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2201) With kitchen privileges
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1953.
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The novel is set in the Boston area in the early 1950s. After she suffers a heart attack, Mrs. Appleyard, an elderly New England widow, is persuaded to rent out part of her historic house to young married couples as a way of not being all alone. This brings her into contact with a whole new slice of society, that of young Harvard researchers and their working wives. Some of them are delightful, and others shock her by their ill manners, poor childrearing...
2202) Under a wing: a memoir
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Pub. Date
c1998
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A memoir of the Lindbergh family by a daughter of the famous aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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Pub. Date
c2004
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From 1942 to 1945, Lt. Col. Betty Bandel served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corp (WAAC, later WAC, the Women's Army Corps), eventually heading the WAC Division of the Army Air Force. During these years she wrote hundreds of letters to family and friends tracing her growth from an enthusiastic recruit, agog in the presence of public figures such as Eleanor "Rover" Roosevelt, to a seasoned officer and leader. Bandel was one of the Corps' most influential...
2204) Tumbling toward the end
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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""Budbill both informs and moves. He is, in short, a delight and a comfort."--Wendell Berry "David Budbill is a no-nonsense, free-range sage." -Dana Jennings, The New York Times "Looking at the reality closely, he sees parts move in a unison-sometimes graceless, sometimes ugly, always resolved in a human wholeness." -Donald Hall "David Budbill's. poetry is as accessible as a parking lot and as plain as a pair of Levis." -Parnassus Appearing frequently...
2205) The address
Pub. Date
[2014]
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"At the tiny Greenwood School in the small New England town of Putney, Vermont, its roughly 50 students, boys from the ages 11 to 17 are asked each year to memorize the Gettysburg Address. This would be a daunting assignment for any student, but the boys at Greenwood all suffer from learning differences that have made their personal, academic and social progress extremely challenging. As the students come to terms with the address's simple message...
2206) How Bernie won: inside the revolution that's taking back our country-- and where we go from here
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Pub. Date
2018.
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The brilliant manager of Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign shows how Bernie took on the entire establishment and changed modern American politics for good.When Jeff Weaver hopped in a car with Bernie Sanders in the summer of 1986, he had no idea the Vermont backroads would lead them all the way to the 2016 presidential campaign. In How Bernie Won, Weaver shows how Bernie sparked a movement that would sweep America and inspire millions. He...
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Pub. Date
©1997
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The quintessential New England barn–photogenic, full of character, and framed by flaming autumn foliage–is an endangered species. Of some 30,000 barns in Vermont alone, nearly a thousand a year are lost to fire, collapse, or bulldozers. Thomas Durant Visser’s field guide to the barns, silos, sugar houses, granaries, tobacco barns, and potato houses of New England is an attempt to document not just their structure but their traditions and innovations...
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Troy Chance novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2013
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Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body--a man she knows. One of her roommates falls under suspicion, and the media descends. Troy's assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In this short, accessible book, author Jonathan Tasini draws heavily from Sanders' ample public record of speeches, statements, and interviews, and couples his working-class spirit with specific legislation he has championed on a number of core proposals that comprise a broader people's agenda for America. --Publisher's description.
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Pub. Date
2019
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The 2019 Equity Report looks at data across multiple levels. It provides equity indicator metrics that help evaluate disparities in the community (and that can be measured over time) and information about City initiatives related to these iniquities. The report focuses on a range of equity indicators across five domains: Economy, Education, Health, Housing, and Justice. Each domain is broken down into 2-3 topics or subcategories that represent areas...