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Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 26.00W hen writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: ?American audiences won?t tolerate divorce in a series? lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York.? Forty years later, The Mary Tyler... more...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableW hen writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: ?American audiences won?t tolerate divorce in a series? lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York.? Forty years later, The Mary Tyler... more...
Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted
Simon & Schuster 2013; Not AvailableW hen writer-producers James L. Brooks and Allan Burns dreamed up an edgy show about a divorced woman with a career, the CBS executives they pitched replied: ?American audiences won?t tolerate divorce in a series? lead any more than they will tolerate Jews, people with mustaches, and people who live in New York.? Forty years later, The Mary Tyler... more...
Becoming Mary Mehan
Random House Children's Books 2002; US$ 6.99Jennifer Armstrong?s two masterful novels about Mary Mehan are now together in one volume. Set against the pivotal events of the American Civil War, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan depicts an Irish immigrant girl and her family, struggling to find their place in a country at war with itself. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews said, ?Armstrong mixes... more...
Shattered
Random House Children's Books 2007; US$ 6.50As bullets ring and bombs are dropped, children watch?mostly from the sidelines, but occasionally in the direct line of fire. Unaware of the political issues or power struggles behind the battle, all they know are the human, emotional consequences of this thing called war. This collection examines all of war?s implications for young people?from those... more...
What a Song Can Do
Random House Children's Books 2007; US$ 5.99This compelling collection of stories explores the powerful impact that music has in our lives?especially in the lives of teens. Each story strikes a new note: Ron Koertge introduces us to the boys in the band?the marching band; Joseph Bruchac contributes a Native American boy with no rhythm whatsoever; Jennifer Armstrong writes about what was perhaps... more...
Why? Because We Still Like You
Grand Central Publishing 2010; US$ 12.99This book will tell the behind-the-scenes story of how The Mickey Mouse Club paved the way for all that came after, from its humble beginnings as a marketing ploy, through its short but mesmerizing run, to the numerous resurrections that made it one of television's first true cult hits--all through the recollections of those regular kids-turned-stars... more...
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
Random House Children's Books 2008; US$ 7.99IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it. ?No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.?? School Library Journal , Starred A Book Sense Top Ten Pick A Publisher?s Weekly... more...
In My Hands
RHCP 2010; US$ 10.67An utterly amazing, true, first-person account of one girl's experience in wartime. Irene Gut Opdyke was a Catholic Polish nursing student when WWII broke out. She soon became mired in the horrors of central Europe as, at various times, a partisan, a refugee, a housekeeper to the Nazis and, over all, as a heroine. She singlehandedly saved the lives... more...
The True Story Behind Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
Aladdin 2013; Not AvailableFour score and seven years ago... So begins one of the most important speeches in the history of the United States -- Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Given on a cold November day, it wasn't much of a speech, really -- just a few remarks. Not meant to be remembered. But these few remarks have been remembered. Why? What was the true meaning... more...









