Walter: 4352 books

From National Book Award-winning author Walter Wangerin, Jr. comes the thought-provoking sequel to The Book of the Dun Cow, with new and revised content.“[A] profoundly imagined and beautifully stylized fable of the immemorial war between good and evil.” –The New York Times“A beautifully written...

Walter Wangerin, Jr. practically gives advice in the various stages of marriage in As For Me and My House. Defining when marriage begins, how to start off the journey in a positive way, working through cultural ideals which are false, problems, adultery, forgiveness, and healing, all steps are covered in this guide.

In this story of literary suspense, all the English dictionaries in the world disappear. Benbrook, a consummate word lover and professor of linguistics, is shaken to the core. In response to the crisis, the President of the United States appoints a blue-ribbon commission to write a new American dictionary...

Frank is on his last delivery of the day when his world is turned upside down. Have his senses finally betrayed him?

Hildegunst von Mythenmetz, hailed as Zamonia's greatest writer, is on vacation in Lindworm Castle when a disturbing message reaches him, and he must return to Bookholm to investigate a mystery. The magnificently rebuilt city has once again become a metropolis of storytelling and the book trade. Mythenmetz...

The mythical land created by Walter Moers, whose work has been compared to J.K. Rowling, Douglas Adams, and Shel Silverstein have achieved raucous critical acclaim and created hundreds of thousands of die-hard fans here and all over the world. Now Moers returns with a fourth "relentlessly whimsical" fantasy (Library Journal).

The search for the author’s identity takes Yarnspinner to Bookholm—the so-called City of Dreaming Books. On entering its streets, our hero feels as if he has opened the door of a gigantic second-hand bookshop. His nostrils are assailed by clouds of book dust, the stimulating scent of ancient leather,...

Step back and consider the possibilities: We are not alone. We have never been alone. There are billions of other earth like planets. There are millions of intelligent civilizations living on these planets. Thousands of these civilizations communicate with each other. Hundreds of these civilizations...

Twelve year-old Zack Sheridan’s family is brutally murdered by a psychopathic self-appointed lawman and his sons. Zack`s mother, as she lay dying, exacts a promise from him to escape the killers and take his five year-old sister Annie to their only surviving relative, his dad’s long estranged...

The ten short plays in “Shorties” celebrate lunacy. Here, a gay male couple debates the merits of buying a haunted house, corporate drones discuss grisly horror movies, and we meet the mysterious and caffeine-deprived force that controls Earth’s climate. Running from ten to twenty minutes, these...

Millions of Copies Sold A collection of beautifully retold Bible stories from the first nine books of the Old Testament, from the Garden of Eden to David and Goliath. This classic modern english version of essential biblical stories is a joy to read and a great introduction to the Old Testament....

Line & For by Walter Crane.

Freddy, the smallest and cleverest of the pigs on Bean Farm, is “a pig of many parts, a paragon of porkers” (The New York Times). Detective, politician, ambassador to the Martians—whatever the situation requests, Freddy fits the bill. There’s never a dull moment for Freddy and the other animals...

No story has more significance than this: the death and resurrection of Jesus. But somehow the oft-repeated tale of Christ’s passion can become too familiar, too formalized, for us to experience its incredible immediacy. The meditations in Reliving the Passion, which received a Gold Medallion Award...