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Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742-1801by Junie E. KingISBN 0806308036 (0-8063-0803-6)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Aesop's Fablesby Michael Hague, AesopISBN 0805063153 (0-8050-6315-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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In sixth-century Greece, it is said, there lived a slave named Aesop who was renowned for his brilliant storytelling. The collection of sly, witty fables that bears his name continues to delight readers of all ages. Michael Hague has selected his favorite fables and illustrated them with beautiful paintings in the style that has made his work so popular.More editions of Aesop's Fables:
Amazing Story of the Fantasticks: America's Longest Running Playby Robert ViagasISBN 0806512148 (0-8065-1214-8)
Hardcover, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
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Anne of Inglesideby Lucy Maud MontgomeryISBN 0808516957 (0-8085-1695-7)
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Anne of the Islandby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0808553798 (0-8085-5379-8)
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Anne of Windy Poplarsby L.M. MontgomeryISBN 0808516965 (0-8085-1696-5)
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Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentaryby Michael Henry Heim, Simon Karlinsky, Anton Pavlovich ChekhovISBN 0810114607 (0-8101-1460-7)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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At the Falls: Richmond, Virginia, and Its Peopleby Marie Tyler-McGrawISBN 0807844764 (0-8078-4476-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Audrey Hepburn : An Intimate Portraitby Diana MaychickISBN 0806580003 (0-8065-8000-3)
Softcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Bam Bam Bamby Eve Merriam, Dan YaccarinoISBN 080505796X (0-8050-5796-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Battle of the Wilderness May 5-6, 1864by Gordon C. RheaISBN 0807130214 (0-8071-3021-4)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains: A Guide for the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains, Shenandoah National Park, and Neighboring Areasby Marcus B. SimpsonISBN 0807843636 (0-8078-4363-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Ogalala Siouxby Black Elk, John Gneisenau NeihardtISBN 0809489007 (0-8094-8900-7)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Cezanne: Father of 20Th-Century Artby Michel HoogISBN 0810928795 (0-8109-2879-5)
Softcover, Harry N Abrams Inc
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Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Gardenby Quentin Bell, Alen MacWeeneyISBN 0805055851 (0-8050-5585-1)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Chesapeake in the Seventeenth Century: Essays on Anglo-American Societyby Thad W. Tate, Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.), David AmmermanISBN 0807813605 (0-8078-1360-5)
Hardcover, Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press
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A Collection of Familiar Quotationsby John BartlettISBN 0806502509 (0-8065-0250-9)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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Dicey's Songby Cynthia VoigtISBN 0808558579 (0-8085-5857-9)
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Early Virginia Families Along the James Riverby PledgeISBN 080630877X (0-8063-0877-X)
Softcover, Clearfield Co
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The First Circleby Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Thomas P. WhitneyISBN 0810115905 (0-8101-1590-5)
Softcover, Northwestern Univ Pr
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Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740by Anthony S. ParentISBN 0807854867 (0-8078-5486-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Franklin County, Virginia: A Historyby Marshall WingfieldISBN 0806346175 (0-8063-4617-5)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Franny and Zooeyby J. D. SalingerISBN 080851900X (0-8085-1900-X)
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Fredericksburg! Fredericksburgby George C. RableISBN 0807826731 (0-8078-2673-1)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Genealogies of Virginia Familiesby Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneological MagazineISBN 0806309474 (0-8063-0947-4)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Glass Menagerieby Tennessee Williams, Robert BrayISBN 0808508830 (0-8085-0883-0)
Hardcover, New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790by U.S. Bureau of the CensusISBN 0806304855 (0-8063-0485-5)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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- Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 Viginia: Records of the State Enumerations 1782 to 1785: ISBN 0806303441 (0-8063-0344-1)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co - Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790: ISBN 0806313471 (0-8063-1347-1)
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Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
- Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 Viginia: Records of the State Enumerations 1782 to 1785: ISBN 0806303441 (0-8063-0344-1)
