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Conducting interviews for Sugar in the Raw, Rebecca Carroll traveled to 12 cities across the country, and talked to more than 50 girls. From that number, she selected 15 who tell their stories in their own words in this stereotype-breaking book. Nicole, a 17-year-old biracial girl living in Vermont, tells us she checks the boxes for every race category on census forms. "You can call me whatever you please," she says, "but I'll still be Nicole." Elsewhere, Laninka, also 17, from Birmingham, Alabama, tells of her love for ballet and African dance, while Sophie, 20, who lives in Freehold, New Jersey, tells of growing up in her adoptive white family and her search for her black identity. Throughout, the girls show their strength and their determination to make a way for themselves in a world that does not always appreciate them.
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With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about identity, self-esteem, the role of race in their perceptions and treatment, personal values, and their hopes for the future is both enlightening and moving. 144 pp. National pubilcity. 15,000 print.
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Feminine Pride Shines in "Sugar in the Raw".......2001-12-07
This small, paperback captures the emotional tales of young, African American girls from across the United States. Discussions of self-esteem, identity, racism, prejudice, and relationships permeate throughout Rebecca Carroll's book. Readers of all ages amd races come away with a profound understanding of what it means to be Black and female, but most importantly, the pride and strength that these young women carry within themselves in order to survive in America's society. Young girls of this culture will undoubtedly regard this book as a treasured resource since these humorous, personal and frank stories connect them to a sense of comaraderie, support and confidence. Carroll only reveals fifteen of fifty stories, which leaves you wanting and wondering about the rest.
Coming of Age Stories.......2000-10-31
SUGAR IN THE RAW is an inspiring collection of essays written by 15 African American young women who, as the backcover asserts, "refuse to be ignored."
These girls may share a racial ancestry but their stories are as unique as they are. This thin volume contains essays from young women of all walks of life: from a bisexual homegirl in Portland trying to keep it together to a biracial girl in lily white Vermont coming to terms with who she is, the reader of SUGAR will share in all the girl's excitement, fears and triumphs.
The only drawback is the the book is so short. The editor interviewed over 90 girls from around the country but only 15 are included here. SUGAR can be easily read in one sitting and will leave you wanting more. Hopefully, a SUGAR II is in the works.
All in all, this book would make a great gift for a young woman of any race.
Excellent book for african-american girls.......1999-07-13
Just a short note to say that I purchased this book for two young women (12 & 14). They received the books as christmas gifts. Yes, they would have preferred clothing or cash, but once they started reading they couldn't put it down.
This is the type of book that initiates conversations, questions and thoughts on some of life's harder issues.
Sugar in the Raw is a really great book........1998-06-12
Sugar in the Raw is such a great book. I am a 13 year old girl. Before reading this book I had the idea that all teen girls, no matter what skin color, are going through the same thing. Now that I have finished reading the book, I've learned that black girls are going through the same thing plus more. They have to deal with a lot of prejudice.They must try to prove everyones image of a black girl in America wrong. This image is all wrong and comes from Americas history. Slavery started something that hasn't competely gone away yet. This wrong idea is that white people somehow should rule over black people. That we are somehow better. I don't know how the color of your skin can determine who is better than who. The truth is everyone is unique. Everyone has at least one quality about them that is better than someone else.You can be whatever you want.The only person that determines what you are like is you.
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Branded Hand: Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker
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This historical biography follows an idealistic Cape Cod sailor on his daring attempt to sail seven fugitives from slavery to freedom in the British Bahamas in 1844. Caught by bounty hunters, the seven men are returned to Pensacola, Florida, for punishment and return to plantations.Walker is jailed a year, fned, put in a pillory, and branded in open court by a U.S. marshal -- SS for slave stealer. U.S. history is applied regionally for FL, WI, MI, MA, and TX.
