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Follows the path of industrial food, organic or alternative food, pastoral food, and foraged food from its source to its final meal to discover what Americans eat and what it says about their evolution.

In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families.

This is a book I really enjoyed because of the discriptive words used to explain what is happening are used in a very good way.

The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger.

Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is about to expose a sex trafficking operation between Eastern Europe and Sweden implicating several high-ranking officials when two investigative reporters are murdered.

Portrayal of Pecola Breedlove, in her first year of womanhood. Poor, black, and ugly, she lives in a store front and shares a bedroom with her brother, her crippled mother, and drunken father.

A scholarly edition of William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" that includes detailed notes and commentary, an illustrated introduction to the play's historical, cultural, and performance contexts, an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play, and a bibliography of references and further reading.

Recounts the details of forty-six significant events of the twentieth century, each with photographs from the scene; and features three compact discs that contain over two hours of audio from the events as they were broadcast live.

Presents the memoirs of a Dutch woman in which she tells how her Christian faith sustained her after she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp during World War II as a result of her family's activities in the anti-Nazi underground.

A white man learns what it's really like to be a Negro in the South in 1959 by darkening his skin and traveling through the southern states.

Five little monkeys sitting in a tree discover, one by one, that it is unwise to tease Mr.

The Cat and the Squirrel come to blows with the Duck in arguing about who will perform what duty in preparing their pumpkin soup, and they almost lose the Duck's friendship when he decides to leave them.

When a fourteen-year-old silversmith apprentice is severely burned by molten silver, he becomes a dispatch rider for the Committee for Public Safety where he meets many Boston patriots involved in the new struggle for independence from England.

Dave and Sticky learn their new substitute teacher is Damien Black and fear the dastardly treasure hunter is behind Ms.

The clever villagers of Itching Down get rid of a pestilence of four million wasps by trapping them in an enormous strawberry jam sandwich.