A Rebels' War assembles forty-seven personal accounts of the Confederacy, placing battlefield recollection beside diary, memoir, political testimony, naval narrative, and reflections on civilian life. Its varied prose ranges from formal military reportage to intimate domestic observation, revealing how war was experienced, remembered, and subsequently narrated by Confederate participants. Campaign accounts, prison and espionage episodes, and striking records of the home front together illu...

Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

Strong focus on conserving and exploiting genetic resources for breeding improved varietiesDetailed review of specific diseases such as witches broom as well as insect pests and nematodesCovers key aspects of sustainability such as agro-forestry, organic cultivation and measures to support smallholders

It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works---something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris---now closely watched by the Gestapo---is to send in a personal courier.Russian EmigrE Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take hi...

Experience the wonderment of Christmas with this endearing collection of original stories.Even though he’s got 3.5 million copies of books in print, Pastor Robert Morgan writes only one short fiction story each year—an original work he shares with his church on Christmas Eve. Now with a fresh new cover and six new stories, the entire collection of twelve is available in this beautiful volume. Beginning is a foreword by David Jeremiah, followed by adventures that ev...

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that his waters being so very still, they a...

As the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) approaches its fiftieth anniversary in 2023,the contributors to Caribbean Integration: Uncertainty in Time of Global Fragmentation critically reflect on the evolution of regional movement, analysing the challenges of maintaining relevance in a post-Brexit era of regional integration, while also highlighting opportunities for its reinvigoration.This collection offers diverse perspectives from scholars within the region and beyond on the ...

This full cast recording features narration from Arthur Morey; Charlie Thurston; David Stifel; James Anderson Foster; Joe Barrett; Kate Udall; Laural Merlington; Laurence Bouvard; Luke Daniels; Robert Fass; Shelley Atkinson; Tavia Gilbert; and Will DamronFrom bestselling author Neal Stephenson and critically acclaimed historical and contemporary commercial novelist Nicole Galland comes a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, scienc...

WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, THERE'S ALWAYS A CHOICE…The only thing more varied than how people are killed is the many, many ways people try to get away with this terrible crime. Now masterful mystery writer Dorothy Salisbury Davis brings together 23 classic stories of crime and suspense, whodunits and detective stories from some of the finest authors of the 1950s.Ross Macdonald's classic P.I. Lew Archer takes a chilling case in California, where the mob isn't ...

In the "Historical Romances – Boxed Set," a tapestry of eras, cultures, and passions unfolds across time, crafted by some of the finest literary minds. This anthology compiles a diverse selection of tales that explore human relationships within the framework of historical contexts, spanning from the charming refinement of Jane Austen's society to the moral complexities of Tolstoy's Russia. From the restrained romances depicted by the Brontë sisters' Gothic imagination to the meticulous rea...

Gilbert Hastings is a lawyer working in New Zealand. As a final year student he is given the task of working with Lucille Dellow to renovate the Old Stone House in Arbor Valley. The owner of the Old Stone House, Elsie Leggat has moved into a rest home and has been persuaded to sell her house by a corrupt Realtor, Nadine Norton. A hidden killer seeks revenge against Lucille's father, placing both Glbert and Lucille in danger.

Ten days of Heaven, a lifetime of memories. A love that Megan Bourne will deeply hold within her heart. When educator, Brian Fleming, takes an assignment in New Mexico to learn more of Native American history and culture, he hires journalist Megan Bourne. Their ten days together will change Megan in profound ways for the rest of her life. Robert Gilbert brings this emotional, poignant page-turner of love and loss between Brian and Megan to life with sculptured magnetism. Megan's Love...a c...