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Followed by. Cities of the Plain. The Crossing is a novel by American author Cormac McCarthy, published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf. The book is the second installment of McCarthy's " Border Trilogy," following the award-winning All the Pretty Horses (1992), to which The Crossing has been both favorably and unfavorably compared. [1][2][3]
Book series – sequence of books that are formally identified together as a group. Booklet – a small book or group of pages. Chapbook – an early type of cheap popular literature printed in early modern Europe in booklet format. Tract – booklets used for religious and political purposes.
Waldenbooks. Website. www.borders.com(2001 archive) Borders Group, Inc.was an American multinational book and music retailerbased in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. In its final year, the company employed about 19,500 people throughout the U.S., primarily in its Borders and Waldenbooksstores. [1][2] At the beginning of 2010, the company ...
Book design. Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though largely forgotten today, [relies upon] methods and rules upon which it is impossible ...
The Last Trail (1909) The Spirit of the Border is an historical novel written by Zane Grey, first published in 1906. The novel is based on events occurring in the Ohio River Valley in the late eighteenth century. It features the exploits of Lewis Wetzel, a historical personage who had dedicated his life to the destruction of Native Americans ...
For the border fence, see Mexico–United States barrier. 368 p. The Tortilla Curtain is a 1995 novel by American author T.C. Boyle. [ 1 ] It is about middle-class values, illegal immigration, xenophobia, poverty, and environmental destruction. In 1997, it was awarded the French Prix Médicis Étranger prize for best foreign novel.
Borderland (book series) The Borderland series of urban fantasy novels and stories were created for teenage readers by author Terri Windling. Most of the series is set in Bordertown, a dystopian city near the border between "the Elflands" and "The World". The series consists of five anthologies and three novels.
The size and proportions of a book depend on the size of the original full sheet. If a sheet 480 by 640 mm (19 by 25 in) is used to print a quarto, the resulting untrimmed pages, will be approximately half as large in each dimension: width 240 mm (9+1⁄2 in) and height 320 mm (12+1⁄2 in). An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full ...