tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28086108471770840202023-11-10T14:19:21.849+07:00Online Book Summary | Study Guides, Lesson Plans, Book Summaries and moreOnline Book Summary help you understand and discover the wonderful world of books, biographies, quotes, essays, encylopedias, and online educational resourcesOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-91038966164518619932010-11-19T14:44:00.002+07:002010-11-19T14:44:49.031+07:00Looking for a book was never so easy
Online book stores are equipped with excellent customer services, which include giving books at very low prices and free shopping. Gone are the days when the book lovers, academicians and students were forced to manually search out their choice in the stacks of books walled up to the ceiling. It was a very time consuming and tedious job. Another drawback was the limitation of the range of books Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-14226318567816808912010-11-19T14:41:00.001+07:002010-11-19T14:42:20.698+07:00Online book store: A Dream For Every Reader
Books are a great source of entertainment and they give a platform to rise to greater heights. Reading of books facilitates the reader with a sound knowledge base and enhance the reader's linguistic as well as reading skills. Books are a person's true friend and an imperishable relationship is developed between the reader and the book. There are different genres of books such as thrillers, Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-9768975882549254832010-11-14T07:39:00.001+07:002010-11-14T07:40:47.434+07:00The Benefits of Buying Books from an Online Bookstore
There are hundreds if not thousands of online bookstores to choose from with hundreds to hundreds of thousands of titles. Retail booksellers can be chains or local independent bookstores that specialize in the retail and distribution of books. Wholesale booksellers move and break down big lots of new and also used books into smaller lots for redistribution, selling them to businesses, other Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-31682735162204258792010-11-14T07:31:00.000+07:002010-11-14T07:31:30.728+07:00St. Joan of Arc Book Maid of Heaven: Digital Preview At Google Books
Maid of Heaven: The Story of Saint Joan of Arc is a best selling biography about one of the most famous people in history Joan of Arc covering her entire life’s story and history. Now with the help of Google Books the inside pages of Maid of Heaven can be digitally previewed providing everyone interested in the book with a glimpse of the unique nature of this particular book about St. Joan. Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-68432023417512710292010-11-14T07:25:00.000+07:002010-11-14T07:25:58.535+07:00Miss Marple - Sketch of a Famous Fictional Detective
Miss Jane Marple is one of Agatha Christie's most famous fictional characters. She is a spinster who acts as an amateur detective, and lives in the English village of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple appears in twelve of Christie's mystery books. In 1927 the Royal Magazine published Christie's short story The Tuesday Night Club. It was Miss Marple's first appearance. The Murder at the Vicarage was herOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-72269159549549145112010-11-14T07:19:00.001+07:002010-11-14T07:20:33.384+07:00Rumiko Takahashi and Her Mangas
Rumiko Takahashi is a most famous, respected mangaka and a richest woman in Japan thanks to her works. They feature an interesting plot with unconventional denouements of critical situations, many impressive characters, rich action and humor.While at Japanese Women's University she attended a manga creator school and published some short stories in its limited-circulation journal. After Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-65433664628201449182010-11-05T06:13:00.001+07:002010-11-12T18:30:44.836+07:00Declaration by United Nations
Soon after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, British prime minister Winston Churchill met with United States president Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., to develop strategies for coping with the global crisis. One such strategy, the Declaration by United Nations, emphasized their collective dedication to winning World War II (1939-1945). This declaration incorporated Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-69029764588740807312010-11-05T04:42:00.001+07:002010-11-12T18:27:58.168+07:00Charter of the United Nations
In 1945 representatives from 50 nations met in San Francisco, California, and drafted the Charter of the United Nations (UN). The so-called San Francisco Conference recognized the failure of the League of Nations, the UN’s predecessor, to contain the conflicts that led to World War II (1939-1945). The conference sought to create an organization that could represent all of the world’s nations Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-51311037767914945022010-11-05T04:32:00.002+07:002010-11-12T18:23:12.297+07:00Gandhi: 'Non-Violence Is the First Article of My Faith'
In the first half of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi was one of the leaders of India’s struggle to gain independence from Britain. To achieve this goal, he advocated a policy of nonviolent noncooperation with Britain’s systems and laws. In 1922 the British government arrested Gandhi for his role in the civil disobedience that was sweeping India. Gandhi pleaded guilty in Ahmadābād on March Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-70415935748792493992010-11-05T04:27:00.002+07:002010-11-12T18:19:20.668+07:00David Copperfield
Charles John Huffam Dickens - Published 1850 I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The most popular Victorian author in Great Britain and the United States, Charles Dickens was both gifted humorist and critic of the social evils of his time. His characters are frequently eccentric, almost caricatures. They change very little or not at all in the course of the narrative, but they are nonetheless Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-41940228541157523852010-11-05T04:22:00.001+07:002010-11-13T22:45:01.592+07:00Great Expectations
