Stephanie: 3440 books
A Contested Art
Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region was still largely populated by Spanish-speaking Hispanos. Anglos who came in search of new personal and aesthetic freedoms found inspiration for their...
Reading Women
How the Great Books of Feminism Changed My Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011
When Stephanie Staal first read The Feminine Mystique in college, she found it a mildly interesting relic from another era.” But more than a decade later, as a married stay-at-home mom in the suburbs, Staal rediscovered Betty Friedan's classic work-and was surprised how much she identified with...
Summer Days and Summer Nights
Twelve Love Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom.
Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international...
by Stephanie Rohrbach
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Healing Rhinos and Other Souls tells the story of a much respected if unorthodox vet, a family man who loved and understood nature and all her creatures, a reluctant businessman, a somewhat exuberant driver, a humble person, a great storyteller and a wonderful friend to many.For nearly fifty years...
Hideous Love
The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From Stephanie Hemphill, author of the Printz Honor winner Your Own, Sylvia and the acclaimed novel Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials, comes the fascinating story of gothic novelist Mary Shelley, most famous for the classic Frankenstein.
An all-consuming love affair with famed...
In the Company of Rilke
Why a 20th-Century Visionary Poet Speaks So Eloquently to 21st-Century Readers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Connecting to your inner life through the transformative poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke.
In the Company of Rilke is a rare book about a rare poet. Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who remains a visionary voice for our own time, captivating readers not only with his...
Sing Them Home
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
One of Entertainment Weekly’s Ten Best Books of the Year: “A magical novel that even cynics will close with a smile” (People).
Everyone in Emlyn Springs, Nebraska, knows the story of Hope Jones, who was lost in the tornado of 1978. Her three young children found some stability in their...
by Stephanie Bond
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Emory Maxwell has come home to the small town of Sweetness, Georgia, with one goal in mind-to get his childhood sweetheart Shelby Moon to marry him. They've been in love with the second grade, but Shelby's father is determined to keep his daughter in Sweetness, not moving around the country as a soldier's...
by Stephanie Jill Hodge
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
It's a roller coaster ride of a travelogue.There is an inverse relationship between angst and diversion-seeking behavior which takes the reader through packs of cigarettes and bottles of good South African cheap wine, across crocodile infested waters, on 33 mile runs with, boulders and baboons,...
by Stephanie J. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
In this book, Stephanie J. Shaw brings a new understanding to one of the great documents of American and black history. While most scholarly discussions of The Souls of Black Folk focus on the veils, the color line, double consciousness, or Booker T. Washington, Shaw reads Du Bois' book as a profoundly...
by Stephanie A. Mayberry
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
The fast and fun cure for writer's block!Within these pages lie 101 creative ideas for starting your story. Some are funny. Others are dramatic. Some will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside while others will send a chill down your spine.So whatever your mood; whatever you are...
Culture and the Question of Rights
Forests, Coasts, and Seas in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2003
This collection of ethnographic and interpretive essays fundamentally alters the debate over indigenous land claims in Southeast Asia and beyond. Based on fieldwork conducted in Malaysia and Indonesia during the 1980s and 1990s, these studies explore new terrain at the intersection of environmental...
Subjects and Citizens
Nation, Race, and Gender from Oroonoko to Anita Hill
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Focusing on intersecting issues of nation, race, and gender, this volume inaugurates new models for American literary and cultural history. Subjects and Citizens reveals the many ways in which a wide range of canonical and non-canonical writing contends with the most crucial social, political, and...
This Woman in Particular
Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits?
“Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions...