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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions

By: Ralph Lee Smith

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Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions

By: Ralph Lee Smith

The Appalachian dulcimer is one of America's major contributions to world music and folk art. Homemade and handmade, played by people with no formal knowledge of music, this beautiful instrument entered the post-World-War-II Folk Revival with virtually no written record. Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions tells the fascinating story of the effort to recover the instrument's lost history through fieldwork in the Southern mountains, finding of old instruments, and listening to the tales of old folks. After reviewing the instrument's distinctive musical features, Ralph Lee Smith presents the dulcimer's story chronologically, tracing its roots in a Renaissance German instrument, the scheitholt; describing the early history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer in America; and outlining the development of distinctive dulcimer styles in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky. The story continues into the 20th Century, through the final group of tradition-based Appalachian makers whose work flowed into the national scene of the Folk Revival. This fully revised edition provides expanded information about the history of the scheitholt and the dulcimer before the Civil War and discusses traditions and types that are still being discovered and documented. Smith also adds his personal adventures in searching for the dulcimer's history. A new final chapter describes types and styles that do not fit conveniently into the mainstream development of the instrument. The book concludes with several appendixes, including measurements of representative dulcimers and listings of dulcimer recordings in the Archive of Folk Culture of the Library of Congress.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810874121

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9780810874121

The Longest Trek

My Tour of the Galaxy

By: Grace Lee Whitney,Jim Denney

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The Longest Trek

My Tour of the Galaxy

By: Grace Lee Whitney,Jim Denney

She opened for jazz great Billie Holiday, shared the set with Marilyn Monroe, and flirted on-screen with Jack Lemmon. In her dream role, Gene Roddenberry beamed her aboard the Starship Enterprise as Yeoman Janice Rand in the original ""Star Trek"" series. But a terrifying sexual assault on the studio lot and her lifelong feelings of emptiness and isolation would soon combine to turn her starry dream into a nightmare.

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Quill Driver Books

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1884956033

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9781884956034

Ethics and Insurrection

A Pragmatism for the Oppressed

By: Lee A. McBride III

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Ethics and Insurrection

A Pragmatism for the Oppressed

By: Lee A. McBride III

Ethics and Insurrection articulates an ethical position that takes critical pragmatism and Harrisian insurrectionist philosophy seriously. It suggests that there are values and norms that create boundaries that confine, reduce and circumscribe the actions we allow ourselves to consider. McBride argues that an insurrectionist ethos is integral in the disavowing of norms and traditions that justify or perpetuate oppression and that we must throw our faith behind something, some set of values, if we want a chance at shaping a future. This book encourages us to (re)imagine and shape futures with less subjection, less degradation. It urges us to interrogate and deconstruct those intervening background assumptions that authorize and reinforce the subordination of stigmatized groups. It implores us to pursue new conceptions of personhood and humanity, conceptions that forefront reciprocity and solidarity-conceptions that do not cast groups of human beings as inherently subhuman or naturally bereft of honor. And finally Ethics and Insurrection beseeches us to form new coalitions and bonds of trust, to engage in those forms of collective action likely to shape a better future.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350102288

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9781350102286

The Bath Detective

A Bath Detective Mystery

By: Christopher Lee

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The Bath Detective

A Bath Detective Mystery

By: Christopher Lee

It's easy to underestimate the eccentric, quietly spoken Inspector James Boswell Hodge Leonard, with his bicycle and his tweeds, and his superiors who make the mistake of doing so soon discover he's not too keen on toeing the Establishment line. When the grisly corpse of a traveller is found outside a Roman bath, Leonard's orders are to clear up the mess with no fuss, but he begins to kick over Bath's social dustbins and out tumbles decades of secrets and suspects, not smelling too sweetly... The rich and sadistic Montague James, controller of people's lives; Hilary, the former adult film star; Norma, the painter of controversial nudes; they all know more than they are revealing. Leonard's problem is to find the one person who knows the truth - before the rest do, and before the powers that be put the lids back on those dustbins...

