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What a wonderful funny book about a little boy growing up in Tennessee. Frances Calhoun wrote in the conversational southern language of the early 20th century. Episodes include: "The Rabbit's Left Hind Foot", "A Green Eyed Billy" and, "Education and Its Perils." After the author's death, later books in this series were written by Emma Sampson.

Provides a history of prostitution in Australia from before European colonisation, and situates this history within an international context of labour migration and policy formation. This work draws on archival research and interviews to chart the ways in which prostitution contributed to women's economic survival and to colonisation.

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En El Torreón Embrujado se narran las aventuras que protagonizan dos niños, Nacho y Toni durante un verano que parecía iba a ser anodino y aburrido. Sus vidas monótonas imperceptiblemente se complican y se ven inmersos en un mundo frenético de emociones fuertes e increibles descubrimientos. Gracias a su talento deductivo, su imaginación, decisión y valor logran superar los obstáculos que surgen a lo largo del relato. La princesa TAI, con su ma...

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was a poet and abolitionist. She joined the American Anti-Slavery Society as a traveling lecturer. Iola Leroy was published in 1892 and tells the story of a black slave and the south after the Civil War. Iola was the daughter of a slave and a plantation owner. She was rescued by a Union soldier. When given the opportunity to marry and pass for white she declines the offer and instead marries a black doctor and retu...

These poems explore the constant interaction between everyday life and art and the imaginary space it provides all of us. In the first section which gives its title to the collection, a poetic sequence retells a real-life love affair from beginning to end, from the encounter to the break-up, through memories of love as it is remembered by the author and through the lens of pivotal and memorable movie scenes that seem to mirror her own experien...

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Linen is a fairy tale including the after following the "happily ever after" line. It is the story of a foundling girl. Following a life of torment and little joy, she is rescued by the man of her dreams. For a period of time she is blissfully asleep, conscious in an alternate reality where she experiences love and sorrow to an unmitigated degree. Upon awakening, she becomes intimately acquainted with both desperation and denial. Although unab...

Linen is a fairy tale including the after following the "happily ever after" line. It is the story of a foundling girl. Following a life of torment and little joy, she is rescued by the man of her dreams. For a period of time she is blissfully asleep, conscious in an alternate reality where she experiences love and sorrow to an unmitigated degree. Upon awakening, she becomes intimately acquainted with both desperation and denial. Although unab...

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This 1903 volume by Mrs. Frances Owens provides recipes and hints for economical household management.

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Lottie, a lively ten-year old Hispanic girl, longs for something new and different in her life. Her summers up to this point have all been, more or less, the same. Then the arrival of a magical letter and a TV newscast transforms her vacation time in a high adventure. An adventure which involves trying to relate to a cold, estranged, yet very rich, grandmother, freeing a ten-year-old African American boy from a locked room, hiding him in a saf...

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with educating gifted students in rural areas