When Leo, Beth, and Teasdale decide to find their father a wife for his birthday present, they become involved in a dangerous search for a real missing heiress.

The Search for Sara Sanderson

McKean, Thomas

Children's Books

Avon/Books

Beth, Teasdale, and Leo Smith arrive at New Hampshire's beautiful Hidden Valley Hotel with their hypochondriac Aunt Henrietta and soon learn that one of Count Dracula's descendants lurks in the surrounding mountains

Vampire Vacation (Avon Camelot Book)

Camelot

Three children visiting Morocco become involved in dangerous adventures with a ring of kidnappers.

Moroccan Mystery (An Avon Camelot Book)

Having lost her glasses, Grandma Jo mistakes an escaped lion for her grandson and takes him home with her, an action that leads to surprising results.

Hooray for Grandma Jo

Knopf Books for Young Readers

A rollicking tale of mistaken identity, with hilarious illustrations and an action-packed finale, has Grandma Jo misreading a letter and confusing an escaped lion at the train station with her grandson, Lloyd, who was supposed to come to visit.

Hooray for Grandma Jo Glb

The Mermaid And Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

The Peggy Plot

Egmont Childrens Books

The flowering thorn expresses the dual nature of the ballad: at once a distinctive expression of European tradition, but also somewhat tricky to approach from a scholarly perspective, requiring a range of disciplines to illuminate its rich composition. Most of this latter quality has to do with the very features that characterize ballads... or narrative songs. These include an appearance of fragmentation; a wide range of cultural and social referents; complex, evocative symbolic language; and variation. The notable multiformity of meaning, text and tune is mirrored in scholarship, too. The Flowering Thorn is therefore wide ranging, with articles written by world authorities from the fields of folklore, history, literature, and ethnology, employing a variety of methodologies—structuralism to functionalism, repertoire studies to geographical explorations of cultural movement and change. The twenty-five selected contributions represent the latest trends in ballad scholarship, embracing the multi-disciplinary nature of the field today. The essays have their origins in the 1999 International Ballad Conference of the Kommission fur Volksdichtung (KfV), which focused particularly on ballads and social context; performance and repertoire; genre, motif, and classification. The revised, tailored, and expanded essays are divided into five sections—the interpretation of narrative song; structure and motif; context, version, and transmission; regions, reprints, and repertoires; and the mediating collector's offering a range of examples from fifteen different cultures, ten of them drawing on languages other than English, resulting in a series of personal journeys to the heart of one of Europe's richest, most enduring cultural creations. —Thomas McKean, from the IntroductionCONTRIBUTORS: Mary Anne Alburger, David Atkinson, Julia C. Bishop, Valentina Bold, Katherine Campbell, Nicolae Constantinescu, Luisa Del Giudice, Sheila Douglas, David G. Engle, Frances J. Fischer, Simon Furey, Vic Gammon, Marjetka Golez-Kaucic, Pauline Greenhill, Cozette Griffin-Kremer, J. J. Dias Marques, William Bernard McCarthy, Isabelle Peere, Gerald Porter, James Porter, Roger de V. Renwick, Sigrid Rieuwerts, Michèle Simonsen, Larry Syndergaard, Stefaan Top, Larysa Vakhnina, Lynn Wollstadt

The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Utah State University Press

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Commentaries On the Constitution of the United States of America: With That Constitution Prefixed, in Which Are Unfolded, the Principles of Free ... Advantages of Republicanism Demonstrated

Business & Money

WILSON, JAMES

Economics

Legare Street Press

The Mermaid & Other Poems

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Poetry

BiblioLife

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