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Although the town benefits from a position on a major navigable waterway, Middletown's success is primarily due to the energy, creativity, and diversity of its people. These include James Riley, whose autobiography detailing his trials as a white slave in Northern Africa showed millions of Americans the evils of slavery; Max Corvo, who helped the World War II Italian underground defeat the fascist regime; and Christie Ellen McLeod, longtime chief...
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Wicked Middletown: The Wawayanda Ruins takes readers on a thrilling journey through the dreams of Mr. Warren. Resting amidst the enchanting grounds of The Wawayanda ruins, Mr. Warren experiences three extraordinary dreams that reveal the mystical origins of this famed location.
As Mr. Warren delves deep into his past, he uncovers secrets about his own birth and the extraordinary abilities he possessed even before entering this world. Through vivid...
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For 30 years, celebrated sports journalist Bob Hammel has reported on a variety of games and athletes–the Olympics, Pan American Games, 23 NCAA Final Fours, Major League Baseball playoffs and World Series, college football bowl games, Muhammad Ali's last championship victory, and dozens of Indiana high school basketball Final Fours. In all that time, however, he's never written much about himself–until now. In Last Press Bus Out of Middletown,...
24) Middletown
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Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Inspired by the studies of Robert and Helen Lynd in 1929 and 1935, this classic six-part series by Academy Award and Emmy winner Peter Davis explores both the continuity and the change embodied in the people and institutions of one Midwestern community: Muncie, Indiana. Includes a bonus 16-page booklet with new essays be Peter Davis and research consultant, Professor Joseph Trimmer.
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From the fall of 1999 to the spring of 2000, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given unparalleled access to an entire admissions season at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. In that time, he discovered just how difficult it could be to winnow down a list of nearly seven thousand applicants to seven hundred freshmen for the class of 2004. Steinberg follows an admissions officer and his eight counterparts through the daunting...
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Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"As a friendship develops between longtime resident John Dodge and new arrival Mary Swanson, the lives of the inhabitants of Middletown intersect in strange and poignant ways in a journey that takes them from the local library to outer space and points between."--Publisher description.
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A Harvest book volume HB-27
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Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[c1956]
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English
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