The early African hunter books are by sportsmen whose hunting careers took place mainly in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These hunters were attracted to the adventure and limitless African gamefields and hunted mostly elephants for their living. There may be some cross-over with the books o...
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kiddtakes place in the early 1800’s, pre-Civil War slavery and it’s human impact. Sue Monk Kidd managed to weave a wonderful novel around the history of early movements to abolish slavery in the Southern US. I also love how she alternated chapters wi...
This was a well written book with an engaging story and characters I cared about but there were parts I had to put down and walk away from. Dreams of Joy by Lisa See I could not not read the sequel to Shanghai Girls even if was in parts very disturbing, I cared about the story an...
Armstrong, Robert
A 16mo of 7 by 4 1/2 inches with no flaws with a prior owner's name written in pencil on the first free end page. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. Laid-in at the front of the book is a prospectus advertising this title. 553 pages of text. Revised and enlarge by...
Queen Mab’s Stable: 7 of the Smallest Animals The Seven Sacraments of the Roman Catholic church 12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written” Why Is theMona LisaSo Famous? 9 Noteworthy Bog Bodies (And What They Tell Us)
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His novel You Know Me Al, written in the form of letters from a baseball player to a friend, is still extremely funny, while his theatrical parodies display a sardonic surrealism (a line from one of those short plays is still quoted in anthologies: “The curtain is lowered for seven days...
to the fore lesser-known figures including Marie-Thérèse Reboul, Madeleine Basseporte, Marguerite Le Comte, and Gabrielle Capet. Written by eleven distinguished (art) historians, the assembled essays engage with and honor the work of the late Mary D. Sheriff, whose unpublished chapter on women ...
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