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The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian
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Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World

Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World - Jeanette Winter An interesting perspective on Emily Dickenson's life and poetry. Book starts out with Author's death and then her sister finds her poetry, and lets the poems explain her life.I didn't find the fact that she started with her death offensive. We are studying a lot of history and it's common knowledge to my kids that people who lived at this time are now dead. But it unlocks the story of her life. Sometimes we don't know much about people and what they do until they are gone.