Authors:Gunter Grass, Helmut Frielinghaus, William Ma
Publisher: Mariner Book
Keywords: reader, grass, gunter
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-12-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0156029928
ISBN-13: 9780156029926
Selected from the vast range of his work, the writings included in this anthology trace Gnter Grass’s development as a writer, and with it the history of a nation coming to terms with its past. Excerpts from Grass’s major novels-from The Tin Drum to Crabwalk-are included, as are numerous short fictions, essays, and poems, many of which have never appeared before in English. Grass’s gifts as an observer of and participant in the social and political landscape are justly celebrated, as are his inimitable sense of humor, his consistent defense of the disadvantaged, and his mast
Author: Claudine ChalmersGrass Valley Downtown Associatio
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: english, images, america, valley, publishing, arcadia, grass
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-11-20
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738546976
ISBN-13: 9780738546971
Grass Valley was named for its spring-fed meadows, but its history springs from deep below the soil. An immeasurable wealth of gold lay in ancient river courses, embedded in quartz, or scattered capriciously in surface gravel. Vibrantly entrepreneurial since its inception, Grass Valley echoed with the roar of stamp mills crushing gold-bearing quartz 24 hours a day, every day, for decades. Its mines produced $350 million, and millions more are thought to be buried beneath the modern city. Grass Valley’s wealth drew flamboyant stars like Lola Montez and gold-camp-urchin-turned-star Lotta C
Author: Conrad Richter
Publisher: Ohio University Pre
Keywords: grass, sea
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 1992-07-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0821410261
ISBN-13: 9780821410264
Published in 1936, this novel presents in epic scope the conflicts in the settling of the American Southwest. Set in New Mexico in the late 19th century, The Sea of Grass concerns the often violent clashes between the pioneering ranchers, whose cattle range freely through the vast sea of grass, and the farmers, or "nesters," who build fences and turn the sod. Against this background is set the triangle of rancher Colonel Jim Brewton, his unstable Eastern wife Lutie, and the ambitious Brice Chamberlain. Richter casts the story in Homeric terms, with the children caught up in the conflicts of th
Author: Gunter Grass
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: crabwalk
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2004-04-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0156029707
ISBN-13: 9780156029704
Hailed by critics and readers alike as Gnter Grass’s best book since The Tin Drum, Crabwalk is an engrossing account of the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff and a critical meditation on Germany’s struggle with its wartime memories. The Gustloff, a German cruise ship turned refugee carrier, was attacked by a Soviet submarine in January 1945. Some nine thousand people went down in the Baltic Sea, making it the deadliest maritime disaster of all time. Born to an unwed mother on a lifeboat the night of the attack, Paul Pokriefke is a middle-aged journalist trying to piece together th
Author: Colleen Mccullough
Publisher: Avon A
Keywords: crown, grass
Number of Pages: 1152
Published: 2008-11-01
List price: $16.99
ISBN-10: 0061582395
ISBN-13: 9780061582394
New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough returns us to an age of magnificent triumphs, volcanic passions, and barbaric cruelties. Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome’s advancing legions. But now internal rebellion threatens the stability of the mighty Republic. An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh consulship of Rome. It is a prize to be won only through treachery and with blood, pitting M
Author: Stuart Wood
Publisher: Harper
Keywords: roots, grass
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 006171156X
ISBN-13: 9780061711565
Attorney Will Lee has returned to his roots to kick off his campaign for the Senate. He has come back to his hometown of Delano, Georgia, to plan his strategies, and to argue a case that has the potential to seriously damage his political career. For his hometown is a place with a dark secret, and the violent, evil forces here will stop at nothing to keep the candidate out of office. But Will Lee isn’t about to back down, even though it may cost him his careerand his life.
Author: John C. Greenfield
Publisher: Infinity Publishing (PA)
Keywords: grass, vetiver
Number of Pages: 241
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0741410656
ISBN-13: 9780741410658
This is the book that dares to say there is a more appropriate, cheaper, more sustainable system of soil and moisture conservation than that taught over the past 70 years. This evolves round a "grass" like no other grass on earth, the more we learn about it, the more its diverse qualities and uses to man are revealed; like :- river bank stabilization; flood control; pollution mitigation; its pesticidal and fungicidal qualities as an organic mulch; replenishment of natural aquifers; pest free thatch; perfume and handicrafts. These and other uses are all explained as part of the "Vetiver System"
