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The Parish of Frayed Ends
1965 delivers a new baby and an old murder for Timberdick, our saucy detective and the cheapest call-girl on Goodladies Road.
Democracy by the People
Introduces citizens to solutions for reforming the American campaign finance system.
Piggy Tucker's Poison
Timberdick is back! She's living in a church vestry and working nights in the Curiosity Shop, when a stranger is murdered at the top of the stairs. Timberdick's girls are the likely suspects, and Timbers is arrested - but she has no time to waste in a police cell. She has a murder to solve - and a 'bun in the oven' as well.
Behold the Walls
On August 19, 1958, Clara Luper and thirteen Black youth walked into Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City and sat down at the lunch counter. When they tried to order, they were denied service. As they sat in silence, refusing to leave, the surrounding white customers unleashed a torrent of threats and racial slurs. This first organized sit-in in Oklahoma—almost two years before the more famous sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina—sparked other demonstrations in Oklahoma and other states. Behold the Walls is Luper’s engrossing firsthand account of how the movement she helped launch ended legal racial segregation. First published in 1979, Behold the Walls now features a new introduction and...
Only the Clothes on Her Back
Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.
Prentiss County, Mississippi
The history of Prentiss County, Mississippi, including the people and families, buildings, businesses, churches, organizations, schools and and sports.
The Poisons of Goodladies Road
When a game of marbles ends with a body, the citizens of Goodladies Junction fear that one of their neighbours was wrongly hung for murder, twenty years before. They turn to their local policeman, PC Ned Machray, who has to cope with a runaway pig and a wayward cinema usherette as he picks his way through a web of blackmail, stolen love affairs and guilty silence. He is hit by a widow’s bucket, nearly strangled on a drainpipe and shot by his own side. But he is no nearer solving the mystery until Timberdick, the cheapest call-girl on Goodladies Road, saves the day and the true depth of poison is horribly revealed.
Roth and Celebrity
Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as in the fiction that spans his publishing history. With its simultaneous interest in American popular culture and the work of the most important living American writer to-date, the collection will hold wide appeal to advanced readers in American studies, literary scholarship, and film.
