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Guntersville

By: Whitney A. Snow and Barbara J. Snow

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Long before the creation of its famous lake in 1939, Guntersville had a reputation for ferries, farms, and factories. Its streets bustled with customers patronizing shops, cafés, and movie theaters. Ranging from the Nedofik Surgical Sofa Company and the Basket Factory to the Saratoga Victory Mills, Guntersville's diverse industries helped the community thrive. Today, businesses like Wayne Farms Feedmill and Kappler, Inc., continue to reflect the city's industrial nature. This rich manufacturing history coupled with lake tourism meant Guntersville drew visits from an array of actors, singers, authors, scientists, and politicians. Many came frequently, and a few chose to stay. A mesh of new and old, industry and lake, Guntersville continues to charm.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467105643

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ONE MAN'S PROMISE

By: Diana Whitney

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ONE MAN'S PROMISE

By: Diana Whitney

Fabulous Fathers THE DADHis daughter was in love—with a dog! Richard Matthews had nothing against Rags, but the dog's owner, lovely C.J.Moray, was another matter. With a charming grin, she tempted him into very unfatherly thoughts…. THE DAMSEL C.J. saw Richard's struggle with fatherhood, and longed to help. But how? THE FAMILY Once Richard saw the joy that C.J. brought, he didn't want her to go. Could he convince the wary woman that the best things in life start with two—and go on to four? Fabulous Fathers Have more than enough to share!

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Harlequin

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1459266285

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The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library

Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak

By: Michael Posluns,Bruce W. Hodgins,S.L. Osborne,Kerry Karram,Ken S. Coates,P. Whitney Lackenbauer,William R. Morrion,Greg Poelzer,Anthony Dalton,Alexis S. Troubetzkoy,John David Hamilton,Claudia Coutu Radmore

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The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library

This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this land, and the area will only become more strategically and economically important in the future. This bundle provides an in-depth crash course, including titles on Arctic exploration (Arctic Obsession), Native issues (Arctic Twilight), sovereignty (In the Shadow of the Pole), adventure and survival (Death Wins in the Arctic), and military issues (Arctic Front). Let this collection be your guide to the far reaches of this country. Arctic Front Arctic Naturalist Arctic Obsession Arctic Revolution Arctic Twilight Death Wins in the Arctic In the Shadow of the Pole Pike’s Portage Voices From the Odeyak

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1459729560

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9781459729568

An Elephant in the Living Room

Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"?

By: Wendell Whitney Thorne

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An Elephant in the Living Room

Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"?

By: Wendell Whitney Thorne

If You Hate Lawyers, you'll Love An Elephant In The Living Room - Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"? The United States has drifted away from the Founders' concept of "We The People" to a nation gripped by the rule of Law. Nearly everything we do on a daily basis from before we're born until after we die falls under the cloud of The Law. Worse than that, in the past several decades The Law has deputized us into a legion of civil litigants and pseudo-prosecutors who have been conditioned to seek legal retribution for every conceivable wrongdoing of another. The problem? The Law is a shaky house of cards poorly constructed and self-affirmed by her well-paid practitioners, whose sole goal is to stir the pot of dispute amongst The People to feed the greedy monster called "The Law," and to line the pockets of her lawyers. An Elephant In The Living Room - Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"? is one insider's view--one who's "been there, done that"--of The Law; how it hurts, how it hinders, and how it subtlely but deftly burdens The People with mind-boggling constraints on Liberty, Life and the Pursuit of Happiness. An Elephant In The Living Room - Is It Too Late To "Kill All The Lawyers"?, through both personal experience anecdotes as well as historically significant legal cases, tells it like it is in layman's language while offering inspiration and encouragement, empowering The People to take our Country back!

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AuthorHouse

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1438963823

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9781438963822

The Canadian Rangers

A Living History

By: P. Whitney Lackenbauer

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The Canadian Rangers

A Living History

By: P. Whitney Lackenbauer

The Canadian Rangers stand sentinel in the farthest reaches of our country. For more than six decades, this dedicated group of citizen-soldiers has quietly served as Canada's eyes, ears, and voice in isolated coastal and northern communities. Drawing on official records, interviews, and participation in Ranger exercises, Lackenbauer argues that the organization offers an inexpensive way for Canada to "show the flag" from coast to coast to coast. The Rangers have also laid the foundation for a successful partnership between the modern state and Aboriginal peoples, a partnership rooted in local knowledge and crosscultural understanding.

