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Tales for little rebels
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Julia L. Mickenberg,Philip Nel |
From the Publisher: In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries, "Strike down the wall!" and liberates itself from the "egg state." In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fas… |
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Clarkton
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Howard Fast |
When a factory strike turns violent, neighbors clash in a sleepy New England company town It is 1945, and soldiers have returned home from Europe and the Pacific to take up their former lives. But in… |
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Beneath the American Renaissance
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David S. Reynolds |
In this landmark work, the seven great writers of the American Renaissance--Emerson, Thoreau, Writman, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson -- are examined together in their cultural contexts. Dav… |
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Radical Visions
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Vince Gotera |
*Description from dust jacket:*
Although poets have written about warfare since at least the time of Homer, the Vietnam war has struck many observers as being immune to the interpretations of poet… |
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Learning from the left
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Julia L. Mickenberg |
At the height of the Cold War, dozens of radical and progressive writers, illustrators, editors, librarians, booksellers, and teachers cooperated to create and disseminate children's books that chall… |
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Seditious allegories
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Michael Henry Scrivener |
"The multifaceted career of John Thelwall (1764-1834) - poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, scientist - is the lens through which we are offered here a new look at the phenomenon of B… |
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