Charles John Huffam Dickens - Published 1861
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, England. He was the son of John Dickens, a clerk in the Navy Pay Office, and Elizabeth (Barrow) Dickens. Young Dickens was taught at home by his mother, and attended a Dame School (a school in which the rudiments of reading and writing were taught by a Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-65087732637382412432010-11-05T04:15:00.003+07:002010-11-13T22:48:06.242+07:00Oliver Twist
Charles John Huffam Dickens - Published 1837-1839
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles John Huffham Dickens was born in Portsea, on England's southern coast, on February 7, 1812. The Dickens family moved several times during his youth, and the boy attended several schools, received instruction from his mother, and read voraciously. In 1824 Dickens's father, John, a middle-class naval pay clerk, Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-63374456977537075822010-11-05T04:10:00.001+07:002010-11-13T22:52:33.671+07:00A Tale of Two Cities
Charles John Huffam Dickens - Published 1859
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charles John Huffam Dickens was born February 7, 1812, in Portsmouth, on England's southern coast. John Dickens, Charles's father, was a respectable, middle-class naval pay clerk. His family moved several times during Charles's youth, and the boy attended several schools, received instruction from his mother, and read Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-29142952523566296782010-11-02T10:35:00.008+07:002010-11-13T22:56:30.299+07:00Urn Burial
Robert Westall - Published 1987
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland in the north of England, on October 7, 1929, Robert Westall had a happy, secure childhood. His father, the foreman-engineer of a gasworks and an enormously competent human being, was the major formative influence on his life and Westall wrote about him with affection in his first novel, The Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-27860555694043352072010-11-02T10:22:00.004+07:002010-11-14T06:29:06.512+07:00Slot Machine
Chris Lynch - Published 1995
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris Lynch was the fifth of seven children raised in the Jamaica Plains neighborhood of Boston by Edward Lynch, a bus driver, and his wife Dorothy O’Brien Lynch, who worked as a receptionist. Lynch’s father died when he was five, and he recalls that his mother “did a good job of covering it up, but things were pretty lean back then.” Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-51260050673399755982010-11-02T10:19:00.004+07:002010-11-14T06:31:34.561+07:00Roller SkatesRuth Sawyer - Published 1936
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ruth Sawyer, the youngest of five children, was born on August 5, 1880, in Boston, Massachusetts. The only daughter of Timothy and Ethalinda Sawyer, she attended Miss Brackett's Private School in New York City and then, in 1888, went on to the Garland Kindergarten Normal School. Upon graduation she accepted a position in Cuba demonstrating Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-74113403402059852662010-11-02T07:55:00.004+07:002010-11-14T06:34:43.533+07:00Red ShiftAlan Garner - Published 1973
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
English author Alan Garner is rooted in the language, places, and myths of his birthplace. Born in Congleton, Cheshire, on October 17, 1934, to a family of country people and craftsmen, he grew up in the village of Alderley Edge, where his ancestors had lived for generations. His village, now a suburb of Manchester, took its name from a Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-7768314914468684572010-11-02T07:48:00.004+07:002010-11-14T06:38:14.066+07:00Langston HughesMilton Meltzer - Published 1968
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Milton Meltzer was born on May 8, 1915, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Both of his parents immigrated to the United States during the great exodus of Europeans in the last decades of the 19th century, and his father was employed as a window cleaner when Meltzer was born. He grew up in a multinational neighborhood near Boston and attended aOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-17646241421368971772010-11-02T07:18:00.004+07:002010-11-14T06:42:23.151+07:00John Lennon
Richard Wootton - Published 1985
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Richard Wootton—former teacher in South London, freelance writer, and music enthusiast—now resides in London, England. He traveled across the United States during the middle 1970s and the early 1980s looking for and commenting on clubs that play live music. Wootten spent five years learning the nuances of atmosphere, character, and Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-91387686434296046272010-11-02T02:15:00.007+07:002010-11-14T06:45:35.441+07:00Jack LondonDaniel Dyer - Published 1997
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Daniel Dyer has a Ph.D. from Kent State University. He became interested in Jack London when teaching The Call of the Wild to eighth graders, and subsequently published an annotated edition of the novel as well as a teacher’s guide for the novel. He and his son actually visited the sites of the Klondike gold strikes, following in London’s Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-48924239272546876982010-11-02T02:00:00.004+07:002010-11-17T19:52:58.559+07:00Fallen AngelJane Yolen - Published 1996
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born on February 11, 1939, in New York City, Jane Yolen showed early promise as a writer; she wrote a play for her first-grade class, and a piece on pirates written in the eighth grade was likely the source for her first published book, Pirates in Petticoats (1963).
