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This 1902 novel, set in a small New England town in the late nineteenth century, focuses on two families, the Byingtons and the Winslows. The families’ younger generations must face the challenges of a new century while navigating the currents of love and loss. 

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These three tales are drawn from George W. Cable’s youth in New Orleans. Madame Delphine is filled with the exoticism of Creole culture and tells the story of an elderly woman and her attempt to arrange an advantageous marriage for her light-skinned daughter by passing her off as white. In Carancro,...

Geoffrey Chester is charmed by the beautiful woman—Aline Chapdelaines—he glimpses daily on his way to work. For Geoffrey, it’s love at first sight. But romance seems impossible because of the exclusive Creole society to which she belongs. The discovery of an old manuscript brings him closer to her in this delicate depiction of the old régime in New Orleans.

Patients with pain disorders pose many clinical challenges for the attending physician. Even experienced clinicians occasionally arrive at the point where diagnostic, work-up, treatment, or prognostic thinking becomes blocked. Pain teaches the reader to recognize and appropriately treat a variety...

A heart murmur is an abnormal heart sound caused by turbulent blood flow into, through or out of the heart. A heart murmur is not itself an illness or disease, but rather is a consequence of something that causes the audible heart sounds to be abnormal. Not all heart murmurs are serious. However,...

The temperament of the Griffon rests largely on the foundation of being part of the terrier breed. This means they are all heart, endearing themselves to their owners. Where ever their owner goes, the Griffon will automatically follow. In fact, the tiny blessing is not so much meant to be a family...

The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian...

The City of West Bend got its name from its location on a large westward-reaching bend of the Milwaukee River. Settled mainly by German immigrants in the 1840s, the city was bestowed with leaders possessing entrepreneurial know-how. West Bend became an international center of manufacturing with companies...

Unsettling America explores the cultural politics of Indianness in the 21st century. It concerns itself with representations of Native Americans in popular culture, the news media, and political debate and the ways in which American Indians have interpreted, challenged, and reworked key ideas about...

CONTENTS: 01 - The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn / Disney Film: The Adventures Of Huck Finn (1993) 02 - The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer / Disney Film: Tom And Huck (1995) 03 - Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp / Disney Film: Aladdin (1992) 04 - Alice's Adventures In Wonderland / Disney Film: Alice In Wonderland...

Boston, MA, is a reasonably compact city and numerous of the significant places of passion are conveniently within strolling length of each added. This is a specifically historical city, topping worked out in the early component of the 17th century and included as a metro in 1822. Regarded by lots of...

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The poverty of our literature in reference to Mahomet and Mahometanism is so conspicuous and so inconvenient that we may well receive with gratitude the author's very able endeavour to relieve it. With freedom from prejudice and independence of judgment, he combines an extensive and intimate knowledge...