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Tigers & teas with Toppy

a true adventure in New York City with wildlife artist, Charles R. Knight, who loved saber-tooth cats, parties at the Plaza, and people and animals of all stripes
2018
Young Rhoda enjoys visiting the American Museum of Natural History, Central Park Zoo, and other places with her beloved grandfather, the famous wildlife artist, Charles R. Knight.

Hitler, my neighbor

memories of a Jewish childhood, 1929-1939
The author writes of his Jewish childhood growing up in Munich in the 1930s, where Adolf Hitler was his neighbor. Describes the Nazi rise to power, and how his life became a nightmare as his family struggled to survive.
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Mount Vernon revisited

2014
Archival photographs and text describe the history, buildings, social life and customs of MountVernon, Virginia.
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Walden

and Civil disobedience
2018
Presents two texts by American writer Henry David Thoreau: "Walden," in which he offers his philosophy of life and observations of nature gleaned from a year of solitary living in a cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts, and "Civil Disobedience," a treatise on nonviolent resistance and protest.
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The elephant whisperer

my life with the herd in the African wild
2017
The author provides an account of his experiences after he agreed to take a herd of "rogue" wild animals into his game reserve in South Africa that were otherwise going to be exterminated.
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I love you, Miss Huddleston, and other inappropriate longings of my Indiana childhood

2009
Philip Gulley reminisces about his childhood in Danville, Indiana, discussing his family, friends, concerns, school, and the citizens of the small town.

Walden

On the duty of civil disobedience
2014
Thoreau stresses the importance of a quiet reflective life and the rewards of a non-materialistic existence in "Walden" and discusses his belief in nonviolent protests against an unjust government in "On the duty of civil disobedience".

The real Wizard of Oz

the life and times of L. Frank Baum
2010
Explores the life of author L. Frank Baum, the world in which he lived, and the story behind his classic novel of Dorothy and the land of Oz.

Robert Capa

the Paris years 1933-1954
2012
Looks at the life and career of celebrated twentieth-century photojournalist Robert Capa, with a focus on his Paris studio which he used as a global platform for his photography.

Sustainable compromises

a yurt, a straw bale house, and ecological living
The author describes how he first lived in a yurt in the New Mexico desert as a young man, and years later how he and his wife built an off-the-grid, energy-efficient, straw bale house in Vermont.

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