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Fancy Nancy
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Jane O'Connor, Robin Preiss Glasser (Illustrator)
The original, bestselling "Fancy Nancy" is now available in a big-book format--ideal for read-aloud fun. Readers are sure to be delighted by Nancy's charming plight to turn her family from plain to fancy. Full color.
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Natural History of the Senses
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Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman writes a detailed meditation on each of the five senses, seeing them not merely as sense organs but as important doors into the truths of our culture. Ackerman refreshingly combines a gift for lyrical language with a scientist's passion for facts.
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The Composition of Everyday Life: A Guide to Writing
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John Mauk, John Metz
Encouraging you to be an inventive thinker and writer, THE COMPOSITION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, Concise Edition, Third Edition, illustrates how the act of writing is connected to your daily life as it helps you rediscover concepts, uncover meaning, and rethink the world around you. With a more reader-friendly design than ever, the third edition begins ...
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Freakin' Fabulous: How to Dress, Speak, Behave, Eat, Drink, Entertain, Decorate, and Generally Be Better Than Everyone Else
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Clinton Kelly
The stylish fashion consultant who helps TLC's viewers revamp their wardrobesnow shows how to revamp one's life with this fun, irreverent, and informativeguide to being fabulous--an ideal gift for anyone who enjoys looking good andhaving a blast while doing so.Simon & Schuster Entertainment
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Invention of Tradition
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Eric J Hobsbawm (Editor), Terence O Ranger (Photographer)
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of Welsh and Scottish 'national culture'; the elaboration of British royal rituals in the ...
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
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J D Salinger
Two long short stories about Salinger's Glass family, previously published in The New Yorker. Both stories are about the life and tragic death of Seymour Glass, the eldest of the Glass children, and his siblings' reaction to it. The events are seen through the eyes of Seymour's brother Buddy, who is often said to be a portrait of Salinger himself. ...
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What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England
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Daniel Pool
Essays provide a view of British life during the nineteenth century.
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Ecce Romani: Level 1
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Gilbert Lawall, Perry, Palma
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In Age of Chivalry: Medieval Europe, Ad 800-1500 (What Life Was Like)(Hardcover)
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Time-Life Books (Editor)
Go to Henry's England and Eleanor's Aquitaine; a free-thinker's Germany; a student's Paris, the pope's Rome and a crusader's Jerusalem; inside the manor, the monastery, the cathedral and the castle. Get to know a Europe you never could before -- through the lives of the people who were there.
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Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
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Sylvia Plath
Short stories and diary excerpts.
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Some prefer nettles
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Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the arms of others, they contemplate the humiliation of divorce. Misako's father believes their relationship has been damaged by the influence of a new and alien culture, and so attempts to heal the breach by educating his son-in-law in the time-honoured ...
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Wilderness Tips
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Margaret Atwood
A series of stories whose shared themes of loss, discovery, and connections with others bind them together as a unified whole. The settings, mostly urban, include a newspaper office, a 1950s coffeehouse, and menacing, wild landscapes. The discoveries at an archeological dig have echoes in a contemporary love affair; sexual frustrations and class ...
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Tastes of paradise : a social history of spices, stimulants, and intoxicants
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Wolfgang Schivelbusch
From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans stopped sniffing tobacco and starting smoking it, Schivelbusch looks at how the appetite for pleasure transformed the social structure of the Old World. Illustrations.
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Human
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Dr. Robert Winston (Editor), Dr. Don E Wilson (Editor)
This definitive visual guide takes a unique look at what it means to be a human being. From evolution and biology to society, culture, and the future aspects of human life, this book examines the qualities that all humans share and profiles more than 250 peoples who inhabit the world.
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Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
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H James
In THE TURN OF THE SCREW, an innocent, impressionable young governess takes over the education of two delightful children, Flora and Miles, at an isolated country estate. She becomes convinced that the children's former governess and a valet once employed on the estate--both now dead--have returned and are trying to gain control of the children's ...
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The Little Book of Christian Character & Manners
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William Dedrick, Colleen Dedrick
A "little" but thorough book which uses the foundation of the Bible (not popular psychology) to develop appropriate instruction on how to train children. The book is intended not to be an exhaustive child-training manual, but to give a biblical framework upon which to build practical standards for discipline and manners in the home.
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One Digital Day: How the Microchip is Changing Our World
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Rick Smolan, Jennifer Erwitt
The creators of the bestselling "Day in the Life" series shows, via sensational photographs, how microchip technology is dramatically affecting our everyday lives in such areas as entertainment, business, health, sports, education, and religion.
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Ecce Romani: Level 1b
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D A Lawall, David M Tafe, Perry
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Tea with Jane Austen
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Kim Wilson, Tom Carpenter (Foreword by)
"You must drink tea with us tonight." - Sense & Sensibility. Who would not want to sit down with Jane Austen and join her in a cup of tea? Here for the first time is a book that shares the secrets of one of her favourite rituals. Tea figures prominently in Jane Austen's life and work. In fact, the beloved novelist was the keeper and maker of tea ...
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Inventing the Abbotts
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Sue Miller
A collection of stories, including "Leaving Home," "Appropriate Affect," "Expensive Gifts," "The Birds and the Bees," "What Ernest Says," "Slides," "Quality of Life," and "Travel."
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Living Folklore: Intro to the Study of People and Their Traditions
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Martha C Sims, Martine Stephens
Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and experiences, this text gives the student a strong foundation--from the field's history and major terms to theories, interpretive approaches, and fieldwork. ...
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The Way We Lived
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Reader's Digest, Robert Dolezal, Of Readers Digest Editors
Explores the myriad changes that have transformed life as we know it from 1900 to 1999, from woodstoves to microwaves, wax discs to compact discs, maxi- to midi- to mini-skirts, washtubs to washing machines, typewriters to laptops...and everything in between.
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Ecce Romani: Level 1a
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D A Lawall, David M Tafe, Perry
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The fall of public man
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Prof. Richard Sennett
Examines the modern imbalance between our public and our private lives - covering everything from the history of fashion to revolutionary mobs and the career of Richard Nixon.
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Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters
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J D Salinger
Two long short stories first published in the "New Yorker" in the 1950s, "Raise High the Roof Beam", "Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction" are each narrated by writer Buddy Glass, a character often said to be a portrait of the author himself. Both are stream of consciousness narratives, focusing on the life of Seymour, the eldest Glass brother ...
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