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UBC Press

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0774824549

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9780774824545

THE RAVEN MASTER

By: Diana Whitney

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THE RAVEN MASTER

By: Diana Whitney

Where there's smoke… Darby Ridge, Oregon, had always been a welcome sanctuary for Janine Taylor, a refuge from a troubled past. But all that changed when fire swept through the isolated town, leaving fear and suspicion in its wake, and a mysterious stranger came to her door—a man who knew far more about that terrible tragedy than any stranger could…. Keeping a boardinghouse had long accustomed Janine to dealing with disturbing characters, but she had never had a guest like Quinn Coulliard. For there was in this dark, dangerous man a strange, compelling gentleness that could draw a wild raven to him at a whispered command and awaken Janine's long-buried passions with a single mesmerizing glance….

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Harlequin

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1460362071

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Collected Works

A Journal of Jazz 1954-2001

By: Whitney Balliett

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Collected Works

A Journal of Jazz 1954-2001

By: Whitney Balliett

Jazz critic for The New Yorker since 1957 and the author of some fifteen books, Whitney Balliett has spent a lifetime listening to and writing about jazz. "All first-rate criticism," he once wrote in a review, "first defines what we are confronting." He could as easily have been describing his own work. For nearly half a century, Balliett has been telling us, in his widely acclaimed pitch-perfect prose, what we are confronting when we listen to America's greatest—and perhaps only original—musical form. Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2001 is a monumental achievement, capturing the full range and register of the jazz scene, from the very first Newport Jazz Festival to recent performances (in clubs and on CDs) by a rising generation of musicians. Here are definitive portraits of such major figures as Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, Martha Raye, Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday, Art Tatum, Bessie Smith, and Earl Hines—a list that barely scratches the surface. Generations of readers have learned to listen to the music with Balliett's graceful guidance. For five decades he has captured those moments during which jazz history is made. Though Balliett's knowledge is an encyclopedic treasure, he has always written as if he were listening for the first time. Since its beginnings in New Orleans at the turn of the century, jazz has been restlessly and relentlessly evolving. This is an art form based on improvising, experimenting, shapeshifting—a constant work in progress of sounds and tonal shades, from swing and Dixieland, through boogie-woogie, bebop, and hard bop, to the "new thing," free jazz, abstract jazz, and atonal jazz. Yet, in all its forms, the music is forever sustained by what Balliett calls a "secret emotional center," an "aural elixir" that "reveals itself when an improvised phrase or an entire solo or even a complete number catches you by surprise." Balliett's celebrated essays invariably capture the so-called "sound of surprise"—and then share this sound with general readers, music students, jazz lovers, and popular American culture buffs everywhere. As The Los Angeles Times Book Review has observed, "Few people can write as well about anything as Balliett writes about jazz.

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Macmillan

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0312270089

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9780312270087

The Fire Artist

By: Daisy Whitney

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The Fire Artist

By: Daisy Whitney

Aria is an elemental artist-she creates fire from her hands. But her power is not natural. She steals it from lightning. It's dangerous and illegal in her world. When she's recruited to perform in a League of artists, she seizes the chance to get away from her family. But her power is fading too fast to keep stealing from the sky. She has no choice but to turn to a Granter-a modern day genie. She gets one wish and the price is extremely high. Aria's willing to take a chance, but then she falls in love with the Granter . . . and he wants his freedom. Aria must decide how much she's willing to bargain and how much her own heart, body, and soul are worth. In a world where the sport of elemental powers is as popular as the NFL, readers will be swept away by a romance with stakes higher than life and death. Critically acclaimed author Daisy Whitney brings thrilling (and dangerous) imagination to her second YA fantasy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1619633922

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Verdi in America

Oberto Through Rigoletto

By: George Whitney Martin

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Verdi in America

Oberto Through Rigoletto

By: George Whitney Martin

A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way into America's musical life.

