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Russell Michaels, star of RIP-ROARING RUSSELL and RUSSELL SPROUTS, is a kindergartner in this beginning chapter book. Here Russell faces such situations as learning how to ride a bicycle without training wheels. Illustrations accompany the text. AUTHOR: Johanna Hurwitz
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins Children's Book Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction 
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 | The Story Tree by Hugh Lupton, Sophie Fatus
Description not available.Presents a collection of eight tales from various cultures, including The Little Red Hen; Monkey-See, Monkey-Do; The Three Billy Goats Gruff; and The Magic Porridge Pot. AUTHOR: Hugh Lupton, Sophie Fatus
PUBLISHER: Barefoot Books, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | The Adventures of Tintin by Herge
Whether he's trolling the high seas for treasure or blasting off for the moon, young reporter-sleuth Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, have delighted readers everywhere for generations with their timeless adventures. Join Tintin and Snowy as they t...
Edition/Vol: 5
Whether he's trolling the high seas for treasure or blasting off for the moon, young reporter-sleuth Tintin and his faithful dog, Snowy, have delighted readers everywhere for generations with their timeless adventures. Join Tintin and Snowy as they tackle the toughest mysteries around the world in The Castafiore Emerald, Flight 714, and Tintin and the Picaros. AUTHOR: Herge
PUBLISHER: Little, Brown & Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Obligation & Opportunity by Mary E. Beattie
In the years between Confederation and the Depression nearly 500,000 Maritimes left their homes to work in the United States or other parts of Canada. Why they life and how their departure affected the region's economy have long been debated but, until now, a major component of that exodus have been largely ignored. In OBLIGATION AND OPPORTUNITY Betsy Beattie addresses this oversight, examining the lives of the tens of thousands of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930. Carefully crafted from oral interviews, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data, and other historical sources, OBLIGATION AND OPPORTUNITY opens a window into the world of the women who moved from the Maritimes to New England for work. AUTHOR: Mary E. Beattie
PUBLISHER: McGill-Queen's University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Darwin's Cathedral by David Sloan Wilson
The author examines the social and evolutionary impulses for the development of religion. Among his examples is a consideration of how early Christianity, with its active proselytizing, increased emphasis on procreation and women`s rights, and how certain social customs allowed it to eclipse the growth of other religious sects. AUTHOR: David Sloan Wilson
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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 | Creating an Old South by Edward E. Baptist
Set on the antebellum southern frontier, this book uses the history of two counties in Florida's panhandle to tell the story of the migrations, disruptions, and settlements that made the plantation South.Soon after the United States acquired Florida from Spain in 1821, migrants from older southern states began settling the land that became Jackson and Leon Counties. Slaves, torn from family and community, were forced to carve plantations from the woods of Middle Florida, while planters and less wealthy white men battled over the social, political, and economic institutions of their new society.Conflict between white men became full-scale crisis in the 1840s, but when sectional conflict seemed to threaten slavery, the whites of Middle Florida found common ground. In politics and everyday encounters, they enshrined the ideal of white male equality--and black inequality. To mask their painful memories of crisis, the planter elite told themselves that their society had been transplanted from older states without conflict. But this myth of an Old, changeless South only papered over the struggles that transformed slave society in the course of its expansion. In fact, that myth continues to shroud from our view the plantation frontier, the very engine of conflict that had led to the myth's creation. AUTHOR: Edward E. Baptist
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Non-Fiction
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