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Responding to the Fragrance of Sweet Grass
"The Fragrance of Sweet Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance" by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly exposes many insights about Montgomery's literary works.Most interestingly, Epperly connectshome, self-awareness, and romance.Home is where you discover yourself. Not until this discovery can the heroine go beyond herself to recognize hermale counterpart.The heroine establishes herself so she can find a heroequally self-aware.Epperly makes the point that although Montgomerysubverts convention by having self-aware, independent women not marry untillater in life, they do marry and thus conform to convention.Therefore,Epperly suggests that in the 1990s we may not see Montgomery as a feminist. However, I believe she is wrong.Montgomery is a feminist because herheroines are stongly aware of what they can do.Montgomery gives themchoices of career, family, or both.Epperly gives an excellent analysisof Montgomery's work, although I do not agree with everything she posits. The book is thoughtful and interesting, providing insights for furtherinvestigation. ... Read more

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A biography of the farm boy whose desire to tinker rather than do chores led to the design of the horseless carriage that eventually made him a billionaire. ... Read more

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A biography of the second Secretary-General of the United Nations who died in a plane crash on a peace mission to the Congo in 1961. ... Read more

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From primitive reed whistle to concert flute ,, shepherd's pipe to mammoth cathedral organ .. hunter's bow to Stradivarius violent.. the Story Behind Musical Instruments tells facscinating tales of the men who, through the ages, have developed out of crude, primiitve sound makers the fine, true instruments we have in orchestras and bands today. ... Read more

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A blind child slowly adjusts to life at her new school and dramatically proves the success of that adjustment during a school fire. ... Read more

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The life of the twentieth-century Indian leader who helped gain independence for his country through passive resistance and non-violence. ... Read more