Elizabeth: 10009 books
Christmas After Dark - 36 Holiday Ghost Stories & Supernatural Thrillers
Between the Lights, Told After Supper, The Box with the Iron Clamps , Wolverden Tower The Ghost's Touch, The Christmas Banquet, The Dead Sexton and much more
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017
Who would ever say no to the master story tellers when they have to offer their darkest tingling Christmas mysteries and horror tales as a holiday present: The Silver Hatchet (Arthur Conan Doyle) What the Shepherd Saw: A Tale of Four Moonlight Nights (Thomas Hardy) Markheim (Robert Louis Stevenson)...
by Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2018
The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The...
Making Whiteness
The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
Making Whiteness is a profoundly important work that explains how and why whiteness came to be such a crucial, embattled--and distorting--component of twentieth-century American identity. In intricately textured detail and with passionately mastered analysis, Grace Elizabeth Hale shows how, when faced...
by Elizabeth D. Leonard, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2010
The story of the black soldiers who helped save the Union, conquer the West, and build the nation.
In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. Once a black man became a soldier, Douglass...
Damned Women
Sinners and Witches in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 1999
In her analysis of the cultural construction of gender in early America, Elizabeth Reis explores the intersection of Puritan theology, Puritan evaluations of womanhood, and the Salem witchcraft episodes. She finds in those intersections the basis for understanding why women were accused of witchcraft...
by Elizabeth Bear
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.
Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law...usually....
She Wolves
The Notorious Queens of Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
A history of the "bad girls" of England’s medieval royal dynasties, this book covers the queens who earned themselves the reputation of being somehow notorious. Some of them are well known and have been the subject of biographies—Eleanor of Aquitaine, Emma of Normandy, Isabella of France,...
The Philadelphia Country House
Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century,...
by Elizabeth Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
From USA Today bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes a gripping, never-before-told, medieval battle of the sexes
Matilda, daughter of Henry I, knows that there are those who will not accept her as England's queen when her father dies. But the men who support her rival, and cousin, Stephen...
The Long List Anthology Volume 2
More Stories From the Hugo Award Nomination List
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the...
by Anthea Sharp, Julia Crane, Jenna Elizabeth Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
*All new, exclusive stories!* Six brand new tales of adventure, love, and treacherous fey magic from six award-winning, bestselling authors. Enter these fantastical realms where dark powers lurk and the ordinay world can be transformed in a heartbeat to a place of wonder—and danger. From the hidden...
Six Encounters with Lincoln
A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln Award from The Civil War Round Table of New York
“Fascinating reading. . .this book eerily reflects some of today’s key issues.” – The New York Times Book Review**
From an award-winning historian, an engrossing look at how Abraham Lincoln grappled...
Virginia Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Virginia Women is the first of two volumes exploring the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. This collection of seventeen essays, written by established and emerging scholars, recovers the stories and voices of a diverse group of women, from the seventeenth...
by Elizabeth Bear, Aliette de Bodard
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
CONFLICT IS ETERNAL
We have always fought. War is the furnace that forges new technologies and pushes humanity ever onward. We are the children of a battle that began with fists and sticks, and ended on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Beyond here lies another war, infinite in scope and scale.
But...