Elizabeth Rogers: 15 books
by Mary Elizabeth Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
“Write To Me”
J.D. is a feisty single woman who lives in a Cape Cod cottage with two cats that she prefers to people. She supports herself by income from investments and by writing one moderately successful mystery novel a year. She writes to eighty-five penpals from all over the country, which...
The Green Book
The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how they make a difference to the environment.
Inside The Green Book, find out how you can too:
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A Year in the Life of a Newly Retired Woman
(who gets little done, but has an opinion on everything)
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
After forty-five years doing diagnostic services, Elizabeth is faced with either retiring or accepting a pay cut. She opts for retirement. She has a delightfully sardonic take on life, a fine sense of humour and enjoys poking fun at her fellow man, particularly if they are in any way fake, too trendy...
Just So Stories - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin
Tadpoles Tales: Just So Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In this story, smooth-skinned Rhinoceros rudely charges up and steals a man's cake. Then the man comes up with a plan to teach that rude Rhino a lesson!
The Tadpoles Tales series features simple retellings of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories with bright, fun illustrations, for children who are just starting to read on their own.
Just So Stories - How the Leopard Got His Spots
Tadpoles Tales: Just So Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011
In this story, all the animals are the same colour. Then Giraffe and Zebra go off to the forest and they begin to change. Leopard can't find them anywhere! Perhaps it is time for him to change too ...
The Tadpoles Tales series features simple retellings of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories with bright, fun
illustrations, for children who are just starting to read on their own.
Just So Stories - The Cat Who Walked by Himself
Tadpoles Tales: Just So Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
In this story, Dog and Horse both want to investigate the people's fire, but Cat doesn't - he walks by himself. Then the fire and bowl of milk prove awfully tempting...
The Tadpoles Tales series features simple retellings of Rudyard Kipling's Just So stories with bright, fun illustrations, for children who are just starting to read on their own.
Writing the Garden
A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Gardening, more than most outdoor activities, has always attracted a cult of devotedly literate practitioners; people who like to dig, it would appear, also like to write. And many of them write exceedingly well. In this thoughtful, personal, and embracing consideration of garden writing, garden historian...
Saving Central Park
A History and a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The story of how one woman's long love affair with New York's Central Park led her to organize its rescue from a state of serious decline, returning it to the beautiful place of recreational opportunity and spiritual sustenance that it is today.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers opens with a quick survey...
Green Metropolis
The Extraordinary Landscapes of New York City as Nature, History, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, the woman who launched the restoration of Central Park in the 1980s, now introduces us to seven remarkable green spaces in and around New York City, giving us the history—both natural and human—of how they have been transformed over time.
Here we find: The greenbelt...
Harvard Classics Volume 41
English Poetry 2: Collins To Fitzgerald
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017
Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
A Nazi Past
Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
Since the end of World War II, historians and psychologists have investigated the factors that motivated Germans to become Nazis before and during the war. While most studies have focused on the high-level figures who were tried at Nuremberg, much less is known about the hundreds of SS members, party...
Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century
A Multidimensional Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Imagine an America where politicians, governmental institutions, schools, new technologies, and interest groups work together to promote informed, engaged citizens. Civic Education in the Twenty-First Century brings together scholars from various disciplines to show how such a United States is possible...
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers....
by Brian R. Calfano, Michele Dillon, Bernadette Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware...
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