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Built of Books

How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde

By: Thomas Wright

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Built of Books

How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde

By: Thomas Wright

An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life's pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde's library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait. One of the book's happiest surprises is the story of the author's adventure reading Wilde's library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges's fictional hero who enters Cervantes's mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.

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Macmillan + ORM

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142993509X

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9781429935098

Gather at the Table

The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade

By: Thomas Norman DeWolf,Sharon Morgan

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The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade

By: Thomas Norman DeWolf,Sharon Morgan

Two people—a black woman and a white man—confront the legacy of slavery and racism head-on “We embarked on this journey because we believe America must overcome the racial barriers that divide us, the barriers that drive us to strike out at one another out of ignorance and fear. To do nothing is unacceptable.” Sharon Leslie Morgan, a black woman from Chicago’s South Side avoids white people; they scare her. Despite her trepidation, Morgan, a descendent of slaves on both sides of her family, began a journey toward racial reconciliation with Thomas Norman DeWolf, a white man from rural Oregon who descends from the largest slave-trading dynasty in US history. Over a three-year period, the pair traveled thousands of miles, both overseas and through twenty-seven states, visiting ancestral towns, courthouses, cemeteries, plantations, antebellum mansions, and historic sites. They spent time with one another’s families and friends and engaged in deep conversations about how the lingering trauma of slavery shaped their lives. Gather at the Table is the chronicle of DeWolf and Morgan’s journey. Arduous and at times uncomfortable, it lays bare the unhealed wounds of slavery. As DeWolf and Morgan demonstrate, before we can overcome racism we must first acknowledge and understand the damage inherited from the past—which invariably involves confronting painful truths. The result is a revelatory testament to the possibilities that open up when people commit to truth, justice, and reconciliation. DeWolf and Morgan offer readers an inspiring vision and a powerful model for healing individuals and communities.

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165

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Beacon Press

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0807014427

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9780807014424

History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony

By: Thomas Shourds

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History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony

By: Thomas Shourds

Founded in 1675, Fenwick's Colony was the first permanent English-speaking settlement in the entire Delaware Valley. Constituting one-tenth of West New Jersey, Fenwick's Colony absorbed the nearby settlements of Finns and Swedes and attracted to itself a great number of immigrant Quakers. This book is a composite history and genealogy of the Colony, and the bulk of it is comprised of scores of family histories.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806307145

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Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

A Manual of the Vascular Plants

By: John H. Thomas

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Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

A Manual of the Vascular Plants

By: John H. Thomas

The Santa Cruz Mountains, an area covering almost 1,400 square miles from San Francisco southward to the Monterey County line, are a part of the Coast Range of Central California. The Mountains and the adjacent lowlands have a rich vascular flora, and about 1,800 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and hybrids of ferns, conifers, and flowering plants, distributed among 168 families, have been reported from the region. This comprehensive flora, the first of the area, is designed for use by both the serious beginner and the trained botanist. The flora is illustrated by 250 line drawing and ten photographs. In addition, there is a map of the Santa Cruz Mountains area and a stratigraphic profile of the rock formations. The stratigraphic profile and a section on geology have been contributed by Dr. Earl E. Brabb of the United States Geological Survey. Distributional notes, keys to families, genera, and species, pertinent synonymy, a glossary of technical terms, an index of place names, and common0name and scientific-name indexes form the body of the text. The Introduction contains a description of the geography of the Santa Cruz Mountains and adjacent lowlands, seconds on the geology and climate, a brief discussion and analysis of the vegetation and floristic affinities of the area, and a history of past botanical collecting. A selected list of references has been appended to allow the interested individual to pursue his studies further.

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452

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Stanford University Press

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0804718628

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9780804718622

Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

By: Thomas James

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Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

By: Thomas James

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368842307

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9783368842307

A to Zoo

Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

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A to Zoo

Subject Access to Children's Picture Books

By: Rebecca L. Thomas

Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.

