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CLXV11 Where are the songs of Spring?

11 years ago

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Greengage Summer - Rumer Godden

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Suddenly, Last Summer - Tennessee Williams

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dido1
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11 years ago
Crow - Ted Hughes
carolyn_ky
11 years ago
A Murder of Crows, Jan Dunlap
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leel
11 years ago
The Italian Boy : Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s London --Sarah Wise

(You're up, Veer)
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11 years ago
Burke and Hare the Body Snatchers - John Townsend

leel The Italian Boy is a fascinating and gruesome account of body-selling to hospitals.
leel
11 years ago
Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers-- Mary Roach

(to continue on this morbid theme)

Body snatching became so prevalent in London, it had a name: Burking after the Burke of the previous title.
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Gatherings From Graveyards With a Concise History of Modes of Internment - G A Walker
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Elegy in a Country Churchyard - Thomas Grey
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Le Morte D'Arthur - Sir Thomas Malory
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The Upper Fourth at Malory Towers - Enid Blyton
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(I bet the school-girl 'thrills' of 1937 would have been very modest when compared to those of a modern 14 year old)
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Upstairs and Downstairs - John Hawkesworth
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Up the Down Staircase, Bel Kaufman
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Watership Down....Richard Adams
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Like Water for Chocolate --Laura Esquivel
dido1
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Waterland - Graham Swift
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The Waste Land - T S Eliot
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The Good Earth - Pearl S. Buck
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The Onion Fields....Joseph Wambaugh
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The Bean Trees...Barbara Kingsolver
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn --Betty Smith
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Hearts of Oak; A Sea Shanty - Gordon Hitchcock
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson Macullers
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Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
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Mollie Katzen's sunlight cafe --Mollie Katzen
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