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Fair as a Star

Author : Mimi Matthews

Publisher : Perfectly Proper Press

Page : 199 pages

File Size : 29,27 MB

Release : 2020-07-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 173305698X

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--A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST ROMANCE of 2020-- "A kindhearted love story that will delight anyone who longs to be loved without limits. Highly recommended." -Library Journal, STARRED review "Historical romance fans won't want to miss this." -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review A Secret Burden... After a mysterious sojourn in Paris, Beryl Burnham has returned home to the village of Shepton Worthy ready to resume the life she left behind. Betrothed to the wealthy Sir Henry Rivenhall, she has no reason to be unhappy--or so people keep reminding her. But Beryl's life isn't as perfect as everyone believes. A Longstanding Love... As village curate, Mark Rivenhall is known for his compassionate understanding. When his older brother's intended needs a shoulder to lean on, Mark's more than willing to provide one. There's no danger of losing his heart. He already lost that to Beryl a long time ago. During an idyllic Victorian summer, friends and family gather in anticipation of Beryl and Sir Henry's wedding. But in her darkest moment, it's Mark who comes to Beryl's aid. Can he help her without revealing his feelings--or betraying his brother?



The World's Fair

Author : Thomas L. Tedrow

Publisher :

Page : 228 pages

File Size : 18,43 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Frontier and pioneer life

ISBN : 9780590226561

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While reporting the events of the St. Louis World's Fair for her local newspaper in 1906, Laura Ingalls Wilder teams up with Alice Roosevelt to stop the inhuman Anthropological Games.



Mortal Heart

Author : Robin LaFevers

Publisher : Clarion Books

Page : 501 pages

File Size : 21,27 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1328567672

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The powerful third book in Robin LaFever's critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling His Fair Assassins series perfect for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Kristin Cashore, and Victoria Aveyard leaves Annith with a desperate decision to make that not only affects the future of Brittany, but the destiny of the god of Death Himself. In the powerful third book in Robin LaFever's critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling His Fair Assassins series, tensions between Brittany and Frace continue to rise as Annith watches her gifted sisters at the convent come and go, carrying out their dark dealings in the name of St. Mortain, patiently awaiting her own turn to serve Death. But her worst fears are realized when she discovers she is being groomed by the abbess as a Seeress, to be forever sequestered in the rock and stone womb of the convent. Feeling sorely betrayed, Annith decides to strike out on her own. She has spent her whole life training to be an assassin. Just because the convent has changed its mind, doesn't mean she has. Combining romance, action, and political intrigue, Mortal Heart delivers a breathtaking conclusion to the war between Brittany and France...for now.



All's Fair in Love

Author : Jeanne Andrews

Publisher : Bantam Books

Page : 164 pages

File Size : 49,65 MB

Release : 1982

Category : High school students

ISBN : 9780553226072

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When Anne meets Greg at an exclusive athletic club, she feels he cannot think as much of her, a beginner, as he does of his sister, a champion, so she is determined to beat his sister to prove how good she is.



Fair America

Author : Robert W. Rydell

Publisher : Smithsonian Institution

Page : 177 pages

File Size : 28,86 MB

Release : 2013-06-04

Category : History

ISBN : 1588343421

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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.



Map to the Stars

Author : Adrian Matejka

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 130 pages

File Size : 34,98 MB

Release : 2017-03-28

Category : Poetry

ISBN : 1524704148

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A resonant new collection of poetry from Adrian Matejka, author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Map to the Stars, the fourth poetry collection from National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Adrian Matejka, navigates the tensions between race, geography, and poverty in America during the Reagan Era. In the time of space shuttles and the Strategic Defense Initiative, outer space is the only place equality seems possible, even as the stars serve to both guide and obscure the earthly complexities of masculinity and migration. In Matejka's poems, hope is the link between the convoluted realities of being poor and the inspiring possibilities of transcendence and escape—whether it comes from Star Trek, the dream of being one of the first black astronauts, or Sun Ra's cosmic jazz.



Grave Mercy

Author : Robin LaFevers

Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Page : 565 pages

File Size : 19,43 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 054762834X

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In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.



It's Not Fair!

Author : Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Publisher : HarperCollins

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 21,62 MB

Release : 2008-05-06

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 9780061152580

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Why'd I get the smaller half? Why don't you yell at her? Why does my team always lose? Why can't we have a pet giraffe? Because that's life. And life can't always go the way we want it to. But with this delightful and witty book, Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld reassure us that everyone, including pigs, planets, and square pegs, sometimes thinks: It's not fair!



It's Not Fair!

Author : Caryn Rivadeneira

Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Page : 34 pages

File Size : 10,58 MB

Release : 2018

Category : Generosity

ISBN : 1506446809

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Roxy Ramirez has saved up for weeks to buy a chemistry set, and now she's headed to the toy store to buy it! There's only one problem: along the way, she keeps running into friends who are in trouble, and need her to dip into her savings to help. Will she have enough money left over to buy something for herself? Especially designed for kids 4-6, It's Not Fair! teaches kids about money, choices, generosity, and what it means to have enough. Generous Kids books teach age-appropriate concepts about money, possessions, generosity, and contentment.



It Happened at the Fair

Author : Deeanne Gist

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 415 pages

File Size : 47,55 MB

Release : 2013-04-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1451692374

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Cullen McNamara gambles everything to display his latest invention at the Chicago World's Fair, but in order to communicate with potential buyers over the noise, he hires Della Wentworth to teach him to lip-read.