The author recounts her record-setting solo flight across the Atlantic in a single-engine prop plane and discusses her triumph over personal problems

Odyssey: A Daring Transatlantic Journey

Oliver, Susan

Biographies & Memoirs

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Scholar, journalist, activist, and noted author, Betty Friedan led a public campaign for equality in American society that stretched from 1950’s suburbia to the close of the 20th century. Friedan’s personal experiences motivated her to rally against anti-Semitism at Smith College, reveal wage discrimination as a reporter for labor unions, define domestic dissatisfaction in The Feminine Mystique, and organize women for equality with the founding of the National Organization for Women. That public persona also affected her private life in marriage, motherhood, and eventual divorce. This newest addition to Longman’s Library of American Biography Series follows Friedan through nearly 50 years of championing equality, mapping the successes and shortfalls of her agenda. The titles in the Library of American Biography Series make ideal supplements for American History Survey courses or other courses in American history where figures in history are explored. Paperback, brief, and inexpensive, each interpretative biography in this series focuses on a figure whose actions and ideas significantly influenced the course of American history and national life. At the same time, each biography relates the life of its subject to the broader themes and developments of the times.

Betty Friedan: The Personal Is Political (Longman American Biography Series)

Historical

Pearson

Susan Oliver says, "It takes very little for a mother and daughter to turn on each other. So much lies below the surface—hurts held for decades in clinched fists, extravagant expectations never met, and ties that bind."
Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer is about the complex relationship between Josephine Green and her grown daughter, Katy. Issues bear down from Josephine’s troubled and rigid childhood and the enigmatic mother who was preoccupied with her own secret disappointments.
Jo and Katy continue to war with each other, especially after Jo is diagnosed with lung cancer. Jo struggles to communicate her faith with her daughter and receives help from her housekeeper, Adele, who is a devout lady of faith.
Jo and Katy work to find their redemption, both together and individually, even as flood waters threaten their home one Gulf Coast summer.

Once Upon a Gulf Coast Summer

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

B&H Fiction

Children's picture book. Gelbo lives in a black-and-white world until he meets an old blind man who shares a secret with Gelbo that forever changes the young boy's view of his colorless world.

GELBO'S WORLD Remembering Colors

Susan Oliver Publishing

Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 132)

The work of Walter Scott, one of the most globally influential authors of the nineteenth century, provides us with a unique narrative of the changing ecologies of Scotland over several centuries and writes this narrative into the history of environmental literature. Farmed environments, mountains, moors and forests along with rivers, shorelines, islands and oceans are explored, situating Scott's writing about shared human and nonhuman environments in the context of the emerging Anthropocene. Susan Oliver attends to changes and losses acting in counterpoint to the narratives of 'improvement' that underpin modernization in land management. She investigates the imaginative ecologies of folklore and local culture. Each chapter establishes a dialogue between ecocritical theory and Scott as storyteller of social history. This is a book that shows how Scott challenged conventional assumptions about the permanency of stone and the evanescence of air; it begins with the land and ends by looking at the stars.

Walter Scott and the Greening of Scotland: Emergent Ecologies of a Nation (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 132)

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Offers a basic repertoire of knots and bows to make everything from getting dresssed to wrapping a present easier. The book provides instructions for executing practical knots; making bows for gifts; and tying scarves, sarongs, and men's neckwear.

Ties That Bind, The: Life's Most Essential Knots and Ties (Finishing Touches Series)

Sports & Outdoors

Harry N. Abrams

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