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The Tender Shoot and Other Stories
by Collette Antonia WhiteEleven stories illustrating the many facets of love by France's incomparable writer
World's End
by Upton SinclairThe Lanny Budd novels, of which this is the first, portray the changing pattern of world events from the first stirrings to WWI to 1940.
You Come Too
by Robert FrostA marvelous collection of Frost's poems including: The Pasture, Good Hours, Going for Water, Blueberries, Looking for a Sunset, Bird in Winter, Acquainted with the Night, A Hillside Thaw, Good-bye and Keep Cold, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Come In, A Patch of Old Snow, Christmas Trees, Birches, A Young Birch, A Passing Glimpse, The Last Mowing, Pea Brush, The Telephone, The Rose Family, One Guess, Fireflies in the Garden, Blue Butterfly Day, Departmental, A Drumlin Woodchuck, Runaway, The Cow in Apple Time, and many others.
Duffy and the Devil
by Harve ZemachIf you remember the story of Rumpelstiltskin, there will be no surprises here. And, the first paragraph may illicit load graons from those who are blind. Caldecott Medal winner. " Squire Lovel of Trove had no wife. His housekeeper, Old Jone, did the cooking and the cleaning for him. But the sharpness had long since gone out of her eyesight, so she couldn't do fine chores any more, like spinning and sewing and knitting. After a time the squire's clothes got so rough and ragged that he thought he'd better go find a maid to be Jone's helper."
The Challenge of the Sea
by Arthur C. ClarkeWhile tremendous strides toward the conquest of space occupy most of today's headlines, scientists are also exploring the vast secret recesses of the sea. Clarke takes us beneath the sea...
Z
by Vassilis VassilikosThe story of a political murder and the corruption of a ruthless and powerful military regime in a novel charged with anger, passion and suspense.
Andy and the Lion
by James DaughertyWhen Andy goes to the library, he checks out a book about lions. Suddenly, lions are everywhere! A charming story. This file should make an excellent embossed braille copy.
Fat City
by Leonard GardnerA fighter's dressing room in a seedy arena, lovemaking on a river levee, a back-breaking day of farm labor - Gardner lays his people's lives open to the bone.
Beverly: An Autobiography
by Beverly Sills Lawrence LindermanBeverly Sills unleashes the full power of her personality and unlocks the key to her phenomenal success as a singer, mother, wife, impresario and goodwill ambassador.
Yoga for Business Executives and Professional People
by Archie J. BahmDesigned to aid in meeting the problems of tension and fatigue, this book draws upon the age-old experience of yogic experts and shows how many practices can be adapted to modern urban conditions.
Leonard Bernstein
by David Ewen"Leonard Bernstein is the only long-hair musician who gets mobbed in the streets by women from Boston to Moscow, from Milan to Tel Aviv. A huge success from the night he made his debut, he is often described as a man who started at the top. But Bernstein was a frail, unhappy, maladjusted boy until, by accident, he got his first piano -a battered upright. Years of struggle lay ahead, but this was the beginning . . ." Ewen has written a wonderful biography.
The Wonderful World of Books
by Alfred StefferudArticles on the pleasures of reading, reading among friends, reading more effectively, reading toward wider horizons, choosing and using books, and more.
Night at the Vulcan (Roderick Alleyn #16)
by Ngaio MarshIn the make-believe world of the theater, Inspector Alleyn deals with the stark reality of murder and recasts the players in a deadly drama.
Clutch of Constables (Roderick Alleyn #25)
by Ngaio Marsh"Five Days Out of Time..." ... that was how the ad had described the Zodiac cruise on the "weirdly misted" English river. The passengers were the usual, unusual lot: a couple of unpleasantly hygienic Americans, an aloof Ethiopian doctor, a snooping cleric with a wall-eye, an artist running away from her success ... But they were not all what they seemed. For Inspector Alleyn knew that one of them was the faceless "Jampot"-the ruthless killer who could take on any personality, whose thumb was a deadly weapon. The problem was, which one! Alleyn had five days to trap him, or the other passengers would pay with their lives-and one of those passengers was Alleyn's wife! "WITH DEVILISH CUNNING MISS MARSH HIDES THE IDENTITY OF THE MASTER MISCREANT UNTIL VIRTUALLY THE LAST PAGE!"
Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?
by John GardnerWhat are the characteristic difficulties a democracy encounters in pursuing excellence? Is there a way out? How equal do we want to be, or can we be?
How to Strengthen Your Memory
by Michael FidlowThis is not just another book filled with the usual techniques for improving memory. Fidlow considers the natural memory and suggests techniques to enhance it. He explores artificial memory and provides strategies for improving it. He guides the reader through a variety of tricks and situations so that the reader can choose and apply techniques that make sense for that particular individual.
The Rainbow
by D. H. LawrenceThe story of 3 generations of a passionate Nottinghamshire family whose love affairs move backward and forward across the years. Part 1 of Lawrence's trilogy, that also includes Women In Love and Aaron's Rod.
The Federalist Era 1789-1801
by John MillerAn absorbing and scholarly account of the political history of the beginning of the USA.
Maigret and the Headless Corpse
by Georges SimenonA mutilated body was fished out of a Paris canal, but when the head couldn't be found, Maigret followed the oddest clues to the most off-beat places to figure out the most bizarre case of his career.
The Hour Before the Dawn
by W. Somerset MaughamA passionate, powerful story fo a whole nation, fighting for its survival, and of a man and a woman who tried to create their own island of love in the midst of war's blazing inferno.
From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook of Art History
by James Smith PierceChapters are 'Art terms, processes, and principles; gods, heroes, and monsters; Christian subjects; saints and their attributes; Christian signs and symbols.'
The Pleasures of Japanese Cooking
by Heihachi Tanaka Betty A. NicholasRecipes for many Japanese dishes, also a glossary, an index, info on seasonings and flavorings, table settings, utensils, etiquette, how to serve a meal.
The Pleasures of Chinese Cooking
by Grace Zia ChuRecipes for popular Chinese-American dishes, how to work with woks and cleavers, the story of tea, how to order in a Chinese restaurant, and more.
The Happy Hollisters and the Haunted House Mystery
by Jerry WestFrom the day the 5 Hollister children move into the mysterious house on Pine Lake in Shoreham, adventures begin to come their way. What fun and excitement they have!
The Necessity of Art: A Marxist Approach
by Ernst Fischer Anna BostockThe author, an Austrian poet and critic, surveys the whole history of artistic achievement through Marxist eyes.