 | Music of the Mill: A Novel
Release Date: February 28, 2006In a stunning literary achievement -- with a power and scope reminiscent of John Steinbeck -- Luis J. Rodriguez captures the soul of a community in this epic novel about love, family, workers' rights, industrial strife, and cultural dislocation As the World War II cultural and industrial boom birthed a new California, a mighty steel industry rose with the potential to make modest dreams real for the workers willing to risk their lives in the mill's ferocious heat. For the Salcidos, the Nazareth mill became an engine for survival. Luis J. Rodriguez chronicles th...
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 | Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters (Library of America)
Release Date: September 21, 2006| Series: Library of America (Book 168) No American poet has so swiftly and decisively transformed the course of poetry as Hart Crane. In his haunted, brief life, Crane fashioned a distinctively modern idiom that fused the ornate rhetoric of the Elizabethans, the ecstatic enigmas of Rimbaud, and the prophetic utterances and cosmic sympathy of Whitman, in a quest for wholeness and healing in what he called "the broken world." White Buildings, perhaps the greatest debut volume in American poetry since Leaves of Grass, is but an exquisite prelude to Crane's maste...
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 | Trauma Trails: Recreating Song Lines
Publication Date: August 1, 2002| ISBN-10: 1876756225 | ISBN-13: 978-1876756222Taking readers into the depths of sadness and despair and into the heights of celebration and hope, this disturbing account details the trauma suffered by Australia's indigenous people and the resultant "trauma trails" spread throughout the country. ...
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 | In the Company of Angels
Publication Date: June 8, 2011Whitney Award Winner for "Best Novel of the Year"The Willie Handcart Company of 1856 was a trial and a miracle. You will feel apart of the company as you follow three of its members in a moving masterpiece that will take you from the green fields of Denmark to the icy peaks of the Rockies in a saga that elevates and enriches those that it touches. ...
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 | The Forest Laird: A Tale of William Wallace
Release Date: February 14, 2012In the pre-dawn hours of August 24th, 1305, in London’s Smithfield Prison, the outlaw William Wallace—hero of all the Scots and deadly enemy of King Edward of England—sits awaiting the dawn, when he is to be hanged and then drawn and quartered. This brutal sundering of his body is the revenge of the English. Wallace is visited by a Scottish priest who has come to hear his last confession, a priest who knows Wallace like a brother. Wallace's confession—the tale that follows—is all the more remarkable be...
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 | Poetry of Ryuichi Tamura
Publication Date: May 1, 1998| ISBN-10: 0966283201 | ISBN-13: 978-0966283204| Edition: 1st This book contains English translations of the first sixmajor works by the poet Tamura Ryuichi. ...
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 | Theodore Roosevelt: Letters and Speeches (Library of America)
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 | Twilight Innocent
Release Date: October 10, 2007Lady Farayne Gleneden is a beautiful socialite. Bored with court life, she embarks on a journey, a life-changing journey.Her disguise as to who she truly is works. . .for a while and she enjoys seeing the "other side" of life--until a brutal attack one evening. Rescued by a mysterious man, he disappears before she can thank him. However, he is not quite whom he appears to be and contact with him introduces Farayne to another side of life. . .a side of shadow and damnation.Twilight Innocent is a gripping story of a young woman born into wealth and privilege--proo...
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 | Pedro and the Monkey
Release Date: August 14, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up A spirited retelling of a beloved Filipino trickster tale about an act of kindness that has unexpected results. ...
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 | How to Star in Swimming and Diving
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 | Winter Action Sports (Extreme Games)
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 | Troubles for Cecile (American Girl) (American Girls Collection)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
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 | Como Crece una Arana = A Spiderling Grows Up (Scholastic News Nonfiction Readers en Espanol) (Spanish Edition)
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 | Respect Counts (Character Counts)
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 | Greatest Intergalactic Guide to Space Ever... By the Brainwa (Brainwaves)
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 | Materials (Real Scientist Investigates...)
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 | Pocahontas: Princess of the New World
Release Date: March 20, 2007| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up She was the favored daughter of the Chief of the Powhatan Indians, and a girl in motion; always laughing, teasing, and dancing. But from the moment John Smith and the colonists of Jamestown set foot into her world in 1607, her life would change forever. She soon became an ambassador and peace keeper between the Powhatan and the colonists. Because of her curiosity and courage, Pocahontas became the bridge between the two worlds. Four hundred years after this world-changing clash of cultures, the true s...
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 | Milet Picture Dictionary: English-Farsi
Publication Date: April 1, 2003| Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up This thoroughly original dictionary features vibrant pictures that stimulate creativity as children learn to identify objects and words. ...
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 | Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols
Publication Date: August 21, 2000| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up Here are the stories behind all the familiar and not-so-familiar symbols of Halloween. Each of our holidays has its own familiar traditions: Trick-or-treating on Halloween, eating turkey on Thanksgiving, waiting for Santa Claus on Christmas, exchanging cards on Valentine’s Day. But where do these customs come from, when did they begin, and why do we continue to observe them? In the engaging blend of careful research and lively prose that has earned her books a lasting place on the holiday bookshelf, Edna Bar...
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 | The Lutheran Church and the East German State: Political Conflict and Change Under Ulbricht and Honecker
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