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Vermont: The State with the Storybook Past
by Cora CheneyTraces the history of Vermont from prehistoric times to the present day.
Who Were the Celts? Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Celts 1000 B.C. to the Present
by Kevin DuffyThis fast-paced history entertains, informs and surprises. We think of the Celts as the people of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, but in 800 B.C. they were organized and prosperous farmers populating middle Europe including Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, and Austria. They were spiritual, had elaborate, fair, laws and worked in metals inventing plough-shares and horse shoes, and creating beautiful works of art. They were fastidiously clean and loved colorful, elaborate clothing, tales, songs and feasting. Centuries later in the Celtic countries we know today, they fought for nearly a thousand years to protect their culture and freedom. In Scotland and Ireland, they preserved art, history and literature during the dark ages. Driven from their homeland by the invading English, they poured in to the United States where they made major contributions to their new nation, in writing and signing The Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, are some of the U. S. Presidents with Celtic roots. Andrew Carnegie and Alexander Graham Bell are examples of Celts who helped shape The United States in the past. Other notable Celtic Americans include Grace Kelly, George M. Cohan, and John Wayne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The founder of Domino's Pizza and the CEO of Disney studios. This short history is a feast for history, trivia and culture buffs. The full bibliography and index are included.
Yard Sale: A Mud Flat Story
by James StevensonSimsbury is sitting under his favorite tree when a red chair and an accordion pass by, prompting him to get up and take a look at the Mud Flat Yard Sale.
A Basic Reader for College Writers
by Janet M. Goldstein Christopher G. Hayes David I. DanielsAlthough this is designed to be a textbook, many readers will enjoy the essays, which are written by a range of authors that includes Jane Brody, John Kellmayer, Ben Fong-Torres, and Mary E. Mebane. The topics of these thirty-two essays cover throwing away food, overcoming alcoholism, learning from Japanese prisons, and baseball.
A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
by Gerald L. SittserIn an instant, an accident took the author's mother, wife and young daughter. How can we begin with a new life, one with joy, depth and compassion?
A Shocker on Shock Street (Goosebumps #35)
by R. L. StineErin Wright and her best friend, Marty, love horror movies. Especially Shocker on Shock Street movies. All kinds of scary creatures live on Shock Street. The Toadinator. Ape Face. The Mad Mangler. But when Erin and Marty visit the new Shocker Studio Theme Park, they get the scare of their lives. First their tram gets stuck in The Cave of the Living Creeps. Then they're attacked by a group of enormous praying mantises! Real life is a whole lot scarier than the movies. But Shock Street isn't really real. Is it?
Alex, You're Glowing! (The Secret World of Alex Mack #1)
by Diana G. GallagherIt's Alex's 1st day of junior high and everything goes wrong! She can't decide what to wear. Her mother packs her lunch in a Troll lunchbox.
All but My Life
by Gerda Weissmann KleinAll But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--in Volary, Czechoslovakia, in 1945, Gerda takes the reader on a terrifying journey. Gerda's serene and idyllic childhood is shattered when Nazis march into Poland on September 3, 1939. Although the Weissmanns were permitted to live for a while in the basement of their home, they were eventually separated and sent to German labor camps. Over the next few years Gerda experienced the slow, inexorable stripping away of "all but her life." By the end of the war she had lost her parents, brother, home, possessions, and community; even the dear friends she made in the labor camps, with whom she had shared so many hardships, were dead. Despite her horrifying experiences, Klein conveys great strength of spirit and faith in humanity. In the darkness of the camps, Gerda and her young friends manage to create a community of friendship and love. Although stripped of the essence of life, they were able to survive the barbarity of their captors. Gerda's beautifully written story gives an invaluable message to everyone. It introduces them to last century's terrible history of devastation and prejudice, yet offers them hope that the effects of hatred can be overcome.
Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music and Psychology
by Charles A. Riley IIScholarly Essays on the symbolic use of color in the arts and literature.
Cross Country Crime (Hardy Boys Mystery Stories #134)
by Franklin W. DixonPrimed for a challenge, the boys picked the perfect spot: a hard-core run down the ski and hiking trails of the Canadian Rockies. But their adventure takes an unexpected twist when they look into a bank robbery in the tiny town of Evergreen. Their plan was to disappear into the wilds for a week. Now one false move, and they might get buried for good!
Dancing in the Arms of God: Finding Intimacy and Fulfillment by Following His Lead
by Connie NealStop focusing on what was and what might have been and begin to work with what is and what could be.
Daughters of England
by Philippa CarrA poignant tale of love's ultimate triumph over deceit and greed in 17th century England, from the popular author of the Cornwell saga.
Dear Author: Students Write About the Books That Changed Their Lives
by The Editors at Weekly Reader's Read MagazineWeekly Reader's Read magazine, with the Library of Congress held a contest asking junior high and high school students to write to the author of the book that has most influenced their lives. Dear Author includes eloquent and touching letters, with brief biographies of the chosen authors listing additional titles they've published. Enduring classics are mixed with contemporary favorites, among them letters to Maya Angelou, Hemingway, Anne Frank, Judy Blume, Alex Haley, Steinbeck, Charles Dickens, J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Zeus, Toni Morrison, J. D. Salinger, Willa Cather, Charlotte Bronté, and Thoreau. This book affirms the power of literature to affect today's youth and demonstrates that reading will never go out of style. It is for every young adult and anyone who has loved a book and wants to discover other captivating and influential authors. In their letters, the young writers address the authors as role models, heroes and friends, discussing very personal issues in their lives like divorce, loneliness, anger, aspirations and evolving values. Many picked up a book expecting to be bored and finished it alight with enthusiasm, a sense of accomplishment and a new respect for the value of books. The clear and useful index has been included.
Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam
by Robert F. RogersThe history of Guam, from their first contact with Europeans in 1521 up to the 1990s.
Diversions: 50 Comic Short Stories
by Richard Markgraf50 comic pieces by the author which will keep you laughing for hours.
Don't Call Me Rover!!: 5001 Names to Call Your Pet
by Rita BlocktonYour pet deserves a distinctive name - one that fits its personality. The choice is yours to make, your friend is counting on you to make it a good one.
Eat!
by Steven KrollHarry's decision to become a vegetarian causes some problems for him in his third-grade class.
El elegido
by Paul FerankaUn ser maravilloso ha nacido para guiarnos hacia el amor, la justicia y la bondad
Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages
by Abraham CohenA summary of the teachings of the Talmud on religion, ethics, folklore, and jurisprudence
Far Futures
by Gregory Benford[from the book jacket] "Gregory Benford, one of the great SF writers of our day, has assumed the mantle of editor to produce an ambitious hard SF anthology: Far Futures. Many of the field's greatest works concern vast perspectives, expanding our visions of ourselves by foreseeing the immense panorama of time. This anthology collects five original novellas that take the very long view, all set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology. The new tales are: Genesis by Poul Anderson is set a billion years ahead, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened by the slowly warming sun. Vast machine intelligences decide to recreate humans. In At the Eschaton by Charles Sheffield, a man tries to rescue his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, in both space and time, to the very end of the universe itself. Joe Haldeman's For White Hill confronts humanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense against them. A lone artist struggles to find a place in this distant, wondrous future, where humanity seems doomed. The last moments of a universe besieged occupy Greg Bear's Judgment Engine. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stutters to an eerie halt? Donald Kingsbury contributes Historical Crisis a startling work on the prediction of the human future that challenges the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy."