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Sir Rogue
By Leslie Turner White. 2020
That noble rogue, Sir Guy Spangler, was a favorite of Queen Bess and could have been a great success at…
court, but he preferred a life of freedom, adventure and excitement. That is why he embarked on one of the most amazing expeditions in all the history of Russia - a voyage to the fabulous land of Muscovy to win a fortune from Tsar Ivan the Terrible.The Boy in the Model-T: A Journey in the Just Gone Past
By Stephen Longstreet. 2020
WHEN STEPHEN LONGSTREET was twelve years old, his grandfather (an unreconstructed G.A.R. officer) and his mother (one of the prettiest…
women of her day) took him across the continent and back on a year-long trek in a Model-T Ford. Now, a quarter of a century later, the mature and sensitive writer looks back on that time and projects it with drama, with humor, and with love.Before little Stevie returned from the trip, he had had his thirteenth birthday; he had fallen in love with a heartless sophisticate of fourteen; he had lived among the beer barons of St. Louis, been present at a hilarious Irish wedding in Montana, fished in the bayous of the Cajun country, learned to handle and love a hunting hawk, and absorbed a great deal about the meaning of both life and death.His mother, a woman of infinite determination and femininity, and his grandfather, as articulate, tough, and soft-hearted an old codger as ever chewed on a cigar, showed the boy our country—a picture full of courage and humor, pathos and wild hilarity, and, for those old enough to remember 1919, fraught with a heart-warming nostalgia.Pen-and-ink sketches by the author, a well-known artist, supplement a narrative style already famous for its rich vividness.The Bradshaws of Harniss
By Joseph C. Lincoln. 2020
THE BRADSHAWS OF HARNISS is a classic Cape Cod tale - of a peppery old Cape Codder called back into…
the saddle because his grandson has gone to war... Seldom, if ever before, has Joe Lincoln fastened upon a more likely plot or a more appealing group of characters.The Ecstasy of Owen Muir (Literary Classics Ser.)
By Ring Lardner. 2020
This classic novel is the story of what happens when an idealistic, fiercely honest young man tries to reconcile Roman…
Catholic dogma with the realities of America of the 1940s. In this brilliantly comic and pungent tale, Lardner dissects the thought control of the McCarthy era, business ethics, racial intolerance, repressive sexual attitudes, the Manhattan nightclub set, "enlightened" penology, vigilantism, and other social phenomena. The ecstasy which Owen Muir seeks is of both the earthly and the spiritual kind, and his wonderfully funny fate lies in the fact that he cannot have his flesh and eat it, too.-Print ed.Soul Clap Hands and Sing
By Paule Marshall. 2020
The strong talent of Paule Marshall has matured in this, her second book. Woven through these four diverse and fascinating…
short novels is a theme that unifies them despite sharp differences of character and background.In each a man moving toward the later reaches of life experiences a climatic confrontation. In each a woman is involved as both a creative and a destructive force. In each a man is reaching out desperately to grasp at his life before it is gone. None succeeds, but the moment involves is presented with such vividness and dramatic force that it reveals and illumines depths of human experience.Paule Marshall writes a singing, effortless prose. Her insights into men and women are extraordinary: whether she is dealing with a small landowner in Barbados and the girl who is little more than a domestic slave; with a discredited college professor in Brooklyn and the lovely student he wants as consolation for a wasted life; with the last of a proud family of mixed blood in British Guiana and the woman who he feels robbed him of a crucial opportunity to prove his manhood; or a famous nightclub comedian and his woman partner in Brazil.—Print ed.High Time to Tell It
By Mary Alves Long. 2020
In this fascinating autobiography the post-bellum South is viewed through the lens of an educated woman whose family had deep…
and lasting ties to the area. Mary Alves Long was born in Randolph County, North Carolina in 1864, just before the end of the Civil War. Her father, a lawyer and planter, was opposed to succession but had voted for it as a member of the Succession convention. She graduated from Peace Institute [College] in Raleigh, NC and eventually earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.Life and Letters of Mary Emma Woolley
By Jeannette Augustus Marks. 2020
One of the nation’s most notable educators, Dr. Woolley was President of Mount Holyoke College for 37 years when women…
