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  • Red Ridinghood's Little Lamb: An Easter Story That Can Be Read the Whole Year Round

    Charlotte Steiner

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 1964)
    Red Ridinghood's lamb runs away into the forest and is found by a nasty dwarf who does not want to give him back.
  • Runaway

    Alice Munro

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Oct. 26, 2004)
    In Alice Munro’s superb new collection, we find stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives made palpable by the subtlety and empathy of this incomparable writer. The runaway of the title story is a young woman who, though she thinks she wants to, is incapable of leaving her husband. In “Passion,” a country girl emerging into the larger world via a job in a resort hotel discovers in a single moment of stunning insight the limits and lies of that mysterious emotion. Three stories are about a woman named Juliet–in the first, she escapes from teaching at a girls’ school into a wild and irresistible love match; in the second she returns with her child to the home of her parents, whose life and marriage she finally begins to examine; and in the last, her child, caught, she mistakenly thinks, in the grip of a religious cult, vanishes into an unexplained and profound silence. In the final story, “Powers,” a young woman with the ability to read the future sets off a chain of events that involves her husband-to-be and a friend in a lifelong pursuit of what such a gift really means, and who really has it.Throughout this compelling collection, Alice Munro’s understanding of the people about whom she writes makes them as vivid as our own neighbors. Here are the infinite betrayals and surprises of love–between men and women, between friends, between parents and children–that are the stuff of all our lives. It is Alice Munro’s special gift to make these stories as vivid and real as our own.
  • Escape from Camp Wannabarf

    Peter Hannan

    Paperback (Borzoi Book/Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 1991)
    Escape from Camp Wannabarf [Paperback] [Jan 01, 1991] Peter Hannan
  • No Children, No Pets Weekly Reader Children's Book Club

    Marion Holland

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 1957)
    1956: by Marion Holland.
  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to California

    Fred Heath; Peter Alden

    Paperback (Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 1998)
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  • Fantastic Mr. Fox

    Roald Dahl, Donald Chaffin

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, Feb. 12, 1986)
    Fantastic Mr. Fox is on the run! The three meanest farmers around are out to get him. Fat Boggis, squat Bunce, and skinny Bean have joined forces, and they have Mr. Fox and his family surrounded. What they don’t know is that they’re not dealing with just any fox–Mr. Fox would never surrender. But only the most fantastic plan ever can save him now.
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  • Independent People: An Epic

    Halldor Laxness, J. A. Thompson

    Hardcover (Alfred A.Knopf, March 15, 1946)
    470 pages Book One/Icelandic Pioneer/Part 1 Free of Debt/Part 2 Book Two/Hard Times/Part 1 Years of Prosperity/Part 2 Conclusion/Part 3
  • Mammal

    Steve Parker

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, April 22, 1989)
    Full-color photos. "Mammal looks at evolution; contrasts fur-coated and spiny-covered mammals; and studies birth and development, habitations, and grooming practices of members of this animal classification. Each eye-catching double-page spread treats a different, intriguing aspect of animal life. Engravings and caringly selected art reproductions interplay with choice photos, luring readers. Ideal for reference browsing and indexed for ready fact-finding, this is a sumptuous science sampler."--(starred) Booklist.
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  • A Year In Provence

    Peter Mayle, Judith Clancy

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, April 28, 1990)
    They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened.Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley and wreaks havoc with the pipes, to dealing as the months go by with the disarming promises and procrastination of the local masons and plumbers, Peter Mayle delights us with his strategies for survival. He relishes the growing camaraderie with his country neighbors -- despite the rich, soupy, often impenetrable patois that threatens to separate them. He makes friends with boar hunters and truffle hunters, a man who eats foxes, and another who bites dentists; he discovers the secrets of handicapping racing goats and of disarming vipers. And he comes to dread the onslaught of tourists who disrupt his tranquillity.In this often hilarious, seductive book Peter Mayle manages to transport us info all the earthy pleasures of Provencal life and lets us live vicariously in a tempo governed by seasons, not by days. George Lang, who was smitten, suggests: "Get a glass of marc, lean back in your most comfortable chair, and spend a delicious year in Provence."
  • In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692

    Mary Beth Norton

    Paperback (Alfred A. Knopf, March 15, 2002)
    Mary Beth Norton is the author of " Founding Mothers & Fathers ", Pulizer Prize finalist. Says David McCullough "utterly fascinating ". All about the Salem Witchcraft Crisis.
  • The Lion

    Joseph KESSEL

    Hardcover (Alfred A Knopf, March 15, 1959)
    THE LION Hardcover by KESSEL JOSEPH (Author) Hardcover
  • One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War

    Michael Dobbs

    Hardcover (Alfred A. Knopf, June 3, 2008)
    In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce the most authoritative book yet on the Cuban missile crisis. In his hour-by-hour chronicle of those near-fatal days, Dobbs reveals some startling new incidents that illustrate how close we came to Armageddon.Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev’s plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo; the accidental overflight of the Soviet Union by an American spy plane; the movement of Soviet nuclear warheads around Cuba during the tensest days of the crisis; the activities of CIA agents inside Cuba; and the crash landing of an American F-106 jet with a live nuclear weapon on board.Dobbs takes us inside the White House and the Kremlin as Kennedy and Khrushchev—rational, intelligent men separated by an ocean of ideological suspicion—agonize over the possibility of war. He shows how these two leaders recognized the terrifying realities of the nuclear age while Castro—never swayed by conventional political considerations—demonstrated the messianic ambition of a man selected by history for a unique mission. As the story unfolds, Dobbs brings us onto the decks of American ships patrolling Cuba; inside sweltering Soviet submarines and missile units as they ready their warheads; and onto the streets of Miami, where anti-Castro exiles plot the dictator’s overthrow.Based on exhaustive new research and told in breathtaking prose, here is a riveting account of history’s most dangerous hours, full of lessons for our time.