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The Oracle and the Curse

A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

By: Caleb Smith

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The Oracle and the Curse

A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War

By: Caleb Smith

Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown’s shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War. In nineteenth-century criminal trials, judges played the role of law’s living oracles, but offenders were also given an opportunity to address the public. When the accused began to turn the tables on their judges, they did so not through rational arguments but by calling down a divine retribution. Widely circulated in newspapers and pamphlets, these curses appeared to channel an otherworldly power, condemning an unjust legal system and summoning readers to the side of righteousness. Exploring the modes of address that communicated the authority of law and the dictates of conscience in antebellum America’s court of public opinion, Caleb Smith offers a new poetics of justice which assesses the nonrational influence that these printed confessions, trial reports, and martyr narratives exerted on their first audiences. Smith shows how writers portrayed struggles for justice as clashes between human law and higher authority, giving voice to a moral protest that transformed American literature.

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Harvard University Press

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0674075862

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9780674075863

American Sympathy

Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation

By: Caleb Crain

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American Sympathy

Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation

By: Caleb Crain

“A friend in history,” Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “looks like some premature soul.” And in the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation’s literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America’s greatest writing--the Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. He traces the genealogy of these friendships through a series of stories. A dapper English spy inspires a Quaker boy to run away from home. Three Philadelphia gentlemen conduct a romance through diaries and letters in the 1780s. Flighty teenager Charles Brockden Brown metamorphoses into a horror novelist by treating his friends as his literary guinea pigs. Emerson exchanges glances with a Harvard classmate but sacrifices his crush on the altar of literature--a decision Margaret Fuller invites him to reconsider two decades later. Throughout this engaging book, Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature.

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320

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Yale University Press

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0300133677

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9780300133677

Death Prefers Blondes

By: Caleb Roehrig

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Death Prefers Blondes

By: Caleb Roehrig

Teenage socialite Margo Manning leads a dangerous double life. By day, she dodges the paparazzi while soaking up California sunshine. By night, however, she dodges security cameras and armed guards, pulling off high-stakes cat burglaries with a team of flamboyant young men. In and out of disguise, she’s in all the headlines. But then Margo’s personal life takes a sudden, dark turn, and a job to end all jobs lands her crew in deadly peril. Overnight, everything she’s ever counted on is put at risk. Backs against the wall, the resourceful thieves must draw on their special skills to survive. But can one rebel heiress and four kickboxing drag queens withstand the slings and arrows of truly outrageous fortune? Or will a mounting sea of troubles end them—for good?

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336

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Feiwel & Friends

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1250155819

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9781250155818

The Fell of Dark

By: Caleb Roehrig

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The Fell of Dark

By: Caleb Roehrig

What's a boy to do—in Caleb Roehrig's YA paranormal romance The Fell of Dark—when his crush is a hot vampire with a mystery to solve? The only thing August Pfeiffer hates more than algebra is living in a vampire town. Located at a nexus of mystical energy fields, Fulton Heights is practically an electromagnet for supernatural drama. And when a mysterious (and annoyingly hot) vampire boy arrives with a cryptic warning, Auggie suddenly finds himself at the center of it. An ancient and terrible power is returning to the earthly realm, and somehow Auggie seems to be the only one who can stop it.

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Feiwel & Friends

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1250155835

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9781250155832

The Poison Pen (Riverdale, Novel 5)

By: Caleb Roehrig

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The Poison Pen (Riverdale, Novel 5)

By: Caleb Roehrig

The Poison Pen knows all your secrets... Archie, Betty, Jughead, Veronica, and the rest of the gang are all getting ready for the next stage of their lives after high school graduation—or, at least, they're trying to. But then, one by one, they all receive a mysterious letter from someone calling themselves the Poison Pen.Somehow, the letter writer knows some of Riverdale's deepest, darkest secrets. And the Poison Pen is threatening to reveal all unless Archie and his friends do exactly what they're told—from posting embarrassing videos of themselves to blowing up someone else's marriage.The letters aren't stopping and the stakes are getting higher with each one. If they can't find the Poison Pen soon, Betty, Jughead, Veronica, Archie, Kevin, Cheryl, and Toni might not have a future left to protect.This original Riverdale novel features a story not seen on the show!

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Scholastic Inc.

