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Betsy tacy book set6/7/2023 Robin told me to sneak out and get on the bus with her and then I could go to Kindergarten also. My father worked night shift and often was asleep around the time the bus would arrive and my mother was working. She gave me a dress to wear and I hid it in my closet. She came up with a way for me to go with her to kindergarten. When my friend Robin was to go to kindergarten, she was not happy that I could not go with her as I was a year younger. I guess, I was more like Tacy who was a bit more shy and followed along with the "great" ideas. She was more of the bossy one who took charge and came up with the ideas that usually got us into trouble, similar to Betsy. She was a year older and we became instant friends and loved playing dolls together. I met my very first "best friend" in a similar way as Betsy when a new girl moved in across the street when I was between 3-4 years old. I could relate to some of the girls experiences as I grew up in the 60's and 70's. There were no TV's, computers, cell phones to distract them away from the simpler things in life. I would best describe them as wholesome, and they share a way of life that is different than our current modern lifestyles of today. What I loved about Betsy~Tacy books was the simple and gentle approach to life, community and family.
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The usual rules by joyce maynard6/7/2023 Despite the misgivings of her stepfather and 4-year-old brother Louie, Wendy decides to leave behind all she knows and move in with her father. As her acceptance of the loss sets in, Wendy’s father appears in New York after years of absence, asking to take her home to California with him. Wendy’s realization of her mother’s death is gradual. Hope dwindles as each week passes, as countless flyers on street corners yield nothing and the workers at the World Trade Center site lose hope of finding survivors. In what is billed as the first novel to focus specifically on the aftermath of the terrorist attacks,13-year-old Wendy leaves for school one day feeling irritated at her family and comes home to find that her mother may have disappeared forever. In her new novel, Joyce Maynard explores the tragedy many Americans either experienced or imagined in their nightmares: the loss of a loved one on September 11th, 2001.
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OL19904821M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work But in this age of magnificent triumph and barbaric cruelty, internal rebellion threatens the stability and survival of the mighty Republic. Urn:lcp:grasscrown00mccu_0:epub:799a6647-68f8-446a-908d-076755eeaf44 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier grasscrown00mccu_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1jh4ph92 Isbn 9780380710829Ġ38071082X Lccn 91017009 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.7 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL19904821M Openlibrary_edition Throughout the Western world, great kingdoms have fallen and despots lay crushed beneath the heels of Rome's advancing legions. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:54:57 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA178501 Boxid_2 BL11203T Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor An aging, ailing Gaius Marius, heralded conqueror of Germany and Numidia, longs for that which was prophesied many years before: an unprecedented seventh.
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Description: 1 online resource (228 p.) Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resource ISBN: 9781497640191 Subject(s): Finance - United States | Industries - United States | Businesspeople - United States - Case studies | Corporations - United States - Case studies | Stock exchanges - United States - Case studies Genre/Form: Electronic books. By: Brooks, John Material type: Text Language: English Publication details: New York : Open Road Integrated Media, 2014.
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Last Call by Daniel Okrent6/6/2023 Writing with both wit and historical acuity, Okrent reveals how Prohibition marked a confluence of diverse forces: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign the fear of small-town, native-stock Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants of the large cities the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I and a variety of other unlikely factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax. Yet we did, and Last Call is Daniel Okrent’s dazzling explanation of why we did it, what life under Prohibition was like, and how such an unprecedented degree of government interference in the private lives of Americans changed the country forever. That Americans would ever agree to relinquish their booze was as improbable as it was astonishing. By the 1820s, liquor flowed so plentifully it was cheaper than tea. The sailing vessel that brought John Winthrop to the shores of the New World in 1630 carried more beer than water. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.įrom its start, America has been awash in drink. A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S.
