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Gus is unimpressed when Ryan coolly stops his sleek five-speed bike with the hand brake. But he's totally nonplused when Daddy buys him a bicycle like Ryan's. Gus will never give up his training wheels. Enter Grandpa, who wisely removes Gus from the neighborhood and curious eyes for practice. Full-color illustrations.

A chilling account of the fate of intellectuals and artists in contemporary Cuba, Herberto Padilla's frankly autobioghraphical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state othe power of his art. In the process, Heroes Are Grazing In my Garden paints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and womern lost in the somber turn of the tide.

In this volume of critical essays, Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection, Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness, and we are reminded, above all, of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself.

The Good Conscience" is Carlos Fuentes's second novel. The scene is Guanajuato, a provincial capital in Central Mexico, once one of the world's richest mining centers. The Ceballos family has been reinstated to power, and adolescent Jaime Ceballos, its only heir, is torn between the practical reality of his family's life and the idealism of his youth and his Catholic education. His father is a good man but weak, his uncle is powerful, yet his ...

Winner of the 1980 Booker PrizeSailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, sinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks.Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and ...

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin, working in Russia for the British Foreign Office, met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history. For Akhmatova, Berlin was a "guest from the future, " her ideal reader outside the nightmare of Soviet life and a link with a lost Russian world, he ...

The "fascinating and irresistible"--("The New York Times") portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island. In "Greene on Capri", Hazzard uses her intimacy with Graham Greene as a prism through which to illuminate his character, work and talk.

1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In this powerful and inventive collection, August Kleinzahler succeeds in creating a new idiom for American lyric poetry that captures the velocity and swerves of contemporary life in the city. He pushes the language very hard to get there, and the results are breathtaking: an angular, propulsive poetry that transforms character, voice, and setting into buzzing, l...

This revelatory and moving selection brings readers into the poet's laboratory, showing the initial provocative images that moved her to begin a poem, illustrating terrain unexplored in the work published during her lifetime, and revealing the kind of artistic resolution she exercised.

Everyone knows how important it is to read with children. But how can you continue your child's learning experience and enjoyment of a story once you close the book? In her engaging new book, Peggy Kaye shows parents and teachers how to play learning games based on classic children's books. Games with Books features 14 picture books, from Harold and the Purple Crayon to Bluesberries for Sal and 14 chapter books, from Winnie the Pooh to Charlot...

There is no skill more important for a child to master more than writing - and none more difficult or fraught with anxiety. Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and author of the widely praised" Games for Math, Games for Reading, "and" Games for Learning, " now gives parents more than fifty ways to help their children become skilled, confident, and enthusiastic writers.

In Games for Learning, " Peggy Kaye, renowned teacher and author, gives parents more than seventy original, entertaining, and slyly educational ways to help their children master crucial learning skills - "in just ten minutes a day." The games cover all the important areas of the school curriculum from kindergarten to third grade: reading, writing, spelling, mathematics, logical thinking, even science, history, and geography. There's fun here ...

This work of spiritual imagination appears seven years after Gjertrud Schnackenberg's second book, of which Nadine Gordimer wrote that it contains "poems that move me in a way that I don't really think I have experienced since I first read Rilke at sixteen or seventeen". A Gilded Lapse of Time is in three sections: the title sequence, surrounding a visit to Dante's tomb in Ravenna, "Crux of Radiance", a series of poems exploring the making and...

The bluefin tuna is the largest finfish in the ocean--as much as ten feet long, weighing up to 1, 500 pounds. In Japan, where raw bluefin meat is a great delicacy, a single fish can bring $30, 000. In this stirring account of a heroic, embattled way of life, Whynott details the competition and camaraderie among the fishermen, and their battle with conservationists who wish to limit the bluefin harvest.

An important collection that includes some of the Nobel Prize winner's own favorite poems."The Sea"A single entity, but no blood."A single caress, death or a rose."The sea comes in and puts our lives together"and attacks alone and spreads itself and sing"sin nights and days and men and living creatures."Its essence-fire and cold, movement, movement."Pablo Neruda himself regarded "Fully Empowered" -- which first appeared in Spanish in 1962 unde...

In one of Mauriac's lesser known novels, he introduces the reader to The Frontenacs, small landed gentry of the Bordeaux region on France. This story explores the special, even sacramental, character of the family bond.

This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery, post-Civil War urban life, the place of religion in African American life, political activism, and the changing occupational and economic status of blacks.

This volume contains the extensive revisions that Reich made to his made to his groundbreaking 1927 study on the function of the orgasm.

When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age.Told in a blue-collar English...

Crisis in Command, written in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, details the mismanagement of the US Army's leadership.Former soldiers Richard A. Gabriel and Paul L. Savage provide documented evidence that the military forces of the United States are ill-prepared for war, having been weakened by officer-corps members who have abandoned honor and integrity to further their individual careers.