James Charlton

New student Dashiell Brody wants to play baseball with the boys, which leads to problems with her family and her school.

A cornucopia of recipes, traditions, and stories, all carefully chosen to reflect the spirit and meaning of that most festive day of the year. It's an invaluable sourcebook for planning family fun and reawakening fond memories of Christmases past. Describes Christmas customs in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Greece, Italy, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Spain, and North America. Illustrated with over 100 line drawings and woodcuts.

A book of hints for charades, including standard signs for various words.

"This handsome guide to the language of baseball decodes the hilarious, clever phrases that pepper commentary about the sport. Packed with witty explanations of everything from "duster" and "rubber arm" to "up the elevator," this ballpark lexicon plays on a nostalgic love for the national pastime while covering ground from baseball's beginnings to today. This humorous mix of definitions and anecdotes is the perfect gift for both lifelong baseball fans and rookies working up the ranks"--

All nations and periods have produced a wealth of tales and poems, and in this collection the editors have selected more than fifty of the finest, traditional and modern, funny and touching. Charles Dickens is here with "A Christmas Carol" and "Christmas at Dingley Dell." Saki and A. Conan Doyle offer two little-known tales, there is a witty French story by Antoine Droz, and Leo Tolstoy gives us a deeply touching selection. There are poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot, plus several carols and seasonal pieces from Spain, England and France. F. Van Wyck Mason provides a recreation of the nation's first Christmas at Valley Forge, and there is a special Christmas selection from Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie." Other authors included here are Ogden Nash, Bret Harte, Agatha Christie, O. Henry, Hans Christian Anderson, and more.

A shorter version of the book [A Christmas Feast]. Contains: Is there a Santa Claus (New York Sun) -- Twelve days of Christmas -- Christmas at Dingley Dell, Charles Dickens -- The little match-girl, Hans Christian Andersen -- Three kings of Orient, John Henry Hokins -- The gift of the Magi, O. Henry -- Silent night, holy night, Joheph Mohr -- Christmas every day, William Dean Howells -- Christmas and New Year bells, Alfred Tennyson -- Down pens, Saki -- Christmas in a village, John Clare -- Christmas with Sir Roger, Joseph Addison -- The sheep herd, Sister Mariella -- I take supper with my wife, Antoine Gustave Droz -- Christmas carol, Sara Teasdale -- [Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle]( Arthur Conan Doyle -- The three ships, Alfred Noyes.

"Hundreds of quotations by authors throughout the centuries about the glory of the bound book. The book industry is changing at digital speed. This compendium of more than three hundred quotations reminds us that centuries of treasured tradition are threatened by our current obsessions with e-books and other gadgets. -- "A room without books is a body without a soul."—Cicero "If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you."—William Gladstone --"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them. . . . Let them be your friends."—Winston Churchill -- "There's something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own-learned, kind, knowledgeable, and human."—Nathan Pine, bookseller -- "Books deserve more than digital gas."—Bill Henderson, from the introduction 10 black-and-white line drawings." -- Publisher description.