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Miami, Florida 1992: A few weeks after Hurricane Andrew wreaks devastation and havoc across South Florida, a father and his infant daughter crash their car into a canal. The man’s body is recovered, but his baby girl is never found.

Twenty-three years later: After reports of alleged sightings of the girl, the case is reopened by police. Detective Maria Duquesne has been assigned to the case, but she has very little in the way of clues. Is it really possible that the girl has not died? Or is this simply the persistence of a desperate mother who will not accept the death of her daughter?

A cozy mystery with a unique lens: Author Uva de Aragón provides a multifaceted portrait of the Latino communities of Miami and Hialeah, creating an exciting thriller that will appeal to readers who enjoy mysteries with female sleuths.

Uva de Aragón has published a dozen books of essays, poetry, short stories, and the novel Memoria del Silencio, which is now offered in its first translation into English. Some of her short stories and a play have also been translated and appear in textbooks and anthologies such as The Voice of the Turtle, Cuba: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Cubana, and Cuban-American Theater. The Miracle of St. Lazarus is the newest soon-to-be bestseller in her incredible literary career.

Author: DE ARAGON, UVA

ISBN: 9781642501247

Price: $15.95

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Cover Image For Hollowed Out: A Warning about America's Next Generation (PB)
Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition, and a love of learning in his students. And yet, as he notes, when teachers get together, they often share an arresting conclusion: Something has gone terribly wrong. Something essential is missing in our young people.

Their curiosity seems stunted, their reason undeveloped, their values uninformed, their knowledge lacking, and most worrying of all, their humanity diminished.

Digital hermits of a sort unfamiliar to an older generation, they have little interest in marriage and family. They largely dismiss—and are shockingly ignorant of—religion. They sneer at patriotism, sympathize with riots and vandalism, and regard American society and civilization as so radically flawed that it must be dismantled. Often friendless and depressed, they eat alone, study alone, and even “socialize” alone.

Educators like Adams see a generation slipping away. The problems that have hollowed out our young people have been festering for years. A year of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing have magnified them. The result could be a generation—and our nation’s future—lost in a miasma of alienation and stupefaction.

In his stunning new book, Hollowed Out, Jeremy S. Adams reveals why students have rejected the wisdom, culture, and institutions of Western civilization—and what we can do to win them back. Poignant, frightening, and yet inspiring, this is a book for every parent, teacher, and patriot concerned for our young people and our country.

Author: ADAMS, JEREMY

ISBN: 9781684513802

Price: $16.99

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Adams has been an educator for more than a quarter century. Teaching a new generation of students who suffer with anxiety, passivity, and a cynical view of their own nation and its principles has convinced him that a change is urgently needed: The recovery of national greatness requires that we passionately study our heroes. Lessons in Liberty is the first step to discovering the better angels of our nature by restoring the possibilities of individual freedom.

In this beautifully written, proudly patriotic, and deeply researched ode to American heroes from a rich variety of eras and backgrounds, Adams reclaims the power of the American story, discovering thirty different and surprising lessons that will inspire modern Americans to lead better and more substantive lives.

Author: ADAMS, JEREMY

ISBN: 9780063311077

Price: $30.00

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Cover Image For Beneath the Sands of Monahans (HB)
The tale of a stone-cold frontiersman blasting across his beloved Texas highways attempting to retain his sense of daring and independence among friends, family, bookies and under-reported enemies. Beneath the Sands of Monahans introduces Archie Weesatche, a hard-working orphan who’s recently sold his oilfield hot shot company, Keep On Truckin’. With money in his pocket, and time on his hands, Archie launches a long-planned Tour of Texas with best friend Okinawa Watkins, gambling with a colorful cast of hand-picked boosters and bookies on high school and college football games. Enter Mexican heiress, Josefina Montemayor, who convinces her long-ago lover that Archie’s the only man she trusts to raise the $650,000 she needs to release millions in unrecovered cartel cash. Set in a map’s worth of Texas locations, this “quest” narrative explores cultural minefields, the precarious nature of oilfield booms and busts, and the tricky world of cash money gambling during a legendary winning streak.

Author: ALCORN, CHARLES

ISBN: 9781646052196

Price: $28.00

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Cover Image For A Social Theory of Congress (HB)
What is the role that norms play in the U.S. Congress? At a time of unprecedented partisanship and high-profile breaches of legislative norms in the modern Congress, the relationship between norms and the functioning of the institution is a growing and pressing concern. Despite the importance of the topic, recent scholarship has not focused on congressional norms. Meanwhile, previous research leaves open many relevant questions about the role of norms in the Congress of the twenty-first century.

