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Addie

By: Mary Lee Settle

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An autobiography that begins with one's birth begins too late, in the middle of the story, sometimes at the end. So begins Mary Lee Settle's memoir. Her story carries within it inherited choices, old habits, old quarrels, old disguises, and the river that formed the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia and the mores of her childhood. She traces effects on her family and herself as ancient as earthquakes, mountain formations, and the crushing of swamp into coal deposits. In doing so, Settle records the expectations, talents, and tragedies of a people and a place that would serve as her deep and abiding subject in The Beulah Quintet.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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157003284X

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The Love Eaters

The Kiss of Kin

By: Mary Lee Settle

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The Love Eaters

The Kiss of Kin

By: Mary Lee Settle

The novel that launched Settle's outstanding career, The Love Eaters is an acid satire of bedroom and community tragedy. A wealthy, small-town theatrical group finds itself at the direction of a wheelchair-bound man whose designs extend beyond the stage. As he begins to lose control, so do his players, revealing appetites they scarcely knew that had. The Kiss of Kin, Settle's second and highly acclaimed novel, centers on the funeral, and last testament of Anna Mary Passmore. Drawn back to the Soutern homeplace, members of the Passmore clan--all of whom nurse visions that the matriarch's bequests will solve their problems--grapple with the various ties that bind them and with the disturbing appearance of an unexpected heir. Pulbished together for the first time, these novels offer compelling tales as well as a sample of Settle's early writing.

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Reaktion Books

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1570030987

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9781570030987

The Clam Shell

By: Mary Lee Settle

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The Clam Shell

By: Mary Lee Settle

Searching for an escape from mediocrity, the young heroine of The Clam Shell leaves her hometown of Canona, West Virginia, and enters a Southern women's college. She is not destined for a safe path, however, and her violent awakening comes in the form of a brutal sexual assault through which she ultimately discovers her own hidden strength. Set in 1936, The Clam Shell continues the mesmerizing story Settle began in The Love Eaters.

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Reaktion Books

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1570030995

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9781570030994

O Beulah Land

Book II of The Beulah Quintet

By: Mary Lee Settle

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O Beulah Land

Book II of The Beulah Quintet

By: Mary Lee Settle

O Beulah Land, the second volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom—is a land-hungry story. It follows the odyssey of Johnny Church's descendants as they leave England in search of freedom and land. One of those descendants, Jonathan Lacey, settles in the backcountry of Virginia, where he battles both Native Americans and white frontier bandits and builds the beginning of a flourishing estate named Beulah. The novel closes shortly before the commencement of the Revolutionary War, with Lacey elected to the House of Burgesses and his family line firmly established in what is to become the state of West Virginia.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643362321

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9781643362328

Learning To Fly

A Writers Memoir

By: Mary Lee Settle

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Learning To Fly

A Writers Memoir

By: Mary Lee Settle

This memoir, which picks up Settles life story where "Addie" left it, finds a girl turning 20 and determined to be an actress. In the summer of 1938, Settle began a theater apprenticeship, inadvertently setting her on a road few women of that era dared to travel.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393057321

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9780393057324

Prisons

Book I of The Beulah Quintet

By: Mary Lee Settle

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Prisons

Book I of The Beulah Quintet

By: Mary Lee Settle

An unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture,class, identity, and the meaning of freedom Prisons, the first volume of The Beulah Quintet—Mary Lee Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, classs, and identity and the meaning of fredom—follows the coming-of-age of Johnny Church from English youngster to dashing Oxford adolescent to idealistic Puritan in the service of Cromwell's Parliamentary Army. Throughout his evolution, Johnny seeks emancipation from a multitude of emotional, political, and religious prisons, not realizing that with each successive grasp at freedom, he escapes one form of captivity only to be confined by another. When Cromwell, the leader Johnny has supported so staunchly, limits the freedoms for which Johnny has taken up arms, he bravely questions the commander. Shortly thereafter he finds himself in a prison of stone and mortar where, as an example to other soldiers tempted to champion their rights, he is executed. Based on a true incident of the English Civil War, Prisons captures the promise and tragedy of the conflict that led to one of the first substantial migrations to North America and lays the foundation for the next chapter in Settle's riveting saga—O Beulah Land.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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164336233X

