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Revolutionary mothers: women in the struggle for America's independence
By Carol Berkin. 2005
American history professor addresses the roles of women in the American Revolution, through first-person accounts. Reveals the contributions made by…
African Americans and Native Americans, as well as white revolutionaries and loyalists. An epilog examines the impact of war on gender images. 2005Child of silence
By Abigail Padgett. 1993
San Diego child-abuse investigator Bo Bradley has a new case: four-year-old deaf boy Weppo, found tied to a mattress on…
a Paiute reservation. When hired gunmen target Weppo, Bo flees with him and uncovers an alarming connection to a Houston political hopeful. Strong language and some violence. 1993How green was my valley
By Richard Llewellyn. 1997
Before leaving his childhood home, Huw Morgan reminisces about his youth in South Wales. He remembers when the coal mines…
still flourished and family members and friends fought, loved, laughed, and cried as they struggled to survive labor troubles and hard times in the valley. National Book Award. 1939Burned: a Regan Reilly mystery (Regan Reilly Mystery Ser. #No. 8)
By Carol Higgins Clark. 2005
Los Angeles private investigator Regan Reilly, about to be married, joins her girlfriend Kit Callan in Hawaii for a last…
fling. When the body of the resort's social director, Dorinda Dawes, washes ashore, the hotel manager persuades Regan to investigate. Suspects include assorted guests and a local millionaire. 2005Replaceable you: engineering the body in postwar America
By David Harley Serlin. 2004
Discusses the impact of medical developments--hormone treatments, plastic surgery, prosthetic devices, and sexual reassignment--on the human body and national psyche…
in 1950s America. Presents a sociocultural analysis of the postwar era using case studies of war veteran amputees, female survivors of Hiroshima, a transgendered GI, and a lesbian entertainer. 2004Losing spring
By V. C Andrews. 2023
This atmospheric and moving novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and…
Landry series—now popular Lifetime movies—combines a forbidden romance with a family fortune and a young girl in peril. Caroline Bryer is the daughter of a very conservative TSA agent and former military brat, Morgan Bryer. Her mother, Linsey Bryer, is a descendent of the Sutherland real estate family. Their organized, suburban life in Colonie, New York is rigorously regulated and leaves little room for deviation from the norm. When Linsey, Morgan, and Caroline attend the wake of their neighbor Mr. Gleeson, they meet his charming daughter Natalie "Nattie" Gleeson, who works for the American ambassador to France. Linsey and Nattie strike up a fast friendship as women of a similar age in very different places in their lives—Linsey a devoted mother and housewife, and Nattie an international diplomat living an independent and freewheeling life. Their friendship soon evolves into a romance, leading to the collapse of Linsey's marriage and her disinheritance from the Sutherland family fortune. In true V.C. Andrews fashion, a whirlwind of unexpected death, family estrangement, and a forbidden inheritance become Caroline's new reality as she struggles to navigate the loss of her mother, the mind-boggling wealth of the Sutherland family (who quickly lock her away from the world), and the loss of contact with her father following the divorceBeing perfect
By Anna Quindlen. 2005
Brief essay in which Quindlen advises individuals to give up seeking perfection and work on realizing their uniqueness. Recommends that…
one look inside, see one's true self, and listen to the small voice that says it is never too late to pursue fulfillment. 2005The city: a global history
By Joel Kotkin. 2005
Chronicle of the city through time. Posits that an urban area can thrive only if is safe, economically viable, and…
spiritually enriching. Analyzes the ancient communities of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, and China; the classical European centers; and Islamic megalopolises. Laments the lack of moral order in the twenty-first century. 2005Twenty-four graduates of The Seeing Eye in Morristown, New Jersey, present individual perspectives on their experiences at the school and…
on being blind. They describe the process of learning to properly use guide dogs and attest to the increased mobility and independence they achieved through the training facility. 2004Simply unforgettable (Simply Quartet Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Mary Balogh. 2005
Regency England. Music teacher Frances Allard is returning to Miss Martin's School for Girls in Bath after Christmas when her…
