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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.

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.

A sober analysis of a case, now little more than a historical footnote, that came to be known as the Averbuch Affair.

King Arthur was not an Englishman, but a Celtic warrior, according to Roger Sherman Loomis, whose research into the background of the Arthurian legend has revealed findings that are both illuminating and controversial. This study will keep the controversy of the 'real' Arthur alive.

Once again murder and other dark doings strike the small city of Fort York, Canada, during World War II. And again, Inspector Albert V. Tretheway - now Regional Officer, Air Raid Precaution - is the one man who can solve the mystery. It all begins on January 13th, 1943 when Fort York is in the midst of its most complete wartime blackout. Suddenly reports come in of sightings of an eerie flume-like light in the marshes outside town. Tretheway, investigating, finds evidence of weird practices that his friend Cynthia Moon, who dabbles in the occult, identifies as the work of a coven of witches. A month later Sgt Wan Ho finds another strange sign, this time in Gore Park: a dead rabbit is hanging from a tree, with its left hind foot missing. Chief of Police Zulp and his men refuse to become alarmed, but Tretheway decides to keep a close watch on his friends and wardens on the thirteenth of each month. Tretheway's concern seems justified when more corpses turn up - one is found spreadeagled on Fort York's busiest crossroads with an equally dead pop-eyed owl in each fist - and the others die in equally peculiar circumstances. Tretheway takes matters into his own hands. He uncovers a dark, shocking plot and knows he must try to stop the next murder, which he believes will occur on Hallowe'en. This is a fitting sequel - at once hilarious and blood-chilling - to the first Tretheway mystery, A Good Year for Murder.

Frederick Engels (1820-1895), the son of a wealthy German textile manufacturer, moved in 1842 to England to take a position in a factory near Manchester partially owned by his father. Engels met Karl Marx in 1844 and began a lifelong association with him. The two are considered to be the founders of modern communism. The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845; English translation 1847) is one of the classic texts of Marxist thought, standing besides such other of Engels' works as Socialism: Utopian and Scientific and The Dialectic of Nature. It is a vitally important political, social and historical document.

A novel that finds Caesar at the age of twenty-five captured by pirates as he sails to the Island of Rhodes to study rhetoric with the renowned Apollonias Moon. It tells how in an odd sort of way, Caesar finds, in the encounter with Cutter - the clever, bloodthirsty pirate and his band of assassins - a new strength of purpose.

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 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.

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.

When bombs began to fall on Warsaw, Julian's world crumbled. His beloved governess Kiki returned to her family in Lodz; Julian's stepfather joined the Polish army and the grief-stricken boy was left with the mother whom he hardly knew. Resourceful and determined, his mother did whatever was necessary to provide for herself and her son: she brazenly cut into food lines and befriended Russian officers to get extra rations of food and fuel. But brought up by Kiki to distrust all things Jewish, Julian considered his mother's behavior un-Christian.

Concentrating on 3 main types of electronic voting systems, this book identifies 120 potential threats to voting technology. It also offers specific remedies and countermeasures that election officials can employ to make these attacks more difficult to perform.

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 book traces the Argentine Woman's movement and describes the individuals in its vanguard: women as different in personality and political orientation as the socialist activist Dr. Alicia Moreau de Justo, the international literary figure Victoria Ocampo and the legendary Eva Perón.The story begins with a background sketch of Argentine history, spanning four centuries from the conquistadores to the Peróns. It describes the participation of upper class women in the country's philanthropic establishment thought the Beneficent Society, founded in the early nineteenth century; the development of the public education system- considered the best in Latin America- through the strong contribution of North American female teachers; and the influence of nineteenth century free thought and socialism upon woman's movement. Despite the broadening of education and the positive effect of European immigration upon Argentine institutions, it was not until the middle of the twentieth century that woman suffrage was finally achieved--by a bizarre twist of fate through the efforts of the Perón regime, and to the outrage and consternation of most Argentine feminists.

Carolous Deene is summoned to a small Kentish village where the presence of a possible coven of witches lends an eerie aura to the presumed 'accidental' death of young local boy a year ago on Hallowe'en. Before his work is completed, Carolous Deene has the answers to this and two other deaths.

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.

Sam Silverman's autobiography tells how a poor boy from Pinsk built a thriving business in Chicago; weathered two World Wars, the Depression, and the vagaries of fashion; raised a large, talented family; and made the force of his shrewd and happy personality felt from coast to coast. His story is extremely funny and often touching. It is also a genuine contribution to American history.

An inside look at one of the US's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through the eyes of its longtime Director of Intensive Care, Dr. Cory Franklin. Filled with stories of strange medical cases and unforgettable patients culled from a thirty-year career in medicine, Cook County ICU offers readers a peek into the inner workings of a hospital.