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In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in…
the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation. Junior and Senior High. 2011.Spiritus mundi: essays on literature, myth, and society
By Northrop Frye. 1976
This collection of essays reflects Frye's personal views and the experiences in his life which fostered them. The essays are…
divided into three sections: Contexts of literature; Mythological universe; and Four poets, which are studies of John Milton, William Blake, William Butler Yeats and Wallace Stevens.Slow boat through Pennine waters
By Frederick Doerflinger. 1971
Slow boat through England
By Frederick Doerflinger. 1970
Spring jaunts: some walks, excursions & personal explorations of town, country & seashore
By Anthony Bailey. 1986
The author's jaunts take him round the Isle of Wight, along the Massachusetts to Maine coastline, into the bizarre and…
hilarious history of Nice's Promenade des Anglais, and down the Severn River. A world of friendly conversation, tranquil landscapes, antique churches and country pubs. 1986.Social studies
By Fran Lebowitz. 1981
Collection of 26 humorous essays on apartment hunting in the city, cigarette smoking, diets, pet owning, and other behaviour of…
the American species near the end of the 20th century. c1981.Solar dance: genius, celebrity and the crisis of truth in the modern age
By Modris Eksteins. 2012
The biography of an era - from the eve of the First World War and the rise of Hitler to…
the fall of the Berlin Wall - that illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. An examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence. 2012.Snakecharmers in Texas: essays 1980-87
By Clive James. 1988
Clive James has produced a collection of essays on subjects which he claims to have a great interest in. James'…
obvious intelligence, imagination and irreverence known to many millions across the world is used to great effect in comprehending and aiding the reader to understand what makes human beings tick. His Australian patriotism comes through in his naming of the first part "Australian sons". Includes strong language. 1988.Slouching towards Bethlehem
By Joan Didion. 1990
A collection of essays which captures the mood of late 1960s America, especially the center of its counterculture, California. Keynoted…
by a report on San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, they all reflect that, in one way or another, things are falling apart, "the center cannot hold." 1990.Small wars, far away places: the genesis of the modern world, 1945-65
By Michael Burleigh. 2013
The collapse of Western colonial empires after the Second World War led to any number of vicious struggles for power,…
whose bloody consequences haunt us still. Acclaimed historian Michael Burleigh's analytic skills and eye for common themes underpins this powerful account of those struggles. 2013.Six memos for the next millennium (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; #1985-86)
By Italo Calvino. 1988
This work contains the 1985-86 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures that Italo Calvino was to have delivered at Harvard. The day…
before he was to leave Italy for Cambridge, he died. His widow, Esther, prepared the lectures for publication. Calvino here deals with values of literature most dear to him: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity; consistency was to be the sixth. 1988. Uniform title: Essays.Silver linings: travels around Northern Ireland
By Martin Fletcher. 2001
Martin Fletcher was initially sent to Northern Ireland as a reporter for The Times, but while reporting on the tortuous…
peace negotiations his wife was meeting the ordinary people. Although essentially a tour of the country, the real story is told in endless digressions, with the author hunting rats on an island in the middle of the Strangford Lough and participating in the ancient game of road-bowling, in which players compete to hurl iron balls along two or three miles of country lane. 2001.Seven and a half tons of steel (Recorded Books new reader)
By Janet Nolan. 2017
There is a ship, a navy ship. It is called the USS New York. It is big like other navy…
ships, and it sails like other navy ships, but there is something special about the USS New York. Following the events of September 11, 2001, the governor of New York gave the Navy a steel beam that was once inside one of the World Trade Towers. The beam was driven from New York to a foundry in Louisiana. Metal workers heated the beam to a high, high temperature. Chippers and grinders, painters and polishers worked on the beam for months. And then, seven and a half tons of steel, which had once been a beam in the World Trade Center, became a navy ship's bow. This powerful story reveals how something remarkable can emerge from a devastating event. Grades 2-4. 2017.Shrewed: a wry and closely observed look at the lives of women and girls
By Elizabeth Renzetti. 2018
Why are there so few women in politics? Why is public space, whether it's the street or social media, still…
so inhospitable to women? What does Carrie Fisher have to do with Mary Wollstonecraft? And why is a wedding ceremony Satan's playground? These are some of the questions that author and journalist Elizabeth Renzetti examines in her new collection of essays. Drawing upon Renzetti's decades of reporting on feminist issues, "Shrewed" is a book about feminism's crossroads. From Hillary Clinton's failed campaign to the quest for equal pay, from the lessons we can learn from old ladies to the future of feminism in a turbulent world, Renzetti takes a pointed, witty look at how far we've come - and how far we have to go. If Nellie McClung and Erma Bombeck had an IVF baby, this book would be the result. Bestseller. 2018.Shula, code name the Pearl: Code Name The Pearl
By Aviezer Golan, Danny Pinkas. 1980
Biography of the woman who was known as the Mata Hari of the Middle East. A Jerusalem-bred Beirut housewife and…
mother of seven, Shula became an important Israeli agent with access to the highest circles of power in Lebanon during the post-World War II period. c1980. Uniform title: Shem tsofen, ha-Peninah.Sightlines
By Harriet Harvey Wood, P. D James. 2001
Published to promote and support the work of the Royal National Institute for the Blind's Talking Books, Sightlines includes pieces…
from many of Britain's foremost writers, all of whom have contributed their work without fee. Introduced by Sue Townsend, who recently lost her sight, Sightlines includes many previously unpublished stories, essays, and poems by authors such as Louis de Bernieres, Antonia Fraser, Frederick Forsyth, Doris Lessing, A.S.Byatt, and Reginald Hill. 2001.Self-reliance (Recorded Books classics library)
By Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1986
Shanghai grand: forbidden love and international intrigue on the eve of the Second World War
By Taras Grescoe. 2016
Emily 'Mickey' Hahn was a legendary New Yorker journalist whose vivid writing played a crucial role in opening Western eyes…
to the realities of life in China. At the height of the Depression, Hahn arrived in Shanghai after a disappointing affair, and became absorbed into the social swirl of the expats drawn to pre-war China, among them Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Harold Acton, and gangster Morris 'Two-Gun' Cohen. But when she meets Zau Sinmay, a Chinese poet, she discovers the real Shanghai through his eyes: the city of rich colonials, triple agents, opium-smokers, displaced Chinese peasants, and increasingly desperate White Russian and Jewish refugees. Danger lurks on the horizon, though, as the brutal Japanese occupation destroys the seductive world of pre-war Shanghai, paving the way for Mao Tse-tung's Communists' rise to power. 2016.Seasons at Eagle Pond
By Donald Hall. 1987
Setting it right
By Michael Coren. 1996
This collection of Coren's essays and columns includes his thoughts on politics, the arts, and morality. His interview subjects include…
personalities as diverse as Conor Cruise O'Brien, comedian Mike Myers, Robertson Davies, and dominatrix Jacqueline Premiere. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. c1996.