Yolen wrote avidly while attending Smith College, producing poetry, Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-56229594641452566222010-11-02T01:56:00.006+07:002010-11-17T19:56:44.454+07:00Daniel BooneJames Henry Daugherty- Published 1939
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Henry Daugherty was born June 1, 1889, in Asheville, North Carolina, to Charles M. and Susan Peyton Telfair Daugherty. He spent his early childhood on an Indiana farm and in a small southern Ohio town. When Daugherty was about nine, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where his father took a government job. In addition toOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-2095085272416158052010-11-02T01:53:00.006+07:002010-11-17T19:58:47.350+07:00Bull RunPaul Fleischman - Published 1993
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Fleischman was born on September 5, 1952 in Monterey, California. His parents were Sid Fleischman, himself a notable author of books for young people, and Beth. Fleischman excelled in school, eventually attending the University of California, Berkeley from 1970 to 1972, and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque from 1975 to Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-72485165009957459942010-11-02T01:49:00.002+07:002010-11-17T20:00:49.262+07:00Alexander the Great
Charles Edward Mercer - Published 1963
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Edward Mercer was born on July 12, 1917, in Stouffville, Ontario. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and began working as a reporter for the Washington Post in 1939. During World War II he served as a lieutenant in the United States Army military intelligence. After the war he worked for the Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-22201846968757449742010-11-02T01:26:00.005+07:002010-11-18T09:09:19.530+07:00Hatchet
Gary Paulsen - Published 1987
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gary Paulsen was born May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota shortly after his father, a career-army officer, left for duty in war-torn Europe. He spent the years of World War II partly with his mother in Chicago (who worked in a munitions factory) and partly with relatives in Minnesota. Paulsen did not meet his father until 1946 when Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-62509103415329867422010-11-01T23:33:00.003+07:002010-11-18T09:17:33.795+07:00Fingers
William Warner Sleator III - Published 1983
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Warner Sleator III was born February 13, 1945 in Harve de Grace, Maryland. His father, William Warner Sleator, Jr., was a professor and his mother was a physician. Three elements of his childhood have had a profound effect on his writing: science, reading, and music. Sleator says of his upbringing and his writing: 'Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-64336717478456287022010-11-01T23:29:00.002+07:002010-11-05T00:59:39.471+07:00The Fall
Garth Nix - Published 2000
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Award-winning author Garth Nix is a developing power in the world of fantasy. A native of Australia, Nix was born in Melbourne in 1963 and eventually settled in Sydney. He put his bachelor’s degree in professional writing from the University of Canberra to good use, working as a sales representative, publicist, and senior editor in the Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-91188170914673051102010-11-01T23:14:00.004+07:002010-11-05T01:00:15.195+07:00Dukes
Robert Newton Peck - Published 1983
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Newton Peck, the son of Haven and Lucile (Dornburgh) Peck, was born on February 17, 1928, in a rural Shaker community in Vermont. He has been a farmer, a lumberjack, a hog butcher, and a paper-mill worker. From 1945-1947 he served in the army and was stationed in Italy, Germany, and France. After returning to the United Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-25541244235700868882010-11-01T23:08:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:01:03.095+07:00Bone
Fae Myenne Ng - Published 1993
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fae Myenne Ng was born in San Francisco, California, in 1957. She remembers associating with the elderly men who had come to America to earn money but who had expected to someday return home. Revolution in China and bizarre American laws regarding Chinese immigration had trapped many of them in California. Those men were remarkable to Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-22782379118394103492010-10-31T00:47:00.003+07:002010-11-05T04:12:34.901+07:00The Confession: A Novel
John Grisham - Published 2010
The Confession: A Novel, I definitely was awaiting this book. Of course that is the Grisham style that many come to love. The plot develops pretty quickly and the pace of the story really takes off. I think this may be some of Grisham's best suspense since early books, like The Firm. The story is compelling and most people will enjoy it.