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Great book about my Great-great-great uncle.......1999-12-15
Kudos to Mr. Oickle! He has written a splendid book about my great-great-great uncle, Jonathan Walker. Walker was branded in 1844 for the crime of--attempting to help slaves escape to the Caribbean. Although this law was on the books for many years, Mr. Walker was the only one punished so. To the day he died, he disregarded the legal meaning of the "SS" branded on his hand ("Slave Stealer") and referred to it as meaning "Slave Savior," perhaps because of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, "The Branded Hand," which referred to this event and referred to it as "Savior to the Slave!"
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This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Douglas Little exposes the persistence of "orientalist" stereotypes in American popular culture and examines United States policy toward the Middle East from many angles. Chapters focus on America's increasing dependence on petroleum; U.S.-Israeli relations; the rise of revolutionary nationalist movements in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Libya; the futility of U.S. military and covert intervention; and the unsuccessful attempt to broker a "peace-for-land" settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. A new epilogue addresses the recent U.S. war in Iraq. Little offers valuable historical context for anyone seeking a better understanding of the complicated relationship between the U.S. and the Middle East.
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American Orientalism.......2007-04-02
A good survey of the history of American relations with the Middle East. The survey however is one-sided, for the author doesn't bring any sources from the Middle East and confines himself mainly to sources from American politics. Also, the events of 9/11 predispose the analysis and thus turning it into a search after whom/what to blame in 9/11 attacks. On the hand, this predisposition is also beneficial for it allows him an important critical perspective on American activities in the Middle East. If you don't know anything about the history of the Middle East, this is a good start, and good archive for preliminary information.
very readable history of U.S. involvement in the mid-east.......2004-06-16
I discovered this book when a chapter from it appeared in a collection of readings for a college class on national security. The chapter, "America and Israel: the making of a special relationship" impressed me with its account of the events involving the two countries from before Israel's statehood. I've now read the entire book and find that chapter and another, "Opportunities Lost and Found" dealing with the issue of the Palestinians and attempts to find a way to peace in the area are the best of the volume. To revisit events in a concise, chronological order gave me a new appreciation of the frustrations experienced there in the last 50 years.
Approaching the mid-east on different subjects, be it the oil issue, the Cold War, or the Arab nationalist movements, Little moves right along finding just the right amount of detail to relate. He is able to cover the same period repeatedly from different angles without repeating himself. Each chapter presented a new field of events to be tied into others already described. One comes away with a sense of the complexity of the mid-east. This is what Little is trying to convey.
I did not feel that the author portrayed the United States as "bad" by any means. What he is saying is that the U.S. desire to make things better combined with an often simplistic view of the Orient can easily get the U.S. into trouble. He points out the there is "occidentalism" in the view from the mid-east of the U.S. It's no accident that he discusses Mark Twain's book "Innocents Abroad" in the first chapter and returns to it in the last.
A second important point is that domestic politics can deflect the U.S. from a path it might otherwise follow, particularly in regard to Israel. Over the period covered, there has been no real Arab constituency in the United States, whereas pressure to support Israel has been constant, a fact acknowledged by every U.S. president from Truman on. There is no way the U.S. government can take an even-handed stand. Events described in the book provide evidence that momentary actions which are not interpreted as pro-Israel are all that can be taken by an American administration, because a groundswell of political opposition makes it's continuance impossible.
I've lived through the time period of most of the events described, but I was enlightened by the relationship between them that Little reveals. This is a solid book that will keep your interest throughout. As mentioned, it stood out among the 35 readings for the class I took and the book as a whole did not disappoint.
False logic pervades.......2004-04-05
This book was billed as an inspection into American attitudes and the Middle east since the 1940s. But instead this book is polluted with the false idea that no matter that Americas roles was over the last 60 years it was always `wrong' and usually full of `racist' `stereotypes'. The false logic here goes so far as to say that America didn't understand middle eastern `culture' and therefore basically no matter what America did, whether it supported secularism as in the Shah or support militant Islam as in the Muhadeen in Afghanistan, America must be somehow `bad'.
