Christina Kelley: 4 books

Curl up in your favorite chair or sit beside a bon fire with this page turner! In the style of the Masters of the Macabre, Edgar Allen Poe, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King... Christina Kelley presents: A disturbing Tale of Horror and Suspense set in the Hamlet of Pratts Hollow, NY. This...

This classic in the annals of village studies will be widely read and debated for what it reveals about China's rural dynamics as well as the nature of state power, markets, the military, social relations, and religion. Built on extraordinarily intimate and detailed research in a Sichuan village that...

As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...

Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of graphic novels about conflicts such as the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), the Irish struggle for national...