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| I spent a few months reading about the Native Americans last fall, so Native Americans: A Visual Exploration by S.N. Paleja (Annick Press, 2013) caught my eye on Netgalley. As a brief visual overview to the subject, it was a nice book for young reade...more | |
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| In early nineteenth century Russia, one’s status is decided based on how many enslaved workers (serfs) under your name. Likewise, property owners do not pay taxes on the land own but rather on the number of serfs assigned to them at the last census....more | |
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How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character
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| How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough (Houghton Mifflin, 2012) is a volume exploring why certain children succeed, despite the odds. He focuses on the children who are most struggling. Some of them suc...more | |
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Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
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| William Shakespeare’s plays have abundant evidence of the influences on the man behind the words. Shakespeare obviously was familiar with the world and especially human nature. I’ve read that he did not get some geographic facts correct, but in gener...more | |
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― Irving Stone, Clarence Darrow for the Defense
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― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
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