This is the false foolish logic that permeates this political tripe of a text. Here we find the argument that somehow because America supported Israel's `right to exist' since 1960 that America deserves to be hated in the Middle east. OF course this ignores the fact that America under Eisenhower supported Nasser and Egypt. And it ignores the fact that America helped create and prop up half the regimes that exist in the middle east, from Saudi to Pakistan. There is very little to be gleaned here unless you are one of these people that believes with the analysis that America is evil, and racist and never does anything good or proper. In the end this book neither admits nor understands the very American policies it was supposed to tell the history of, thus making one wish they had an actual history book in front of them, rather then a political broad sheet.
Seth J. Frantzman
Ultimately unsuccessful.......2003-05-29
Nearly two decades ago, Douglas Little appeared on the diplomatic history scene with a monograph entitled "Malevolent Neutrality," about the United States, the United Kingdom and the origins of the Spanish Civil War. Although much of the book consisted of quarrels and squabbles between the US, the UK and Spain over foreign investors in Spain, the book nevertheless had a certain power. Here was the Spanish Republic desperately trying to preserve its democracy while the US and UK were whining over foreign investment rules, exaggerating Communist and Anarchist influence and imposing the malevolent neutrality of the title. Now Little has come up with a new book with the promising title "American Orientalism." The book consists of eight chapters which look at American images of the Middle East, America's relationship with Middle East Oil, the relationship between America and Israel, National Security and the Soviet Threat, the Nasserist "threat", the idea of modernization, "limited war" in the Gulf from the 1958 Lebanon intervention to the defeat of Afghanistan, and the Arab-Israeli peace process. The book has certain virtues. We certainly get more historical perspective than most discussions of the topic. We learn about the generally condescending and shallow American view of Arabs, usually seen as narrow-minded, backward frustrated fanatics. We learn about how the American government bent or ignored the anti-trust rules so that American oil companies wouldn't be inconvenienced in their exploitation of Arab oil. We learn about the long Arab-Israeli peace process, where Israeli recalcitrance and bad faith is as much a problem as Arab terrorism. We learn about the United States' trust in the "white revolution" in Iran, and the inevitably bad reputation that occurred when the Shah was overthrown by an angry population.
But ultimately this is an unsuccessful book. The first problem is one of evidence. Although Little has looked at around 50 collections of papers and oral histories, restrictive government policies ensures there is little primary evidence after the Johnson administration. A more serious problem is that Little can apparently neither speak nor read Arabic. Stylistically, the chapters themselves, about thirty to forty pages each, are too short for really profound or original discussion of the subject at hand. Yet at the same time various themes, such as the Suez crisis or the Yom Kippur war, keep recurring, so we get repetitive discussions of these matters which at the same time are incomplete. For example, he really doesn't discuss Raymond Garthoff and Richard Ned Lebow's stunning portrayal of Kissinger's irresponsibility in the latter conflict.
There is a larger problem with Little's perspective. He concentrates on government-government relations, about economics and security. There is little on the details about Arab society. We learn that when Ayatollah Khomeini first opposed the Shah in the early sixties, the Shah sharply cracked down and killed a thousand people, with American support. But we learn less about why the White Revolution failed and why the mullahs were the beneficiaries. Other areas do not get the discussion they deserve. The Vincennes affair only gets a paragraph, Little's discussion of Israel's attempts to get nuclear weapons peters out in the early seventies, when they almost certainly succeeded, while his discussion of the 1986 attacks on Libya and the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 are surprisingly superficial and conventional. The discussion of the Lebanese civil war and Israel and America's intervention there tell us appallingly little about its origins. We do not learn that two great democracies supported the squalid, vicious sectarianism of the Maronite Phalange for the most selfish and ignorant of reasons. Nor can one accept Little's view that the Americans were as even-handed in the Arab-Israeli conflict as he argues. For decades Israel has been the United States' main beneficiary of foreign aid, while the United States in the seventies and eighties did much to demonize the PLO as nothing but terrorists.
The most depressing aspect about Muslim societies from Pakistan to Morocco is the way that politics are polarized between corrupt authoritarian governments and religious bigots capable of appalling acts of viciousness. Little tells us little about how this problem arose, and even less how we should solve it. He only provides enough to tell us that our glorious leaders have helped to get us this into this mess, but have no idea of how to get us out of it.
