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Toasters

Toasters

Elaine Marie Alphin

Presents the history and development of this household appliance, describes how it works, and discusses its role in popular culture; includes recipes using a toaster.
Davy Crockett

Davy Crockett

Elaine Marie Alphin

Describes the life and accomplishments of David Crockett, the famous frontier settler, congressman, and defender of the Alamo.
Germ Hunter: A Story about Louis Pasteur

Germ Hunter: A Story about Louis Pasteur

Elaine Marie Alphin

Chronicles the life of Pasteur from his childhood in early nineteenth-century France to his years searching for the reasons behind diseases and how to cure them.
Irons

Irons

Elaine Marie Alphin

Discusses the history and development of irons, including a brief description of how the electric steam iron works, and surveys the role of irons in popular culture.
The Perfect Shot

The Perfect Shot

Elaine Marie Alphin

Brian uses basketball to block out memories of his girlfriend and her family who were gunned down a year ago, but the upcoming murder trial and a high school history assignment force him to face the past and decide how far he should go to ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Elaine Marie Alphin

Discusses the life, accomplishments, military career, and political beliefs of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States.
Ghost Soldier

Ghost Soldier

Elaine Marie Alphin

Ghost story fans and Civil War buffs alike are in for a real treat. Ghost Soldier is a nominee for the 2002 Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery.
Children's Writer Guide to 1997

Children's Writer Guide to 1997

Elaine Marie Alphin

... Baby Danced the Polka, Karen Beaumont Alarcon; juvenile fiction and nonfiction: What's in a Name?, Marisa Montes. Award: Cash prizes ranging from $75 to $100 and certificates for winners and honorable mentions, given at an award ...
Simon Says

Simon Says

Elaine Marie Alphin

Aspiring young artist, Charles Weston has enrolled in a private arts high school soley to meet the "famous" Graeme Brandt, a student whose recently published novel touched a chord deep within Charles.
Ghost Cadet

Ghost Cadet

Elaine Marie Alphin

Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting his grandmother, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.
An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo ...

An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo ...

Elaine Marie Alphin

NATIONAL PENCIL COMPANY EMPLOYEES AND ASSOCIATES Robert Barrett: eighteen-year-old factory worker; discovered evidence in the metal department Jim Conley: janitor; prosecution's star witness against Leo Frank Helen ...
School Library Journal

School Library Journal

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... 08225-03 98-0 Clara Barton Candice Ransom © 2003 HC: 0-8225-4677-9 Davu Crocheb Elaine Marie Alphin ©2003 HC: O8225-0393-X DoUey riadison lean L. S. Patrick ©2002 HC: 0-8225-0 194-5 Eleanor Rooseveli Mary Winget © 2003 ...
Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and ...

Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and ...

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“Marriage Bones” by Helen Elaine Lee. Copyright © 1995 by Helen Elaine Lee. Printed with the permission of Helen Elaine Lee. “Shoemaker Arnold” from A Brief Conversation and Other Stories by Earl Lovelace (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann  ...
French Connections: Voices from the Women's Movement in France

French Connections: Voices from the Women's Movement in France

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The book contains fifteen contributions from eight important writers: Françoise Collin, Christine Delphy, Catherine Deudon, Marie-Jo Dhavernas, Colette Guillaumin, Annie Leclerc, Françoise Picq, and Elaine Viennot.
All the Way

All the Way

Marie Darrieussecq

But who cares, Solange will get to do it, go all the way, whatever it takes. Marie Darrieussecq's All the Way is a brilliant and hilarious picture of an adolescent girl. Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France.
The Young Wives

The Young Wives

Elaine Crowley

Elaine Crowley creates a community bound together by the special intimacy that comes when a group of people is thrown together and living far away from their homes and families.
Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical ...

Postcolonial African Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical ...

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Marie Umeh, Eleni Coundouriotis, Hildegard Hoeller, Juliana Makuchi Nfah- Abbenyi, Mary Vogl, Siga Fatima Jagne, Elaine Savory, Christine Loflin, Lisa McNee, Maxine Beahan, and Lindsay Pentolfe Aegerter consider various explorations of ...
A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning

Cathy Curtis

Elaine de Kooning letter to Philip Pavia, [postmarked] February 25, 1959, Philip Pavia Papers. Elaine de Kooning interview with John Jonas Gruen. Graham Gallery letter to Oliver Rowe, June 15, 1971, James Graham & Sons Gallery Records, ...
Marie Hagerty

Marie Hagerty

Marie Hagerty

"The Marie Hagerty exhibition displays a range of canvases and collages of bold colour and robust shapes in which the viewer is confronted with the dualities of reality and abstraction in beautifully expressive ways.
Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier

Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier

L. Weber

... Jude McCulloch, Marie Segrave, Mike Grewcock, Claudia Tazreiter, Anna Eriksson, Bree Carlton, Danielle Tyson, Elaine Fishwick, Jane Bolitho, Walter Forrest, Dean Wilson, Sanja Milivojevic, Alyce McGovern and Jane Maree Maher.
Engendering Empire: The New Woman and the New Imperialism in ...

Engendering Empire: The New Woman and the New Imperialism in ...

LeeAnne Marie Richardson

"The Morality of Marriage."1890. Prose By Victorian Women: An Anthology. Eds. Andrea Broomfield and Sally Mitchell. New York: Garland, 1996. 566- 582. Cholmondeley, Mary. Red Pottage. 1899. Ed. Elaine Showalter. London: Virago, 1985.
Special of the Day

Special of the Day

Elaine Fox

Writing with her trademark wit and humour, Elaine Fox brings us another wonderfully charming contemporary romance about a beauty who finally finds love that is more than just skin deep.
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's ...

A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's ...

Elisabeth de Feydeau

An alternate perspective on the world of Marie Antoinette, told through the story of her personal and exclusive perfumer Jean-Louis Fargeon, documents how he faithfully served Marie for fourteen years until the Revolution swept across ...
The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

The Cambridge Companion to Caryl Churchill

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Elaine Aston, Elin Diamond. I. ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND ... and internationally. Hence, wherever one looks the Churchillian landscape is ' frightening'. At Introduction: on Caryl Churchill ELAINE ASTON AND ELIN DIAMOND.
The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox ...

The Congrégation de Notre-Dame, Superiors, and the Paradox ...

Colleen Gray

Gray focuses on the social, administrative, political, and spiritual dimensions of the lives of three Congr gation superiors - Marie Barbier, Marie-Jos phe Maugue-Garreau, and Marie Raizenne.
West Virginia Blue Book

West Virginia Blue Book

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Cassell, Marka, 126 Cassell, Robert S., 174 Cassis, Joe, 37 Castleberry, William, 10 Casto, Alva, 176 Casto, Blonda, ... 17 Champe, Ronnie R., 207 Champion, Elaine Marie, 148 Chanaki, V. G., 168 Chance, Robert, 187 Chancey, Larry ...
Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modernism Redefined

Elaine Lustig Cohen: Modernism Redefined

Aaris Sherin

A short critical overview of Elaine Lustig Cohen's pioneering design work as well as her paintings and collages.
Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: ...

Working with Families of African Caribbean Origin: ...

Elaine Arnold

In this book, Elaine Arnold examines the psychological impact that immigration had on these families, in particular with relation to attachment issues.

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