From Our House is the luminous and uniquely American memoir of Lee Martin, born into a farming family the same year his father unexpectedly lost both hands. Lee’s father, once known for “doing a good turn for his neighbors,” changed...

When University of Georgia English professor James Everett Kibler undertook the restoration of a dilapidated plantation home in his native Newberry County, South Carolina, a sudden storm dislodged an antique pen from its resting place behind the home's mantel. Kibler...

2000 Bologna Ragazzi Non-Fiction for Young Adults AwardShortlisted, 2000 British Columbia Round Table Information Book Award1999 Teacher Liberian Magazine, Best of the Best issueShortlisted, 2001 Rocky Mountain AwardToo Young To Fight is a book of recollections from some of...

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This collection of ten essays extols the beauty, grandeur, and importance of Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and other national parks of the American West and urges the preservation of these natural areas. It was this book, published in 1901, that brought...

This collection of ten essays extols the beauty, grandeur, and importance of Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and other national parks of the American West and urges the preservation of these natural areas. It was this book, published in 1901, that brought...

The National Parks: Our American Landscape is the first book from rising nature photographer Ian Shive who has been making a name for himself in publications such as Time, National Geographic, and National Parks magazine. Shive brings a fresh perspective...

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Dolorous -- "sorrowful, grievous," from the Latin word dolor, or "pain." Passion -- Middle English from Old French, from Late Latin, "the sufferings of Jesus or a martyr," from the Latin for "an undergoing." Introducing a new edition of THE...

This collection of ten essays extols the beauty, grandeur, and importance of Yosemite, Sequoia, Yellowstone, and other national parks of the American West and urges the preservation of these natural areas. It was this book, published in 1901, that brought...