A Social Theory of Congress brings norms back in to the study of Congress by defining what are legislative norms, identifying which norms currently exist in the U.S. Congress, and examining the effects that congressional norms have. This book provides a new research approach to study congressional norms through a comprehensive review of previous scholarship and a combination of interviews, survey research, and analysis of member behavior. What’s more, an innovative theoretical framework — a social theory of Congress — provides new perspectives in the study of legislatures and political behavior.

The findings are striking. Norms of cooperation are surprisingly alive and well in an otherwise partisan Congress. But norms of conflict are on the rise. In addition, norms of a changing culture are affecting how members understand their role as lawmakers and in their interactions among one another. Together, these findings suggest that norms play an important role in the functioning of the legislature and as norms evolve so too does the performance of Congress in American democracy.

Author: ALEXANDER, BRIAN

ISBN: 9781793601278

Price: $95.00

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Cover Image For Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less (HB)
Brevity is confidence. Length is fear. This is the guiding principle of Smart Brevity, a communication formula built by Axios journalists to prioritize essential news and information, explain its impact and deliver it in a concise and visual format. Now, the co-founders of Axios have created an essential guide for communicating effectively and efficiently using Smart Brevity—think Strunk and White’s Elements of Style for the digital age.

Author: ALLEN, MIKE

ISBN: 9781523516971

Price: $27.00

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Cover Image For Quotes for Conservatives (HB)
This unique, up-to-date assemblage of quotes drawn from history's rich conservative heritage is the ideal gift and resource for students, speechmakers, politicians, and anyone interested in great ideas and abiding truths. The conservative tradition in America dates back to the nation's Founding. In a time when conservatives find themselves under constant attack by self-righteous liberals, QUOTES FOR CONSERVATIVES celebrates enduring expressions of proven principles and core values.

Author: APGAR, GARRY

ISBN: 9781546085881

Price: $15.00

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Cover Image For First Generation Wealth (HB)
First-generation wealth creators have a priceless opportunity to lay the groundwork for lasting family wealth and avoiding what is known in the field as the Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves phenomenon. In this book, preeminent wealth management experts and seasoned entrepreneurs Robert Balentine and Adrian Cronje of the storied wealth management firm Balentine LLC help readers think through in a very personal way what it takes to build a meaningful legacy and best support future generations. They offer their first-hand perspective on not only the financial, but also the emotional and psychological challenges that entrepreneurs commonly face and share their Three Guiding Principles for Long-Lasting Wealth and an Enduring Family Legacy.

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Author: BALENTINE, ROBERT

ISBN: 9781936961467

Price: $28.00

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Cover Image For My San Francisco (PB)
Gordon Ball first saw San Francisco as a small child, coming by train with his Ohio River Valley family to join his father in Japan after his narrow escape from Shanghai before Mao took it. In My San Francisco he recounts Bay Area experiences from family furlough visits every few years, followed by hitchhiking there in the war-torn 1960s and embarking on a six-month stay a few years later, the culmination of a cross-country journey with poet Allen Ginsberg—a stay marked by failed love and lifelong friendship. My San Francisco, a large format chapbook with several photographs including two by the photographer author, is both a highly personal memoir of and tribute to the city, vitalized by imagistic gists and brief encounters melded with longer narratives; it is, as some readers have celebrated it, “honest,” “brave,” and beautiful.”

Author: BALL, GORDON

ISBN: 9781937370329

Price: $15.00

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The saga of "Baner's" 35 years of interaction with the Washington and Lee University family.

