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Women Writers of Children's Classics

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

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Women Writers of Children's Classics

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

This study explores the lives and works of four major 19th century female children's writers, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mrs Ewing and Mrs Molesworth who, in their fantasy and family tales, caused posterity to inherit a halcyon image of Victorian childhood.

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746311575

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9780746311578

Walk this World at Christmastime

By: Big Picture Press,Susanna Davidson,Mary Sebag-Montefiore

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Walk this World at Christmastime

By: Big Picture Press,Susanna Davidson,Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Numbered lift-up flaps reveal traditions realating to each region.

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Candlewick Press

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0763689211

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9780763689216

Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages

By: Mary Boyle

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Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages

By: Mary Boyle

What do the bursar of Eton College, a canon of Mainz Cathedral, a young knight from near Cologne, and a Kentish nobleman's chaplain have in common? Two Germans, residents of the Holy Roman Empire, and two Englishmen, just as the western horizons of the known world were beginning to expand. These four men - William Wey, Bernhard von Breydenbach, Arnold von Harff, and Thomas Larke - are amongst the thousands of western Christians who undertook the arduous journey to the Holy Land in the decades immediately before the Reformation. More importantly, they are members of a much more select group: those who left written accounts of their travels, for the journey to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages took place not only in the physical world, but also in the mind and on the page. Pilgrim authors contended in different ways with the collision between fifteenth-century reality and the static textual Jerusalem, as they encountered the genuinely multi-religious Middle East. This book examines the international literary phenomenon of the Jerusalem pilgrimage through the prism of these four writers. It explores the process of collective and individual identity construction, as pilgrims came into contact with members of other religious traditions in the course of the expression of their own; engages with the uneasy relationship between curiosity and pilgrimage; and investigates both the relevance of genre and the advent of print to the development of pilgrimage writing. Ultimately pilgrimage is revealed as a conceptual space with a near-liturgical status, unrestricted by geographical boundaries and accessible both literally and virtually.

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253

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843845806

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9781843845805

Love and Capital

Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

By: Mary Gabriel

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Love and Capital

Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution

By: Mary Gabriel

Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon previously unpublished material, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel tells the story of Karl and Jenny Marx's marriage. Through it, we see Karl as never before: a devoted father and husband, a prankster who loved a party, a dreadful procrastinator, freeloader, and man of wild enthusiasms -- one of which would almost destroy his marriage. Through years of desperate struggle, Jenny's love for Karl would be tested again and again as she waited for him to finish his masterpiece, Capital. An epic narrative that stretches over decades to recount Karl and Jenny's story against the backdrop of Europe's Nineteenth Century, Love andCapital is a surprising and magisterial account of romance and revolution -- and of one of the great love stories of all time.

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Little, Brown

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031619137X

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9780316191371

The Resurrection of Peace

A Gospel journey to Easter and beyond

By: Mary Grey

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The Resurrection of Peace

A Gospel journey to Easter and beyond

By: Mary Grey

Mary Grey takes the reader on a contemporary Lenten journey through a series of profound theological reflections on the search for peace and reconciliation in Israel/Palestine. Along the way she explores the core Christian concepts of redemption, atonement and resurrection from the perspective of justice-making in the real world, pursuing a spirituality of perseverance and steadfastness ('sumud') deriving from her work with Middle Eastern Christians. The book draws on all four Gospels and the book of Revelation, providing biblical inspiration for the quest for peace.

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SPCK

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0281066388

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9780281066384

The Eitingons

A Twentieth Century Story

By: Mary-Kay Wilmers

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The Eitingons

A Twentieth Century Story

By: Mary-Kay Wilmers

A family history that explores the KGB, the fur trade, Freud and the assassination of Trotsky Leonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico, helping to organize the assassination of Trotsky. “As long as I live,” Stalin said, “not a hair of his head shall be touched.” It did not work out like that. Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst, a colleague, friend and protégé of Freud’s. He was rich, secretive and—through his friendship with a famous Russian singer— implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937. Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, questioned by the FBI. Was Motty everybody’s friend or everybody’s enemy? Mary-Kay Wilmers, best known as the editor of the London Review of Books, began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center of the story stands the author herself—ironic, precise, searching, and stylish—wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she’s entitled to know.

