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Faithless

Alice Nelson

A passionate love story and an honest depiction of the self-deceptions we pursue seeking family and attachment.

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Saint-Saens

Lang Lang, Gina Alice, Gewandhausorchester & Andris Nelsons

Lang Lang presents with this album a treasure trove of musical discoveries.

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories of displacement and trauma into a beautifully told, hope-filled, outstanding novel.

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Alice in Wonderland

Brainerd Duffield

Alice plunges down the rabbit hole and becomes involved in that madcap and deliciously satiric series of adventures immortalized by Lewis Carroll. A kaleidoscope of action and madness, with the…

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The Last Sky

Alice Nelson

This special, book club edition of award-winning author Alice Nelsons The Last Sky recounts the story of Maya Wise a young wife alone in Hong Kong. The Sydney Morning Herald…

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The Last Sky

Alice Nelson

Maya Wise is alone in Hong Kong. British rule is coming to an end and so is Maya’s marriage. She drifts, wandering aimlessly through the crowded city streets. Captivated by…

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each…

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After This: Holocaust Stories

Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015 the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson…

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After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak

Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson…

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The Complete Short Stories of Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson

This fantastic book contains a brand new collection of Nelson’s best and most famous short stories.

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in…

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women writers.

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women writers.

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

This early work by Alice Dunbar Nelson was originally published in 1895. Born in New Orleans, USA in 1875, Alice Dunbar Nelson was among the first African-Americans to be born…

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All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American journalist, political activist, and poet. She belonged to the first generation of black southerners born into freedom following the Civil War and gained acclaim…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

A stunning short story collection that takes the reader into the heart of the Creole community in late-nineteenth-century New Orleans, from a key poet and journalist of the Harlem Renaissance-featuring…

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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Professor Tara T. Green (Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, African and African-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)

A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. - Booklist, starred review
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Professor Tara T. Green (Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, African and African-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)

A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. - Booklist, starred review
This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories

Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape

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Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories

Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them.

Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each…

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them.

Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each…

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The Goodness Of St. Rocque

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence; The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence; The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Excerpt: … his dilapidated basket on one shoulder, a nondescript head-cover pulled over his eyes, whistling cheerily. Then he would slip in at the back door of one of his…

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The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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Teaching Mrs. Muddle

Colleen Nelson

Fall in love at first blunder with a wisely foolish kindergarten teacher who makes the first day of school an experience to remember

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The Goodness Of St. Rocque

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Mine Eyes Have Seen

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mine Eyes Have Seen (1918) is a one-act play by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Published in The Crisis, the influential journal of the NAACP, Mine Eyes Have Seen is a brutal…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other…

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a decade after Dunbar's untimely death, Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Alice Dunbar Nelson

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) is a short story collection by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Dedicated to her husband at the time, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a decade after Dunbar’s untimely death, Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Alice Dunbar Nelson

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) is a short story collection by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Dedicated to her husband at the time, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great Recession

In Beyond the New Deal Order, contributors bring fresh perspectives to the historic meaning and significance of the New Deal coalition from the standpoint of the early twenty-first century. The…

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Speak Easy English For Traveling

Christopher Hill

Are you a traveler who wish to learn and speak the English language during your trip? Do you want to learn the right and basic English expressions or common English…

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Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar,Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy…

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Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar,Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy…

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The Goodness of Saint Roch

Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Using the name Alice Dunbar, this book was originally published in 1899 as The Goodness of Saint Rocque and Other Stories by Dodd, Mead and Company in New York, and…

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Masculine/Feminine: Practices of Difference(s)

Nelly Richard

Develops some of the issues brought to the fore during the 1987 International Conference on Latin American Women’s Literature in Santiago. This book theorizes on why the feminist movement has…

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