Author: BANE DORIS

ISBN: 9781934368039

Price: $19.99

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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Edited by Nancy Alonso and Katherine Hedeen. Translated by Jeffrey C. Barnett. "These verses and prose poems offer difficult, hermetic verbal snapshots of Cuba—ironic and anguished but not without hope. One of Cuba's leading recent poets, Zurelys López Amaya's FLOCKS/REBAÑOS, constitutes the first full-length translation of one of her works into English. Recognized for its refreshing and unusual style, readers may find the poetic selections in FLOCKS/REBAÑOS to be polemical, on the one hand, and yet serene and detached on the other. In her prose poems, López Amaya finds sufficient space to develop the traditional allegory of the pastor and his flock, an extended metaphor that may lead the reader to consider disturbing questions about modern-day Cuba. As she portrays a society amassed in a pasture hopelessly waiting for an absent shepherd, her poems always lead our eye back to the flock, or rather the Cuban people. In doing so, she puts forth a complex and ambivalent view, one that is an instinctual lament but also one which finds solace in poetry. Despite the work's poignant socio-political insight, López Amaya's poetry is not limited to social thesis. Instead, she offers a rich and complex view of her world, all the while embracing simplicity and pondering aesthetic wonder. Throughout her poems we find a wide array of emotion, including empathy, loneliness, nostalgia, remorse, longing, and love. In short, whether posing disturbing images about her socio- political milieu or celebrating the mundane, FLOCKS/REBAÑOS provides the reader with a gestalt view of the poet's daily life, a vision that on the one hand is inextricably tied to Cuba, while on the other a vision that extends beyond the island to summon the universal."—Jeffrey C. Barnett

Author: BARNETT JEFF

ISBN: 9781944176082

Price: $21.00

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Cover Image For Death Lines (PB)
Death Lines is the first walking guide to London’s role in the evolution of horror cinema, inspired by the city’s dark histories, labyrinthine architectures, atmospheric streetscapes, and uncanny denizens. Its eight walks lead you on a series of richly researched yet undeniably chilling tours through Chelsea, Notting Hill, Westminster, Bloomsbury, Covent Garden, and the East End, along the haunted banks of the river Thames, and down into the depths of the London Underground railway.

Each tour weaves together London’s stories and takes the reader to magnificent, eerie, and sometimes disconcertingly ordinary corners of the city, unearthing the literature, legends, and history behind classics like Peeping Tom and An American Werewolf in London, and lesser-known works such as mind-control melodrama The Sorcerers; Gorgo, Britain’s answer to Godzilla; tube terror Death Line; and Bela Lugosi's mesmeric vehicle The Dark Eyes of London. Tinged with humor, social critique, and more than a few scares, Death Lines delights in revealing the hidden and often surprising relationship between the city and the dark cinematic visions it has evoked. Whether read on the streets or from the comfort of the grave, Death Lines is a treat for all cinephiles, horror fans, and lovers of London lore.

Author: BARNETT, LAUREN

ISBN: 9781913689384

Price: $22.95

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Cover Image For Who Killed Buster Sparkle? (PB)
When a drag queen named Peaches meets Buster, a Mississippi ghost with partial amnesia, questions of past, present, and future surface.

Buster attempts to reckon with who he was and is in the presence of Peaches, whose gender-fluid identity perplexes him. Although he doesn't want to associate with Peaches, Buster realizes that he must push aside his biases to avoid eternal loneliness.

Who Killed Buster Sparkle? threads together dialogue on race, gender, orientation, and economics, showing oppression exists in many forms. Bateman masters the comic and gothic through two characters who need each other more than they understand.

Author: BATEMAN, JOHN

ISBN: 9781947021792

Price: $18.00

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Cover Image For American Furniture 2012 (HB)
Editorial Statement - Luke Beckerdite. Luke Beckerdite is editor of American Furniture and a decorative arts scholar living in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Author: BECKERDITE LUKE

ISBN: 9780982772218

Price: $75.00

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Cover Image For Ethics and Advocacy: Bridges and Boundaries (PB)
Ethics and Advocacy considers the connections and differences between critical reflection or moral arguments or narratives and advocacy for particular issues regarding justice and moral behavior and dispositions. The chapters in this volume share an interest in overcoming polarizing division that does not enable fruitful give-and-take discussion and even possible persuasive justifications. The authors all believe that both ethics and advocacy are important and should inform each other, but each offers a divergent point of view on the way forward to these agreed-upon ends. Our shared goal is to avoid academic withdrawal and to speak relevantly to the important issues of our day while halting--or at least mitigating--the disruptive discourse--almost shouting--that characterizes our polarized current society.

Author: BECKLEY, HARLAN

ISBN: 9781666702989

Price: $43.00

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Cover Image For Rethinking Equal Opportunity (PB)
This book explores equal opportunity—more accurately “fair equality of opportunity”—as a norm that commands at least casual consent from many U.S. citizens. If we could agree what fair equality of opportunity actually requires, this shared conception could offer a collective normative principle and disposition to advance current policies, practices, institutions, and interpersonal behavior, leading to a more just society.

