Walter - Libros y biografía

This groundbreaking novel in verse from Walter Dean Myers—two-time Newbery Honor winner and five-time Coretta Scott King Award winner—is a modern-day Romeo and Juliet story set in Harlem. Share this one...

The second novel written by Scott turned aside from the path of history, so successfully followed in "Waverley," and dealt no less happily with private scenes and characters. Some of the most enduring...

The Porteous Riot, which occurred in Edinburgh during the reign of George II, is the historical rallying point of this story of Scotch middle life. The narrative, however, harks back several months and...

The term "Castle Dangerous" was applied to the feudal home of the Scotch Douglases, because of the many fierce fights for its possession which raged between the English and the Scotch lords, during the...

"The Surgeon's Daughter" is chiefly remarkable for its disregard of the unities of time and place. Though one of the shorter novels, its action extends through more than a quarter of a century, involving...

This is pamphlet reproducing in print from a lecture delivered before the Burlington Mechanics Library Association, September 11, 1851, at the Lyceum Hall in Burlington, New Jersey. Author James Walter...

Fantascienza - racconto lungo (53 pagine) - Il suo scopo era proteggere l'isola di Santorini dai ladri temporali di reperti antichi, e lo avrebbe fatto a ogni costo. Da Walter Jon Williams una intricata...

In the tradition of Goodbye, Mr. Chips; Blackboard Jungle; Up the Down Staircase; and Welcome Back, Kotter:High school English and theatre teacher Buddy Lee Walter's fictionalized autobiography, Bring...

Frieda est élevée dans un collège, dirigé comme l’entendaient les maîtres du Reich : rigueur et punitions corporelles étaient monnaie courante. Lorsque la guerre éclate, elle a presque l’impression d’une...

“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. MartinFollowing The Praxis, Walter...

Over twenty-five years and through five editions, Walter I. Trattner's From Poor Law to Welfare State has served as the standard text on the history of welfare policy in the United States. The only comprehensive...

Jemand, der als Junge in der Hitler-Jugend war, den Zweiten Weltkrieg überlebt und Jahre in französischer Kriegsgefangenschaft verbracht hat, hat sicher viele spannende und interessante Geschichten zu...

From beloved author Walter Dean Myers, this original 20-page short story serves as a prequel to his award-winning novel Monster, which has been read and loved by millions of readers.Word on the street...

Em O velocista, o autor Walter Cavalcanti Costa navega pela experimentação formal e mostra suas influências em quatro epígrafes: o futurismo europeu, o modernismo brasileiro, o concretismo brasileiro...

Walt Sheldon is bitter-bright in this imaginative short satire of Man's sell-out by a group of staunch believers in the infallibility of numbers. The Computer could do no wrong. Then it was asked a simple...

La jovialité, la légèreté et la sexualité sans tabou d'un roman érotique des années 1970, à travers le portrait d'une jeune femme libérée et effrontée. Naïade aux boucles blondes consciente de ses charmes,...

You can call me Mouse, 'cause that's my tag I'm into it all, everything's my bag my ace is Styx, he'll always do Add Bev and Sheri, and you got my crew...and a crew it is! For fourteen-year-old Mouse,...

"Space opera the way it ought to be . . . Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams."—George R. R. MartinFollowing The Accidental War,...

In this young readers' edition, a rising New York Times reporter tells the compelling story of the Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the proud,...

How history's only five-star admirals triumphed in World War II and made the United States the world's dominant sea power. Only four men in American history have been promoted to the five-star rank of...

The tiny spaceship had been built for a journey to a star. But its small, mischievous pilots had a rendezvous with destiny--on Earth.

The Earth was green and quiet. Nature had survived Man, and Man had survived himself. Then, one day, the great silvery ships broke the tranquillity of the skies, bringing Man's twenty-thousand-year-lost...

C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that to use his head, he first had to keep it....

A space rover has no business with a family. But what can a man in the full vigor of youth do--if his heart cries out for a home?

The Art of Whittling has provided readers with a wonderful introduction to the enjoyable hobby of whittling for decades. First published in 1930, Walter L. Faurot’s guide was one of the first manuals...

One sure way to live dangerously is to become a practical joker. Should you have any doubts about it you might ask Professor Dane.

No one knows the heart of a rebel until his own search for the reason of right or wrong is made. Lieutenant Laskell found the answer to his own personal rebellion deep beneath a turbulent Atlantic, and...

The manner in which a man has lived is often the key to the way he will die. Take old man Donegal, for example. Most of his adult life was spent in digging a hole through space to learn what was on the...

Hollywood could handle just aboutanything—until Mildume's machinebrought in two real aliens.

In a world in which the Cold War never ended, American president John Smith XVI dares to re-open contact with the East after forty years of Big Silence. A comedy of masks ensues, with unexpected results....