Excellent Intro To American-Middle East Relations.......2003-05-17
Douglas Little's historical survey of political, economic, and cultural relations between southwest asian countries and between these countries and the USA has been extremely beneficial to me. If you are interested in why some Americans are biased toward groups in the Mid East, Little focuses on this. If you want to understand Israel's creation as a state and the later problems between Israel and others in the region, Little provides an unbiased assessment of this. If you are interested in how US foreign policies have influenced the region, this is the book for you (as an introduction). In short, "American Orientalism" is well-written, objective, and extremely informative. If you think you understand the Middle East based only on news watching, or if you would like to know the historical dynamics at work in Middle Eastern countries, I urge you to read this book.
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One fall night, an innkeeper on a remote island in Nova Scotia watches an airplane plummet to the sea. As the search for survivors envelops the island, the mourning families gather at the inn, waiting for news of those they have lost. Here among strangers, they form an unusual community, struggling for comfort and consolation. A Taiwanese couple sets out fruit for their daughter's ghost. A Bulgarian man plays piano in the dark, sending the music to his lost wife. Two Dutch teenagers rage against their parents' death. An Iranian exile, mourning his niece, recites the Persian tales that carry the wisdom of centuries. At the center of this striking novel is Ana Gathreaux, an ornithologist who specializes in bird migration, and whose husband perished on the flight.
What unfolds is the story of how these families unite and disperse in the wake of the tragedy, and how their interweaving lives are ultimately transformed. Brad Kessler's knowledge of the natural world, music, and myth enriches every page.
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"One fall night off the coast of a remote island in Nova Scotia, an airplane plummets to the sea as an innkeeper watches from the shore. Miles away in New York City, ornithologist Ana Gathreaux works in a darkened room full of sparrows, testing their migratory instincts. Soon, Ana will be bound for Trachis Island, along with other relatives of victims who converge on the site of the tragedy.
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Powerful Storytelling.......2007-08-22
Brad Kessler's novel is exquisitely written. Every word is a gem-so carefully crafted to evoke his translation of the human condition-how families interweaving lives are transformed in the wake of tragedy.
A Truly Satisfying Read.......2007-06-05
I enjoyed this book immensely. Beautiful writing; believable characters. The story deals not only with how a tragedy affects the loved ones left behind, but also the community where the tragedy occurred. Most of the book takes place right after the plane crash followed by a much shorter segment that takes place in the five years afterwards. I found all of the factual bird/flight/migration information to be interesting.
Has replaced REMAINS OF THE DAY as my favorite contemporary novel.......2007-05-17
Like Ishiguro's REMAINS OF THE DAY, this sad and sparkling novel lights up the muted inner lives of people worth your time and attention. As with REMAINS, I started over on page one as soon as I finished the final page, and, as with REMAINS, I felt even more moved and engaged the second time through. BIRDS is about a group of people--pilgrims of sorts--each of whom has lost someone essential. Their grief and loss will cut you to the core, and yet there is something so life-affirming, so recognizable and reassuring, in their slow journey back toward wholeness. Nothing corny or new-agey here; just a brilliant exploration of the human condition. What a writer.
For those who like this novel..........2007-05-12
My father happened to come across this book while researching "cello cases" on my behalf (I am hoping to buy a new one soon). The book came up on the search because it starts out describing a Bulgarian cellist who is flying with her cello strapped into the seat beside her. As I play cello, my father thought I might identify with this character, so he sent me a copy of this book. Maybe the good reviews of the book also encouraged him to send me a copy.