carriage overturns in a snowstorm. She and Lucius Marshall, the viscount Sinclair, who caused the accident, take refuge together in a nearly deserted inn. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2005Evening in the palace of reason: Bach meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment
By James R Gaines. 2005
Describes the encounter between young Frederick the Great and the elderly kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach and examines Bach's masterful response…
in "A Musical Offering" to the warrior-king's compositional challenge. Combines the history of music and of eighteenth-century culture with biographies of these two notable figures of the era. 2005The tea house on Mulberry Street
By Sharon Owens. 2003
Daniel and Penny Stanley are owners of Muldoon's Tea Rooms, known for its cozy atmosphere and luscious desserts. There residents…
of Belfast seek refuge from their various dilemmas, including dieting housewife Sadie, struggling artist Brenda, retired twin schoolteachers Beatrice and Alice, and failed novelist Henry. 2003Coach: lessons on the game of life
By Michael Lewis. 2005
Author reminisces about his irascible, often terrifying high school baseball coach, a former minor league catcher. Lewis relives his pitching…
career at a New Orleans private school and his experiences with the man who taught him not only about winning but also about self-respect, sacrifice, courage, and endurance. Bestseller. 2005Gilead: A Novel
By Marilynne Robinson. 2004
1950s. Dying seventy-six-year-old Gilead, Iowa, minister John Ames writes a parting letter to his young son. John reflects on the…
tensions between his pacifist father and militant abolitionist grandfather (both preachers), the death of his first wife and child, the gospel, a friend's transgressions, and life's eternal mystery. Pulitzer Prize. Bestseller. 2004Le coeur du monde: 1, Farlander
By Col Buchanan. 2011
" Ash est un farlander, un homme du lointain venu d'une île où les hommes ont la peau noire. Il…
appartient à un ordre d'assassins d'élite, les Roshuns, dont l'arme est la vendetta : quiconque menace leurs clients devient leur cible. Nul ne s'y risque, car nul n'échappe aux Roshuns. Mais Ash est vieux et malade. Le temps est venu pour lui de prendre un apprenti. Il choisit Nico, un gamin de la cité de Bar-Khos, assiégée depuis dix ans, dernière à résister à un empire d'une atroce cruauté. Affamé, désespéré, Nico n'a pas d'autre choix que de suivre le vieil homme au monastère des Roshuns où il apprendra le meurtre, mais aussi l'amitié et l'amour Le jour où l'héritier de l'Empire égorge délibérément une jeune fille portant le sceau des Roshuns, l'ordre exige d'assassiner l'homme le mieux protégé du monde. Jusqu'ici, tous ont échoué. Ash se propose, il n'a plus rien à perdre. " -- 4e de couvThe essential Neruda: selected poems
By Pablo Neruda, Mark Eisner. 2004
Cincuenta poemas de Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), el poeta chileno y ganador del Premio Nobel, que abarcan la amplitud de su…
estilo, temas y periodos. Este esfuerzo colaborativo de academicos, traductores, y poetas incluye selecciones de sus obras publicadas entre 1924 y 1964 y postumamente. Editado con una introducción en inglés de Mark Eisner; prefacio de Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Texto de los poemas en ingles y espanolImPossible
By Danielle Steel. 2005
Widowed gallery owner Sasha Boardman offers a contract to bad-boy artist Liam Allison. Soon conservative Sasha and staunch-nonconformist Liam begin…
an affair--though he is married and nearly a decade younger. Differences, complications, and personality clashes threaten their dramatic romance. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2005The rise of the Indian rope trick: how a spectacular hoax became history
By Peter Lamont. 2005
British historian specializing in magic researches the famous but fictitious trick that supposedly originated in India in the 1890s. Discusses…
the journalistic sources of the hoax and previous efforts to debunk it, as well as the western world's gullibility and fascination with mysteries of the East. 2004Provides a brief biography of Italian stringed-instrument-maker Antonio Stradivari (1644-1737). Recounts the history of five surviving violins and one cello…
from their creation among more than one thousand to modern ownership by such well-known musicians as Paganini, Yehudi Menuhin, Itzhak Perlman, and Yo-Yo Ma. 2004Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court journey
By Linda Greenhouse. 2005
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter uses personal papers, correspondence, and case files to trace the life and career of Supreme Court justice…
Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999). Chronicles Blackmun's early years in Minnesota, twenty-four-year tenure on the Supreme Court, childhood friendship with Warren Burger, and prominent cases including Roe v. Wade. 2005