Janet Floyd: 4 books

Book cover of Claims and Speculations: Mining and Writing in the Gilded Age
by Janet Floyd
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012

Mines have always been hard and dangerous places. They have also been as dependent upon imaginative writing as upon the extraction of precious materials. This study of a broad range of responses to gold and silver mining in the late nineteenth century sets the literary writings of figures such as...
Book cover of The Recipe Reader

The Recipe Reader

Narratives - Contexts - Traditions

by Janet Floyd, Laurel Forster
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Over the last decade there has been an intense and widespread interest in the writing and publishing of cookery books; yet there remains surprisingly little contextualized analysis of the recipe as a generic form. This essay collection asserts that the recipe in all its cultural and textual contexts...
Book cover of Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017
by John McFetridge, Eric Beckstrom, Michael Bracken
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

“[A] rich and varied anthology…” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Janet Hutchings, Chris Grabenstein, Gary Phillips, and Hilary Davidson headline a new world tour anthology of 22 stories from the heartland of America to Italy, Japan, Mexico, Cuba, England, and more. Passport...
Book cover of A Daily Women's Devotional
by Donna Gaines, Charlotte Akin, Donna Avant
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014

As pastors’ wives, the authors of this devotional personally have experienced or witnessed the issues with which women struggle: identity, marriage, children, work. Reading this devotional is like having a conversation with a trusted friend who knows what you are going through. Over 52 weeks, these...
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