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Language
English
Description
Essays by the author of 1984 on topics from “remembrances of working in a bookshop [to] recollections of fighting in the Spanish Civil War” (Publishers Weekly).
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived. “As soon as he began to write...
George Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected—and illuminated—the fraught times in which he lived. “As soon as he began to write...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
Do you get books from a public library in your town or even in your school library? In many remote areas of the world, there are no library buildings. In many countries, books are delivered in unusual way: by bus, boat, elephant, donkey, train, even by wheelbarrow. Why would librarians go to the trouble of packing books on the backs of elephants or driving miles to deliver books by bus? Because, as one librarian in Azerbaijan says, "Books are as important...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
"The original edition, published in 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This new, revised and expanded, edition contains, in addition to the introduction, an index of titles, an index of first lines, and 113 poems not included in the earlier volume."--Jacket.
Publisher
Young Voyageur Press, an imprint of the Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The Grammy Award-winning children's artist presents a collection of 64 songs from a cross-section of folk styles along with backgound narratives for each song and essays on the nature of music-making in the home and community.
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