had very few opportunities. She worked hard for world peace and was appointed by President Hoover as an American delegate to the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932. Based on personal files and correspondence, family records, and the intimate knowledge of the author, this authoritative biography will interest many.-Print ed.Book of Dreams
By Jack Kerouac. 2001
Book of Dreams is an experimental novel published by Jack Kerouac in 1960, culled from the dream journal he kept…
from 1952 to 1960. In it Kerouac tries to continue plot-lines with characters from his books as he sees them in his dreams. This book is stylistically wild, spontaneous, and flowing, like much of Kerouac’s writing, and helps to give insight into the Beat Generation author’s mind.Till Fish Us Do Part: The Confessions of a Fisherman's Wife
By Beatrice Gray Cook. 2020
Beatrice Cook married a man with an avocation—FISH—Up to then fish were something you cooked in a pan.Born in Chicago,…
she grew up in Connecticut, returned to Chicago to take her B. S. at the University of Indiana, and then went out to Seattle. It was not until her first sight of the mountain peaks that Beatrice found she had grown up on the wrong coast of the United States, for from the first she delighted in the country of the Pacific Northwest. (She didn't anticipate her future intimate connection with its streams and inlets.)Now, after more than twenty years, Beatrice Cook is qualified as few transplanted Easterners ever are, to tell this story of fishing in the Pacific Northwest. She loves it!As a family, the Cooks have some of their best times fishing for salmon of the beautiful San Juan Islands in the inland waters of Washington. When folks ask Beatrice Cook, "Do you live in the San Juans?" she always answers, "Yes. I LIVE there but unfortunately must spend nine months of the year in Seattle.”Anti-Dictator: the Discours sur la servitude volontaire of Étienne de La Boétie
By Étienne de La Boétie. 2020
This famous essay asserts that tyrants have power because the people give it to them. La Boetie linked together obedience…
and domination, a relationship which would be later elaborated by anarchist thinkers. By advocating a solution of simply refusing to support the tyrant, he became one of the earliest advocates of civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance. “To him, the great mystery of politics was obedience to rulers. Why in the world do people agree to be looted and otherwise oppressed by government overlords? It is not just fear, Boetie explains in “The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude,” for our consent is required. And that consent can be non-violently withdrawn.”—Lew RockwellAnthem
By Ayn Rand. 2018
Anthem, which was written during a break from the writing of the author’s next major novel, The Fountainhead, presents a…
vision of a dystopian future world in which totalitarian collectivism has triumphed to such an extent that even the word ‘I’ has been forgotten and replaced with ‘we’.The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age. Technological advancement is now carefully planned and the concept of individuality has been eliminated. A young man known as Equality 7-2521 rebels by doing secret scientific research. When his activity is discovered, he flees into the wilderness with the girl he loves. Together they plan to establish a new society based on rediscovered individualism.This is the revised version published in 1946, which went on to sell more than 3.5 million copies.A Practical Guide for the Perfumer: Being A New Treatise On Perfumery The Most Favorable To Beauty Without Being Injurious To The Health, Comprising A
By H. Dussauce, Adolphe Benestor Lunel, Auguste Debay. 2020
A practical guide for the perfumer: being a new treatise on perfumery the most favorable to beauty without being injurious…
to the health, comprising a description of the substances used in perfumery, and the formulæ of more than one thousand preparations.THE industry of the perfumer has in our day been advanced to a position which now makes it one of the first of the arts; indeed, we might almost say, one of the most useful. Perfumery has had to undergo many transformations and changes to free itself from the old beaten path of quackery and charlatanism.In the last century, the general abuse of paints of every kind, and perfumery of different varieties, often most injurious to health, gave birth to preventives, sometimes unnecessary and exaggerated. Since, however, the perfumer, discarding a multitude of absurd receipts, now asks from the chemist combinations formed with a view to hygienic considerations, and studies the crude materials and co-ordinates them in a rational manner, perfumery has at last taken new forms in perfect harmony with good taste and refinement.The art of the perfumer, with the advances which it has recently made, and its present scientific character, is worthy of the consideration and support of rational people. Of the truth of this assertion I hope to give a proof in this work, and unless the desire to be useful has made me the victim of a strong delusion, I trust that this guide, which has been made as complete as possible, will advantageously direct the manufacture and contribute to the progress which skilful perfumers are daily making in that interesting branch of industry.With Love from Gracie: Sinclair Lewis: 1912-1925
