Most Popular Books by Alan Marks

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.

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

''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.

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 one from ancient Egypt and the second one from France.

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.

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).

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.