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Faber & Faber

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0571306500

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9780571306503

Guns in American Society [3 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law [3 volumes]

By: Gregg Lee Carter

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Guns in American Society [3 volumes]

An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law [3 volumes]

By: Gregg Lee Carter

Thoroughly updated and greatly expanded from its original edition, this three-volume set is the go-to comprehensive resource on the legal, social, psychological, political, and public health aspects of guns in American life. The landmark 2002 edition of Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law was acclaimed for helping readers get beyond the sometimes overheated rhetoric and navigate the overwhelming amount of unbiased academic research on gun-related issues. Now, in light of the steady rate of gun violence and several high-profile shooting incidents, this extraordinary three-volume work returns in a timely and thoroughly updated edition. With over 100 new entries, the latest edition of Guns in American Society is the most current resource available on all aspects of the gun issue, including rates of violence, gun control, gun rights, regulations and legislation, court decisions, pro- and anti-gun organizations, gun ownership, hunters and collectors, public opinion toward guns, and much more. With expert contributions from the fields of criminology, history, law, medicine, politics, and social science, it gives students, journalists, policymakers, and researchers a foundation for their own investigations, while helping readers of all kinds make decisions as family members, potential gun owners, and voters.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Anna K

A Love Story

By: Jenny Lee

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Anna K

A Love Story

By: Jenny Lee

A national indie bestseller! Meet Anna K: every happy teenage girl is the same, while every unhappy teenage girl is miserable in her own special way... At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father proud (even if he can be a little controlling). Meanwhile, Anna's brother, Steven, and his girlfriend, Lolly, are trying to weather an sexting scandal; Lolly’s little sister, Kimmie, is struggling to recalibrate to normal life after an injury derails her ice dancing career; and Steven’s best friend, Dustin, is madly (and one-sidedly) in love with Kimmie. As her friends struggle with the pitfalls of ordinary teenage life, Anna always seems to be able to sail gracefully above it all. That is...until the night she meets Alexia “Count” Vronsky at Grand Central. A notorious playboy who has bounced around boarding schools and who lives for his own pleasure, Alexia is everything Anna is not. But he has never been in love until he meets Anna, and maybe she hasn’t, either. As Alexia and Anna are pulled irresistibly together, she has to decide how much of her life she is willing to let go for the chance to be with him. And when a shocking revelation threatens to shatter their relationship, she is forced to question if she has ever known herself at all. Dazzlingly opulent and emotionally riveting, Anna K: A Love Story is a brilliant reimagining of Leo Tolstoy's timeless love story, Anna Karenina—but above all, it is a novel about the dizzying, glorious, heart-stopping experience of first love and first heartbreak.

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Flatiron Books

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1250236428

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9781250236425

Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend

By: Ron J. Jackson,Lee Spencer White

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Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend

By: Ron J. Jackson,Lee Spencer White

Among the fifty or so Texan survivors of the siege of the Alamo was Joe, the personal slave of Lt. Col. William Barret Travis. First interrogated by Santa Anna, Joe was allowed to depart (along with Susana Dickinson) and eventually made his way to the seat of the revolutionary government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. Joe was then returned to the Travis estate in Columbia, Texas, near the coast. He escaped in 1837 and was never captured. Ron J. Jackson and Lee White have meticulously researched plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, personal letters, and court documents to fill in the gaps of Joe's story. "Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend" provides not only a recovered biography of an individual lost to history, but also offers a fresh vantage point from which to view the events of the Texas Revolution"--

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806149604

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9780806149608

Unconditional Shame

By: Lee Ashe

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Unconditional Shame

By: Lee Ashe

There is nothing so fiercely loyal as a mother's love. And that is the story within the story. Blood binds, and the compulsion to mask secrets in order to protect a loved one primitive. The story begins in China where a son is born of royalty.

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Lee Ashe Thriller Mysteries

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1450581358

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9781450581356

Christmas Card Murder

By: Leslie Meier,Lee Hollis,Peggy Ehrhart

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Christmas Card Murder

By: Leslie Meier,Lee Hollis,Peggy Ehrhart

Everyone dreams of a picture-perfect small-town Christmas, but when murder is in the cards, some holiday greetings are addressed to kill . . . CHRISTMAS CARD MURDER by LESLIE MEIER In the midst of holiday home renovations, Lucy Stone unwraps a murder mystery decades in the making when she discovers an old Christmas card with a nasty message inside. The case may be colder than a New England Christmas, but Lucy’s determined to sort it out before Santa comes to town. DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS CAROL by LEE HOLLIS The Island Times Christmas soiree gets off to a scroogey start when Hayley Powell, Mona Barnes, and Rosana Moretti receive a Christmas card from the town flirt, Carol Waterman, who threatens to run off with one of their husbands! The ladies chalk it up to an imprudent prank . . . until they find Carol mistletoe-up under her tree . . . DEATH OF A CHRISTMAS CARD CRAFTER by PEGGY EHRHART Slay bells ring when the body of Arborville High School’s beloved art teacher (and annual Christmas card designer), Karma Karling, is discovered on the first day of the Holiday Craft Fair. Now, Pamela Paterson and the Knit and Nibble crew must swap swatching for sleuthing in order to put a Christmas killer on ice. “Entertaining . . . a welcome anthology. Cozy readers seeking undemanding escape from real-life holiday hoopla will be satisfied.” —Publishers Weekly

