Letters From the Past

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DescriptionJean Patchett was both model and muse, a famous face from New York's vibrant midcentury popular culture and the most successful high-fas...

Reducere. Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteen...

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Journalist and filmmaker Bill Krohn has been the Los Angeles correspondent for the French magazine Cahiers du cinéma for over forty years. Letters ...

"We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, w...

Drawing extensively upon the poet's unpublished manuscripts-poems, journals, essays, and letters-as well as all his published works, Marjorie Perlo...

Reducere. Joe Grimm of the Detroit Free Press has combined a fascinating collection of old family letters, diaries, journals, photos, and other memorabilia i...

From the longest-running, most influential book review in America, here is its best, funniest, strangest, and most memorable coverage over the past...

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Creatively explores the utopian elements found in a variety of resistive and defiant activity in the past and in the present, with a focus on the B...

Reducere. SEEKING A BETTER LIFE, Michael Haley fled Ireland, but in America he found only hard work, hardship, Civil War, and epidemics. His children's futur...

HAUNTING AND LYRICAL, HUMMING WITH COMPASSION AND INSIGHT, DUSTFALL HERALDS THE ARRIVAL OF A BRILLIANT NEW LITERARY VOICE. MICHELLE JOHNSTON IS A R...

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Reducere. In a series of lengthy letters, the unsettled and unruly Ethel Sutherland writes to an initially unnamed and ungendered correspondent, and patientl...

Reducere. Nathan Raab, America's preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts--questing after preciou...

Three can keep a secret, but only if two are dead. No one knows that better than Kaitlyn Ashe, who has been running from a childhood secret her who...

This guide is based on a study of referees' reports and letters from journal editors on the reasons why papers written by non-native researchers ar...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anand Vivek TanejaIn the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds ...

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DescriptionIn a chilling entry to the award-winning Ruth Galloway series, she and DCI Nelson are haunted by a ghost from their past, just as their ...

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Reducere. Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of thos...

The Greek philosopher Diogenes said that when he died his body should be tossed over the city walls for beasts to scavenge. Why should he or anyone...

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Reducere. A tragic past. An uncertain future Twelve years after the grisly murder of her parents, Kaitlyn Delaney has finally found peace. She has friends, a...

Designed for educators by the teacher who nurtured and created the Freedom Writers, this standards-based teachers' guide includes innovative teachi...

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DescriptionFrom the acclaimed, prize-winning Catalonian author of the novel Lost Luggage, a collection of nine masterful short stories about adulth...

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A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

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Where does fiction begin and truth end? How does the telling of a white lie (adding or subtracting a year from one's age) mutate into a darker comp...

Reducere. She thought the nightmare was over....Twenty-three years ago, Anna North survived a living nightmare. A madman kidnapped her, cut off her pinkie, t...

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Reducere. Hook: A Memoir is a gripping story of transformation. Without excuse or indulgence, author and educator Randall Horton explores his downward spiral...

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From the internationally bestselling author of The German Girl, an unforgettable, "searing" (People) saga exploring a hidden piece of World War II ...

Reducere. Award-winner in the 'Gay and Lesbian: Non-Fiction' category of the 2013 International Book Awards, Trans-Kin is a collection of stories from signif...

Reducere. A new romance, a stash of old love letters ... a season she won't soon forget.Moving to the country has given Melinda a new set of skills, but does...

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Reducere. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES The History of the Supernatural in 20 Objects BY TROY TAYLOR During all of recorded history, man has been fascinated with th...

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Reducere. New York Times bestselling author John Connolly brings his ``visionary brand of neo-noir`` (The Irish Times) to this ``riveting and chilling`` (San...

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Reducere. DescriptionCarmel is stuck. The future could be bright, but something is stopping her. Despite the promise of a bright future away from Ireland, Ca...

Reducere. Lizbeth Gordon, a school counselor and master at facilitating conflict resolution in everyone's life but her own, returns home to South Carolina af...

Reducere. Erica Hunt writes at the intersection of poetry and emancipatory politics--racial and gender justice, feminist ethics, and participatory democracy-...

Reducere. Through flashbacks, photographs, confessions and letters, we discover our narrator--as queer sex store worker, suicide survivor, isolated lover, im...

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One of the most written-about literary figures in the past decade, Arthur Rimbaud left few traces when he abandoned poetry at age twenty-one and di...

A pair of silver Regency candlesticks. Pieces of well-worn family jewelry. More than a thousand documents, letters, and photographs Lotte Meyerhoff...

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