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1657

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440834350

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9781440834356

Jainism, or, the Early Faith of Asoka. With Illustrations of the Ancient Religions of the East, from the Pantheon of the Indo-Scythians, to which is Prefixed a Notice on Bactrian Coins and Indian Dates

By: Edward Thomas

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Jainism, or, the Early Faith of Asoka. With Illustrations of the Ancient Religions of the East, from the Pantheon of the Indo-Scythians, to which is Prefixed a Notice on Bactrian Coins and Indian Dates

By: Edward Thomas

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385553830

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History of Montgomery County

By: Hiram Williams Beckwith,P. S. Kennedy,Thomas Fleming Davidson

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History of Montgomery County

By: Hiram Williams Beckwith,P. S. Kennedy,Thomas Fleming Davidson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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338542769X

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9783385427693

Artists Respond

American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975

By: Melissa Ho,Thomas Crow,Erica Levin,Mignon Nixon,Martha Rosler,Smithsonian American Art Museum

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American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975

By: Melissa Ho,Thomas Crow,Erica Levin,Mignon Nixon,Martha Rosler,Smithsonian American Art Museum

Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, March 15, 2019 to August 18, 2019.

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Princeton University Press

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0691191182

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9780691191188

A Room Forever

The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake

By: Thomas E. Douglass

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A Room Forever

The Life, Work, and Letters of Breece D'J Pancake

By: Thomas E. Douglass

After twenty-six-year-old author Breece D'J Pancake took his own life in April 1979, the West Virginian's posthumously published short-story collection made a considerable impact on the world of letters. His work was praised for a controlled muscular style reminiscent of Hemingway, for its strong undercurrent of emotion, and for its evocation of the blighted lives of the mountain poor. In A Room Forever, Thomas E. Douglass offers a detailed portrait of Pancake's short life, examining the varied circumstances and emotional forces that led to the writer's suicide and exploring Pancake's influence on contemporary fiction generally and Appalachian writing in particular.Drawing on notebooks, letters, and manuscripts left by Pancake as well as numerous conversations and interviews with family, friends, and others, Douglass has recreated the key events of the young artist's life: his West Virginia childhood, his romantic losses, his education as a writer at the University of Virginia, and the acceptance of his work by the East Coast literary establishment. Through analysis of the story fragments reproduced in this volume, including The Conqueror and Shouting Victory, Douglass illustrates the recurring themes -- such as fear of failure and the inability to escape disaster -- that Pancake expressed so eloquently in his work, and he shows their origins in the writer's own personal history. Douglass examines the degree to which Pancake drew on his memories of life in Appalachia and discusses Pancake's influence on other Appalachian writers such as Pinckney Benedict. Douglass argues that Pancake's posthumous collection, The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, brought a renewed interest in regional writing to the national literary scene. A Room Forever brings to life the artistic sensibility and inner turmoil of a legendary figure in contemporary southern letters.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572333677

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9781572333673

The Penland Book of Woodworking

Master Classes in Woodworking Technique

By: Thomas W. Stender

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The Penland Book of Woodworking

Master Classes in Woodworking Technique

By: Thomas W. Stender

Showcases 10 talented furniture makers who have taught at the Penland School of Crafts. Woodwork descriptions and photographs include the works of: Craig Nutt, Paul M. Sasso, Michael Puryear, Curtis Buchanan, Doug Sigler, Brent Skidmore, Jere Osgood, Jenna Goldberg, John Clark, Kurt Nielsen.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1579907687

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9781579907686

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Built of Books

Built of Books

Gather at the Table

Gather at the Table

History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony

History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony

Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

Flora of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California

Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

Memorial of Thomas Potts, Junior

A to Zoo

A to Zoo

Jainism, or, the Early Faith of Asoka. With Illustrations of the Ancient Religions of the East, from the Pantheon of the Indo-Scythians, to which is Prefixed a Notice on Bactrian Coins and Indian Dates

Jainism, or, the Early Faith of Asoka. With Illustrations of the Ancient Religions of the East, from the Pantheon of the Indo-Scythians, to which is Prefixed a Notice on Bactrian Coins and Indian Dates

History of Montgomery County

History of Montgomery County

Artists Respond

Artists Respond

A Room Forever

A Room Forever

The Penland Book of Woodworking

The Penland Book of Woodworking

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