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Scarlet Silver is a little girl who wants to become a pirate—just like her aunt, Long Joan Silver. But there is one rule in the Silver house: Don’t mention pirates. That rule has been in effect ever since the day that bad luck befell Grandma Silver. She was accidentally eaten by a giant shrimp. But Scarlet still wants to be a pirate. What she loves to do best is to go treasure hunting with her treasure detector. Most of the time she doesn’t find anything valuable, but one day she discovers something that looks very much like real gold! The adventure that follows is complemented with color illustrations that are every bit as hilarious as the Silver family’s story..
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When Shek and little Wong journey to America in 1865, they have work! Along with hundreds of other Chinese, the brothers are going to help build a great railroad across the West. But as days grow into months, Shek and Wong endure more than they could have imagined-bleeding hands, blasting dynamite, and treacherous avalanches. For very little pay. Are they being treated this way because of their almond-shaped eyes-because they are coolies?

Inspired by actual events in the history of the American railroad, Coolies reveals the harsh truth about life for thousands of Chinese laborers, while it celebrates the love and loyalty between two brothers who were determined not only to survive, but to succeed..
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Now in command of the steamer U.S.S. Hunt, Lt. Peter Wake quickly plunges into action, chasing a strange vessel during a tropical storm off Cuba, confronting death to liberate an escaping slave ship, and encountering the enemy's most powerful ocean warship in Havana's harbor. After the war he tracks down a colony of former Confederates in Puerto Rico..
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As a young man Meron Benvenisti often accompanied his father, a distinguished geographer, when the elder Benvenisti traveled through the Holy Land charting a Hebrew map that would rename Palestinian sites and villages with names linked to Israel's ancestral homeland. These experiences in Benvenisti's youth are central to this book, and the story that he tells helps explain how during this century an Arab landscape, physical and human, was transformed into an Israeli, Jewish state.
Benvenisti first discusses the process by which new Hebrew nomenclature replaced the Arabic names of more than 9,000 natural features, villages, and ruins in Eretz Israel/Palestine (his name for the Holy Land, thereby defining it as a land of Jews and Arabs). He then explains how the Arab landscape has been transformed through war, destruction, and expulsion into a flourishing Jewish homeland accommodating millions of immigrants. The resulting encounters between two peoples who claim the same land have raised great moral and political dilemmas, which Benvenisti presents with candor and impartiality.
Benvenisti points out that five hundred years after the Moors left Spain there are sufficient landmarks remaining to preserve the outlines of Muslim Spain. Even with sustained modern development, the ancient scale is still visible. Yet a Palestinian returning to his ancestral landscape after only fifty years would have difficulty identifying his home. Furthermore, Benvenisti says, the transformation of Arab cultural assets into Jewish holy sites has engendered a struggle over the "signposts of memory" essential to both peoples.
Sacred Landscape raises troublesome questions that most writers on the Middle East avoid. The now-buried Palestinian landscape remains a symbol and a battle standard for Palestinians and Israelis. But it is Benvenisti's continuing belief that Eretz Israel/Palestine has enough historical and physical space for the people of both nations and that it can one day be a shared homeland..
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This is the remarkable autobiography of composer and pianist Henry Mancini .
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The practice of medicine or surgery is not just sore throats, colds and the flu, removing gall bladders, or back aches and belly aches. It is, however, a roller-coaster cornucopia of people and events where drama, comedy, the heights of joy and the depths of sadness are only moments away, as if a revolving door is constantly ejecting the next encounter - a child with appendicitis, a broken arm, the Ku Klux Klan with death threats, gunshot wounds, snake handlers, con artists, sex, racism, rape, a sweet old lady with arthritis, or some addict - a never-ending myriad.Thankfully, most of my patients and I grew old together in an air of love and mutual respect, in an era of closeness between patients and doctors, when doctors really cared - not only about the patient''s health, but also about the patients themselves.Medical school forgot to mention ethics, or talk about humanistic qualities, abstract values outside the world of science. The patient is not just a patient case, (that "gallbladder" in room 911), or a number, but is a unique human being, with emotions, feelings, worthiness, fears, hopes and worries, as well as the capabilities of understanding and courage in the face of disaster. He or she deserves full respect."Ten Years of Rape," "Green Door of Racism," "Save A Sexist and Lose A Patient," and "The Comedy Corner" are true stories about the people who traverse these pages, a few of the curious encounters in my forty-year love affair with helping people - sometimes called the practice of medicine..
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1905. Trow's object for this book has been, primarily, to commemorate the characters of that rare class of men, the Master Mariners of Salem, who lived and flourished in the long ago. Partial Contents: The Early Commerce of Salem; Glimpses of the Old Mariners; Were the Shipmasters Superstitious?; The Manifold Mysteries of the Sea; The Codfish a Potent Factor in the Early Commerce; Journal and Record of the Ship George; Interesting Correspondence from the Salem Register; Fellow-Feeling among the Mariners; Privateers in the Revolutionary War and that of 1812; Cruise of the Famous Privateer Grand Turk; Fight between the Chesapeake and the Shannon; Captain Thomas Fuller; The Essential Qualities in a Shipmaster; Voyage of Captain Nichols in the Ship Active; Stories of Shipwreck and Disaster; Short of Fresh Water Causes Alarm; Captain George Nichols Sails on Another Voyage in the Ship Active; Dr. Nathaniel Bowditch; More about the Life of Dr. Bowditch; Voyage of Captain John White to the China Sea; Captain of the Franklin in a Sea of Trouble; Narrow Escape from Tigers; Arrival of the Franklin at Saigon; Conspiracy to Defraud the Captain; Trying to Conciliate the Governor; and Fight with Snakes in the Donnai River..
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