10 Ergebnisse.

There had been warnings-the never-ending rain, the slowly rising water-yet when the river finally tears the old wooden house from its foundation and carries it on a perilous journey toward the sea, Albie is unprepared and alone. But he's not alone for long. Albie, even at his age, is no stranger to violence. On the frontier in the 1860s, survival comes first, and he had seen-and taken part in-brutal killings of wild animals and even of men bel...

Life is what happens. "This collection of stories is called Wars and Peaces because some of the stories take place in time of war, some take place in time of peace. "Why did I write these stories? "I will not try to convince you or myself to even try to say that because having participated in a war I will not, cannot, ever be at peace again. I have learned one fact that must be honored. That is the fact that neither war nor peace can ever dest...

Set under the shadows of the Great Depression and World War II, About Us follows Benny Kahn, youngest of a Jewish family living in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, from his first great disappointment to the moment when he faces the choice of who and what he will become. It is a story of joy and grief, of love and anger, and of a boy who grows to manhood while the world he knows crumbles and falls. In his first novel, reprinted now after nearly...

Willa's fondest dream is to own a bloodhound, and she wants it badly enough she's even willing to get A's in school to get it. When Poppy enters her world on Willa's twelfth birthday, it seems as if she's died and gone to heaven. True to her word, she works hard to train Poppy as a tracker, and Poppy proves to have a very special knack, even for a bloodhound. Then danger intrudes into Willa's happiness. She and her baby brother are carjacked, ...

Mushrooms and garlic go together like a horse and carriage, so The Marriage of Mushrooms and Garlic is a perfect title for this superbly illustrated collection of essays and recipes from two of the world's leading experts. What Chester Aaron and Malcolm Clark don't know about garlic and mushrooms respectively likely doesn't matter, anyway. With the help of skilled chefs Suzanne Adams and Pic Sangsana, and filled with the fabulous photographic ...

For 14-year-old Alex Kellar, the war can't be over soon enough. His beloved older brother Oliver is with the 101st Airborne, right in the heart of Nazi Germany's last-ditch battle for survival. That battle is about to come closer to home, beginning with Alex and his friend Larry discovering a drowned man washed up on the beach. When the body is identified as a German spy, the boys bask for a brief time in the spotlight. It's an exhilarating mo...

Keine Beschreibung.

Gideon has to survive. He must struggle to stay alive, no matter the cost. And the cost is brutal and terrible for a Jewish boy in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto during World War II, and then in the concentration camp of Treblinka.

How do you enjoy the late years of your life? You give up your former life and become a farmer.What if you are also a writer who has published many short stories and novels? You write about not just your former life, but you write about your new life as well. After all, your life hasn't ended, your life has simply changed. Dramatically changed.Or has it?Garlic Kisses obviously has to be about garlic and about kisses. Kisses (here the writer st...

Professor Forest Butler, Saint Catherine's College of California, discovers that the suicide of his colleague, a world-famous poet, is murder. Relying on a former student (now a detective in San Francisco), Forest discovers that the world of academia and the world of poets and poetry and the world of love and marriage can be as evil as any street gang.