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Where Are the Great Pyramids?

Where Are the Great Pyramids?

Dorothy Hoobler

In this informative account, Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler tell the story of the powerful pharaohs who commissioned the pyramids at Giza and offer a fascinating look at the culture of the afterlife in ancient Egypt, explaining exactly how ...
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin

Dorothy Hoobler

The life story of the revolutionary who became leader of Communist Russia.
The 1950's: Music

The 1950's: Music

Dorothy Hoobler

In the 1950s Matthew befriends a Negro boy who introduces him to the new music, and together they start a rock-and-roll band.
The 1930s: Directions

The 1930s: Directions

Dorothy Hoobler

In the summer of 1936, Tony runs away from his home above his family's Italian restaurant in Chicago, while in Berlin David is present at the Olympics and prepares to move to America.
The 1970s: Arguments

The 1970s: Arguments

Dorothy Hoobler

America's involvement in Vietnam adds to the seemingly constant arguing in the Vivante family, whose cousins are among a group of people who have dropped out to live in a commune in Arizona.
The First Decade: Curtain Going Up

The First Decade: Curtain Going Up

Dorothy Hoobler

Through the experiences of the Aldriches, a famous family in American theatre, young readers can gain an understanding of what life was like during the first decade of the twentieth century.
The Second Decade: Voyages

The Second Decade: Voyages

Dorothy Hoobler

An Italian immigrant boy joins the large Aldrich family as they stage a women's suffrage play and listen to messages on the wireless radio about the ocean voyage of the Titanic.
South American portraits

South American portraits

Dorothy Hoobler

Presents biographies of some prominent South American people throughout history, including Garcilaso de la Vega, Bolivar and San Martin, Gabriela Mistral, and Pele
What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?

What Was the San Francisco Earthquake?

Dorothy Hoobler

In this addition to the What Was? series, kids will experience what it was like to be in San Francisco in 1906 when the ground buckled in a major, catastrophic earthquake.
Where Is the Taj Mahal?

Where Is the Taj Mahal?

Dorothy Hoobler

Learn about the love story behind the creation of one of the most beautiful and famous buildings in the world. The Taj Mahal may look like a palace, but it's actually a tomb and a lasting testament to one of the world's great love stories.
The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and ...

The Crimes of Paris: A True Story of Murder, Theft, and ...

Dorothy Hoobler

7. Brian Baker, “Darwin's Gothic Science and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century,” inLiterature and Science: SocialImpact andInteraction, ed.JohnH. Cartwright and Brian Baker (Santa Barbara, CA: ABCCLIO, 2005), 212. 8. Fingerprinting ...
Dorothy: Return to Oz

Dorothy: Return to Oz

Thomas L. Tedrow

Sixty years after her visit to Oz, Dorothy is still wishing to return and gets the chance when her granddaughter, Dorothy, spends the summer with her in Kansas
Angel Dorothy: How an American Progressive Came to Devon

Angel Dorothy: How an American Progressive Came to Devon

Jane Brown

Angel Dorothy is the inspiring biography of a formidable woman: wealthy American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst, who poured her considerable resources into founding Dartington Hall in 1925.
Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case

Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case

Dorothy Wayne

Dorothy Wayne was a pseudonym used by Noel Sainsbury who wrote a series of books featuring Bill Bolton, the idea being that a female author would appeal more to a young female audience.
Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society ...

Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society ...

Dorothy Wickenden

Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got ...
A Handbook for Minister's Wives: Sharing the Blessing of ...

A Handbook for Minister's Wives: Sharing the Blessing of ...

Dorothy Kelley Patterson

Sharing the Blessing of Your Marriage, Family, and Home Dorothy Kelley Patterson. A HANDBOOIQfoE^ MINISTEI^WIVES DOROTHY KELLEY PATTERSON m PUBLISHING CROUP NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE © 2002 by Dorothy Kelley ...
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54

Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54

Dorothy Osborne

Other friends we have, then living, but none so intimate or well beloved. Mr. Waller, whom Dorothy may have known, Mr. Cowley, Sir Peter Lely, ——who painted our heroine's portrait,—-and Dr. Jeremy Taylor; very courtly and superior persons ...
Beyond the Hills That Beckon

Beyond the Hills That Beckon

Ray Long

One of Henly's four surviving daughters was Dorothy Faye Whitaker Howard. Dorothy's husband, Garnett Howard, was the son of Fred Napoleon Howard and Jessie Moberly. Garnett and Dorothy were the parents of two sons, Gene Bernard , ...
Annual Editions: American History

Annual Editions: American History

Robert Maddox

Dorothy Wickenden describes the relationship between the two men — a relationship that would alter the history of race in America. Dorothy Wickenden Dorothy Wickenden is the managing editor of The New Republic. Born in Nor- walk, ...
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; ...

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: the Alfoxden journal, 1798; ...

Dorothy Wordsworth

Two of Dorothy's poems are included in the appendix, along with thirty-three poems by Wordsworth, which are referred to in the journals.
Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and ...

Black Authors and Illustrators of Books for Children and ...

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By Dorothy Sterling. Doubleday, 1954. Corrie andthe Yankee. By Mimi Cooper Levi. Viking, 1959. Mary Jane. By Dorothy Sterling. Doubleday, 1959. William. By Anne Welsh Guy. Dial, '95'. Forever Free. By Dorothy Sterling. Doubleday, 1961.
Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth

Dorothy Wordsworth

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Stay a Little Longer

Stay a Little Longer

Dorothy Garlock

Dorothy Garlock. “That, my friend,” Zachary said, smiling, “is where you come in.” Chapter Six R ACHEL TOSSED a freshly laundered sheet over.
The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of ...

The Conceptual Practices of Power: A Feminist Sociology of ...

Dorothy E. Smith

So argues Dorothy E. Smith in this provocative study of her own discipline and its relationship to women's lives.
Homeplace

Homeplace

Dorothy Garlock

Dorothy Garlock. “How come you picked this big, old ugly cousin of mine over me ? I'm much better looking than he is.” “Because I didn't want to be responsible for all the desperate women who would have thrown themselves in the river when ...
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(Skid more, ASCAP) DOROTHY COLLINS That's All I Need 78 GOTHAM 117— The canary has a way with r.&b. material and she wraps up this LaVerne/ Baker ditty with showmanship and a great beat. One of Dorothy Collins' best sides.
St. Nicholas

St. Nicholas

Mary Mapes Dodge

... .iirrett Juanita Gray Anna Christine Richards Dorothy Starr Muriel E. Halstead Shirley Clement Arthur Munro Charles Ray McCallum Rudolph ... Blanche Leeming Dorothy Barclay Emmehne Bradshaw Maude W. Fowler Jean Russell Doris F. Halman Charlotte P. Smith ... Brady Dorothy Seligman Marjorie Cluett Helen Baker Isabella B. Howland Robert Wilson Frances Isabell Powell Julia La Bau Carey ...
Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir

Open Wide The Freedom Gates: A Memoir

Dorothy Height

Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality.
Archie and Arthur: A Mouse's Tale

Archie and Arthur: A Mouse's Tale

Dorothy Anne Austin

Dorothy Anne Austin is a Scot who now lives in Cyprus. She is an animal lover and is happy to think of these stories being read by children.

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