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The impossible city book6/6/2023 Her misfortunes do seem relentless at times, but there are moments of unadulterated joy, too: especially in her urban explorations, where she finds herself in dilapidated ruins of old asylums and abandoned factories, risking asbestos exposure (a footnote informs the reader that these expeditions will appear in detail in a future book), but also with friends who love her and her company, despite her insistence on being antisocial. Think outside the box and try to choose the correct answer for each and every question. In order to win, you have to forget about logic and general knowledge. The weird but totally funny quiz game is back with more brain-teasing questions. We follow her throughout her 30s in New York as she plummets into depression, cycles through periods of solitary drinking and sobriety, survives a halfhearted attempt at rehab and wrestles with many relapses, until she achieves a semblance of stability. The Impossible Quiz 2 is the second installment of the crazy online puzzle games series by splapp-me-do. “Impossible People” is her fourth memoir, if you count the book previously titled “The Fart Party” and now collected in a more respectable-sounding volume as “ Museum of Mistakes.” Themes of health, illness and addiction recur here and throughout the rest of her oeuvre, but with “Impossible People” she has a new story to tell. Wertz has garnered a reputation for her witty, observational and somewhat goofy humor.
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An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn6/5/2023 At ten past ten each Friday morning, he would take a seat among the freshmen, who were not even a quarter his age, and join in the discussion of this old poem, an epic about long journeys and long marriages and what it means to yearn for home. Once a week for the next fifteen weeks, he would make the trip from the house in the Long Island suburbs where I grew up, a modest split-level he and my mother still lived in, to the riverside campus of Bard College, where I teach. One January evening a few years ago, just before the beginning of the spring term in which I was going to be teaching an undergraduate seminar on the Odyssey, my father, a retired computer scientist who was then eighty-one, asked me, for reasons I thought I understood at the time, if he could sit in on the course, and I said yes.
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Seven days on june6/5/2023 This event will take place in a private residence - the location will be emailed to attendees prior to the event. With its keen observations of Black life and the condition of modern motherhood, as well as the consequences of motherless-ness, Seven Days in June is by turns humorous, warm and deeply sensual. But before Shane disappears again, there are a few questions she needs answered. Over the next seven days in the middle of a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect, but Eva's not sure how she can trust the man who broke her heart, and she needs to get him out of New York so that her life can return to normal. They may be pretending that everything is fine now, but they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books ever since. What no one knows is that twenty years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. When Shane and Eva meet unexpectedly at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their past buried traumas, but the eyebrows of New York's Black literati. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning literary author who, to everyone's surprise, shows up in New York. About Seven Days in June: Brooklynite Eva Mercy is a single mom and bestselling erotica writer, who is feeling pressed from all sides.
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Fans of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles will also surely love If Cats Disappeared from the World. This beautiful tale is translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland, who also translated The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide. Genki Kawamura's If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself - and his beloved cat - to the brink. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor's diagnosis that he has only months to live.īut before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. However, the Devil makes a deal with him: for every one thing he makes disappear from the world, he may live one day longer. This is a novella about a man who finds out he only has a few days left to live. A beautifully moving tale of loss and reaching out to the ones we love, of one man's journey to discover what really matters in modern life. If Cats Disappeared from the World was written by Genki Kawamura and translated by Eric Selland.
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Bitten book series in order6/5/2023 The brilliant international bestseller reissued in the new Kelley Armstrong cover style. Abandon the only people who truly understand her new nature, or help them to save the lover who ruined her life, and who still wants her back at any cost. When a series of brutal murders threatens the Pack - and Clay - Elena is forced to make an impossible choice. Betrayed and furious, she cannot accept her transformation, and wants nothing to do with her Pack - a charismatic group of fellow werewolves who say they want to help. Kelley Armstrongs debut novel-which does much the same for werewolves as Anne Rice did for vampires (Rocky Mountain News)-is now available in mass market. It always does.'Įlena Michaels didn't know that her lover Clay was a werewolf until he bit her, changing her life forever. More please!' - Joanne Harris, author of Chocolate It's clever, quirky, hip and funny, skating between genres with style and grace. The heroine is the most appealing I have come across in ages. |