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(0)Michael Meyer
Author
Language
English
Description
A cautionary tale about the rise of fascism in the United States first published in 1935. During the presidential election of 1936, Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, observes with dismay that many of the people he knows support the candidacy of a fascist, Berzelius Windrip. When Windrip wins the election, he forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States...
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack. White Fang is the story of a wolf-dog who is befriended by a kind man who becomes his master.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin Franklin was not a gambling man. But at the end of his illustrious life, the Founder allowed himself a final wager on the survival of the United States: a gift of two thousand pounds to Boston and Philadelphia, to be lent out to tradesmen over the next two centuries to jump-start their careers. Each loan would be repaid with interest over ten years. If all went according to Franklin's inventive scheme, the accrued final payout in 1991 would...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Not since Pearl Buck wrote The Good Earth has anyone brought rural China to life as Michael Meyer has here. This combination of memoir, contemporary reporting, and historical research presents a unique profile of China's legendary northeast. For three years, Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown to his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing, in the form...
7) Strindberg
Author
Pub. Date
1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvi, 651 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A fascinating, intimate portrait of Beijing through the lens of its oldest neighborhood, Dazhalan. Meyer examines how the bonds that hold the neighborhood together are being torn by forced evictions as century-old houses and ways of life are increasingly destroyed to make way for shopping malls, the capital's first Wal-Mart, high-rise buildings, and widened streets for cars replacing bicycles. Beijing has gone through this cycle many times, as Meyer...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hedda has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple. However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.