Grisham breaksOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-26729583706178098992010-10-31T00:31:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:03:31.386+07:00John Grisham
John Grisham - Biography
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, John Grisham was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby--writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-53256998800202788602010-10-30T00:57:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:04:39.179+07:00Liar, Liar
Laurence Yep - Published 1983
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laurence Yep was born June 14, 1948, in San Francisco, California, the son of Thomas Gim, a postal clerk and Franche Lee, a homemaker. His own identity was a difficult issue because he grew up in a Chinese home in a predominantly black neighborhood where his parents operated a small grocery store; he attended a parochial school in San Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-36910807477846927912010-10-30T00:47:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:07:35.216+07:00Masque
F. Paul Wilson - Published 1998
I ABOUT THE AUTHORS
F. Paul Wilson was born May 17, 1946, in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Francis Paul and Mary Sullivan Wilson. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 and pursued a career in medicine and writing. A prolific author, he has more than 50 books to his credit, mostly in the areas science fiction, horror, and suspense.
Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-47575719676775204592010-10-30T00:39:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:08:20.334+07:00Memory
Margaret Mahy - Published 1987
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret Mahy, New Zealand's most acclaimed writer for children, was born March 21, 1936, in the small town of Whakatane, New Zealand. The oldest of five children of a bridge builder/building contractor and a teacher, Mahy has been involved with books since childhood. She remembers that her mother read the children English classics Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-76322753328320457242010-10-30T00:25:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:08:56.673+07:00Merlin
Jane Yolen - Published 1997
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born on February 11, 1939, in New York City, Jane Yolen showed early promise as a writer; she wrote a play for her first-grade class, and a piece on pirates written in the eighth grade was probably the source for her first published book, Pirates in Petticoats (1963).
Yolen wrote avidly while attending Smith College, producing Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-40696393578897173012010-10-30T00:19:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:09:38.353+07:00Michelangelo
Elizabeth Blake Ripley - Published 1953
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Elizabeth Blake Ripley was born in New Haven, Connecticut, on June 9, 1906. She attended Smith College, spending her junior year studying at the Sorbonne, in Paris, and graduating in 1928 with majors in French and art. After graduation, Ripley traveled extensively abroad while freelancing in both writing and theater design. Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-18404283363132481452010-10-30T00:01:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:10:17.680+07:00Monster
Walter Dean Myers - Published 1999
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Walter Dean Myers was born August 12, 1937, in Martinsburg, West Virginia. When he was two years old, his mother died, leaving his father to cope with eight children. Myers and two of his sisters were taken in by Herbert and Florence Dean, who, although poor, took good care of him. In gratitude, he made Dean his middle name Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-69349024789284656602010-10-29T23:42:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:10:54.380+07:00Power
Linda Hogan - Published 1998
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Linda Hogan was born in 1947 and is of mixed Native American heritage, primarily Chickasaw. She was born in Colorado but grew up on a reservation in Oklahoma, and her native heritage is a strong and pervasive influence on her writing.
