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An obsessed psychologist finds her quest to define near-death experiences drawing to a close when a neurologist discovery creates a drug that will simulate the experience--maybe. AUTHOR: Connie Willis
PUBLISHER: Bantam Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General 
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 | Oil by Christin Ditchfield
Description not available.Describes the origins, sources, and processing of oil, uses for oil and oil products, pollution, and the future of the oil industry. AUTHOR: Christin Ditchfield
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | La Princesa Vestida Con Una Bolsa De Papel by Michael Martchenko, Robert Munsch
Elizabeth, a princess, is slated to marry Ronald, a prince, when a dragon comes along, smashes her castle and carries Ronald away. In a resourceful and very humorous fashion, Elizabeth finds the dragon, out-smarts him, and rescues her prince. But Ronald takes one look at her and tells her to come back when you look like a real princess . They didn't get married after all. AUTHOR: Michael Martchenko, Robert Munsch
PUBLISHER: Annick Press, Limited
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | Britney by HS Media Staff
Description not available.Offers information about the young singer, including web sites to find out more information and photographs from her tour. AUTHOR: HS Media Staff
PUBLISHER: Triumph Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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 | George Washington Carver by Martha E. H. Rustad
Description not available.Simple text and photographs introduce the life of George Washinton Carver. AUTHOR: Martha E. H. Rustad
PUBLISHER: Capstone Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: General
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 | Arrogant Beggar by Anzia Yezierska, Katherine Stubbs
The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar 's scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of social criticism. The novel follows the fortunes of its young Jewish narrator, Adele Lindner, as she leaves the impoverished conditions of New York's Lower East Side and tries to rise in the world. Portraying Adele's experiences at the Hellman Home for Working Girls, the first half of the novel exposes the sickening farce of institutionalized charity while portraying the class tensions that divided affluent German American Jews from more recently arrived Russian American Jews. The second half of the novel takes Adele back to her ghetto origins as she explores an alternative model of philanthropy by opening a restaurant that combines the communitarian ideals of Old World shtetl tradition with the contingencies of New World capitalism. Within the context of this radical message, Yezierska revisits the themes that have made her work famous, confronting complex questions of ethnic identity, assimilation, and female self-realization. Katherine Stubbs's introduction provides a comprehensive and compelling historical, social, and literary context for this extraordinary novel and discusses the critical reaction to its publication in light of Yezierska's biography and the once much-publicized and mythologized version of her life story. Unavailable for over sixty years, Arrogant Beggar will be enjoyed by general readers of fiction and be of crucial importance for feminist critics and students of ethnic literature. It will also prove an exciting and richly rewarding text for students and scholars of Jewish studies, immigrant literature, women's writing, American history, and working-class fiction. AUTHOR: Anzia Yezierska, Katherine Stubbs
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: General
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