Independence Day

Independence Day
Title Independence Day PDF eBook
Author Willma Willis Gore
Publisher Enslow Elementary
Pages 54
Release 1993
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9780894904035

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The author explains why July 4th is a special day in America, introducing the history behind the holiday and describing the fireworks, parades, and special ceremonies that mark Independence Day.

Doomsday Book

Doomsday Book
Title Doomsday Book PDF eBook
Author Connie Willis
Publisher Spectra
Pages 593
Release 1993-08-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0553562738

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Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.

A Rainy Day

A Rainy Day
Title A Rainy Day PDF eBook
Author Sandra Markle
Publisher Orchard Books (NY)
Pages 32
Release 1993
Genre Rain and rainfall
ISBN 9780531085769

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Examines simple scientific concepts by observing the effect of raindrops on puddles, the sky, animals, and the surrounding landscape on a rainy day.

Sorted Books

Sorted Books
Title Sorted Books PDF eBook
Author Nina Katchadourian
Publisher Chronicle Books
Pages 344
Release 2013-02-08
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1452126860

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A witty and thought-provoking collection of visual poems constructed from stacks of books. Delighting in the look and feel of books, conceptual artist Nina Katchadourian’s playful photographic series proves that books’ covers—or more specifically, their spines—can speak volumes. Over the past two decades, Katchadourian has perused libraries across the globe, selecting, stacking, and photographing groupings of two, three, four, or five books so that their titles can be read as sentences, creating whimsical narratives from the text found there. Thought-provoking, clever, and at times laugh-out-loud funny (one cluster of titles from the Akron Museum of Art’s research library consists of: Primitive Art /Just Imagine/Picasso/Raised by Wolves), Sorted Books is an enthralling collection of visual poems full of wry wit and bookish smarts. Praise for Sorted Books “Katchadourian’s project . . . takes on a weight beyond its initial novelty. It’s a love letter to books, book collecting and the act of reading.” —San Francisco Chronicle “As a longtime fan of [Katchadourian’s] long-running Sorted Books project I’m thrilled for the release of Sorted Books—a collection spanning nearly two decades of her witty and wise minimalist mediations on life by way of ingeniously arranged book spines. . . . In an era drowned in periodic death tolls for the future of the physical book, her project stands as a celebration of the spirit embedded in the magnificent materiality of the printed page.” —Brain Pickings “Katchadourian’s stacks possess an understated sophistication; they are true to the intimate nature of books and yet reveal their dramatic features and unexpected potential.” —Publishers Weekly

Groundhog Day

Groundhog Day
Title Groundhog Day PDF eBook
Author Ryan Gilbey
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 98
Release 2019-07-25
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1838716033

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It is becoming clearer and clearer that Groundhog Day (1993), directed by Harold Ramis, is one of the masterpieces of 1990s Hollywood cinema. One of the first films to use a science-fiction premise as the basis for romantic comedy, it tells the story of a splenetic TV weatherman, Phil Connors (Bill Murray at his disreputable best), who finds himself repeating indefinitely one drab day in the milk-and-cookies town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. At first glance it seems like a feel-good parable in the tradition of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1943). But on closer inspection it is a deeply ambivalent fable, with strong echoes of Samuel Beckett: before he finds redemption Phil must plumb the depths of suicidal despair - and even after he has survived this, the film offers no guarantees that he will live happily ever after. Ryan Gilbey begins his account of Groundhog Day with the long and unlucky gestation of the script by Danny Rubin (who was interviewed specially for this book) which formed the basis of the finished film. Gilbey celebrates the inspired casting of Murray, alongside Andie MacDowell and less well-known actors such as Stephen Tobolowsky (who plays the reptilian sa

The Penguin Book of Interviews

The Penguin Book of Interviews
Title The Penguin Book of Interviews PDF eBook
Author Christopher Silvester
Publisher
Pages 668
Release 1993
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A collection of interviews with: Karl Marx - Theodore Roosevelt - Rudyard Kipling - Christabel Pankhurst - Sigmund Freud - Adolf Hitler - Benito Mussolini - Joseph Stalin - Mahatma Gandhi - Marilyn Monroe - Mao Tse-tung - Margaret Thatcher - Arthur Miller - John F. Kennedy - John Lennon - Pablo Picasso - Sigmund Freud - Tolstoy - Ibsen - Oscar Wilde.

Carl's Masquerade

Carl's Masquerade
Title Carl's Masquerade PDF eBook
Author Alexandra Day
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Pages 32
Release 1992-10-01
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 9780374310943

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To Carl and his young charge, a masquerade party proves an irresistible invitation to fun.