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Ralph Ellison
Author, intellectual, and social critic, Ralph Ellison (1914-94) was a pivotal figure in American literature and history and arguably the father of African American modernism. Universally acclaimed for his first novel, Invisible Man, a masterpiece of modern fiction, Ellison was recognized with a stunning succession of honors, including the 1953 National Book Award. Despite his literary accomplishments and political activism, however, Ellison has received surprisingly sparse treatment from biographers. Lawrence Jackson’s biography of Ellison, the first when it was published in 2002, focuses on the author’s early life. Powerfully enhanced by rare photographs, this work draws from archives,...
A Tree Accurst
On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was cursed--that anyone who climbed into it would be unable to get out. Daniel Patterson uses this "accurst" tree as a metaphor for the grip the story of the murder has had on the imaginations of the local community, the wider world, and the noted Appalachian traditional singer and storyteller Bobby McMillon. For nearly 170 years, the memory of Frankie Silver has been kept alive by a ballad and local ...
The American Stud Book
Containing full pedigree of all the imported thorough-bred stallions and mares, with their produce.
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Murder on Grange Road
Quail hunting in Central Florida was supposed to be an exciting experience. But lately, for Bo Tatum, the owner of Tatum’s Hunting Resort off Grange Road near Lake Azur, it had been a disaster. Instead of his dogs flushing out birds, they’d been digging up human bodies. Sheriff JD Pickens and County Medical Examiner, Dr. Marge Davids, were planning a festive holiday season. But their plans were put on hold thanks to Tatum’s discoveries. Undermanned and ill-equipped in a city and county where such things rarely happened, Pickens and Davids will need to muster all the ingenuity they can to solve the mysteries of the bodies, including getting help from an expert in forensic science. With clues scarce and few leads, Pickens and Davids had to rely on unconventional methods as a last resort. When tempers started to flare during the investigations, Pickens had to use every ounce of patience he could muster to stay calm and in control.
Allied International Special Forces
Our job, ladies and gentlemen, is not to fight on the front lines, but to protect those fighting on the front lines by foiling the most evil of plans set forth by tyrants to wipe them out. -Major General Dale Baker: Commanding Officer of AISF The year is 1943 and as the Second World War grinds on, Marine Lieutenant John Tanner returns home from the Pacific. Major General Dale Baker, a friend of the Tanner family, sends John a telegram urging him to serve with The Allied International Special Forces (AISF) in Europe. Johns first mission is to rescue imprisoned Prussian aristocrat Annabelle von Koenig; considered a traitor by Nazi paramilitary division The Midnight Wolves led by Field Marshal Konrad Schneider and his daughter Bertilda. Konrad, bitter over Germanys defeat in the First World War is nearly ready to unveil a secret from mysterious Fortress Island, a secret that could spell doom for the allied forces.
No Chariot Let Down
These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are indistinguishable from those of white contemporaries, the later correspondence is preoccupied with proof of their free status.
Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Court of Chancery of New York. Containing the Case from March, 1814, to December, 1815, Inclusive
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
