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Crossing the Border

A Free Black Community in Canada

By: Sharon A. Roger Hepburn

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Crossing the Border

A Free Black Community in Canada

By: Sharon A. Roger Hepburn

How formerly enslaved people found freedom and built community in Ontario In 1849, the Reverend William King and fifteen once-enslaved people he had inherited founded the Canadian settlement of Buxton on Ontario land set aside for sale to Blacks. Though initially opposed by some neighboring whites, Buxton grew into a 700-person agricultural community that supported three schools, four churches, a hotel, a lumber mill, and a post office. Sharon A. Roger Hepburn tells the story of the settlers from Buxton’s founding of through its first decades of existence. Buxton welcomed Black men, woman, and children from all backgrounds to live in a rural setting that offered benefits of urban life like social contact and collective security. Hepburn’s focus on social history takes readers inside the lives of the people who built Buxton and the hundreds of settlers drawn to the community by the chance to shape new lives in a country that had long represented freedom from enslavement.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252047117

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9780252047114

Sketch a Falling Star

By: Sharon Pape

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Sketch a Falling Star

By: Sharon Pape

While investigating the "accidental" death of a con artist with numerous enemier, Rory McCain finds herself on the verge of solving a cold case--the murder of her ghost partner, Zeke...

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Penguin

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1101560819

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9781101560815

Accused!

Tahmari the Woman Caught in Adultery

By: Lonnie-Sharon Williams

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Accused!

Tahmari the Woman Caught in Adultery

By: Lonnie-Sharon Williams

The biblical story of the woman caught in adultery is depicted in St. John 8:111. She had no name, only her occupation was recorded. What in her past drew this Jewish woman into a life of prostitution? John tells the story of this woman, who was used by the religious leaders to confront Jesus concerning the Law of Moses. Everyone has a past, present, and future, and in this fictional book, you will read the story of the prostitute named Tahmari.

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WestBow Press

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1512762660

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9781512762662

The Latin American Story Finder

A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America and South America, Listing Subjects and Sources

By: Sharon Barcan Elswit

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The Latin American Story Finder

A Guide to 470 Tales from Mexico, Central America and South America, Listing Subjects and Sources

By: Sharon Barcan Elswit

Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore, where Aunt Misery can trap Death in a pear tree; Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; and the Feathered Snake brings the first musicians to Earth. One in a series of folklore reference guides ("...an invaluable resource..."--School Library Journal), this book features summaries and sources of 470 tales told in Mexico, Central America and South America, a region underrepresented in collections of world folklore. The volume sends users to the best stories retold in English from the Inca, Maya, and Aztec civilizations, Spanish and Portuguese missionaries and colonists, African slave cultures, indentured servants from India, and more than 75 indigenous tribes from 21 countries. The tales are grouped into themed sections with a detailed subject index.

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McFarland

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1476622299

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9781476622293

Spirits of the Border IV

The History and Mystery of New Mexico

By: Ken Hudnall,Sharon Hudnall

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Spirits of the Border IV

The History and Mystery of New Mexico

By: Ken Hudnall,Sharon Hudnall

The fourth book in the Spirits of the Border series. This one deals with unsolved mysteries, lost treasures, mysterous disappearances and hauntings in the State of New Mexico.

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Omega Press

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0975492349

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9780975492345

Brunswick

By: Sharon Martin Zankel

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Brunswick

By: Sharon Martin Zankel

Brunswick explores the people and places of this upstate New York community from 1880 to 1970. Many of the images in this collection have never before been published and are representative of all aspects of life in Brunswick. Discover an earlier time in the community's history, and its growth and endurance through the years. Author and town historian Sharon Martin Zankel has compiled more than six years of research into an informative and entertaining text that brings these images to life. A resident of Brunswick for over 27 years and past president of the Brunswick Historical Society, she brings her affection for her hometown and its residents to this unique tribute to its past. View the Cropseyville gristmill, which operated for over a century and a half under a succession of owners, and the Eagle Mills dam that was blown up after a dispute over ice-cutting rights. Meet one of the many classes that attended the school named for President James Garfield, who taught in Brunswick in the mid-1800s. Brunswick's first female town official, Pearl Woodin Potter, and John and Ruth Duncan, who owned the town's longest operating eatery, are among the many residents whose stories are told in Brunswick. The town's long history as a farming community is commemorated in this engaging collection.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738589950

