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Fethiye is a small seaport on Turkey's Aegean shore where each
summer starting in May tourists from across Europe and England
flock to exchange gloomy skies and rain for sand and sea and
sometimes sex, beneath a hot bright Mediterranean sun. Connie
Cullingsworth, whose life this novel is a portrait of, flies to
Fethiye to rescue her daughter who has been robbed and will need
money. Accompanying Connie is her second husband, Charles, a
computer whiz who lives in his world of cyberspace and remains
indifferent to her needs and desires, as she discovers too late. A
teacher schooled in Romanticism, Connie had always dreamt of seeing
the Mediterranean, birthplace of western art and literature; and in
Bea's Bar, she meets Omer whose charismatic charm she finds she is
unable to resist when he offers to teach her to swim. As a girl
Connie had almost drowned in a Scottish loch, and ever since she
has feared water. But in the end Connie must learn that Paradise
has its darker side
The novel TRACKS: a story from the Vietnam War operates on the
surface as a suspense drama structured around a triangle. At the
center is Ingrid, a sultry young German woman who is fought over by
Paul Carroll and Ralph Benson: friends on the surface but, as both
will discover, enemies underneath. Paul is educated, fears violence
and is anti-Vietnam War while Ralph, a former M.P. in the U.S.
Army, has no problem with violence, particularly against women.
When Paul and Ingrid hide, Ralph sets out determined to find them
and reclaim Ingrid whom he regards as his property. Both Paul and
Ralph are railroaders and Ralph finds the couple at a place called
Wishram: a railroad yard and less-than town deep inside the
Columbia River Gorge. He waits until Paul has left town on a
freight before assaulting Ingrid at gunpoint, then setting out to
avenge himself on Paul. But Ingrid knows her lover is no match for
Ralph.
"It is in an unrelated incident years before that Why I bought
Belcher's...has its root: at a wedding. My daughter was attending
her girlfriend's father's wedding to a physically pretty woman: but
with an alcohol problem. During the partying the bride, very drunk
according to my daughter, produced a loaded pistol which,
brandishing, she threatened to use against her guests. This was
before even Columbine High, before the series of gun-related
massacres that followed and made me aware that the United States
had a very real problem. "But how I tied a wedding gone horribly
wrong to a series of gun-related massacres, and both to such a
great novel as Don Quixote I still do not know: except that
unconsciously I must have. "Consider the similarities between
Cervantes' great novel and my more modest effort. Don Quixote is
driven to madness by over-indulgence in the romance novels of his
day.
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Title: The Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers. Illustrated with
engravings ... from designs by Lawrence, Stothard, Turner,
etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It
is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150
million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals,
newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and
much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along
with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and
historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The POETRY &
DRAMA collection includes books from the British Library digitised
by Microsoft. The books reflect the complex and changing role of
literature in society, ranging from Bardic poetry to Victorian
verse. Containing many classic works from important dramatists and
poets, this collection has something for every lover of the stage
and verse. ++++The below data was compiled from various
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This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++ British Library Rogers, Samuel;
Lawrence, Thomas; 1852. 8 . 11611.d.1.
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A companion volume to Autumn of Glory. Most of the Civil War was
fought on Southern soil. The responsibility for defending the
Confederacy rested with two great military forces. One of these
armies defended the ""heartland"" of the Confederacy- a vital area
which embraced the state of Tennessee and large portions of
Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Kentucky. This is the story of
that army- the first detailed study to be based upon research in
manuscript collections and the first to explore the military
significance of the heartland. The Army of Tennessee faced problems
and obstacles far more staggering than any encountered by the other
great Confederate force. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Lee's
army was charged with the defense of an area considerably smaller
in size. And while Lee's line of defense extended only about 125
miles, the front defended by the Army of Tennessee stretched for
some 400 miles. Yet the Army of the Heartland has heretofore been
given relatively slight attention by historians. With this volume
Thomas Lawrence Connelly, a native Tennessean, has brought
Confederate military history more nearly into balance. Throughout
the war the Army of Tennessee was plagued by ineffective
leadership. There were personality conflicts between commanding
generals and corps commanders and breakdowns in communications with
the Confederate government at Richmond. Lacking the leadership of a
Lee, the Army of Tennessee failed to attain a real esprit at the
corps level. Instead, the common soldiers, sensing the quarrelsome
nature of their leaders, developed at regimental and brigade levels
their own peculiar brand of morale which sustained them through
continuous defeats. Connelly analyzes the influence and impact of
each successive commander of the Army. His conclusions regarding
Confederate command and leadership are not the conventional ones.
Winner of the Fletcher Pratt Award and the Jefferson Davis Award A
companion volume to Army of the Heartland Near the end of 1862 the
Army of Tennessee began a long and frustrating struggle against
overwhelming obstacles and ultimate defeat. Federal strength was
growing, and after the Confederate surrender at Vicksburg, the
total Union effort became concentrated against the Army of
Tennessee. In the face of these external military problems, the
army was also plagued with internal conflict, continuing command
discord, and political intrigue. In Autumn of Glory, the final
volume of Thomas Lawrence Connelly's definitive history of one of
the Confederacy's two major military forces, Connelly analyzes the
factors underlying the army's failure during the last two years of
the Civil War. The army's military operations- including such major
battles and campaigns as Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Lookout
Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek,
Atlanta, Ezra Church, Jonesboro, and Bentonville- are viewed in
perspective with its growing internal problems and the personality
peculiarities of its commanders. In late 1863 a well-organized
movement within the army against General Bragg failed. After his
departure, a semblance of the anti-Bragg organization still
remained, and subsequently the army's leadership became embroiled
in national Confederate politics. Connelly traces these growing
problems of command discord and political intrigue and examines
their disastrous effects upon the army's political fortunes.
Connelly's first volume, Army of the Heartland, explores the
military significance of the ""heartland"" of the Confederacy and
covers the army's operations from 1861 to late 1862. With the
completion of these two volumes, the author has narrowed the
historiographical gap between Lee's Army of Virginia and the
Confederacy's ""other army.
More than a century after Appomattox, the Civil War and the idea of
the "Lost Cause" remain at the center of the southern mind. God and
General Longstreet traces the persistence and the transformation of
the Lost Cause from the first generation of former Confederates to
more recent times, when the Lost Cause has continued to endure in
the commitment of southerners to their regional culture. Southern
writers from the Confederate period through the southern renascence
and into the 1970s fostered the Lost Cause, creating an image of
the South that was at once romantic and tragic. By examining the
work of these writers, Thomas Connelly and Barbara Bellows explain
why the nation embraced this image and outline the evolution of the
Lost Cause mentality from its origins in the South's surrender to
its role in a century-long national expression of defeat that
extended from 1865 through the Vietnam War. As Connelly and Bellows
demonstrate, the Lost Cause was a realization of mortality in an
American world striving for perfection, an admission of failure
juxtaposed against a national faith in success.
Robert E. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader,
considered by many, southerners and nonsoutherners alike, to have
been a near saint. In The Marble Man a leading Civil War military
historian examines the hold of Lee on the American mind and traces
the campaign in historiography that elevated him to national hero
status.
A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister—it’s her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart—has died in a car bomb explosion. It’s the chief of police calling—Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do—but it’s a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published, “One sure thing about Ross Thomas’s novels: A reader won’t get bored waiting for the action to start.”
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