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By Elizabeth Keckley. Born into slavery in February , Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley was the daughter of her owner, Armistead Burwell, and his house slave, Agnes. Elizabeth Keckley began working as a nursemaid when she was four years old, and endured years of beatings and rape, the latter of which resulted in a pregnancy.

However, one part of her childhood would eventually save her: from her mother, Elizabeth Keckley had learned how to sew. Read the excerpt here. By Anita Shreve. Have you ever wondered what became of your first love? The story focuses on Siân Richards and Charles Callahan, who fell hard for one another when they met at summer camp at the tender age of Though the couple went their separate ways at the end of the summer, the intensity of their first love remained unmatched.

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How useful do you think Google Books is? We have seen how you can make use of limited previews in a previous post on 10 Ways to Use Google Books for Lifelong Learning and Research.

Any self-respecting online book site should have that feature. We also need to know if the content really matches the hype surrounding the book. Here are five websites that let you read sample chapters and excerpts online. Google Books like the other services from Google is almost in your face.

So, why not use it its preview limited or full feature to the hilt. Google Books has a great full-text book search and its Library Project where it partners with some of the best libraries in the world will make book search only better.

There are nearly 20, publishers and authors under the umbrella of Google Books and most titles give you a handful of pages to check out before you decide to buy the book or save it for a better one.

Not all books will give you a preview, but the ones that do are worth a turn of the page. The other great name when it comes to books and sundry other items. Amazon has turned an upward curve with Kindle and eBooks. The tool allows you to search and browse millions of books across Amazon.

You can set up a search based on every word and key phrase inside a book, not just for the book title or the author. As the screenshot shows, there are many ways to look into the content of a book. Then you can dive into Amazon Reader, and preview publisher-provided sample pages, go to linked book sections, or look for all references to a term or phrase.

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