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9781643362335

Celebration

By: Mary Lee Settle

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Celebration

By: Mary Lee Settle

A novel of uncommon scope and setting, Celebration is the love story of Teresa Cerruti, a widowed anthropologist, and Ewen McLeod, a Scottish geologist who is recovering from a malarial fever caught in Africa. A reflection on love, death and faith.

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Harper Perennial

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0060971142

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9780060971144

The Scapegoat

By: Mary Lee Settle

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The Scapegoat

By: Mary Lee Settle

Set in 1912, this fourth volume of The Beulah Quintet - Settle's unforgettable generational saga about the roots of American culture, class, and identity and the meaning of freedom - propels readers with astonishing immediacy to a fateful day in a coal miners' strike in which relatives of the Beulah dynasty, only dimly aware of their blood ties, confront one another on opposing sides of the dispute.

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Beulah Quintet S

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1570031177

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All the Brave Promises

Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 2146391

By: Mary Lee Settle

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All the Brave Promises

Memories of Aircraft Woman 2nd Class 2146391

By: Mary Lee Settle

A young female American volunteer in the British Royal Air Force finds out early in World War II about the harsh realities of warfare.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0684187566

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9780684187563

Water World

By: Mary Lee Settle

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Water World

By: Mary Lee Settle

Traces the history of man's understanding of the sea, from the legends of primitive mariners to the scientific methods of modern undersea biologists, geologists, and archaeologists.

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Dutton Childrens Books

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0525667776

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9780525667773

I, Roger Williams

By: Mary Lee Settle

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I, Roger Williams

By: Mary Lee Settle

Banished by his fellow colonists in the dead of winter, Roger Williams endured years of exile among the Narragansett Indians and narrates this tumultuous tale in the peaceful last years of his life. In this panorama of war and love, the reader finds the freedom of conscience is an idea worth dying for. A "Los Angeles Times" Best Book of 2001.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393323838

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Learning To Fly

A Writers Memoir

By: Mary Lee Settle

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A Writers Memoir

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Turkish Reflections

A Biography of a Place

By: Mary lee Settle

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Turkish Reflections

A Biography of a Place

By: Mary lee Settle

The author recounts her experiences living in Turkey for three years, and shares her observations on Turkish history, people, and culture.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671779974

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I, Roger Williams

By: Mary Lee Settle

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Addie

By: Mary Lee Settle

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World War II Memoirs: The European Theater (LOA #385)

By: Charles B. Macdonald,J. Glenn Gray,Mary Lee Settle,Elmer Bendiner

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World War II Memoirs: The European Theater (LOA #385)

By: Charles B. Macdonald,J. Glenn Gray,Mary Lee Settle,Elmer Bendiner

On the 80th anniversary of the war's end, 5 classic memoirs capture firsthand the shock, terror, and courage of the American fight against the Axis powers in Europe "The emotional environment of warfare has always been compelling," writes J. Glenn Gray in his incomparable World War II memoir and mediation, The Warriors. "Reflection and calm reasoning are alien to it." The struggle to make sense of the experience of war, to find some meaning in the savagry and senseless destruction, animates the five brilliant and unforgettable memoirs gathered here. Company Commander (1947), by Charles B. MacDonald, describes with startling immediacy and candor the “cold, dirty, rough, frightened, miserable” life of the infantryman and company commander from the aftermath of D-Day in September 1944 through the war's terrifying final days. The Warriors (1959), by J. Glenn Gray, a counterintelligence officer who served in Italy, France, and Germany and a scholar with a PhD. in philosophy, is a sensitive and revelatory meditation on the nature of war and its effects on both soldiers and civilians, interspliced with his letters, journals, and wartime memories. All the Brave Promises (1966) is novelist Mary Lee Settle’s memoir of her year as an airfield radio operator in the Royal Air Force. Settle brilliantly evokes both the working-class culture of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force’s “other ranks” and the petty and demeaning regimentation inherent in military life. The Fall of Fortresses (1980), by former B-17 navigator Elmer Bendiner, vividly recalls the fear and excitement he experienced flying bomber missions deep into Germany in 1943 without fighter escort. The Buffalo Saga (2009) is James Harden Daugherty’s heartfelt account of his frontline service as a Black soldier in the 92nd Infantry Division, as he fights the Germans, endures the harsh Italian winter, and confronts the racism of his own army. This deluxe Library of America volume includes full-color endpaper maps of the European Theater, an eight-page photo insert, an introduction by West Point professor Elizabeth D. Samet, and detailed notes.

