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With Lee in Virginia
G A Henty Manufacturer: Lost Classics Book Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0965273555 |
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Vincent Wingfield returns home to Virginia after four years in England to find conditions unsettled. War breaks out and Vincent goes to fight for the South. Henty's gripping story weaves Vincent's fictional adventures with the real life events of the Civil War, giving a rare glimpse of this struggle from a Southern perspective. This book teached histrory as it entertains and celebrates family loyalty, honor, bravery and determination.Download Description
Sometimes Ashley would draw together a score of troopers, and crossing the river in a ferryboat, would ride twenty miles north, and, dashing into quiet villages, astonish the inhabitants by the sight of the Confederate uniform. Then the villagers would be questioned as to the news that had reached them of the movement of the troops; the post office would be seized and the letters broken open; any useful -information contained in them being noted.Customer Reviews:
NOT about the real American Civil War.......2006-11-21
Wonderful history lesson of the Civil War.......2001-03-27
Superb!.......2000-04-18
Exciting and engaging, I couldn't put it down........1998-12-03
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Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel (With CD)
Virginia Lee Burton Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0618737561 |
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Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel Mary Anne make quite a team. The inseparable duo digs the great canals for the big boats to travel through, cuts through the large mountains so trains can pass, and hollows out the deep cellars for the great skyscrapers in the city. But the introduction of gasoline, electric, and diesel shovels means big trouble for Mike and Mary Anne. No one wants an old-fashioned steam shovel like Mary Anne when a modern shovel can do the digging in half the time! Forced to travel far out of the city to look for work, Mike and Mary Anne find themselves in the little town of Popperville. Mike and Mary Anne make a bid to dig the cellar for the new town hall, promising the town that if they can't dig the cellar in just one day they'll accept no payment for the job. Will Mike and Mary Anne be able to complete the job? The whole town of Popperville turns out to watch. Virginia Lee Burton, author of such classic children's books as The Little House and Katy and the Big Snow, offers a touching portrait of love and dedication while commenting on the modernization that continuously shapes our lives. Hamilton's wonderful crayon drawings bring Mike and the indomitable Mary Anne to life. (Ages 3 to 6)Book Description
A modern classic that no child should miss. Since it was first published in 1939, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel has delighted generations of children. Mike and his trusty steam shovel, Mary Anne, dig deep canals for boats to travel through, cut mountain passes for trains, and hollow out cellars for city skyscrapers -- the very symbol of industrial America. But with progress come new machines, and soon the inseparable duo are out of work. Mike believes that Mary Anne can dig as much in a day as one hundred men can dig in a week, and the two have one last chance to prove it and save Mary Anne from the scrap heap. What happens next in the small town of Popperville is a testament to their friendship, and to old-fashioned hard work and ingenuity. Inside is a paperback copy of the book and two readings-one with and one without page-turn signals. Perfect for library and classroom story times or for enjoying alone, Read-Along Book and CDs are fun for readers and listeners ages 3 and up. Sit back and share a story!Customer Reviews:
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel.......2007-10-06
An excellent story driven by excellent values.......2007-09-12
Very happy.......2007-09-05
Great book for any kids to learn about friendship........2007-08-28
Love it!.......2007-08-25
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Screaming With the Cannibals
Lee Maynard Manufacturer: Vandalia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0937058815 |
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Screaming with the Cannibals, the much anticipated sequel to Lee Maynard's cult classic Crum, gets its title when the central character finds himself in an evangelical service in Kentucky on the other side of the Tug River from his native West Virginia. As the folks touched by the Spirit rave and howl, he remembers how, back in Crum, the folks used to tell him to stay on his side of the river, because the people on the other side were known to eat their children. And now, here he is in a Kentucky holy-roller church, screaming with the cannibals.Since the first novel, our protagonist has visited the West Virginia holler where his family lived before he moved up to the greater sophistication of Crum, and there he discovers that his favorite uncle has disappeared from the face of the earth in a moonshining accident. He then meets the girl who makes the earth - or at least the hay loft - move for him, quite literally falling for her. From there he goes to Kentucky, and then to Myrtle Beach, where he gets hired as a lifeguard, although he cannot swim a stroke.
If Crum is (as many have said) West Virginia's answer to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, then Screaming with the Cannibals is Appalachia's response to John Updike's Rabbit Run.
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More Pleasure for Fans of CRUM!.......2006-02-05
Modern American Classic .......2004-09-14
Great Sequel to Crum.......2004-05-21
Crum is a book that very few women would enjoy. If you're a guy with a sense of humor you should check it out. It's one of the funniest books I've ever read, about a kid growing up in a small town in West Virginia. The book is full of the adventures of this kid and his friends, and of his quest to leave the town of Crum. If you enjoy that book, you will also like this one.
