The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs

The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs
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Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 1948552086
ISBN-13 : 9781948552080
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis The Family That Carried Their House on Their Backs by : Sammie Downing

Young Miriam is born into a world where women carry houses stitched to their backs, while men carry keys with the power to unlock them. As precious family heirlooms disappear and Father roams through the woods later and later into the night, Mother slowly loses her memory and Miriam understands that her family might not be as human as it appears.

The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back

The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back
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Publisher : Candlewick Press
Total Pages : 43
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ISBN-10 : 9781536246223
ISBN-13 : 1536246220
Rating : 4/5 (23 Downloads)

Synopsis The Mouse Who Carried a House on His Back by : Jonathan Stutzman

Celebrated artist Isabelle Arsenault joins forces with author Jonathan Stutzman for an enchanting tale about the expansive power of generosity. Vincent was a mouse with boots on his feet, a hat on his head, and a house on his back. When an ordinary spot on a grassy hill calls out to him, Vincent puts down the house he carries on his back and knows he’s where he needs to be. As hungry and tired travelers pass by, Vincent welcomes them into his home, making room for everyone. And even when it seems that the house is as full as it possibly can be, there is no woodland animal so big or so scary—not a ravenous cat, nor a fox, nor a whole herd of deer—that Vincent would turn it away from his warm, magical home on the hill. Jonathan Stutzman’s charming voice is enhanced by the elegant, inventive die-cut art of three-time Governor General’s Award winner Isabelle Arsenault in this classic tale of a generous little mouse with a special house and an ever-expanding heart.

House of Leaves

House of Leaves
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Publisher : Pantheon
Total Pages : 738
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ISBN-10 : 9780375420528
ISBN-13 : 0375420525
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis House of Leaves by : Mark Z. Danielewski

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
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Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Total Pages : 508
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ISBN-10 : 9780871409430
ISBN-13 : 0871409437
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam by : Max Boot

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize (Biography) A New York Times bestseller, this “epic and elegant” biography (Wall Street Journal) profoundly recasts our understanding of the Vietnam War. Praised as a “superb scholarly achievement” (Foreign Policy), The Road Not Taken confirms Max Boot’s role as a “master chronicler” (Washington Times) of American military affairs. Through dozens of interviews and never-before-seen documents, Boot rescues Edward Lansdale (1908–1987) from historical ignominy to “restore a sense of proportion” to this “political Svengali, or ‘Lawrence of Asia’ ”(The New Yorker). Boot demonstrates how Lansdale, the man said to be the fictional model for Graham Greene’s The Quiet American, pioneered a “hearts and minds” diplomacy, first in the Philippines and then in Vietnam. Bringing a tragic complexity to Lansdale and a nuanced analysis to his visionary foreign policy, Boot suggests Vietnam could have been different had we only listened. With contemporary reverberations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, The Road Not Taken is a “judicious and absorbing” (New York Times Book Review) biography of lasting historical consequence.

Course of Study: For the pupil

Course of Study: For the pupil
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Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951000927107L
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Rating : 4/5 (7L Downloads)

Synopsis Course of Study: For the pupil by : Cleveland (Ohio). Board of Education. Bureau of Educational Research

Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Enquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East-India Company

Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Enquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East-India Company
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Total Pages : 926
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ISBN-10 : WISC:89107191124
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Rating : 4/5 (24 Downloads)

Synopsis Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Enquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East-India Company by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. East India Company, Select Committee on the

Minutes of evidence taken before the select committee of the House of lords appointed to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East-India company. [7 pt., 6 numbered 1, 8-10, 12,13].

Minutes of evidence taken before the select committee of the House of lords appointed to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East-India company. [7 pt., 6 numbered 1, 8-10, 12,13].
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Total Pages : 942
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:600005689
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Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Minutes of evidence taken before the select committee of the House of lords appointed to enquire into the present state of the affairs of the East-India company. [7 pt., 6 numbered 1, 8-10, 12,13]. by : Parliament lords, proc

Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Enquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East India Company, and Into the Trade Between Great Britain, the East Indies, and China, and to Report to the House

Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Enquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East India Company, and Into the Trade Between Great Britain, the East Indies, and China, and to Report to the House
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Total Pages : 960
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433016945176
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Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Select Committee of the House of Lords Appointed to Enquire Into the Present State of the Affairs of the East India Company, and Into the Trade Between Great Britain, the East Indies, and China, and to Report to the House by : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords. Select Committee on the East India Company

All That She Carried

All That She Carried
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9781984855008
ISBN-13 : 198485500X
Rating : 4/5 (08 Downloads)

Synopsis All That She Carried by : Tiya Miles

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist