Summary: This comprehensive guide to modern poetry in English covers 1,500 poets, including poets from Britain, America, New Zealand, Trinidad, and Zimbabwe. Many of the contributors are themselves celebrated poets, including Tom Paulin and Seamus Heaney.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996

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Summary: Esteemed critic Blanche Gelfants brilliant companion gathers together lucid essays on major writers and themes by some of the best literary critics in the United States. Part 1 is comprised of articles on stories that share a particular theme such as "Working Class Stories" or "Gay and Lesbian Stories." The heart of the book, however, lies in Part 2, which contains more than one hundred pieces...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2000

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Summary: Originally published: The reader's companion to twentieth-century writers. London : Fourth Estate ; Oxford : Helicon, 1995.Companion volume to A reader's guide to the twentieth-century novel.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996

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Summary: This watershed release represents the life's work of William Ferris, an audio recordist, filmmaker, folklorist, and teacher with an unwavering commitment to establish and to expand the study of the American South. William Ferris was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1942. Growing up on a working farm, Ferris began at a young age documenting the artwork, music, and lives of the people on the...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Dust to Digital 2018

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McClain, S. (Sally)

Summary: Based on first-person accounts and Marine Corps documents, and featuring the original code dictionary, Navajo Weapon tells how the code talkers created a unique code within a code, served their country in combat, and saved American lives.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rio Nuevo Publishers 2001

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Berglund, Bruce R.

Summary: "During World War II, a group of homesick Polish soldiers took in an orphaned bear cub and named him Wojtek. As the bear cub grew, he became friends with the soldiers, lifting their spirits as he learned to imitate them around camp. Later, Wojtek was helpful by carrying many heavy shells during a large battle in Italy. Learn how Wojtek showed his courage in battle and earned the rank of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024

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Publisher / Publication Date: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1978

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Gagne, Peter J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Quintin Publications 2002

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Summary: A guide to everything Dickens collects the latest scholarship on the author and offers an overview of all his works, characters, illustrators, printers, and associates.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1999

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Gilbert, Joanne D.

Summary: "Four stories of Polish women who resisted the Nazis during World War II"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

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Wistrich, Robert S.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Routledge 1995

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Ruby, Jennifer.

Summary: This book takes the reader back to Victorian times to show the clothes of the people in the nineteenth century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Batsford 1994

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Berglund, Bruce R.

Summary: "During the war in Ukraine, many cities were destroyed, and areas were left in ruins. Among the rubble were many dangerous, unexploded bombs and mines. But thanks to the hard work of a well-trained dog named Patron, Ukraine's streets have become more secure. Follow along with Patron as he sniffs out hundreds of desdly explosives and helps the people of Ukraine feel safer in their homeland" --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2024

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Gaiteros de San Jacinto

Contents: Fuego de cumbia : cumbia = Cumbia fire / Rafael Pérez García (5:24) -- Sigan bailando : puya = Keep on dancing / Manuel Antonio García Caro (2:23) -- El manolo : bullerengue / Juan Alberto Fernández Polo (4:37) -- El millo se modernizó : cumbia = The millo got modernized / Aurelio Fernández (3:51) -- Canto de zafra = Worksong / Juan Alberto Fernández Polo (5:09) -- El corcovado : gaita corrida...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006

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Contents: Run to Jesus for refuge (Charles Barnett) -- Joe Turner (Ed Young & Hobart Smith) -- The Titanic (Bessie Jones, Hobart Smith & the Georgia Sea Island Singers) -- Witness for my Lord (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Dark day (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- The very same God (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- Gospel train (Silver Leaf Quartet) -- I got a home (Nat Rahmings, Hobart Smith & Ed Young) -- Hey, hey, honey...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997

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Godden, Geoffrey A.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 1964

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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2007

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Research 1994

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Publisher / Publication Date: L-W Book Sales 1964

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Contents: The murderer's home / Jimpson & group -- No more, my lord / Jimpson & axe gang -- Old Alabama / B. B. & group -- Black woman / B. B. & group -- Jumpin' Judy / Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair, & group -- Whoa Buck / C. B. -- Prettiest train / "22" -- Old dollar Mamie / "22" & group -- It makes a long time man feel bad / "22" & group -- Rosie / C. B. & axe gang -- Levee Camp holler / Bama --...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1997

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Contents: Sorrow come pass me around (Ephram Carter and his Fife & Drum Band) -- Do remember me (Willard Artis "Blind Pete" Burrell) -- The ship is at the landing (Babe Stovall) -- You don't know what the Lord has done for me (Annie Lee and Oscar Crawford, with Annie Mae Jones) -- Talk about a child that do love Jesus (Reverend Rubin Lacy) -- Can't no grave hold my body down (Robert "Nighthawk" Johnson)...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Dust-To-Digital 2013

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Contents: I don't mind the weather (Jim Henry) -- Diamond Joe (Charlie Butler) -- Joe the grinder (Irwin Lowry) -- Another man done gone ; Boll weevil blues (Vera Hall) -- Two white horses ; Country rag (East Texas rag) : (guitar solo) ; Shorty George (Smith Casey) -- Blues (up an down buildin' the KC line) ("Little Brother") -- Country blues ; I be's troubled (McKinley Morganfield) -- Lost John ; Fox...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Select 1999

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Picard, Marc

Summary: "Monsieur Picard, who has previously written about the etymologies of the French migrants who settled Quebec and Acadia in the 17th and 18th centuries, now follows the spread of those surnames to various English-speaking parts of North America. Besides its derivations and Anglicizations, this resource references the first French-Canadian settlers bearing the names found in the dictionary....

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Coombes, Allen J.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2012

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