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1338702564

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9781338702569

Hypocrites and Mirrors

The Search for Mr. Cassady and a Guy Named Raul

By: Caleb Masaji Yamanaka

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Hypocrites and Mirrors

The Search for Mr. Cassady and a Guy Named Raul

By: Caleb Masaji Yamanaka

Kyle Lynch believes in true love. The summer of 1997 and everything has turned to shit. School is over and every person Kyle knows is going out into the new world. Like a group of Columbus searching for their own new definition. One in which truth, justice, and love all co-exists amongst that which is modern American society. Its 221 years of propaganda, 70 years since the lost generation, 35 years since the beats, and everything else in between. One can only figure it out for himself. So Kyle sets out first to find himself and then to find something to live for. The search for Mr. Cassady and guy named Raul. An idealist with no actual intellect but a genuine heart Kyle travels from L.A., to home, back to L.A., and then upon a road trip that leads nowhere except into the very depths of his own mind. Kyle: When you sit down and take a look back at yourself sometimes the initial image is quite appealing. Filled with ideals, convictions, beliefs, and a knack for excitement. You or in the case of myself you lament the good times past. That hot red head in San Diego that could suck a dick like it had been her pacifier all her life. Its all glitz and glamour. Looking back you feel old and haggard. Tired and unfulfilled so you lunge harder into your new life that cant by any means live up to the life youve already lived. Its always the search. Life has to be lived, and level, by level we search to grow. Following the rutted path makes no sense when only the exploration means anything. So we embark with no map, and no star to guide us through our travails. No understanding of love. No understanding of right. No wrong. Just life. Left or right... no middle? And so it begins...

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389

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Xlibris Corporation

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1465318836

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9781465318831

The Mayflower and Her Passengers

By: Caleb H. Johnson

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The Mayflower and Her Passengers

By: Caleb H. Johnson

When the Mayflower embarked on her famous voyage to America in 1620, she was carrying 102 passengers. To most, they are simply known as “the Pilgrims.” Perhaps the name of Governor William Bradford, Elder William Brewster, or Captain Myles Standish are vaguely familiar; but the vast majority of the Mayflower passengers have remained anonymous and nameless. In The Mayflower and Her Passengers, I have attempted to resurrect the unique individuality of each passenger by providing short biographies for each person or family group. Also included is a groundbreaking new biography of the Mayflower ship itself.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462822371

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9781462822379

Thank You

Manners Always Matter

By: Caleb Burroughs

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Thank You

Manners Always Matter

By: Caleb Burroughs

When Puppy breaks his leg, his friends help him at school and play, and he knows it's important to thank them.

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1412730090

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9781412730099

The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease

Reading Smoke Signals

By: Caleb E. Finch

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The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease

Reading Smoke Signals

By: Caleb E. Finch

Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air pollution from fossil fuels with the potential to damage arteries, hearts and lungs that has been related to chronic exposure of air pollution from fossil fuels. Risk areas of study include childhood obesity, brain damage associated with air pollution, increased risk for autism in children and dementia in older adults. In humans and animals, air pollution stimulates chronic inflammation in different organs, and genetic vulnerability to air pollution is being recognized, particularly for carriers of the Alzheimer risk gene ApoE4. - Connects environmental pollution research to the human aging process - Raises new issues relevant to the controversies on air pollution and global warming, challenging assumptions that lifespan will continue to increase in the 21st Century - Examines the burden of air pollution to disadvantaged populations, with anticipated greater impact in developing countries which rely on fossil fuels for economic development in future decades

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Academic Press

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0128131039

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9780128131039

Excuse Me

Manners Always Matter

By: Caleb Burroughs

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Excuse Me

Manners Always Matter

By: Caleb Burroughs

Miss Hen's class learns why it is important to say "excuse me" in various situations.

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1412730139

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9781412730136

I'm Sorry

By: Caleb Burroughs

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I'm Sorry

By: Caleb Burroughs

Kitty, Bunny, and Mouse learn about apologizing.

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1412730120

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Animal Rescue Adventure

By: PI Kids,Caleb Burroughs

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Animal Rescue Adventure

By: PI Kids,Caleb Burroughs

Help Diego search for hidden objects in eight super busy Look & Find scenes! From the rainforest, to the desert, to Antarctica, these are lots of animals for Diego to Rescue and lots of things to find.

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1412764912

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Book's by Caleb Burroughs

The Oracle and the Curse

The Oracle and the Curse

American Sympathy

American Sympathy

Death Prefers Blondes

Death Prefers Blondes

The Fell of Dark

The Fell of Dark

The Poison Pen (Riverdale, Novel 5)

The Poison Pen (Riverdale, Novel 5)

Hypocrites and Mirrors

Hypocrites and Mirrors

The Mayflower and Her Passengers

The Mayflower and Her Passengers

Thank You

Thank You

The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease

The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease

Excuse Me

Excuse Me

I'm Sorry

I'm Sorry

Animal Rescue Adventure

Animal Rescue Adventure

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