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9780738589954

Lexington

By: Sharon Ritenour Stevens,Alice Trump Williams

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Lexington

By: Sharon Ritenour Stevens,Alice Trump Williams

Lexington, the seat for Rockbridge County, is situated in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley within minutes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Main Street is part of Route 11--the Valley Pike/Great Road--and the architecture downtown looks much as it did in the 19th century. Lexington is home to Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute. It is also the final resting place for Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Robert E. Lee, as well as their horses. Within a few blocks, one visits the Stonewall Jackson House, Lee Chapel Museum, the VMI Museum, and the George C. Marshall Library Museum.

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073856818X

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9780738568188

The Half-breed Bride (The Proud Ones, Book 2)

By: Sharon Ihle

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The Half-breed Bride (The Proud Ones, Book 2)

By: Sharon Ihle

Torn between two worlds, Sunny Callahan is the daughter of a mixed marriage. She's vowed to avenge her Indian mother's senseless death. Her search leads her to Cole Fremont, a strong-willed white-man with a seductive smile that's both tender and tempting. But Cole has a vow of his own: to never forget—or forgive—the brutal Indian attack on his own kin. How Sunny, the bewitching Quechan beauty, was turning his hatred to desire, Cole couldn't tell. But it was a forbidden love that could never be... Previously titled: River Song REVIEWS: "A beautifully written story with many twists and turns." Kathe Robin, Romantic times "Sharon Ihle has a firm grasp of historical romance. [The Half-breed Bride] has many intriguing twists and suspenseful surprises, right up to the end. A wonderful love story about two people from different worlds." Bea LaForce, The Alpine Sun. THE PROUD ONES, in series order The Bride Wore Feathers The Half-breed Bride OTHER SERIES by Sharon Ihle The Inconvenient Bride Series The Law & Disorder Series The Wild Women Series

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ePublishing Works!

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1614173419

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9781614173410

Falls the Shadow

A Novel

By: Sharon Kay Penman

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Falls the Shadow

A Novel

By: Sharon Kay Penman

Simon de Montfort was a man ahead of his time in the thirteenth century, a disinherited Frenchman who talked his way into an English earldom and marriage with a sister of the English king, Henry III. A charismatic, obstinate leader, Simon soon lost patience with the king's incompetence and inability to keep his word, and found himself the champion of the common people. This is his story, and the story of Henry III, as weak and changeable as Simon was brash and unbending. It is a tale of opposing wills that would eventually clash in a storm of violence and betrayal—an irresistible saga that brings the pages of history completely, provocatively, and magnificently alive.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1429922958

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9781429922951

Good Li’L Boys and Girls from the Lone Star State of Texas

Black Children Speak Series!

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt

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Good Li’L Boys and Girls from the Lone Star State of Texas

Black Children Speak Series!

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt

This book is one of twelve books of the Black Children Speak series. The books are compiled from the interviews taken from slaves by the interviewers of the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 19361938. Most of the ex-slaves giving the interviews were children during slavery and gave interviews of their experiences and insights about living on plantations. The ex-slaves answered questions on all aspects of the plantations in seventeen states of the United States before the Civil War. African-Americans were freed from slavery after the Civil War in 1865. The series is dedicated to all people.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524551864

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9781524551865

Prince of Darkness

By: Sharon Kay Penman

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Prince of Darkness

By: Sharon Kay Penman

The Edgar®-nominated author of the medieval mysteries featuring Justin de Quincy places the Queen’s Man far from home—and in the presence of a most cunning foe... Justin de Quincy has been lured to Paris by his nemesis, Prince John, on a mission of mercy. The prince is suspected in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard. Despite John’s hunger for the crown, he’s unwilling to put himself at risk for regicide—and he wants Justin’s help in discrediting the document that implicates him. Justin only concedes to John’s request when he realizes that the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, is also at risk. It is a concession that will take him to a bloody chamber at Mont St Michel, to a putrid dungeon in Brittany, to a murderous encounter in a Paris cemetery, and to the unraveling of a conspiracy that might have changed the course of English history.

