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Queer Virginia

New Stories in the Old Dominion

by Charles H. Ford, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn ...

A new, definitive queer history of the CommonwealthQueer Virginia is a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The history recovered here is remarkable and illuminating, including the life of Hannah Nokes, a Black transgender woman who overcame severe discrimination in Loudoun County during the ... Read more

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A new, definitive queer history of the CommonwealthQueer Virginia is a long-needed record of the courageous and creative ways that LGBTQ+ people across the commonwealth have persevered and fought for their rights. The history recovered here is remarkable and illuminating, including the life of Hannah Nokes, a Black transgender woman who overcame severe discrimination in Loudoun County during the
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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment in Mozart's Figaro, Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte

by Charles Ford ...

Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosÃ¬ fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms. ... Read more

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Music, Sexuality and the Enlightenment explains how Mozart's music for Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni and CosÃ¬ fan tutte 'sounds' the intentions of Da Ponte's characters and their relationships with one another. Mozart, by way of the infinitely generative and beautiful logic of the sonata principle, did not merely interpret Da Ponte's characterizations but lent them temporal, musical forms.
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The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection

Forty Civil War Tales of Battle, Emancipation, Memory, and Union and Confederate Lives

by Jules Verne, Mark Twain, Randall Parrish, George Washington Cable, John Esten Cooke, Edward Robins, John William De Forest, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Johnston, Winston Churchill, Edward Everett Hale, Charles King, Natalie Sumner Lincoln, Stephen Crane, Charles Carleton Coffin, James Ford Rhodes, John McElroy, Lucy Foster Madison, Harry Hazelton, Henry F. Keenan, George W. Peck, John R. Musick, Robert W. Chambers, Joseph A. Altsheler, G. A. Henty, B. K. Benson, W. H. Shelton, Byron A. Dunn, Ellen Glasgow, María Ruiz de Burton, Thomas Dixon Jr. ...

The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection assembles an expansive literary archive of the American Civil War and its contested afterlives. Across historical romance, adventure fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, juvenile literature, satire, regional realism, political commentary, and speculative imagination, the volume maps war as battlefield event, domestic crisis, and enduring cultural memory. ... Read more

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The Tales of Civil War: 40 Books Collection assembles an expansive literary archive of the American Civil War and its contested afterlives. Across historical romance, adventure fiction, memoir-inflected narrative, juvenile literature, satire, regional realism, political commentary, and speculative imagination, the volume maps war as battlefield event, domestic crisis, and enduring cultural memory.
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Hampton Roads

Remembering Our Schools

by Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Jeffrey Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford, Sonia Yaco, The Norfolk Historical Society ...

Series series Vintage Images
With this striking collection of historical images, experience afront-row view of the origination of the public school system within Hampton Roads and the epic struggle for racial equality. From the seventeenth century until the present, this area of the Old Dominion has been at the forefront of challenges, including Reconstruction, Jim Crow law, racial disharmony and public resistance to tax ... Read more

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With this striking collection of historical images, experience afront-row view of the origination of the public school system within Hampton Roads and the epic struggle for racial equality. From the seventeenth century until the present, this area of the Old Dominion has been at the forefront of challenges, including Reconstruction, Jim Crow law, racial disharmony and public resistance to tax
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LGBT Hampton Roads

by Dr. Charles H. Ford, Dr. Jeffrey L. Littlejohn ...

Series series Images of Modern America
Virginia's Hampton Roads region has long attracted diverse and mobile people, some of whom embraced same-sex love or fluid gender identities long before lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities identified as such. By the mid-1900s, Hampton Roads would lead the state in its development of LGBT institutions and infrastructure. Our Own Press would chronicle the extraordinary burst ... Read more

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Virginia's Hampton Roads region has long attracted diverse and mobile people, some of whom embraced same-sex love or fluid gender identities long before lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities identified as such. By the mid-1900s, Hampton Roads would lead the state in its development of LGBT institutions and infrastructure. Our Own Press would chronicle the extraordinary burst
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The Scholars of Night

by John M. Ford, Charles Stross ...

John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a "consulting agency" with shadowy government ... Read more

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John M. Ford's The Scholars of Night is an extraordinary novel of technological espionage and human betrayal, weaving past and present into a web of unbearable suspense.Nicholas Hansard is a brilliant historian at a small New England college. He specializes in Christopher Marlowe. But Hansard has a second, secret, career with The White Group, a "consulting agency" with shadowy government
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Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876

Enriched edition. Unveiling the Artistic Evolution and Cultural Significance

by Charles Wyllys Elliott, Caleb Ford ...

In "Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876," Charles Wyllys Elliott presents a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of ceramic arts, meticulously tracing historical trajectories and aesthetic developments from antiquity through the late 19th century. The work is imbued with a scholarly rigor that synthesizes art history, archaeology, and cultural ... Read more

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In "Pottery and Porcelain, from early times down to the Philadelphia exhibition of 1876," Charles Wyllys Elliott presents a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of ceramic arts, meticulously tracing historical trajectories and aesthetic developments from antiquity through the late 19th century. The work is imbued with a scholarly rigor that synthesizes art history, archaeology, and cultural
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The Young and the Evil

by Charles Henri Ford, Parker Tyler ...

