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“james robert saunders”

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  • Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia

    An Oral History of Vinegar Hill

    by James Robert Saunders, Renae Nadine Shackelford ...
    From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and "substandard" conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would be redeveloped. Charlottesville's black residents lost a cultural center, largely because they were ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Howard Frank Mosher and the Classics

    Echoes in the Vermont Writer's Works

    by James Robert Saunders ...
    Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

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  • LOVE

    Quotes and Passages from the Heart

    by B.C. Aronson ...
    “True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”—Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Writer“To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Twenty-five Books That Shaped America

    How White Whales, Green Lights, and Restless Spirits Forged Our National Identity

    by Thomas C. Foster ...
    From the author of the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor comes a highly entertaining and informative book on the twenty-five works of literature that have most shaped the American character.Thomas C. Foster applies his much-loved combination of wit, know-how, and analysis to explain how each work has shaped our very existence as readers, students, teachers, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Spoon River Anthology

    by Edgar Lee Masters, Ronald Primeau ...
    A landmark of American literature told in dramatic monologues that topples the myth of the moral superiority of small-town lifeIn 1915, Edgar Lee Masters published a book written in free verse about a fictional town called Spoon River, based on the Midwestern towns where he grew up. The shocking scandals and secret tragedies of Spoon River were immediately recognized by readers as authentic. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Harlem Renaissance

    by the late Nathan Irvin Huggins ...
    A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to American Literature

    by Laurie Rozakis ...
    You're no idiot, of course. You know that Samuel Clemens had a better-known pen name, Moby Dick is a famous whale, and the Raven only said,"Nevermore." But when it comes to understanding the great works of Mark Twain, Herman Melville, and Edgar Allan Poe, you'd rather rent the videos than head to your local library. Don't tear up your library card yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to American ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Zora Neale Hurston

    A Life in Letters

    by Carla Kaplan Ph.D. ...
    “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the ... Read more

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  • The Best American Poetry 2012

    Series Editor David Lehman

    by Mark Doty ...
    Mark Doty brings the vitality and imagination that illuminate his own work to his selections for the twenty-fifth volume in the Best American Poetry series. He has chosen poems of high moral earnestness and poems in a comic register; poems that tell stories and poems that test the boundaries of innovative composition. This landmark edition includes David Lehman’s keen look at American poetry in ... Read more

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  • Honey for a Woman's Heart

    Growing Your World through Reading Great Books

    by Gladys Hunt ...
    Vibrates with encouragement for women who want to explore and enjoy the world of booksGladys Hunt, long-time advocate of reading and author of the cherished Honey for a Child’s Heart, has written this new book for busy women who want a wider worldview and stimulus for intellectual and emotional growth. Honey for a Woman’s Heart explores:* The wonder of words, language, and reading* What good books ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave

    Containing His History of 25 Years in Bondage, and His Providential Escape

    by John Thompson ...
    The unique narrative of a slave who fled to freedom and sailed aboard a whaling vesselJohn Thompson was born into slavery on a Maryland plantation in 1812. Originally published in 1856, The Life of John Thompson, a Fugitive Slave chronicles his enslavement, his escape, and his life in the North, where he lived as a free man until fear of recapture drove him to flee once again-this time to sea ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mark Twain

    The Adventures of Samuel L. Clemens

    by Jerome Loving ...
    Mark Twain, who was often photographed with a cigar, once remarked that he came into the world looking for a light. In this new biography, published on the centennial of the writer’s death, Jerome Loving focuses on Mark Twain, humorist and quipster, and sheds new light on the wit, pathos, and tragedy of the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In brisk and compelling fashion, Loving follows ... Read more

    $27.59 USD