As it happens, when I opened Kessler's book, I had only days before just finished writing a paper about the French baroque composer Marin Marais for one of my music classes. For those of you who liked Birds in Fall, and for that matter, Ovid's Metamorphosis (which, I admit, I haven't read - yet), or just kingfishers or birds in general, you might consider acquiring a copy of Marin Marais's most popular opera, Alcione, which has been recorded by Marc Minkowski and the Musiciens du Louvre. Why? Because this opera (or tragedie lyrique, to use the technical term) is based on the same tale about kingfishers [from Ovid's Metamorphosis] which has a somewhat prominent place in Brad Kessler's novel. The libretto, by La Motte, apparently takes a few liberties with the Ovid version of the kingfisher story, but the essence of it is there. Yes opera can be dull, but this one, as long as you read the libretto while you listen so you know what's going on, is absolutely beautiful and very exciting and moving in parts. Marais is known today very much for his connection to viola da gamba music--thanks to the film Tous les matins du monde--but try to find and give this opera a listen. If you enjoyed the themes of birds, loss, and reincarnation in Birds in Fall you may well find Marais's opera a (bittersweet) pleasure, too.
It Soars.......2007-04-29
It takes a book like this to remind me what a five star rating should represent. From the gripping opening chapter aboard an airliner moments before it plunges off the coast of Nova Scotia, to the arrival of a group of fmaily members to a bed and breakfast they've been put up in while they attempt to find out what happened to their loved ones, there was a lump in my throat that woud only be temporarily relieved when his words brought tears to my eyes. What I loved so much about this book beyond the fantastic writing when the genius in blending all the various cultures, between the Bulgarian man who lost his wife, to the Taiwanese couple who loses their daughter, the Mother nearly breaking your heart with her grief. Such a cross section informs so much about the way we as people cope and learn to grieve.
That's not to say the book is melodramatic or depressing, in fact it's far from it. And the thrust of the story and how we move through our grief at such a tragic loss is what makes this book so wonderfully beautiful, and the best book I've read so far this year.
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The Banalization of History.......2005-08-04
In the brief Forward that prefaces her 1966 book, "The Birds Fall Down", Rebecca West informs us that her novel is "founded on a historical event: perhaps the most momentous conversation ever to take place on a moving railway train." This provocative set-up prepares the reader for what should be a rollicking ride through those heady, early days of the Russian Revolution. After all, many are familiar with the excitement associated with trains that popular fiction has visited upon us over the last century and a half: robberies, murders, smuggling, romantic encounters and the like. With this dramatic image in mind, "Dame Rebecca" proceeds to saddle the reader with 400 plus pages of Victorian mannered parlor games - replete with endless detailed descriptions of each ornate parlor room where these games take place.
As a work of historical fiction, the book falls far short. Dates and names of historical figures (save for a brief but non-contextual reference to V. I. Lenin) are absent. While a passing remark in the aforementioned forward appears to situate the story at the turn of the twentieth century (presumably 1900), little else serves to locate the narrative within a specific frame of time. Although casual references to policies carried out by "The Tsar" are mentioned, Nicholas II is never identified by name - nor is any other political leader for that matter. To be fair, this recurring vagueness may be intentional. The story is seen through the eyes of 18 year old Laura Rowan, a stunning beauty whose father is a British MP (who may or may not be involved in an extra-marital affair) and whose mother is the daughter of an old Russian noble (Laura's revered grandfather) now living in Parisian exile due to false aspersions having been cast against him. Ensconced in a world of Victorian wealth, young Laura perceives revolutionary realities, political intrigues and corrupt officials as incomprehensible or (if indeed they do exist) devoid of sanity. Hence the parlor room atmosphere within which the reader must slog through in order to comprehend the meta-narrative taking place.
But what of that momentous train conversation which West claims her novel to be a depiction? In my now out of print hardbound copy, that conversation begins on page 91 and concludes on page 195. What do we learn in those hundred-odd pages? Interspersed amongst a long-winded banter extolling the pros and cons of monarchy vs. liberalism (in which neither case is argued for with much conviction), we discover what most readers will have by now already suspected: that a man working for Laura's grandfather is actually a double agent who has been working for the Tsar's secret police while simultaneously leading the terrorist wing of a Russian "revolutionary" movement. Which movement? We never find out. We learn all of this from Chubinov, an active member of that unidentified revolutionary movement. Laura will have little to do with such silliness, until she learns that it is in the nefarious plans of this double agent (whose principal nom de guerre is Kamensky) to do away with Laura and her grandfather. The remaining 200 pages deal with both Laura's and Chubinov's attempt to thwart Kamensky's best laid plans by dispatching him before he does them in.
