She finds this and much more in a town with the unlikely name of Chicken, located deep in the Alaskan interior. It is 1927 and Chicken is a wild mining community flaming with gold fever. Anne quickly makes friends with many of the townspeople, but is soon ostracized when she not only befriends the local Indians but also falls in love with one. A heartwarming story in the tradition of Benedict Freedman's classic, Mrs. Mike, Tisha is one of those rare books that stays with the reader for years, beckoning to be read again and again. --Maudeen Wachsmith

    Dakin wants three things more than anything else: to visit the farthest-away mountain, to meet a gargoyle, and to marry a prince. Everyone in her village thinks she's crazy, especially since no one has ever been to the farthest-away mountain. But one day, when she is nearly 15, she hears the mountain calling her. Dakin sets off on a tantalizing journey that will change her life, and the lives of others, forever. From the Hardcover Library Binding edition.

    Jay Berry Lee's grandpa had an explanation, of course--as he did for most things. The monkeys had escaped from a traveling circus, and there was a handsome reward in store for anyone who could catch them. Grandpa said there wasn't any animal that couldn't be caught somehow, and Jay Berry started out believing him . . .But by the end of the "summer of the monkeys," Jay Berry Lee had learned a lot more than he ever bargained for--and not just about monkeys. He learned about faith, and wishes coming true, and knowing what it is you really want. He even learned a little about growing up . . .This novel, set in rural Oklahoma around the turn of the century, is a heart-warming family story--full of rich detail and delightful characters--about a time and place when miracles were really the simplest of things...

    It is a story of a leisurely sail through the Gulf of Cortez and on through Panama Canal to the Azores and England. Cruising in Seraffyn is also a carefully thought out guide to living aboard a small boat, with fun and economy as the guide principles. Four appendices provide data that is vital for anyone comtemplating long distance cruising.

    Unfortunately…the Tarantula becomes one of Spidey's deadliest foes!

    Trapped in a book whose writer supplies ridiculous adventures for the characters, Martin manages finally not only to get out but to even the score with the person responsible for it all.

    Though a woman was not easily allowed to rule over a people in those days, she had all the qualities required in an administrator. Her father therefore willed her heir to the throne in preference to her less able stepbrothers. Sensing the objections from courtiers to her ascension to the throne, Razia proclaimed allegiance to one of her stepbrother. He however turned out to be inefficient and Razia was made the queen. She proved herself a just and fair ruler, and abolished the tax on Hindu subjects for their non-islamic faith. Court intrigues continued against her and Sultana (queen) Razia could rule for barely three and a half years. She died in one of the battles with the courtiers, "for no fault other than that she was a woman" as a historian said.

    Here is some of Howard's best work.Contents:"Introduction" by Glenn Lord"Pigeons From Hell" "Recompense" (poem)"The Pit of the Serpent" "Empire" (poem)"Etchings in Ivory" (prose poems)"Proem" "Flaming Marble""Skulls and Orchids""Medallions in the Moon""The Gods That Men Forget""Bloodstones and Ebony" "Thor's Son" (poem)"Cimmeria" (poem)"A Sonnet of Good Cheer" (poem)"Red Blades of Black Cathay""The Dust Dance" (poem)"The Bar by the Side of the Road" (poem)"Knife, Bullet and Noose""The Gold and the Grey" (poem)"Gents on the Lynch" "A Song Out of Midian" (poem)"She Devil""The Day That I Die" (poem)"The Voice of El-Lil""Black Wind Blowing" "The Curse of the Golden Skull""Black Talons" Notes

    Monsters and nightmares, dream snakes and hyenas, thrive in this fantasy world that happened yesterday - or even before the dawn of time. It's all here, in the most enthralling collection ever of weird and fantastic adventures by Robert E. Howard, master fantician and creator of CONAN.Contents:Pigeons From HellThe Gods of Bal-SagothPeople of the DarkThe Children of the NightThe Dead RememberThe Man on the GroundThe Garden of FearThe HyenaDig Me No Grave The Dream SnakeIn the Forest of VillefereOld Garfield's HeartThe Voice of El-Lil

    A great green hooligan vine starts to grow and threatens to take over the whole town until one boy finds out how to control it.

    Roger Brucker and Richard Watson tell not only of their own twenty-year effort to complete the link but the stories of many others who worked their way through mud-choked crawlways less than a foot high only to find impenetrable blockages.Floyd Collins died a grisly death in nearby Sand Cave in 1925, after being trapped there for 15 days. The wide press coverage of the rescue efforts stirred the imagination of the public and his body was on macabre display in a glass-topped coffin in Crystal Cave into the 1940s. Agents of a rival cave owner once even stole his corpse, which was re­covered and still is in a coffin in the cave. Modern cavers still have a word with Floyd as they start their downward treks.Brucker and Watson joined the parade of cavers who propelled themselves by wiggling kneecaps, elbows, and toes through quarter-mile long crawlways, clinging by fingertips and boot toes across mud-slick walls, over bottomless pits, into gur­gling streams beneath stone ceilings that descend to water level, down crumbling crevices and up mountainous rockfalls, into wondrous domed halls, and straight ahead into a blackness inten­sified rather than dispelled by the carbide lamps on their helmets.Over two decades they explored the passages with others who sought the final connection as vigorously as themselves. Pat Crowther, a young mother of two, joined them and because of her thinness became the member of the crew to go first into places no human had ever gone before. In that role, in July 1972, she wiggled her way through the Tight Spot and found the route that would link the Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave systems into one cave extending 144.4 miles through the Kentucky limestone.In a new afterword to this edition the authors summarize the subsequent explorations that have more than doubled the established length of the cave system. Based upon geological evidence, the authors predict that new discoveries will add an­other 200 miles to the length of the world’s longest cave, making it over 500 miles long.

