Anglophone Imogene Jackson grew up in an English suburb on the uneasy edge of a francophone world. At the age of nineteen she quit college to marry a shoemaker from the close-knit French village...
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Author: Campbell, GillianSummary:
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Author: Goerzen, ChristySummary:
After a lifetime of New Age “adventures” with her weirdo hippie mom, fifteen-year-old Maddie is realizing a lifelong dream and visiting New York City. Armed with her 130-item to-do list, Maddie...
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Author: VanLiere, DonnaSummary:
Taking what he hopes will be his first long-term job, lonely department store security officer Chaz McConnell reaches out to a four-year-old child, while Gloria Bailey, a charity worker who has...
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Author: Hingson, MichaelSummary:
Discover how blindness and a bond between dog and man saved lives and brought hope during one of America's darkest days.
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Author: Burpo, ToddSummary:
Presents the story of the four-year old son of a Nebraska pastor who during emergency surgery slips from consciousness and enters heaven.
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Author: Lippert, KevinSummary:
The sixth in our popular Words of Wisdom series, The Inventor Says invites readers to a gathering of history's most brilliant creative minds, where inventors past and present jostle, compete,...
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Author: Keneally, ThomasSummary:
Thomas Keneally, the bestselling author of The Daughters of Mars and Schindler's List, returns with an exquisite exploration of community and country, love and morality, taking place in both...
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Author: Morpurgo, MichaelSummary:
When Thomas Peaceful's older brother is forced to join the British Army, Thomas decides to sign up as well, although he is only fourteen years old, to prove himself to his country, his family...
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Author: AnonymousSummary:
With the blockade of Southern ports and the lack of trading between the North and South during the Civil War, the Confederacy found itself in great deprivation, lacking its customary supplies....
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Author: Kellogg, John H.Summary:
Published in 1876 in Michigan, The Hygienic Cook Book was part of the 19th century health reform movement that stressed a vegetarian diet to achieve wellness. Author John Harvey Kellogg, an...
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Author: Alcott, William A.Summary:
Printed in at least 20 editions by 1851, The Young Housekeeper was a successful work by prolific author and president of the American Vegetarian Society, William A. Alcott. Of the 108 books...
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Author: Smiles, SamuelSummary:
A biography and history of early rail road development in Great Britain by George Stephenson, 1781-1848 and Robert Stephenson, 1803-1859
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Author: Stapledon, OlafSummary:
The story takes the form of a long letter written by one old university friend to another. The recipient of the letter, known only as "Thos" (a college nickname, short for "Doubting...
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Author: Ladies of CaliforniaSummary:
Published in San Francisco in 1875, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection by an unidentified group of ladies from California provides a fascinating historical example of...
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Author: Leslie, Eliza, Greenspan, DorieSummary:
Eliza Leslie’s Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes and Sweetmeats was the first distinctively baking cookbook published in America, as well as the first to share ingredients in a systematic...