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Making furniture & dollhouses for American Girl and other 18-inch dolls / by Simmons, Dennis(Dennis Lee),1950-;
LSC
Subjects: Doll furniture.; Dollhouses.;
© c2009., Fox Chapel Pub.,
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George Orwell's Animal farm / by McGregor, Lona; Buzan, Tony;
Includes notes on themes, characters , language and style with plot analysis.
Subjects: Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Allegories;
© c1999., Barron's Educational Series Inc.,
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Blood on the hills : the Canadian Army in the Korean War / by Bercuson, David Jay,1945-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Canada. Canadian Army; Korean War, 1950-1953;
© c1999., University of Toronto,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Polar, the Titanic bear / by Spedden, Daisy Corning Stone, 1872-1950.; McGaw, Laurie.;
Subjects: Spedden, Daisy Corning Stone, 1872-1950; Spedden, Daisy Corning Stone, 1872-1950; Titanic (Steamship).; Shipwrecks;
© 1994., Little, Brown and Company Canada,
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Behind sad eyes : the life of George Harrison / by Shapiro, Marc,1949-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-235) and discography (p. [207]-231).
Subjects: Harrison, Gregory, 1950-; Rock musicians;
© 2002., St. Martin's Press,
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Why Orwell matters / by Hitchens, Christopher;
Subjects: Orwell, George, 1903-1950;
© c2002., Basic Books,
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The Walworth beauty / by Roberts, Michèle,author.;
2011: When Madeleine loses her job as a lecturer, she decides to leave her riverside flat in cobbled Stew Lane, where history never feels far away and move to Apricot Place. Yet here too, in this quiet Walworth cul-de-sac, she senses the past encroaching: a shifting in the atmosphere, a current of unseen life. 1851: Joseph Benson has been employed by Henry Mayhew to help research his articles on the working classes. A family man with mouths to feed, Joseph is tasked with coaxing testimony from prostitutes. Roaming the Southwark streets, he is tempted by brothels' promises of pleasure - and as he struggles with his assignment, he seeks answers in Apricot Place, where the enigmatic Mrs. Dulcimer runs a boarding house. As these entwined stories unfold, alive with the sensations of London past and present, the two eras brush against each other.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.;
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Guns of the vigilantes / by Johnstone, William W.,author.; Johnstone, J. A.,author.;
It begins with a massacre. A crime so brutal and bloody, the local sheriff isn't smart enough to solve it. But when young deputy Dan Caine sees the slaughter for himself--an entire family murdered--he can't let it go. Especially when the eldest daughter is missing. Right there and then, Caine makes a fateful decision: throw away his badge, form a vigilante team, and go after the killers. There's one problem: Who would be crazy enough to join him? First up is a grizzled old tinpan named Fish Lee, who discovered the bodies. Then there's the Kiowa, an Indian scout with a grudge; Cooley, a washed-up gambler; Mortimer, a whiskey-soaked newsman; and Holt, a half-grown stock boy. Sure, they might be crazy. They might be inexperienced. But one thing is certain: be it from heaven above or hell below ... vengeance is coming.
Subjects: Western fiction.; Novels.; Murder; Vigilantes;
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Orwell's roses / by Solnit, Rebecca,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A fresh take on George Orwell as a far more nature-loving figure than is often portrayed, and a dazzlingly rich meditation on roses, gardens, and the value and use of beauty and pleasure in the face of brutality and horror. "In the spring of 1936 a man planted roses." That man was George Orwell, shortly before he went off to fight against fascism in Spain. Today, those rosebushes are still thriving. This is the starting point for Rebecca Solnit's new book, which presents another side of Orwell, a neglected arcadian Orwell who took enormous pleasure in the natural world and found great meaning and value in it. Orwell's planting of the roses is an axle from which Solnit's chapters radiate out like spokes as she brilliantly explores its various contexts, perspectives, and meanings, following the contours of Orwell's life and tracking how deeply enmeshed the love of nature is in all his writing. Journeying to the cottage in Wallingford where Orwell lived in 1936, she examines his desire to be agrarian and settled, how gardening restored him, and how planting something can be an act of fidelity and faith. Probing at the beauty and meaning of roses, she draws in the revolutionary photography and politics of Tina Modotti and makes a clandestine visit to a Columbian rose factory, where 80% of America's roses for sale are grown. She tracks the history of gardening, showing how the desire to garden is culturally determined and often rooted in class, recounts the immense battles over breeding and genetics in Russia during Stalin's time, and probes into the colonialist roots of Orwell's forebears, who worked in opium production in India and profiteered from sugar and slavery in Jamaica. Solnit shows how these points of intersection illuminate Orwell's work, and how that illumination shines forth on larger questions about beauty, pleasure, meaning, relationship, and hope. Her book establishes that "Orwellian" could stand for something more than ominous, corrupt, and sinister"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Orwell, George, 1903-1950; Orwell, George, 1903-1950.; Authors, English; Gardening.; Nature.; Roses.;
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Tracks [videorecording] / by Curran, John.; Davidsonm Robyn,1950-Tracks.Videorecording.; Driver, Adam.; Pearl, Lily.; Wasikowska, Mia,1989-; Mongrel Media.; Métropole Films Distribution.;
Mia Wasikowska, Adam Driver, Lily Pearl.Mia Wasikowska stars as writer Robyn Davidson in this dramatic account of Davidson's arduous 1700-mile trek across the Australian desert. With only four camels and a loyal canine to keep her company on the journey from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean, Davidson discovers the value of solitude while being reminded of how it feels to be truly connected with the world. In order to fund her epic adventure, Davidson reluctantly allows prolific National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan (Adam Driver) to capture it on film. Although at first Davidson's desire for solitude finds the disparate pair at odds, over time their adversarial relationship evolves into an abiding friendship.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen (2.35:1) presentatation ; Dolby Digital 2.0.
Subjects: Davidson, Robyn, 1950-; Davidsonm Robyn, 1950-; Deserts; Feature films.; Solitude;
© c2014., Distributed by Mongrel Media,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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