    The wife of the American poet George Oppen tells of their experiences traveling throughout America and of their associations with the Communist Party.

    Apart from their pointed ears, they look just like ordinary children. They live by their wits and a few Borrible laws-the chief one being, Don't Get Caught! The Borribles are outcasts-but they wouldn't have it any other way....One night, the Borribles of Battersea discover a Rumble-one of the giant, rat-shaped creatures who are their ancient enemy-in their territory. Fearing an invasion, an elite group of Borrible fighters set out on what will become known in legend as The Great Rumble Hunt. So begins the first of the three epic adventures in Michael de Larrabeiti's classic trilogy, where excitement, violence, low cunning, greed, generosity, treachery, and bravery exist side by side.

    Together they roam across the seas, through jungles, past ice-covered mountains and erupting volcanoes and many more unexpected hazards along the way.

    In this book, Mikhail Baryshnikov discusses the first twenty-six ballets he performed when he came to the West, from the great classics... Giselle, Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Cappelia... to the new ballets specially created for him here. He writes of the problems, both technical and stylistic, of each role.. what he responds to in each, where its difficulties lie, which few he feels are antipathetic to his temperament. He writes of how it feels to dance Nijinsky's roles. . Petrouchka, Le Spectre de la Rose; of the rigors and rewards of Balanchine's choreography; of working with Twyla Tharp on Push Comes to Shove, with Jerome Robbins on 'Other Dances,' with Anthony Tudor on 'Shadowplay.' Baryshnikov discusses his need to extend himself by adapting to Western ideas of partnering, and by coming to grips with specifically American music, such as the Ellington score for 'Pas de Duke' and the Frank Sinatra records for 'Once More, Frank.' He explains how his performance as Albrecht in 'Giselle' .. perhaps his greatest role... developed; how he conceived it, what it means to him. He tells us how he work...in his mind, in rehearsal, in performance. And accompanying the text are Martha Swope's magnificent photographs of Baryshnikov in these 26 roles: stage photographs, rehearsal photographs, and several series of unique studio photographs, including an extraordinary record of his famous solo, 'Vestris.'

    Determined to accompany her father to the California gold fields, a young girl stows away in one of the westward bound wagons and finds herself involved in an adventure that requires all her wits and emotional resources.

    Two weeks later, his team was banned from every casino in France—not because they had cheated or behaved badly, but simply because they had won—methodically and consistently. Thirteen Against the Bank is a wry and detailed account of a true event that all expert opinion deemed impossible: beating the bank at roulette. It reveals how Leigh assembled and bankrolled his crew of thirteen, instilling in them the discipline and stamina to bring off this coup and then apply it using a system known as the Reverse Labouchere betting progression. An all-time casino gambling classic.

    Hoffmann Price "Foreword" by Glenn Lord Autobiography "The Wandering Years" "An Autobiography" "A Touch of Trivia" "Letter: Robert E. Howard to Farnsworth Wright" "On Reading - And Writing" Biography "Facts of Biography" "A Biographical Sketch of Robert E. Howard" by Alvin Earl Perry Letter to Alvin Earl Perry, ca. early 1935, "The first character I ever created . . ." (excerpt only) "Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam" by H.P. Lovecraft "Lone Star Fictioneer" by Glenn Lord "A Memory of R.E. Howard" by E. Hoffmann Price "The Last Celt" by Harold Preece Bibliography "The Bibliography" by Glenn Lord Books Fiction Verse Articles Letters Index by Periodicals Translations Unpublished Fiction Unpublished Verse Unpublished Articles Series Index Lost Manuscripts Unborn Books Comics Television Adaptations The Junto About the Author Miscellanea "The Hand of Nergal" "The Battle That Ended the Century" by H.P. Lovecraft "Pictures in the Fire" "The Hall of the Dead" The Robert E. Howard Memorial Collection "Iron Shadows in the Moon" (first page of original typescript) Letters "The Golden Caliph" "R.E.H., as Mythical Dane" Cartoon from the Junto "Map of the Hyborian Age" A Robert E. Howard Photograph Album A Gent From Bear Creek Magazine Covers Obituaries

    Personalized computer-produced story based on Mother Goose nursery rhymes.

    It was written by Banabhatta, the court poet of King Harshavardhana, in the early 7th Century AD. It is said that after Banabhatta died, leaving the long text unfinished, his son Bhushanabhatta completed it. The original has a hugely complex plot, with Kadambari herself appearing only half-way through. The story is a popular one – a version can be found in the Kathasaritsagara, amongst many other ancient favourites. It continues to be translated into various Indian languages. Kadambari is often said to be one of the first novels – and the word kadambari has come to mean a novel in many Indian languages today.

    

    Nineteen-year-old Woody, accompanied by family members, drives from Pampa in the Panhandle to the rugged Big Bend country in a wheezing Model-T Ford truck. They are searching for a silver mine that Uncle Jeff had discovered and then lost. This autobiographical novel, originally published in 1976—nearly ten years after Woody Guthrie’s death—shows how his father’s search for riches was a dead-end street. The characters dare and do, drink Papa’s high-proof whiskey, eat out of cans, meet real characters, make love, and sing the lively songs composed by Woody along the way.

    An epic story of the settlers, visionaries, large-hearted men and women, and small-time grabbers drawn west by the hope of a better life. Nothing short of superb, says the Chicago Tribune.

    

    In this bayou adventure, Michelle Mantis, a ravenous praying mantis, enters the friends' territory and wants to consume everything in sight, including Clovis's friends!

    A fictionalized account of the life of Balto, who led the final relay team carrying life-giving diphtheria serum into epidemic-torn Nome in 1925.

    Photographs abound, showing the reader the highlights of the tower to ease remembrances of a fine day out.