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Kensington Cozies

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1496728246

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9781496728241

Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients

American Heroes

By: Michael Lee Lanning

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Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients

American Heroes

By: Michael Lee Lanning

La Valentia, el valor, la bravura. Since the creation of the Medal of Honor by the United States Congress in 1861, sixty Americans of Hispanic heritage have been awarded the nation’s highest decoration for bravery and self-sacrifice in combat. In this important new work, Michael Lee Lanning documents what one reader describes as “some of the most extraordinary battlefield exploits ever performed in an American military uniform.” Based on meticulous research, Lanning has assembled authoritative accounts of these heroic individuals and their deeds of valor, from the American Civil War through the current campaign in the Middle East. This clear and vigorous narrative—derived from enlistment records and other public documents, newspaper accounts, archival sources, and interviews with the families of the honorees—presents brief biographies that include details of the recipients’ lives before and—in the case of those who survived—after their active-duty service. Lanning also includes the text of the citation from each recipients’ Medal of Honor ceremonies and gripping accounts of the battlefield heroics that earned them the ultimate military honor from a grateful nation. Hispanic Medal of Honor Recipients: American Heroes provides the most thorough documentation to date of these courageous Americans and their service to our nation. The work offers a fitting commemoration of their remarkable actions under the direst circumstances, often performed under conditions of discrimination and prejudice, providing inspiration and encouragement for years to come.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1648430333

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9781648430336

Tattoos and Popular Culture

Cultural Representations in Ink

By: Lee Barron

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Tattoos and Popular Culture

Cultural Representations in Ink

By: Lee Barron

The rise of tattoos into the mainstream has been a defining aspect of 21st century western culture. Tattoos and Popular Culture showcases how tattoos have been catapulted from 'deviant' and 'alternative' subculture, into a popular culture, becoming a potent signifier of 'difference' for the millennial generation.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1839092157

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9781839092152

Our Gang

A Racial History of The Little Rascals

By: Julia Lee

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Our Gang

A Racial History of The Little Rascals

By: Julia Lee

It was the age of Jim Crow, riddled with racial violence and unrest. But in the world of Our Gang, black and white children happily played and made mischief together. They even had their own black and white version of the KKK, the Cluck Cluck Klams—and the public loved it. The story of race and Our Gang, or The Little Rascals, is rife with the contradictions and aspirations of the sharply conflicted, changing American society that was its theater. Exposing these connections for the first time, Julia Lee shows us how much this series, from the first silent shorts in 1922 to its television revival in the 1950s, reveals about black and white American culture—on either side of the silver screen. Behind the scenes, we find unconventional men like Hal Roach and his gag writers, whose Rascals tapped into powerful American myths about race and childhood. We meet the four black stars of the series—Ernie “Sunshine Sammy” Morrison, Allen “Farina” Hoskins, Matthew “Stymie” Beard, and Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas—the gang within the Gang, whose personal histories Lee pursues through the passing years and shifting political landscape. In their checkered lives, and in the tumultuous life of the series, we discover an unexplored story of America, the messy, multiracial nation that found in Our Gang a comic avatar, a slapstick version of democracy itself.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452949786

