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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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It’s been more than two decades since Spartina won the National Book Award and was acclaimed by critics as being “possibly the best American novel . . . since The Old Man and the Sea” (The New York Times Book Review), but in this extraordinary follow-up novel barely any time has passed in the magical landscape of salt ponds and marshes in John Casey’s fictional Rhode Island estuary.
Elsie Buttrick, prodigal...
Elsie Buttrick, prodigal...
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Series
Jeremy Logan novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Enigmalogist Jeremy Logan who specializes in investigating inexplicable phenomena probes strange happenings at the Newport, RI, mansion that houses the Symposikon think tank.
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English
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All for the Union is the eloquent and moving diary of Elisha Hunt Rhodes, featured throughout Ken Burns' PBS documentary The Civil War. Rhodes enlisted into the Union Army as a private in 1861 and left it four years later as a twenty-three-year-old colonel after fighting hard and honorably in battles from Bull Run to Appomattox. Anyone who heard these diaries excerpted in The Civil War will recognize his accounts of...
6) Spartina
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries
Pub. Date
1998, ©1989
Language
English
Description
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against st the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his backyard....
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Series
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents the history, geography, climate, plants and animals, cities, transportation, natural resources, industry, sports, entertainment, and people of Rhode Island, as well as general facts about the state.
11) Rhode Island
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Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Rhode Island. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
13) Being thunder
Publisher
Film Movement
Language
English
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"Sherente, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual pow wows in New England. There is no formal rule which prohibits Two Spirit Genderqueer people from performing in a category different from their birth gender. Wearing female fancy shawl regalia, Sherente dances with joy and beauty. Behind the scenes tribal leaders manipulate Sherente's scores or disqualify them...
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English
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Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an über-famous thriller writer, Anthony's debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony's borrowing an old college friend's crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to be. Joy Sousa owns and runs Block Island's beloved whoopie...
20) Rhode Island
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Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
Surveys the history, geography, government, economy, and people of Rhode Island.
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