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Retold and illustrated for children, this is the Old Testament story of Joseph, illustrated by Norm Hamdorf.

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Presents the Old Testament story of Rebecca. This is an illustrated book from the "Young People of the Bible" series that contains Old Testament stories specifically aimed at children.

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Telling the story of Moses, this book is part of a series of Old Testament stories for children.

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Presents an illustrated picture book for young children retelling stories of how Jesus touched the lives of his friends. The other titles by this author include: "The Big Brother: The Story of Joseph", "The Boy Jesus", "Drink of Cold Water: The Story of Rebecca", "The Very Special Present: The Story of Samuel", and others.

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______________________NOW CELEBRATING ITS 75th ANNIVERSARYBetty Smith's debut novel is universally regarded as a modern classic. The sprawling tale of an immigrant family in early 20th-century Brooklyn, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is one of the great distinctively American novels.The Nolan family are first-generation immigrants to the United States. Originating in Ireland and Austria, their life in the Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn is poor and deprived, but their sacrifices make it possible for their children to grow up in a land of boundless opportunity.Francie Nolan is the eldest daughter of the family. Alert, imaginative and resourceful, her journey through the first years of a century of profound change is difficult - and transformative. But amid the poverty and suffering among the poor of Brooklyn, there is hope, and the prospect of a brighter future.

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Telling the story of Samuel, this book is part of a series of Old Testament stories for children.

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In New Deal Modernism Michael Szalay examines the effect that the rise of the welfare state had on American modernism during the 1930s and 1940s, and, conversely, what difference this revised modernism made to the New Deal’s famed invention of “Big Government.” Szalay situates his study within a liberal culture bent on security, a culture galvanized by its imagined need for private and public insurance. Taking up prominent exponents of social and economic security—such as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes, and John Dewey—Szalay demonstrates how the New Deal’s revision of free-market culture required rethinking the political function of aesthetics. Focusing in particular on the modernist fascination with the relation between form and audience, Szalay offers innovative accounts of Busby Berkeley, Jack London, James M. Cain, Robert Frost, Ayn Rand, Betty Smith, and Gertrude Stein, as well as extended analyses of the works of Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and Richard Wright.

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