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BJ Mayo
Alfie Carter: A Novel
The seemingly never-ending Cabinda War (1975—) has left multitudes dead in its wake and thousands of children homeless and orphaned. Jackaleena N’denga, a young Angolan girl, has become the sole survivor of one specifically brutal village massacre carried out by a band of guerrilla boy-soldie...
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Jihoon Kim
Between Film, Video, and the Digital: Hybrid Moving Images in the Post-Media Age (International Texts in Critical Media Aesthetics)
Encompassing experimental film and video, essay film, gallery-based installation art, and digital art, Jihoon Kim establishes the concept of hybrid moving images as an array of impure images shaped by the encounters and negotiations between different media, while also using it to explore various the...
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Jing Wang
The Story of Stone: Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to
In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminat...
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Alison J. Kay PhD PhD
What if There's Nothing Wrong?
Have you been feeling like life has become less reliable and stable? Are you looking for more hope, health and calm in your life? You’re not alone. There are external factors causing these feelings. You will be completely unable to remain the same as this book weaves you through the world as we ha...
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Charlie LeDuff
Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy "Except for a few drinks, nothing is free in Charlie LeDuff's blunt and touching Work and Other Sins . The laughter and wisdom are hard won, the lessons are often painful... the sad tales and wit from the bar rail are e...
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Bruce Newman
A Beginner's Guide to Tibetan Buddhism: Practice, Community, and Progress on the Path
Uncover the nature of the mind with this ground-level, practice-oriented presentation of Tibetan Buddhism. A personal and accessible guide to establishing progress on the path. The book begins with the awakening of students' interest in spirituality and the initial encounter with Tibetan Buddhism,...
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Charles Convis
Outlaw Tales of Texas: True Stories Of The Lone Star State's Most Infamous Crooks, Culprits, And Cutthroats
A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the West. Meet the Most Notorious Texans Who Ever LivedRide with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strategies with con artists, hiss at lawmen turned outlaws. Fr...
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A.B. Mitford
Japanese Legends and Folklore: Samurai Tales, Ghost Stories, Legends, Fairy Tales and Historical Accounts
Japanese Legends and Folklore invites English speakers into the intriguing world of Japanese folktales, ghost stories and historical eyewitness accounts. With a fascinating selection of stories about Japanese culture and history, A.B. Mitford—who lived and worked in Japan as a British diplomat—...
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Michael Parker
Through Middle Eastern Eyes: A Life of Kenneth E. Bailey
Kenneth E. Bailey was both a missionary and a New Testament scholar. As a missionary, first in Egypt and later in Lebanon, Israel-Palestine, and Cyprus, he experienced firsthand the life of traditional Middle Eastern villagers, which led him to the conclusion that the village culture he witnessed in...
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Karen Cushman
When Sally O'Malley Discovered the Sea
From the Newbery-Award winning author of Catherine, Called Birdy and The Midwife's Apprentice comes the story of an orphan who decides to go west--with nothing but gumption as her guide. Sally O'Malley is an orphan working at a mineral spring hotel in the woods of central Oregon--that is, unti...
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N. H. Senzai
Prince Among Slaves: The Remarkable True Story of an African Prince Enslaved in Mississippi, and His Journey Home
The extraordinary and consequential biography of Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a Muslim West African prince turned enslaved plantation worker, and his lifelong fight to be free and return home. In 1762, Prince Abdulrahman Sori was born in West Africa’s prosperous kingdom of Futa Jallon. His name...
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dDamian Foreman
Resilience: The Life and Grand Canyon Art of Curt Walters
A career retrospective and biography of one of our foremost Grand Canyon painters. In the arts of the American West, two names are inextricably linked: Curt Walters and Grand Canyon. Documenting Walters’ career as a master painter of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, author dDamien ...
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Marc Harshman
Dispatch from the Mountain State: Poems
Dispatch from the Mountain State encompasses the trademark themes of a mature poet—death, despair, dread, and the seeming randomness with which all of these come into life. The dispatches provide, if sometimes obliquely, a keen awareness of the troubled times within which we live, whether the flas...
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Charles River Editors
The Santa Fe Trail: The History and Legacy of 19th Century America’s Most Popular Overland Route to the Southwest
*Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading The Lewis and Clark Expedition, notwithstanding its merits as a feat of exploration, was also the first tentative claim on the vast interior and the western seaboard of North America by the United States. It set in motion the great move...
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Anderson
Massacre in Minnesota
In August 1862 the worst massacre in U.S. history unfolded on the Minnesota prairie, launching what has come to be known as the Dakota War, the most violent ethnic conflict ever to roil the nation. When it was over, between six and seven hundred white settlers had been murdered in their homes, and t...
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Jay Parini
New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015
A new book, the first in over a decade, from acclaimed poet Jay Parini This volume revolves around his deep connection to nature and underlines his concerns about the impacts of pollution and climate change. In these beautiful, haunting poems, Parini writes about the landscapes of mining country, ...
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James K. Crissman
Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices
James Crissman explores cultural traits related to death and dying in Appalachian sections of Tennessee, Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia, showing how they have changed since the 1600s. Relying on archival materials, almost forty photographs, and interviews with more than 400 mo...
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Amos Oz
In The Land Of Israel: An Insider's View of Israeli Politics and Society Through Arab and Israeli Voices
“An exemplary instance of a writer using his craft to come to grips with what is happening politically and to illuminate certain aspects of Israeli society that have generally been concealed by polemical formulas.” — The New York Times Notebook in hand, Amos Oz traveled throughout Israel and...
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J R Sanders
Stardust Trail: A Nate Ross Novel
2021 Spur Award Finalist (Best Western Historical Novel) 2021 Silver Falchion Award Finalist (Best Investigator) Against his better judgment, Hollywood-hating private investigator Nate Ross takes on a Tinseltown case in the spring of 1938. It sounds like a milk run: find an alcoholic screenwrit...
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Jean Raspail
The Camp of the Saints
A migrant fleet, a million strong, sets sail from Calcutta. Its destination: Europe. As the fleet advances, the continent is submerged under a torrent of words. Will the old nations of Europe resist the migrants or welcome them? Honor their past or embrace the radiant future? Open fire or open their...
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