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188 reviews
C.S. Lewis

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1980

C.S. Lewis's Masterpiece
The first time I read Till We Have Faces, upon finishing the last page I immediately returned to the first page and began reading it again, something I have felt compelled to do only one other time in my life. It was Lewis's last work of fiction and, in spite of being written in first person from the viewpoint of ancient queen in a largely mythical past, his most personal. His deepest thoughts on ...

North to the Orient,

6 reviews
Anne (Morrow) Lindbergh

Harcourt, Brace and company, 1935

The best flying memoir ever written.
Three years after her marriage to Charles Lindbergh, Anne Morrow Lindbergh left her infant son with her mother and a nanny in North Haven, Maine, strapped herself into the open cockpit of a Sirius floatplane, and flew with her husband to the Orient, following the Northwest Passage through arctic Canada and Alaska that her husband was surveying for the airlines. Her literate, supremely ...

The Human Comedy

1 review

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943

Highly memorable
My adult cousin gave me this book when I was about ten. We had not spent much time together, but she apparently had me figured out. I found the book spellbinding, although it was hard to say why. I recently reread it, and still appreciate its simplistic realism. Saroyan tells us of everyday dreams and anguish and triumph and tragedy, without an ounce of extremism or melodrama. "The Human ...

Chief Red Fox Is Dead: A History of Native Americans Since 1945

2 reviews
James J. Rawls

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996

An Excellent Primer on Indian Policy
I happened upon this book by pure coincidence but have since come to rely upon it as an essential reference source on the history of federal and state policy towards dealing with tribes, tribal governments and tribal members. A really well written and interesting read, not too academic or technical, and does justice to the experience of Native Americans while maintaining a remarkable objectivity ...

ANIMAL FARM 1ST EDITION(1946) Black Cloth, "Buy NOW, only34.95)

1 review
George Orwell

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946

Gift for my daughter
I remember reading this book back when I was in school and enjoyed it very much. I don't know if it was required reading for my daughter as well but she wanted it anyway. Its a great story and she enjoyed it just as well. Its definitely much more complicated than a typical childrens' story with a microcosmic dystopia. I'll have to read it again soon.

Mandy (Passports)

2 reviews
Barbara D Booth

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1993

An Inspiration!
Mandy is a really unique picture book dealing with the issue of deafness. It is a heart warming story about a young deaf girl and her grandmother. It is filled with profound statements expressing Mandy's "Deaf" perspective of the hearing world she lives in. While ending a dance in the kitchen with Grandma, Mandy describes "...one of the silly rules of the Hearing World. It makes more sense ...

East of the Mountains

200 reviews
David Guterson

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1999

Magical...
This is a beautiful, magical book. I started reading the book with very low expectations, expecting another hokey, cliche-ridden discourse on facing up to our own mortality. I couldn't have been more wrong. I'm not going to go into details of the book, because I don't want to ruin any potential readers' experiences. All I can say is...read this book! It's gentle pace draws you in, and ...

The Builders of the Bridge: The Story of John Roebling and His Son

1 review
D. B. Steinman

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945

More here than meets the eye ...
I'm stealing a part of a review written by "a reader" for the reprint edition of this book, as I think that it will give you a very good idea of the scope of this book: "The significant substories within the book describe the development of wire rope; the construction of the first successful suspension bridge across the Niagara Gorge; the details of construction of the Brooklyn Bridge; and the ...

Listen! The Wind
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938

Working Cotton (Caldecott Honor Book)

6 reviews
Sherley Anne Williams

Harcourt Brace & Company, 1992

A very good politically 'incorrect' book.
Some books that I read do not catch my eye right away, but this one caught my eye for a couple of reasons. For one, this book reminded me of the stories that my grandmother used to tell me about when she would be in the fields picking cotton. Two, this book does not make picking cotton sound like a bad thing at all. When my grandmother would tell me stories about being in the cotton fields, ...

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