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Our Prince of Scribes
Writers Remember Pat Conroy
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In...
Sounds American
National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Sounds American provides new perspectives on the relationship between nationalism and cultural production by examining how Americans grappled with musical diversity in the early national and antebellum eras.
During this period a resounding call to create a distinctively American music culture...
by Carol Ann Dardley
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Are you a diabetic who is struggling everyday to fight against the temptation of eating those ready-made desserts that are full of high carb sugars, bad fats and way too many carbs? If so, I am delighted to introduce you to this amazing diabetic desserts cookbook, Weight Watchers Diabetes Desserts...
by Carol Ann Balawyder
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Mourning has broken offers a moving and poignant look at grief and loss. Giving herself a year of mourning after her sister's untimely death, the author goes about her life as memories and myriads of emotions assail her. Through it all she explores the meaning of life and the changes of her own...
The Farthing Poet
A Biography of Richard Hengist Horne 1802-84: A Lesser Literary Lion
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
First published in 1968. Richard Hengist Horne, virtually unknown today, was one of the more extraordinary figures of the nineteenth century literary scene. The author of an epic poem Orion was acclaimed a work of genius by almost every English critic. His voluminous literary output is for the most...
by Ann M. Martin, Ann M. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
When Karen is selected as queen of Pizza Express, she begins to get too big for her britches, but her classmates forgive her when she throws them a huge pizza party.
Raoul Walsh
The True Adventures of Hollywood's Legendary Director
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
Raoul Walsh (1887--1980) was known as one of Hollywood's most adventurous, iconoclastic, and creative directors. He carved out an illustrious career and made films that transformed the Hollywood studio yarn into a thrilling art form. Walsh belonged to that early generation of directors -- along with...
A Fine Day for a Hanging
The Real Ruth Ellis Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the last woman to be hanged in Britain, and her execution is the most notorious of hangman Albert Pierrepoint's...
Black Empire
The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914–1962
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2005
In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows...
Adios, America
The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
A National Bestseller!
Ann Coulter is back, more fearless than ever. In Adios, America she touches the third rail in American politics, attacking the immigration issue head-on and flying in the face of La Raza, the Democrats, a media determined to cover up immigrants' crimes, churches that...
by Ann Quin
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
This new collection of rare and unpublished writing by the cult 1960s author Ann Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge. The stories cut an alternative path across innovative twentieth-century writing, bridging the world of Virginia Woolf and Anna Kavan with that of Kathy Acker and Chris Kraus.
by Eric Knight, Ann M. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
Lassie is Joe's prize collie and constant companion. But when Joe's father loses his job, Lassie must be sold. Three times she escapes from her new owner, and three times she returns home to Joe, until finally she is taken to the remotest part of Scotland—too far a journey for any dog to make alone.
But...
The Ziegfeld Follies
A History in Song
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009
The Ziegfeld Follies: A History in Song presents an account of the Follies through the musical productions contained in the show. Accessing primary sources such as magazines and extant programs, Ann Ommen van der Merwe has carefully researched the Follies, reconstructing the songs, dances, and content...
by Ann Druffel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
In 1988 Ann Druffel, who has researched UFOs for 40 years, discovered a little-known fact that had been drowned in abduction hysteria--documented evidence that people have successfully fended off attack by the "greys," the short, big-eyed aliens now familiar through so much popular media....