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"Inspired by Garden & Gun magazine's popular Good Dog column, [this is a] collection of true stories celebrating the unique relationship between humans and their canine companions, penned by some of today's top writers, including Jon Meacham, Roy Blount, Jr, Dominique Browning, and P.J. O'Rourke"--Amazon.com.
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In this 1976 interview for Spanish Television, classical Spanish guitarist, Andrés Segovia, talks with Joaquin Soler Serrano about his early life and influences like Francisco Tárrega,and his present wife and six-year old son.In anecdotes he describes his literary friends like Miguel de Unamuno and Federico Garcia Lorca, and fellow musicians like Miguel Llobet and Manuel de Falla. Segovia recalls his world tours and cites his hopes for the future...
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"Part memoir and part visual journey through the streets of modern-day Paris, France, A Paris Year chronicles, day by day, one woman's French sojourn in the world's most beautiful city. Beginning on her first day in Paris, Janice MacLeod, the author of the best-selling book, Paris Letters, began a journal recording in illustrations and words, nearly every sight, smell, taste, and thought she experienced in the City of Light. The end result is more...
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"An unforgettable nocturnal tour through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods by the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World"--
"The preeminent expat writer on Paris and author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World takes you on an unforgettable nocturnal stroll through five iconic Parisian neighborhoods and his own memories. John Baxter enchanted readers with his literary tour of Paris in The Most Beautiful Walk in the World. Now,...
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Abstract: Photocopy of autobiographies of Annie E. (Fletcher) Clendening (pp.1-64), and her husband, W.A. (William A.) Clendening (pp. 66-89), written in 1903.
Scope and content: Annie E. (Fletcher) Clendening's memoir provides a perspective on women's activities and social life in 1860s Virginia, describes courtship and wedding customs, and provides a short glimpse of a woman's religious faith. Annie begins with brief family background, and tells...