August 2010

Book Review: Hand Wash Cold by Karen Maezen Miller (Blogcritics: Books)

Karen Maezen Miller woke up at 35 and realized that she hadn't had a life. She'd had lots of things.. .but what she didn't have was laundry. Karen Maezen Miller - Arts - Business - Teacher - Religion and SpiritualitySource : Blogcritics: Books

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The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra

Yes.

‘The First Heretic’ – Aaron Dembski-Bowden (Black Library)

It’s fairly safe to say that the Black Library’s ‘Horus Heresy’ range has lifted Warhammer 40K fiction (and probably fantasy as well) off the ‘tie-in’ shelves and firmly into the view of people like you and I.

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Once Bitten, Chetan Bhagat Careful With Films Now

With his third book ready to be adapted into film, author Chetan Bhagat says he has become more careful after the 3 Idiots film controversy.

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My Innocent Absence: Tales from a Nomadic Life, By Miriam Frank

We are not far into the first chapter when we learn the source of this book's title: "My innocent absence from the tangled pyramids of naked men women and children mixed with urine shit blood and vomit in the midst of grisly screams choking gasps invocations to God and a string quartet the children crushed underfoot in the scramble for air...

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Writer and artist George Hitchcock's productive life ends at age 96

Hitchcock was a poet, novelist, actor, and painter who founded an influential literary magazine and gave insouciant testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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Daniel Powers on Picture Books: Part 1 cont. (Writing with a Broken Tusk)

In the West we read text left-to-right; so too with images. Consequently the directional movement of illustration is worth considering when it comes to narrative structure, which (especially in picture books) is linear by nature: left to right, beginning to end.

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Researchers Start Job of Sorting Out Yiddish Writer's Papers

They will be moved from his apartment in the Bronx to the YIVO headquarters on West 16th Street.

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Hero Initiative Spends Labor Day Weekend at Dragon*Con

New York Comic Con Bigger and More Diverse Than Ever

Books of The Times: The Lives Gained by Fleeing Jim Crow

In “The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson documents the sweeping 55-year-long migration of black Americans from the South.

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Book Review + Giveaway: The Art of Metal Clay (Craftzine.com blog)

Jewelry artist and author Sherri Haab does it again with her revised and expanded edition of The Art of Metal Clay that also comes with an instructional DVD.

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Obama Gets Franzen Novel “Freedom” Early, and Publishing Panic Ensues

Open "Doorways" with George R.R. Martin

NECA Announces Epic Harry Potter Partnership With TOMY

Loading ... NECA has announced a partnership with TOMY to bring some new Harry Potter items to fans in the U.S. The partnership will see the release of, previously European exclusive, Harry Potter collectibles to fans in the states.

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X-POSITION: Jason Aaron

“Wolverine” writer Jason Aaron discusses Logan’s romantic relationship, his friendship with Spider-Man, and his upcoming trip to Hell. Plus, exclusive art from the next issue of "Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine!"

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The Plight of the Toilet Duck

Toilet ducks are odd creatures. Not visible to the human eye they come in a variety of colours. Emerald green, lemon and lavender, they live in the bowl and multiply through the owner. Eventually they die. They have glistening shiny scented coats that shape their little bodies. Reminiscent of feathers, but there is not a one to be found on the toilet duck.

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Chicagoland book club: Novel Approach

Hunted

well what do you know i think i found where to post this...i know i posted in the wrong area before...hope i am not in to much trouble... lol

HUNTED

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Hunted

HUNTED

The Rain was thick like dripping honey poured onto the trees,my heart is racing as i brush more of the thick juice onto my coat.I try desperately to see through the dark dense forest.Moving slowly only to milk the moisture off the leaves as i brush past them. I think to myself why,why am i to be chosen.

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Poem for Jerry

He called himself Jay Bloo
that is how he left
me feeling
my stomach churning
each time I went near him
when it was over
I stood up
Flushed
Blue
I watched my life
go down the gurgler
then I walked out
and never looked back

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We're already living in the world of Isaac Asimov's The End Of Eternity [Book Review] (io9)

If you have ever been a fan of science fiction, you cannot do better than to return to the works of Isaac Asimov, argues The Threepenny Review's Wendy Lesser in her review of Asimov's The End Of Eternity. More »Source : io9

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Ma Petite

Ma Petite.

You are my little darling one,
ma belle, whom je t'adore
Ma petite chere, et ma bonbon
I love you to mon core.

The words of love, c'est la francaise!
A man in love will try
To use it several times a day,
But no-one can say why.

Ma belle poupee, ma petite chatte,
Je t'aime, my beauteous wench.

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Pipeline - Tuesday, Aug 31st

Augie reads up on legendary inker Vince Colletta and learns a lot.
He's also enjoying a travelogue/autobiographical comic. Plus, thoughts
on the weekend's news.

