Gaspard and Lisa's Rainy Day by Anne Gutman, ISBN 0375822526
Gaspard and Lisa, best friends, are stuck inside Lisa's grandmother's house one rainy afternoon with nothing to do. They try to bake a cake, until Grandma sees the mess they've made in the kitchen. Then, they start a game of tennis in the dining room, but Dad doesn't like that idea at all. Turning the bedroom into a haunted house is not a big hit with Mom. Finally, Gaspard and Lisa decide to put a puzzle together. Hopefully, Grandma won't mind if they cut up her rabbit-and-pheasant poster and put it back together again. . . .
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, ISBN 061819424X
In a brilliant rejoinder and an inspired act of literary invention, Alice Randall explodes the world created in Margaret Mitchell"s famous 1936 novel, the work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Imagine simply that the black characters peopling that world were completely different, not egregious, one-dimensional stereotypes but fully alive, complex human beings. And then imagine, quite plausibly, that at the center of this world moves an illegitimate mulatto woman, and that this woman, Cynara, Cinnamon, or Cindy -- beautiful and brown -- gets to tell her story.
Cindy is born into a world in which she is unacknowledged by her plantation-owning father and passed over by her mother in favor of her white charges. Sold off like so much used furniture, she eventually makes her way back to Atlanta to take up with a prominent white businessman, only to leave him for an aspiring politician of her own color. Moving from the Deep South to the exhilarating freedom...
The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall, ISBN 061819424X 
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American Furniture 1994 by Luke Beckerdite, ISBN 0874516811
American Furniture 1994 by Luke Beckerdite, ISBN 0874516811
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Windsor Chairs: An Illustrated Handbook by Wallace Nutting, ISBN 0486417255
Profusely illustrated book--the first guide to understanding and interpreting the uniquely American Windsor--identifies over 100 different types of Windsor chairs and other furniture. Full-page photos of side chairs, armchairs, comb-backs, writing-arm chairs, babies' high-backs and low chairs, settees, love seats, stools, and tables. Accompanying text describes furniture's condition and merit, its rarity, date of manufacture, and ownership. An excellent reference for collectors, dealers, artists, students and designers. A delightful book for browsers.
Windsor Chairs: An Illustrated Handbook by Wallace Nutting, ISBN 0486417255
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