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...Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an unfamiliar outpost which he's be...

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...North and South is a social novel that tries to show the industrial North and its conflicts in the mid-19th century as seen by an outsider, a socially sensitive lady from the South. The story: the heroine, Margaret Hale, is t...

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...Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relocates to northern England. As an outsider from the agricultural south, Margaret is initially shocked by the agg...

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...he stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in the wall one night, Diamond is scolded by the beautiful Lady North Wind for closing her window into his room. Thus begins their friendship. Spirited away by the North Wind, Diamond embarks on a series of adventures both near to and far from his home. His pure heart and his simple, lovi...

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Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

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...D CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.........................................................................................

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...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ............................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ........................................................................ ...................................................................... 318 4 North America V ol. 2 North America Volume Two by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER ... ... Tucking your trowsers up to your knees you will wade through the bogs, 6 North America V ol. 2 you will lose yourself among rude hillocks, you will ... ... this seems to be a clear and intelligible arrangement; but it does not 8 North America V ol. 2 work well. These center depots are large spaces, and ... ...nues have a slanting direction. They are so arranged that none of them run north and south, or east and west; but the streets, so called, all run in a... ... On the map these streets run up to V Street, both right and left—V Street North and V Street South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, ... ...reet South. Those really known to mankind are E, F, G, H, I, and K Streets North. Then those streets which run from north to south are numbered First ...

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...Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country. Having lost both parents and his home in northern Vermont, orphan Willie Brower is taken in by Eben Holden, Uncle Eb who transports him westward to save him from being sent to an orphanage. Through the Adironda...

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Excerpt: North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope.

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...VII: NIAGARA ...................................................................................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI ...........................................................

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...e by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ........................................................... 102 CHAPTER VIII: NORTH AND WEST................................................................ ...................................................................... 321 4 North America V ol. 1 North America Volume One by Anthony Trollope CHAPTER ... ...nal satis- faction in the work, had there been no disruption be- tween the North and South; but I have not allowed that disruption to deter me from an... ...nly in this: that he shall tell the truth, and shall so tell that truth 6 North America V ol. 1 that what he has written may be readable. But a secon... ... little room. And now touching this war which had broken out be- tween the North and South before I left England. I would wish to explain what my feel... ...of any one nation to realize the political relations of another, and to 8 North America V ol. 1 chew the cud and digest the bearings of those externa... ...iments with the practice of slavery, and to make these two antagonists 10 North America V ol. 1 live together in peace and unity under the same roof;...

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...xy Lady. Nothing will stop Kuskitt from recovering his hoard and sinking Pete. Ignorant of the drugs hidden in his boat, Pete sets sail for the North with his Lab, Jake, a one-man crew, a woman passenger who looks more like a hot-blooded Italian than anybody named Johnson, and her Siamese cat named Sapphire, a cat with more teeth, more claws, more tail than it needs...

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...volunteers bring you 5 recordings of To the Man of the High North by Robert Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 28, 2010. Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 – September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer, sometimes referred to as the Bard of the Yukon. His...

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...In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company are given the mission to found a fort at 70 degrees north of the polar circle. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from then on, laws of physics seem altered (a total eclipse happens to be only partial; tides are not perceived anymore). They eventually realise that they a...

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...per. While visiting Joan, Biddy meets Colin McKeith, a roughly-hewn, Scottish-born pioneer, drover, miner, sometime-politician, and magistrate in the north-eastern colony. Biddy and Colin fall in love: she with the adventure a life with him promises, he with an ideal of her noble heritage. In spite of Joan Gildea's misgivings, Biddy and Colin are soon married and leave Lei...

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...Canada, and The Protector is based primarily in and around Vancouver and Victoria. There is often danger involved in the mining and timber industries north of Vancouver, and there is also danger in the trust given to people who own and operate these mines and timber lands. And finding one's way in locating them can be equally as difficult as well. Wallace Vane and his trus...

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... Revelling in the freedom conferred by anonymity, Rigby becomes an actor, stripper, rent boy, lover, teacher and dedicated traveller through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, where travellers were uncommon and countries still retained many of the differences that made travel so interesting. Rigby meets with a wide variety of people, life styles and customs, ev...

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...In The Marrow of Tradition , Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation, caste, gender and the idea of white supremacy informe...

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... what she knows about the murder. A story of intrigue, suspense, action, and above all, a story of love in the furthest outreaches of the Great White North where three great rivers flow; the Athabasca, the Slave, and the McKenzie, and where somewhere is hidden The Valley of Silent Men. (Summary by Roger Melin)...

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...In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor named Galen Albret took his position seriously. Free traders, or those who dared try to do the...

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...s and investigates the ways of his people, a Prime Minister becomes wandering holy man, scavengers tell their tale and we leave India for the far,far north of Canada. (Summary by Annise)...

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...The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the north...