Greyhound Diaries: Eastbound Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Levitt, Doug

Arts & Literature

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A long out of print novel (originally published in 1923 and never reprinted), with a new introduction by best selling novelist Darryl Brock (author of "If I Never Get Back"). Heywood Campbell Broun was a well known American newspaper writer, who helped found the American Newspaper Guild. Broun championed the underdog, criticized social injustice, and supported labor unions. He died in 1939. The Sun Field is a very modern novel, with a strong feminist character, a complicated love story, and New York baseball of the 1920's at its center, with another lead character plainly modeled on Babe Ruth. Broun was a sportswriter, whose love of baseball and brilliant writing style shines through this book. A treat for contemporary readers.

The Sun Field: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Broun, Heywood

Literary

Author Thomas Boyd is best known for the novel "Through the Wheat," long considered the greatest American novel of World War I. Boyd was a Marine in WWI, saw much fighting action, and was deeply influenced by his battlefield experience. Later, he wrote for newspapers, and while working in a bookstore and writing the literary page of the St. Paul, Minnesota daily newspaper, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who then recommended him to the great editor, Maxwell Perkins. As a result, Boyd published several books with Scribners edited by Perkins, including this short story collection, written in place of a sequel to his first war novel, in 1925. As he does in other books, Boyd thoroughly rejects the romance of war, creating situations that are sometimes grotesque, sometimes absurd, always human at their core. This collection has been called "haunting" and like its better known predecessor "Through the Wheat," should be included in the canon of American war stories.

Points of Honor

Boyd, Thomas

Genre Fiction

Thomas Boyd is best known for "Through the Wheat," considered the greatest American novel of WW I. Boyd was a Marine, saw much fighting action, and was deeply influenced by his wartime experience. Later he wrote for newspapers, and while running a bookstore and writing the literary page of the St. Paul daily newspaper, was befriended by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who recommended him to Maxwell Perkins. Boyd published several books with Scribner's, all edited by Perkins. In Time of Peace was Boyd's last published novel, originally published by Minton Balch Putnam in 1935. It is a powerful story of the upwardly mobile Roaring Twenties followed by the disaster of the Crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression. Boyd brilliantly captures the clash and contradictions of materialist life and higher human values. In Time of Peace will resonate strongly for many modern readers, who cannot help but to see the roots of our own contemporary struggles to cope with the complexities of modern society.

In Time of Peace: A Novel

United States

Jane DeForest Shelton (1843-1914), was the daughter of Edward Nelson Shelton and Mary Jane DeForest. The town of Shelton, Connecticut is named for her father, an industrialist and developer in the 19th century.She wrote for "Harper's Monthly," earning a solid reputation as an historian. The Salt-Box House is her best known work, first published in 1900. Its story is an account of the town and people of Shelton from colonial times through the early 19th century. She based her work on family papers and stories passed down to her, to portray an historically accurate account of life during and after the colonial period of New England.Given her direct knowledge and her sympathy and love for the people she wrote about, reading this book today provides us with a rich and vivid sense of our past history. This edition includes an introduction by Bill Hosley, former Director of the New Haven (Connecticut) Museum and Historical Society that places the book in a context meaningful for contemporary readers interested in American history.

The Salt-Box House: Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Hill Town

Shelton, Jane De Forest

Historical

The Plated City

Published in 1895, and long out of print, "The Plated City" has been identified as one of the earliest literary novels that treats baseball as an integrated part of the story, which it does. But it is also an incredibly modern story, including dramatic renderings of issues of race, gender and sex in Connecticut during the late Victorian period. "The Plated City" was reviewed favorably by the NY Times when it was published: .,."The color line always is a distressing topic, never to be dismissed, always dramatic, often coarsened by overvehemence. Mr. Bliss Perry, in "The Plated City," has shown marked powers of discernment and has treated a difficult subject with uncommon skill.....Mr. Bliss Perry's constructive powers are excellent."

Perry, Bliss

The Dark Cloud

Tangled Wives

Shane, Peggy

Romance

VOTE FOR CHANGE! VOTE TO SAVE THE PLANET! VOTE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Use this book and its website votetosavetheplanet.com as a starting point to spread the word. If you believe as we do, that the election results on November 4, 2008, will affect the future course of our planet, read this book, share it with your friends. Make sure everyone you know is registered to vote and exercises their rights to make democracy work for change. Elections matter. Now more than ever.

Vote to Save the Planet

Politics & Social Sciences

Schweitzer, Jeff

Politics & Government

"There is cause to hope, and believe, that there can be an end to war." 
--Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, U.S. Army (ret.) 
Once in a great while, a book is written that substantially changes the way people think about a particular subject. Will War Ever End? is such a book. Written as a "manifesto for waging peace" by an active duty captain in the U.S. Army, Will War Ever End? challenges readers to think about peace, war and violence in radically new ways. 
"Are human beings naturally violent?" 
"What is hatred?" 
"How can love overcome the power of hatred?" 
"How does nonviolence overcome the power of violence?" 
"How can we prove that unconditional love makes us psychologically healthy and that hatred, just like an illness, occurs when something has gone wrong?" 
"How does violence against the natural world relate to violence between human beings?" 
These are all questions that Captain Paul K. Chappell leads us to consider in a strikingly new way. In Will War Ever End?, Chappell demonstrates that human beings are naturally peaceful and that world peace can become more than a cliché. He lays out a practical framework for transforming the way we think about war and violence, enabling us to begin the real work we must do in order to achieve true peace for mankind. 
Will War Ever End? is a deeply personal story of a soldier's search for human understanding that will lead to universal transformation. Its message is one of hope, offering practical solutions to help us build a better world. 
We can all make change. 
Now is the time to begin.

Will War Ever End?: A Soldier's Vision of Peace for the 21st Century

Paul K. Chappell

Social Sciences

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