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August Accomplishments

These are a few of my favorite 'first' lines read in August 2010.Once upon a time, fairy tales were awesome.

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My Hand at Free Verse

This is somewhat old (I wrote this back in April) and I never continued because of being uncomfortable composing free verse. I do appreciate free verse, however, like any other form of writing, as long as it is artful. Before, I very much agreed with Robert Frost in that "I'd sooner write free verse as play tennis with the net down,"

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FAN EXPO: Stan Lee

Marvel Comics icon Stan Lee met with adoring fans at Fan Expo Canada to share stories about the early days of 1960s superhero comics, Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby. Lee also teases his role in the upcoming film, "Thor."

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FIRST LOOK: "Smallville" Season 10

Jonathan Kent makes his mysterious return to the Kent farm in a series of images from "Lazarus," the tenth season premier of The CW's "Smallville" which looks to enter its final season with guest stars galore.

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there's some gaps in that author's list...

are these ever going to get filled? the doc sees a few that should be there (and a few that could be deleted...), but he isn't in charge of the popcycle stand...any chance that that list could be edited?

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Read the Full Issue: "Artifacts" #0

Following the announcement of a third printing for the sold-out "Artifacts" #1, Top Cow Productions has provided CBR with the full "Artifacts" #0, the beginning of the universe wide event written by Ron Marz.

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National bestsellers

Top selling fiction, nonfiction and advice books

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Wise memoir gets at the heart of grief

Caldwell's memoir of her intense friendship with writer Caroline Knapp is lovely when she describes their friendship, but it becomes strong and wise when she delves into the experience of grief.

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"Artifacts" #1 Goes to Third Printing

Jonathan Franzen's Freedom is an epic map of our imprisonment.

Best Books for Babies (MediaBistro.com)

Do you have a favorite board book or cloth book you read with the baby in your life? Today we studied the world of books for babies and toddlers--exploring the list at children's publisher Priddy Books . Book reviews rarely pay attention to this genre, so share your personal recommendations in the comments section.

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Boundless Comics Reveals Lady Deaths Origin in November

Avatar Press in November

REVIEW: The Secret Child & The Cowboy CEO by Janice Maynard

Dear Ms. Maynard:

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Computers in the Classroom?

Vampire Chronicler Anne Rice Biography Comic Now Available

need help identifying book I read awhile ago

the book was about a federal judge who stole money from a federal depository of some sort, with the help of a friend. The judge's courthouse was right next to it, and after being tempted for a long time, he actually did it. It was a fun book to read, I enjoyed it but loaned it to a co-worker and never saw it again. Thanks for your help!

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Edginton Takes on “Kane & Lynch”

With the second issue of WildStorm’s “Kane & Lynch” series hitting store shelves this week, CBR spoke with writer Ian Edginton about what makes the main characters so much fun.

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Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

DS’ Top Picks

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First Impressions 8/25/10

FIRST IMPRESSIONS 8/25/10
Science Dog Special #1

By Robert Kirkman & Cory Walker
Price: $3.50

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What's your favorite book that most people would have never read?

I'm sure we've all come across a hidden gem at one time or another. What's a book you absolutely loved and would happily recommend, that most of us are unlikely to have ever read? Include a link to Amazon or some such site.

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Remender Closes "American Crime"

The final issue of Radical's "Last Days of American Crime" hits this week, and CBR News has the details on the series’ origins, the final issue, the proposed film and Rick Remender's views on the heist of the century.

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A-oooooo!

What’s more beautiful than James Franco’s face?

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A NOVEL BOOKSTORE by Laurence Cossé

Book Quote:
“Still on the subject of greed,” he said, “a sort of degradation of literary morality is under way. It could well be that your project, in itself, simply by the light it will cast on the arena of literature, will show how pathetic this drift is.

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Ever want to check out an author but didn't know where to start? Let's help each other out!

There are a number of authors that I have heard good things about, or seen around a lot, but don't want to just pick up a random book in the clearance section of my local bookstore. I'd like to know what their best works are so I can decide whether to pursue that author after reading one or two of his most popular novels.

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Pride (part three)

this is the final installment. Still needs revising, but what do you think?

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FAN EXPO: Pint O' C.B.

Marvel's Senior Vice President for Creator & Content Development C.B. Cebulski joined fellow staffers Steve Wacker and Arune Singh for a comedy-packed question-and-answer session with fans at Fan Expo Canada, and CBR was there.

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Sorry, One More Post About Franzen

Back in 2004, Jonathan Franzen reviewed Alice Munro's "Runaway" in the Book Review.

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Any good poirot novels not written by Agatha Christie?

