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(0)Cynthia Martin
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Vine Leaves Press
Pub. Date
20230404
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English
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For the first time in a lifetime, Angelina and Will can choose again. After twenty-two years with children at home, she has no idea what she wants and is counting on the empty house to figure it out. But he already knows, he wants her, all to himself. Nine days into their child-free life, he quits his job and announces he's home to stay. So Angelina announces she's returning to nursing, this time in home health care. In his new basement workroom,...
2) White Fang
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English
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White Fang is a beautiful wolf-dog hybrid, born in and raised in the harsh and dangerous wilderness of the Canadian Yukon. One day, however, White Fang is discovered by a local Native American man who brings him back to live in the Indian camp. White Fang has no true place in the wild or in the camp, and in order to be happy, must find out how to balance the brutality bred into him with obedience and respect.
White Fang is a powerful adventure...
Author
Publisher
Franklin Library
Pub. Date
1979
Language
English
Description
Gulliver's Travels, first published in 1726, is Jonathan Swift's best known full-length work, and is both a parody of the "travellers' tales" popular at the time and a satire on human nature. Throughout the four stories, ship's surgeon Gulliver travels to distant lands, meets strange new peoples like the diminutive Lilliputians and the gigantic Brobdingnags, defends his ship from a pirate attack, and is marooned on a deserted island. The popularity...
4) The tempest
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English
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It is entirely probable that the date of "The Tempest" is 1611, and that this was the last play completed by Shakespeare before he retired from active connection with the theater to spend the remainder of his life in leisure in his native town of Stratford-on-Avon. The main thread of the plot of the drama seems to have been some folk-tale of a magician and his daughter, which, in the precise form in which Shakespeare knew it, has not been recovered....