| Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History Publication Date: December 16, 2005In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship’s owners to file an insurance claim for their lost “cargo.” Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of...
| | Gritos: Essays Publication Date: April 30, 2004When he first started writing, Dagoberto Gilb was struggling to survive as a journeyman high-rise carpenter. Years later, he has won widespread acclaim as a crucial and compelling voice in contemporary American letters. Tackling everything from cockfighting to Cormac McCarthy, Gritos collects Gilb's essays and his popular commentaries for NPR's Fresh Air, offering a startling portrait of an artist-and a Mexican-American- working to find his place in both the cloistered literary world and the world at large, to say nothing of his strange and beloved borderland ...
| | Inner Harbor(The Chesapeake Bay Saga, Book 3) Release Date: January 1, 1999#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts presents the final novel in the captivating trilogy of three brothers who have come together in a time of need. They honored their father's wish to raise young Seth as their own. And with all of the brothers home again, the Quinn family has never been so strong. But in the months to come, their strength is tested—once again...Phillip Quinn had done everything to make his life seem perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbor, his life on the street was firmly in the p...
| | American Apocalypse Wastelands Publication Date: August 9, 2011AS MILLIONS STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE IN THE WASTELAND THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME, A YOUNG MAN FIGHTS TO MAINTAIN ITS FOUNDING PROMISE.Starvation, violence and death run rampant in the remains of our once-proud country. Federal troops, commissioned to protect the homeland, have turned their guns on the lawless population. Citizens find shelter in government safe zones while ruthless gangs enforce their will outside the camps.When the military transforms Washington's life-saving food bank into a gun collection center in order to disarm all but the soldiers themselves, r...
| | A Clear Calling Release Date: January 15, 2004From the age of 12, Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. And a sailor he became, as much at home on the sea as other men were on land—until 1949, when Radnor's intuition about the sea suddenly deserted him, and he found himself alone with his fear. ...
| | The Woman's Tale: A Journal of Inner Exploration ...
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| | War Poems from Iraq ...
| | Caribbean Roots: Black British and Caribbean Poets Read Their Own Work (Poetry) Publication Date: March 1, 2012| Series: Poetry Caribbean Rootsbrings together recordings of ten Black British and Caribbean poets.The selections represent a range of experiences, emotions, styles, andinfluences, and they reflect both the culture of the Caribbean and lifein Britain. The featured poets include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jean‘Binta’ Breeze, David Dabydeen, James Berry, John Agard, Amryl Johnson,E. A. Markham, Michael Smith, and Benjamin Zephaniah, all reading theirown work in a mixture of studio recordings and electrifying liveperformances. This two-disc set will be ess...
| | Breath: Poems and Letters (Wesleyan Poetry Series) Publication Date: October 1, 2002| Series: Wesleyan Poetry Series At the start of a promising career, Antonia Pozzi (1912-1938) committed suicide, leaving behind several hundred poems known only to her closest friends. The posthumous publication of this work led Eugenio Montale to praise Pozzi's "desire to reduce the weight of words to the minimum." Her Modernist verse is lyrical and experimental, pastoral and erotic, powerfully evoking the northern Italian landscape and her personal tragedies amid the repressive climate of Fascism. Breath contains a representative selection of Pozzi's poems...
| | Le Vers lui-meme: Probleme de la langue du vers (10/18 [i.e. Dix/dix-huit] ; 1115) (French Edition) ...
| | Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth-Century British Culture (Victorian Literature & Culture) Publication Date: June 1995| Series: Victorian Literature & Culture Use front of jacket for front paperback coverBack paperback cover camera-ready copy on sheet 1Paperback title page and copyright page included to substitute for cloth edition pages.Please call Mark Saunders at 434-924-6064 if questions arise --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
| | The Rake and the Reformer (Super Regency, Signet) Release Date: September 5, 1989| Series: Super Regency, Signet Beautiful Alys Weston had found refuge from heartbreak by masquerading as a man and becoming the manager of an isolated country estate. But the estate's new master was notorious rake Reginald Davenport, and Alys found she could not trust herself to defeat his seductive designs. Original Regency romance. ...
| | Transplant: A Saga From the Auto Industry Publication Date: August 26, 2000This is the story of a bored, forty-year-old professor, who seeks the adventure of a second career with a German company, attempting to establish a manufacturing base in the United States. His colorful story spans three continents and the men and women of three distinct cultures.Initially rejected and subjected to demeaning treatment by his American bosses, he spends the first two years in the bowels of an assembly plant, where the heat, the noise, swarms of rats and his bosses make his life a living hell. He seeks solace in alcohol and in the arms of many wo...
| | The House at Sea's End (Ruth Galloway Mysteries) Release Date: January 10, 2012| Series: Ruth Galloway Mysteries There is already a neat trench in the narrow gap between the tall cliffs. Nelson looks at it with pleasure . . . Then he looks closer. The trench appears to be full of bones.Elly Griffiths’s Ruth Galloway novels have been praised as “highly atmospheric” (New York Times Book Review) and “remarkable” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Now the beloved forensic archeologist returns, called in to investigate when human bones surface on a remote Norfolk beach.Just back from maternity leave, Ruth is finding it dif...
| | Nothing Can Rescue Me (Felony & Mayhem Mysteries) (Henry Gamadge) Publication Date: January 15, 2008| Series: Henry Gamadge (Book 6) In mid-1943, and up to his elbows in war work, Henry Gamadge is longing for a quiet weekend. But when a half-forgotten classmate requests assistance, Gamadge is unable to refuse the tug of an old school tie. The problem, says Sylvanus, concerns his Aunt Florence -- a giddy socialite, terrified of Nazi bombs. Florence has moved her extensive household of hangers-on to the family mansion in upstate New York. But menace seems to have followed them, in the form of threatening messages inserted into the manuscript of Florence's pa...
| | Snappy Little Fairy Tales Publication Date: February 10, 2005| Age Level: 3 and up...
| | My Sister Shahrazad: Tales from the Arabian Nights Publication Date: September 2002| Age Level: 7 and up -- The selection includes: Aladdin, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, The Fisherman and the Jinni-- Beautiful illustrations by a top illustrator with a Middle Eastern backgroundFor these ten masterly retellings, entrancing and gloriously funny by turns, Robert Leeson has selected a feast of tales that give a rich flavor of the Thousand and One Nights. The collection ranges from well-loved tales of treasure, magical power and quick wits (Aladdin, The Fisherman and the Jinni, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves) to hilarious romps (The Woman with ...
| | The Young Swimmer Publication Date: April 1983Introduces the basic techniques of swimming and diving in recreation, exercise, and competition. Includes the history of swimming, safety factors, apparel, and introduces swimming sports such as skin diving and scuba diving. ...
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