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University Rochester Press

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1580463886

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9781580463881

Thanksgiving at the Inn

By: Tim Whitney

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Thanksgiving at the Inn

By: Tim Whitney

The quirky characters who gather around the Thanksgiving table at the inn help each other learn the true meaning of gratitude. As they face their struggles, they teach each other to be grateful for life's many blessings. Told through the eyes of young Heath, this is a story of family values, of coming together, and of learning life lessons too easily forgotten. An inspiring tale of fathers and sons and the strangers in their lives.

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Bancroft Press

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1890862746

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9781890862749

The Crimson Gate

By: Whitney A. Miller

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The Crimson Gate

By: Whitney A. Miller

Harlow Wintergreen has just been named the new Matriarch of VisionCrest, but there’s one big problem: the real Harlow is trapped inside a Cambodian temple, and her double, the evil Isiris, is masquerading as her. Now initiated as the organization’s leader, Isiris intends to unleash a deadly super-virus aimed at ridding the planet of VisionCrest.

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North Star Editions, Inc.

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0738744182

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9780738744186

Nancy Hanks

An Intimate Portrait : the Creation of a National Commitment to the Arts

By: Michael Whitney Straight

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Nancy Hanks

An Intimate Portrait : the Creation of a National Commitment to the Arts

By: Michael Whitney Straight

Nancy Hanks, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 1969 to 1977, turned this fledgling organization into a major instrument for government support of the arts—accomplishing thereby a virtual revolution in the public arts policy of the United States. She died of cancer on January 7, 1983; later that year, at the request of Congress, President Ronald Reagan designated the building complex at Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street (the "Old Post Office") in Washington, D.C., as the Nancy Hanks Center. This biography captures the spirit and the flavor of Ms. Hanks's remarkable life, above all during the eight years in which she led the Endowment. Tracing her childhood in Florida and North Carolina through her achievements as a student leader at Duke University, Straight makes clear her conscious effort to find a path with more scope than the usual marriage-and-a-family when expected of Southern women. Nancy Hanks went to Washington and found a job with the Office of War Mobilization. She later worked with Nelson Rockefeller, who became governor of New York, a Republican party luminary, and vice president under Gerald Ford, in addition to being an heir to one of America's greatest fortunes. Her relationship with Rockefeller was crucial to her personal life, and his conception of government and its role and a lasting influence on her career. Straight examines Nancy Hanks's leadership of the NEA and takes particular note of the intense debate over the role of government in fostering American artistic expression, an issue with roots running back through the New Deal to the early history of the United States. Nancy Hanks took a strong and activist role in the formulation and administration of a national arts policy, and her accomplishments have left an indelible mark on public support for arts in the United States. Straight, who worked closely with Ms. Hanks and admired her despite frequent policy disagreements, deals honestly with both the successes and failures of her efforts. His biography imparts a sense of the reasons why her many friends felt such loyalty to this complex and gifted woman.

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Duke University Press

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082230869X

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9780822308690

The Winter People

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

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The Winter People

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

From a New York Times–bestselling author: In a lakeside mansion, a beautiful young bride becomes the snowbound prisoner of a dark family secret. When Manhattan art curator Diana Blake married gallery owner Glen Chandler, she was certain she knew him well enough to devote the rest of her life to him. He was the son of a renowned artist; he sculpted things of beauty in alabaster; and he loved her. It was only when Glen took her home to his family’s lakeside Victorian mansion in the snowy Jersey hills that Diana realized how much more there was to learn about the handsome stranger to whom she’d given her heart. Glen’s family and servants were not the welcoming hosts she’d hoped for—especially Glen’s twin sister, Glynis, his shattering opposite, who holds a sinister influence over him. And in High Towers itself, Diana found a monolith as ice-cold as the frozen Gray Rocks Lake where Glen’s mother had mysteriously drowned. It’s here where a secret rivalry between a brother and sister will begin as a game—and draw Diana deep into a chilling family history. The New York Times hailed Edgar Award–winning Phyllis A. Whitney as “the queen of the American gothics.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.