History of Augusta County, Virginiaby J. Lewis Peyton, Lewis J. PeytonISBN 0806346612 (0-8063-4661-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor HugoISBN 0808519654 (0-8085-1965-4)
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I Rode With Stonewallby H.K. DouglasISBN 0807803375 (0-8078-0337-5)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Ice Agesby Time-Life Books, Windsor ChorltonISBN 0809443287 (0-8094-4328-7)
Hardcover, Time-Life Books
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Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock & Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655-1900by Eva E. WilkersonISBN 0806307064 (0-8063-0706-4)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Index to the 1810 Census of Virginiaby Elizabeth BentleyISBN 0806308753 (0-8063-0875-3)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Jamestowne Ancestors 1607-1699: Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of the Landing at James Towne 1607-2007by Virgina Lee DavisISBN 0806317671 (0-8063-1767-1)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Kabir: Ecstatic Poemsby William ShakespeareISBN 0807063800 (0-8070-6380-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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By making every reader consider anew their religious thinking, the poems of Kabir seem as relevant today as when they were first written. [via]More editions of Kabir: Ecstatic Poems:
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King Learby William ShakespeareISBN 080850892X (0-8085-0892-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en/Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark, and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Knights of the Golden Horse-Shoeby William Alexander CaruthersISBN 0807840548 (0-8078-4054-8)
Softcover, University of North Carolina Press
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The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomedby Lee SmithISBN 0807119350 (0-8071-1935-0)
Softcover, Louisiana State Univ Pr
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The Man Who Killed Rasputin : Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring down the Russian Empireby Greg KingISBN 0806519711 (0-8065-1971-1)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Marriage Records in the Virginia State Library: A Researchers Guideby John Vogt, T. William KethleyISBN 0809582031 (0-8095-8203-1)
Hardcover, Wildside Pr
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Marriages of Goochland County, Virginia, 1733-1815by Kathleen Booth WilliamsISBN 0806308362 (0-8063-0836-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800by Robert K. HeadleyISBN 0806317329 (0-8063-1732-9)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Mason and Dixonby Thomas PynchonISBN 0805058370 (0-8050-5837-0)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mason and Dixon'Book summary:The New York Times Best Book of the Year, 1997Time Magazine Best Book of the Year 1997Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatch'd pair--one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic--from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revolutionary America and back, through the strange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment's dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason. [via]
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Meyerhold on Theatreby Vsevolod çEmilöEvich MeæIerkholöDISBN 0809069253 (0-8090-6925-3)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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More Emigrants in Bondage: 1614-1775by Peter Wilson ColdhamISBN 0806316942 (0-8063-1694-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Mosby's Rangersby J. WilliamsonISBN 0809442256 (0-8094-4225-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Mother Earth: Land Grants in Virginia, 1607-1699by Walter Stitt RobinsonISBN 0806346132 (0-8063-4613-2)
Softcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Oedipus the Kingby Bernard KnoxISBN 0808509004 (0-8085-0900-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Old Churches: Ministers and Families of Virginiaby William MeadeISBN 0806302380 (0-8063-0238-0)
Hardcover, Clearfield Co
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Onliness : Novelby Dave SmithISBN 0807108715 (0-8071-0871-5)
Hardcover, Louisiana State University Press
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Othelloby William ShakespeareISBN 0808509012 (0-8085-0901-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Phantom Of The Operaby Gaston LerouxISBN 0808581678 (0-8085-8167-8)
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Plantation Homes of the James Riverby Bruce RobertsISBN 0807842788 (0-8078-4278-8)
Softcover, University of North Carolina Press
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If you have never visited the James River plantations, this book will inspire you to plan a trip there. If you have, you will find this book a wonderful memento of a special place. Robert's 141 color photographs capture the magnificent exteriors of the houses, as well as their gardens and grounds, and offer rare and intimate glimpses of their interiors and furnishings. The plantations portrayed include Shirley Plantation, one of the oldest in America; Belle Air Plantation, with its unique seventeenth-century frame house containing America's finest Jacobean staircase; and Westover Plantation, site of the elegant Georgian home built by William Byrd II.
