Education And Teaching

                                          Product details Paperback:  120 pages Publisher:  Raincoast Books, Polestar; Third edition edition (September 23, 2003) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1551926407 ISBN-13:  978-1551926407 With the spark and zest of a gin fizz, Paulette Jiles invites readers along on an unforgettable rail trip. Our hatted heroine, a Katharine Hepburn type, is leaving America, escaping to Canada, hoping to find her Spencer Tracy somewhere in the Dome Car between Vancouver and points east. This heroine on the run soon finds her handsome man – who happens to be a detective pursuing her. Acclaimed by The New York Times as "the best train story since Mary McCarthy’s `The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt,’" Sitting in the Club Car is an elegant, illustrated, witty romp that combines an old-fashioned love story with period detective fiction. > Read More Info

                                            Product details Series:  National Cowboy Hall of Fame Classic Western Series Audio Cassette Publisher:  Audio Literature; Abridged edition (April 1, 1998) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1574530569 ISBN-13:  978-1574530568 The memoirs of a former cowboy who spent twenty-two years with the Pinkerton National Detective Agency relate his experiences with labor riots in Idaho, hunting moonshiners in the Appalachians, and chasing Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch through the Southwest. > Read More Info

                                        Product details Hardcover Publisher:  Theosophical Univ Pr; Reprint edition (1976) ISBN-10:  0911500049 ISBN-13:  978-0911500042 ASIN:  B005424C8A > Read More Info

                                           Product details Age Range:  10 - 13 years Grade Level:  5 - 8 Mass Market Paperback:  320 pages Publisher:  Bantam Classics (May 1, 1983) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0553213326 ISBN-13:  978-0553213324 One of the great adventure books of all time,  Kim,  first published in 1901, is Kipling’s last major work about India, a farewell look brimming with all the color and sound, squalor and splendor of that exotic land. Kim, the orphaned son of an Irish soldier, is a mischievous worldly imp growing up in the walled city of Lahore. A secret mission for the British and a heartfelt bond with a Tibetan lama in search of a sacred river soon lead Kim into a life of spies and secrets, danger and high excitement. But  Kim  is more than a boy’s adventure. Written by the laureate of the British Empire, it is also a profound look at the differences between East and West. For the first time, a British writer understood India in all its c

                                          Product details Paperback:  98 pages Publisher:  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (December 14, 2016) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1541072774 ISBN-13:  978-1541072770 James Oliver Curwood was a pioneering figure in the action-adventure genre. Over the course of his career, he penned dozens of novels and stories that detailed the exploits of rugged outlaws and misfits who roamed the foreboding woods of northern Canada. In The Hunted Woman, a beautiful lass finds herself at the center of a raging feud. > Read More Info

                                       Product details Paperback:  476 pages Publisher:  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 3, 2017) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1977905897 ISBN-13:  978-1977905895 Charles Angelo Siringo (February 7, 1855—October 18, 1928), was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and early 20th century. Siringo was born in Matagorda County, Texas to an Irish immigrant mother and an Italian immigrant father from Piedmont. He attended public school until reaching the age of 15, when he started working on local ranches as a cowboy. After taking part in several cattle drives, Siringo stopped herding to settle down, get married (1884), and open a merchant business in Caldwell, Kansas. He began writing a book, entitled A Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony. A year later, it was published, to wide acclaim, and became one of the f

                                            Product details Paperback:  400 pages Publisher:  Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin; Reprint edition (September 22, 1997) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0874778794 ISBN-13:  978-0874778793 In the  Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart , Julia Cameron, author of  The Artist's Way , draws from her remarkable teaching experience to help readers reach out into ever-broadening creative horizons. As in  The Artist's Way , she combines eloquent essays with playful and imaginative experiential exercises to make  The Vein of Gold  an extraordinary book of learning-through-doing. Inspiring essays on the creative process and more than one hundred engaging and energizing tasks involve the reader in "inner play," leading to authentic growth, renewal, and healing. > Read More Info

                                               Product details Hardcover:  352 pages Publisher:  St. Martin's Press (January 9, 2018) Language:  English ISBN-10:  1250130921 > Read More Info

                                            Product details Mass Market Paperback:  224 pages Publisher:  Penguin Books; Reissue edition (December 16, 2003) Language:  English ISBN-10:  0399501487 At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civilization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued. > Read More Info