From the Publisher: From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of...

Text and photographs introduce young readers to various careers available in a grocery store such as a cashier, stock clerk, or manager among others. Colorful sidebars encourage young children to think, create, guess, and ask questions about working in a grocery store.

"For decades, three generations of women of Old Depot Grocery have been keeping secrets from each other. When Sarah returns home with hopes of running the store, the long-buried past will be brought into the light and threaten not only to destroy the family business but sever the family ties"-- Present Day. After tragedy plunges her into grief and unresolved anger, Sarah Ashby returns to her childhood home determined to finally follow her long-denied...

"In the tradition of Fast Food Nation and The Omnivore's Dilemma, an extraordinary investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What does it take to run the American supermarket? How do products get to shelves? Who sets the price? And who suffers the consequences of increased convenience end efficiency? In this alarming exposé, author Benjamin Lorr pulls back the curtain on this highly secretive industry. Combining...

Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand of the food web has received surprisingly little attention: the grocery store--the epicenter of our food-gathering ritual. Steinman makes a case--through analysis, stories and examples of American and Canadian food co-ops--for how food co-ops, as...

"Toasty Pop is baby-sitting Dum Mee Mee. But the little tyke keeps getting in lots of trouble! Oh, burned bagels and muffins! Will they both make it out in once piece?" -- Page [4] cover.

Grandfather's corner grocery business is threatened by a new supermarket, but his granddaughter, Lucy, organizes the neighbors to convince him to stay.

"Apple Blossom, Spilt Milk, Kooky Cookie, and their friends are competing in the Shopville Games. Who will be this year's winners? There's only one way to find out! Join the fun and get juiced up for competition. Because when you're with Shopkins, there's always a cartful of surprises in store!" -- Page [4] of cover.