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Library of America

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1598537865

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9781598537864

Prisons

Book I of The Beulah Quintet

By: Mary Lee Settle

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Book I of The Beulah Quintet

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Reclaiming the American Farmer

The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing

By: Mary Weaks-Baxter

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Reclaiming the American Farmer

The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing

By: Mary Weaks-Baxter

In this stimulating study, Mary Weaks-Baxter views the Southern Renaissance, 1900--1960, from a fresh perspective. Many writers in the South began consciously to create new myths for the region at the start of the twentieth century, and these myths, Weaks-Baxter argues, reframed southern history and culture. Instead of being rooted in the plantation culture that had provided inspiration for nineteenth-century southern writers, the new literature was inspired by "southern folk," the common people who farmed the earth and whose values derived from Jeffersonian agrarianism and democracy. By glorifying the yeoman farmer -- a figure not only central to southern life but revered throughout the country -- southern writers confirmed the essential Americanness of southern literature and the southernness of American history, creating a viable myth that offered the promise of renewal and purpose. To illustrate how the myth crossed racial, gender, and economic boundaries as well as geographic lines, Weaks-Baxter examines the work of diverse writers, including Willa Cather, Ellen Glasgow, Olive Dargan, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Jesse Stuart, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Harriette Arnow, William Faulkner, and the Nashville Agrarians. Their portrayals of the lives of common men and women provided hope for all Americans as they were confronted with industrialization and the Great Depression. Weaks-Baxter shows how this agrarian fable led to a new Southern Renaissance in the late twentieth century, influencing the work of contemporary southern writers such as Madison Smartt Bell, Wendell Berry, Alice Walker, Dori Sanders, and Bobbie Ann Mason. With lively arguments and keen insights, Reclaiming the American Farmer will change the terms of discussion about the Southern Renaissance and southern literature in general as it demonstrates how mythologies can unify southerners as well as divide them.

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LSU Press

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0807131296

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9780807131299

The Battle for Britain

Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War

By: Mary Evans,David Morgan

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The Battle for Britain

Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War

By: Mary Evans,David Morgan

It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns many of our assumptions about the national spirit of 1939-45. It shows that the current return to right-wing politics in Britain was prefigured by ideologies of change during and immediately after the war.

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Routledge

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1134979207

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9781134979202

The Vanishing Point

By: Mary Sharratt

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The Vanishing Point

By: Mary Sharratt

Constrained by their small 17th-century English town, two independent, spirited sisters push the limits of propriety--one journeys to America where she disappears, and the other, trained in the physician's arts, sets off to find her in a wild, uncultivated land where old rules no longer apply.

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618462333

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9780618462339

Understanding August Wilson

By: Mary L. Bogumil

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Understanding August Wilson

By: Mary L. Bogumil

In this critical study Mary L. Bogumil argues that Wilson gives voice to disfranchised and marginalized African Americans who have been promised a place and a stake in the American dream but find access to the rights and freedoms promised to all Americans difficult. The author maintains that Wilson not only portrays African Americans and the predicaments of American life but also sheds light on the atavistic connection African Americans have to their African ancestors.

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1570032521

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