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Boy’s Life

Stop-time

by Frank Conroy

North Toward Home

by Willie Morris


The Little Foxes Revived

The Little Foxes

by Lillian Hellman, produced by Saint Subber, directed by Mike Nichols


Children in Prison

Village School Downtown

by Peter Schrag

Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools

by Jonathan Kozol


That Old Identity Game

Robert Browning and His World: The Private Face

by Maisie Ward

The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton

by Fawn M. Brodie


The Witches’ Secrets

Andrew Lang's Color Fairy Tale Books: The Blue Fairy Book; The Red Fairy Book; The Green Fairy Book; The Yellow Fairy Book; The Pink Fairy Book; The Grey Fairy Book; The Violet Fairy Book; The Crimson Fairy Book; and The Brown Fairy Book

edited by Andrew Lang


Gibbon Made Simple

Edward Gibbon, the Historian

by Joseph Ward Swain


The Other Country

The Golden Key

by George MacDonald, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Afterword by W.H. Auden


System Builders

Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century

by Clarence J. Glacken

The Royal Society: Concept and Creation

by Margery Purver

Science in Utopia: A Mighty Design

by Nell Eurich

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