Results for "Whitman, Sylvia"

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, is one of the world's most iconic and beautiful bookshops. Located on the banks of the Seine, opposite Notre-Dame, it's long been a meeting place for anglophone writers and readers. In that tradition, determined for the bookshop to remain a place of meaningful and t... Read More about The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews

A fast-paced, interactive adventure series for kids, featuring death-defying moments in history This time featuring the destruction of Pompeii The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in southern Italy in 79 A.D. is perhaps the most famous disaster in world history. Young readers make decisions and determin... Read More about Decide & Survive: The Destruction of Pompeii: Can You Change Pompeii's Fate?

We wait for the moon.We watch for the moon.We watch for the Ramadan moon.We give to the poor, and read Qur_an, under the moon.We live our faith, until next yearunder the moon, under the moon,under the Ramadan moon.Ramadan is one of the most special months of the Islamic year, when Muslims pray, fast... Read More about Under the Ramadan Moon

Twelve-year-old Gavin Baker, son of a warrior, is a born worrier. With his father serving overseas, Gavin assumes that he’ s already imagined the worst that can happen— until he shakes hands with his best friend Javi’ s long-lost grandfather and finds himself trap... Read More about If You Meet the Devil, Don't Shake Hands

A copiously illustrated account of the famed Paris bookstore on its 65th anniversary This first-ever history of the legendary bohemian bookstore in Paris interweaves essays and poetry from dozens of writers associated with the shop--Allen Ginsberg, Ana's Nin, Ethan Hawke, Robert Stone and Jeanette W... Read More about Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart

This timely, heartrending novel tells the moving story of a friendship between two girls: one an American teen, one a victim of the crisis in Darfur.Know that there are many words behind the few on this paper… Fifteen-year-old Nawra lives in Darfur, Sudan, in a camp for refugees displaced by the Jan... Read More about The Milk of Birds