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dolen-perkins-valdez's picture
Oct.07.2009
Situated in the free state of Ohio, Tawawa House offers respite from the summer heat. A beautiful, inviting house surrounded by a dozen private cottages, the resort is favored by wealthy Southern white men who vacation there, accompanied by their enslaved mistresses.
melissa-m-hart's picture
May.16.2009
Torn between the high socioeconomic status of her father and the bohemian lifestyle of her mother, Melissa Hart tells a compelling story of contradiction in this coming-of-age memoir. Set in 1970s Southern California, Gringa is the story of a young girl conflicted by two extremes. On the one hand...
thomas-fahy's picture
Aug.01.2008
Aaron Sorkin is one of the most notable voices in Hollywood, attracting millions of weekly viewers with his television series The West Wing and scoring box office success with films like A Few Good Men and The American President. With a musician's sense of rhythm and writing skills honed in the...
sarojini-sahoo's picture
Jul.27.2008
Though in her stories Sarojini deals with the social issues but she is basically a writer of Individual values .In Oriya literature , a reader can see there is always a conflict between social values and individual values.This conflict can be seen from the first short story Rebati written by Fakir...
lisa-appignanesi's picture
May.01.2008
A brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history of the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800. This is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last two hundred years and how we conceive of them today, from the depression suffered by Virginia...