Kathryn: 2617 books
Fantasy and Mimesis (Routledge Revivals)
Responses to Reality in Western Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Since Plato and Aristotle’s declaration of the essence of literature as imitation, western narrative has been traditionally discussed in mimetic terms. Marginalized fantasy- the deliberate from reality – has become the hidden face of fiction, identified by most critics as a minor genre. First...
by Kathryn Imbriani
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2011
When Lauren Butler’s father is stricken with a massive stroke, she stays behind to nurse him rather than proceed with her marriage and accompany her husband to his posting as an Inspector in the North West Mounted Police. Little does she know that her father will miraculously linger between life...
She
The Old Woman Who Took Over My Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This slender book, the last of twenty-nine written by Kathryn Tucker Windham over her long and productive life, will be an exquisitely bittersweet read for the many fans of the late storyteller and author from Selma, Alabama. In She, which Windham was putting the finishing touches on when she died...
Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees
One Thing Leads to Another
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
With sprightly humor and a lifetime spent observing Southern culture, beloved storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham shares memories of her childhood in Thomasville, Alabama. She affectionately recounts stories about family members, friends, and favorite pastimes. Spit, Scarey Ann, and Sweat Bees recalls...
Charlotte
Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2006
The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world
Her father, Colley Cibber, was one of the eighteenth century's great actor/playwrights-the toast of the British aristocracy, a favorite of the king....
With the End in Mind
Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor's breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
Modern medical technology is allowing us to live longer and fuller lives than ever before. And for the most part, that is good news. But with changes in...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Secret Master of Fandom and Private Detective Spade faces an impossible mission: He must save Celebcon Five from itself. The convention that’s trying to out Comic-con Comic-con has decided to make Dmitri Karnikov its guest of honor. Spade doesn’t want the mega-celebrity anywhere near a science...
Kat Tales
Stories of a House...Broken
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2012
Advance Praise for Kat Tales
If you enjoy hearing about animals getting the best of Katy Brown as much as I do, then you'll LOVE this book!
-Brad McElhinny, Managing Editor
The Charleston Daily Mail
Life is anything but tame.
Its true that essayist Kathryn Brown knows how...
by Kathryn T. Gines
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
While acknowledging Hannah Arendt's keen philosophical and political insights, Kathryn T. Gines claims that there are some problematic assertions and oversights regarding Arendt’s treatment of the "Negro question." Gines focuses on Arendt's reaction to the desegregation of Little Rock schools, to...
by Kathryn Chitwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
After being raised by an army of strong, independent, successful, man-hating-women; while simultaneously hanging on my father's every word, I am finally beginning to see my worth. I have always hated the term "Daddy Issues." I tell myself that my upbringing, and my partner. would never allow...
by Mack Reynolds, Richard Wilson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Science fiction and crime go hand-in-tentacle, if you’ll pardon the expression. Many of the science fiction field’s greatest writers also wrote mysteries…and vice versa. And sometimes the science fiction stories were mysteries. Our latest MEGAPACK® contains nothing but those blended SF-and-Mystery...
Right Out of California
The 1930s and the Big Business Roots of Modern Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
“Olmsted finds in Depression-era California the crucible for strong-arm policies against farm workers that bolstered the conservative movement” (Kirkus Reviews).
At a time when a resurgent immigrant labor movement is making urgent demands on twenty-first-century America—and when a new...
Doing the Best I Can
Fatherhood in the Inner City
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Across the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. Doing the Best I Can is a strikingly rich, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as "deadbeat dads." Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson examine...
A Warrant to Kill
A True Story of Obsession, Lies and a Killer Cop
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
She tried to tell her friends. She even went to the police. No one would believe her--and now she was dead.
Problems had always followed Susan White, but when she remarried and moved to Houston's posh suburbs, she thought the past was behind her--until she met a deputy sheriff named Kent McGowen...