He added that he was planning to move back to his native Italy and write a book about his son.

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The Louisville native first attracted public attention in 1908 for his book The American College, which condemned higher education for its reliance on lectures versus small classes and hands-on teaching.

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This June saw the opening of a second cookery school on the island, The Firehouse, which specialises in bread making and was set up by Heir Island native, Patrick Ryan, co-author of the book Bread Revolution.

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The plates contained the Book of Mormon, the secret history of a native people of America, who turned out to be lost tribes of Israel.

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Hebrew lettering was stenciled on the butcher shop window and engraved on the lintels of the small neighborhood synagogues, but nowhere else (other than at the cemetery) did one's eye chance to land on the alphabet of the prayer book rather than on the familiar letters of the native tongue employed all the time by practically everyone for every conceivable purpose, high or low.

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Last year, Lewis Carroll's classic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was translated into Jersey's native language.

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Her new book Jasmine and Fire details the Lebanese delicacies she discovered on her return to her native Beirut.

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Mealer, a native of San Antonio, Texas, said he lived with Kamkwamba in his village for months to write the book.

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