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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
3) On my honor
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Language
English
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When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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"On April 18th, 1941, twenty-two days after Virginia Woolf went for a walk near her weekend house and never returned, her body was reclaimed from the River Ouse. For more than half a century, Woolf's suicide has been attributed to alleged depression; bipolar disorder; her impaired mental state after two of her London apartments had been bombed during the Second World War's brutal Blitz. With Adeline--a stunning and provocative reimagining of the events...
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Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1947, after the war, Willa Mae's father returns to the Illinois town where she has lived with her maternal grandparents for the last five of her eleven years, and Willa Mae finds herself struggling to understand old family tensions and secrets.
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It is the summer of 1955. Alexander, Tom and his sister Lennie, discover the body of their childhood friend Danny Masters in the river that runs through Starome, a village on the Richmond estate in North Yorkshire. His death is a mystery. Did he jump, or was it just an accident? Lady Venetia Richmond has no time to dwell on the death. Newly widowed, she is busy trying to keep the estate together, while struggling with death duties and crippling taxation....
9) The trees
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Series
Awakening land trilogy volume 1
Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1940.
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Toward the close of the 18th century, the land west of the Alleghenies and north of the Ohio river was an unbroken sea of trees. The forest trails were dark, silent, and lonely, brightened only by a few lost beams of sunlight. Here, the Lucketts, a wild, woodsfaring family, lived their roaming life, pushing ever westward as the frontier advanced, and as new settlements threatened their isolation. Richter has written, not a historical novel, of which...
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Publisher
Appleton-Century-Crofts
Pub. Date
[1950]
Edition
(Book club edition].
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lydia Neary Keeling, living with her two daughters, Frances and Taffy, a life of genteel poverty in Baltimore, inherited her childhood home in North Carolina and returned to take possession of the house and a small fortune. But Lydia inherited more than a fortune, for across the river were the Cavitts, bitter enemies of the Nearys for two generations. Frances and Taffy were prepared by Lydia to perpetuate the enmity, but Cavitt's young sons, Foxworth...
12) Xanadu 3
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Series
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
1995.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 230 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Book Four portrays the Nilsson family during the turmoil of living through the era of the Civil War and Dakota Conflict and their prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the 1860s-90s.
14) Little women
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Series
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English
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
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Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
466 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Recently discovered documents shed light onto the life of Meriwether Lewis, covering the proceedings of his court-martial, circumstances surrounding his death, and the role of Major James Neelly in his final days.
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xix, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Americans have always been fascinated by birds and from the beginning American writers have captured this keen interest in a variety of genres: poems, journals, memoirs, short stories, essays, and travel accounts. Here literature professor and avid birder Andrew Rubenfeld, in collaboration with acclaimed writer Terry Tempest Williams, who provides a foreword, gathers evocative and surprising writings on birds and our fascination with them from an...
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