Lee Maynard is an outstanding writer, and I'm constantly looking for anything new by him. I was thrilled when I found this book earlier this year and not at all disappointed when I read it.
Lee Maynard Rules!! Would make great movie!!.......2004-01-08
The Quest of Jesse Stone.......2004-01-02
The 2nd in a series, SWTC takes up where Maynard's first novel Crum left off. However, the author skillfully incorporates information from Crum in the form of flashbacks and each novel stands alone.
SWTC opens with Jesse, a rough and tumble 50s era football playing, book reading kid, finishing Crum High School. He is determined to see the world he has experience only through the books in the school's library.
Short on specific goals but high on self-reliance, Jesse packs his favorite book, a change of clothes and about thirteen dollars and "lights out" for somewhere.
He hitches a ride and briefly end up a farm hand in nearby Kentucky. There he gets interested (that's putting in mildly)in a neigbor's wife and contributes to a near riot at the farm community's yearly Fundamentalist revival. On the run, he heads south on an unlicensed Triumph motorcycle he rebuilt from used farm equipment parts.
Testesterone in high gear, Jesse finds more trouble with a South Carolina Sheriff before he lands a job as a lifeguard at Myrtle Beach.
Jesse runs smack-dab into racial trumoil and segregated beaches, the same Sheriff, responsible work, plus hoards of nubile girls and a Mrs. Robinson-type older woman.
If you ever wonder, "What goes on in the minds of teen aged boys?" this is the book to read.
The novel is extremely well written and easy to read. I especially like Maynard's writing style.
Readers who remember Myrtle Beach in the "old days" will enjoy the scenes set there.
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With Paintbrush and Shovel: Preserving Virginia's Wildflowers
Nancy Kober , and Nancy Skober Manufacturer: University of Virginia Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 081391969X |
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With Paintbrush and Shovel showcases the botanical watercolors of Bessie Niemeyer Marshall, a Virginia artist who received scant recognition during her lifetime. Reproduced for the first time in this volume, Marshall's beautiful paintings are the primary surviving record of a unique WPA project that put women to work creating a wildflower sanctuary in Petersburg, Virginia, during the 1930s.Nancy Kober affectingly recounts the story of this fascinating project and the women involved: the horticulturist Donald Claiborne Holden, who directed the sanctuary's creation; the women of the Petersburg Garden Club and of Petersburg's African American community, who worked hard, in spite of segregated tasks and facilities, to establish a botanical preserve in the city's Lee Park; and the artist Bessie Marshall, whose difficult personal circumstances kept her in obscurity during her lifetime despite her obvious talent and repeated expressions of interest from curators and benefactors. Marshall eventually produced 238 watercolors for the Lee Park collection, 222 of which appear in full color in this book.
With exquisite detail and a subtle palette, the paintings depict a host of native flowers, shrubs, and trees, including some rare or imperiled species. Here, arranged by habitat, are dogwood and cat-tail, pokeweed and passion-flower, angelica and witch-hazel, redbud and rattlesnake-master. Although many of these species still grow in the vicinity of the former sanctuary, the collection is a reminder of the precarious state of many wildflower habitats and the need for continuing efforts to preserve our botanical and historical heritage.
As a gift, a reference, or simply an inspiring read, With Paintbrush and Shovel is a fittingly beautiful representation of a unique meeting of the forces of nature, history, and art.
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With Paintbrush and Shovel.......2001-05-02
Breath taking wildflower paintings.......2001-04-19
Additionally, the printers spared no expense. They used high quality paper and achieved exquisite reproduction of the paintings. I'm sure they were fearful they would be totally out classed if they did not.
With Paint Brush and Shovel Preserving Virginia's Wildflower.......2000-11-30
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Be Good to Eddie Lee
Virginia Fleming Manufacturer: Philomel ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0399219935 |
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Heartwarming.......2006-11-11
A Positive Review For This Book.......2006-03-22
I don't understand.......2006-02-20
I wish 0 stars was an option for this condescending.......2005-04-30
Bizarre........2005-04-03
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With Lee in Virginia. A Story of the American Civil War
Manufacturer: The F. M. Lupton Publishing Co. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000E4Q9O8 |
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This is a story of the American Civil War written for young adults by G.A. a Henty & illus. by G. Browne. 384 pgs. Written approx. 1900.
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Autobiography of a Good Life: Growing Up in West Virginia on a Hill Farm, Getting an Education, Traveling in a World Filled With Friends
Roger L. Lee Manufacturer: 1stBooks Library ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1587216531 |
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Enjoy Your Life and The Friends You Make.......2001-08-13
Roger Lee led a varied and vigorous life on which he wrote an autobiography. He wrote the story of his life after he lost his daughter in a car accident and had a debilitating stroke. He wrote it as part of his self planned and determined recovery effort in the Canary Islands. He relearned his English, which was his mother tongue and touch-typing on a laptop computer using Microsoft Word.
