Books from Harcourt Brace

  • Math Advantage: Grade 3
    By Grace M. Burton, Harcourt Brace

    Math Advantage: Grade 3

  • National Directory of Legal Employers

    National Directory of Legal Employers

  • The Magic Circle: Stories and People in Poetry
    By Louis Untermeyer

    More than one hundred stories in poetry that might have been told around a campfire "where those who listened were part of a magic circle". Excellent for reading aloud.

  • Nat Turner: Cry Freedom in America
    By James Thomas Baker

    The second volume in the CREATORS OF THE AMERICAN MIND series, NAT TURNER: CRY FREEDOM IN AMERICA provides both primary and secondary selections that give students specific knowledge of this...

  • The Name of a Bullfighter
    By Luis Sepúlveda

    Juan Belmonte, named after a famous bullfighter, is a former South American Marxist guerrilla who now works as a bouncer at a seedy Hamburg strip joint. One day he is...

  • Roads to Santiago
    By Cees Nooteboom

    Roads to Santiago is Cees Nooteboom's passionate and beautifully written chronicle of Spain - its architecture, art, history, landscapes, villages, and people. Traveling from side road to side road, he...

  • Harcourt Brace World Atlas
    By Patricia Harrison, Steve Harrison, Rod Peturson

    Harcourt Brace World Atlas

  • Ten Little Angels
    By Andra Simmons

    A rhyming counting book describing the daytime and nighttime activities of ten angels.

  • Summer Sands
    By Sherry Garland

    After a winter storm destroys the sand dunes that provide a home for plants and animals, a beach community bands together to restore the dunes.

  • Crews: Gang Members Talk to Maria Hinojosa
    By Maria Hinojosa

    NPR reporter Hinojosa's highly-acclaimed 1991 feature, in which she interviewed members of a New York City "crew" (gang), was the inspiration for this in-depth book. Her direct, nonjudgmental questions evoked...

  • Echoes from the Summit: Writings and Photographs
    By Paul Schullery

    Echoes from the Summit: Writings and Photographs

  • Mozart: A Cultural Biography
    By Robert W. Gutman

    This major work places Mozart's life and music in the context of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of eighteenth-century Europe. Even as he delves into philosophic and aesthetic questions,...

  • First World War
    By John D. Clare

    For more than four years, from August 1914 to Novemeber 1918, a conflict of unprecedented scope and ferocity raged on battlefields across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. When the...

  • The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports
    By Mariah Burton Nelson

    Women's freedom and their freedom of movement have always advanced in tandem; early in this century, a suffragette's most potent symbol was her bicycle. Sports are central to American culture...

  • Lights, Camera, Poetry!: American Movie Poems the First Hundred Years
    By Jason Shinder

    Anyone who loves the movies--almost any kind of movie--will find something to laugh about and to think about with this unique volume. A wealth of popular poets, including May Swenson,...

  • The Thieves' Opera
    By Lucy Moore

    Georgian London was a city of contrasts: Its bourgeois elegance and refinement thrived amid filth and foul smells, decadence and depravity. Crime was everywhere - from pickpockets and prostitutes in...

  • Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938
    By Mary McCarthy

    Mary McCarthy vividly recalls her early years in New York before she began writing novels and stories. At that time, she wrote reviews for the Nation and the New Republic,...

  • Nearer the Moon: From A Journal of Love : the Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1937-1939
    By Anaïs Nin, Gunther Stuhlmann

    Anais Nin's diary was her "ultimate confidante", and to it she revealed her private self, her doubts and weaknesses, and the uncensored details about her physical relationships. This discipline of...

  • Battles: A Concise Dictionary
    By Ian V. Hogg

    Over 500 crucial battles from earliest times to contemporary guerrilla struggles are described in detail. Based on new research, each entry contains all relevant facts and figures. Not only are...

  • Much Ado about Prom Night
    By William D. McCants

    A peer counseling program, an angry school board, and a high-anxiety prom in a Southern California high school provide the background for this delightful, contemporary romantic novel. "This sassy caper...