 | Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District
Publication Date: April 30, 1978Drawing upon interviews and research, the author investigates New Orleans' experiment with legalized prostitution between 1897 and 1917. ...
 |  | Mistaken Bride (Love Inspired Historical)
Publication Date: May 1, 2012| Series: Love Inspired Historical When William Black's mail-order bride fails to appear at the Boston docks, he's relieved when beautiful, vibrant Bridget Murphy steps in. However, she has a surprise in store. She will be a temporary nanny to his young twins…but she will not marry without love.Faith Glen, Massachusetts, is worlds away from the poverty Bridget knew in Ireland. And William Black couldn't be more different from her faithless ex-fianc...
|  | Falling Angel
Publication Date: March 13, 2012Hjortsberg's Edgar Award-nominated classic about the hunt for a vanished singer that leads a detective into the depths of the occult Big-band frontman Johnny Favorite was singing for the troops when a Luftwaffe fighter squadron strafed the bandstand, killing the crowd and leaving the singer near death. The army returned him to a private hospital in upstate New York, leaving him to live out his days as a vegetable while the world forgot him. But Louis Cyphre never forgets. Cyphre had a contract with the singer, stipulating payment upon Johnny's death-payment th...
|  | Widow's Might (Clan Novel: Tremere Trilogy, Book 3)
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|  | Death of an Eagle
Publication Date: October 1, 1998Death of an Eagle is the heart-touching account of a Basque sheepherder by the name of Jose Olano taught to be a man and a survivor in the wilderness by the rugged, sometimes roguish mountain man, Robert "Gray Eagle" McAllister. Jose will meet Indians, wild mustangs, grizzly bears, bad men, good men, law men, and the love of his life as he journeys on his path to becoming a man to reckon with. One day he will have to face his greatest foe--his greatest friend. ...
|  | A Sensible Life
Publication Date: July 23, 1990She was a thin, lonely child with huge eyes and an extensive vocabulary of French foul language. Amongst the elegant middle-class British families holidaying in Dinard in 1926--leading their privileged lives of secure routine pleasures--Flora was a ten-year-old misfit. Ignored by her self-absorbed parents, unloved, and pitied by the pleasant, stylish people in Brittany that summer, Flora was--peripherally--included in their gracious circles. And there, meeting kindly civilised people for the first time, she fell in love--with Co...
|  | Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel
Publication Date: February 22, 1990| ISBN-10: 0195061608 | ISBN-13: 978-0195061604| Edition: Reprint Desire and Domestic Fiction argues that far from being removed from historical events, novels by writers from Richardson to Woolf were themselves agents of the rise of the middle class.Drawing on texts that range from 18th-century female conduct books and contract theory to modern psychoanalytic case histories and theories of reading, Armstrong shows that the emergence of a particular form of female subjectivity capable of reigning over the household paved the way for the establishment of...
|  | Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Publication Date: September 18, 1989The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners.The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture is "the first attempt ever" notes U.S. News & World Report, "to describe every aspect of a region's life and thought, the impact of its history and policies, its music and literature, its manners and myths, even the iced tea that washes do...
|  | Native Plant Stories
Publication Date: March 14, 1995Illustrated Native American myths, taken from the best-sellingbook Keepers of Life and told by an Abenaki storyteller, aredrawn from the legends of eighteen different tribes, and promoterespect for nature. Original. IP....
|  | Honour (Nick Hern Books)
Publication Date: September 1, 2003| Series: Nick Hern Books Gus and Honor have been happily married for thirty-two years. She is a successful writer, he is a revered columnist. They have a perfect understanding of each other. Until a pushy young female journalist—on assignment to profile Gus—quite deliberately seeks to undermine that understanding. The fallout is dreadful—but beautifully and convincingly portrayed in all its painful consequences. ...
|  | Gendered Dynamics in Latin Love Poetry (Arethusa Books)
Publication Date: October 14, 2005| ISBN-10: 0801881986 | ISBN-13: 978-0801881985In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture.This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects, shifting...
|  | The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire: Laughing and Lying
Publication Date: March 1, 2008Maria Plaza sets out to analyse the function of humour in the Roman satirists Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Her starting point is that satire is driven by two motives, which are to a certain extent opposed: to display humour, and to promote a serious moral message. She argues that, while the Roman satirist needs humour for his work's aesthetic merit, his proposed message suffers from the ambivalence that humour brings with it.Her analysis shows that this paradox is not only socio-ideological but also aesthetic, forming the ground for the curious, hybrid nature ...
|  | Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications
Publication Date: August 23, 2000| ISBN-10: 0395929199 | ISBN-13: 978-0395929193| Edition: 1 This clear, succinct primer for literary theory provides students with a useful guide to contemporary theory and methodologies. Theoretical overviews summarize each literary approach for clarification and Application Essays by well-known scholars, on works by authors such as Shakespeare, Austen, Melville, Faulkner, and Angelou, represent the stated principles. The text helps students generate consistent, well-focused analyses based on any of ten critical methodologies, including New Criticism, Ps...
|  | Words Unspoken
Publication Date: May 1, 2009Lissa Randall's future was bright with academic promise until the tragic accident that took her mother's life--and brought her own plans to a screeching halt. Eighteen months later, she still can't get back behind the wheel.A casual recommendation to Ev McAllistair's driving school sets in motion a cascade of events... until Lissa begins to wonder if maybe, just maybe, life isn't as random as she's thought.Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Lookout Mountain, TN, Words Unspoken weaves together a vibrant cast of characters whose intertwining stories of courag...
|  | Dolphins at Daybreak (Magic Tree House, No. 9)
Release Date: April 29, 1997| Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!IT'S SINK OR SWIMfor Jack and Annie when the Magic Tree House whisks them off to the middle of the ocean. Luckily, they find a mini-submarine on a coral reef. Unluckily, they are about to meet a giant octopus and one very hungry shark. Will the dolphins save the day? Or are Jack and Annie doomed to be dinner?Visit the Magic Tree House website! MagicTreeHouse.com ...
|  | Bubble in the Bathtub (Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Age Level: 8 and up...
|  | I Am Regina
Release Date: December 31, 2001| Age Level: 10 and up | Grade Level: 5 and up The cabin door crashes open-and in a few minutes Regina's life changes forever. Allegheny Indians murder her father and brother, burn their Pennsylvania home to the ground, and take Regina captive. Only her mother, who is away from home, is safe. Torn from her family, Regina longs for the past, but she must begin a new life. She becomes Tskinnak, who learns to catch fish, dance the Indian dance, and speak the Indian tongue.As the years go by, her new people become her family . . . but she never stops wondering abou...
|  | Olympic Wrestling (Great Moments in Olympic History)
Publication Date: January 1, 2007| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up...
|  | Where's Waldo? The Phenomenal Postcard Book
Release Date: February 8, 2011| Age Level: 5 and up | Grade Level: K and up...
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