He grew up on a West Virginia hill farm where most of his friends' grandest ambition was to get into the military service for the Korean War. They saw this as a way to get away from the farm and see some of the world.
When Roger was six years old he started his formal education in a one-room country school. The school was a two-mile walk one way. The highest grade in the school was the eighth. He didn't know that there were higher grades available when you got out of the hills.
His father died when he was eight years old. His mother raised him and his younger sister and brother with the aid of the hill farm. His uncle came and gave his mother a hand by moving into a small house on the farm and sharecropping the first three years after his father's death.
Roger Lee enlisted in the US Air Force when he was eligible at 18 years old and went to Texas for basic training. This was the beginning of his education. He went from basic training to radio school in Illinois. Then back to Texas and from there to Japan back to the US for a tour at Washington D. C. From there he went back to Japan again. He came back to Texas after two years. All this time he kept working on a correspondence course in radio and radar and received his First Class Radio License.
He received an honorable discharge from the US Air Force and went to work in the field he knew best, electronics. Later he was sent to Europe and saw a great deal of the western world while working on US contracts. He was always curious about the people he met in the countries where he worked, their food, the way they lived, how they earned a living and their language.
When Roger came back to the US he went to work as a technical writer in electronics and started college at the University of Maryland to improve his writing. He was soon bored by the US and went back to Canary Islands in Spain where he was employed at the Spacecraft Tracking Station.
He stayed at the Canaries Spacecraft Tracking Station until he became the Operations Manager and Armstrong Landed on the moon. Then a good friend took the job of managing the Spacecraft Tracking Station on Ascension Island and asked him to come down with him for a few months. Roger had a family by this time, but he left his wife and daughter, a new car, an apartment, and a yacht that he had acquired in the Canaries and went to Ascension for four months.
Back in the Canaries after four months he was `sort of at loose ends.' A telephone by another friend gave him something to do. The friend offered him a position at the Alaska Spacecraft Tracking Station. He thought about it, sold his car and yacht and took his wife and daughter to Alaska.
Roger spent a year and a half in Alaska and bought another house. He got itchy feet again, took wife and daughter and took off around the world. He was lucky there was plenty of electronics work and interesting people where he stopped in Hawaii and Australia. He dropped off his wife and daughter in the Canaries and continued on back to Alaska. This completed the trip around the world. He was scheduled for two months in Alaska this time and sold his house there.
Lasers were something he had never worked with so when he was offered a job in the NASA laser network he jumped at it. This meant that he took his wife and daughter back to Maryland and bought another house. From a year there he went on a contract with the Royal Saudi Navy in Saudi Arabia. From there he back to Texas to help write a proposal on the shuttle contract. Then he went back to Europe to work with the European Space Agency.
Later he lost his daughter in a car accident in Texas while he was still working for the European Space Agency, quite work, and went back to the Canaries where he had a stroke that resulted in this book. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did.
From Farm Boy To A Man With The World As A Teacher.......2001-05-14
In between the popcorn incident with his baby sister and his stroke 60 years later he covered a good part of the world and got an education at the same time. His father died when he was 8 and his mother raised him on a West Virginia hill farm until he was 18. His mother then managed the farm and made a good living for Roger and his sister and brother. He worked on the farm along with his sister and brother until the Korean War started when he enlisted in the US Air Force.
He stayed in the Air Force for 8 years, 4 of which he spent in Japan. When he was honorable discharged from the US Air Force he went to work for Bendix as a tech rep.
With Bendix he was working in communications, radar, lasers, and computers in hardware and software. His work took him from Europe, to Libya, and Saudi Arabia to Alaska by way of Australia. When he was working in Europe he spent time in Turkey and on the Azores Islands. During his stay he married a Spanish Lady he later to went to Maryland, right outside of Washington D. C. where his daughter was borne. In Maryland he was a tech writer. Several years (12) of his working life was with NASA (as a contractor). He was manning a console on the Manned Space Flight Station in Canary Island when Armstrong landed on the moon.
You will find Roger's life interesting. But the book is really about growing up, developing a philosophy of life and finally becoming a man.
Autobiography of a Good Life: Growing Up in West Virginia on.......2000-12-08
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A children's color book of Williamsburg in Virginia: With stories
Laura Lee Porterfield Manufacturer: Dietz Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00087ILII |
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The diary of Court House Square, Warrenton, Virginia, USA: From early times through 1986, with 1987-1995 reflections
Lee Moffett Manufacturer: Heritage Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0788405446 |
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EFFECTIVE WORK WITH INTERMEDIATES IN THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
MARY VIRGINIA LEE KIRK ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000VGQX90 |
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