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Understood Betsy
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Thanks to her loving but over-protective guardian aunts, Betsy is a fearful, self-absorbed, nine-year-old hypochondriac. One of the most terrible items on her long list of fears is the horrid cousins her aunts never mention without shuddering. When her aunts are suddenly no longer able to care for her, Betsy is, incredibly, sent to live with those ...
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Understood Betsy
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1879-1958) who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Stanley Cranshaw was an educational reformer, social activist, and best-selling American author in the early decades of the Twentieth century. Dorothy Canfield brought the Montessori method of child rearing to the United States, presided over the country's first adult ...
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Life of Christ
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1923. Papini, journalist, polemical critic, poet, and novelist, whose avant-garde polemics made him one of the most controversial Italian literary figures in the early and mid-20th century. He gained international fame with his religious novel Storio Di Christo and the English translation, The Life of Christ, was a huge bestseller.
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Paul Revere and the minute men
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Seasoned timber
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"Nobody values anything for its endurance nowadays," T. C. Hulme, headmaster of the Clifford, Vermont Academy muses. Long devoted to the school and to his eccentric aunt, T. C. is increasingly aware that life is passing him by. His hopes are renewed when he falls in love with a new teacher 20 years his junior. But as Dorothy Canfield Fisher shows, ...
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Our Indepndce & Cons
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Portrays the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution through the eyes of one Philadelphia family.
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The Bent Twig
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A study of American middle-class family life in a midwestern university town. The Marshall family is considered peculiar. Sylvia falls in love with two diffent men and the resulting consequences are explored.
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The Home Maker
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Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed: Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family.
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A Montessori Mother
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
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The brimming cup
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Harvest of Stories: From a Half Century of Writing
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Dorothy Canfield, Dorothy Canfield Fisher
A good collection of folk stories (stories of the people) of Vermong during the 1700's, 1800's, and 1900's. Each is told as if being shared by the original teller.
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Vermont tradition; the biography of an outlook on life.
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The Brimming Cup
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Bedquilt and Other Stories
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War, greed, love, women's rights, marital discord and race relations are prominent themes in these stories of Dorothy Canfield Fisher, once a bestselling novelist. The 11 stories and two essays reprinted here still have a contemporary relevance.
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Bent Twig: Dorothy Canfield
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Dorothy Canfield, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Ida Washington (Introduction by)
The "twig" of this novel resists the bending of her early years with every rebellious fiber of her young, independent nature. Sylvia is born into the family of Professor Marshall, popular pedant at the midwest state university in La Chance. Her mother, a Vermonter, sets the tone of life in the home, and stands in sharp contrast to luxury-loving ...
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A fair world for all: the meaning of the Declaration of Human Rights
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jeanne Bendick
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The home-maker
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Carol Shields has called this 'a remarkable and brave 1924 novel about being a house husband.' Preface by Karen Knox.
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Bent Twig
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The Squirrel-Cage
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L5 Our Ind & Constit
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Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Eleanor Roosevelt called her one of the most influential women in America. Among the earliest and most assertive members of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee, Dorothy Canfield Fisher helped define literary taste in America for more than three decades. She helped shape the careers of such famous writers as Pearl Buck, Isak Dinesen, and ...
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The deepening stream
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And long remember; some great Americans who have helped me.
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Her Son's Wife
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Private Solutions for Infrastructure in Honduras
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The purpose of this study is to promote the development of infrastructure services in Honduras. Its central argument is that competitiveness, economic growth and poverty reduction could all be advanced through increased private sector participation and more competitive markets for the supply of infrastructure services, subject to an appropriate ...
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