Any Small Goodness : A Novel of the Barrio

from the back cover: Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor. An area of freeway chases and drive-bys and death. But there's another L.A., one where warmth and humor and humanity pervade. Where a tacqueria sign declares: "One cause, one people, one taco."

Many Nations : An Alphabets of Native America

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078073005994

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32p; ill; col; pbk

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The Longman Picture Dictionary

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9780582299818

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413.17 ASH

Tales of The Shaman's Apprentice

For thousands of years, healers have used plants to cure illness. Aspirin, the world's most widely used drug, is based on compounds originally extracted from the bark of a willow tree, and more than a quarter of medicines found on pharmacy shelves contain plant compounds. Now Western medicine, faced with health crises such as AIDS, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer, has begun to look to the heali…

Greatest Love Poems

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9781848374805

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821 EDG G

Pocahontas

from the back cover: A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. Black eyes, and blue eyes. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love . . . But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan, and the Englishman is a white man. And the Indians of Virginia do not want the white men in their beautiful country. This is the famous story o…

New Yorkers : Short Stories

from the back cover: A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensiti…

Poetry 180 : A Turning Back to Poetry

A dazzling new anthology of 180 contemporary poems, selected and introduced by America's former poet laureate, Billy Collins. [from the back cover of the book.]

Exploration and Conquest

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9780688154745

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115 MAE