The text provides histories of the plantations, presenting them as places where real people lived and workedand still do, in many cases. While the plantations share some common history, each reflects the individual characteristics of the men, women, and children who lived there. In the dining room at Berkeley Hundred, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and eight other presidents enjoyed meals and discussed affairs of state. At Carter's Grove, Roberts photographed the "Refusal Room," where, according to local history, both Washington and Jefferson were refused in marriage by Virginia belles.
Today many of the plantation homes have been designated state and national historic sites, and with this book you can visit them and relive four hundred years of history. [via]
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Pocahontas And the Powhatan Dilemmaby Camilla TownsendISBN 0809077388 (0-8090-7738-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma: The American Portraits Seriesby Camilla TownsendISBN 0809095300 (0-8090-9530-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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A Richmond Reader, 1733-1983by Maurice Duke, Daniel P. JordanISBN 0807815462 (0-8078-1546-2)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Richmond's Monument Avenueby Richard Guy Wilson, Robert P. Winthrop, Sarah Shields Driggs, Historic Monument Avenue and Fan District FoundationISBN 0807826073 (0-8078-2607-3)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Robert E. Lee Family Cooking and Housekeeping Bookby Anne Carter ZimmerISBN 0807854158 (0-8078-5415-8)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Rodgers and Hammerstein: A Celebrationby Ethan MorddenISBN 0806514698 (0-8065-1469-8)
Softcover, Carol Pub Group
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Rodgers Hammersteinby Ethan MorddenISBN 0810929112 (0-8109-2911-2)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Romeo and Julietby William ShakespeareISBN 0808515136 (0-8085-1513-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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Rootsby Alex HaleyISBN 0808511033 (0-8085-1103-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Roots'Book summary:From Publishers Weekly: Starred Review. It's hard to believe that it has been 30 years since Alex Haley's groundbreaking historical novel (based on his own family's history) was first published and became a worldwide phenomenon. Millions have read the story of the young African boy named Kunte Kinte, who in the late 1700s was kidnapped from his homeland and brought to the United States as a slave. Haley follows Kunte Kinte's family line over the next seven generations, creating a moving historical novel spanning 200 years..... Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. [via]
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Russian Rebels, 1600-1800by Paul Avrich, Paul Avrich Collection (Library of Congress)ISBN 0805234586 (0-8052-3458-6)
Hardcover, Schocken Books
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The Scarlet Pimpernelby OrczyISBN 080851038X (0-8085-1038-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'Book summary:The French nobility are living in terror; one by one they are sent to the guillotine. Revenge at last for the years of callousness and cruelty suffered by the people of France. There is no escape; the city walls of Paris are guarded day and night. And yet a few achieve the impossible, disappearing without a trace in Paris, only to re-emerge in the safety of England. Rumours abound of a group of young English gentleman of unparalleled daring. Under their anonymous leader they save scores of aristocrats from terrible deaths. And each time a note is put mockingly into the hands of the merciless tribunal chairman, Citoyen Tinville. On it is the stamp of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Tinville will do or pay anything to see the Englishmen dead but they seem to evade capture with almost devilish ease. But with the cunning and ruthless spy master, Chauvelin, on his trail, the Scarlet Pimpernel must make no slip for he has everything to lose. [via]
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Scarlett Slept Here: A Book Lover's Guide to the Southby Joy DickinsonISBN 0806520922 (0-8065-2092-2)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420401 (0-8054-2040-1)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
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The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toastby C. S. LewisISBN 0809436590 (0-8094-3659-0)
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Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Recordsby John Bennett BoddieISBN 0806305592 (0-8063-0559-2)
Hardcover, Genealogical Pub Co
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Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stageby Konstantin StanislavskyISBN 0809005328 (0-8090-0532-8)
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Steam, Steel & Stars: America's Last Steam Railroadby Winston O. LinkISBN 0810925877 (0-8109-2587-7)
Softcover, Abrams , Incorporated, Harry N.