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1440622760

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9781440622762

St. Louis Rising

The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive

By: Carl J. Ekberg,Sharon K. Person

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St. Louis Rising

The French Regime of Louis St. Ange de Bellerive

By: Carl J. Ekberg,Sharon K. Person

The standard story of St. Louis's founding tells of fur traders Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau hacking a city out of wilderness. St. Louis Rising overturns such gauzy myths with the contrarian thesis that French government officials and institutions shaped and structured early city society. Of the former, none did more than Louis St. Ange de Bellerive. His commitment to the Bourbon monarchy and to civil tranquility made him the prime mover as St. Louis emerged during the tumult following the French and Indian War. Drawing on new source materials, the authors delve into the complexities of politics, Indian affairs, slavery, and material culture that defined the city's founding period. Their alternative version of the oft-told tale uncovers the imperial realities--as personified by St. Ange--that truly governed in the Illinois Country of the time, and provide a trove of new information on everything from the fur trade to the arrival of the British and Spanish after the Seven Years' War.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252096932

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9780252096938

Flying Free

By: Sharon Dennis Wyeth

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Flying Free

By: Sharon Dennis Wyeth

In 1858, nine-year-old Corey Birdsong and his family, fugitive slaves from Kentucky, build a new life in Amherstburg, Canada, while still hoping to help those they left behind.

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Scholastic Inc.

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0439369088

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9780439369084

The Parable of Doña Éllèna

By: Sharon Torbett

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The Parable of Doña Éllèna

By: Sharon Torbett

Ellens husband has recently died by the hand of El Diego. With no reason left to live except to care for her young daughter, Ellen waits in terror for the day when El Diego comes to take their ranch and their lives. When the horsemen arrive on that beautiful spring day, is it the end she has been fearing, or has God answered her prayer and sent a Savior? In this parable of divine love, we journey with Ellen in a gripping tale of love and fear, life and deaththat will speak to the deepest places of your heart.

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WestBow Press

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1449762948

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9781449762940

Written in Time

By: Jerry Ahern,Sharon Ahern

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Written in Time

By: Jerry Ahern,Sharon Ahern

As a freelance writer, Jack Naile was used to getting an occasional letter from one of his readers, but when one of those readers sent him a clipping from a magazine, it would not only change his life, but could alter the course of history as well. The clipping had a photo, taken in Nevada in 1903, of a street scene, including a story with a sign, _Jack Naile¾General Merchandise.Ó Intrigued, Jack phoned the Nevada towns historian and asked for more information. When the historian sent him a photo of the 19th century Jack Naile, what had seemed like an interesting coincidence immediately became much more bizarre. The four people in the photo, dressed in the style of the time, were unmistakably Jack, his wife, their grown son and teenage daughter. Jack decided he would have to take a trip to that town to investigate further. And if he and his family were somehow going to travel back in time, he was going to be prepared¾and be well-armed. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1618247891

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9781618247896

The Jewish Story Finder

A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources, 2d ed.

By: Sharon Barcan Elswit

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The Jewish Story Finder

A Guide to 668 Tales Listing Subjects and Sources, 2d ed.

By: Sharon Barcan Elswit

Storytelling, as oral tradition and in writing, has long played a central role in Jewish society. Family, educators, and clergy employ stories to transmit Jewish culture, traditions, and values. This comprehensive bibliography identifies 668 Jewish folktales by title and subject, summarizing plot lines for easy access to the right story for any occasion. Some centuries old and others freshly imagined, the tales include animal fables, supernatural yarns, and anecdotes for festivals and holidays. Themes include justice, community, cause and effect, and mitzvahs, or good deeds. This second edition nearly doubles the number of stories and expands the guide's global reach, with new pieces from Turkey, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, and Chile. Subject cross-references and a glossary complete the volume, a living tool for understanding the ever-evolving world of Jewish folklore.

