Plank: 26 books

A nonfiction investigation into masculinity, For The Love of Men provides actionable steps for how to be a man in the modern world, while also exploring how being a man in the world has evolved. In 2019, traditional masculinity is both rewarded and sanctioned. Men grow up being told that boys...

The abolitionist John Woolman (1720-72) has been described as a "Quaker saint," an isolated mystic, singular even among a singular people. But as historian Geoffrey Plank recounts, this tailor, hog producer, shopkeeper, schoolteacher, and prominent Quaker minister was very much enmeshed...

A shy, young Manhattan attorney from a small-town, working-class background struggles with Globus Hystericus, the sensation of a ball in the throat, which makes it hard for her to eat, speak, and eventually breathe. This multiple-award-winning novel, at times darkly comical, centers on class privilege, gender equity, and the distance that can separate fathers and daughters.

The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies...

In the summer of 1745, Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of England's King James II, landed on the western coast of Scotland intending to overthrow George II and restore the Stuart family to the throne. He gathered thousands of supporters, and the insurrection he led—the Jacobite Rising of 1745—was...

View the culture of childhood through a whole new lens. Identify age-based bias and expand your outlook on and understanding of early childhood as a culture. Examine various elements of childhood culture: language, belief economics, arts, and social structure to understand children's dispositions...

The Opal glowed brightly: Red and Orange colours flowed across it like the hot embers in a fire.Soon the Opal would control all who owned it and evil would flow through their veins like molten lava.Lili and her Samurai Sword will have to fight many desperate battles to overcome the evil Drago, King...

their sun was dying. they had to move their whole race, or perish. they devised a fifty thousand year plan to move thirty billion people fromtheir dying system to another many light years away. this plan would end with the greatestmigration ever attempted, and would take centuries to achieve. their...

Rory’s once promising ballet career was destroyed by family tragedy and illness. She turned her life around and became a lawyer. Now at the start of her legal career, she lacks passion in her work and self-confidence in her abilities. But when she meets gorgeous, mysterious Russian ballroom dancer,...

This reference seeks to identify and briefly annotate a wide range of subjects relating to English musical culture, largely from the early 15th century through 1958, dates that reflect the coalescence of an identifiable English style in the early Renaissance and the death of the iconic Ralph Vaughan...

Mark Knudsen is an adventurer who built an eighteen-foot flat-bottom johnboat and motored down the Mississippi River from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico and lived the dream of many people.

William Warren, a famous novelist from New York City, struggles to complete his latest masterpiece when the nightmares he draws inspiration from cease. His young apprentice, who dreams to become a famous author, searches for a way to unlock the nightmares. The nightmares start to become Williams reality when he discovers the monsters are right in front of him..

Rory’s ballet career was destroyed by family tragedy and illness. Now, at the start of her law career, she finds herself unfulfilled and uncomfortable in her skin. But when she meets tantalizing, mysterious Russian ballroom dancer, Sasha, her passions for life and dance are immediately rekindled....

Sasha and Rory are working superbly well together, their fiery passions for each other blazing both on and off the dance floor as they compete at Blackpool, the world’s most prestigious ballroom championship. But Rory suspects Sasha’s jealous former partner and his student are conspiring to sabotage...