Traditional Native culture honors the sacredness of family, of tribe, and of connectedness, not Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-11328140213880436042010-10-29T21:37:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:12:20.760+07:00Raptor
Paul Zindel - Published 1998
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Zindel was born on Staten Island, New York, on May 15, 1936. His father abandoned his family when he was still very young, and this abandonment may explain why he writes so often about broken families. His family moved frequently in New York, dogged by poverty. At fifteen, Zindel was diagnosed with tuberculosis and placed in a Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-7997817226413883652010-10-29T21:30:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:12:56.357+07:00Rats
Paul Zindel - Published 2000
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Zindel was born on Staten Island, New York, on May 15, 1936. His father abandoned his family when he was still very young, and this abandonment may by the source of the many broken families in his writings. His family moved around frequently in New York, dogged by poverty. At fifteen years old, Zindel was diagnosed with Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-48358849317887170562010-10-29T21:17:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:13:25.781+07:00Rebellion
Nora Roberts - Published 1988
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Prolific romance writer Nora Roberts owes her career to a blizzard and a bad case of cabin fever. In 1979, while snowed in with her two young sons at their home in Maryland, Roberts decided to try writing down one of the stories she had made up in her mind since childhood. She put pencil to paper and the result, according to Roberts, “wasOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-63006857057252304662010-10-29T18:11:00.001+07:002010-11-05T01:13:57.080+07:00Saturnalia
Paul Fleischman - Published 1990
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Paul Fleischman was born in 1952 in Monterey on the California coast, and grew up in another coast-side city, Santa Monica. He attended college at the University of California, Berkeley, and then later at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, where he lived for a time. He has since returned to his roots, Pacific Grove, near Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-89526642257361461152010-10-29T17:36:00.003+07:002010-11-05T01:15:31.466+07:00Scorpions
Walter Dean Myers - Published 1988
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Walter Dean Myers was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, August 12, 1937. When he was two years old, his mother died in childbirth. This left his father with eight children to care for, so he arranged for Florence and Herbert Dean of Harlem to take Walter. Living with the Deans meant that he would be well cared for, while Harlem Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-75802692264236280942010-10-29T17:31:00.002+07:002010-11-05T01:16:01.659+07:00Shiloh
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - Published 1991
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born January 4, 1933, in Anderson, Indiana, the daughter of Eugene S. and Laura Schield Reynolds. Her midwestern upbringing and summer visits to her grandparents in rural Maryland have provided colorful backdrops for many of her stories.
As a young girl during the depression years, this prolific Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-44973573057220830442010-10-29T02:49:00.004+07:002010-11-05T01:16:33.492+07:00Singularity
William Warner Sleator III - Published 1985
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Warner Sleator III was born February 13, 1945, in Havre de Grace, Maryland, to William Warner Sleator, Jr., a university professor, and Esther Kaplan, a physician. He grew up in University City, Missouri, near St. Louis. As a child, Sleator was interested in music, studying the piano and cello for a number of years Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-11979498629973643292010-10-29T02:01:00.003+07:002010-11-05T01:17:09.340+07:00Snapshots
Norma Klein - Published 1984
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Norma Klein was born on May 13, 1938, in New York City. She grew up on Manhattan Island and died after a brief illness on April 25, 1989, also in New York City. She was the daughter of Emanuel Klein, a Freudian psychoanalyst, and Sadie Klein. Although as an adult she became disenchanted with Freudian psychoanalysis, her interest inOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-60778785561042614452010-10-29T01:33:00.003+07:002010-11-05T01:17:37.063+07:00Dragonsong
Anne McCaffrey - Published 1976
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne McCaffrey was born on April 1, 1926 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her father, George Herbert McCaffrey, a city administrator and a colonel in the U.S. Army, served as political advisor to General Mark Clark. Her mother, Anne Dorothy McElroy McCaffrey, was a copywriter and real estate agent as well as the author of several Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-62112049293409053072010-10-28T01:25:00.003+07:002010-11-05T01:18:07.236+07:00Across America on an Emigrant Train
Jim Murphy - Published 1993
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jim Murphy was born in Newark, New Jersey, on September 25, 1947, to Helen (Grosso) and James K. Murphy. His father was a certified public accountant, and his mother was an artist who also worked as a bookkeeper. Murphy was not particularly interested in reading as a youngster, but he was athletically precocious and adventurous. As a Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-45556400694898463412010-10-28T01:16:00.003+07:002010-11-05T01:18:30.303+07:00Torch