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497

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Verso Books

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1844679004

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9781844679003

China: Land of the Emperor's Great Wall

A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #14: Day of the Dragon King

By: Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce

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China: Land of the Emperor's Great Wall

A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #14: Day of the Dragon King

By: Mary Pope Osborne,Natalie Pope Boyce

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!! When Jack and Annie came back from their adventure in Magic Tree House #14: Day of the Dragon King, they had lots of questions. Who was the Dragon King? How did he build the Great Wall? What is Chinese New Year? What are some other Chinese traditions? Find out the answers to these questions and more as Jack and Annie track the facts about Chinese history and culture. Filled with up-to-date information, photographs, illustrations, and fun tidbits from Jack and Annie, the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers are the perfect way for kids to find out more about the topics they discover in their favorite Magic Tree House adventures. And teachers can use Fact Trackers alongside their Magic Tree House fiction companions to meet common core text pairing needs. Did you know that there’s a Magic Tree House book for every kid? Magic Tree House: Adventures with Jack and Annie, perfect for readers who are just beginning chapter books Merlin Missions: More challenging adventures for the experienced reader Super Edition: A longer and more dangerous adventure Fact Trackers: Nonfiction companions to your favorite Magic Tree House adventures Have more fun with Jack and Annie at MagicTreeHouse.com!

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0385386354

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9780385386357

Ninth Street Women

Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

By: Mary Gabriel

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Ninth Street Women

Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art

By: Mary Gabriel

Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times). Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting -- not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Gutsy and indomitable, Lee Krasner was a hell-raising leader among artists long before she became part of the modern art world's first celebrity couple by marrying Jackson Pollock. Elaine de Kooning, whose brilliant mind and peerless charm made her the emotional center of the New York School, used her work and words to build a bridge between the avant-garde and a public that scorned abstract art as a hoax. Grace Hartigan fearlessly abandoned life as a New Jersey housewife and mother to achieve stardom as one of the boldest painters of her generation. Joan Mitchell, whose notoriously tough exterior shielded a vulnerable artist within, escaped a privileged but emotionally damaging Chicago childhood to translate her fierce vision into magnificent canvases. And Helen Frankenthaler, the beautiful daughter of a prominent New York family, chose the difficult path of the creative life. Her gamble paid off: At twenty-three she created a work so original it launched a new school of painting. These women changed American art and society, tearing up the prevailing social code and replacing it with a doctrine of liberation. In Ninth Street Women, acclaimed author Mary Gabriel tells a remarkable and inspiring story of the power of art and artists in shaping not just postwar America but the future.

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874

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Little, Brown

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031622619X

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9780316226196

Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene

By: Mary Lago

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Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene

By: Mary Lago

Lady Herringham arrived on the Edwardian art scene with a translation of Il Libro dell' Arte o Trattato della Pittura, Cennini's fifteenth-century handbook on fresco and tempera. It aroused new interest in those techniques and led to the founding of the Society of Painters in Tempera in 1901. To preserve Britain's art heritage from buyers abroad, she provided the money that launched the National Art Collections Fund in 1903, creating what is still a vital and authoritative voice in Britain's cultural life. Her work as the only woman on the NACF's first executive committee prepared her to assist in founding the India Society, which urged respect for indigenous Indian traditions of the fine arts and encouraged appreciation for them in England.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826210244

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9780826210241

The Tango War

The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

By: Mary Jo McConahay

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The Tango War

The Struggle for the Hearts, Minds and Riches of Latin America During World War II

By: Mary Jo McConahay

One of WW2 Reads "Top 20 Must-Read WWII Books of 2018" • A Christian Science Monitor Best Book of September •One of The Progressive's "Favorite Books of 2018" The gripping and little known story of the fight for the allegiance of Latin America during World War II The Tango War by Mary Jo McConahay fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America. The fight was often dirty: residents were captured to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war and rival spy networks shadowed each other across the continent. At all times it was a Tango War, in which each side closely shadowed the other’s steps. Though the Allies triumphed, at the war’s inception it looked like the Axis would win. A flow of raw materials in the Southern Hemisphere, at a high cost in lives, was key to ensuring Allied victory, as were military bases supporting the North African campaign, the Battle of the Atlantic and the invasion of Sicily, and fending off attacks on the Panama Canal. Allies secured loyalty through espionage and diplomacy—including help from Hollywood and Mickey Mouse—while Jews and innocents among ethnic groups —Japanese, Germans—paid an unconscionable price. Mexican pilots flew in the Philippines and twenty-five thousand Brazilians breached the Gothic Line in Italy. The Tango War also describes the machinations behind the greatest mass flight of criminals of the century, fascists with blood on their hands who escaped to the Americas. A true, shocking account that reads like a thriller, The Tango War shows in a new way how WWII was truly a global war.

