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Life on the Lower East Side was bustling. Immigrants from many European countries had come to make a better life for themselves and their families in the United States. But the wages they earned were so low that they could afford only the most basic accomodations--tenements. Unfortunately, there were few laws protecting the residents of tenements, and landlords took advantage of this by allowing the buildings to become cramped and squalid. There was little the tenants could do; their only other choice was the street. Though most immigrants struggled in these buildings, many overcame a difficult start and saw generations after them move on to better apartments, homes, and lives. Raymond Bial reveals the first, challenging steps in this process as he leads us on a tour of the sights and sounds of the Lower East Side, guiding us through the dark hallways, staircases, and rooms of the tenements. AUTHOR: Raymond Bial
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | You Wouldn't Want to Sail on the Titanic! by David Antram, David Stewart
Description not available.Offers a humorous but factual look at the ill-fated voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic. AUTHOR: David Antram, David Stewart
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Let's Get Ready for Memorial Day by Lloyd G. Douglas
Description not available.A girl's class prepares for Memorial Day by learning about the holiday from their teacher and making flags, and later she goes to a war memorial with her father to honor those who died. AUTHOR: Lloyd G. Douglas
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | FBI
Description not available.Explores the history, current status, and future of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; educational and other requirements for those entering this field; and various kinds of work performed by FBI agents.
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Miss Dennis School of Writing by Alice Steinbach, Bruce Bortz
This first book by Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Steinbach is an intimate, personal collection of essays, rememberances, and columns that follows in the creative non-fiction tradition of Anna Quindelen and Mary Sarton. AUTHOR: Alice Steinbach, Bruce Bortz
PUBLISHER: Bancroft Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Contrary Farmer by Chelsea Green, Gene Logsdon
Critics of American agriculture bemoan the widespread decline of family farms. Gene Logsdon asserts that the solution to this crisis is cottage farming -- farming part-time, for fun as well as profit. For those seeking a saner, more authentic connection with a piece of ground, Logsdon explains ways to combine a successful vegetable garden with raising livestock, pastures, grains, and woodlots, the values of pastoral economics ( Stay small and don't borrow money! ), and how to save expenses and avoid erosion by cultivating with hand tools. The Contrary Farmer combines the virtues of a manual for the practicing farmer with eloquent meditations in praise of hard work and pleasure. The book gives its readers tools and tenets, but also hilarious stories and beautiful evocations of the Ohio countryside Logsdon knows as his place in the universe. AUTHOR: Chelsea Green, Gene Logsdon
PUBLISHER: Chelsea Green Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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