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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
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"A collection of wide-ranging and endearingly personal columns by the celebrated author, newspaper columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg, culled from his best-loved pieces in Southern Living and Garden & Gun. From his love of Tupperware ('My Affair with Tupperware') to the decline of country music, from the legacy of Harper Lee to the metamorphosis of the pick-up truck, the best way to kill fire ants, the unbridled excess of Fat Tuesday,...
46) Puerto Rico
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Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2011
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"This book explores the exciting culture and many festivals that are celebrated in Puerto Rico"--Provided by publisher.
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Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2011
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This entertaining book tells the story of an empire that began on the seven hills of Rome and spread all the way across Europe under the rule of such characters as Tiberius, Augustus, and Julius Caesar. It includes the thrills and spills of chariot races and gladiators in combat, sacrifices to the gods, public bathhouses, and villas, as well as the diary of a Roman slave.
48) Persuasion
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A delightful social satire of England's landed gentry and a moving tale of lovers separated by class distinction.
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Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly rank with troublemakers, from snooty needlers who took aim with a cutting "thee," to lowbrow drunkards with revolting table manners. Goodman draws on advice manuals, court cases, and sermons to offer this colorfully crude portrait...
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Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2019]
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he Time of the Hero, translated to more than thirty languages, is set in the Leoncio Prado Military School. The protagonists of the novel, a group of young people who are "educated" in a ruthless, violent military discipline, learn to survive in an atmosphere in which racial, social, and economic prejudice is deeply rooted; where everyone shows a false fa?ade, and the transgression of established norms seems to be the only out. The edition is completed...
51) Thanksgiving
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Thanksgiving is turkey, pumpkin pie, family gatherings, and a celebration of all the good things for which we're grateful. But how did out modern-day Thanksgiving traditions get their start? What was the first Thanksgiving like? Informative text and creative illustrations help kids learn the answer to this and more! Celebrations in the United States are diverse and exciting. Through lively illustrations and reader-friendly text, this series explores...
53) The Duke
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"Six years ago, when Lady Amarantha Vale was an innocent in a foreign land and Gabriel Hume was a young naval officer, they met...and played with fire. Now Gabriel is the dark lord known to society as the Devil's Duke, a notorious recluse hidden away in a castle in the Highlands. Only Amarantha knows the truth about him, and she won't be intimidated."--Amazon.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2009
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For two joyous weeks red is all around. The color represents luck and happiness. Children receive money wrapped in red paper, and friends and loved ones exchange poems written on red paper. The Chinese New Year is also an opportunity to remember ancestors, and to wish peace and happiness to friends and family. The holiday ends with the Festival of Lanterns, as many large communities stage the famous Dragon Dance. Fireworks, parades, lanterns, presents,...
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University of Hawaiʻi Press
Pub. Date
c1997
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Tongan art, with its elegant sculpture, headrests, body adornment, clubs, containers, tools and fibre work, has made an outstanding contribution to the culture of Oceania. In The Art of Tonga, Keith St Cartmail's achievement is to draw together all the strands of this island kingdom's material culture into a single volume - surprisingly no other work has done this to date. The author begins by outlining the history of Tonga, then comprehensively details...
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"Talented but troubled, the Chandler family seems cursed by bad luck-- and so Nathaniel Chandler has learned to trade on his charm. He can broker a deal with anyone from a turf-mad English noble to an Irish horse breeder. But Nathaniel's skills are tested when his stable of trained Thoroughbreds becomes suspiciously ill just before the Epsom Derby, and he begins to suspect his father's new secretary is not as innocent as she seems. Nathaniel would...
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