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McFarland

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0786448237

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9780786448234

Englisch Für Architekten und Bauingenieure

Ein Kompletter Projektablauf Auf Englisch Mit Vokabeln, Redewendungen, Übungen und Praxistipps ; Mit ... 30 Tabellen

By: Sharon Heidenreich

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Englisch Für Architekten und Bauingenieure

Ein Kompletter Projektablauf Auf Englisch Mit Vokabeln, Redewendungen, Übungen und Praxistipps ; Mit ... 30 Tabellen

By: Sharon Heidenreich

Das Tätigkeitsfeld des Planers im Baugeschehen wird zunehmend international. Absolventen und Arbeitssuchende orientieren sich vermehrt ins englischsprachige Ausland, wo derzeit ein Bedarf an Baufachleuten mit Hochschulabschluss besteht. Dieses Sprachlehrbuch knüpft an das vorhandene Schulenglisch an und bereitet den Leser durch Fachtexte, typische Dialoge und Geschäftsbriefe systematisch auf die Arbeit als Planer im und mit dem englischsprachigen Ausland vor. Besonders praxisnah ist die Gliederung des Buches in die einzelnen Planungs- und Ausführungsphasen eines Bauprojektes, was auch das gezielte Nachschlagen während eines Projektes ermöglicht. Übungen, ein Vokabelteil und praktische Tipps für die Bewerbung im Ausland ergänzen dieses Lehrbuch, das sowohl für das Selbststudium als auch kursbegleitend eingesetzt werden kann.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3834803154

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9783834803153

Mother of the Brontës

When Maria Met Patrick - 200th Anniversary Edition

By: Sharon Wright

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Mother of the Brontës

When Maria Met Patrick - 200th Anniversary Edition

By: Sharon Wright

The groundbreaking biography of Maria Branwell reveals a remarkable woman who has been lost in the shadows of her gifted children, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. The witty, clever and intrepid Cornish lady of letters, lover of Patrick and mother of genius has been missing for too long. The extraordinary Brontës were a family like no other and it all began when Maria met Patrick.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399018825

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9781399018821

Hauntingly Good Spirits

New Orleans Cocktails to Die For

By: Sharon Keating,Christi Keating Sumich

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Hauntingly Good Spirits

New Orleans Cocktails to Die For

By: Sharon Keating,Christi Keating Sumich

Capture the paranormal essence of New Orleans in a glass with 40 tasty, gothic, and unique cocktails designed for Spooky Season and the great beyond. Few places possess such a robust and thriving culture of death as does the soulful city of New Orleans. In this captivating cocktail book, travel enthusiasts and Big Easy locals Sharon Keating and Christi Keating Sumich take you on a historical romp through the supernatural by way of the NOLA bar scene and its spirits (the boos and the booze!) celebrating local New Orleans ingredients and the hometown mixologists who make them sing. Separated into five sections—Reverence and Revelry, Tomb Time, Ghosts & Haunted Libations, Vampire Bars with Killer Cocktails, and Voodoo & Witchcraft—Hauntingly Good Spirits unearths the eerie roots of the city’s culture as you savor spooky sips like: Corpse Reviver Spooky Smoked Sazerac The Soggy Grave Deadly Vipers Drunk Ghost Mistakes Were Made Bloody Gin Fizz Fang-ria Undead Gentleman The Gris-Gris Night Tripper Saint 75 And more! Work up a thirst exploring all the spooky NOLA places mentioned in the Haunted History sections and reference the Spirit Guide map for their locations throughout the city. Serving up cocktails that are delicious, steeped in spookiness, and historically accurate, let Hauntingly Good Spirits be your guide for your next trip to the City of the Dead during Spooky Season and beyond as you plunge into these decadent drinks and the creepy culture that inspired them.

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Wellfleet Press

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0760388873

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9780760388877

Banking on Slavery

Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

By: Sharon Ann Murphy

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Banking on Slavery

Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States

By: Sharon Ann Murphy

Sharon Murphy's book is a powerful and unprecedented dive into the entangled history of banking and slavery in nineteenth-century America. Slaveholders developed credit and creditworthiness by using enslaved people as collateral, and this allowed them to undertake an endless array of projects. But Murphy further shows that this credit system grew and changed as banks sought new ways to realize their own profits and power. She demonstrates not merely how slavery was financed by banks but how banks were financed by slavery. By extension, everything banks enabled, not least the physical expansion of the United States itself, was also then literally indebted to that noxious institution"--

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University of Chicago Press

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0226825132

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9780226825137

"My" Official Georgia Geechee Cookbook

Geechees, Low Country Cooking and History Facts

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt RD

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"My" Official Georgia Geechee Cookbook

