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Deep in the Appalachian mountains of Northern Georgia there dwell a group of blue skin people who live apart from the rest of society. This book presents a story of two boys, one white and one blue, who live in the tiny Georgia hamlet of Comfort Corners in the 1950s.

Presents the history of modernist design. This book features the influence of Bauhaus on interior design - on architecture, furniture, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils.

Two survivors' accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Colonel Gracie provides details of the final moments, including names of passengers pulled from the ocean and of those men who, in a panic, jumped into lifeboats as they were being lowered. John Thayer's account, The Sinking of the S.S. Titanic, is meticulously detailed.

It is just Inspector Ghote's luck to be landed with the case of the Perfect Murder at the start of his career with the Bombay Police. For this most baffling of crimes there is the cunning and important tycoon Lala Varde to contend with. And if this were not enough, Ghote finds himself having to investigate the mysertious theft of one rupee from the desk of yet another Very Important Person--the Minister of Police Affairs and the Arts. "If people would only behave in a simple, reasonable, logical way, " sighs the inspector as he struggles through the quagmires of incompentence and corruption to solve these curious crimes.

Dr. Tsesis describes the path he traversed from religious ignorance to strong belief in the Jewish religion. Tsesis assigns a special place to the proof of his conclusion that religion and science - especially in light of recent discoveries - are not antagonists, and are, in fact, in complete harmony, supplementing and not excluding each other.

Women want to know how to select wine when entertaining important clients, choose the right wines for hostess gifts, bridal showers, a first meeting with a boyfriend's parents and what wine to, or not to, order on a first date. This book supplies tips on these and a myriad of other topics, including 'dating' and 'dealing with guys'.

A study of the disparate religions and mythologies which have dominated Celtic and Scandinavian regions.

Although some aspects of pre-Roman and pre-Christian beliefs remain shrouded in mystery, the author of this volume contends that neither the Roman invasion of Britain nor the coming of Christianity eliminated pagan religious practice. This is a piece of historical and archaeological reconstruction.

Women of Privilege traces the decline of a once-privileged Hudson River Valley family whose neighbors were Vanderbilts, Delanos, and Roosevelts. Based on diaries and journals, and written by a family descendant, it combines biography and memoir with social history.

Contains twenty-eight stories about the detectives - Sergeant Beef and Sergeant Grebe.

At forty, Hank has decided he's through with baseball--a routine pop-up fell on his head and he got the message. Trouble is, baseball is the one thing that's given any meaning to his life. This is the painfully funny story of a man who decides to get a life, but isn't sure how. It's about fathers and sons, heroes and whiners, the wheel of fortune (and Vanna White), baseball and the decline of Western civilization--and why Nellie Fox always spat in his glove.

The years after the Civil War were marked by bitter political fights betwen the Democrats and Radical Republicans over how to reunite the country, and a deeply divided group of newspapers shouting down their opponents. As a reporter for a Philadelphia newspaper, Benjamin Wright had a front-row seat to this period of transition.

This wry, insightful account of what it is like for an American woman living in Russia is a dramatic tale full of insouciant laughter, in which the immediate sense of vivid experience shines on every page. With the sharp eye of an acute observer, Lori Cidylo captures the momentous events no less than the everyday trivia. This is a delightful, surprising, warmly human view of post-Soviet life.

Blaise and his friends make their way to Ascension Seminary to complete their education. There they lead a band of brothers who come to be known as 'the most troublesome class in seminary history'. Underneath the mayhem and merriment is a world of doubt and bewilderment. What should they really be doing with their lives, they ask each other.

In the novel "George Evans, "the title character and his friend Charles Fletcher both aspire to live the alluring life of an international banker in 1960s London.

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834-1903) was a travel writer, a story teller and memoirist of the first order, and his work is a record of a lost way of life amongst the strangest upper classes of English society. This volume is a condensation of the 6-volume autobiography was published between 1899-1903 in England.

This novel about the divergent lives of two sisters which spans the Victorian and Edwardian periods is a 20th-century classic. Recently included in the list of the greatest 20th-century novels.

