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Ausonius provides translations of the key works of Ausonius, an important later Latin poet whose poems detail the social and cultural life of Gaul and its environment. His often difficult and playful Latin is presented in English by the award winning poet Deborah Warren, enabling a new generation of students to use and understand the poems. With notes and commentary throughout, this volume will be important not only as an example of later Latin poetry but also as a window onto the Later Roman Empire and the beginnings of early Christian writing.

Mary Draper Ingles lived in Virginia in the mid-1700's when relations between settlers and Native Americans were strained. Shawnee warriors attacked Mary's home and took her captive. The warriors hauled their prisoners and plunder on horseback to a Shawnee village, hundreds of miles away. While traveling with the warriors, Mary noted that they always followed the rivers. While in captivity, Mary worked hard and gained the respect of her captors, but when an opportunity arose, Mary escaped. Following the same rivers that had brought her to the Shawnee village, Mary traveled 850 miles on foot for 42 days through forests and wilderness to find her way back home. Listen to the River recounts Mary's story of courage, strength and determination in a simple, child-friendly manner.

Ausonius provides translations of the key works of Ausonius, an important later Latin poet whose poems detail the social and cultural life of Gaul and its environment. His often difficult and playful Latin is presented in English by the award winning poet Deborah Warren, enabling a new generation of students to use and understand the poems. With notes and commentary throughout, this volume will be important not only as an example of later Latin poetry but also as a window onto the Later Roman Empire and the beginnings of early Christian writing.

Did you know Thomas Edison proposed to his wife in Morse code? Or that the CIA considered covering Castro’s shoes in thallium to get rid of his iconic beard? The strange facts and foibles of history’s famous figures are divulged in Famous Freaks. The book is a fun, bite sized compendium of the weird and unbelievable. Big names—small disclosures. Important historical data—little to none. This book can be picked up and read anywhere, from any starting point. Skim a section or just peruse a page, but you may find yourself hooked after reading a few of the hilariously strange entries inside. Deborah Warren, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Paris Review, deals out the strange facts of history’s famous with a poetic style and a sense of humour. The collected details, those which history might rather have forgotten, are given their place in the spotlight. Start from the front, but if it’s not your thing, flip around the pages. There are plenty of Famous Freaks inside.

" Warren's] curiosity and embrace of the unpredictable, as well as her delight in both the archaic and the homespun, animate Strange to Say, a tour of English that savors the language's mutability."―Wall Street Journal "A great read for those who appreciate seeing the whimsy in words, as Warren remarkably achieves etymological entertainment."―Booklist"You can't stop language, because when all's said and done is never." In her witty account of the origins of many English words and expressions, Deborah Warren educates as she entertains―and entertain she does, leading her readers through the amazing labyrinthian history of related words. "Language," she writes, "is all about mutation." Read here about the first meanings of common words and phrases, including dessert, vodka, lunatic, tulip, dollar, bikini, peeping tom, peter out, and devil's advocate. A former Latin teacher, Warren is a gifted poet and a writer of great playfulness. Strange to Say is a cornucopia of joyful learning and laughter. Did you know... Lord Cardigan was a British aristocrat and military man known for the sweater jackets he sported. A lying lawyer might pull the wool over a judge's eyes--yank his wig down across his face. In the original tale of Cinderella, her slippers were made of vair ("fur")--which in the orally-told story mistakenly turned into the homonym verre ("glass"). Like laundry, lavender evolved from Italian lavanderia, "things to be washed." The plant was used as a clothes freshener. It smells better than, say, the misspelled Downy Unstopable with the ad that touts its "feisty freshness," unaware that feisty evolved from Middle English fisten--fart.

Travel through the endless lore of roads, turnpikes, highways, and whatever byways humans have put on Earth in these short, funny, and interconnected essays. Deborah Warren is a sure and entertaining guide to nearly every road-related topic out there--from odonymy (the study of street names) to map-making techniques to the history of the world's most celebrated lanes.Did you know...The word "travel" derives from Latin tripaliare: "to trouble" (literally "impale with three stakes; torture").The length of the parasang, used in Arabia and Persia, was a day's walk: hence its distance was a function of climate and terrain--i.e, longer under smooth conditions.Realtor.com reports that streets with female names are higher-value than ones with male names.Street names in the US include Bucket of Blood Street (Holbrook, AZ), Divorce Court (Heather Highlands, PA), Haviture Way (Eugene, OR), Weiner Cutoff Road (Mallard Landing, AR), and Justin Bieber Way (Forney, TX).Japan does not name its actual streets. You typically get directions and addresses from landmarks or traffic signals, which do have names.In California it is illegal for a woman to drive wearing a bathrobe. San Francisco forbids polishing your car with your underwear.Skippers Canyon Road in New Zealand is considered so dangerous that your rental car insurance won't be honored if you drive on it.Read Street Smarts, and laugh as you turn the pages