Mark Summers
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 p.) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teams of pirates and cowboys, including such figures as Blackbeard and Wild Bill, inject rowdy adventure into America's pastime in this story about baseball and the imagination of youth.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 517 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently enslaved for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy. This book offers a fresh explanation for Reconstruction's demise...
Author
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Join Ebenezer Scrooge--a cold-hearted, lonely old man--one Christmas eve as he is visited by the Ghost of Jacob Marley, his sole friend and former business partner. The troubled phantom has come to tell Scrooge that in order for him to avoid Marley's horrible fate, Scrooge must heed the warnings of Three Spirits who will haunt him that very night.