Web Sites:
                              Excite France: a link to anything you want to know about France.
                                                             Encyclopedia Britannica: a helpful link for research.
                                                             The New York Times on the Web: read well written information
                                                                      about what's going on in the world.
 

                              Bartleby: anything you want to know about grammar.
                                                             The Digital Education Network: helpful site about grammar.
                                                             Better English: explanations and exercises about grammar, spelling,
                                                                  pronunciation, and many more. Great for ESL  students!
                                                             Hypergrammar: this is another site that groups everything you need to know
                                                                  about grammar. The site claims that there may be errors, but I believe it is
                                                                  explicitlydescribed.
                                                             A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms: for people interested in rhetorical devices.
                                                                  The site defines devices from alliteration to hyperbole to Zeugma.
                                                 WRLC: Aladin is a great site for doing research.

Books:

                              Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
                                                             Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe: if you want to know more
                                                                   about the author or the novel, go to  A Celebration of Women Writers
                                                             My Antonia by Willa Cather: to know more about her life and work, go to
                                                                 Willa Cather Site
 

                             Anything by Amelie Nothomb: to have a brief survey on who she is and
                                                                   what she wrote, go to  The Complete Review
 
 

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