An engaged couple's lives are forever changed when they are invited to share the presidential box at Ford's Theater and witness Lincoln's assassination, an event that tragically heightens their awareness of nineteenth-century Victorian America. Reprint.
... and yards of linens, brocades, tapestries, silks, and velvets were supplied by stores such as John Wanamaker, Gimbel Brothers, and Arnold Constable of New York and Carson Pirie Scott, Marshall Field, and Mandel Brothers of Chicago.
In a funny, powerful, and entertaining voice, this book covers important terms, types of sanitary protection, and the history of menstruation and women’s fight for equal access to reproductive healthcare.
A carefree cabbage caterpillar named Clara, who becomes a common cream-colored butterfly, can′t possibly compete with a catty, conceited caterpillar named Catisha, who becomes a captivating crimson-colored butterfly. Or can she?
. . . From the award-winning author-illustrator team of Deborah Hopkinson and James Ransome, this fictional tale of the Underground Railroad continues to inspire young readers 25 years after its original publication.
A stirring, dramatic story of a slave who mails himself to freedom by a Jane Addams Peace Award-winning author and a Coretta Scott King Award-winning artist.
Henry the Duck makes a humongous and hilarious mess in the kitchen in his latest merry mis-adventure in this fresh and lively picture book from beloved author Robert Quackenbush!
Replete with poetry and cruelty, this story takes us to the heart of the relationship between a mother and her favourite son - two individuals sustained by literature, unspoken love, honour and terrible violence.
In an effort to save a boy wrongly accused, a group of six young friends living in ancient Rome search for the culprit who scrawled graffiti on the temple wall. Simultaneous.
This book is a concise, interpretive account of the life of Clara Barton from her childhood in Massachusetts through her feats of heroism during the Civil War, her founding of the American Red Cross, which she led for 20 years, and her ...
Henry et Clara Rathbone sont des êtres de chair et de sang, et leur drame, relaté ici sous la forme du roman, n'est pas une fiction. Le destin voulut qu'ils...