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The Wolf Wilder
Katherine RundellFeodora's mother is a wolf wilder, and Feo is a wolf wilder in training. A wolf wilder is the opposite of an animal tamer: it is a person who teaches tamed animals to fend for themselves, and to fight and to run, and to be wary of humans.
Wilder Days
Linda Winstead JonesA WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE… Del Wilder had always been brash, reckless and more than a little dangerous.
Conversations with Wilder
Billy WilderReprint. 35,000 first printing. . Here are Wilder's sharp and funny behind-the-scenes stories about the making of A Foreign
Billy Wilder, American Film Realist
Richard ArmstrongEven comedies like The Seven-Year Itch and Some Like it Hot shine with Wilder's keen perceptions of American life. Billy Wilder, American Film Realist closely examines a selection of Wilder's films from 1941 through 1981.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Christi E. ParkerLaura Ingalls Wilder grew up as a pioneer girl and endured the difficult times in the West. Wilder made important contributions to the West. Other pioneer women contributed as well, including Narcissa Whitman, the first female pioneer.
Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...
Burt Green WilderIn his introduction to the volume, Richard M. Reid analyzes Burt Wilder's diary and places it within the context of the war, the experience of African American troops, and Wilder's life and career. RICHARD M. REID is professor of history, ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
PreviewThis volume collects essays by Wilder that originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 and 1924.
Extreme Prejudice
Wayne KeeseeBill Wilder is devastated when his brother is murdered in North Vietnam. Wilder hunts worldwide for the killer. The final confrontation takes place on Mt. Washington, New Hampshire.
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina WarnerExamines the life of Joan of Arc and explores the meaning of Joan both to her contemporaries and succeeding generations--Joan as hero, prophet, heretic, androgyne, harlot, and saint
Wilder Boys
Brandon WallaceThey only have his old letters and journal to help them, but they have to make it. It’s a long journey from the suburbs of Pittsburgh to the wilderness of Wyoming; can the Wilder Boys find their father before Bull catches up with them?
The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little ...
Wendy McClureFor anyone who has ever wanted to step into the world of a favorite book, here is a pioneer pilgrimage, a tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder, and a hilarious account of butter-churning obsession.
Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder
William AndersonLaura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books chronicle her childhood in the late 1800s on the American frontier.
Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume ...
Laura Ingalls WilderIn Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life As a Pioneer Woman, Laura tells her readers what it was like to be a pioneer in the early 1900s.
Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy ...
Dorothy Canfield FisherThe Ghost in the Little House A Life of Rose Wilder Lane William Holtz Generations of readers have come to know and love Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books. What few people know, however, is that nearly every sentence of those ...
Spirit Hunters
Magne HovdenThe brown haired man, who had entered first, spoke to Eirik, Gunther and Lizzy in English. «My name is Jakob Aasheim.» He pointed at the other man, and the woman. «This is Bill Wilder and Eva Pfeltz.» Lizzy glared at Bill Wilder. «And you ...
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Marina WarnerThe night Joan spent with Catherine de La Rochelle in the winter of 1429, trying to discover if there were any truth in her, is one of the most interesting and extraordinary incidents in the whole of Joan's career. When Catherine said that her ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life
Janet BengeLaura Ingalls Wilder experienced one of the most exciting times in American history--history that she would one day bring to life for generations to come (1867-1957).
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom
Yvonne PopeLaura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom is a must for anyone who grew up reading the Little House series but is also for anyone searching for inspiration from a woman who knew a few things about the importance of family, friends, and values.
Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art
Gene WilderGene Wilder defined film comedy in the 1970s and '80s. But this is no traditional autobiography, rather it's an intelligent, quirky, humorous account of key events that have affected him in search for love and art.
Visions of the Maid: Joan of Arc in American Film and Culture
Robin BlaetzIn Visions of the Maid, Blaetz examines three pivotal films—Cecil B. DeMille's 1916 Joan the Woman, Victor Fleming's 1948 Joan of Arc, and Otto Preminger's 1957 Saint Joan—as well as addressing a broad array of popular culture ...
Joan Robinson
G. HarcourtThis section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Joan of Arc: The Early Debate
Deborah A. Fraioli(Does) an immense service to anyone interested in Joan of Arc... skillfully disentangles countless textual threads, all centered around one problem: the nature of Joan's mission as it was examined in the early theological debates.
Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder
William AndersonThis picture-book biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder tells the remarkable story of the pioneer girl who would one day immortalize her adventures in the beloved Little House books.
Joan of Arc: Reality and Myth
Dirk Arend BerentsThe appearance of Joan of Arc JAN VAN HERWAARDEN The available documents have enabled us to learn to know the true Joan of Arc as a real person: of flesh and blood, intent on a mission and authoritarian, purposeful and arrogant, ...
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder
Ed SikovThe Life and Times of Billy Wilder Ed Sikov. www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. A version of “The Day I Met God” previously appeared on LitReactor.com, ...
Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc
PreviewI am indebted to three earlier discussions of the cinematic treatment of Joan of Arc: a special issue of Etudes cine'matographiques 18— 19 (1962) devoted to “ Jeanne d'Arc a l'e'cran”; Robin Blaetz, “Strategies of Containment: Joan of Arc in ...
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend
John E. MillerWilliam Holtz, The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane ( Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 230, 302, 313, 375, 379-85: see also William Holtz, "The Ghost in the Little House Books," Liberty 5 (March 1992): 51-54, ...
Shark Island
Joan DruettPraise for Joan Druett and A Watery Grave "What a terrific idea New Zealand naval historian Joan Druett had for a mystery series."—Chicago Tribune "This impressive debut will appeal both to fans of historical mysteries and to Patrick O' ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and places in Laura ...
William AndersonLaura Ingalls Wilder Country takes the millions of fans of the Little House books and the hit TV series on an enchanting tour of the real world of the well-loved author, visiting the people and places who inspired her classic books.
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