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The Wolf Wilder

The Wolf Wilder

Katherine Rundell

Feodora'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

Wilder Days

Linda Winstead Jones

A WALK ON THE WILDER SIDE… Del Wilder had always been brash, reckless and more than a little dangerous.
Conversations with Wilder

Conversations with Wilder

Billy Wilder

Reprint. 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

Billy Wilder, American Film Realist

Richard Armstrong

Even 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

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christi E. Parker

Laura 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 ...

Practicing Medicine in a Black Regiment: The Civil War Diary ...

Burt Green Wilder

In 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

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks

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This volume collects essays by Wilder that originally appeared in the Missouri Ruralist between 1911 and 1924.
Extreme Prejudice

Extreme Prejudice

Wayne Keesee

Bill 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.
Wilder Boys

Wilder Boys

Brandon Wallace

They 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 ...

The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little ...

Wendy McClure

For 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

Prairie Girl: The Life of Laura Ingalls Wilder

William Anderson

Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books chronicle her childhood in the late 1800s on the American frontier.
Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey

Palmento: A Sicilian Wine Odyssey

Robert V. Camuto

Inspired by a deep passion for wine, an Italian heritage, and a desire for a land somewhat wilder than his home in southern France, Robert V. Camuto set out to explore Sicily's emerging wine scene.
Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume ...

Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder - Volume ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder

In 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 ...

Keeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy ...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

The 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

Spirit Hunters

Magne Hovden

The 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  ...
The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition

The Chambers Crossword Dictionary, 3rd edition

Chambers

... Warhol (Andy), Warner (Deborah), Warner (Jack), Welles (Orson), Wilder (Billy) , Wilson (Robert), Zanuck (Darryl) Akerman (Chantal), Aldrich (Robert), Asquith ( Anthony), Belasco (David), Benigni (Roberto), Bennett (Alan), Bennett (Michael),  ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Storybook Life

Janet Benge

Laura 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

Laura Ingalls Wilder's Prairie Wisdom

Yvonne Pope

Laura 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

Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My Search for Love and Art

Gene Wilder

Gene 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.
Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pioneer Girl: The Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder

William Anderson

This 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.
On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder

Ed Sikov

The 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, ...
Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend

Becoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman behind the Legend

John E. Miller

William 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, ...
Nickel

Nickel

Robert Wilder

Coy's a quirky teenage boy and his best friend Monroe is a girl who's just as odd and funny and obsessed with '80s culture as he is. When Monroe comes down with a mysterious illness, Coy's inner turmoil only grows.
50 of the Finest Films Hollywood Ever Made

50 of the Finest Films Hollywood Ever Made

John Howard Reid

Robert W. Pohle Jr and Douglas C. Hart in Sherlock Holmes on the Screen. VIEWER'S GUIDE: Adults. COMMENT: Wilder says that “private” is the operative word here — and I agree with him. This is not so much a detective whodunit but a vie ...
Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and places in Laura ...

Laura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and places in Laura ...

William Anderson

Laura 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.
Santa Fe and Taos: The Writer's Era, 1916-1941

Santa Fe and Taos: The Writer's Era, 1916-1941

Marta Weigle

This volume focuses on the contributions of the writers, playwrights and poets--D.H. Lawrence, Willa Cather, Robert Frost, Thornton Wilder, Carl Sandburg, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial ...

Robert Love's Warnings: Searching for Strangers in Colonial ...

Cornelia H. Dayton

Ethel Stanwood Bolton, Immigrants to New England 1700–1775 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1979), 14–15; Emily Wilder Leavitt, The Blair Family History ofNew England (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1900), 135–36, 150; and SCPF ...
The Blair family of New England revisited

The Blair family of New England revisited

Mary J. Powers

A.6 William was born about 1 71 8 in Aghadowey, Ireland [Leavitt], the sixth William Blair child and fourth son of Robert Blair and ... Eastman writes: "Please note that I differ from Emily Wilder Leavitt 's dates of birth for the children of Copt.

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