...

A Time Magazine Best Books of the Year. In Landscape and Memory, award-winning author Simon Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on...

Even theAmerican Heritage Dictionary acknowledges that F. Scott Fitzgerald "epitomized the Jazz Age." And nowhere among his writings are the gin, pith, and morning-after squint of that era better...