By Grace Hegger Lewis. 2020
The rise of author Sinclair Lewis, most famous for his works Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, and Elmer Gantry, written by…
wife Grace Hegger, a former editor at Vogue. A warts and all portrayal of a stormy relationship between a difficult wife and an impossible husband.Woman at Work: The Autobiography of Mary Anderson
By Mary Anderson, Mary Nelson Winslow. 1973
This is the story of a remarkable woman whose life has been devoted to the betterment of working conditions for…
women. Mary Anderson was director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor for twenty-five years, from shortly after its inception until her retirement in 1944. Her autobiography encompasses almost every movement in this country, and international efforts as well, for the benefit of women workers.In her own simple diction, as told to Mary Winslow, who was associated in many of the same movements, Miss Anderson reveals an almost incredible life story. She recounts her arrival in America as a Swedish immigrant of sixteen and her early years as domestic worker, exploited factory hand, and trade union organizer. She describes her bitter struggles for unionization of the garment, shoe, and other industries in Chicago, and the activities of the Chicago and National Women’s Trade Union leagues in helping factory and mine workers gain a start toward living wages, shorter hours, and safer working conditions. She tells, finally, of a quarter-century of federal service—setting standards for women’s employment during two world wars and serving the cause of labor effectively under five presidents. As the first U.S. government representative to the International Labor Organization, Miss Anderson championed principles of equality for women that were subsequently embodied in the United Nations Charter.Through the story there are side-lights and appraisals of such notables as Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, John L. Lewis, and many others. It is an absorbing book, and one that documents an important aspect of our country’s social development.Belchamber
By Howard Overing Sturgis. 2020
In his remarkably interesting novel, Howard Sturgis, with a skilful touch, describes life in the rich and self-indulgent aristocratic society.…
It traces the career of a young man, Sainty, brought up in the midst of great luxury. Indecision of character is the weakness of Sainty. He allows himself to become the prey of a scheming mother and her worthless daughter, and, in spite of the tremendous advantage of his wealth and position, and a strong desire to benefit his fellow-men, he never accomplishes anything. Sainty is the victim of his surroundings; he makes a few ineffectual struggles before the waters of adverse circumstance close over him. Most of the men and women described in "Belchamber" are hard and grasping if not distinctly vicious, and yet the variety shown is endless. The book is extremely well written, showing marked skill in the delineation of character.—Mary K. Ford (The Critic)Burbage and Shakespeare's Stage
By C. C. Stopes. 2020
This history of the Burbages, The Globe Theatre and the early staging of Shakespeare's plays is based on a lifetime…
of research into the role of the Burbage family in the Elizabethan theater, especially in Shakespeare productions. This work remains indispensable, especially for its extracts from contemporary sources detailing the plays produced, the actors, controversies of the time, censorship, other acting companies, and much else. This title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.—Print ed.The Slaughterman's Daughter: Winner of the Wingate Prize 2021
By Yaniv Iczkovits. 2020
A SUNDAY TIMES MUST READS PICK"Boundless imagination and a vibrant style . . . a heroine of unforgettable grit" DAVID…
