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A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, America's leading avant-garde cartoonist.

Sarah T. is only one of America's 500, 000 teenage alcoholics. Based on the Universal Television Production.Teen-age problem drinkers are not just young adults of legal age. Many are alcoholics at 12 and 13, and some even sooner. They're raiding their parents' liquor cabinets . . . bribing older friends to buy it for them. Young girls are trading sex for it.Sarah T.: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic takes both a shocking and compassionate look ...

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Sir Manuel Camargue, yesterday one of the most celebrated musicians of his time, today floats face down in the lake near his sprawling English country house. The consensus is accidental death -- but Inspector Wexford knows the stench of murder most foul when he smells it. Particularly in the company of two suspects -- one, the victim's fiancee, who is too young to be true, the other his daughter who may be no kin and even less kind . . .

Like the proverbial first potato chip [this book] gives you an irresistible craving for the first six Mrs. Pollifax books."Newport News DAILY PRESSAlthough recently married, Mrs. Pollifax is packed and ready to go to China, where a young agent, Sheng Ti, holds the answers to goings on at the sinister Feng Imports--a one-time agency front. Only Mrs. Pollifax has earned Sheng's trust, and only she can possibly stop what turns out to be a frighte...

Given the lead role in the school play, Sister Bear is sure she'll forget her lines. Despite Brother's teasing, she follows Mama's advice and practices until she's perfect. On the night of the performance, it's Brother who ends up with stage fright and who is rescued by his sympathetic sister.

Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series. Three emerald necklaces cause everyone in Oz to forget all about Princess Ozma, the Wizard, and Glinda the Good and acknowledge instead a fat old king named Skamperoo as supreme ruler! The mystic enchantment is responsible as well for the appearance of the glorious Wishing Horse, the most magnificent white steed imaginable. Only Dorothy and Pigasus, t...

Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series. When Ojo, everyone's favorite Munchkin boy, is kidnapped-first by gypsies and then by a roving robber band-he makes an adventurous escape in the company of two new friends: Snufferbux, the singing and dancing bear, and Realbad, the bandit chieftain with the mysterious past. Then an awesome encounter with the hideous Mooj reveals the unexpected and tru...

Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series. Legendary Umbrella Island flies magically through the air . . . until it careens smack into the forehead of an extremely unpleasant giant! Meanwhile, Speedy-the New York lad-is making a soaring trip skyward himself, propelled by an erupting geyser and encased in Terrybubble, the jolly, living skeleton of a huge dinosaur. It's soon up to Speedy to save...

This beloved story is a perfect way to teach children about respecting their elders and about all the unique adventures they can have with an older generation!Come for a visit in Bear Country with this classic First Time Book® from Stan and Jan Berenstain. When Mama and Papa have to go out of town, Brother and Sister get to go and stay with their grandparents. It will be a fun-filled visit where the cubs will eat cookies, explore the attic, fi...

A pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen, Elizabeth Tudor, and Mary Queen of Scots, Skye must once again, unprotected and alone, fight for her children.At Elizabeth's command, she marries the Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre, whose Mediterranean principality is vital to England. Her new world, though tortuously cruel at first, is transformed by Skye's hot-blooded desires-only to be shaken with the news that her beloved former husband may be a...

This book, covering many key aspects of autonomic nervous system maturation, was suggested by the success of a symposium on the developing autonomic nervous system held at the Spring 1982 meeting of the Federation of American Scientists for Experi­ mental Biology (Federation Proceedings 1983, 42, 1609). It was obvi­ ous from the F ASEB symposium that there is increasing interest in the developing autonomic nervous system, particularly with res...

When you judge decisions, you have to judge them in light of what there was available to do, ' noted Secretary of State George C. Marshall to the Senate in 1951. In this spirit, this volume addresses and succeeds in outlining the mammoth task that Northern Americans faced after the Civil War in restoring the Union. Originally published in 1975 by the J.B. Lippincott Company

Brother and Sister worry about spending a week at Gran and Gramp's house. By the end of the visit they've learned a lot from their lively grandparents--and the older bears have discovered how wonderful it is to be grandparents.

No economist could have predicted that the Penn Square Bank, a small, obscure lender in an Oklahoma shopping mall, would become the instigator of a financial charade that would see billions of dollars in loans made on the basis of imaginary oil and natural gas reserves-just as a worldwide oil glut and the repeal of regulatory gas laws were about to pull the rug from under the Oklahoma energy boom. Belly Up tells this amazing true story with br...

Widely regarded as the nation's most prestigious award for short fiction."-The Atlantic Monthly The O. Henry Prize Stories 1986 collects 19 of the best short stories of the year, selected from thousands published in literary magazines. The 1986 winning story is Alice Walker's "Kindred Spirits, " which profiles a young African-American woman after her divorce from her white husband. A Special Award for Continuing Achievement is given to Joyce C...

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art-widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written-Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mic...