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Praise for The Sky Took Him... "Casey captures the Oklahoma of 1915-16...with recipes of the era added for spice...an appealing historical series." -Booklist A sad duty brings Alafair Tucker to Enid, Oklahoma, in the fall of 1915. Her sister Ruth Ann's husband, Lester, is not long for this world, and the family is gathering to send him to his reward. Alafair's eldest daughter Martha has come along to care for toddler Grace, freeing Alafair to ...

After a young Indian boy named Crying Blood is murdered, Alafair Tucker's husband, Shaw, is determined to confront the killer.

Praise for Crying Blood..."Powerful as a blue norther sweeping across the Creek Nation...gripping." -Carolyn HartShaw Tucker, his brother James, and their sons go hunting in 1915. Instead of a quail, Shaw's dog, Buttercup, flushes an old boot...containing the bones of a foot. Buttercup then leads the men to a shallow grave and a skeleton with a bullet hole in the skull. That night, a pair of moccasin-clad legs brushes by Shaw's tent flap. He r...

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2nd edition. Introduction fro students taking the WJEC A2-level Film Studies course.

Once upon a time, there hailed a man from Memphis, a modern day adventurer with a Confederacy of Dunces aiming to bring him down. His enemies: a former high school friend turned cokehead, a lie-mongering newswoman who fiends for sex and unearned money, a pistol-packing homosexual with a badge and a deadly axe to grind and an escaped convict lusting for revenge. Bruin's Wake is the story of Paul Bruin, an enigmatic character who trapses from on...

What would the world be like if we no longer needed meaning? Australian sociologist Michael Casey's revealing work charts the collapse of the metaphysical world and the innate human need for meaning. With the decline of Christianity and the demise of secular universalism in the west, the meaning and value of metaphysical culture has been replaced by an entirely new post-metaphysical world. In Meaninglessness, Casey revisits the social theory o...

Edward S. Casey is Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University. His previous books include Imagining (IUP, 2nd ed., 2000), Remembering (IUP, 2nd ed., 2000), and The World at a Glance (IUP, 2007).

Alafair Tucker was heading to Oklahoma in the fall of 1915 when her nieces husband disappears. Everyone suspects that a ruthless businessman in town did him in, but Alafair suspects things are not so simple.

Praise for Donis Casey's novels "Dialogue rich with Midwestern speech patterns and a consistent, unobtrusive narrative voice lift this smalltown historical." -Publishers Weekly of Hornswoggled "Donis Casey's voice flows like tea syrup, transporting you effortlessly to the Oklahoma frontier....A welcome invite to your great-grandmother's front porch swing." -Julia Spencer-Fleming Edgar finalist and author of All Mortal Flesh It's spring 1913, a...

Focuses on the art deco ceramics that were produced by the British pottery industry during the late 20 and early 30s.

An easy-to-read retelling, with accessible endnotes on Chinese astrology and festivals. Ages: 4-10yrs.

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Warming up for the movie event of 2008 - find out exactly how Iron Man's deadliest nemesis came to be. A tale from the early days of the Marvel Universe, this mini-series contains secrets never-before-revealed of the first-ever metting between the Golden Avenger and the global terrorist know only as the Mandarin! What really happened during the first encounter? Even if you've read the original comics, you only know HALF the story!

Nonequity financial markets used to be ", hidden", in Europe, in the sense that they traditionally received less attention from ordinary investors and the media than equity markets, relative to their size. This phenomenon was accentuated by the fact that the EU's Financial Services Action Plan was primarily geared toward equity markets. Given the crucial role played by bond markets in the economy through the capital allocation process,...

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This early works on 'The Land of Haunted Castles' is illustrated throughout with many photographs and is a comprehensive and informative look at the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

An adorable cast of multi-cultural babies make their way through vibrantly colored landscapes to learn about recognizing and naming colors. The dazzlingly bright pages are paired with simple poems to evoke the different moods of each color. A gentle message about appreciating all color in nature is made visually and with the simple question to the reader What happens if color goes away? Wouldn't the world look gloomy and grey? The ending bring...

This important new book examines a period of dramatic economic change in Britain during the Thatcher era. The Conservatives' free market policies generally improved the performance of the economy in Britain, but some parts of the country still did poorly (for example northern England). Casey argues that this was as a result of variations in social contexts - a combination of institutions, interests and economic culture. Southern England, posse...

The Southern Sewing Circle mystery series continues. Yankee librarian Tori Sinclair is basking in the warmth of her new circle of friends from South Carolina's Sweet Briar Ladies Society sewing circle. That is until local author Colby Calhoun reveals an unflattering secret about the town's historic past-and then disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind him. And when Tori begins to see a pattern of the townsfolk's age-old Southern pride standi...