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| Walter Dean Myers - Bad Boy: A Memoir |
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<P>Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s: a loving home life with his adopted parents, Bible school, street games, and the vitality of his neighborhood. Although Walter spent ...
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$10.00 - $95.00
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| Mark Twain, Edgar Marquess Branch, Kenneth M. Sanderson, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) - Mark Twain's Letters: 1874-1875 |
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The 309 letters in this volume, more than half never before published, capture the events in Mark Twain's life in 1872 and 1873 with detailed intimacy. Thoroughly annotated and indexed, they include genealogical charts, transcription of journals, book contracts, photographs, and, of course, all know ...
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$28.00 - $85.00
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| Lauraine Snelling - Sisters of the Confederacy |
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Fleeing Kentucky with her freed slaves and horses, Jesselynn Highwood faces danger as she heads west on the Oregon Trail, while her sister Louisa gathers faith and strength to smuggle supplies to a hospital in Richmond, Virginia.
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$10.00 - $76.00
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| Laurence Yep - Lost Garden |
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The author describes how he grew up as a Chinese American in San Francisco and how he came to use his writing to celebrate his family and his ethnic heritage.
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$2.00 - $79.00
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| Joseph Conrad - A Personal Record |
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As Conrad writes in his introduction to these reminiscences, "[T]hese memories put down without any regard for established conventions have not been thrown off without system and purpose. They have their hope and their aim. The hope that from the reading of these pages there may emerge at last the v ...
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$9.00 - $125.00
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| William Miller - Frederick Douglass: The Last Day of Slavery |
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Named a Smithsonian magazine "Notable Children's Book" and a Hungry Mind Review "Children's Books of Distinction" Finalist, this inspiring story exemplifies how--as Douglass himself said--books and learning are "the pathway from slavery to freedom". A teacher activity guide is available to accompany ...
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$4.00 - $99.00
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| Anthony Trollope - The Last Chronicle of Barset |
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I can never bring myself to believe it, John; said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors' business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on ...
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$72.00 - $72.00
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| Robert Capa - Slightly Out of Focus |
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The legendary photojournalist and author recalls his experiences during World War II in a lively memoir that is complemented by more than 160 classic photographs that chronicle his adventures from Sicily to the beaches at Normandy.
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$2.00 - $169.00
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