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Eli the Good

by Silas House

Published: 2011-02-08

Paperback: 304 pages

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In his timely YA debut, a best-selling novelist revisits a summer of tumult and truth for a young narrator and his war-torn family.Bicentennial fireworks burn the sky. Bob Seger growls from a transistor radio. And down by the river, girls line up on lawn chairs in pursuit of the perfect ta...

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Elie Wiesel's Night (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Published: 2001-03

Library Binding: 190 pages

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An important work on the Holocaust by a concentration camp survivor. The title, Elie Wiesel's Night, part of Chelsea House Publishers? Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on Elie Wiesel's Night through extracts of critical essays by...

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Elijah Of Buxton

by Christopher Paul Curtis

Published: 2009-02-01

Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages

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Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. He's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and talks too m...

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Elisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride

by Carolyn Proctor

Published: 2004

Paperback: 372 pages

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Elisabeth Samson, Forbidden Bride is a work of fiction based on the true 18th century story of the first black woman to challenge Dutch law forbidding marriage to white in colonial Suriname, South America. In the 18th century Dutch plantation colony of Suriname, where wealth is measured b...

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Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock

by David Margolick

Published: 2011-10-04

Hardcover: 320 pages

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The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twi...

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Elizabeth Catlett: An American Artist in Mexico (Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artists)

by Melanie Anne Herzog

Published: 2005-11-15

Paperback: 336 pages

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Elizabeth Catlett, born in Washington, DC, in 1915, is widely acknowledged as a major presence in African American art, and her work is celebrated as a visually eloquent expression of African American identity and pride in cultural heritage. But this is not the whole story. She has lived i...

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Elizabeth I: A Novel

by Margaret George

Published: 2011-04-05

Hardcover: 688 pages

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New York Times bestselling author Margaret George captures history's most enthralling queen-as she confronts rivals to her throne and to her heart. One of today's premier historical novelists, Margaret George dazzles here as she tackles her most difficult subject yet: the legendary Eliza...

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Elizabeth Street

by Laurie Fabiano

Published: 2010-05-04

Paperback: 386 pages

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Based on true events, Elizabeth Street is a multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 1900's, and crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side. At the heart of the novel is Giovanna, whose family is targeted by the notorious Black Hand -the precursor to the Mafia. E...

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Elizabeth the Queen: The Life of a Modern Monarch

by Sally Bedell Smith

Published: 2012-10-30

Paperback: 720 pages

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Perfect for fans of The Crown, this magisterial biography of Queen Elizabeth II is a close-up view of the woman we’ve known only from a distance—and a captivating window into the last great monarchy.From the moment of her ascension to the throne in 1952 a...

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Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitter's Almanac

by Elizabeth Zimmermann

Published: 1981-10-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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A year's worth of knitting projects from the "Busy Knitter," called "one of America's most ingenious and creative knitters." Classic patterns for Aran sweaters, baby items, blankets, mittens, moccasins and other seasonal needs may be followed by intermediate to advanced knitters, or may be...