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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Known for her childhood role as Laura Ingalls Wilder on the classic NBC show Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert has spent nearly her entire life in Hollywood. From Dancing with the Stars to a turn in politics, she was always on the lookout for her next project. She just had no idea that her latest one would be completely life changing. When her husband introduces her to the wilds of rural Michigan, Melissa begins to fall back in love with...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It had been nearly a century since elephants had lived in Southern Zululand, South Africa, where Lawrence Anthony founded his Thula Thula wildlife reserve. Yet one day a phone call changed all that. A troubled, unpredictable herd needed a new home. In order to save their lives, Lawrence took them in, and in the years that followed found that they had a lot to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom. He tells of hair-raising fights with poachers,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xx, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The making of Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, the outsize personalities who inspired it, and the vast changes it wrought on the literary world. In the summer of 1925, Earnest Hemingway and a clique of raucous companions traveled to Pamplona, Spain, for the town's infamous running of the bulls. Then, over the next six weeks, he channeled that trip's maelstrom of drunken brawls, sexual rivalry, midnight betrayals, and midday hangovers into his...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A nature journal of New Hampshire wetlands life, from an author Annie Dillard calls "a national treasure."
Following the Water is the intensely observed chronicle of a naturalist's annual March-to-November wetlands immersion—from the joy of the first turtle sighting in March to the gorgeously described, vibrant trilling of tree frogs in late May to the ancient sense of love and loss experienced each autumn, when
Author
Language
English
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Description
Worsley takes us into Jane Austen's world and the many places she lived: her childhood home, her schools, her holiday accommodations, the houses of the relations upon whom she was dependent, and the home she shared with her mother and sister towards the end of her life. By examining the rooms, spaces and possessions which mattered to her, and the varying ways in which homes are used in her novels as both places of pleasure and as prisons, Worsley...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Reflecting the couple's thirty-year love affair with Venice, a series of travel essays pays homage to the city, its people, popular local eateries, and landscapes, and is accompanied by a novella that describes a brief love affair that leads to a lasting love for Venice itself.
76) Monticello
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the planning, construction, and occupancy of Thomas Jefferson's dream home.
Author
Language
English
Description
In July 1947, fresh out of college and long before he would win the Pulitzer Prize and become known as one of America's finest historians, Stanley Karnow boarded a freighter bound for France, planning to stay for the summer. He stayed for ten years, first as a student and later as a correspondent for Time magazine. By the time he left, Karnow knew Paris so intimately that his French colleagues dubbed him "le plus parisien des Américains"...
Author
Language
English
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Description
The author explores the hoarding phenomenon as reflected by such cultural examples as Hoarders and The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up while sharing the personal story of how she organized a single room in her house that had been overtaken by psychological clutter.
80) Rancid pansies
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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