Walter Roth delves deep into the archives of Chicago's Jewish past, and provides a new collection of illuminating essays on its various aspects. Booklist said of his previous collection, Looking Backward: True Stories from Chicago's Jewish Past, 'Roth writes about the well-known and the not-so-well-known, bringing to life the peOut of Printle, events and institutions that shaped the Jewish community."e; Roth is also co-author of An Accidental Anarchist, about the killing of a Jewish immigrant by Chicago's Chief of Police in 1908. Kirkus Reviews said, "e;The authors have skillfully removed the dust from an obscure but troubling episode."e; Roth brings his consummate skill as storyteller to bear on this new collection, which makes for entertaining and informative reading.

Mystery readers and fans of detective fiction and the police procedural are in for a real treat with these twelve interlaced stoires featuring Lady Molly, head of the Female Department at Scotland Yard in and around 1910. Lady Molly is an ace sleuth and the Police Chief's secret weapon when faced with perplexing and unsolvable cases.

This the 100th anniversary of one of worst man-made disasters of the 20th century. When the Iroquois Theatre opened in Chicago on November 23, 1903, it was considered one of the grandest structures of its day, a monument to modern design and technology, as well as "e;absolutely fireproof."e; This was a theatre that would rival any in New York or Paris. Instead it became the funeral pyre for hundreds of victims. Tony Hatch, former CBS reporter and Emmy Award winner, tells the grisly story in meticulous, riveting detail, based on more than forty years of research, including many exclusive interviews with eyewitnesses. In Tinder Box , he tells the Iroquois story as it has never been told before. In a rush to open the theatre on time, corners were cut, and the Iroquois lacked the most basic fire-fighting equipment: sprinklers, fire alarm boxes, backstage telephone, exit signs and functioning asbestos curtain. Some exists, for aesthetic reasons, were hidden behind heavy draperies, doors opened inward and exterior fire escapes were unfinished. But Chicago officials, the theatre owners and managers, the contractor, stagehands--all looked the other way. Then, on December 30, 1903, disaster struck. The theatre was packed, overcrowded with a standing-room-only audience, mostly women and children who had come to see the popular comedian Eddie Foy perform in the musical fantasy Mr. Bluebeard . A short circuit in a single backstage spotlight touched off a small fire that, in minutes, erupted into an uncontrollable blaze. More than 600 people died. Because of the magnitude of the catastrophe and the obvious corruption that allowed it to happen, building and fire laws were changed to prevent it everhappening again. Tinder Box is a riveting history of a traumatic and costly calamity.

On a job application, there's that tricky question: reason for leaving? John Manderino's answers are collected here in this hilarious novel tracing the history of a guy trying to grow up job by job. Delivery boy, altar boy, busboy, teacher, cotton picker, umpire, Zen monk--Manderino's protagonist tries on one hat after another.

In this comic, witty memoir, John Manderino shows us how the pivotal points of his life have been enmeshed with movie moments. "e;Crying at Movies"e; presents thirty-eight succinct chapters, each bearing the title of a film. It is at once a love-letter to an art form and a humorous appreciation of the distinctions between movie scenes and life's realities.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Eluding the Nazis in Occupied France is an unusual memoir about the childhood and young adulthood of Sarah Lew Miller, a young Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation.

Roll On , the first book from author Fred Afflerbach, takes readers on an interstate journey with a long-haul trucker. Ubi Sunt is addicted to his life on the road and, if he had his way, he'd continue driving until he no longer could. But forces in his life are threatening to take away Ubi's driving life. To begin with, Ubi's daughter has offered him an ultimatum - to have a role in his grandchildren's lives, he must settle down and drive local. In addition, the company where Ubi has worked for thirty years is being bought out by investors who want to change the system. Not to mention the wave of brash, young drivers who don't understand Ubi's "e;code of the road."e; Will Ubi be pushed out of his life as trucker, or will he push on despite the obstacles?

This retelling of the ancient Saga of the People of Eyri is a modern classic. Absolutely gripping and compulsively readable, Booklist said this book, "e;does what good historical fiction is supposed to do: put a face on history that is recognizable to all."e; And medieval expert Tom Shippey, writing for the Times Literary Supplement said, "e;Sagas look like novels superficially, in their size and layout and plain language, but making their narratives into novels is a trick which has proved beyond most who have tried it. Janoda's Saga provides a model of how to do it: pick out the hidden currents, imagine how they would seem to peripheral characters, and as with all historical novels, load the narrative with period detail drawn from the scholars. No better saga adaptation has been yet written."e;