The Song of the Lark by Doris Grumbach, Flo Gibson, Sharon O'Brien, Sherrill Harbison, Willa Cather @ Fiction book store

The Song of the Lark by Doris Grumbach, Flo Gibson, Sharon O'Brien, Sherrill Harbison, Willa Cather
Based on the career of Metropolitan Opera star Olive Femstad this novel traces the life of Thea Kronberg, a singer who leaves small-town Colorado to go to Chicago to study music, where she rises to the top of her profession. After a turbulent life that includes the death of a lover, exploitation by a teacher, and a passionate affair with a married man, Thea finds happiness--but her truest happiness, throughout, comes from her career as a singer.

AUTHOR: Doris Grumbach, Flo Gibson, Sharon O'Brien, Sherrill Harbison, Willa Cather
PUBLISHER: Knopf, Alfred A. Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Writing on Drugs by Sadie Plant
Drug use--legal and otherwise--has a rich, if obscure, literary history that includes such eminences as Coleridge, Freud, and Burroughs, all of whom wrote, or claimed to write, under the influence. This study discusses the way drugs have shaped writing and thinking throughout modernity.

AUTHOR: Sadie Plant
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

Right Here on This Spot by John Clapp, Sharon H. Addy
Right here on this spot, where today Grandpa drives a tractor in his cabbage field, Indians in ancient times lit their campfires, chipped stone into tools, and then moved on. The moon rose and set over the field, season followed season, trees grew into a forest, and settlers came from across the ocean to clear the land again and make a new home. And one day, years later, a Union soldier crossing that field lost a button ... Grandpa was digging a ditch when he found that button. Deeper in the ditch he discovered an arrowhead and the bones of a strange beast ... In graceful words and striking pictures, Sharon Hart Addy and John Clapp chronicle the changes the centuries bring to one field and offer young readers a vivid slice of history.

AUTHOR: John Clapp, Sharon H. Addy
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction

Ring Lardner by Ring Lardner
Short works from America's most beloved journalist, Ring Lardner, including the six stories in his famous collection, You Know Me Al , and an introduction by Lardner's biographer, Jonathan Yardley.

AUTHOR: Ring Lardner
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Fiction

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth by J. R. R. Tolkien, Ruth S. Noel
This is the book on all of Tolkien's invented languages, spoken by hobbits, elves, and men of Middle-earth -- a dicitonary of fourteen languages, an English-Elvish glossary, all the runes and alphabets, and material on Tolkien the linguist.

AUTHOR: J. R. R. Tolkien, Ruth S. Noel
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Rose Bible by Rayford C. Reddell, Robert Galyean
Top gardening writer Rayford C. Reddell, who has won accolades from sources as diverse as M.F.K. Fisher, Horticulture, and the Wall Street Journal, and whose Garden Valley Ranch is the largest and most distinguished supplier of garden roses in the United States, has distilled his vast knowledge of the perennially popular flower into The Rose Bible, an indispensable reference for expert rose growers and weekend gardeners alike. The Rose Bible encompasses both antique and modern roses, from original species roses to recent hybrid teas and grandifloras, from bushes and shrubs to ramblers and climbers, and from tree roses to miniatures. Everything the budding rose lover needs to know is here along with valuable information for the most experienced gardener on such essentials as buying, harvesting, propagating, and pruning. The Rose Bible will become a welcome addition to any gardener's library and a classic for the serious rose aficionado.

AUTHOR: Rayford C. Reddell, Robert Galyean
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Gardening