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Durham in A.D. 995 was the final resting place of the mortal remains of St. Cuthbert, borne by a band of Saxon monks. The most famous saint in England for six or seven centuries, his body had been moved from place to place, for safety, since his death in 687. The easily defensible peninsula was already a settlement with a Christian history, but the saint's presence helped to establish a larger community and encouraged the building of an impressive stone church--the predecessor of the magnificent cathedral of today. This new book is the eminently readable history of the development of Durham City--and its people--from the earliest times to the present day. It tells the extraordinary story of ...
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This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Gillsbury may seem like any other typical, closeted American small town about to be forced to come to terms with a new LGBT social club formed in the town’s only high school. Alain and his lovely Angels will be the pioneers to this revolutionary movement dragging the townspeople kicking and screaming along the way as they all fight their own inner demons. His final year in high school brings new friendship, hope, heartache, lies, deceit and murder all in the name of equality, acceptance and maybe even love.
This historical novel is about the influence of Isadora Duncan, who never kept anything secret, on a suburban family that tried to keep many secrets.
Explores Appalachian foodways. This book features a geographical area that extends from the land of pepperoni rolls, created by Italian bakeries for coal miners in northern West Virginia, to downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the Zarzour family, originally from the Middle East, has operated a Southern butter-bean-turnip-green diner since 1918.
When reality finally strikes, and freedom is only a memory. When this 'Once Proud Nation' resembles East Germany after World War Two, desperate, angry people find themselves caught up in a life and death struggle to restore America.