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In this letter to his nephew, addressed "Artie Kellogg, Esq.," Malcolm King thanks him for the letter he sent along with his "Auntie Emma's" and reminds him to take care of his "Papa and Mama." King also reminds that "if Lucy is there, don't let her eat too much melon." The letter is signed "your Uncle Malcolm."
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Visual Materials
Image of an outdoor scene near a rock quarry in Ireland with a young woman trying to fight off a man attacking her with a shovel while a man swinging from a tree limb attempts to rescue her, and a man stands on a cliff above near a windmill, with a lake in the background; the poster advertisers the Irish melodrama "Peep o' Day" written by Edmund Falconer, and based on a story by Irish writer John Banim, as performed by actor Mrs. D.P. Bowers (Elizabeth Crocker Bowers) at the New Chesnut Street Theatre (also spelled New Chestnut Street Theatre) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Rare Books
Although, after years of change and decline, St. Petersburg's historic centre once more emanates metropolitan splendour in the run-up of the 300th anniversary of the city's foundation, one just has to go to the first or second backyard off central Nevskij Prospect to find staircases littered with syringes--and to enter a different world. Photographs and interviews tell the stories of children and youths who live often on roofs and attics, five or six floors above the city's streets where they hope to find a kind of home. Here they sleep, here they can take drugs without being apprehended, and here, too, they make money from prostitution. 'Karat' is the brand name of a shoe polish containing solvents that many of them inhale.
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Rare Books
"The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people addicted to a drug that activates an orgasmic desire to burn, rape, and murder. When one small community is overrun, Lauren Olamina, an 18 year old black woman with the hereditary train of 'hyperempathy' -- which causes her to feel others' pain as her own -- sets off on foot along the dangerous coastal highways, moving north into the unknown."--Book jacket.
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Jade Snow Wong grew up in a traditional Chinese family in San Francisco's pre-World War II Chinatown. It was a world in which wives were introduced by their husbands as "my inferior woman," rules were taught with corporal punishment, and home life was literally connected to the family business. She becomes determined to go to college and gain more independence than she has been taught to expect. Her decision sets off a balancing process between cultures that Jade Snow Wong, in correct Chinese third person, explores with humor, reverence, and philosophical insight.
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This is a fictionalized narrative of Verne's 1867 passage from Liverpool to New York aboard "The Great Eastern," the largest iron ship ever built and one of the wonders of its age. Because of her size, "The Great Eastern" was the only ship capable of laying the great Atlantic Cable. While on a trip on board the Great Eastern, bound for New York, a woman goes mad when the man she really loves is on board as well as her husband, whom she detests. The second tale is fictional, more in Verne's usual style: a Glasgow shipowner devises an adventurous plan to run the Union blockade of southern ports during the Civil War, in order to bring a load of cotton back to his city's 25,000 idle looms.The plot centers on the exploits of James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of the harbour of Charleston in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and, later in the book, to rescue the father of a young girl held prisoner by the Confederates. Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early eighteen sixties.
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