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with apologies to Thornton Wilder I am a local history buff, intrigued with the ghosts that had formerly walked the forest trails, roads and streets where I have walked. Old people (aged 35-55, ha ha) told stories about events along State Highway...
US election 2024
Sunday, 29 September, 2024. In France, we’re good. My office is wondrous save that I must be disciplined not to stare out onto the horse pastures. and mist-draped hills. Financial planning, luck, and US citizenship have provided security and advantage. In this...
Time of peace, Time of troubles
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New Yorkers
They take some getting used to! How New Yorkers see the United States. If three New Yorkers enter a taxi without arguing, a bank has been robbed. Phyllis Diller, New Yorker. “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she...Featured Books
Ледоход/Spirit Falls (Dual Language Russian-English)
Ледоход/Spirit Falls provides a dual-language facing page paperback suitable for either Russian- or English-language students, the first novel in Robert Townsend's Long War Series.In 1947, the Soviet security services named the United States as 'the main enemy.’ The Cold War was joined. Four teens, born half-worlds apart, children of their nations' greatest generation, come of age in the 1950s, each in their small-town Eden, cast out to encounter one another on the front lines in the war for control of the imagination.
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