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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
Rinehart
Pub. Date
[1950]
Physical Desc
309 p. illus. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Here is a wonderful, rambunctious gallery of folk: the early "ornery" ones like Hetty Green, the "outsider" who came to Vermont contrary, and stayed to become more so; Russel Colvin, the alleged corpse, who turned out to be not so dead; Eleazer Wheelock's son, John, who became the second president of Dartmouth College -- right through Calvin Coolidge. Her are Vermont's weird religions, fights, sports and finaglings; her artists (including the adopted...
5) Catch-22
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 220
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents a classic edition of the 1961 satire of military bureaucracy, focusing on the story of John Yossarian, a bombadier in World War II who is trying to avoid getting killed while at the same time dealing with a colonel who keeps upping the number of missions he must fly.
Author
Series
His The Army of the Potomac volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1951
Physical Desc
vi, 372 p. maps. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A magnificent history of the opening years of the Civil War by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Bruce Catton. The first book in Bruce Catton's Pulitzer Prize-winning Army of the Potomac Trilogy, Mr. Lincoln's Army is a riveting history of the early years of the Civil War, when a fledgling Union Army took its stumbling first steps under the command of the controversial general George McClellan. Following the secession of the Southern states, a beleaguered...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The author's new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1940
Physical Desc
507 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain, it tells of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal.
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
xliv, 428 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The Confessions of Nat Turner reveals in unforgettable human terms the agonizing essence of Negro slavery. Through the mind of a slave, William Styron has re-created a catastrophic event, and dramatized the intermingled miseries, frustrations-and hopes-which caused this extraordinary black man to rise up out of the early mists of our history and strike down those who had held his people in bondage."--provided by publisher
17) Dragon seed
Author
Publisher
The Sun Dial Press
Pub. Date
[1943]
Physical Desc
378 p. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
One of the more political novels from the pen of Pearl Buck, Dragon Seed brings to light the tragedy of the Japanese invasion and occupation of mainland China during WWII.
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
Magic tree house. Original series volume 22
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
69 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Using their magic tree house, Jack and Annie travel back to the time of the American Revolution and help General George Washington during his famous crossing of the Delaware River.
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