Even if the outcome of such a story does not appear at first glance to be obvious, it would still be interesting to know where these characters fit in world history (if indeed they do). Chubinov briefly claims that his plans to do away with the double-crossing Kamensky will inadvertently benefit a certain man named Lenin and his "little Marxist group." As far as I can determine, by 1900 Lenin was a member of the Social Democratic Labor Party that did not split to form his Bolshevik-led wing until 1903. But if Lenin is a Marxist, where do Chubinov's ideological allegiances fall? We never really find out. More to the point, Laura does not really care. She is more concerned with the appearance of his poorly tailored overcoat than his wayward political leanings. The book concludes with Laura's mother holding out hope for a bright and shining future. As 21st century readers, however, we are well aware that within a mere 15 years, Europe will find itself enmeshed in WWI and the Russian civil war. The great benefit provided by the medium of the historical novel is that the best ones augment our understanding of history by allowing us to enter into the past to some degree on a personal and immediate level. As a dramatization of historical events, "The Birds Fall Down" manages the unfortunate feat of portraying those profound times as exceedingly banal.
Death of Statesman.......2004-02-10
A harrowing train journey set against an exotic background of spies and intrigue, a beautiful and accomplished heroine, dramatic surprises and distinguished and extraordinary characters; this book has it all. The main plot revolves about the political complexities developing in Europe and Russia around 1901, and while the action takes place chiefly in France, the main protagonist, Laura, is a well-born Englishwoman still too young to have been presented at court. From her British father she inherits down-to-earth commonsense, and from her Russian mother an instinctive love of Russia and sympathy with the Russian soul. Whenever we are in danger of being carried away by extravagant idealism and lofty speculation, Laura jumps in and effectively pricks the bubble.
Laura takes the train to Paris with her mother Tania, to visit her wealthy grandparents, exiled from St. Petersburg two years previously as a result of high political manoeuvres. Her sick grandmother needs urgent medical attention and Tania is very worried. Laura and the aging count, whose physical and spiritual size dwarfs that of any ordinary mortal, are packed off by train to stay with an American great-aunt somewhere on the coast. Kamensky, the count's devoted right-hand man, is at the last moment prevented from joining them by a trivial incident.
Soon after the train gets under way the carriage is invaded by an aristocratic but scruffy Russian who subjects the count and Laura to a long and involved narrative. He claims that the Tsar is scheming to lure Count Diakonov back to Russia for a mock trial, after which he will be left to languish and die in prison. He has been betrayed by trusted members within his household. Finally convinced, the count insists on leaving the train, has a heart attack on the station platform and dies later in a nearby hotel where he is installed in the state bedroom. Though fussed over by various well-meaning local dignitaries, Laura is fearful and very much alone.
Re-enter (a) Kamensky and (b) Laura's father, roused at the last moment from the House of Commons. We return on the train to Paris and further events take their exciting course.
One of the many interesting things about this book is that it came out in 1966, when Rebecca West was in her 70s, at the culmination of a long career, which suggests that she worked on it and had it in mind for a large part of her life. Her involvement with, and love for, Russian culture, history, and religion are readily apparent. The book is built around three great monologues: Chubinov's revelations in the train, the count's sublime meditations on his deathbed, and Kamensky's apology. While appreciating her grandfather's loyalty and devotion to the Tsar, his heroism as a solder, his wisdom as an administrator, his deep and all-embracing faith, his difficulty in discovering at the end any serious cause for self-reproach, Laura is under no illusions. How can he not see that he's done exactly as he pleased all his life?
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The Birds Fall Down
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Word Bird puts words about fall in his word house--leaves, harvest, football, Pilgrims, and others.
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The Fall of a Sparrow
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My Bird Is Romeo
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