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The Odyssey of Valdemar Albrechtsen
The son of two immigrants from Denmark becomes a professor of English at the Idaho Technical Institute Walter Albrethsen was stout, of...
Maura Jean
Feb 1, 20184 min read
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Magic Lanterns and The Paris Exposition of 1867
There are so many gems in this book that it's difficult to know where to start. The book contains within it evidence of major events and...
Maura Jean
Jan 30, 20187 min read
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An Eastern European in 1918 Cleveland
Two books that belonged to the same woman, living feet apart on a shelf In a bookstore in Bend, while browsing through the oldest books...
Maura Jean
Jan 24, 20186 min read
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The Man Who Started A Town
Years ago, on Charing Cross Road, I picked up a copy of My Lady Nicotine, an ode to tobacco by J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan. ...
Maura Jean
Jan 22, 20186 min read
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But It Will Always Be Lovely
A note written by a ghost named Emma while she was tripping on LSD, found in the pages of Suite Francaise in Baños, Ecuador written by a...
Maura Jean
Jan 18, 20182 min read
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The Opportunity to See an Opera at the Met
Discovered on the shelves of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, there lurked a gift. Inside Falstaff was a beautiful inscription to...
Maura Jean
Dec 28, 20172 min read
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