Even if our collective consent to equal opportunity is devoid of much substance, it forms a shaky platform for a more thoughtful exploration and deliberation of what equal opportunity requires of us individually and collectively. This book offers a substantive concept, principle, and disposition that can guide our thinking about justice and rescue us from an empty cliché. It proposes meaningful content for equal opportunity as a morally, socially, politically, and science-informed conception.

The “how” of equal opportunity requires that society—its structures, its associations, and its individual citizens—foster the capability of persons to become qualified to pursue a variety of outcomes they may choose. The absence of prejudice irrelevant to qualifications in making appointments to positions at some starting line is required but insufficient. Equality of opportunity calls for many renewals by society throughout the lives of its participants, which includes new possibilities for persons disabled or incarcerated and for all persons as they age.

Author: BECKLEY, HARLAN

ISBN: 9781538191057

Price: $29.00

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What can a cemetery tell us about the social and cultural dynamics of a place and time? Anthropologist Alison Bell suggests that cemeteries participate in the grassroots cultural work of crafting social connections, even as they test the transcendental durability of the deceased person and provide a measure of a culture’s values. In The Vital Dead, Bell applies this framework to the communities of Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and the cemeteries that have both claimed them and, paradoxically, sustained them.

Bell surveys objects left on graves, images and epitaphs on grave markers, and other artifacts of material culture to suggest a landscape of symbols maintaining relationships across the threshold of death. She explores cemetery practice and its transformation over time and largely presents her interpretations as a struggle against alienation. Rich in evocative examples both contemporary and historical, Bell’s analysis stems from fieldwork interviews, archival sources, and recent anthropological theory. The book’s chapters range across cemetery types, focusing on African American burials, the grave sites of institutionalized individuals, and modern community memorials. Ultimately, The Vital Dead is an account of how lives, both famous and forgotten, become transformed and energized through the communities and things they leave behind to produce profound and unexpected narratives of mortality. Bell’s deft storytelling coupled with skill for scholarly analysis make for a fascinating and emotionally moving read.

Author: BELL, ALISON

ISBN: 9781621906964

Price: $60.00

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Imagine Alabama, the sultry summer of 1962--the year before Bull Connor turned his fire hoses on civil rights protesters in Birmingham and the Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church. Two young men, one black, one white, stumble into their destinies as the world erupts beneath their feet. Richeboux Branscomb s journey begins with a stupid mistake one night in a rattle-trap Ford on a dusty road. Acee Waites begins with a missing brother and a ruthless sheriff s search party. Propelled along separate tracks through thirty-six hours of racial turmoil, these estranged boyhood friends encounter tenderness and cruelty, erotic passion and murderous rage. Then amid the spreading fires of racial violence, their paths converge in a terrible, riveting climax. This stunning debut novel from Southern-based writer Walter Bennett, LEAVING TUSCALOOSA, weaves in elegant prose the life-threads of two men segregated by race but alike in their familiarity with aspiration blunted by loss.

Author: BENNETT WALTER

ISBN: 9780984990832

Price: $16.95

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Cover Image For The Lawyer's Myth (HB)
Lawyers today are in a moral crisis. The popular perception of the lawyer, both within the legal community and beyond, is no longer the Abe Lincoln of American mythology, but is often a greedy, cynical manipulator of access and power. In The Lawyer's Myth, Walter Bennett goes beyond the caricatures to explore the deeper causes of why lawyers are losing their profession and what it will take to bring it back.

Author: BENNETT WALTER

ISBN: 9780226042558

Price: $45.00

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Cover Image For Monastic Art in Lorenzo Monaco's Florence (HB)
This book examines and explains the appearance, function and uses of painting in one of the day's most important cultural centers. Monks from the Carnaldolese house of Santa Maria degli Angeli had access to some of the most innovative paintings produced in Florence between 1350 and 1425.

