INDIE
Released: March 31, 2011
"Lively, informative and thoroughly beguiling."
The English language gets pulled up by its roots for purposes of entertainment, enlightenment and vocabulary building in this sprightly linguistic romp.
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INDIE
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"Scattershot, intermittently engaging profiles of Old Hollywood icons."
This biographical anthology from the New England Vintage Film Society celebrates the lowly thespians whose theater training turned them into Hollywood royalty in the dawning era of sound films.
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INDIE
Released: Sept. 1, 2010
"An information-packed reference for writers and researchers, and an addictive, thought-provoking browse for ordinary mortals."
The lives aren't always notable but the deaths are eminently quotable in this engrossing dictionary of final soliloquies.
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INDIE
Released: July 9, 2010
"A healthy reminder that James Fenimore Cooper's mythicized frontier was seen through the eyes of, and measured against, a smug aristocracy."
Cooper, a librarian, examines the place of the gentry in James Fenimore Cooper's
Littlepage trilogy.
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INDIE
Released: June 15, 2010
"A fine introduction to a well-chosen canon."
The rich pleasures and profound lessons of literature come alive in this stimulating collection of essays on great novels.
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INDIE
Released: April 15, 2010
"An impressive compendium that could nevertheless be formed into a more compelling story."
As a theater for the performing arts faces destruction at the hands of a commercial developer, friends of the theater join forces to preserve it for future generations in this work of historical nonfiction.
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