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English
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When Washington Irving returned to America after seventeen years abroad, he headed west on a surveying mission deep into Native American territory. Irving, as Crayon, is a careful observer of the great range of human life, his skills evident in A Crayon Miscellany, a collection of sketches about his experiences on the frontier.
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Stories, folktales, nursery rhymes, and poems featuring animals from Peter Rabbit and Winnie-the-Pooh to the Owl and the Pussycat and the Billy Goats Gruff, with illustrations by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, A. A. Milne, and other well-known artists.
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Series
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Harcourt, Brace
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accurate takes on militarism, computer jargon, Westerns, art criticism, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, Amtrak trains, bad coffee, maniacal...
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"100 of the most moving and inspiring poems of the last 200 years from around the world, a collection that will comfort and enthrall anyone trapped by grief or loneliness, selected and commented upon by the award-winning, best-selling, and beloved author of How to Read a Poem"--
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Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
What if life were neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, youll find beloved worlds of space opera,...
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Dc Comics
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Damian Wayne was born to rule, but instead he chooses to serve, punishing evil as the Dark Knight's latest protégé, Robin. But he's made enemies of his father's foes and friends alike. Nightwing, Red Robin and the Red Hood, all former Robins, are willing to go to war to protect their mentor's legacy, even if it means battling Batman's son. The Court of Owls, Gotham's most ruthless secret society, has sent its birds of prey, the unstoppable assassins...
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"An expert in the field of cryogenics, Victor Fries led a relatively normal existence. He worked diligently and married a woman named Nora who then became terminally ill. To stop her degenerative disease from taking her life, Victor put her into suspended animation. But a horrible lab accident transformed the former Dr. Fries into an ice-colored monstrosity incapable of surviving above freezing temperatures. To counteract this, Victor constructed...
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Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
1881.
Language
English
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Twelve episodes from the Mabinogion part of the fourteenth century manuscript entitled The red book of Hergest, a collection of medieval Welsh tales recounting the feats and exploits of King Arthur and other powerful kings, princes, and knights.
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Dick Grayson is his name. Heroism is his one true calling. To heed that call, he's worn many faces. He was the first Robin and a replacement Batman, a superspy and a dead man walking. But the greatest of the masks he's worn into battle against evil is the one he created himself--the one he's just won a hard-fought battle to reclaim. He's Nightwing. And he's returned to reclaim the streets of the cities he loves. From Gotham City to his adopted home...
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Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From the visionary team behind Batman: The Animated Series and 2020's hit comic book series Batman: The Adventures Continue comes an all-new season set in this seminal animated world! Gotham City is changing. After Mayor Hill is killed by a mysterious assailant, Batman finds himself tracking down an ancient order that's long been buried under the streets of Gotham: the Court of Owls. But what does this group have to gain from the death of Mayor Hill...and...
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Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Contains essays on 21 alphabetically arranged themes that recur throughout American poetry . Includes interpretations of 250 poems, representing the work of 86 poets from a wide spectrum of historical, contemporary, ethnic, and canonical writers.
THEMES and POEMS: ART AND BEAUTY To Helen (Edgar Allan Poe), Each and All (Ralph Waldo Emerson), The Rhodora (Ralph Waldo Emerson), Art (Herman Melville), Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare (Edna St....
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