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The Ghosts of Thua Thien
An American Soldier's Memoir of Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Drafted in October 1968, John A. Nesser left behind his wife and young son to fight in the controversial Vietnam War. Like many in his generation, he was deeply at odds with himself over the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, instilled with a strong sense of duty to his country but uncertain about its mission...
James Lee Burke
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
James Lee Burke is an acclaimed writer of crime novels in which protagonists battle low-life thugs who commit violent crimes and corporate executives who exploit the powerless. He is best known for his Dave Robicheaux series, set in New Orleans and the surrounding bayou country. With characters inspired...
Amy Tan
A Literary Companion
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2015
In the mid–1980s, Amy Tan was a successful but unhappy corporate speechwriter. By the end of the decade, she was perched firmly atop the best-seller lists with The Joy Luck Club, with more popular novels to follow. Tan’s work—once pigeonholed as ethnic literature—resonates with universal themes...
by William Shakespeare, Chase Pielak
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
What if one of literature’s greatest poets was actually a zombie, writing in an Elizabethan world teeming with the undead hiding in plain sight? Inviting readers to see the sublime in the looming apocalypse, this book presents all 154 Shakespearean sonnets (with minor alterations transfigured into...
The Strange Case of "The Angels of Mons"
Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914. On September 29, 1914, the Anglo-Welsh writer Arthur Machen fictionalized this encounter in a newspaper story, claiming that the English were saved by the appearance of angelic...
Eyes on Havana
Memoir of an American Spy Betrayed by the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2018
An Iowa boy away at college, Verne Lyon was recruited by the CIA to spy on college professors and fellow students as part of Operation CHAOS, a massive surveillance program at the height of the Vietnam War. Framed by his handlers for an airport bombing, he was later sent to Cuba to subvert the Castro...
Godly Heretics
Essays on Alternative Christianity in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
When computers freeze, they are “rebooted” and soon working properly again. Similarly, legendary thinkers throughout history have argued that Christianity should start fresh by recapturing the humanitarian spirit of Jesus’ original message. These include such disparate individuals as Thomas...
Bullying in Popular Culture
Essays on Film, Television and Novels
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Public awareness of bullying has increased tremendously in recent years, largely through its representation in film, television and novels. In popular media targeted towards young readers and viewers, depictions of bullying can present teachable moments and relatable situations. Written from a variety...
Americans at War in Foreign Forces
A History, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The role of Americans in the two world wars is well known, but with a glaring exception—one that reveals a little-known aspect of the common history of the United States and Canada. By the time of the American entrance into World War I in April 1917 and World War II in December 1941, tens of thousands...
The Five Sedgwicks
Pioneer Entertainers of Vaudeville, Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Individually and together, The Five Sedgwicks are among the unsung heroes of early filmmaking in Hollywood. Their work took them from vaudeville to silent film, through the studio era and into the Golden Age of television. By the late 1920s the Sedgwick siblings were well-known motion picture personalities:...
My Most-Wanted Marijuana Mom
Growing Up in a Smuggling Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
“You are about to enter a world of drug smuggling, drug greed, and drug murder.” With those words, the West Palm Beach assistant DA began the 1986 murder trial of Judy “Haas” McNelis. The only woman on the U.S. Federal Marshal’s 15 Most-Wanted List, she gained infamy as head of the “Haas...
The Cinema of Hockey
Four Decades of the Game on Screen
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Ice hockey has featured in North American films since the early days. Hockey’s sizable cinematic repertoire explores different views of the sport, including the role of aggression, the business of sports, race and gender, and the role of women in the game. This critical study focuses on hockey themes...
Early Professional Baseball and the Sporting Press
Shaping the Image of the Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
The book analyzes the process by which the collective image of professional baseball was formed. It traces both the negation and the affirmation of ideas in the sports press that would impede or promote the growth of baseball from a recreational pastime to a team sport spectacle in the mid–19th...
Rice Paddy Recon
A Marine Officer's Second Tour in Vietnam, 1968-1970
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
A young U.S. Marine officer recounts his experiences of the Vietnam War over a nineteen month period. He graphically describes what it was like to perform three distinct combat missions: long-range ground reconnaissance in the Annamite Mountains of I Corps, infantry operations in the rice paddies...