The bedside book of famous British stories

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123 favorite Christmas songs : [a musical collection of children's favorite Christmas songs].

Table of Contents: “…Angels we have heard on high -- I saw three ships -- Santa Claus is coming to town -- Five little snowmen -- Still, still, still -- Angels from the realms of glory -- Twinkle, twinkle, angel star -- O come all ye faithful -- Fum, fum, fum -- Come Thou long expected Jesus -- O come, o come Emmanuel -- Jesu joy -- Chinese dance : Nutcracker -- Come all you worthy gentlemen (Somerset) -- In dulce jubilo -- In the bleak midwinter -- 'Twas in the moon -- As with gladness men of old -- God rest ye merry gentlemen -- Christmas time is here -- Infant holy, Infant lowly -- Noel nouvelet -- Visit of the Wise Men (Matthew 2:1-11 reading) -- Mary's lullaby -- Gloucesteshire Wassail -- Greensleeves -- Children go where I send you -- Wexford carol -- A Child is born in Bethlehem -- Now the holly bears a berry -- When the Christmas morn is dawning -- Cherry tree carol -- The rocking song -- A Boy is born in Bethlehem -- We've got the Christmas spirit -- Joseph dearest, Joseph mine -- Masters in this hall -- Polish lullaby -- It came upon a midnight clear -- Toyland -- 'Twas the night before Christmas (Reading).…”


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Arguably : essays by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P. …”


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Writing prose: techniques and purposes.

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The struggle for land in southern Somalia : the war behind the war

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A Hawaiian reader,

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Nature as model : Salomon de Caus and early seventeenth-century landscape design by Morgan, Luke

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Alfred Hitchcock master of suspense.

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A reporter remembers by Murrow, Edward R., 1908-1965

Table of Contents: “…"A reporter remembers": London, February 24, 1946 -- August 31, 1939: Children evacuated from London -- September 3, 1939: Britain declares war -- Setember 4, 1939: First air raids -- November 27, 1939: Air raid warning system -- April 9, 1940: Debate in Parliament -- May 8, 1940: Chamberlain asked to resign -- May 10, 1940: Winston Churchill becomes prime minister -- June 2, 1940: Dunkirk -- June 4, 1940: Chruchill talks about Dunkirk -- August 24, 1940: Trafalgar Square air raid -- August 25, 1940: Reaction to bombings -- September 22, 1940: On rooftop during air raid -- September 29, 1940: Visit to West Somerset -- December 2, 1940: Courage of British -- December 24, 1940: Christmas -- March 9, 1941: Spring in England -- November 7, 1942: African campaign -- December 24, 1942: Yanks at Christmas -- December 3, 1943: Berlin raid -- June 6, 1944: D-day -- September 17, 1944: Arnhem drop -- April, 1945: The return to Germany -- April 15, 1945: Buchenwald -- May 8, 1945: Piccadilly-VE Day -- Volume two. 1948-1961. …”


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Virtuoso Italian vocal music.

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Arguably : essays by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P.G. …”


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Greetings from old Kentucky. by Trout, Allan M., 1903-1972

Table of Contents: “…-J. organization is scientific -- Nature keeps order in the cow pasture -- The Somerset Rotary Club asks me one -- The evolution of Kentucky colonels -- Big meetin' time down in Trigg county! …”


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Arguably : essays by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P. …”


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Arguably : essays by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P. …”


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Lives, works & transformations : a quarter century of book reviews and essays by Kirsch, Robert R., 1922-1980

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The smart set : George Jean Nathan and H.L. Mencken by Curtiss, Thomas Quinn

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Arguably : essays by Christopher Hitchens by Hitchens, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton: flaws of gravity -- The men who made England: Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" -- Edmund Burke: reactionary prophet -- Samuel Johnson: demons and dictionaries -- Gustave Flaubert: I'm with Stupide -- The dark side of Dickens -- Marx's journalism: the Grub Street years -- Rebecca West: things worth fighting for -- Ezra Pound: a revolutionary simpleton -- On "Animal Farm" -- Jessica Mitford's poison pen -- W. Somerset Maugham: Poor Old Willie -- Evelyn Waugh: the permanent adolescent -- P. …”


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Fiction 100 : an anthology of short stories

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence -- One off the short list / Doris Lessing -- Journey through the night / Jakov Lind -- Gold Coast / James Alan McPherson -- No trace / David Madden -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- Mario and the magician / Thomas Mann -- The man without a temperament / Katherine Mansfield -- The outstation / W. Somerset Maugham -- Little soldier / Guy de Maupassant -- Bartleby, the scrivener / Herman Melville -- Patriotism / Yukio Mishima -- Sredni Vashtar / H.H. …”


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Harmonice musices odhecaton

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A world of great stories : 115 stories, the best of modern literature

Table of Contents: “…Chesterton -- The eye of Allah / Rudyard Kipling -- Red / Somerset Maugham -- The open window / Saki -- The rocking-horse winner / D. …”


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