I just completed my project of reading all poirot novels and stories by Agatha Christie. And after Curtain, i feel like i lost someone close to me (i read the books over the last 2 years) . I have read some good non-canonical Holmes books. Likewise, any non-canonical Poirot novels?

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A Note about Nick Hornby...

James Fallows - James Fallows is a National Correspondent for The Atlantic . A 25-year veteran of the magazine and former speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, he is also an instrument-rated pilot and a onetime program designer at Microsoft.

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Book Review: Review of "The Prudent Mariner" by Leslie Walker Williams

Book Review: Can You Count? by Gyo Fujikawa (Being a Mummy)

Cardboard counting books are ten a penny, we have not had a great deal of success with them so far. However, the children are both capable of counting; Fifi to five and Toddler Boy to thirteen, so maybe the ones we have used are more successful than I thought. More likely my incessant counting out of things; spoonfuls of formula, socks, anything and everything.

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Personal development book reviews - August 31st, 2010 (Blog Carnival listings)

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT BOOK REVIEWS is now up at Your Best Library: Personal Development Book Reviews Blog Carnival ? Edition 6 !Source : Blog Carnival listings

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Reddit, can you identify this sci-fi short story?

I do not recall the title of the short story but it has remained a vivid image in my head for too many years without a name or reference.

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Review: Dog Boy, by Eva Hornung

Eva Hornung’s tale of a Russian boy literally gone to the dogs is beautifully written and very moving

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PREVIEW: "Batman Confidential" #48

Courtesy of DC Comics, CBR brings you an advance look at "Batman Confidential" #48. Written by Kevin VanHook with art and cover by Tom Mandrake, this issue goes on sale this week.

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The Death of a Dream Chaser

i got the sunrise in my eyes
and my mind is alive with rhymes
and i know only i can decide
who i want to be
i've got to find my place
in this society
study philosophy
forget that amateur astronomy
which told me my soul
was beholden to another
and i still love her
but i gotta walk

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Moorehawke Artwork.

A Bookfuturist Manifesto

God Forgets to Baby-Sit

Hi,

Well, as usual, I am experimenting my ability to create a poem without the use of Classical or Romantic implications and concepts. Let alone the style. Of course, not that I want to stick with this, but it's good to experiment once in a while I'd say...!!!

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Brooklyn College Defends Controversial Book Choice (Gothamist)

After being accused of attempting to indoctrinate students with a supposedly pro-Palestine book by alumnus Bruce Kesler, who wrote on his blog that he has written his alma mater out of his will , Brooklyn College is defending their now-controversial choice for their "Common Reader" program.

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A challenge for you, fellow readers:

I am trying to get an agent for a book. Rather than taking the shotgun approach of submitting to any agent who accepts fantasy, I am taking it slower and learning more about what each agent likes. I am starting by reading books they represent.

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Book Review: Man Gave Names to All the Animals by Bob Dylan, illustrated by Jim Arnosky

 On August 20, 1979, Bob Dylan dropped Slow Train Coming on which there was a song, “Man Gave Names to All the Animals.” The song was not an allegory; it had no deep, hidden meaning. It simply told of man walking along, observing animals, and naming them. It’s not the only simple ...

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Book Review: Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe

Subtitled an arguably inaccurate “A Tea Party Manifesto” Give Us Liberty is Dick Armey and the advocacy organization FreedomWorks’ DC-based view of the Tea Party movement so far. It’s a book that never fails to retell FreedomWorks’ role in almost everything that ever happened ...

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Book Review: The Bug That Plagued the Entire Third Grade by Lori Calabrese

Would you like to take a trip down memory lane? Do you remember being in the third grade? I do not recall my own experience, but I remember quite well when my three children attended third grade. I will never forget the many times they scared me half to death by bringing home snakes and many other creatures ...

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Book Review: Reason & Tolerance by Davis Jones IV

In the past couple of years, since the beginning of the Tea Party movement, the U.S.A. has seen many books that seek to influence it. Dozens of authors vie to be proclaimed the “Thomas Paine” for a new generation of patriots, although most seem to have forgotten that Tom Paine was a rather ...

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Book Review: The Big Red Bike by E.J. Tims

Let’s go to an alien place…one where mothers are home-baking cookies, fathers build go-carts in the garage, children are obedient though sometimes mischievous, the streets are safe for kids even after dark, there is no TV, no internet, and the best place to be all summer long is outside ...

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Book Review: Winter's Passage by Julie Kagawa

Never make a contract with a Faery. Meghan Chase knows this, but it could not be helped. You do what you have to do to survive or in this case to save her brother Ethan, kidnapped by the Iron fey. Since Meghan has discovered her identity she has also learned to never swim in quiet ponds and to ...

