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The Christmas flower

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Description: In a Mexican village the priest hopes for a growth of faith. One boy brings an unimpressive plant to the church for Christmas. In the sunlight it becomes the red poinsettia.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1951]
Call number: 486608
Creator: Jackson, Joseph Henry (1894-1955)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Valentine, September 1987. Author's autograph signature on half-title.
Dimensions: 21 cm

Night at the Mocking Widow

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The English village of Stoke Druid in Somerset has been plagued by a series of vicious anonymous letters written by a poison-pen who becomes known as the "Mocking Widow", after a forty-foot high rocky feature on the outskirts of the village. A middle-aged spinster who has been tormented by the letters' suggestions of sexual immorality commits suicide. Sir Henry Merrivale is offered an incredibly rare volume of memoirs by the village bookseller if he exposes the poison-pen, and accepts. During the investigation, a young woman is frightened nearly to death by the Widow's threats to visit her in her bedroom—she sees the Widow in her bedroom at the time and place previously announced, in circumstances that seem impossible for anyone to have been there. Then a village blackmailer who may have been the Widow's assistant is murdered, and Sir Henry brings the series of crimes home to their perpetrator.

660795

[Proof sheet of four Christmas cards with flowers]

Visual Materials

Image of a proof sheet for four Christmas greeting cards with floral designs, including roses and pansies.

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The wishing tree

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A strange boy with red hair leads a birthday-girl and her companions on a hunt for the wishing tree which brings them many surprising and magical adventures

402733

Dress rehearsal for a Christmas pageant, Polytechnic Elementary School, 1030 East California, Pasadena. December 21, 1937

Visual Materials

Eight boys rehearsing on stage for the Christmas Pageant at Polytechnic Elementary School at 1030 East California. Most of the boys are wearing lederhosen and making or decorating objects. One boy seems to have a live lamb as a prop.

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The adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The adventures of a boy growing up in the nineteenth century in a Mississippi River town, as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave.

660758

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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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A nineteenth-century boy, floating down the Mississippi on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.

654948

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