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Super-scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway Historyby Anne Mitchell WhisnantISBN 0807830372 (0-8078-3037-2)
Hardcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Three Theban Playsby Sophocles, Robert FaglesISBN 0808577123 (0-8085-7712-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Theban Plays'Book summary:Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. [via]
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 0808509098 (0-8085-0909-8)
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Villette: Library Editionby Charlotte BronteISBN 0809589885 (0-8095-8988-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Villette: Library Edition'Book summary:When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. The house and its inmates specially suited me. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abide -- so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavement -- these things pleased me well. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her; her husband, a physician, having died while she was yet a young and handsome woman. . . . [via]
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Virginia Ancestors and Adventuresby C HamlinISBN 0806306424 (0-8063-0642-4)
Softcover, Clearfield Co
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Virginia County Recordsby William A. CrozierISBN 0806304685 (0-8063-0468-5)
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Virginia County Records: Virginia Colonial Militia 1651-1776by William Armstrong CrozierISBN 0806305665 (0-8063-0566-5)
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Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania: Records of the District of West Augusta and Ohio and Yohogania Counties, Virginia 1775-1780by Boyd CrumrineISBN 0806306246 (0-8063-0624-6)
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Virginia Ghostsby Marguerite D. LeeISBN 0806350954 (0-8063-5095-4)
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Virginia Migrations - Hanover County: Vol. 1 1723-1850 Wills, Deeds, Depositions, Invoices, Letters and Other Documents of Historical and Genealogical Interest. Vol. II 1743-1871 Wills,deeby Preston G. Glazebrook, Eugenia G.ISBN 0806349646 (0-8063-4964-6)
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Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants 1694 1742by G. GrayISBN 0806311762 (0-8063-1176-2)
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Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-1787: Other Than Those Published by the United States Census Bureauby Augusta B. Fothergill, John Mark NaugleISBN 0806301473 (0-8063-0147-3)
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Virginias Colonial Soldiersby L. BockstruckISBN 080631219X (0-8063-1219-X)
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Walking the Blue Ridge: A Guide to the Trails of the Blue Ridge Parkwayby Leonard M. AdkinsISBN 0807843180 (0-8078-4318-0)
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The Wilderness Campaignby Gary W. GallagherISBN 0807823341 (0-8078-2334-1)
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Marina KastanISBN 0806943440 (0-8069-4344-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:He was the greatest poet and playwright who ever lived, the dramatist who penned lines that we quote without even realizing their origin. Shakespeare's glorious works have even inspired animated films--like Disney's The Lion King. Introduce children to the Bard with this wonderful, fully annotated collection of sonnets and soliloquies, enhanced with beautiful, highly realistic color paintings that bring each excerpt to vivid life. Here are Shakespeare's most famous speeches: "To be or not to be" from Hamlet, with the melancholy Dane pictured in front of the castle, his face pensive and gazing into the distance; Portia's gentle plea for mercy in The Merchant of Venice; Macbeth's witches' cackling "Double, double, toil and trouble"; and Marc Antony's sarcastic address to "Friends, Romans, Countrymen," in Julius Caesar. A golden-robed Henry V, kneeling and bowed from the weight of the world, ponders how rulers must bear the burden of their subjects' needs. Mercutio, seen here in a bright red background as fiery and explosive as his personality, gently teases his lovesick friend Romeo. From the tender sonnets (Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?) to the humorous songs sung by his jesters in comedies such as Twelfth Night, every page contains pure verbal and visual magic.[via]
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Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800by Robert K. HeadleyISBN 0806310219 (0-8063-1021-9)
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The Woman Warriorby Maxine Hong KingstonISBN 0808589768 (0-8085-8976-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Woman Warrior'Book summary:The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted and only a strong, wily woman can scratch her way upward. The author's America is a landscape of confounding white "ghosts"--the policeman ghost, the social worker ghost--with equally rigid, but very different rules. Like the woman warrior of the title, Kingston carries the crimes against her family carved into her back by her parents in testimony to and defiance of the pain. [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily BronteISBN 0809598981 (0-8095-9898-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wuthering Heights'Book summary:I have just returned from a visit to my landlord -- the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name. "Mr. Heathcliff?" I said. A nod was the answer. "Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honor of calling as soon as possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you had had some thoughts --" "Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir," he interrupted, wincing. "I should not allow anyone to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it -- walk in!" [via]
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