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Open Road Media

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1504046978

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Robert Smithson

By: Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art

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Robert Smithson

By: Robert Smithson,Eugenie Tsai,Cornelia H. Butler,Thomas E. Crow,Alexander Alberro,Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, Calif.),Moira Roth,Whitney Museum of American Art

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0520244095

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The Moonflower

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

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The Moonflower

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

The wife of a scientist fights for her marriage—and her husband’s sanity—in postwar Japan in this novel by “a superb and gifted story teller” (Mary Higgins Clark). When Jerome Talbot’s brilliant career as an atomic physicist leads him once again to Japan, his wife, Marcia, knows it means yet another long separation, but she hopes to reunite with him soon. Confidently awaiting word to join him, she is blindsided when she receives a letter demanding divorce. Stunned and hurt, she leaves their home in Hawaii to confront Jerome in Kyoto, certain she’ll get an explanation to heal her wounded heart. But when Marcia arrives, she can’t be sure of anything . . . Jerome has become a stranger—obsessed, cruel, unhinged, and resolved never to return home—committed only to his work, which reaches back to World War II. Even more peculiar, he’s living in unusual intimacy with a a close-knit, unnervingly private Japanese family whom Marcia is forbidden to talk to and to whom Jerome seems not only beholden, but enslaved. Marcia resolves to stay in Kyoto until she discovers the secret driving her husband mad—and the truth behind a terrible legacy that could threaten both their lives. A “brilliant, absorbing, [and] moving” novel of romantic suspense by a New York Times–bestselling, multiple award–winning author—who was herself born in Yokohama—The Moonflower is an authentic exploration of life in postwar Japan, as well as a chilling tale of guilt, family secrets, and a marriage at risk in the never-forgotten shadow of Hiroshima (Richmond Times-Dispatch). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.

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150404388X

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Splattered Ink

Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence

By: Sarah E Whitney

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Splattered Ink

Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence

By: Sarah E Whitney

In-depth and refreshingly readable, Splattered Ink is a bold analysis of postfeminist gothic, a literary genre that continues to jar readers, reject happy endings, and find powerful new ways to talk about violence against women. Sarah E. Whitney explores the genre's challenge to postfeminist assumptions of women's equality and empowerment. The authors she examines--Patricia Cornwell, Jodi Picoult, Susanna Moore, Sapphire, and Alice Sebold--construct narratives around socially invisible and physically broken protagonists who directly experience consequences of women's ongoing disempowerment. Their works ask readers to inhabit women's suffering and to face the uncomfortable, all-too-denied fact that today's women must navigate lives fraught with risk. Whitney's analysis places the authors within a female gothic tradition that has long given voice to women's fears of their own powerlessness. But she also reveals the paradox that allows the genre to powerfully critique postfeminism's often sunshiney outlook while uneasily coexisting within the same universe.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252098897

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9780252098895

Martin Groundhog and the Great Grey Snow Beast

By: Whitney Anruth

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Martin Groundhog and the Great Grey Snow Beast

By: Whitney Anruth

All groundhogs hibernate. In early winter each check their burrows and build up a nest of grass, leaves and soft dirt. They eat heartily to add a few pounds and after pushing and packing dirt across the tunnel as a door crawl into the nest for a long sleep. While certain famous groundhogs have fancy dens and are better known, not one of them, fresh from their winter's sleep, has had to face the Great Grey Snow Beast.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1640821155

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Katharine Whitney Curtis

Mother of Synchronized Swimming

By: Jordan Whitney-Wei

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Katharine Whitney Curtis

Mother of Synchronized Swimming

By: Jordan Whitney-Wei

How do you invent an Olympic sport? For Katharine Whitney Curtis, it took the right idea, great talent, some good timing, and the determination to make it happen. The originator of synchronized swimming as we know it today, she even wrote the first book on the subject in 1936. But there was much more to her life and career. After the start of World War II, Curtis became a recreational director in the American Red Cross and followed the troops wherever the course of war took them, serving under Generals Patton and Eisenhower, before becoming a director of travel for the U.S. Army in Europe during the Cold War. Unbound by fear or the narrow expectations of society, this was a woman who lived ahead of her time, making things happen along the way. As her first biography, this book generously features Curtis's own words, selected from more than 2,000 pages of letters, and contextualized by her surviving friends and family members.

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McFarland

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1476638233

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9781476638232

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