William Saunders: 10 books

(from the poem The Summer Fires) What will they remember when they wake Those children who built this for a thrill? sprawled around it one warm night, spread dusty laughter on the sun hardened hill then rolled away at the first hint of light, left the sun to blind and kill all threat and fear of discovery, left the ashes for the wind to rake, and let the memory slip beyond recovery.

Ten year old Brian Thompson has been forced to stay at his Uncle’s house with his mother and little sister. Cut off, deep in the countryside, the three of them live a miserable existence under the hostile eye of Mrs Vixen the housekeeper, while Uncle Julian remains aloof in his laboratory. Strange...

Take a virtual tour of London through the pages of the suspense novel TheThursdays And The Rain. Visit leafy Twickenham, smoky Battersea, the kooky shops of Covent Garden, the glass towers of the City's financial centre,and the ancient legal precincts of The Temple. A cabal of high society...

Describing how the city of London helped transform a little-known musician named Jimmy James into rock legend Jimi Hendrix, this revealing volume details how Hendrix helped transform London into a dynamo of popular music and social rebellion. The book examines Hendrix's impact on London's leading musicians-including...

Celebrating a Merry Catholic Christmas is a treasure, one that offers its riches year after year. It is a valuable resource for understanding and celebrating Advent and Christmas as a Catholic. But, more than providing the historical roots of traditions, such as the Advent wreath and Christmas tree,...

Have you ever been stuck in traffic—not just in a literal sense, but in a metaphorical sense as well? In Are You Stuck in Traffic? Dr. William Saunders shares his own experience with the “traffic jams” of life, as well as his strategies for getting out of several kinds of traffic jams that can...

The 18th-century South was a true melting pot, bringing together colonists from England, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and other locations, in addition to African slaves—all of whom shared in the experiences of adapting to a new environment and interacting with American Indians. The shared...

Compositional Choices and Meaning in the Vocal Music of J. S. Bach collects seventeen essays by leading Bach scholars. The authors each address in some way such questions of meaning in J. S. Bach’s vocal compositions—including his Passions, Masses, Magnificat, and cantatas—with particular attention...

A timely update on the state of bioarchaeological research, offering contributions to the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the southeastern United States.   Building on the 1991 publication What Mean These Bones? Studies in Southeastern Bioarchaeology, this new edited collection from Shannon...

The Roads to Congress 2008 offers readers straightfoward and detailed case studies of the campaigns, candidates, key issues, and outcomes of over one dozen of the most important and interesting races of 2008. This includes both House and Senate campaigns, contests from all regions of the country,...