S. D. Nelson, Author, S. D. Nelson, Illustrator, Abrams, Author ABRAMS $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4127-4
In his children's book debut, Nelson, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, imagines the boyhood of his great-great-grandfather, a Lakota warrior. His prose is spare, even expressionless at times, as he recounts the rites of passage of his...
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Abrams, Author W. W. Norton & Company $11.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-31184-6
Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin sail the southern hemisphere in this 16th installment of O'Brian's celebrated series. (Nov.)
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Abrams, Author, Charles Weeckler, Photographer, Charles Weckler, Author ABRAMS $39.95 (84p) ISBN 978-0-8109-1132-1
A short text describes impressionist Claude Monet's house and gardens at Giverny, a village 40 miles northwest of Paris, where, from 1883 until his death in 1926, the artist lived and painted. The 64 color photographs included here were taken in a...
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Abrams, Author, Christopher Newall, Author, George P. Landow, Author ABRAMS $45 (223p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3766-6
The six accessible essays in this richly illustrated volume--companion to an exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Art--examine John Ruskin's activities as Victorian art critic and moral sage. Ruskin scholar Robert Hewison
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Abrams, Author, Robert Penn Warren, Author, Barry Moser, Illustrator ABRAMS $35 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4464-0
Sixty Years of American Poetry: Celebrating the Anniversary of the Academy of American Poets updates the 1984 anthology published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Academy. Here, 75 poems by new Academy chancellors and award winners (among...
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Abrams, Author, Margaret Early, Author, Margaret Early, Illustrator ABRAMS $17.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4428-2
There's always room for a skillful variation on a classic tale, as Early (William Tell) demonstrates by matching condensed versions of well-known tales about Robin Hood with suitably ""medieval"" art. Fourteen one-page episodes sketch the high...
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Zahi A. Hawass, Author, Abrams, Author ABRAMS $49.5 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3942-4
During the summer of 1999, one of the more spectacular discoveries in recent archeological history was announced in Egypt. At the Bahariya Oasis, 230 miles southwest of Cairo, a large group of intact ancient Egyptian tombs were unearthed that...
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Ellen Weiss, Author, Abrams, Author, Jean-Claude Gibert, Illustrator ABRAMS $9.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5019-1
The young pachyderm protagonists Isabelle, Pom, Flora and Alexander feel certain that a ""huge, green, foot-dragging, chain-rattling monster"" is responsible for the ""thump-drag-rattle-clank"" coming from the attic in the paper-over-board Babar and
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Sarah Kennedy, Author, Nelvana, Author, Abrams, Author ABRAMS $19.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4934-8
On the theory that no child is ever too young for Babar, the character created by Jean de Brunhoff and carried on by his son, Laurent de Brunhoff, debuts in My First Book: A Babar Baby Journal, with two pockets for keepsakes, a family tree, and...
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Abrams, Author, Harry N Abrams, Compiled by ABRAMS $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8109-9127-9
Part of a fashionable new guidebook series, this guide to New York City pulses with energy. The photo-heavy book features two main sections, the first of which is arranged by neighborhood and covers each district's cafes, shops, restaurants, museums,
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Abrams, Author, Harry N Abrams, Manufactured by ABRAMS $5.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5038-2
And, appearing in a pair of board books for the first time, the dapper hero stars in Babar Family Time and Babar Bedtime. Youngsters can celebrate a picnic and wind down to sleep with Babar and his clan. .
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Abrams, Author, Harry N Abrams, Manufactured by ABRAMS $5.95 (10p) ISBN 978-0-8109-5037-5
And, appearing in a pair of board books for the first time, the dapper hero stars in Babar Family Time and Babar Bedtime. Youngsters can celebrate a picnic and wind down to sleep with Babar and his clan. .
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