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Haunted Ocean City and Berlin (Haunted America)
By Mindie Burgoyne. 2014
A chilling journey through the haunted history and lore of Ocean City and Berlin, Maryland. A ghostly sea captain, an…
ill-fated lover and jazz musicians who go on playing long after their last songs --- these are just some of the spirits who make their presence known from Ocean City's Boardwalk to the picturesque town square of Berlin. The phantom scent of a woman's perfume floats from Trimper's carousel while the Ocean City Life-Saving Station is haunted by the ghost of a drowned sailor. In Berlin, some guests never check out of the Atlantic Hotel, and strange happenings have been reported at the Rackliffe House, where legend has it that a cruel plantation owner was murdered by his slavesSerafina's stories
By Rudolfo Anaya, Rudolfo A Anaya. 2004
Vacationland
By Sarah Stonich. 2013
In northern Minnesota at Naledi Lodge, many people cross paths, many memories exist of former days. Meg, who was there…
as a girl, is now an artist painting images reflected across the mirrors of memory and water. Some strong languageSweet land: new and selected stories
By Will Weaver. 2006
Twelve short stories about midwestern farm and family life. Includes selections from A Gravestone Made of Wheat (RC 32095), as…
well as previously unpublished works "The Last Farmer," "Haircut," and "Blaze of Glory," the tale of an elderly married couple's road trip adventure. Some descriptions of sex. 2006New Orleans, mon amour: twenty years of writings from the city
By Andrei Codrescu. 2006
Essays from a Romanian-born National Public Radio commentator about his adopted city of New Orleans. Includes some pieces written after…
Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Describes the Big Easy and its inhabitants, food, cemeteries, eccentrics, neighborhoods, Mardi Gras, and crime. 2006In the Loyal Mountains: Stories
By Rick Bass. 1995
Ten stories depicting people living close to nature in Montana and the deep South. In the title story, a man…
recounts his youthful escapades with his adventurous uncle in the Texas hill country. Other stories deal with human isolation or conflict, but all are told against the backdrop of the environmentAmerican Indian stories
By Zitkala-Sa, Zitkala-S̈a. 1985
This collection of essays by a Native American woman, a Sioux from the Yankton Reservation, was first published in 1921.…
Several entries are autobiographical; others are short stories based on Native American legends. Together they articulate the author's efforts to bridge the gap between the oral traditions of her culture and the literary world, and between the native way of life and the white man's worldIn season: stories of discovery, loss, home, and places in between
By Jim Ross. 2018
Incidents in Montana: old vintage
By William J Stratton. 1954
Nine Florida stories (Florida sand dollar book)
By Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Kevin M. McCarthy, William L. Trotter. 1990
First published from the 1920s to 1940s in the Saturday Evening Post, these stories embody the environmental concerns of Marjory…
Stoneman Douglas. Set in various parts of South Florida, they reflect conditions, including threats to wildlife, land, and water, that endanger the uniqueness of the region. Douglas's characters range from smugglers to a farm worker, and include veiled autobiographical bits about the indomitable authorThe West of Owen Wister: selected short stories
By Owen Wister. 1972
Six stories by author of The Virginian (DB 36421) depicting cowboys, soldiers, Indians, and priests in various geographic settings. Includes…
Wister's first published western, "Hank's Woman" (1892), as well as "Little Big Horn Medicine," "The Second Missouri Compromise," and "Padre Ignazio." 1972 introduction by Robert L. Hough. 1892Adventures in the West: stories for young readers
By Eric Melvin Reed, Susanne George-Bloomfield. 2007
Twenty-six short western adventure stories originally published in two children's magazines, Youth's Companion and St. Nicholas, written between the 1890s…
and World War I. Includes "The Buffalo Hunt," "Our First Well in Nebraska," and "Sister Anne and the Cowboy," among others. For junior and senior high and older readers. 2007West of the West: imagining California : an anthology
By Leonard Michaels, David Reid, Raquel Scherr. 1995
An anthology of short stories, poems, essays, quotes, and excerpts that explore popular California themes and the romantic image of…
the West. Includes selections by well-known authors such as: Rudyard Kipling, Jack Kerouac, Simone de Beauvoir, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Soto, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, Maya Angelou, and Amy TanFor more than thirty years Elton Miles, a past President of the Texas Folklore Society, has been collecting the stories…
and legends that spring from the unique Big Bend lifestyle. This volume includes never-before-published tales, variations on familiar legends, local border corridos, folk poems and other regional lore. AdultBlack Range tales
By James A McKenna. 2002
First published in 1936, Black Range Tales has become one of the classics of southwest Americana. In his inimitable style,…
"Uncle Jimmie" tells of prospecting, Indian fights, exploration, town life and all the characters from the early days of the Black Range, the Mogollons, and the rest of the Gila Country of southwest New Mexico. The result is alternately humorous, poignant, amazing or insightful; a singular look at the times. And most of all these tales are true, for by golly, James A. McKenna was there