Martha: 1810 books
by Martha Gellhorn
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
An anthology spanning six decades of on-the-scene journalism from “one of the most eloquent witnesses of the twentieth century” (Bill Buford, Granta).
For nearly sixty years, Martha Gellhorn traveled the globe to report on the tumult and extremity of life in the twentieth century. The View...
A Family of Readers
The Book Lover's Guide to Children's and Young Adult Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Two of the most trusted reviewers in the field join with top authors, illustrators, and critics in a definitive guide to choosing books for children—and nurturing their love of reading.
A FAMILY OF READERS is the definitive resource for parents interested in enriching the reading lives of...
Birthright Citizens
A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Before the Civil War, colonization schemes and black laws threatened to deport former slaves born in the United States. Birthright Citizens recovers the story of how African American activists remade national belonging through battles in legislatures, conventions, and courthouses. They faced formidable...
The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)
Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Christmas-Tree Land (Mary Louisa Molesworth) The Little City of Hope...
Dissenting Bodies
Corporealities in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2009
For the Puritan separatists of seventeenth-century New England, "godliness," as manifested by the body, was the sign of election, and the body, with its material demands and metaphorical significance, became the axis upon which all colonial activity and religious meaning turned.
Drawing...
The Knowledge
A Richard Jury Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Knowledge is the 24th book in Martha Grimes’s New York Times bestselling Richard Jury mystery series. We are thrilled to have the chance to publish such a major and beloved voice in the mystery world and have committed to this series with a two-book deal.
Grimes has sold over 10 million...
The Value of Labor
The Science of Commodification in Hungary, 1920-1956
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
At the heart of today’s fierce political anger over income inequality is a feature of capitalism that Karl Marx famously obsessed over: the commodification of labor. Most of us think wage-labor economics is at odds with socialist thinking, but as Martha Lampland explains in this fascinating look...
by Annie Roe Carr, Santa Claus, Alice Duer Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Annie Roe Carr - Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays 02. Alice Duer Miller - The Burglar And The Wizard 03. Berthold Auerbach - Christian Gellert's Last Christmas 04. Bret Harte - How Santa Claus Came to Simpson's Bar 05. Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol 06. L. Frank Baum - A Kidnapped Santa Claus 07....
by Martha J. Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, formerly the editor of "The American Historical Magazine," and one of the best informed historical writers of our times, left a great legacy at her death, especially to the citizens of New York, in her masterful effort "The History of the City of New York."...
by Martha Collins
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2012
White Papers is a series of untitled poems that deal with issues of race from a number of personal, historical, and cultural perspectives. Expanding the territory of her 2006 book Blue Front, which focused on a lynching her father witnessed as a child, this book turns, among other things, to Martha...
Lost and Found in Translation
Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
Starting with Salman Rushdie's assertion that even though something is always lost in translation, something can always be gained, Martha Cutter examines the trope of translation in twenty English-language novels and autobiographies by contemporary ethnic American writers. She argues that these works...
by Martha Serpas
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
"At once a love song and a dirge to a landscape being swallowed by the waters that define it."—St. Petersburg Times
An evocative meditation on destruction and creation, the sacred and ephemeral, along Louisiana's coast. In poems that bear witness to the eroding bayou country and...
by Martha Stone
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
This Southern Pie book Recipe will help you get started in creating those deliciously authentic and world famed Southern Pies. Choose from the wide array of pie ingredients in this cookbook. Start with refrigerated pies and go on to the next level of pie making and that’s pie baking and cobbler...
Glass Grapes
and Other Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Glass Grapes and Other Stories is the first full-length collection of short stories by distinguished poet and fiction writer Martha Ronk. Ronk’s work has garnered critical accolades and numerous awards, including, most recently, a 2005 PEN USA Award in poetry, a 2007 NEA Fellowship, and a 2007 National...