GROSSMAN"A story of great beauty and surprise" GARY SHTEYNGARTThe townsfolk of Motal, an isolated, godforsaken town in the Pale of Settlement, are shocked when Fanny Keismann - devoted wife, mother of five, and celebrated cheese-maker - leaves her home at two hours past midnight and vanishes into the night.True, the husbands of Motal have been vanishing for years, but a wife and mother? Whoever heard of such a thing. What on earth possessed her?Could it have anything to do with Fanny's missing brother-in-law, who left her sister almost a year ago and ran away to Minsk, abandoning their family to destitution and despair?Or could Fanny have been lured away by Zizek Breshov, the mysterious ferryman on the Yaselda river, who, in a strange twist of events, seems to have disappeared on the same night?Surely there can be no link between Fanny and the peculiar roadside murder on the way to Telekhany, which has left Colonel Piotr Novak, head of the Russian secret police, scratching his head. Surely a crime like that could have nothing to do with Fanny Keismann, however the people of Motal might mutter about her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild animal . . .Surely not.Translated from the Hebrew by Orr ScharfThe Black Friar: The Seeker 2 (The Seeker)
By S. G. MacLean. 2016
Rebellion in the city, and a Royalist spy in his own ranks - Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell's guard,…
must eradicate both if the fragile Republic is not to fail. 'MacLean skilfully weaves together the disparate threads of her plot to create a gripping tale of crime and sedition in an unsettled city' Sunday Times'MacLean's light touch portrait of a hard man with a softer core is what makes these books so memorable' The TimesLondon, 1655, and Cromwell's regime is under threat from all sides. Damian Seeker, Captain of Cromwell's Guard, is all too aware of the danger facing Cromwell. Parliament resents his control of the Army while the Army resents his absolute power. In the east end of London, a group of religious fanatics plots rebellion. In the midst of all this, a stonemason uncovers a perfectly preserved body dressed in the robes of a Dominican friar, bricked up in a wall in the crumbling Black Friars. Ill-informed rumours and speculation abound, but Seeker instantly recognises the dead man. What he must discover is why he met such a hideous end, and what his connection was to the children who have started to disappear from around the city. Unravelling these mysteries is challenging enough, and made still harder by the activities of dissenters at home, Royalist plotters abroad and individuals who are not what they seem...The Seeker: A prizewinning historical thriller set in Cromwell's London (The Seeker)
By S. G. MacLean. 2015
A bloody murder. An open and shut case? In Oliver Cromwell's London, nothing is as it seems - Captain Damian…
Seeker must battle to find justice, when an innocent man's life hangs in the balance.'Challenges CJ Sansom for dominion of historical crime' Sunday Times'The best historical crime novel of the year' Sunday ExpressLondon, 1654. Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power and has declared himself Lord Protector. Yet he has many enemies, at home and abroad. London is a complex web of spies and merchants, priests and soldiers, exiles and assassins. One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker, agent of the Lord Protector. No one knows where Seeker comes from, who his family is, or even his real name. All that is known of him for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell, and that nothing can be long hidden from him. In the city, coffee houses are springing up, fashionable places where men may meet to plot and gossip. Suddenly they are ringing with news of a murder. John Winter, hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army, is dead, and the lawyer, Elias Ellingworth, found standing over the bleeding body, clutching a knife. Yet despite the damning evidence, Seeker is not convinced of Ellingworth's guilt. He will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice: and Seeker knows better than any man where to search.Beauty Like the Night: Spymaster 6 (Spymaster)
By Joanna Bourne. 2017
In Beauty Like The Night, Joanna Bourne, 'master of romance and suspense' (Teresa Medeiros) returns to the French Revolution, with…
a stirring tale of intrigue, espionage, and irresistible attraction. For fans of Stephanie Laurens, Elizabeth Hoyt For fans of Stephanie Laurens, Elizabeth Hoyt and Poldark, this is a must-read. Severine de Cabrillac, orphan of the French revolution and sometime British intelligence agent, has tried to leave spying behind her. Now she devotes herself to investigating crimes in London and finding justice for the wrongly accused.Raoul Deverney, an enigmatic half-Spaniard with enough secrets to earn even a spy's respect, is at her door demanding help. She's the only one who can find the killer of his long-estranged wife and rescue her missing fourteen-year-old daughter.Severine reluctantly agrees to aid him, even though she knows the growing attraction between them makes it more than unwise. Their desperate search for the girl unleashes treason and murder...and offers a last chance for two strong, wounded people to find love.For more spellbinding Spymasters romance, look for the other titles by Joanna Bourne: The Forbidden Rose, The Spymaster's Lady, My Lord and Spymaster, The Black Hawk and Rogue Spy.