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9781452949789

Chalkboard Champions

Twelve Remarkable Teachers Who Educated America's Disenfranchised Students

By: Terry Lee Marzell

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Chalkboard Champions

Twelve Remarkable Teachers Who Educated America's Disenfranchised Students

By: Terry Lee Marzell

A California strawberry farmer. A female cattle rancher. A West Virginia coal miner. A Bolivian immigrant. What do these individuals have in common? Each one achieved recognition as a gifted and dedicated teacher who worked with some of America's most disenfranchised and disadvantaged students. Among the captivating stories included in this volume is that of Charlotte Forten Grimke, an African American born into freedom in the North, who during the Civil War volunteered to teach emancipated slaves in a South Carolina school established just behind the battle lines. Read the gripping eyewitness account of the Wounded Knee Massacre by teacher Elaine Goodale Eastman, the talented New England child poet who founded a school for Sioux Indians on a South Dakota reservation. Also included are the fascinating stories of Leonard Covello, the Italian immigrant turned school teacher who enlisted in the US Army during WWI to fight alongside his students, and educator Mary Tsukamoto, imprisoned in a WWII Japanese internment camp. Read about Mississippi Freedom Summer teacher Sandra Adickes who, together with her students, defied the Jim Crow laws of the South and integrated the Hattiesburg Public Library. Marvel at the pioneering work of Anne Sullivan Macy, the teacher of Helen Keller; the efforts of Clara Comstock to find homes for thousands of Orphan Train riders; and the dedication of Jaime Escalante, the East LA educator who proved to a skeptical establishment that inner city Latino youths could successfully meet the demands of a rigorous curriculum. The inspirational life stories of twelve remarkable educators and the historical implications of their pioneering work are revealed in this intriguing collection of Chalkboard Champions.

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Wheatmark, Inc.

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1604948108

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9781604948103

The Maine Lobster Boat

History of an Iconic Fishing Vessel

By: Daniel Sheldon Lee

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The Maine Lobster Boat

History of an Iconic Fishing Vessel

By: Daniel Sheldon Lee

The modern lobster boat has evolved slowly over decades to become the craft it is today: seaworthy, strong, fast, and trusted implicitly by the lobstermen and women to get the job done and get them home, each and every time, through the most terrifying--and sometimes life-threatening--conditions that the sea can dish up. “Where do lobster boats come from?” “What is the origin of their design?” “Who builds them?” “How do they work?” The story of the Maine lobster boat needs to be told--before the storied history of this iconic American craft slips away forever into the past, on the heels of what may be the last surviving traditional lobster boat builders. Filled with colorful characters, old maritime tales, and fascinating details, this a definitive look at the origins and lore of Maine's most ubiquitous vessel.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1684750059

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9781684750054

Late Westerns

The Persistence of a Genre

By: Lee Clark Mitchell

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Late Westerns

The Persistence of a Genre

By: Lee Clark Mitchell

For more than a century the cinematic Western has been America's most familiar genre, always teetering on the verge of exhaustion and yet regularly revived in new forms. Why does this outmoded vehicle--with the most narrowly based historical setting of any popular genre--maintain its appeal? In Late Westerns Lee Clark Mitchell takes a position against those critics looking to attach "post" to the all-too-familiar genre. For though the frontier disappeared long ago, though men on horseback have become commonplace, and though films of all sorts have always, necessarily, defied generic patterns, the Western continues to enthrall audiences. It does so by engaging narrative expectations stamped on our collective consciousness so firmly as to integrate materials that might not seem obviously "Western" at all. Through plot cues, narrative reminders, and even cinematic frameworks, recent films shape interpretive understanding by triggering a long-standing familiarity audiences have with the genre. Mitchell's critical analysis reveals how these films engage a thematic and cinematic border-crossing in which their formal innovations and odd plots succeed deconstructively, encouraging by allusion, implication, and citation the evocation of generic meaning from ingredients that otherwise might be interpreted quite differently. Applying genre theory with close cinematic readings, Mitchell posits that the Western has essentially been "post" all along.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1496210697

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9781496210692

Mountain Christmas Brides

Nine Historical Novellas Celebrate Faith and Love in the Rocky Mountains

By: Mildred Colvin,Mary Davis,Susan Page Davis,Lena Nelson Dooley,Darlene Franklin,Debby Lee,Tamela Hancock Murray,Carrie Turansky,Gina Welborn

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Mountain Christmas Brides

Nine Historical Novellas Celebrate Faith and Love in the Rocky Mountains

By: Mildred Colvin,Mary Davis,Susan Page Davis,Lena Nelson Dooley,Darlene Franklin,Debby Lee,Tamela Hancock Murray,Carrie Turansky,Gina Welborn

Celebrating Faith and Love in the Historic Rocky Mountains From a Wyoming ranch in 1880, to a logging camp in Washington Territory in the late 1800s, to Denver, Colorado, in 1913, meet nine couples who find that Christmas is the perfect time for climbing to the heights of romance. Watch as their faith and courage propel them through challenges that come with mountain winters to cozy fireside celebrations that lead to lasting proclamations of love. Penned by an exclusive selection of Christian fiction authors—including Susan Page Davis, Vickie McDonough, and Carrie Turansky—this collection of nine romances is one to treasure.

