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Lebanese blonde : a novel
\"Lebanese Blonde takes place in 1975-76 at the beginning of Lebanon's sectarian civil war. Set primarily in the Toledo, Ohio, \"Little Syria\" community, it is the story of two immigrant cousins: Aboodeh, a self-styled entrepreneur; and Samir, his young, reluctant accomplice. Together the two concoct a scheme to import Lebanese Blonde, a potent strain of hashish, into the United States, using the family's mortuary business as a cover. When Teyib, a newly arrived war refugee, stumbles onto their plans, his clumsy efforts to gain acceptance raise suspicion. Who is this mysterious \"cousin,\" and what dangers does his presence pose? Aboodeh and Samir's problems grow still more serious when a shipment goes awry and their links to the war-ravaged homeland are severed. Soon it's not just Aboodeh and Samir's livelihoods and futures that are imperiled, but the stability of the entire family.\"--Front jacket flap.
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“A Girl Is Like a Flower. … If a Rough Wind Blows near Her, Her Bloom Is Faded”: The Southern Lady in Macaria, The Battle-Ground, and Gone with the Wind
This article examines how the Southern lady is represented in three major Southern women’s novels set during the American Civil War: Macaria (1864) by Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, The Battle-Ground (1902) by Ellen Glasgow, and Gone with the Wind (1936) by Margaret Mitchell. Although separated by over seven decades and distinct historical perspectives—Wilson as a contemporary witness, Glasgow as a postwar observer, and Mitchell as a nostalgic inheritor—their works collectively shaped enduring images of the South in American popular culture. Through textual analysis, the study explores how each author depicts female endurance, illness, and mortality to symbolize both individual and social transformation. The heroines (Wilson’s Electra and Irene, Glasgow’s Betty Ambler, and Mitchell’s Scarlett O’Hara) embody resilience amid collapse, assuming active roles in the reconstruction of Southern identity. Their struggles reflect broader tensions between traditional femininity and emerging female agency. Ultimately, the article argues that portrayals of women’s frailty and death function as metaphors for the decline of the antebellum order and the inevitable demise of the Southern lady ideal, revealing illness and death as physical and cultural markers of the South’s transformation in war and its aftermath.
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Welcome to nowhere
Twelve-year-old Omar and his brothers and sisters were born and raised in the beautiful and bustling city of Bosra, Syria. Omar doesn't care about politics - all he wants is to grow up to become a successful businessman who will take the world by storm. But when his clever older brother, Musa, gets mixed up with some young political activists, everything changes. Before long, bombs are falling, people are dying, and Omar and his family have no choice but to flee their home with only what they can carry. Yet no matter how far they run, the shadow of war follows them - until they have no other choice than to attempt the dangerous journey to escape their homeland altogether. But where do you go when you can't go home?
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The Colonel's Dream
Charles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932) was an African American writer, essayist, Civil Rights activist, legal-stenography businessman, and lawyer whose novels and short stories explore race, racism, and the problematic contours of African Americans' social and cultural identities in post-Civil War South. He was the first African American to be published by a major American publishing house and served as a beacon-point for future African American writers. The Colonel's Dream, written in 1905, is a compelling tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a region awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convict-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression. The events in this novel are powerfully depicted from the point of view of a philanthropic but unreliable southern white colonel. Upon his return to the South, the colonel learns to abhor this southern world, as a tale of vicious racism unfolds. Throughout this narrative, Chesnutt confronts the deteriorating position of African Americans in an increasingly hostile South. Upon its publication The Colonel's Dream was considered too controversial and unpalatable because of its bitter criticisms of southern white prejudice and northern indifference, and so this groundbreaking story failed to gain public attention and acclaim. This is the first scholarly edition of The Colonel's Dream. It includes an introduction and notes by R. J. Ellis and works to reestablish this great novel's reputation.
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The dictator's last night
Written under a pen name by the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul, a fictionalized version of history describes the final hours of the life of President Muammar Gaddafi in October 2011 during the last days of the Libyan civil war.
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Copperhead Gore
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin has often been cited for its
galvanizing effect on anti-slavery opposition in the years before the American Civil
War. Southern sympathizers in the North (known as Copperheads) never came close to
producing anything that matched its influence. One of the more interesting attempts
was Fort Lafayette; or, Love and Secession (1862). The novel -- which features
liberal doses of love and lust, intrigue and violence, loyalty and death -- is by no
means great literature. It does, however, lay claim to being the only pacifist novel
of the Civil War. Wood hoped to persuade his readers of the moral wrong, the folly,
and the dangers to republican government of the war in which the country was
engaged. The novel underscores the deep connections between Americans on both sides
of the sectional conflict, the pain of their severance, and the suffering brought
about by war. For this reissue, Menahem Blondheim has provided a
detailed introduction to the novel, the politics of the era, and Wood's life and
career. Two of Wood's Congressional speeches are also included.
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This life or the next
\"Tariq Khan is a Pakistani born and raised in Norway. An outsider in his own country-- adrift between two worlds divided by class, race, and culture-- he's always been searching for home. Alongside a flock of other streetwise young men, each looking for direction and each easily susceptible, Tariq finds his cause in the Muslim revival. Idealistic, driven by faith, and empowered with purpose, he's drawn to radical Islam-his last resort for achieving a sense of belonging, for embracing and being embraced. It's only when he enlists in the war against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad that Tariq's eyes are truly opened. Dispirited with the violence, faced with the consequences of his choices, and increasingly distanced by the brutalities of jihad, Tariq contends with spiritual struggles that are his alone. So are the stories he will tell to make sense of his life\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Red Badge of Courage
The John Harvard Library presents the first American edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, one of the first non-romantic novels of the Civil War - and the first account to gain wide popularity. Paul Sorrentino introduces Red Badge to a new generation of readers for a fuller appreciation of the novel and its effects.
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