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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1953]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
488 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rich in the lore and legend of Vermont, strong in the state's proud history, and alive with the personality of one of Vermont's greatest daughters, this book holds the soul of Vermont in its pages."
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1961]
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
312 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The former Senator from Vermont, foe of Joseph McCarthy, recalls his eighty years of life from his days as a boy in a Vermont village through his long service and adherence to New England conservatism and morality.
Author
Series
Publisher
Collier Books
Pub. Date
1987, c1964
Edition
1st Scribner classic/Collier ed.
Physical Desc
211 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.
Author
Series
Publisher
Collier-Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
378 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
James Herriot, now newly married, journeys among the remote hillside farms and valley towns of the Yorkshire Dales, caring for their inhabitants--both two- and four-legged. Throughout, Herriot's deep compassion, humor, and love of life shine out as we laugh, cry, and delight in his portraits of his many, varied animal patients and their equally varied owners.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1968
Physical Desc
xii, 414 p. illus. (on lining papers) 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the tale of a delightful family called the Applyards. After that the book is largely a story about a happy marriage, of children, of Brookline, of mouth-watering food, of Vermont, and the restoration of the beautiful family houses at Appleyard Center.
Author
Series
Publisher
Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation
Pub. Date
1988, c1962
Physical Desc
ix, 370 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Intimate biography of the wife of the 29th President of the United States with a picture of life and events in the White House during the 1920's.
Author
Language
English
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Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and extreme poverty, but also hope, joy, achievement and celebration. In this first volume of her six books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes her childhood with her grandmother in the American south of the 1930s. She learns...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[1961]
Edition
[Inaugural ed.]
Physical Desc
xxiii, 266 p. illus., ports., facsims. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft." "Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued in this handsome hard-cover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well...
12) Up from slavery
Author
Language
English
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Delve into the turbulent roots of race relations in the United States with this inspirational account from Booker T. Washington, a one-time slave who became an important advocate for African-American education and founded several well-known institutions of higher learning, including the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
Author
Series
Landmark books volume 66
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1956
Physical Desc
184 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the leader of the Green Mountain Boys during the American Revolution and an account of those years of rebellion.
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1954
Physical Desc
382 p. illus., ports. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Story of My Life," first appeared in installments in "Ladies' Home Journal" in 1902. This book is truly one of the great American autobiographies: an inspiring story of a courageous individual who overcame tremendous odds. Keller writes about many things: her childhood in Alabama; her relationship with her beloved teacher, Anne Sullivan; her attendance at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf in New York City; and meeting such eminent figures...
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Language
English
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Irrepressible individualist and iconoclast Pat Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract in May 2002 to enlist in the United States Army. Deeply troubled by 9/11, he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in Afghanistan. Though obvious to most on the scene that a ranger in Tillman's own platoon had fired the fatal shots, the Army aggressively maneuvered...
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Language
English
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In September 1960, at age fifty-eight, the author and his poodle, Charley, and riding in a three-quarter ton pickup truck named Rocinante, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip through almost 40 states, meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Providing an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life, this is a self-portrait of a man who never wrote...
Author
Publisher
Audio Holdings, LLC
Edition
Abridged
Language
English
Description
Ernest Hemingway's friend and fellow writer A.E. Hotchner discusses the experiences he and Hemingway had when they traveled together from 1948 through 1961, the conversations they had about Hemingway's childhood, his impressions about Hemingway's suicide, and other related topics.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived....
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