Author: Christiane Bird
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: thousand, kurdistan, journeys, revolts, sighs
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2005-06-14
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0345469399
ISBN-13: 9780345469397

Though the Kurds played a major military and tactical role in the United States� recent war with Iraq, most of us know little about this fiercely independent, long-marginalized people. Now acclaimed journalist Christiane Bird, who riveted readers with her tour of Islamic Iran in Neither East Nor West, travels through this volatile part of the world to tell the Kurds� story, using personal observations and in-depth research to illuminate an astonishing history and vibrant culture. For the twenty-five to thirty million Kurds, Kurdistan is both an actual and a mythical place: an isolated, largely

Author: Jane Smiley
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: novel, acres, thousand
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-12-02
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1400033837
ISBN-13: 9781400033836

Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm--one of the largest in Zebulon County, Iowa--to his three daughters, Caroline, Ginny and Rose. A man of harsh sensibilities, he carves Caroline out of the deal because she has the nerve to be less than enthusiastic about her father’s generosity. While Larry Cook deteriorates into a pathetic drunk, his daughters are left to cope with the often grim realities of life on a family farm--from battering husbands to cutthroat lenders. In this winner of the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Smiley captur

Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: HarperColli
Keywords: faces, thousand
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0064410803
ISBN-13: 9780064410809

Alonzo King dreams of being known as The Boy of a Thousand Faces after his hero, Lon Chaney, late star of horror films. Alone in his room he transforms his face with makeup and tape, and then takes pictures with a Polaroid. In a town of nonbelievers, Alonzo is an expert on monsters, vampires, and assorted ghouls. One year, as Halloween approaches (as does Alonzo’s 10th birthday), rumors of a mysterious beast start circulating, and suddenly Alonzo’s grisly expertise is in great demand. But who--or what--is this horrible beast that crushes gladiolas in the night and leaves claw print

Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: thousand, six, cold
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2002-06-11
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 037572740X
ISBN-13: 9780375727405

With its hypnotic, staccato rhythms, and words jostling, bumping, marching forward with edgy intensity (like lemmings heading toward a cliff of their own devising), The Cold Six Thousand feels as if it’s being narrated by a hopped-up Dr. Seuss who’s hungrier for violence than for green eggs and ham. In spinning the threads of post-JFK-assassination cultural chaos, James Ellroy’s whirlwind riff on the 1960s takes nothing for granted, except that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Hurtling from Las Vegas to Vietnam to Cuba to Memphis and back again (and all points in between)

Author: Allan Peterki
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Pre
Keywords: beards, thousand, one
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2001-12-05
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1551521075
ISBN-13: 9781551521077

Every man has the capacity to grow facial hair, but the decision to do so has always come with layers of meaning. Facial hair has traditionally marked a passage into manhood, but its various manifestations have been determined by class, religious belief, historical precedent, and occupational status. Beards have at one time or another come to represent wisdom, goodness, sorcery, diabolism, psychological depth, and revolution; they have been purchased, elaborately trimmed, adorned, and dyed, and deracinated as a form of torture. To this day, the act of displaying facial hair is still regarded a

Author: Dominique Lapierre
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Keywords: suns, thousand
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $29.99
ISBN-10: 0446675954
ISBN-13: 9780446675956

Dominique Lapierre was one of the pioneers of the subjective news story, a man who was never afraid to put himself, both physically and emotionally, at the heart of his reports. It is a style that has often been imitated, but as A Thousand Suns shows, it has seldom been bettered. In 1944, Lapierre won his own footnote in history by misdirecting the German tanks and accelerating the liberation of Paris by two days. You could argue that ever since, he has been making sure that other people get the credit they deserve. A Thousand Suns is both a personal memoir and a testament to the notable chara

Author: Hugh Tait
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Pre
Keywords: glass, years, thousand, five
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-07-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0812218884
ISBN-13: 9780812218886

The fragile beauty of glass has ensured its popularity through the ages in forms ranging from simple beakers to ornate decorative masterpieces. This book traces the history of glass from its origins in western Asia some 5,000 years ago, though the invention of glass blowing around the first century B.C., to the introduction of mechanized processes and new styles in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It highlights the flourishing industries of ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East, the superb mastery of Renaissance Venice, and the wide-ranging experime