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Barbour Publishing

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1634099761

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9781634099769

Secret Thunder

By: Annetta P. Lee

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Secret Thunder

By: Annetta P. Lee

Murderer! The accusation bursts from Beth McDade's lips before she can stop it. The trouble is, she is accusing one of the most respected and most influential men in town of a heinous crime. Even her brother doubts her. But God doesn't -- and neither does David Spencer, a man she's been in love with since childhood. This gives Beth the courage to confront the terrors that have taken place in her small town in Texas as she simultaneously reaffirms her faith in God and her love for David. But Beth's nemesis is a dark one -- a man who is not above using great mental and physical torture to have his way. Will faith and love be enough to save Beth? Can she survive?

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Kensington Publishing Corp.

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1585715484

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9781585715480

Noir Fiction and Film

Diversions and Misdirections

By: Lee Clark Mitchell

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Noir Fiction and Film

Diversions and Misdirections

By: Lee Clark Mitchell

The argument of Noir Fiction and Film is curiously counterintuitive: that in a century of hard-boiled fiction and detective films, characteristics that at first seemed trivial swelled in importance, flourishing into crucial aspects of the genre. Among these are aimless descriptions of people and places irrelevant to plot, along with detectives consisting of little more than sparkling dialogue and flippant attitudes. What weaves together such features, however, seems to be a paradox: that a genre rooted in solving a mystery, structured around the gathering of clues, must do so by misdirecting our attention, even withholding information we think we need to generate the suspense we also desire. Yet successful noir stories and films enhance that suspense through passing diversions (descriptive details and eccentric perspectives) rather than depending on the center pieces of plot alone (suspected motives or incriminating traces). As the greatest practitioners of the genre have realized, the "how" of detective fiction (its stylistic detours) draws us in more insistently than the "what" or the "who" (its linear advance). And the achievement of recent film noir is to make that "how" become the tantalizing object of our entire attention, shorn of any pretense of reading for the plot, immersing us in the diversionary delight that has animated the genre from the beginning.

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Oxford University Press

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0192659154

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Tales of Magic & Fantasy

The Magic Prophecy and Other Stories

By: Justine Hong,Kenrick Lam,Wong Zi Ling,Jonathan Tan,Wayne Ng,Krystal Soo,Joel Chuwa,Lee Tat Wei

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Tales of Magic & Fantasy

The Magic Prophecy and Other Stories

By: Justine Hong,Kenrick Lam,Wong Zi Ling,Jonathan Tan,Wayne Ng,Krystal Soo,Joel Chuwa,Lee Tat Wei

Be prepared to travel to lands of magic and fantasy, and meet beloved characters like Curry the dragon, Mr. Readalot the librarian, Morgana the witch and the steel monster Titanius. Written by authors aged ten to sixteen, the tales in the book are full of action and adventure and will take you to worlds beyond your imagination!

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Experiences & Experiments Books Pte Ltd

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9814320927

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9789814320924

Eastern Air Lines

A History, 1926-1991

By: David Lee Russell

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Eastern Air Lines

A History, 1926-1991

By: David Lee Russell

Eastern Air Lines began in 1926 when aviation pioneer Harold Pitcairn started the first carrier air mail route from New York to Atlanta under his company, Pitcairn Aviation. Clement Keys of National Air Transport bought the company in 1929, changed the name to Eastern Air Transport and began passenger service the next year on daily round trips between New York and Richmond. The growing airline was purchased by General Motors and became Eastern Air Lines in 1934. World War I flying ace Edward V. Rickenbacker purchased the airline four years later and led it to become by the 1950s the most profitable airline in the United States. Former astronaut Frank Borman became president of Eastern in 1975 and tried to manage the airline through deregulation, labor union conflict, and heavy debt, ending with the sale of Eastern to Frank Lorenzo and Texas Air in 1986. The airline entered bankruptcy in March 1989 and ended service in less than two years. This detailed history follows Eastern from start to finish, studying such corporate decision-making as aircraft purchases and route expansions, as well as the personalities that shaped the airline throughout its history.

