A sixteen-year-old boy relates his discovery of the Pearl of Heaven and his near-fatal encounter with the feared sea monster, Manta Diablo.

Line drawings and descriptions of the tracks and seats of all North and Central American mammals are presented with brief descriptions of each animal's habits and habitat (view table of contents)

Incredible collection of portraits of the living and the dead by Peter Hujar. Beautifully printed and scarce. Introduction by Susan Sontag

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A guide to spelling lists more than twenty-three thousand frequently misspelled words and features eleven basic spelling rules, tips on improving memory skills, and glossary of grammatical terms

A shipwrecked man shares a house with a beautiful mermaid, and together they adopt animals as their children until, finally, they adopt a real boy.

Product Description: In 1873 Norah O'Shea leaves her genteel Boston home for an arranged marriage to Abner Slade in Arizona. She's stranded at the train station, but help comes from Sergeant Roger "Storm Caller" LeBeau -- Slade's sworn enemy. Can the deep passion brewing between the Indian soldier and the fiery Irishwoman survive the pressures of their Vastly different cultures...read more

Herman the helpful octopus is always willing to assist anyone who needs his help--old or young, friend or enemy

Counting as they sing, whales use their mighty voices to pass on to one another the numbers from one to ten.

A boy imagines what fun he would have with a pet octopus

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The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz constitutes the most definitive volume on the music, history, performers, and venues of jazz. It contains the broadest coverage of the subject of jazz to appear in one work and seeks to give detailed attention to all periods and styles from many countries, making it the largest dictionary of jazz ever published. Besides traditional jazz topics, there are extensive entries on blues, brass bands, soul music, ragtime, and rock music, as well as profiles on musicians such as Eubie Blake, Bessie Smith, Ray Charles, and Jeff Beck. Among the numerous categories covered in the volume are: · Performers from Louis Armstrong to Joe Zawinul, as well as performing groups from the early New Orleans Excelsior Brass Band to the contemporary World Saxophone Quartet · Jazz terms and topics including pieces on arrangement, form, harmony, and improvisation, as well as articles on jazz in film and jazz singing · Styles are described from Chicago Jazz, Dixieland, and Boogie Woogie through Cool Jazz, Free Jazz, and Third Stream. Also included are Blues, Ragtime, and Latin music · Festivals, clubs, and record labels that have had a seminal place in jazz history, such as the Newport and Montreux festivals, and the clubs Birdland and The Five Spot. Clubs are listed internationally by city, including their histories and the musicians who performed there · Instruments like the saxophone and double bass are covered in detail as well as exotic instruments and special playing techniques such as brass mute effects (view table of contents)

Burt goes fishing, takes refuge from a storm in a whale's stomach, and decorates a whole school of whales' tails with striped band-aids.

In this story based on a true incident, a humpback whale tries to find its way home after mistakenly swimming into New York Harbor.

Product Description: This final volume of Martin Buber's work contains a selection of his poetry and prose written between 1902 and 1964 made by Buber himself a few months before his death in 1965. As the original German title, Nachlese, implies, Buber saw these writings as the "gleanings" of a rich philosophical harvest and as a "testament" to his own beliefs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)