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  • The Remembered Gate

    Memoirs by Alabama Writers

    by Patricia Foster, Frye Gaillard, Robert Inman, C. Eric Lincoln, James Haskins, Wayne Greenhaw, 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, Ms. Mary Ward Brown, Ms. Andrew Hudgins ...
    Series series Deep South Books
    Nineteen acclaimed writers reflect on the Alabama landscapes, memories, and experiences that shaped their voices.In 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 ... 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 ...
    Reimagining America Through the Blues, Jazz, and the Cultural Vision of Albert Murray.This 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 letters and as an American ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Tohopeka

    Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812

    by Dr. Kathryn H. Braund, Dr. Gregory Evans Dowd, Ph.D., Dr. John E Grenier, Ph.D., Dr. Jeanne T. Heidler, Ph.D., Dr. Tom Kanon, Ph.D., Mr. Gregory A. Waselkov Jr., Susan M. Abram, Dr. Robert P. Collins, Mr. David S. Heidler, Ph.D.0, Mr. Ted Isham, Ph.D.1, Mr. Ove Jensen2, Ms. Jay Lamar, Ph.D.3, Mr. James W. Parker, Ph.D.5, Dr. Craig T. Sheldon Jr., Ph.D.6, Mr. Robert G. Thrower Jr., Ph.D.7 ...
    Reexamining the Creek War, the War of 1812, and the Making of the American South.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 ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    by L.M. Montgomery ...
    Series series Angel Nova Publication
    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

    by John Lennard ...
    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

    by Sinclair Lewis ...
    The story revolves around Carol Kennicott, a young woman from a more cosmopolitan background who marries Dr. Will Kennicott and moves to the fictional town of Gopher Prairie, Minnesota. Carol quickly becomes disillusioned with the narrow-mindedness and conformity that she perceives in the town and its residents.As the protagonist, Carol challenges the status quo and attempts to introduce cultural ... 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, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois ...
    This landmark book is a founding work in the literature of black protest. W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963) played a key role in developing the strategy and program that dominated early 20th-century black protest in America. In this collection of essays, first published together in 1903, he eloquently affirms that it is beneath the dignity of a human being to beg for those rights that belong inherently ... Read more

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  • The Custom of the Country

    by Edith Wharton ...
    Originally published in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a full length novel about the incessant rise of Undine Spragg, an attractive, vivacious woman of the American Mid-West who is fuelled by ambition, and greed, combined with an all too obvious disregard for the feelings of anyone else except herself. Using marriage and divorce as the means to an end, Undine is at once a loathsome creature ... 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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