Inc Alfred A. Knopf

To win first prize in the Junior Cakewalk, Mirandy tries to capture the wind for her partner.

Miss Gabrielle Dain Leggett is young and wealthy, with a penchant for morphine and religious cults. She also has an unfortunate effect on the people around her. They die -- violently. Is she the victim of a family curse? The Continental Op, the best private detective around, has his doubts.

"From one of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia comes the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help one understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels--as well as for their parents, teachers, and tutors--this book can make a difference. Dr....

While a mysterious fire ravages an affluent community in Southern California, Lew Archer searches for a missing child and discovers a secret history of wayward parents, wounded offspring, and murder.

As he waits at home for his parents to return, a young boy ponders his father's remark "Things are going to change around here" and begins to imagine all kinds of changes in the world around him.

Powerful poems dealing with the most compelling issues of this African American's time.

Piercy's 10th book of poetry takes its title from one of her moving poems, the climax of a powerful sequence of poems dedicated to her mother, where she writes about her mother's self-denial and unfulfilled life. Organized in four sections--"What Remains," "The Chuppah," Chiaroscuro" and "Underrated Pleasures"--the poems deal with diverse subjects offering vivid records of female heroism, of the joys of wedded love, and the pleasures of daily life....

Julia Child demonstrates how to master the basics of good cooking.

The play is heavily metatheatrical, being not only staged at but also set at the Ambassador Theatre, the actors playing actors appearing in a play at the Ambassador. This play-within-a-play concerns a strategic bombing squadron; the squadron commander frequently steps out of character to reassure the audience that they are only watching a play. This conceit is carried to the point where the actors themselves exhibit confusion over whether they really...