This set includes all three volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian and Red River to Appomattox. (Nevins II, 13) (Dornbusch III, 1387) An attractive set. All three dust jackets with light toning to spine, primarily to Volume I and II, shallow chipping to top edge of spines, notation in pen on front flap of Volume II, all very good examples. In the publisher’s first state dust jackets, $10.00 with “11/58” in Volume I, $12.50 with “11/63” in Volume II and $20.00 with “11/74” in Volume III. Solid text blocks, faint rubbing to cloth, light wear from handling, all near fine examples. Stated “first printing” or “first edition” on copyright page of each volume. Gray cloth, title stamped in gilt on spines over blue. First edition, first printings of The Civil War: A Narrative, by author and historian Shelby Foote, in first state dust jackets. This first volume of Shelby Foote’s classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America’s great war becomes clear.
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And now there’s an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii up for grabs. But when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning from eating bad shellfish, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Olive braces herself to get through 24 hours of wedding hell before she can return to her comfortable, unlucky life. Worst of all, she’s forcing Olive to spend the day with her sworn enemy, Ethan, who just happens to be the best man. Her meet-cute with her fiancé is something out of a romantic comedy (gag) and she’s managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a series of Internet contests (double gag). Her identical twin sister Ami, on the other hand, is probably the luckiest person in the world. Olive is always unlucky: in her career, in love, in…well, everything. "Readers will feel privileged to be part of this magical experience." "The emotional resonance of the text, urgency of the issues discussed, and breathtakingly breautiful illustrations make this book a winner.A testament to the fierce beauty of jaguars and the human spirit." * "In his first book for children, conservationist and adult author Rabinowitz frames his lifelong struggle with stuttering against his equally long-held love of animals.Iit's a candid and deeply resonant account of a hard-fought battle against societal stigma, and an embrace of one's true talent and calling." Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation "A beautiful book that will inspire stutterers to succeed and make a positive difference in the world." Sy Montgomery, Sibert Medal Winner for Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World’s Strangest Parrot "This true story of a promise kept is for everyone – no matter what age – to read and share." Sherman Alexie, National Book Award winner for The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian You and I are this boy You and I are this jaguar." "This book made me cry tears of sympathy, and joy. Together, these stories articulated to me the unutterable-unutterable not because it shouldn’t be uttered but because some things are just too big for words. RECIPE FOR A MARVELOUS MISALIGNMENT COMPLETE. While I waited for my friend to finish Little Fires, I wrapped up Such a Fun Age and binged on the Hulu series adaptation of Little Fires Everywhere. My local bookshop could only manage copy of Little Fires Everywhere with the Hulu series adaptation cover. When I got too far ahead, I put it down and picked up Such a Fun Age. I read Little Fires Everywhere with a friend who is far better at pacing herself. All the stars aligned, and something very wrong happened when I read Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid at the same time. Needless to say I couldn't put this one down. About my only complaint? is his portrayal of Reepicheep, but since he's a talking mouse. Derek Jacobi does a good job of bringing the various characters to life. Will the crew of the Dawn Treader be able to complete their quest? And will Eustace drive them all crazy? This was an excellent production. While Edmund and Lucy are overjoyed to be back in Narnia, the pampered Eustace wants nothing more than to go back home. Caspian reveals that he is on a quest to find sevenn Narnian lords banished during the reign of his tyranical uncle Miraz and return them to Narnia. Topics CHILDREN'S BOOK, ENGLISH Collection ArvindGupta JaiGyan Language English. They find themselves aboard the Dawn Treader, King Caspian's personal ship. Things get complicated whent he three children are suddenly sucked into a painting of a ship sailing one of the seven seas. While Peter goes to study with the famous Professor Kirk and Susan visits America with their parents, Edmund and Lucy are enduring an unpleasant stay with their disagreeable cousin Eustace Scrubb. Voyage of the Dawn Treader picks up presumably not long after thhe four Pevensies returned from Narnia at the end of Prince Caspian. To begin with, the zoo looks antiquated - think old steel bars, sparse enclosures, etc. That’s now how I’m talking about it here though, because I think it’s also important to consider the messages this book inadvertently sends, and what it means for the children who read this book more than 60 years after it was first published. Okay, yes, I should be reading this book the context of the late 1950s, when it was written. At the end of the story, Sammy decides to return to the zoo. People don’t seem to think it strange to see a seal wandering around downtown New York, so we’ll (mostly) take that suspension of disbelief, for what it is (but more on that in a bit). A zookeeper grants him the right to explore the city on his own, and Sammy has all sorts of adventures - including going to school. The basic premise is that Sammy the Seal suffers depression because he wants to know what the world is like outside the (Bronx? Central Park?) zoo. You may remember this book from your own childhood (I remember it from mine) - or perhaps you’ve already read it to your children. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to read Sammy the Seal by Syd Hoff (1959) to an elementary school student. This stunning illustrated edition brings together the talents of award-winning artists Jim Kay and Neil Packer in a visual feast, featuring iconic scenes and much loved characters - Tonks, Luna Lovegood, and many more - as the Order of the Phoenix keeps watch over Harry Potter’s fifth year at Hogwarts. Despite this (or perhaps because of it), he finds depth and strength in his friends, beyond what even he knew boundless loyalty and unbearable sacrifice. Now Harry Potter is faced with the unreliability of the very government of the magical world and the impotence of the authorities at Hogwarts. exams a new teacher with a personality like poisoned honey a venomous, disgruntled house-elf or even the growing threat of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror? It's not just the upcoming O.W.L. There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. The fifth book in the beloved, bestselling Harry Potter series, now illustrated in brilliant full color. You want to be tapping your toe with suspense, not fraying patience. But the pacing is overly slowed by endless lingering inside the heads of characters recapping, reviewing, and agonizing over their predicaments. The complex plotting of this novel, unfurling over decades and continents, and the careful pacing of its reveals, often in very short, almost epigrammatic chapters, are enticing. The threads connecting the alternating sections of the book, "Then" and "Now," are many, and tangled, and somehow just keep getting more complicated as the pages roll by. Estranged for years, they resist, asking for a copy to take home, but their mother's lawyer (who also seems to be grieving) says their mother was very specific, telling them, "There are things your mother wanted you to hear right away, things you need to know." Are there ever. (She is, however, a very good swimmer.) In Southern California in 2018, Byron and his sister, Benny, are called to listen to an audio file their mother spent days making for them. On an unnamed island in 1965, a bride throws herself into the ocean after her much older gangster husband drops dead at their wedding reception and is never again seen in her village. Siblings called together after their mother's death learn that almost everything they know about their Caribbean-born parents is a lie. The normative practices of the first-century church were the natural and spontaneous expression of the divine life that indwelt the early Christians. In this book, we intend to show how that organism was devoid of so many things that we embrace today. And that expression revealed Jesus Christ on this planet through His every-member functioning body. It was a living, breathing organism that expressed itself far differently from the institutional church today. The church in the first century was an organic entity. The book tells the story of how “church” morphed into what it is today. More specifically, the common practice of church is radically different from what we find in the New Testament. The message of Pagan Christianity?was simple: We have departed from what God has called the church to be. Yet within its pages, many found lightning in a box. And of course, profoundly misrepresented by those who disliked its unconventional message. The book was venerated and vilified, honored and hammered, loved and loathed. When the book first hit shelves, some described it as “a bomb dropped on the institutional church playground.” Soon afterward, a storm hit with biblical fury. As I write these words, Pagan Christianity?, coauthored with George Barna, will have been out for a decade. The battle finally ended in 1972 with President Richard Nixon’s designation of the Buffalo as the first national river. William Fulbright, and Governor Orval Faubus. This book is the account of this decade-long struggle that drew in such political figures as U.S. Led by Neil Compton, a physician in Bentonville, Arkansas, a group of area conservationists formed the Ozark Society to join the battle for the Buffalo. Never before had anyone challenged the Corps’ assumption that damming a river was an improvement. A grateful public generally lauded their efforts, but when they turned their attention to Arkansas’s Buffalo River, the vocal opposition their proposed projects generated dumbfounded them. Corps of Engineers began to pursue an aggressive dam-building campaign. Under the auspices of the 1938 Flood Control Act, the U.S. |