Univ. of Nebraska
The Infamous Rosalie
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Lisette, a Creole slave, works in the plantation house of owners better than some in the 1750s. Still, they could have her killed ...Read Review
Hatemail: Anti-Semitism on Picture Postcards
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In this handsome, full-color volume, collector Aizenberg has assembled an utterly chilling array of postcards from around the world in which Jews are ...Read Review
Bohemian Girl
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Young Harriet opens her story by telling the reader that her frequently gambling father “lost her on a bet.” One can hardly grasp ...Read Review
Swords from the Desert
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Collected in Swords from the Desert are seven exciting stories set during the crusades and in 17th-century India and the Middle East, featuring ...Read Review
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815
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The “ship of the line” was the equivalent of the battleship in navies in the age of sail. While numerous smaller types of ...Read Review
The Blue Tattoo
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The Blue Tattoo pieces together the true story of Olive Oatman, a 14-year-old girl taken captive by the Yavapai Indians in 1851 after the ...Read Review
Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England
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Queens and Power is a collection of academic essays dealing with a variety of queens consort and queens regnant, mostly from the early ...Read Review
La Salle
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La Salle is an epistolary novel that presents a selective view of the explorations by the 17th century French explorer in search ...Read Review
Century of Locusts
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Century of Locusts is a tragic tale about Bedouins in early 20th-century Algeria. Mahmoud is a stranger within his own tribe. He ...Read Review
A Broken Mirror
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As the biographical note explains, Rodoreda is a Catalan writer now being rediscovered as literary force more than 20 years after her death. ...Read Review