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331

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Macmillan + ORM

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1250091241

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9781250091246

The Bible and Modern British Drama

From 1930 to the Present Day

By: Mary F. Brewer

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The Bible and Modern British Drama

From 1930 to the Present Day

By: Mary F. Brewer

The Bible and Modern British Drama: 1930 to the Present Day is the first full-length study to explore how playwrights in the modern period have adapted popular biblical stories, such as Abraham and Isaac, Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, and the life and death of Jesus, for the stage. The book offers detailed and accessible interpretations of the work of well-known dramatists such as Christopher Fry, Howard Brenton, and Steven Berkoff, alongside the work of writers whose plays have been neglected in recent criticism, such as James Bridie and Laurence Housman. The drama is analysed within the context of changes in religious belief and practice over the course of the modern period in Britain, comparing plays that approach the Bible from a traditional religious perspective with those that offer alternative viewpoints on the text, including the voices of gay, feminist, black, Jewish, and Muslim dramatists. In doing so, the author offers a broad and in-depth exploration that is grounded in current scholarship, ranging from the past to present, across boundaries of race and gender. Ideal for students, researchers, and general readers interested in understanding how the Bible has served as an important source text for British playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, The Bible and Modern British Drama shows how Bible-based drama has been influential in creating and disseminating ideas of what constitutes a "good" life, both on an individual and social level.

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Routledge

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1000691519

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9781000691511

Pompeii

The Life of a Roman Town

By: Mary Beard

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Pompeii

The Life of a Roman Town

By: Mary Beard

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 'The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy' Laura Silverman, Daily Mail The ruins of Pompeii, buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE, offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire. This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains, as well as exploding many myths: the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs; or the legendary number of brothels, most likely only one; or the massive death count, maybe less than ten per cent of the population. An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town, its life and its continuing re-discovery, by Britain's favourite classicist.

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Profile Books

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1847650643

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9781847650641

Forgotten Fairy Tales of Hope and Happiness

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

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Forgotten Fairy Tales of Hope and Happiness

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Seven beautifully illustrated fairy tales that celebrate the power of hope, positivity and happiness This heartwarming collection of fairy tales celebrates the power of hope, and gently encourages questions about what happiness really means. Meet a brave princess who brings happiness to her kingdom by forging her own path, two children on a quest to discover the meaning of happiness, and a magician's daughter who discovers the power of positivity. Beautifully illustrated throughout, these seven stories have been re-imagined to inspire a new generation of readers.

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1805312596

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Young Reading Series 4: Dracula

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

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Young Reading Series 4: Dracula

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Jonathan Harker narrowly escapes with his life from the Transylvanian castle of evil vampire Count Dracula. But his nightmare is far from over. Back in England, Jonathan and his friends soon find themselves battling against the vilest vampire in the world. A lively retelling of the classic horror novel by Bram Stoker, made accessible for young readers. Part of the Usborne Reading Programme, Young Reading Series Four, perfect for readers growing in confidence and independence. Other classic fiction in Young Reading Series Four includes Treasure Island, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

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1474959970

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Short Classics: the Wind in the Willows

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

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Short Classics: the Wind in the Willows

By: Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Kenneth Grahame's unforgettable nature tale superbly retold for younger readers. Who wouldn't want to spend their days simply messing about on the river? Follow Mole on his adventures with his new friends, dreamy Ratty, wise Badger and the infamous Mr. Toad, as they venture into the Wild Wood and battle stoats and weasels to recapture Toad Hall.

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Book's by Mary Sebag-montefiore

Women Writers of Children's Classics

Women Writers of Children's Classics

Walk this World at Christmastime

Walk this World at Christmastime

Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages

Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages

Love and Capital

Love and Capital

The Resurrection of Peace

The Resurrection of Peace

The Eitingons

The Eitingons

China: Land of the Emperor's Great Wall

China: Land of the Emperor's Great Wall

Ninth Street Women

Ninth Street Women

Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene

Christiana Herringham and the Edwardian Art Scene

The Tango War

The Tango War

The Bible and Modern British Drama

The Bible and Modern British Drama

Pompeii

Pompeii

Forgotten Fairy Tales of Hope and Happiness

Forgotten Fairy Tales of Hope and Happiness

Young Reading Series 4: Dracula

Young Reading Series 4: Dracula

Short Classics: the Wind in the Willows

Short Classics: the Wind in the Willows

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