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Reading the river: a traveller's companion to the North Saskatchewan River
Par Myrna Kostash, Duane Burton. 2006
A compendium of writings including poetry, fiction and non-fiction, from those who have spent time reading the river. Beginning at…
the rivers source, Kostash takes the reader through 21 communities along the North Saskatchewan. Includes the work of Hugh McLennan, Eli Mandel, Aritha van Herk, John V. Hicks and Thompson Highway. c2006.Haunted Ocean City and Berlin (Haunted America)
Par 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
Par Rudolfo Anaya, Rudolfo A Anaya. 2004
Vacationland
Par 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
Par 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well as previously unpublished works "The Last Farmer," "Haircut," and "Blaze of Glory," the tale of an elderly married couple's road trip adventure.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
Par 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. 2006Lord of the fries and other stories: And Other Stories
Par Tim Wynne-Jones, Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff. 1999
Seven short stories about active imaginations and making choices. In the title piece, two girls find themselves in a dilemma…
after pretending they know a tragic story about the cook at their favorite burger place. For grades 5-8. 1999American Indian stories
Par 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
Par Jim Ross. 2018
Incidents in Montana: old vintage
Par William J Stratton. 1954
Nine Florida stories (Florida sand dollar book)
Par 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
Par 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
Par 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. 2007Récits de Mathieu Mestokosho, chasseur innu
Par Mathieu Mestokosho. 2004
En 1970, jeune anthropologue, Serge Bouchard recueillait les propos de Mathieu Mestokosho, chasseur montagnais de la Minganie. Grâce à la…
parole de Mathieu, c’est tout un monde qui revit, celui des enfants de la Terre de Caïn que les colons européens avaient choisi d’ignorer. Heureusement pour nous, la mémoire de Mathieu Mestokosho nous permet de nous réapproprier — bien tardivement — toute une part de notre héritage culturel que nous avons failli laisser perdre.West of the West: imagining California : an anthology
Par 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
Par 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 thereSince its publication in 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper" has always been recognized as a powerful statement about…
the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed, mistreated, and misunderstood, leaving her to face insanity alone, as a prisoner in her own bedroom. Never before, however, has the story itself been portrayed as victimized.In this first critical edition of Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper," accompanied by contemporary reviews and previously unpublished letters, Julie Bates Dock examines the various myth-frames that have been used to legitimize Gilman's story. The editor discusses how modern feminist critics' readings (and misreadings) of the available documents uphold a set of legends that originated with Gilman herself and that promulgate an almost saintly view of the pioneering feminist author. The documents made available in the collection enable scholars and students to evaluate firsthand Gilman's claims regarding the story's impact on its first audiences.Dock presents an authoritative text of "The Yellow Wall-paper" for the first time since its initial publication. Included are a textual commentary, full descriptions of all relevant texts, lists of editorial emendations and pre-copy-text substantive variants, a complete historical collation that documents all the variants found in important editions after 1892, and a listing of textual sources for more than one hundred reprintings of the story in anthologies and textbooks.Other documents in the casebook that illuminate the story's publication and reception histories include Gilman's successive and varying accounts of the story's history, her diary and manuscript log entries and letters pertaining to the story, W. D. Howells's correspondence with Gilman and Horace Scudder, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, and his remarks on the story when he reprinted it in Great American Short Stories, and more than two dozen reviews of the story by Gilman's contemporaries.Taken together, the criticism, text, documents, and annotations constitute a rich and valuable contribution to Gilman scholarship, calling into question the feminist literary criticism that has helped to shape interpretations of a literary masterpiece.Another Small Kingdom: Agents of Independence Series (Agents Of Independence Ser. #1)
Par James Green. 2012
Boston, 1802, Lawyer Macleod is a man full of hate, a dangerous man. When a newly arrived young lawyer is…
mad enough to insult him, the consequences spin out of control and Macleod is caught up in a web of danger and intrigue. With England at war with France, some powerful Americans feel that the USA's best chance of remaining independent is to throw in their lot with France- even if it means accepting a French king - for a while.To counter their plot, Macleod is sent to New Orleans, where he meets Marie, wife of Etienne de Valois, aristocrat and fop, and through her learns a terrible secret. Together, unable to trust anyone, they race to uncover the traitors at the heart of the American Government.James Green uses fictional characters to illuminate the real events that lead to the birth of the American Intelligence Services and culminated in the extraordinary Louisiana Purchase, which doubled the size of the USA - at the cost of 3 cents an acre.Packed with action and fascinating historical detail, Another Small Kingdom will appeal both to those interested in the history of the USA and to aficionados of intelligent spy thrillersA Union Not Blessed: Agents of Independence Series (Agents of Independence #2)
Par James Green. 2013
1805. Thomas Jefferson is about to begin a second term, but with a new Vice President. Aaron Burr, dropped from…
Jefferson ’s ticket, is a bitter and resentful man bent on revenge. In Boston Jean Marie Macleod, a middle-aged lawyer, is a worried man. His young and beautiful wife, Marie, seems restless and dissatisfied. Macleod decides to seek advice from a friend in New York and, while there, meets an old acquaintance, Sebastian Francisco de Miranda, South American freedom fighter, Russian secret agent and adventurer. This chance meeting sweeps Macleod into a dark and dangerous world of espionage and violence. His young wife, Marie, sets out to discover what has happened to her husband, also falls in with old friends and is sucked into the terrifying vortex. A Union Not Blessed is a story of treason and betrayal by those who founded America and were appointed its guardians, the men who had become the enemy within.