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Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author Colleen Barnett here updates her essential reference for readers and writers of mystery, examining women who detect, women as sleuths, and the evolving roles of women in professions and in society.
Only five months after Gen. James Edward Oglethorpe established the new colony of Georgia in 1733, pioneering Jewish settlers arrived at her shores. They landed in Savannah, where over the next several centuries they built a thriving community within one of the South's most revered cities. Savannah's Jewish citizenry, while a well-defined entity on its own, is also steeped in the rich, overall heritage of the area, contributing to every facet of civic, business, and cultural life. The Jewish Community of Savannah celebrates, in word and image, the colorful history of one of the nation's oldest established Jewish communities. Vintage photographs culled from the Savannah Jewish Archives, house...
Maddy, a 90-year old Jewish woman is dying. There is something important she wants to tell her daughter but she cannot remember. She is reincarnated as gentile girl Terri and has another chance to get the info to her family. As she grows up, Terri speaks Yiddish and plays the piano. Terri's friend, Ron is sure he used to be a girl. His father is a homophobic bigot who makes his son's life miserable. The story follows the children through the first 22 years of their lives. Terri and her older sister, Roz have many humorous adventures. There are hard times too.
Female Detectives by Canadian Writers: An Eclectic Sampler
The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene Tucker argues that if people instantly perceive racial differences despite knowing better, then the underlying function of race is to produce this immediate knowledge. Racial perception, then, is not just a mark of acculturation, but a part of how people know one another. Tucker begins her investigation in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as the primary mark of rac...