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Book Review: The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing: The 16-Step Blueprint by Evan Marshall

Evan Marshall is well-known for his 2001 16-step plan to help writers finish a novel. This 2010 ebook version of The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing: The 16-Step Blueprint to Take You From Idea to Completed Manuscript in 30 Days or Less  will jump-start your stalled writing projects, if you have ...

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BCC: Michael Allred

"Madman" creator Michael Allred and colorist Laura Allred met with loyal fans in Baltimore for a discussion of the Allreds' comics and music, and to hear what's next for their signature creation, Frank Einstein AKA Madman.

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How will Tony Blair's Journey begin?

The memoirs of the former prime minister go before an apparently eager public tomorrow.

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Heritage Auctions New York City Gallery opens Sept. 1

Daniel Abraham talks writing

Daniel Abraham is interviewed by Peter Orullian. They talk about the upcoming Dragon’s Path, writing, genre, and music. Read the whole thing here.

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Such Fertile Soil

Such Fertile Soil

After the eruption,
After the destruction,
After the hardening,
After cracking and sharding,
After shards crumble,
After a heart is humble,
After the sowing,
After a season's growing,
After the harvest,
Such a joyful rest.

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Previewing "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions"

CBR News took the webslinger's latest video game incarnation for a spin and weighs on the many worlds of "Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions." Check out our in-depth review, screenshots and launch trailer!

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High school writer with horrible writing

Hello,

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REVIEW: The Rebellion of Jane Clarke by Sally Gunning

Dear Ms. Gunning,

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8.31.10: Clark Russell, Making the world beautiful one client at a time

In ‘Bliss’ stories, angst and empathy

Ted Gilley’s characters are trapped in loneliness. Even when they’re with a lover or surrounded by friends, they are stranded in a blank waste where they can’t be reached, facing down their secret fears, their private losses.

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Token Book Review: Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art by laney salisbury (happyrobot)

Having read a book on fake bottle of wines from Thomas Jefferson I wasn't sure I was ready for another book on fakes, yet I found this to be riveting.

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Cooking for Geeks

The distance between us

The distance between us is like
you are a river,
and I'm a cloud.
When you flow into the open arms
of the ocean,
all I can do is
adore your sweet gurgle
over a little pebble!

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Book review: Influence | communicatrix (Booksville)

How out-of-date is the library-sale copy of Influence: The Power of Persuasion I finished recently? When my 1984-minted paperback was printed, its subtitle was “The New Psychology of Modern Persuasion.” (Italics mine, of course.) … Read more: Book review: Influence | communicatrix

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Book Review: Planting Churches, Changing Communities (The Simple Pastor)

Church planting is not an easy thing to do, there’s a tonne of things to learn and to think about. Good reasons to have some good books on the…Source : The Simple PastorExplore : Culture

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Tony Judt: An Intellectual Journey

Rene Burri/Magnum Photo

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Putting Heads on Beds (Cockman)

Putting Heads on Beds, by Michael Cockman (HTML with commentary at HowTo)

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Glimpses (Shiner)

Glimpses (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, c1993), by Lewis Shiner (PDF at fictionliberationfront.net)

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Frontera (Shiner)

Frontera (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, c1984), by Lewis Shiner (PDF at fictionliberationfront.net)

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Deserted Cities of the Heart (Shiner)

Deserted Cities of the Heart (Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, c1988), by Lewis Shiner (PDF at fictionliberationfront.net)

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The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada (Barnetson)

The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada (c2010), by Bob Barnetson (PDF with commentary at aupress.ca)

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To Know Our Many Selves (Hoerder)

To Know Our Many Selves: From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies (2010), by Dirk Hoerder (PDF with commentary at aupress.ca)

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The Story of Corpus Christi (Sutherland)

The Story of Corpus Christi (Corpus Christ, TX: Corpus Christi chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy, 1916), by Mary A. Sutherland (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Clarke)

Some Reminiscences and Early Letters of Sidney Lanier (Macon, GA: J. W. Burke Co., 1907), by George Herbert Clarke, contrib. by Harry Stillwell Edwards and Sidney Lanier (multiple formats at archive.org)

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A Short History of the Confederate States of America (Davis)

A Short History of the Confederate States of America (New York: Belford Co., 1890), by Jefferson Davis (multiple formats at archive.org)

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Roster of Confederate Soldiers in the War Between the States Furnished by Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1861-1865 (United Confederate Veterans. North Carolina Division)

Roster of Confederate Soldiers in the War Between the States Furnished by Lincoln County, North Carolina, 1861-1865 (Lincolnton, NC: Journal Print, 1905), by United Confederate Veterans North Carolina Division and United Daughters of the Confederacy North Carolina Division (multiple formats at archive.org)

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