Gillian [Jill] Bliss - Published 1988
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gillian [Jill] Bliss was born on April 29, 1937, in London, England. She earned a diploma in education and a master's degree in English from St. Anne's College, Oxford. She taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School from 1959 to 1962. In 1961 she married Edmund Paton Walsh and had three children: Edmund, Margaret, and Helen. Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-11501780834723563432010-10-28T01:10:00.004+07:002010-11-05T01:19:55.461+07:00Tangents
Greg Bear - Published 1986
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California, on August 20, 1951. He grew up in many different areas of the world because his father was a Navy man who served assignments in Japan and the Philippines, as well as postings to naval bases on the Gulf Coast, East Coast, and West Coast of the mainland United States. His childhood experiences in Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-8661925328950409712010-10-28T01:07:00.004+07:002010-11-05T01:20:19.520+07:00Ace Hits The Big Time
Barbara Beasley Murphy - Published 1981
I ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Barbara Beasley Murphy was born to Dr. William De Ford (a physician) and Henryetta (Kurtz) Beasley on February 4, 1933 in Springfield, Ohio. When Murphy was a child, her mother read children’s books and recited poetry to her regularly. As Murphy grew up in Ohio, and then in North Carolina during World War II, many issues Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-80748199751819867852010-10-28T00:59:00.006+07:002010-11-05T01:23:05.222+07:00Albert Einstein
Elma Ehrlich Levinger - Published 1949
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in Chicago in 1887, Elma Ehrlich Levinger worked her way through the University of Chicago, quite an accomplishment for a woman of her time. Later she was awarded a fellowship to study drama at Radcliffe College, and she wrote a number of plays, several of which won prizes in national contests. One of the best known isOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-75902055511487308912010-10-28T00:48:00.003+07:002010-11-05T01:23:34.743+07:00Figgs & Phantoms
Ellen Raskin - Published 1973
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ellen Raskin was born on March 13, 1928, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although she lived most of her adult life in New York City, Raskin's hometown and home state were very important to her. Raskin drew extensively on her childhood and her family as the subject matter of her novels, although the fantastic and unusual nature of the novels Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-12651000716111019412010-10-28T00:15:00.004+07:002010-11-05T01:24:03.600+07:00Beowulf the Warrior
Ian Serraillier - Published 1954
I ABOUT THE AUTHOR
The literary career of English writer Ian Serraillier has been long and varied, spanning five decades from the 1940s to the 1980s. His works include poems for adults, adventure novels for young adults, verse narratives for young adults based on classical and medieval sources, plays in verse for broadcast on BBC radio, picture books forOnline Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-60873116693024914152010-10-28T00:04:00.000+07:002010-10-28T00:04:58.089+07:00Canada’s Constitution Act of 1982In 1982 the Canadian constitution was patriated, meaning it was brought further under Canadian control. The Constitution Act made it possible for Canadian lawmakers to amend the constitution without authorization from the United Kingdom. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the act’s first section, describes the fundamental individual and group rights of Canadian citizens, including freedom of Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-15009855618598987082010-10-27T22:30:00.000+07:002010-10-27T22:30:50.599+07:00The Need for a Bill of RightsWhen the Constitution of the United States went to the states for approval in 1787, many delegates to the state ratifying conventions criticized the document because it had increased the powers of the federal government, but contained no guarantee of fundamental rights and freedoms for citizens. Vocal advocates of a federal bill of rights included John Smilie, a delegate to the Pennsylvania Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-35754860192212713742010-10-27T22:19:00.000+07:002010-10-27T22:19:04.704+07:00Virginia Declaration of RightsThe June 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a model for the United States Bill of Rights, which was ratified by the states in 1791. American statesman George Mason drafted the influential Virginia declaration, which listed the personal freedoms guaranteed by the state. Among the principles set out in the declaration were freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and the right to a Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-74317329754098414662010-10-27T22:12:00.001+07:002010-10-27T22:13:27.620+07:00Principal Provisions of the Magna CartaThe Magna Carta was signed by King John of England in response to the complaints of his barons, and thus its emphasis is on the limits of royal authority and the proper relationship between king and subject. The reference to “scutage” here means all monetary obligations of a vassal to his lord. Slight variations of language appear in different printed editions of the Magna Carta.
