New Releases by Alan Marks

Designer Marks’s second book celebrates his relaxed and refined interiors inspired by the stylish ease and laid-back coastal feel of Southern California. Since the launch of his first book and hit TV Show Million Dollar Decorators, Jeffrey Alan Marks has married and become a father. His growing family grounds his new book, a celebration of the idea of home as represented in ten houses, bookended by his own on the West and East Coasts. Marks believes a home must reflect the way its inhabitants want to live, their unique perspective, and how they approach their lives. Trained in England, Marks has long had a deep and profound architectural crush on the British vernacular, which creates a pleasing interplay with his Southern California roots. The result: homes that feel layered and dramatic, but always comfortable. The homes explored in the book include his 1925 beach cottage in Montecito; a clean Bahamian compound open to the azure seas; a working Los Angeles horse farm; and Marks’s new family home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Along the way Marks shares key bits of advice for creating the looks. Tailored yet comfortable is key, as Marks mixes antiques with contemporary pieces for a look that is entirely unique.

Meet familiar friends and new neighbors in this playful collection of nursery rhymes. On a misty, moisty morning, we meet the snoring old man, and by evening we’re running through the town with Wee Willie Winkie in his nightgown. A day full of nursery rhyme enchants, delights, and enlightens young readers. Gorgeous illustrations paired with quintessential nursery rhymes introduce familiar friends like Little Bo Peep, Georgie Porgie and the Grand Old Duke of York, as well as meet new neighbors, including Little Polly Flinders, Honest John Boldero and Little Tommy Tucker. An attractive and easily giftable collection of tried and true favorites.

The key was so beautiful ... it would open something very precious. Magpie''s father tells amazing stories, and teaches her right from wrong. So when she discovers the golden key, she tries to find its owner. At first the key leads only to trouble, but in the end it brings Magpie''s family good fortune - and the most amazing story of them all...

Quand le jeune Black Beauty est vendu, il ne se doute pas des difficults qu''il va devoir affronter. Ce cheval magnifique et fringant, raconte sa vie chez les divers propritaires qui ont t des matres parfois cruels, parfois bienveillants.

Au fabuleux royaume des chevaliers, des dragons surgissent du ciel, de belles jeunes filles sont victimes de sorts mystérieux et des géants terrorisent des villes entières. Seul un chevalier plein de bravoure, ou parfois une courageuse princesse, peut rétablir la paix.

The story of ''Richard III'', and his destructive ambition to be king, is retold by Martin Waddell, with colour and black and white illustrations by Alan Marks.

Some of Shakespeare''s best-loved plays simply retold by Martin Waddell, one of today''s best-loved storytellers.

Shakespeare.

A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7'' x 7'' tower, 10,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke. Fire Season is Connors''s remarkable reflection on work, our place in the wild, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless—it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines—and it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30,000 times per year. Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land, untethered from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company; occasional visits from smokejumpers and long-distance hikers; the strange dance of communion and wariness with bears, elk, and other wild creatures; trips to visit the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untamed fire. Written with narrative verve and startling beauty, and filled with reflections on his literary forebears who also served as lookouts—among them Edward Abbey, Jack Kerouac, Norman Maclean, and Gary Snyder—Fire Season is a book to stand the test of time.

Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first from the Middle East and the second one from Germany.

Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first from India and the second from Germany.

Presents two tales to compare and contrast, the first one from ancient Egypt and the second one from France.

''The Golden Slipper'' is a tale first told in ancient Egypt about a slave girl who marries a pharaoh, just as ''Cinderella'' marries a prince, because only her foot will fit into a special slipper.

In this Celtic tale, a farmer has to guess the name of the fairy he wants to marry, just like the miller''s daughter has to guess the name of Rumplestiltskin if she is to keep her child.

Il est l''heure d''aller se coucher... D''accord, mais, pas tout seul ! Maman me propose alors de gentils compagnons pour la nuit : mon bon vieux Nounours, la douce Minouchatte, ce coquin de Polichinelle. Mais je dis toujours " Non ! " Celui que je veux, c''est lui, là-bas ! " OH, NON ! " s''écrie Maman, épouvantée... Et pour cause ! Vous devinez qui c''est ?

A biography of the American mystery writer whose troubled life contrasted with her lightly comedic style.

Als blijkt dat een ganzenkind er heel anders uitziet dan andere kuikens, gaat hij op zoek naar zijn echte moeder, maar zijn ganzenmoeder blijkt tenslotte het meest van hem te houden. Prentenboek met zachtgekleurde illustraties. Vanaf ca. 4 jaar.

An old teddy bear, abandoned in the park by unappreciative owners, is rescued by another child and given a new home filled with love.

JANE GOODALL, qui depuis près de quarante ans étudie le comportement des chimpanzés sauvages, nous rapporte ici dix épisodes touchants qu''il lui a été donné de vivre dans les forêts d''Afrique. Ils nous prouvent à quel point les chimpanzés, qui ont chacun leur personnalité et leur propre histoire, sont, tout comme nous, capables d''aimer. " Le chimpanzé, notre plus proche parent sur terre, établit un lien vivant entre deux mondes : celui des êtres humains et non-humains. Au moment où David, Barbe-Blanche, a tendu la main vers moi et touché la mienne, je n''ai pas eu besoin de mots pour comprendre son message de paix : je l''ai aimé, tout simplement. " JANE GOODALL

Grand-papa Glaglabou, le fantôme, est triste et découragé. Il n''a plus envie de faire peur. Ophélie et Hamlet décident de lui rendre son entrain en invitant tous ses amis à un grand bal surprise... couronné d''un succès inattendu. Cette charmante collection est conçue pour aider les enfants à faire leurs premiers pas de lecteurs tout en s''amusant, ou pour être lue aux jeunes par un adulte. Avec des énigmes à résoudre au fur et à mesure de leur déroulement, les histoires proposées sauront enchanter petits et grands.

Dem Bärenjungen in Mutters Geschichte geht es wie Tom: es ist schön bei der Mutter zu sein und schön mit dem Vater Abenteuer zu erleben, auch wenn Papa nicht mehr zu Hause wohnt ... (ab 3).

Relates the story of three little pigs who leave home to seek their fortunes and how they deal with the big bad wolf.

Wandering away from his mother at the market, an ill-tempered young boy finds himself in a strange land where everyone he encounters has lost something.