Geechees, Low Country Cooking and History Facts

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt RD

THE GEECHEE COOKBOOK My Official Geechee Cookbook highlights Geechee low-country cooking and food preparations that were popularized on the Georgias barrier sea islands from the early 1700s until up to the end-of-the Civil War. A special effort has been made to include the similarities of possible African culture and slaves tradition on each island. Recorded history has been included about each area. Although much of the history has been lost, the slaves made do with what they were able to simulate from their culture. The efforts in this cookbook have been dedicated to the impact of the Geechee contributions to the state of Georgia. Some people in Georgia call themselves Gullah. However, my grandmother was a Geechee. The research honors her heritage. Gullahs are popular in the low country areas of the Carolinas. My Official Geechee Cookbook is a result of my research with certain people who said they were Geechee and collected recipes from these people. The cookbook is not comprehensive of all Geeches recipes. Historical influences surrounding the Geechees survival on the Georgia sea coastline from slavery until present day have been examined.

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Xlibris Corporation

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150354916X

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The Gonzales Connection

The History and Genealogy of the Dewitt and Jones Families

By: Sharon Anne Dobyns Moehring

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The Gonzales Connection

The History and Genealogy of the Dewitt and Jones Families

By: Sharon Anne Dobyns Moehring

This generation of DeWitt and Jones families are early settlers at Gonzales, Texas, and most probably richest in history. They had fought several wars against the Mexicans and Indians, and in Civil War. Green DeWitt is a founder and empresario of De Witt's Colony, and Sarah Seely DeWitt is a maker of "Come and Take It" Gonzales flag in Texas Independence. DeWitt and Jones men are the volunteers of Republic of Texas Army, Texas Rangers, Terry's Texas Rangers (Civil War), and Gonzales County Sheriffs. The book includes illustrations and photographs of families, manuscripts, maps, and genealogy.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412017882

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9781412017886

Disneyland and Beyond

Southern California Family Attractions

By: Judy Wade,Sharon Gillenwater,Stacy Ritz

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Disneyland and Beyond

Southern California Family Attractions

By: Judy Wade,Sharon Gillenwater,Stacy Ritz

The fourth edition of this guide which combines the most up-to-date information on Disneyland with extensive coverage on Southern California's other theme parks and on all the region's family attractions, including beaches, parks, restaurants, reasonably priced hotels and campgrounds.

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1569751269

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9781569751268

English for Planning and Building Professionals

Essential Vocabulary, Grammar and Expressions to Communicate Effectively in International Architecture and Engineering Projects

By: Sharon Heidenreich

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English for Planning and Building Professionals

Essential Vocabulary, Grammar and Expressions to Communicate Effectively in International Architecture and Engineering Projects

By: Sharon Heidenreich

This language course book provides the tools to communicate effectively throughout the development of construction projects. It includes the most important vocabulary, grammar and expressions for the successful collaboration in English-speaking planning teams. The 16 chapters are organised according to the planning phases of a project, introducing essential vocabulary from the brief and feasibility study through to the completion and acceptance of a scheme. The planning and development of a single-family home provides a framework to practise business skills, such as telephoning, writing emails and negotiating. Important grammar structures have been included to offer readers the opportunity to refresh and practise elements appropriate to the phase of construction. In addition to the book contents, readers have access not only to audios by scanning the QR codes at the conversations but also the Springer Nature Flashcards-App, which can be downloaded free of charge, to learn vocabulary more effectively with 320 digital flashcards. According to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, the level of this book is B2/C1.

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3658399619

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9783658399610

Writing Reconstruction

Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Postwar South

By: Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle

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Writing Reconstruction

Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the Postwar South

By: Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle

After the Civil War, the South was divided into five military districts occupied by Union forces. Out of these regions, a remarkable group of writers emerged. Experiencing the long-lasting ramifications of Reconstruction firsthand, many of these writers sought to translate the era's promise into practice. In fiction, newspaper journalism, and other forms of literature, authors including George Washington Cable, Albion Tourgee, Constance Fenimore Woolson, and Octave Thanet imagined a new South in which freedpeople could prosper as citizens with agency. Radically re-envisioning the role of women in the home, workforce, and marketplace, these writers also made gender a vital concern of their work. Still, working from the South, the authors were often subject to the whims of a northern literary market. Their visions of citizenship depended on their readership's deference to conventional claims of duty, labor, reputation, and property ownership. The circumstances surrounding the production and circulation of their writing blunted the full impact of the period's literary imagination and fostered a drift into the stereotypical depictions and other strictures that marked the rise of Jim Crow. Sharon D. Kennedy-Nolle blends literary history with archival research to assess the significance of Reconstruction literature as a genre. Founded on witness and dream, the pathbreaking work of its writers made an enduring, if at times contradictory, contribution to American literature and history.

