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  • Rest Her Soul

    A James Buckner Novel

    by Christopher C. Gibbs ...
    Its 1928, and the presidential election between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith is on everybodys mindeveryone but Police Chief James Buckner of Corinth, Missouri. A young womans corpse has been discovered buried in the cellar wall of a boarding house in the nearby mining village of Taylor. Knowing hes one of the best detectives they have, Corinths officials allow Chief Buckner to investigate.Buckner ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Broken Past

    A James Buckner Mystery

    by Christopher C. Gibbs ...
    A murder mystery quietly unfolds during a seemingly peaceful morning in Corinth, Missouri in 1923. Police Chief James Buckner is called away from his office to investigate the death of a prominent local businessman whose lifeless body has just been found. Several miles away, a black man is discovered lynched and in his pocket is a warning from the Ku Klux Klan.The Roaring 20s is a time when racial ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Buckner’s Move

    A James Buckner Novel

    by Christopher C. Gibbs ...
    Martha Jane Buckner, crime reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, gets caught in a crossfire between criminal gangs in St. Louis. It’s 1929, and with Prohibition going strong, there’s a lot of money to be made in illegal booze. Her best source is killed and Marty almost dies in a hail of buckshot. She turns for help to her friend Elroy Dutton, gambler and speakeasy owner in her old hometown of ... Read more

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  • Cold in Death

    by Christopher C. Gibbs ...
    Buckner looked into the wagon bed at the body, which now lay on its back, one bold onlooker having turned it to facilitate the viewing. He nodded in agreement. His lips twisted in disgust, and he found himself wondering again why he had taken a job that required him to look at the bodies of people dead by violence.James Buckner, the new police chief of Corinth, Missouri, must root out corruption ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Resilience of Southern Identity

    Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People

    by Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts ...
    The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region’s politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded — chain restaurants have replaced mom ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Presidential Swing States

    by David F. Damore, Rafael Jacob, Sean D. Foreman, Elizabeth Maltby, Rebecca D. Gill, Dante J. Scala, Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts, Neil Kraus, Aaron C. Weinschenk0, Donna R. Hoffman1, Christopher W. Larimer2, James P. Melcher3, Amy Fried4, Nathaniel Swigger5, David A. Dulio6, John S. Klemanski7, Kate Kenski8, Karen L. Owen9, Kyle Hull0, Scott McLean1, David Schultz2, Dr. Christopher Borick4 ...
    The 2020 US presidential race was one of the most hotly contested and contentious in recent American history. While the election produced the greatest turnout in American history and the highest percentage turnout in 60 years, the election still came down to a handful of swing states that ultimately decided the election. In their third edition of Presidential Swing States, Rafael Jacob and David ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Schubert

    Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    This Companion to Schubert examines the career, music, and reception of one of the most popular yet misunderstood and elusive composers. Sixteen chapters by leading Schubert scholars make up three parts. The first seeks to situate the social, cultural, and musical climate in which Schubert lived and worked, the second surveys the scope of his musical achievement, and the third charts the course of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Franz Liszt and His World

    Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs, Dana Gooley ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    No nineteenth-century composer had more diverse ties to his contemporary world than Franz Liszt (1811-1886). At various points in his life he made his home in Vienna, Paris, Weimar, Rome, and Budapest. In his roles as keyboard virtuoso, conductor, master teacher, and abbé, he reinvented the concert experience, advanced a progressive agenda for symphonic and dramatic music, rethought the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Franz Schubert and His World

    Edited by Christopher H. Gibbs, Morten Solvik ...
    Series series The Bard Music Festival
    The life, times, and music of Franz SchubertDuring his short lifetime, Franz Schubert (1797–1828) contributed to a wide variety of musical genres, from intimate songs and dances to ambitious chamber pieces, symphonies, and operas. The essays and translated documents in Franz Schubert and His World examine his compositions and ties to the Viennese cultural context, revealing surprising and ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • The New Politics of North Carolina

    Edited by Christopher A. Cooper, H. Gibbs Knotts ...
    Political scientist V. O. Key in 1949 described North Carolina as a “progressive plutocracy.” He argued that in the areas of industrial development, public education, and race relations, North Carolina appeared progressive when compared to other southern states. Reconsidering Key’s evaluation nearly sixty years later, contributors to this volume find North Carolina losing ground as a progressive ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    by James Patterson, Richard DiLallo ...
    Series Book 1 - Alex Cross Adventures
    Written in the fearless voice of Detective Alex Cross, Alex Cross's Trial is a #1 New York Times bestseller of murder, love, and above all, bravery.From his grandmother, Alex Cross has heard the story of his great uncle Abraham and his struggles for survival in the era of the Ku Klux Klan. Now, Alex passes the family tale along to his own children in a novel he's written-a novel called Trial.As a ... Read more

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  • Slave Narratives: Indiana

    by Library of Congress ...
    First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Congress. This file includes all parts dealing with former slaves in Florida. Other files, published separately, focus on other southern states. In all, there are some two thousand narratives from the ... Read more

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