Explores the relationship between two brothers, one who went to Vietnam and one who stayed at home, as they struggle against an unexpected blizzard in Minnesota's remote north woods.

Product Description: "To call Going After Cacciato  a novel about war is like calling Moby  Dick a novel about whales." So wrote  The New York Times of Tim O'Brein's  now classic novel of Vietnam. Winner of the 1979  National Book Award, Going After  Cacciato captures the peculiar blend of horror and  hallucinatory comedy that marked this the strangest  of wars...read more

Product Description: Each year more people in the United States go to amusement parks than to baseball games. Some 250 million people will visit an amusement park this summer. With carefully researched data assembled by one of the country's top amusement park experts, this revised guide features all the information anyone could want to know about one of America's favorite pastimes...read more

A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties. (view table of contents)

Provides information on season, hours, admission fees, entertainment, special events, food services, and directions for each establishment

Product Description: Use this guide to discover off-the-beaten-path Tennessee in gas station-general store combinations, on two-lane roads, or in towns such as Bucksnort.

Going After Cacciato (winner of the National Book Award in 1979) was widely acclaimed as one of the most powerful and emotionally vivid novels about Vietnam. Now, writing with the same sharp, richly expressive language, the same edgy dark humor and complete honesty, and the same rawness of nerve and energy, Tim O’Brien gives us an equally powerful novel about growing up as a child of anxiety—thebig anxiety, the one that’s been with us since the fifties, when we finally realized that Einstein’s theories translated into Russian.It’s 1995 and William Cowling is digging a hole in his backyard. He is forty-nine, and after years and years of pent-up terror he has finally found the courage of a fighting man. And so a hole. A hold that he hopes will one day be large enough to swallow up his almost fifty years’ worth of fear. A hole that causes his twelve-year-old daughter to call him a “nutto,” and his wife to stop speaking to him. A hole that William will not stop digging and out of which rise scenes of his past to play themselves out in his memory.The scenes take him back to his quietly peculiar adolescence (No. 2 pencils had a surprising significance), to his college days, down into the underground, and up through several stabs at “normal” adulthood . . . they take him from Montana to Florida, from Cuba to California, from Kansas to New York to Germany and back to Montana as he makes him way through an often mystifying—but just as often hilarious —labyrinth of fears and desires, obsessions and obligations, blessed madness and less-than-blessed sobriety . . . they take him into the lives of a shrink who’s a whiz a role reversal and of a dizzying eccentric cheerleader; of radical misfits and misfit radicals; of an ethereal stewardess (the traveling man’s dream); and two guerilla commandos who mix shtick and nightmare in their tactical brew. And each scene is a reminder of the unbargained-for-terror that has guided him to the bottom of his hole. For this digging is his final act of “prudence and sanity”—he’s taking control, getting there first, robbing his fears of their power to destroy . . . or so he believes. But is this act really sane? Is his daughter’s estimation of his emotional well-being (“pretty buggo, too”) the only truly sane statement being made? Is sanity even the issue? In the dazzling final scenes, William turns from the hole—from his past and from his future 0 to himself, digging deeper and deeper to find his answers.The Nuclear Age is pyrotechnically funny and moving, courageous and irreverent. It takes on our supreme unacknowledged terror (whose reality we both refuse to accept and all too easily accommodate ourselves to), finds it lunatic core, and shapes it into a story that speaks of, and to, an entire age: our own, our nuclear age. It is an extraordinary novel.

Product Description: A little boy learns about star watching.

Father Time, the owner of the cuckoo clock shop, expects all the clocks to sound the same way, but his assistant keeps trying to make them sound like the noises he hears around him, in an interactive book that invites young readers to record their own sounds and play them back at specific points in the story.Father Time expects all clocks to sound alike, but his assistant does not, in a book to record and play back

Product Description: According to the Travel Industry Association of America, almost half of all trips taken in the U.S. include children. Globe Pequot's Fun with the Family "TM" series (formerly Family Adventure Guides "TM" ) caters to this growing market...read more

Product Description: Contributors to this issue include: Lee K. Abbott, Nin Andrews, Jennifer Ashton, Judith Berke, Gina Berriault, Teresa Cader, Robert Cohen, Laura Conklin, Wyn Cooper, Janet Desaulniers, Kathy Fagan, James Finnegan, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, David Greenberg, Linda Gregerson, Allen Grossman, Beth Gylys, Daniel Halpern, Edward Hardy, Edward Hirsch, Patricia Hooper, Gray Jacobik, Nicholas Kahn, David Lehman, Philip Levine, Timothy Liu, Susan Mitchell, Joyce Carol Oates, Jacqueline Osherow, Stephen Sandy, Lisa Sapinkopf, Richard Selesnick, Charles Simic, Greg Simon, Ronald Wallace, Michael Waters, Heather White, Michael White, Charles Wright, Oksana Zabuzhk...read more

Product Description: THOUGHT-PROVOKING, Clever and outrageously funny questions. ??????......

Product Description: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Analyzes the well-known and obscure amusement parks in each state of the United States and in Canada, and describes each park's stand-out rides, perks, hours, prices, and travel tips.

A candid view of the American military establishment and the Vietnam conflict as witnessed by a foot soldier in the late sixties.

A philandering college teacher copes with an attraction to a married woman that threatens to interfere with his plans for revenge against his ex-wife

This Fun with the Family guide to Tennessee provides easy-to-use and up-to-date information on how to enjoy short term trips with children (ages 2-12). Including places to eat, stay, as well as "Other Things to See and Do" with the kids. (view table of contents)