Books from Ty Crowell Company

  • How Long is Always?
    How Long is Always?
    By Lenora Mattingly Weber

    It came C.O.D. , so there was four dollars and thirty - seven cents worth of why . " “ You could have paid for it , and I'd have paid you back . ” He made no answer to that , but went out the door with the Battenberg curtains .

  • How to Play Better Soccer
    How to Play Better Soccer
    By Caary Paul Jackson

    BOYER - MARTENOT ( MEURSAULT ) * * 1990 Bourgogne B 85 1990 Meursault Les Charmes D 86 1990 Meursault en l'Ormeau С 82 1990 Meursault Les Perrières D 87 Although I have been unimpressed with Boyer's wines in the past , the 1990s exhibit ...

  • The Garrett Wade Book of Woodworking Tools
    By Gary Chinn, John A. Sainsbury

    Professional evaluations of some of the finest woodworking tools produced in Europe and the United States include more than 200 illustrations, demonstrations of their proper use, and advice on care and repair

  • The Burning of Washington: August 1814
    The Burning of Washington: August 1814
    By Mary Kay Phelan

    Suddenly , from behind a warehouse in Bladensburg comes a great burst of flame , a shooting projectile of fire aimed at General Stansbury's troops . The first Congreve rocket has been set off , followed by another — and still another .

  • Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age
    Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age
    By Carson McCullers, L. M. Schulman

    ... if you knew that on 2/11/58 and on 7/25/57 a Dr. Burke had prescribed what looked to be sulfa pills , never used , that must have cured her at the point of purchase , as had embarrassingly happened time and again to yourself ?

  • The Best, Worst and Most Unusual in Sports
    The Best, Worst and Most Unusual in Sports
    By Shirley Fischler, Stan Fischler

    “ All you fellows knew at the start who was going to win , ” ventured Shaw . “ I want to know how — they had never raced before ! ” “ Effendi , ” answered one of the Middle Easterners , “ there could be no other result .

  • Harper & Row's Complete Field Guide to North American Wildlife, Western Edition
    Harper & Row's Complete Field Guide to North American Wildlife, Western Edition
    By Jay Ellis Ransom

    ... 429-430, 74:7 Orange-throated, 426, 75:6 Plateau, 428, 80:8 Rusty-rumped, 427 Texas Spotted, 427, 74:10 Western, 428-429, 75:2 Whistling-Duck, 29 Black-bellied, 34, 34 Fulvous, 33-34, 7:2 Whitefish, 565, 568 Lake, 556 Mountain, 568, ...

  • The Hundredth Dove and Other Tales
    By Jane Yolen

    Exquisite charcoal drawings embellish seven short stories about love and separation, obedience and loyalty, and the nature of happiness

  • Getting Oxygen: What Do You Do If You're Cell Twenty-two?
    Getting Oxygen: What Do You Do If You're Cell Twenty-two?
    By Stephen P. Kramer

    Explains in text and illustrations how plants and animals, from the simple one-celled organisms to the complex mammals, "breathe."

  • Frozen Delights
    Frozen Delights
    By Diana Collier, Nancy Goff

    Explains the still-freeze method of making ice cream and suggests more than three hundred recipes for simple desserts and elegant confections using only natural ingredients

  • The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
    The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
    By Esther Hautzig

    A young Polish girl, her mother, and her grandmother, taken prisoners by the Russians during World War II and shipped to a forced-labor camp in a remote, impoverished Siberian village, somehow manage to stay together and alive through near ...

  • Encounters with the Invisible World: Being Ten Tales of Ghosts, Witches, & the Devil Himself in New England
    Encounters with the Invisible World: Being Ten Tales of Ghosts, Witches, & the Devil Himself in New England

    Wry New England wit pervades lively tales about peddlers, parsons, seafarers, and ghosts, which are ingenious adaptations of traditional legends

  • Prairie Dogs in Prairie Dog Town
    By Irmengarde Eberle

    Chronicles life in a prairie dog village showing how a mother raises her litter and educates them to life in the prairie community.

  • Mother Holly

    Retells the Grimm folktale of the two sisters who visit Mother Holly with very different results.

  • Closing the Loop: The Story of Feedback
    Closing the Loop: The Story of Feedback
    By Stanley W. Angrist

    Closing the Loop: The Story of Feedback

  • I Speak for My Slave Sister: The Life of Abby Kelley Foster
    By Margaret Hope Bacon

    A biography of Abby Kelley Foster, pacifist, abolitionist, and campaigner for women's rights in the 1840s.

  • Six Little Ducks
    By Chris Conover

    A retelling of the nursery song about the six little ducks who go to market with a quack, quack, quack.

  • Use Your Brain
    Use Your Brain
    By Paul Showers

    Describes how the brain receives and sends messages via the nervous system.

  • Bird Talk
    Bird Talk
    By Roma Gans

    Easy-to-read text explains the meaning of bird sounds.

  • Winning the Losing Battle: Why I Will Never be Fat Again
    Winning the Losing Battle: Why I Will Never be Fat Again
    By Eda J. LeShan

    Stressing the importance of psychological preparedness for becoming and staying thin, LeShan reviews the critical adjustments and insights that evolve out of the process of dieting and accepting bodily changes