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McFarland

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1476601968

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9781476601960

Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

By: Lee Smith

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Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger

By: Lee Smith

Lee Smith is a "teller of tales for tale tellers to admire and envy . . . [and] a reader’s dream" (Houston Chronicle). A celebrated and bestselling writer with a dozen novels under her name, including Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, and The Last Girls, she is just as widely recognized for her exceptional short stories. Here, in Mrs. Darcy and the Blue-Eyed Stranger, Smith collects seven brand-new stories along with seven of her favorites from three earlier collections. The result? A book of dazzling richness. As the New York Times Book Review put it, "In al- most every one of [her stories] there is a moment of vision, or love, or unclothed wonder that transforms something plain into something transcendent.

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Algonquin Books

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1616200499

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9781616200497

Death of a Christmas Carol

By: Lee Hollis

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Death of a Christmas Carol

By: Lee Hollis

Season’s Greetings—murder is in the cards . . . The Island Times Christmas soiree gets off to a scrooge-y start when Hayley Powell, Mona Barnes, and Rosana Moretti receive a Christmas card from the town flirt, Carol Waterman—who threatens to run off with one of their husbands . . . ! The ladies chalk it up to an imprudent prank . . . until they find Carol mistletoe-up under her tree . . . Previously published in Christmas Card Murder

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Kensington Cozies

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1496741587

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9781496741585

Death of an Italian Chef

By: Lee Hollis

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Death of an Italian Chef

By: Lee Hollis

Includes delectable recipes from Hayley's kitchen!"--Page 4 of cover

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Hayley Powell Mystery

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1496724976

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9781496724977

Haunted Lesbian Young Adult Fiction

Two Supernatural Teen Novels

By: Foxglove Lee

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Haunted Lesbian Young Adult Fiction

Two Supernatural Teen Novels

By: Foxglove Lee

Want to stay up late with a spine-tingling supernatural story? This chilling new collection includes two teen novels featuring strange small towns, historical hauntings, and lesbian main characters! In Tiffany and Tiger’s Eye, it’s the summer of 1986. Rebecca meets Tiffany: a water-skiing blonde who dresses like Madonna, makes her own jewellery, and claims to see auras. Strange things happen when the girls get together. Everyone thinks Rebecca’s the one setting fires and destroying property, but she’s convinced the culprit is a creepy antique doll! Sylvie and the Christmas Ghost transports us to December of 1994. Sylvie's spending Christmas in the creepy old house her father grew up in. The place is haunted, according to local lore. When an unusual girl named Celeste convinces Sylvie she can communicate with spirits, will they unearth ghosts from the family's past... or is something far more sinister going on? Every family has its ghosts, and they’re out in full force with two supernatural lesbian novels by Foxglove Lee! Foxglove’s fiction has been called SPECTACULAR by Rainbow Reviews and UNFORGETTABLE by USA Today!

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Rainbow Crush

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137003833X

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9781370038336

El Cerrito, New Mexico

Eight Generations in a Spanish Village

By: Richard Lee Nostrand

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El Cerrito, New Mexico

Eight Generations in a Spanish Village

By: Richard Lee Nostrand

Nostrand identifies the challenges facing eight generations of families. Utilizing primary sources from government, census, and church records, as well as from burials, homestead documents, and interviews with sixty Cerritenos, Nostrand details village life from its founding in 1824 to the opening years of the twenty-first century. The author weaves historical evidence with physical data from soil analyses, topology, and geology to explain how the land itself shaped life in El Cerrito."--BOOK JACKET.

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Summary & Study Guide - Into the Gray Zone

A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

By: Lee Tang

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Summary & Study Guide - Into the Gray Zone

A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death

By: Lee Tang

The Borderland Between Life and Death This book is a summary of “Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death” by Adrian Owen. The “gray zone” is the twilight region between full consciousness and brain death. People with sustained brain injuries or victims of strokes or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s are often in the gray zone. Many of them are oblivious to the outside world, and their doctors and families often believe they are incapable of thought. But 20 percent of them are conscious, although they never respond to any form of external stimulation. This complete summary of Adrian Owen’s book tells how Owen pushes forward the boundaries of science, using a variety of brain scans and brain-computer interfaces, to find patients who are in the gray zone and communicate with them. It sheds some light on how we pay attention and remember, and how brain-computer interface technology is changing the prognosis for people with impaired brain function and creating the possibility of telepathy and augmented intelligence. Read this summary and reflect on what these fascinating borderlands between life and death have taught us about being human. This guide includes: * Book Summary—helps you understand the key concepts. * Online Videos—cover the concepts in more depth. Value-added from this guide: * Save time * Understand key concepts * Expand your knowledge

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