'We are the scum and the scrapings of the Empire. They tipped out the garbage-bin of the Eagles to make us what we are.' In disgrace after a mistake that cost t

A study of two small villages located on the high alpine rim of northern Italy, one German speaking, the other a Romance -speaking village.

Wallace Stegner weaves together fiction and nonfiction, history and impressions, childhood remembrance and adult reflections in this unusual portrait of his boy

Age range 3 to 6 The Quite Nice Wolf doesn't fit in with the local wolf pack. he commences training to become a proper wolf -- one that's BIG and BAD. Can he he

"The struggle from late youth on, with and without God, agony, narcotics and love is a torment rarely recorded with such sustained eloquence and passion as you