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What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do
Stephanie J. Shaw takes us into the inner world of American black professional women during the Jim Crow era. This is a story of struggle and empowerment, of the strength of a group of women who worked against daunting odds to improve the world for themselves and their people. Shaw's remarkable research into the lives of social workers, librarians, nurses, and teachers from the 1870s through the 1950s allows us to hear these women's voices for the first time. The women tell us, in their own words, about their families, their values, their expectations. We learn of the forces and factors that made them exceptional, and of the choices and commitments that made them leaders in their communities...
Fiend
A young boy is abducted by a serial killer.It wasn't supposed to happen, not to Janet's boy.Jake and three of his friends take their yearly camping trip in to the Maine woods. Months later Jake begins having nightmares.Jake tries to unravel his insane behavior as he follows one car after the other. Jake 'knows' he's not insane, but he has to convince everyone else while trying to hunt down clues. He 'knows' something happened to a boy named Sammy, and Jake won't give up until he finds out.A very intense suspense novel that you won't want to put down. It's bawdy at times, hilarious at others, frightening, moving, and very page turning. Well worth the read.
Mississippi in Africa
When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over.
Murderous Intentions
Julie has a near-death experience during the last stages of her first pregnancy. While on the operating table, her soul is pulled in to a serial killer's body. They now occupy the same body.Read along as the young girl fights for her survival, and tries to learn to use the killer's body to end his killing spree.When he finds out that the girl is within his mind and controlling his actions, he swears to use her memories to hunt down her sleeping body, and then go after her husband and family.A riveting novel that is very fast-paced. It will have you ending each chapter wondering what will happen next.
Paralysin Cave
This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impotence demonstrates how an accessibility to cures contributes to the sexual and social reintegration of the sufferer. The Satyrica of Petronius echoes this process by means of the text itself and so effects similar ends. The book provides new insights into literature and the ancient belief systems underlying it with its original and integrative approach to disciplines such as philology, botany, mineralogy, zoology and medicine.
MONTAINE The Saga Continues
Dominic and Rochelle.Soul-mates, lovers, married.Lord Robert Averton has torn their lives apart. Rochelle must escape from the madman or her life will never be the same. He has sold her husband in to slavery, and not one person knows where he can be found. It is up to Rochelle to bring their lives back together, for it is not only herself and her husband she must protect, but their child.Will Lord Robert Averton gain his own ends, or can Rochelle stop him before it is too late.This is the second novel of the series.A very good read.
Rethinking Sexuality
In this collection of provocative essays, historians and literary theorists assess the influence of Michel Foucault, particularly his History of Sexuality, on the study of classics. Foucault's famous work presents a bold theory of sexuality for both ancient and modern times, and yet until now it has remained under-explored and insufficiently analyzed. By bringing together the historical knowledge, philological skills, and theoretical perspectives of a wide range of scholars, this collection enables the reader to explore Foucault's model of Greek culture and see how well his interpretation accounts for the full range of evidence from Greece and Rome. Not only do the essays bring to light the ...
The Gay Detective Novel
Gertrude Stein called it "the only really modern novel form that has come into existence," yet the mystery genre was a century old before it featured its first gay main character in a novel. Since then, gay and lesbian detective fiction has been one of the fastest growing segments of the genre. It incorporates gay and lesbian cultural elements and offers crossover appeal. Its authors call upon a century of development in the mystery genre, while providing new, more accurate images of lesbians and gay men than generally found in mainstream literature and popular media. This groundbreaking study of gay and lesbian detective fiction examines mystery series and historically significant stand-alo...
