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  • The Remembered Gate

    Memoirs by Alabama Writers

    by Mary Ward Brown, Patricia Foster, Frye Gaillard, Robert Inman, C. Eric Lincoln, James Haskins, Wayne Greenhaw, Andrew Hudgins, Rodney Jones, Phyllis Alesia Perry, William Cobb, Sena Jeter Naslund, Charles Gaines, Albert Murray, Fannie Flagg, Mark Kennedy, Andrew Glaze, Helen Bell Norris, Ms. Nanci Kincaid ...
    Series series Deep South Books
    Showcases nineteen nationally known writers who have roots in AlabamaIn The Remembered Gate, nationally prominent fiction writers, essayists, and poets recall how their formative years in Alabama shaped them as people and as writers. The essays range in tone from the pained and sorrowful to the wistful and playful, in class from the privileged to the poverty-stricken, in geography from the rural ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation

    by Louis A Rabb, Roberta S. Maguire, Lauren Walsh, John F Callahan, Carol Friedman, Albert Murray, Greg Thomas, Anne-Katrin Gramberg, Caroline Gebhard, Don Noble, Maurice Pogue, Bert Hitchcock, Sidney Offit, Sanford Pinsker, Paul Devlin, Eugene Holley, Robin DuBlanc, Dr. Barbara A. Baker, PhD, Ms. Jay Lamar, Mr. Gail Buckley, Mr. Elizabeth Mayer Fiedorek ...
    The first book-length study of the writings, work, and life of Renaissance man and Alabama native Albert MurrayThis collection consists of essays written by prominent African American literature, jazz, and Albert Murray scholars, reminiscences from Murray protégés and associates, and interviews with Murray himself. It illustrates Murray’s place as a central figure in African American arts and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Tohopeka

    Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812

    by Susan M. Abram, Dr. Kathryn H. Braund, Dr. Robert P. Collins, Dr. Gregory Evans Dowd, Ph.D., Dr. John E Grenier, Ph.D., Mr. David S. Heidler, Ph.D., Dr. Jeanne T. Heidler, Ph.D., Mr. Ted Isham, Mr. Ove Jensen0, Dr. Tom Kanon, Ph.D.1, Ms. Jay Lamar2, Mr. Robert G. Thrower Jr., Ph.D.4, Mr. James W. Parker, Ph.D.5, Mr. Gregory A. Waselkov Jr.6, Dr. Craig T. Sheldon Jr., Ph.D.7 ...
    Tohopeka contains a variety of perspectives and uses a wide array of evidence and approaches, from scrutiny of cultural and religious practices to literary and linguistic analysis, to illuminate this troubled period.Almost two hundred years ago, the territory that would become Alabama was both ancient homeland and new frontier where a complex network of allegiances and agendas was playing out. The ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Anne of Green Gables (1908) is a bestselling novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery. Written as fiction for readers of all ages, the literary classic has been considered a children's novel since the mid-twentieth century. It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, a young orphan girl mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who have a farm on Prince ... Read more

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  • Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

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    An illuminating study of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel with special attention to its film versions. From its first publication in 1955 Nabokov's Lolita has been denounced as immoral filth, hailed as a moral masterpiece, and both praised and damned for stylistic excess. In this fresh appraisal John Lennard provides convenient overviews of Nabokov's life and of the novel (including both ... Read more

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  • The Life of a Slave Girl

    by Harriet Jacobs ...
    I was born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in his trade, that, when buildings out of the common line were to be erected, he was sent for from long distances, to be head workman. On condition of paying his mistress two hundred dollars a year, and supporting himself, he was allowed to ... Read more

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  • Main Street

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    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    Young college graduate Carol Kennicott moves from a big city to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, the small town from which her new husband hails. Imbued with ideals of urban improvement, she dreams of redesigning her adopted village, but her efforts are thwarted by the narrow-mindedness, pettiness and conventionality of the locals, who conspire against her and deride all her endeavours.An enormous ... Read more

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  • The Origin of Others

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series Book 56 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? ... Read more

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  • The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois

    With a Critical Introduction by Patricia H. Hinchey

    by Patricia H. Hinchey ...
    Series Book 2 - Timely Classics in Education
    W. E. B. Du Bois’s seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, not only captures the experience of African Americans in the years following the Civil War but also speaks to contemporary conditions. At a time when American public schools are increasingly re-segregating, are increasingly underfunded, and are perhaps nearly as separate and unequal as they were in earlier decades, this classic can help ... Read more

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  • The Custom of the Country

    by Edith Wharton ...
    "The Custom of the Country" is a novel by Edith Wharton, first published in 1913. It is the tale of a country girl called Undine Spragg and her attempt to climb the ladder of New York City society. An entertaining and authentic look at American high society, "The Custom of the Country" will not disappoint those who have read and enjoyed other works by this author. Edith Wharton (January 24, 1862 - ... Read more

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  • Writing Beyond Race

    Living Theory and Practice

    by bell hooks ...
    What are the conditions needed for our nation to bridge cultural and racial divides? By "writing beyond race," noted cultural critic bell hooks models the constructive ways scholars, activists, and readers can challenge and change systems of domination.In the spirit of previous classics like Outlaw Culture and Reel to Real, this new collection of compelling essays interrogates contemporary ... Read more

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  • Raisin Wine

    A Boyhood in a Different Muskoka

    by James K. Bartleman ...
    A warm, at times hilarious, yet dark childhood memoir from a bestselling author.This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario’s future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than life-characters, and descriptions of the mores of a small village in the heart of Ontario’s cottage country ... Read more

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