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The Great Salt Lake is a remnant of an ancient lake that was almost as long as the State of Utah. What mysteries does it hold in its briny waters? What secrets lurk in its murky shores? …a malevolent spirit haunts a pregnant woman, luring her ever closer to the salty depths, yet what it wants is much more horrifying than death… …the inversion and smog in the Salt Lake Valley carries more than just bad air… …two locals find more than they bargain for when they unearth an ancient box buried in the salt-caked muck… …a trip to Wendover turns deadly when something decides to tag along for the ride… …a young girl hears voices in her head, voices that keep her company. But thereâ€...
A book to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Welsh emigration to Patagonia, a signal moment in the history of Wales and Argentina.
This anthology represents four types of writing: autobiography; the short story; the novel; and the diary. Coombes's vision is one of balance and normality and through it we begin to understand how this society survived, how its citizens were not the stage army of historians but real people.
A historical love story based on the lives of the Powell family of Nanteos mansion near Aberystwyth, Ceredigion. Set in the 1750s, at a time of great turbulence in the area which was nicknamed 'The Wild West', the book sets the personal tragedy of the gentry family against the background of the Cardiganshire lead wars.
This study traces how the art historian Aby Warburg, the writer W.G. Sebald, and the artist Gerhard Richter explore collective cultural memory embedded in contemporary visual symbols. The work establishes previously unnoted intellectual connections between their respective visual memory archives and the intellectual traditions that inform them. Diagnosing and describing how the reinvention of the album and the atlas as organizational models of narrative and pictorial presentation coincide with the contemporary fascination with social networks supplied by platforms such as Facebook, this study argues that the hybridity of the models allows the association of disparate fields of knowledge and memory that speaks to contemporary audiences and explains the persistent fascination with the memory archives at hand.
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