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Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History
An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Judge Thomas Ruffin and the Shadows of Southern History
by Sally Greene
North Carolina's State Capitol still houses a statue to one of southern history's most notorious pro-slave-owner judges. Why?
"Ruffin was ideologically sympathetic to the Confederate cause and remained so to...
American Massacre
The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September 1857
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In September 1857, a wagon train passing through Utah laden with gold was attacked. Approximately 140 people were slaughtered; only 17 children under the age of eight were spared. This incident in an open field called Mountain Meadows has ever since been the focus of passionate debate: Is it possible...
Dashiell Hammett
Man of Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Dashiell Hammett changed the face of crime fiction. In five novels published over five years as well as a string of stories, he transformed the mystery genre into literature and left us with the figure of the hard-boiled detective, from the Continental Op to Sam Spade—immortalized on film by Humphrey...
by Prof. Lawrence Manley, Prof. Sally-Beth MacLean
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In this major contribution to theater history and cultural studies, authors Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean paint a lively portrait of Lord Strange’s Men, a daring company of players that dominated the London stage for a brief period in the late Elizabethan era. During their short theatrical...
Another Side of Paradise
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
In 1937 Hollywood, gossip columnist Sheilah Graham’s star is on the rise, while literary wonder boy F. Scott Fitzgerald’s career is slowly drowning in booze. But the once-famous author, desperate to make money penning scripts for the silver screen, is charismatic enough to attract the gorgeous...
A Balcony in Nepal
Glimpses of a Himalayan Village
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2002
After trekking in Nepal, Sally Wendkos Olds and Margaret Roche both fell in love with this mountainous Himalayan country and her people. They returned four times between 1993 and 1998 and spent time in Bedel, a remote hill village without electricity, telephone or roads. They helped establish a library...
Ledgers of History
William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Emory University professor Sally Wolff has carried on a fifty-year tradition of leading students on expeditions to "Faulkner country" in and around Oxford, Mississippi. Not long ago, she decided to invite alumni on one of these field trips. One response to the invitation surprised her: "I...
by Sally Rooney
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 25, 2017
'Gesprekken met vrienden' van Sally Rooney is een moderne roman over de lusten en lasten van de jeugd. Rooney schrijft in een heldere stijl en met onderkoelde humor. 'Gesprekken met vrienden' is Rooneys debuutroman, die door 'The Guardian' als een van de belangrijkste debuten van 2017 is uitgeroepen....
by Sally MacKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A Duke In Disguise. . .
The day was as hot as the pond was inviting. It's not as if anyone in Little Huffington was going to happen upon a secluded vale on the Duke of Greycliffe's lands. And Venus Collingswood didn't want to get her shift all wet. It was the perfect setting in which to plan...
Grief and Meter
Elegies for Poets after Auden
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
The elegizing of poets is one of the oldest and most enduring traditions in English poetry. Many of the most influential and best-known poems in the language—such as Milton’s "Lycidas," Shelley’s "Adonais," and Auden’s "In Memory of W. B. Yeats"—are elegies...
by Sally Gould
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
In Nothing to Fear and Outback Hero, Max is on a family holiday in outback Australia.
Three times Max faces death.
Three times, Charlie, Max’s older brother, saves him. Charlie is a hero.
Max desperately wants to be one too.
But you can’t plan to be the hero.
Around Bradford
Volume II
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1998
Around Bradford Volume II further looks at the history of the area as it has not been seen before. Once one of the largest cities in Pennsylvania, Bradford relied heavily on oil production in the 1880s for its success. Author Sally Ryan Costik allows us to glimpse into the �Age of Innocence� at...
Common Threads
A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
A well-illustrated cultural history of the apparel worn by American Catholics, Sally Dwyer-McNulty's Common Threads reveals the transnational origins and homegrown significance of clothing in developing identity, unity, and a sense of respectability for a major religious group that had long struggled...
by Sally Wriggins
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2008
The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this intrepid pilgrim traveled 10,000...