Principal Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-18997715001969685462010-10-27T22:03:00.001+07:002010-10-27T22:04:23.987+07:00Franklin D. Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor SpeechIn this famous speech, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt lists the unprovoked attacks by Japan and details America's reasons for declaring war. After the devastation at Pearl Harbor, the United States could no longer remain detached from the events in Europe and Asia. After this speech and the ensuing congressional vote, the United States entered the fray of the Second World War. TO THE Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-20541997744035618252010-10-27T21:48:00.000+07:002010-10-27T21:48:14.957+07:00Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural AddressFranklin Delano Roosevelt delivered this address on March 4, 1933.I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-76366412428558697362010-10-27T21:40:00.001+07:002010-10-27T21:41:37.859+07:00Winston Churchill: 'This Was Their Finest Hour'On June 18, 1940, Britain stood at the edge of the shadow of Nazi occupation. France was negotiating the terms of an armistice with Germany, and many people believed that Britain was doomed to fall as well. Prime Minister Winston Churchill addressed the nation to prepare the British people for total war. This speech, given before the House of Commons and then broadcast by radio, is considered by Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-84739464440728946412010-10-27T06:44:00.001+07:002010-10-27T06:45:16.833+07:00Winston Churchill: 'The Sinews Of Peace'On March 5, 1946, in a speech before Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, the great English statesman and World War II (1939-1945) leader Winston Churchill intoned his famous warning: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” He coined the phrase iron curtain, still used today, to refer to the tightly controlled border in Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-54828028493681764302010-10-27T06:26:00.001+07:002010-10-27T06:29:51.199+07:00Chief Joseph: 'I Will Fight No More Forever'
In 1877 the United States opened up Nez Perce lands in the Oregon Territory to mining and other public use. Rather than relocate to a reservation, a group of the Nez Perce people led by Chief Joseph chose to retreat to Canada. With United States Army troops led by General Oliver O. Howard and others in pursuit, the group traveled all the way to the northern edge of the Bear Paw Mountains in Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-69840504114811808912010-10-27T06:15:00.002+07:002010-10-27T06:18:12.418+07:00Articles of ConfederationI. INTRODUCTION
Articles of Confederation, first constitution of the United States. The Articles were in force from March 1, 1781, to June 21, 1788, when the present Constitution of the United States went into effect. The Articles were written in 1777 during the early part of the American Revolution by a committee of the Second Continental Congress of the 13 colonies. The head of the committee,Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-34409398080428988042010-10-27T01:21:00.008+07:002010-11-05T01:27:34.649+07:00Ace Hits Rock Bottom
Barbara Beasley Murphy - Published 1985
I. ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Barbara Beasley Murphy was born to Dr. William De Ford (a physician) and Henryetta (Kurtz) Beasley on February 4, 1933 in Springfield, Ohio. When Murphy was a child, her mother read children’s books and recited poetry to her regularly. As Murphy grew up in Ohio, and then in North Carolina during World War II, many issues Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-18419266996941741662010-10-26T23:49:00.007+07:002010-11-05T01:28:05.712+07:00A & P
John Updike - Published 1961
I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Updike is one of America’s most prominent contemporary authors. He has written novels, short stories, essays, poetry, reviews, articles, memoirs, art criticism, and drama. His work has been adapted for television and film, and he has won numerous awards, including a National Book Award and two Pulitzer Prizes.
Updike was born on Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-81523783743247304522010-10-26T23:37:00.005+07:002010-11-05T01:28:34.853+07:00Abe Lincoln Grows Up
Carl Sandburg - Published 1928
I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carl Sandburg was born to Swedish-American parents on January 6, 1878, in Galesburg, Illinois, a prairie town that attracted large numbers of immigrants because of job opportunities at the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad shops. His father worked in the railroad yards and never earned more than nine dollars a week, barely enough Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-80937649268062527552010-10-26T23:30:00.008+07:002010-11-05T01:29:15.684+07:00The Abracadabra Kid
Albert Sidney Fleischman - Published 1996
I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Albert Sidney Fleischman was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 16, 1920, but grew up in San Diego, California. In his autobiography only some of his father’s activities are described in those years when the family lived in New York.
Fleischman’s father, originally named Rivven, anglicized to Reuben, was born in a shabby Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-5403893253021705142010-10-26T23:08:00.011+07:002010-11-05T01:29:56.467+07:00Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner - Published 1936
I. ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Faulkner was born on September 25, 1897, in Albany, Mississippi. His family had roots in Mississippi, and Faulkner remained in the state for most of his life and became a renowned writer of Southern literature. Faulkner was not much of a student, however, and dropped out of high school. He then worked in various clerical positions Online Book Summaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05576857185322646490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2808610847177084020.post-37365360898122998342010-10-06T10:07:00.003+07:002010-11-14T10:19:11.324+07:00SITEMAP
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