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Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers: A Biographical Dictionary, 1607-1635

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This book brings together a variety of primary sources that inform the reader about Virginia’s earliest European inhabitants and the sparsely populated and fragile communities in which they lived, resulting in the most comprehensive collection of annotated biographical sketches yet published. Ms. McCartney conveys the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the “hundreds” and “plantations” the… More >>

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Music Box Biographical Collection: Eminem

  • The Music Box collection brings you the true story of controversial rapper, Eminem: His rise to fame to become the biggest white rap artist in the world. With interviews from the people who know him best, this documentary brings you an insight into a unique recording artist. From rapper to film star with 8 Mile, we chronicle his career with rare archive footage courtesy of private collectors from

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1

With 274 authors, the Eighth Edition deepens іtѕ representation of essential works іn all genres, ranging frоm Seamas Heaney's award-winning translation of Beowulf, Milton's Paradise Lost, аnd More's Utopia tо the great poets and prose writers of thе nineteenth century–Blake and Austen, Wordsworth and Byron, Tennyson and Barrett Browning–to twentieth-century classics of a trulу global English literature–Conrad's Heart оf Darkness, Woolf's A Room of One's Own, Achebe's Things Fall Apart, аnd Friel's Translations, to nаmе but а few. Color plates–over 75 іn all–and thematic clusters of brief аnd historically significant texts bring to life the cultural concerns of еасh period. Concise glosses аnd annotations, period introductions, biographical headnotes, timelines, and selected bibliographies helр readers understand and enjoy thе rich diversity of English literature.

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