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The Death of Adam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

The Death of Adam

In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by midwestern abolitionists; how creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes with great conviction. Her essays are filled with the excitement of discovery. "Who can imagine how the things we call ideas live in the world," she writes, "or how they change, or how they perish, or how they can b...

Another
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 56

Another

An NPR Favorite Book of 2019 A New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2019 An NYPL Best Book of 2019 A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 A School Library Journal Best Picture Book of 2019 A BookPage Best Picture Book of 2019 A Horn Book Fanfare Selection of 2019 In his eagerly anticipated debut as author-illustrator, Caldecott and Coretta Scott King honoree Christian Robinson brings young readers on a playful, imaginative journey into another world. What if you… encountered another perspective? Discovered another world? Met another you? What might you do?

Robinson Crusoe in Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Robinson Crusoe in Asia

This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book – The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (usually known simply as Robinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-known Farther Adventures and the almost unread Serious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has been received, adapted, and taught, particularly in Asian contexts.

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth

Does your woolly mammoth need a wash? It's not a very easy thing to do... Find out exactly how to wash your mammoth in this hilarious instruction manual - just remember don't get any soap in its eyes or it might escape up a tree!

This Golden Fleece
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

This Golden Fleece

A history of Britain's long love affair with wool, told through a year of knitting garments from around the British Isles.

The American Family Robinson
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

The American Family Robinson

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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Book Jungle

The American Family Robinson: Lost In The Desert is the story of Mr. Duncan and his family as they encounter many adventures crossing the yet unsettled American West. They encounter Indians, buffalo, and ancient relics from a race of people who had inhabited the earth in a distant past. This juvenile adventure novel is a lost race novel, which in the 1870¿s was as popular as Robinson Crusoe. From an historic viewpoint Belisle shows the attitude of Americans in the last half of the 19th century toward American Indians and the idea that a long distant race may have existed in the desert West.

School for Little Monsters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

School for Little Monsters

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  • Published: 2017-08-03
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A little boy and a young monster accidentally switch schools on their first day, with hilarious results. At the School for Nice Boys and Girls, the monster is surprised to learn he must sit still, be quiet, and wait in line. Meanwhile, at Monster School, the bewildered boy finds himself launching a custard pie attack, counting bogies and sharing nasty smells. The child and the monster play by each other's rules, at first bewildered, soon horrified - and eventually getting into the swing of things. This madcap tale is perfect for little monsters everywhere!

A Force To Be Reckoned With
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

A Force To Be Reckoned With

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  • Published: 2011-10-06
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

Everyone knows three things about the Women's Institute: that they spent the war making jam; the sensational Calendar Girls were WI; and, more recently, that slow-handclapping of Tony Blair. But there's so much more to this remarkable Movement. Over 200,000 women in the UK belong to the WI and their membership is growing. They cross class and religion,include all ages -from students and metropolitan young professionals, such as the Shoreditch Sisters,to rural centenarians -with passions that range from supporting the 1920s Bastardy Bill (in response to a wartime legacy of illegitimate babies) to the current SOS for Honey Bees campaign. It was founded in 1915, not by worthy ladies in tweeds but by the feistiest women in the country, including suffragettes, academics and social crusaders who discovered the heady power of sisterhood, changing women's lives and their world in the process. Certainly its members boiled jam and sang ' Jerusalem ', but they also made history. This fascinating book reveals for the first time how they are - and always were - a force to be reckoned with.

Jack
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 297

Jack

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-09-29
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  • Publisher: Hachette UK

'[Her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human' Barack Obama 'Marilynne Robinson is one of the greatest writers of our time' Sunday Times 'Jack is the fourth in Robinson's luminous, profound Gilead series and perhaps the best yet' Observer Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the American National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the final in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction. Jack tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the loved and grieved-over prodigal son of a Presbyterian minister in Gilead, Iowa, a drunkard and a ne'er-do-well. In segregated St. Louis sometime after World War II, Jack falls in love with Della Miles, an African-American high school teacher, also a preacher's child, with a discriminating mind, a generous spirit and an independent will. Their fraught, beautiful story is one of Robinson's greatest achievements.

Robinson Crusoe Illustrated
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Robinson Crusoe Illustrated

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-04-17
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents.Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966