Author: BENT GEORGE

ISBN: 9780773459687

Price: $79.99

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Cover Image For Remarkable Rockbridge: The Story of Rockbridge County (PB)
Home to Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute ... and Natural Bridge, once owned by Thomas Jefferson and surveyed by George Washington. These are the backdrop of "Remarkable Rockbridge," the most comprehensive history ever written of this historically and educationally significant community. The result of eight years of research and writing, this abundantly illustrated book looks briefly at the area's pre- and early history, but its main focus begins in the 18th century when waves of Ulster-Scot immigrants arrived from Pennsylvania. "Rockbridge" vividly shows how regional and national events influenced — and were affected by — ordinary (and some not-so-ordinary) people in a small village that grew to become an important center of history ... of education and culture ... of agriculture and scenic splendor. More than 130 illustrations grace the book, including a number of photographs by Michael Miley, "General Lee's photographer." Its engaging narrative style belies the depth of its scholarship: it has 46 pages of footnotes. The cover photo, of House Mountain, a Rockbridge icon, was taken by Miley about 1880. "Remarkable Rockbridge" is an important addition to any library - personal or institutional - that focuses on Lee, Jackson, issues that framed the Civil War, and, perhaps most of all, how regional, national and global trends affected individual people, neighborhoods, hamlets, towns - and of how profoundly those trends and events changed a rural county over three centuries. Charles A. Bodie, the author, is a graduate of William & Mary and earned his Ph.D. in American history from Indiana University.

Author: BODIE CHARLES

ISBN: 9780977722082

Price: $24.95

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Cover Image For Remarkable Rockbridge: The Story of Rockbridge County (HB)
Home to Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute ... and Natural Bridge, once owned by Thomas Jefferson and surveyed by George Washington. These are the backdrop of "Remarkable Rockbridge," the most comprehensive history ever written of this historically and educationally significant community. The result of eight years of research and writing, this abundantly illustrated book looks briefly at the area's pre- and early history, but its main focus begins in the 18th century when waves of Ulster-Scot immigrants arrived from Pennsylvania. "Rockbridge" vividly shows how regional and national events influenced — and were affected by — ordinary (and some not-so-ordinary) people in a small village that grew to become an important center of history ... of education and culture ... of agriculture and scenic splendor. More than 130 illustrations grace the book, including a number of photographs by Michael Miley, "General Lee's photographer." Its engaging narrative style belies the depth of its scholarship: it has 46 pages of footnotes. The cover photo, of House Mountain, a Rockbridge icon, was taken by Miley about 1880. "Remarkable Rockbridge" is an important addition to any library - personal or institutional - that focuses on Lee, Jackson, issues that framed the Civil War, and, perhaps most of all, how regional, national and global trends affected individual people, neighborhoods, hamlets, towns - and of how profoundly those trends and events changed a rural county over three centuries. Charles A. Bodie, the author, is a graduate of William & Mary and earned his Ph.D. in American history from Indiana University.

Author: BODIE CHARLES

ISBN: 9780977722037

Price: $45.00

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Cover Image For Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights (HB)
Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights argues for an expansive definition of human rights, one that encompasses the harm caused by multiple, intersecting forms of subordination. Intersectionality theory posits that aspects of identity, such as race and gender, are mutually constitutive and intersect to create unique experiences of discrimination and subordination. Perpetrators of sexual violence in armed conflict, of example, often target women based on both gender and ethnicity. Human rights remedies that fail to capture the intersectional nature of human rights violations do not offer comprehensive redress to victims.

This title explores the influence of intersectionality theory on human rights in the modern era and traces the evolution of intersectionality as a theoretical framework in the United States and around the world. It draws upon feminist theory and human rights jurisprudence to argue that scholars and activists have under-utilized intersectionality theory in the global discourse of human rights. As the central intergovernmental organization charged with the protection of human rights, the United Nations has been slow to embrace the insights gained from intersectionality theory. This work argues that the United Nations and other human rights organizations must more actively embrace intersectionality as an analytical framework in order to fully address the complexity of human rights violations around the world.

Author: BOND, JOHANNA

ISBN: 9780198868835

Price: $99.00

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Cover Image For The Myth of the Lost Cause (PB)
Twenty-first-century controversies over Confederate monuments attest to the enduring significance of our nineteenth-century Civil War. As Lincoln knew, the meaning of America itself depends on how we understand that fratricidal struggle.

As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia laid down its arms at Appomattox, a group of Confederate officers took up their pens to refight the war for the history books. They composed a new narrative—the Myth of the Lost Cause—seeking to ennoble the sacrifice and defeat of the South, which popular historians in the twentieth century would perpetuate. Unfortunately, that myth would distort the historical imagination of Americans, north and south, for 150 years.

In this balanced and compelling correction of the historical record, Edward Bonekemper helps us understand the Myth of the Lost Cause and its effect on the social and political controversies that are still important to all Americans.

Author: BONEKEMPER, EDWARD

ISBN: 9781684513604

Price: $19.99

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