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This is the remarkable story of the American First World War serviceman Arthur Clifford Kimber. When his country entered the Great War in 1917, Kimber left Stanford University to carry the first official American flag to the Western Front. Fired by idealism for the French cause, the young student initially acted as a volunteer ambulance driver, before training as a pilot and taking part in dogfights against 'the Boche'. His letters home give a vivid...
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Extracts from two of Bell's most compelling works of travel writing, Persian Pictures and Syria: The Desert and the Sown, as well as some of her most fascinating lettersA woman far ahead of her time, Gertrude gained a first from Oxford at a time when very few subjects were even open to women. She went on to take an active interest in politics before embarking on her one-woman travels across the Middle East. She chronicled her journeys through Iraq,...
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We often sing the 'Star Spangled Banner,' but what do the words mean? Why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt stay in office longer than any other U.S. president? Following the style of an old-fashioned primer, The American Reader answers such questions as it gives children a modern, well-rounded view of what it means to be a good citizen. Captivating prose, poems, short stories, and games entertain as they teach about the diverse regions of our country,...
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A unique civilian's eye-view of World War I, depicting, through heartfelt letters from an American woman, a fascinating before and after picture of a French community in disarrayWhat looked impossible is evidently coming to pass . . . I silently returned to my garden and sat down. War again! This time war was close by--not war about which one can read, as one reads it in the newspapers, as you will read it in the States, far away from it, but war...
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"Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoon bread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of...
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One of the central figures of 20th-century Scottish literature, Edwin Morgan was a prolific letter writer. His correspondence, like his poetry, is wide-ranging, full of generosity and enthusiasm, and above all testament to his lifelong commitment to exploring the possibilities of poetry. This selection of his letters, spanning Morgan's full career as a teacher and writer, enables readers to track the development of his ideas, his friendships, and...
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"Blending literature and travel, this book offers a look at 15 U.S. destinations featured in the works of famous writers. Designed as a guide to help avid bibliophiles experience, in person, the places they've only read about, award-winning journalist Terri Peterson Smith takes readers on lively tours that include a Mark Twain inspired steamboat cruise on the Mississippi, a Devil in the White City view of Chicago in the Gilded Age, a voyage through...
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"The View from the Cheap Seats brings together... more than sixty pieces of his outstanding nonfiction. Analytical yet playful, erudite yet accessible, this cornucopia explores a broad range of interests and topics, including (but not limited to): authors past and present; music; storytelling; comics; bookshops; travel; fairy tales; America; inspiration; libraries; ghosts; and the title piece, at turns touching and self-deprecating, which recounts...
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Dover Publications
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2015.
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1 online resource (128 pages)
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The author of Little Women possessed a special gift for capturing children's imaginations, and she wrote these fairy tales when she was justsixteen years old. Louisa May Alcott created the fanciful stories for the amusement of the daughter of a family friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Populated by elves, brownies, and other supernatural creatures, the fables conclude with memorable lessons for young readers about the power of love and kindness and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The cod has played a vital part in livelihoods, diets, and health in general - as well as roles in national economies and international wars. Drawing on his love of food and food culture, Mark Kurlansky leaps into history and folklore to explore how this innocuous fish had such an impact over the centuries. Kurlansky recounts how the cod spurred interest in the development of North America and caused a whole nation of people to jump into fishing and...
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Alma Books
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2013.
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1 online resource (278 pages)
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The first English translation and only edition in print of Bulgakov's diaries and lettersThe career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita--now regarded as one of the masterpieces of 20th-century literature--was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal diary was seized by the authorities. From then on he confined his...
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First published in 1799, Charles Brockden Brown's "Edgar Huntly, Or Memoirs of a Sleep Walker" is the story of its title character, who upon learning of the death of the brother of his friend and love interest, Mary Waldegrave, visits where he died in the woods in rural Pennsylvania. There he discovers a man, Clithero, a servant from a nearby farm, suspiciously lurking about near the scene of Waldegrave's murder. Suspecting Clithero, Edgar begins...
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Bnei Baruch, Laitman Kabbalah
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2011.
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1 online resource (440 pages)
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"Rav Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (Rabash), a student of his father, Rav Yehuda Leib HaLevi Ashlag, author of the Sulam (Ladder) commentary on The Book of Zohar, played a remarkable role in the history of Kabbalah. His writings provide us with the necessary link connecting the wisdom of Kabbalah to our human experience. If not for these essays, his father's efforts to disclose the wisdom of Kabbalah would be in vain."--
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"An anthology of literary garden writings of Liberty Hyde Bailey, considered the father of modern horticulture. Included are essays and poems from his literary and philosophical books, essays from periodicals, and an essay that he read over nationalized radio in 1930 that has never before appeared in print"--
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Exile Editions
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2016.
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1 online resource (136 pages)
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A remarkable achievement notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, wealth of literary history, incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and for the window it opens onto the unfolding human and artistic drama of two great Canadian writers who have exchanged correspondences for decades. Joe Rosenblatt and Barry Callaghan have been combative, ecstatic compadres for over 40 years. Hoggwash, a convergence by epistle, is...
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Giselle Renarde
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2016.
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1 online resource
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Get ready for an unforgettable summer! With this collection of sizzling bisexual novels and novellas by award-winning queer Canadian author Giselle Renarde, you're in for some seriously hot nights. Nothing beats a beach vacation with a side order of seduction, so get ready for six spicy tales of longing, lust, and fearless love. From fun-filled romps to dark desires, from love triangles to blissful romance, you'll find it all in Bisexual Beach Reads!...
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Sheridan House
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2013.
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1 online resource (406 pages)
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"A true story of the battered life of a foremast crewman, Two Years Before the Mast is Richard Henry Dana's classic travel narrative, which inspired canonical works such as Moby Dick and Sailing Alone Around the World. As Rod Scher follows Dana (the Harvard dropout-turned-sailor) on his voyages around North America, he annotates Dana's tale with critiques, compliments, tie-ins to today, and little-known facts about both the book and the milieu of...
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Giselle Renarde
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2018.
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1 online resource
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In this eagerly-anticipated second edition of Ugly Naked People, Giselle Renarde brings readers eight works of queer fiction as engaging as they are diverse. One minute you're fainting on a Toronto subway, the next you're fleeing mythological monsters in the Yukon. First a sidewalk psychic's convincing you new love is right around the corner, and then your family's reuniting you with an old flame. With Giselle at the wheel, you never quite know what's...
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Robert Grey Reynolds, Jr
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2013.
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1 online resource
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Miroslawa was a citizen and student of Poland during the rule of a military dictatorship. 1984 was the year after my graduation from college at UNC-Chapel Hill. An avid shortwave radio listener, I wrote to a Bulgarian periodical that transmitted a message during Radio Sofia's English language broadcast. The Bulgarian state radio summoned listeners to mail their addresses so that penpals might be found for readers of Bulgaria Heute (Bulgaria Today)....
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