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]]> http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/1/feed A Young People’s History Of The United States / Volume 1 Columbus To The Spanish American War http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/543 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/543#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/543
  • A Young People's History Of The United States / Volume 1 Columbus To The Spanish American War

  • Attribution

    Howard Zinn ; adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Links

  • Description

    Praise for A People's History of the United States: "Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • A Young People's History Of The United States / Volume 1 Columbus To The Spanish American War

  • Title

    • A Young People’s History Of The United States / Volume 1 Columbus To The Spanish American War

  • Attribution

    Howard Zinn ; adapted by Rebecca Stefoff

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • YA 973 Zin V.1

  • links

  • Description and Reviews

    Praise for A People's History of the United States: “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Notes

    • Adaptation of People’s history of the United States.
    • A history of the United States from its beginnings to the early twenty-first century, as told from the point of view of ordinary people, including slaves and Native Americans, to reveal the violence, racism, and injustices which occurred during key events.

  • Contents

    • v. 1. Columbus to the Spanish-American War
    • v. 2. Class struggle to the War on terror.

  • ISBN

    • 9781583227596
    • 1583227598
    • 1583227598
    • 978158322759-6
    • 9781583227602
    • 1583227601
    • 1583227601
    • 978158322760-2

  • LCCN

    • 2007008703
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/543/feed     Loving Frank : A Novel http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/499 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/499#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/499
  • Loving Frank : A Novel

  • Attribution

    Nancy Horan

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story. –Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light “This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright’s love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate.” summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Loving Frank : A Novel

  • Title

    • Loving Frank : A Novel

  • Attribution

    Nancy Horan

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • F Hor

  • Description and Reviews

    So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Elegantly written and remarkably rich in detail, Loving Frank is a fitting tribute to a courageous woman, a national icon, and their timeless love story. –Lauren Belfer, author of City of Light “This graceful, assured first novel tells the remarkable story of the long-lived affair between Frank Lloyd Wright, a passionate and impossible figure, and Mamah Cheney, a married woman whom Wright beguiled and led beyond the restraint of convention. This beautifully written novel about Mamah Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright’s love affair is vivid and intelligent, unsentimental and compassionate.” summarized from Amazon.com

  • Author

  • Subject

  • ISBN

    • 9780345494993
    • 0345494997
    • 0345494997
    • 978034549499-3

  • LCCN

    • 2007014810
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/499/feed     The Sleeping Doll http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/428 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/428#comments Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/428
  • The Sleeping Doll

  • Attribution

    Jeffery Deaver

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Links

  • Description

    When Special Agent Kathryn Dance -- a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation -- is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel "Son of Manson" Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics -- body language -- expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again? summarized from Amazon.com

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  • The Sleeping Doll

  • Title

    • The Sleeping Doll

  • Attribution

    Jeffery Deaver

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • F Dea

  • links

  • Description and Reviews

    When Special Agent Kathryn Dance — a brilliant interrogator and kinesics expert with the California Bureau of Investigation — is sent to question the convicted killer Daniel “Son of Manson” Pell as a suspect in a newly unearthed crime, she feels both trepidation and electrifying intrigue. In an electrifying psychological jousting match, Dance calls up all her skills as an interrogator and kinesics — body language — expert to get to the truth behind Daniel Pell. The lies of the past and the evasions of the present boil up under the relentless probing of Kathryn Dance, but will the truth about Daniel Pell emerge in time to stop him from killing again? summarized from Amazon.com

  • Author

  • Subject

  • ISBN

    • 9780743260947
    • 0743260945
    • 0743260945
    • 978074326094-7

  • LCCN

    • 2006038548
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/428/feed     The Three Snow Bears http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/517 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/517#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/517
  • The Three Snow Bears

  • Attribution

    Jan Brett

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    Dramatic illustrations capture the shimmering ice, snow and deep blue seas of the Arctic, and when Jan adds a raven-haired Inuit girl and her appealing huskies, an endearing family of polar bears, and playful Arctic animals in the borders, the result is one of her most beautiful picture books. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • The Three Snow Bears

  • Titles

    • The Three Snow Bears
    • Goldilocks and the three bears.

  • Attribution

    Jan Brett

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • E Bre

  • Description and Reviews

    Dramatic illustrations capture the shimmering ice, snow and deep blue seas of the Arctic, and when Jan adds a raven-haired Inuit girl and her appealing huskies, an endearing family of polar bears, and playful Arctic animals in the borders, the result is one of her most beautiful picture books. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Notes

    • Retells the story of Goldilocks, set in an Inuit village and featuring a family of polar bears.

