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Catching Light: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Inspired by a series of photographs entitled “Evelyn” - which depicts a former artist's model in her declining years, still full of life and facing death with flair and wit - Kathryn Byer finds a voice to contemplate the enigmatic but inevitable process of growing old.
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Pinion: An Elegy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In this eloquent long poem, Claudia Emerson employs the voices of two family members on a small southern farm to examine the universal complexities of place, generation, memory, and identity.
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Cussing Lesson: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In his second collection of poems, Stephen Cushman explores, appraises, and celebrates many different forms of connections - domestic, social, historical, and religious. With an... Læs mere
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Judah P. Benjamin: Confederate Statesman (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
More than 140 years after Judah Benjamin first appeared on the Confederate scene, historians still debate his place in the history of the Lost Cause. Robert... Læs mere
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Our People and Our History: Fifty Creole Portraits (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in French in 1911 and translated into English in 1973, Our People and Our History records the lives of fifty prominent Creoles who lived in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century.
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Autumn of Glory: The Army of Tennessee, 1862-1865 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The final volume of Thomas Lawrence Connelly's definitive history of one of the Confederacy's two major military forces, Connelly analyses the factors underlying the army's failure during the last two years of the Civil War.
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Army of the Heartland: The Army of Tennessee, 1861-1862 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Most of the Civil War was fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of... Læs mere
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A Mississippi Rebel in the Army of Northern Virginia: The Civil War Memoirs of Private David Holt (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Born into a wealthy Mississippi plantation family in 1843, David Eldred Holt joined Company K of the 16th... Læs mere
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Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes, 1862-1880 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines emancipation and the difficult transition from slavery to free labour in one enclave of the... Læs mere
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Miss Undine's Living Room: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The third Tula Springs novel, Miss Undine's Living Room is not only a masterful comedy, exuberant and irreverent, but also a deeply felt examination of the education of the mind and the spirit.
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Sparks from a Nine-Pound Hammer: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Sometimes a fact swings down like a hammer and we are changed. The fact of loss, the fact of desire, and all the wild, unruly facts of history hammer down and sparks fly up. This, then, is a collection of facts.
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My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune: A Memoir of the Civil War Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
My Passage at the New Orleans Tribune, first published in Belgium in 1872, is Belgian scientist Jean-Charles Houzeau’s memoir of the four years he spent as both observer and participant in the drama of American Reconstruction.
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