Floyd: 426 books

Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best—seen from the inside and mediated through the heart. Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience...

Six years after her courageous testimony helped put her husband on death row for a string of gruesome murders, Leigh Wren has almost succeeded in putting her past to rest. She has moved from the West Coast to North Carolina with her young son, adopting a new name and a new life. But the world that...

From the notable emergence of orphan figures in late eighteenth-century literature, through early- and middle-period Victorian fiction and, as this book argues, well into the fin de siècle, this potent literary type is remarkable for its consistent recurrence and its metamorphosis as a register of...

When rookie police officer Drew Daniels begins to unravel the situations he encounters, he questions whether or not he can really effect change in his community? While assigned to undercover vice operations, Drew meets a lady of leisure who dramatically changes his life. Following an incident that...

EV3 without limits!   Build 5 amazing robotics projects that take DIY to a whole new level!   You can do way more with your LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit than anyone ever told you! In this full-color, step-by-step tutorial, top-maker and best-selling author John Baichtal shows...

Young Langston Hughes was a dreamer. He dreamed about heroes like Booker T. Washington, who was black just like him. When he heard the clackety-clack of train wheels, he dreamed about the places it had been. But most of all, he dreamed about having a happy home. And so, one day, he began turning those...

“Terse, hard hitting poems that treat the Vietnam War in the style of the Spoon River Anthology: portraits (often posthumous) of 47 marines who served in Vietnam and what the war did to them.” — Los Angeles Herald Examiner

God's Whisper Manifesto describes the 10 principles that make up the ideal community that I'd like to form here on this small farm in the mountains of central Virginia. Here, we will love people first, honor the natural world and our place in it, seek to help those in need, and treasure art. So...

Beyond the Brink is a collection of spiritually based inspirational poetry. It enlightens and gives a hopeful outlook on life. If you are looking for encouragement or insight, read this book, and it will speak to your soul.

Everything would be different after tonight. It's May 16, 1987 and Liberty High School is having its prom.  English has one goal for his high school senior prom -- to have an extremely romantic evening and propose to his girlfriend, Lisa. But English's party animals friends have...

In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English.

This fully updated second edition is a selective annotated bibliography of all relevant published resources relating to church and worship music in the United States. Over the past decade, there has been a growth of literature covering everything from traditional subject matter such as the organ works...

Choral Music: A Research and Information Guide, Third Edition, offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on choral music in the Western tradition. Clearly annotated bibliographic entries guide readers to resources on key topics within choral music, individual choral composers, regional and sacred...

This book contains a study and breakdown of "harmony in 4ths". The introduction of quartal harmony in modern jazz began in the 1960's. Compositions by Miles Davis and John Coltrane such as "Impressions" and "So What" showcased chord voicings derived from quartal harmony....