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 | | | On The Way To Over The Hill | | A Guide To Aging Gracefully | | Lee manages to pack great wisdom into tightly-worded paragraphs. We laugh, cry and applaud her gumption, her ethics and her common sense. A good guide- friendly, open, witty, clever and honest on the ...more about this title. | Author: Grace Lee |
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 | | | The Older You Get The Longer You Live! | | Inspirational Stories on Aging | | Yes, America is getting older, and living longer. It's a condition that won't go away. Yet, we can take steps to cope with it, and in the process, even enjoy it. The first step is to be prepared to ...more about this title. | Author: Muriel Bach |
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 | | | Souvenirs of A Century | | Magical Realism by an American Original and Son | | Surreal icons of the American 19th century juxtapose images of the 21st century in the magical realism of Sage's work. Rufus' postmodern poetic captions narrate these images in a manner that ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | The Great Cannon Beach Mouse Caper | | | An exhibit on Lewis and Clark inspires educated mice, Mavis and Bert, to embark on a journey that takes them from St. Louis to Cannon Beach, Oregon. A traumatic experience upon their arrival taints the ...more about this title. | Author: Peter Waugh |
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 | | | Honey-Bun | | An Enchanting Memoir About An Exceptional Cat | | Honey-Bun is a simple, personal memoir of the author, who uses the death of her cat as a vehicle for examining life and loss. Author Anne Stockton invites us to examine the unique relationship ...more about this title. | Author: Anne Stockton |
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 | | | North Flame | | A Magical Fabel For All Ages | | Not since St. Exupery's The Little Prince, has there been such a fable in the classic sense, welcoming children into a world of imagination, and bringing adults back to their childhood with its ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | The Dictionary of Geography | | The Complete Geographical Reference | | The Dictionary of Geography is a collection of all geographical concepts and ideas. It is the essential dictionary for any geography room or library with well over 5000 entries with ...more about this title. | Author: Kieran O’Mahony |
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 | | | Spring of Fever | | | They thought it could never happen: the anthrax attacks of 2001, the small pox epidemics of the 1930s, and a return of the Black Death. But when the bubonic plague erupts a week before the vice ...more about this title. | Author: Kate Birch |
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 | | | Pagan Dances of Caherbarnagh | | | Pagan Dances of Caherbarnagh is not just another book about leaving Ireland. It is a searching expose into the dark complexities and emotional struggles that result when a person makes a choice ...more about this title. | Author: Bridget O'Mahony |
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 | | | Soul Street | | | A mixture of neo-realism and magic realism that is both evocative and dramatic. Crusty is the mirror image of our dreams, a beggar of God whose hapless comedy is a grim reminder of our own good fortune ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | Mr. President | | | When the Independent Party runs a hologram for president, only poet Brunick Amstell can convince American voters that what you see is not always what you get. Goodwin's satiric glimpse into the modern ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | Valentine for a Waitress | | | Valentine for a Waitress is the story of one man's love for a waitress. The aging narrator is attracted to Rosalie's profound nature and uncomplicated charm. Their courtship takes them from the ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | Poet's Novel | | | Admission to Private Hospital marks the beginning of a new life for poet Brunick Amstell. Adrift in contemporary society and struggling to distinguish between madness and inspiration, Brunick's ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | Blue Guitar | | | Rachel's story as a guitar prodigy in America goes to the core of the Judaeo-Christian crisis of modern times. Raped by her ethics professor, adrift in a post-orthodox culture and post-holocaust world, ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | Castle Murders | | A Mystery | | A gripping story of intrigue and patience set in the picturesque if eerie Longueville House in Ireland. O'Callaghan weaves an engaging web of adventure with a colorful cast of characters. This ...more about this title. | Author: Gary O'Callaghan |
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 | | | Geography and Education | | Through the Souls of Our Feet | | Geography and Education is a comparative description of the development of educational systems in very different political arenas. Reaching from early Greek educational philosophies to present ...more about this title. | Author: Kieran O’Mahony |
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 | | | Geographical Literacy | | Everyday Concepts in Geography (2nd Ed.) | | This book should be in the hands of parents whose children are beginning to enter school, where during the early years of education, they form habits of lifelong learning. Geographical Literacy has a ...more about this title. | Author: Kieran O’Mahony |
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 | | | The Valiant Captains | | Epics of the Gallant Ships that Challenged the English Channel | | Sheldon Jacobson was a noted historian and a great sailor and he wrote this trilogy after he returned as a brain surgeon from the American Navy. He painstakingly researched the background to ...more about this title. | Author: Sheldon Jacobson |
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 | | | The Man Who Moved the World | | | In this novel, Jacobson again manifests his love for the classical world and for the ships of all kinds which have plied upon it. This story tells of the adventures of Phyrron, a Greek sea captain of ...more about this title. | Author: Sheldon Jacobson |
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 | | | Martin Waldseemuller 1507 World Map | | | The Library of Congress purchased the Waldseemüller World Map (1507) in July 2001 from a German Prince whose family has owned it for over 400 years. At $10 million it is the single largest ...more about this title. |
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 | | | Crystal Globe | | | Exquisitely handcrafted in Chong Qing, China. The raw crystal block, fired with a combination of quartz sand and natural minerals, is cooled gradually to avoid internal stress and microscopic ...more about this title. |
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 | | | Terra Incognita | | The True Story of How America Got Its Name | | A series of seemingly unconnected discoveries over the past fifty years suddenly points a beam of light at a new and intriguing theory as to how America got its name. Terra Incognita captures ...more about this title. | Author: Rodney Broome |
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 | | | Wartime Encounter | | | This is a fast-paced yet sensitive story of a boy robbed of his youth in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. Sustained by book, music and maps – particularly one chronicling the Allied invasions of Europe – ...more about this title. | Author: Harm de Blij |
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 | | | Waldseemuller World Map 1507 | | Early Cosmography | | Therefore,studying, to the best of my ability and with the aid of several persons the books of Ptolemy from a Greek copy and adding the relations of the four voyages of Amerigo Vespuci I have prepared ...more about this title. | Author: Kieran O’Mahony |
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 | | | Poems From 42nd Street | | | Goodwin's poems are like scraps that preserve the two past millennia and turn away from the canons of academia and avant-garde literary magazines to celebrate the now - a simple bed, a gas station, a ...more about this title. | Author: Rufus Goodwin |
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 | | | More Living Portraits of Historic Women | | Freud Never Said It Was Easy! | | Love and work are uneasy bedfellows! To be successful in your love life and yet follow your career - this was Freud's prescription for a healthy human being. But was he referring only to men? Join ...more about this title. | Author: Muriel Bach |
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 | | | Living Portraits of Historic Women | | Of All the Nerve! | | Actress Muriel Bach, a pioneer in performance art, has researched, written, staged and portrayed the lives of noteworthy women in the context of one-woman theater for the past 25 years. In this ...more about this title. | Author: Muriel Bach |
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 | | | Stars Above the Road | | | b<>Stars Above the Road is a rich feast, part travelogue, part romance, part meditation -- and all of it poetry! Like the best memoirs, it manages to touch on the most personal, intimate ...more about this title. | Author: Treasa O'Driscoll |
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