  • ISBN

    • 0399247920
    • 978039924792-7
    • 9780399247927
    • 03992479211

  • LCCN

    • 2007007373
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/517/feed     The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/482 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/482#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/482
  • The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox

  • Attribution

    Maggie O'Farrell

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—where she has been locked away for more than sixty-one years. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox

  • Title

    • The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox

  • Attribution

    Maggie O’Farrell

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • F O’Fa

  • Description and Reviews

    In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital—where she has been locked away for more than sixty-one years. summarized from Amazon.com

  • Author

  • Subject

  • ISBN

    • 9780151014118
    • 0151014116
    • 0151014116
    • 978015101411-8

  • LCCN

    • 2007006079
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/482/feed     World Without End http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/465 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/465#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/465
  • World Without End

  • Attribution

    Ken Follett

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • World Without End

  • Title

    • World Without End

  • Attribution

    Ken Follett

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • F Fol

  • Description and Reviews

    In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelfth-century England centered on the building of a cathedral and many of the hundreds of lives it affected. Three years in the writing, and nearly eighteen years since its predecessor, World Without End breathes new life into the epic historical novel and once again shows that Ken Follett is a masterful author writing at the top of his craft. summarized from Amazon.com

  • Author

  • Subject

  • ISBN

    • 9780525950073
    • 0525950079
    • 0525950079
    • 978052595007-3

  • LCCN

    • 2007026639
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/465/feed     Eulalia! http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/467 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/467#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/467
  • Eulalia!

  • Attribution

    Brian Jacques ; illustrated by David Elliot

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    Lord Asheye of Salamandastron has a prophecy: A new Badger Lord must take his place and reign over the legendary badger fortress. Meanwhile, the unsuspecting future Badger Lord has been captured by a scurrilous group of Sea Raiders led by the infamous fox, Vizka Longtooth, who intends on conquering Redwall Abbey. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Eulalia!

  • Title

    • Eulalia!

  • Attribution

    Brian Jacques ; illustrated by David Elliot

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • J Jac

  • Description and Reviews

    Lord Asheye of Salamandastron has a prophecy: A new Badger Lord must take his place and reign over the legendary badger fortress. Meanwhile, the unsuspecting future Badger Lord has been captured by a scurrilous group of Sea Raiders led by the infamous fox, Vizka Longtooth, who intends on conquering Redwall Abbey. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Notes

    • On his way to invade Redwall Abbey, vicious and tyrannical Captain Vizka Longtooth captures Gorath, the brave young badger whose predicted destiny is to become the next Badger Lord.

  • ISBN

    • 0399242090
    • 978039924209-0
    • 9780399242090
    • 03992420911

  • LCCN

    • 2007060022
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/467/feed     Missing Witness http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/549 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/549#comments Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/549
  • Missing Witness

  • Attribution

    Gordon Campbell

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    In this electrifying debut thriller, a brilliant defense lawyer takes on a murder case with ingenious twists Phoenix, Arizona, 1973. But the murdered man's wealthy father believes he owes the woman something and hires Dan Morgan, the best lawyer in Phoenix, to defend her. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Missing Witness

  • Title

    • Missing Witness

  • Attribution

    Gordon Campbell

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • F Cam

  • Description and Reviews

    In this electrifying debut thriller, a brilliant defense lawyer takes on a murder case with ingenious twists Phoenix, Arizona, 1973. But the murdered man's wealthy father believes he owes the woman something and hires Dan Morgan, the best lawyer in Phoenix, to defend her. summarized from Amazon.com

  • Author

  • Subject

  • ISBN

    • 9780061337512
    • 006133751x
    • 006133751x
    • 978006133751-2

  • LCCN

    • 2007021679
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/549/feed     Playing For Pizza http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/477 http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/477#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Lichen Rancourt http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/477
  • Playing For Pizza

  • Attribution

    John Grisham

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Description

    Playing for Pizza: A Q&A with John GrishamQ: American football in Italy seems like an unlikely subject for a John Grisham novel. A: Three years ago when I was in Bologna researching "The Broker", I discovered American football. One of my guides in the area played football for the Bologna Warriors for 10 years. I couldn't believe that American football actually existed there, but the more I heard about it the more intrigued I became. summarized from Amazon.com

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  • Playing For Pizza

  • Title

    • Playing For Pizza

  • Attribution

    John Grisham

  • Format

    Book

  • Published

    2007

  • Availability

  • Call Number

    • F Gri

  • Description and Reviews

    Playing for Pizza: A Q&A with John GrishamQ: American football in Italy seems like an unlikely subject for a John Grisham novel. A: Three years ago when I was in Bologna researching “The Broker”, I discovered American football. One of my guides in the area played football for the Bologna Warriors for 10 years. I couldn't believe that American football actually existed there, but the more I heard about it the more intrigued I became. summarized from Amazon.com

  • Author

  • Subject

  • ISBN

    • 9780385525008
    • 0385525001
    • 0385525001
    • 978038552500-8

  • LCCN

    • 2007027656
    • ]]>     http://working.remainingrelevant.net/read/477/feed