Chronicles the rise and fall of a Pennsylvanian coal town, the center of violent confrontations between labor and capital

St. Clair : A nineteenth-century coal town's experience with a disaster-prone industry

History

Wallace, Anthony

Americas

KNOPF

This book tells the story of the late colonial and early reservation history of the Seneca Indians, and of the prophet Handsome Lake, his visions, and the moral and religious revitalization of an American Indian society that he and his followers achieved in the years around 1800. "Here is a carefully crafted masterpiece of anthropological and historical investigation. It is about both the specific renaissance of the Seneca and the possible renaissance of any people. On its specific subject matter, it will probably remain the definitive study for a long time."—Christian Science Monitor "Until this volume, there has been no single book written that relates the history and life style of one of the Iroquois peoples with the encompassing depth and breadth of knowledge, clarity, and interest that the subject deserves. Finally, this book does it for the Seneca. It is enthralling history, told in a knowledgeable, highly readable way."—Alvin M. Joseph Jr., author of The Indian Heritage of America "This book is at once troubling and richly textured; for it draws skillfully and impartially on the resources of history, ethnology and psychology to chronicle the agony and decline of one of the proudest of American Indian peoples."—Morris Opler

The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Vintage

An account of Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830, which relocated Eastern Indians to the Okalahoma Territory over the Trail of Tears, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs which was given control over their lives.

The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians (Critical Issue)

Leaders & Notable People

Hill and Wang

The Old Priest is a book of transformations. From the cigar-smoke-and-mirrors world of casino life, to the collection’s title character morphing into a goat-man before the narrator’s eyes, to a family drama upended by a miniature dinosaur in the backyard, Anthony Wallace writes about life-changing events. The characters seek to escape their earthly boundaries through artifice and fantasy, and those boundaries can be as elegant and fragile as a martini glass or as hardscrabble as an Indian reservation. In these eight vividly detailed short stories we encounter cheating husbands, neurotic housewives, out-of-control teenagers, desperate gamblers, deluded alcoholics, and a host of others who would like a chance at something more. Some face the consequences of their actions, while others simply begin to see what they’ve been missing all along. Through wry, ironic prose—and what feels like firsthand experience—Wallace describes a comic and often misguided search for self-knowledge in the most unlikely locations—like the Emerald City, a low-rent gambling den where a cocktail waitress dressed as an X-rated Dorothy offers gamblers more than a Scotch on the rocks; or the Bastille Hotel-Casino, where a dealer dressed as an eighteenth century footman deals five-dollar blackjack to a reminiscing Holocaust survivor. Occasionally a real demon appears, but the collection is mostly about personal demons and the possibility of exorcising them. The stories in The Old Priest have to do with time and memory, and they convincingly open out beyond ordinary daily time to reveal something else—the present moment, perhaps, but a larger, more mysterious conception of it.

The Old Priest (Drue Heinz Literature Prize, 67)

Literature & Fiction

Short Stories & Anthologies

University of Pittsburgh Press

Prelude to Disaster: The Course of Indian-White Relations Which Led to the Black Hawk War of 1832

Illinois State Historical

Lovell Johnson has everything a man could wish for, good looks, wealth, a successful business life, good friends and a loving son, but there's something missing, that special someone to share it all with. That was until he met Tiffany, a bright eyed beauty with a love for life and a smile that could stop traffic. She's everything that he wants in a partner, but there's one problem, her skin color. Is love really color blind

The Color of Love

Contemporary

AuthorHouse

A Right to a Rainbow

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Pa-Pro-Vi Publishing

There are a number of reasons why kids tell lies, one reason is to avoid getting into trouble. TOuch, lies hurt is a fun, engaging, interactive book that encourages children to tell the truth. Telling the truth is a very good thing while and telling lies is very bad. Ouch, Ouch, Lies Really Hurt and they make people cry. Please boys and girls, don't tell a lie!

Ouch, Lies Hurt!

Parks, LaQuita

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