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UNC Press Books

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1469621088

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9781469621081

Shield Maiden

By: Sharon Emmerichs

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Shield Maiden

By: Sharon Emmerichs

Both epic and intimate, Sharon Emmerichs's extraordinary debut novel reimagines Beowulf from the perspective of a young woman reclaiming her power. All her life, Fryda has longed to be a shield maiden, an honor reserved for Geatland’s mightiest warriors. When a childhood accident leaves her tragically injured and unfit for the battlefield, her dreams are dashed—or so she thinks. But a strange, unfathomable power is awakening within her, a power that will soon be put to the test. For when foreign lords and chieftains descend upon Fryda’s home to celebrate her uncle King Beowulf’s fifty-year reign, she realizes not all their guests come with good intentions. Treachery is afoot, and Fryda must gather her courage to fight for her people…as a queen should—as a shield maiden would—and as only Fryda can. But as Fryda’s power grows stronger, something ancient hears its call. For buried deep in her gilded lair, a dragon awakens…and Fryda must prove herself once and for all. Praise for Shield Maiden: "A heroine with a generous spirit, an unshakable will, and a dragon's fury." —H. M. Long, author of Hall of Smoke "Casts a superb spell. Shimmering with detail, with a propulsive plot to match" —D. K. Fields, author of the Tales of Fenest trilogy

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Redhook

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0316566926

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Daniel Boone Homestead

By: Sharon Hernes Silverman

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Daniel Boone Homestead

By: Sharon Hernes Silverman

A brief biography of Daniel Boone, with details on his youth in the Oley Valley of Pennsylvania, and the history of the Homestead's later occupants, who reflect the diversity of European settlers in Colonial Pennsylvania. Concludes with a tour of the Boone House and other buildings on the grounds.

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Stackpole Books

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0811727327

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The Freedom of the Streets

Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City

By: Sharon E. Wood

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The Freedom of the Streets

Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City

By: Sharon E. Wood

Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods. The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807876534

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9780807876534

(My Version) Proposed -The Best 17Th Century North Carolina Black Cooks

First Thanksgiving and Christmas Emanuel Cookbook

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt R.D.

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(My Version) Proposed -The Best 17Th Century North Carolina Black Cooks

First Thanksgiving and Christmas Emanuel Cookbook

By: Sharon Kaye Hunt R.D.

The Eight Book Series are dedicated to the First Slaves’ Thanksgiving and Christmas Dinners Celebrations in the United States who arrived before 1600s. The first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims has made history since 1621. The first slaves arrived in South Carolina in the 1520s. Even though slavery was very harsh, the slaves were able to create meals from whatever was available. The slaves carved cooking and eating utensils from wood from different varieties of trees. Even though the slaves were treated terribly and prohibited from reading, writing, or going to church, the slaves were able to get patents and serve in the Civil War.

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182

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Xlibris Corporation

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1664131132

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9781664131132

The Storyteller's Daughter

Where the Story Begins

By: Sharon Dawn Selby

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The Storyteller's Daughter

Where the Story Begins

By: Sharon Dawn Selby

On her seventeenth birthday, Skye MacNamara loses both her parents after their car plunges into a river. With unseemly haste, her parents are declared dead (despite the absence of bodies) and every trace that they existed is erased. Suspicious, Skye begins asking questions and soon the carefully constructed lies that held her life together fall apart. Nothing and no one is what it seems as Skye finds herself thrust into a mythical world where stories shape reality; where memories are so tangible she physically steps into them. At the heart of The Storyteller's Daughter lies the legend of the seannachie (pronounced "shawn-aw-key"), the traditional storyteller and myth-keeper of the Scottish clans. Combining realism and fantasy, readers are drawn into a world at once familiar and unsettling. Gods and mythical creatures walk in this world, brought here by Skye's mother, a seannachie who has become spellbound by a story that lets her forget a harsh reality. Skye and her two best friends set out on a quest to rescue her-even if she no longer wants to be saved....

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FriesenPress

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1460259017

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9781460259016

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