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On Butterfly Wings
On Butterfly Wings: A Journey of the Heart is the story of Jill St. James who, newly widowed, wonders what the future will bring. She is warm, unassuming and a bit naive. Everyday life brings joys of gardening, colorful butterflies, family, old friends, and new ones. Memories, at times comforting, are also haunting, painful reminders of abuse, disappointments, and young love lost."
Lewis and Lewis
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A Dictionary of the Underworld
First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
The Builder
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A History of Cant and Slang Dictionaries
This book continues Julie Coleman's acclaimed history of dictionaries of English slang and cant. It describes the increasingly systematic and scholarly way in which such terms were recorded and classified in the UK, the USA, Australia, and elsewhere, and the huge growth in the publication of and public appetite for dictionaries, glossaries, and guides to the distinctive vocabularies of different social groups, classes, districts, regions, and nations. Dr Coleman describes the origins of words and phrases and explores their history. By copious example she shows how they cast light on everyday life across the globe - from settlers in Canada and Australia and cockneys in London to gang-members ...