A stunning work, first published in 1933 by Obelisk Press (Jack Kahane's legacy), The Young and the Evil is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler). With the added interracial connotations (book was set in Harlem and Greenwich), err, anyone surprised that this title didn't clear ... Read more

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A stunning work, first published in 1933 by Obelisk Press (Jack Kahane's legacy), The Young and the Evil is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler). With the added interracial connotations (book was set in Harlem and Greenwich), err, anyone surprised that this title didn't clear
... Read more
180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2)

Enriched edition. Life is a Dream, The Awakening, Babbitt, Sense and Sensibility, Dubliners, Notre Dame, Odyssey…

by Virginia Woolf, P. B. Shelley, Henrik Ibsen, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, Leo Tolstoy, Ford Madox Ford, E. M. Forster, Honoré de Balzac, Jane Austen, L. M. Montgomery0, Kenneth Grahame1, Rabindranath Tagore2, George Weedon Grossmith3, F. Scott Fitzgerald4, Daniel Defoe5, Jules Verne6, Jonathan Swift7, James Fenimore Cooper8, George MacDonald9, J. M. Barrie0, Alexandre Dumas1, Homer2, Benito Pérez Galdós3, Dante4, William Dean Howells5, Kakuzo Okakura6, Gustave Flaubert7, Victor Hugo8, Stendhal9, John Buchan0, Edgar Wallace1, William Walker Atkinson2, Émile Coué3, G. K. Chesterton4, D.H. Lawrence5, George Bernard Shaw6, Joseph Conrad7, Walter Scott8, Anthony Trollope9, Emile Zola0, Theodor Storm1, Harriet Beecher Stowe2, Nathaniel Hawthorne3, Henry Fielding4, Jerome K. Jerome5, Laurence Sterne6, Thomas Hardy7, Willa Cather8, Edith Wharton9, Kate Chopin0, Sinclair Lewis1, W. Somerset Maugham2, Henry James3, Ivan Turgenev4, Nikolai Gogol5, Pedro Calderon de la Barca6, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe7, Benjamin Franklin8, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee9, Edgar Allan Poe0, Willkie Collins1, Ann Ward Radcliffe2, Bram Stoker3, Gaston Leroux4, H. G. Wells5, Lewis Wallace6, Washington Irving7, Machiavelli8, Fyodor Dostoyevsky9, Confucius0, Laozi1, John Milton2, W. B. Yeats3, Elizabeth von Arnim4, Cao Xueqin5, Grayson Doyle8 ...

180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2) presents an unparalleled assembly of literary greatness, convening the works of seminal authors from diverse epochs and regions in a single volume. This anthology spans myriad literary periods and styles, from the classical poise of Homer to the modernist complexities of Virginia Woolf. The collection navigates through a vast landscape of thematic ... Read more

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180 Masterpieces of World Literature (Vol.2) presents an unparalleled assembly of literary greatness, convening the works of seminal authors from diverse epochs and regions in a single volume. This anthology spans myriad literary periods and styles, from the classical poise of Homer to the modernist complexities of Virginia Woolf. The collection navigates through a vast landscape of thematic
... Read more
Water from a Bucket

A Diary 1948-1957

by Charles Henri Ford ...

"Scintillating." —Edmund White "A furtive treasure of the American avant-garde." —Publishers Weekly “A remarkably realized work of art.” —Matthew Stadler This artist's artist and poet's poet has had a remarkably energetic, fecund and varied existence. By turns bizarre and sweetly domestic, this fractured, infinitely interesting diary begins with his father's illness and ends with the death of his ... Read more

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"Scintillating." —Edmund White "A furtive treasure of the American avant-garde." —Publishers Weekly “A remarkably realized work of art.” —Matthew Stadler This artist's artist and poet's poet has had a remarkably energetic, fecund and varied existence. By turns bizarre and sweetly domestic, this fractured, infinitely interesting diary begins with his father's illness and ends with the death of his
... Read more
Ode to the Front End Vol. 2

Home Depot

by Charles Ford ...

This book is somewhat unique. I am not the author although it was written through me . He is the author not me. Why I ended up being the one to be used by Him remains a complete baffling mystery. I am simply His humble steward in this process.Everyone living in America recognizes Home Depot. They are a staple. It is a poem containing 2,500 quatrains that contain life as a part time cashier in a ... Read more

$8.99 USD

This book is somewhat unique. I am not the author although it was written through me . He is the author not me. Why I ended up being the one to be used by Him remains a complete baffling mystery. I am simply His humble steward in this process.Everyone living in America recognizes Home Depot. They are a staple. It is a poem containing 2,500 quatrains that contain life as a part time cashier in a
... Read more
Charmed and Dangerous: Ten Tales of Gay Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy

by Astrid Amara, KJ Charles, Charlie Cochet, Rhys Ford, Ginn Hale, Lou Harper, Jordan L. Hawk, Nicole Kimberling, Jordan Castillo Price, Andrea Speed ...

Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you’ll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection—not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors.Rhys Ford - Dim Sum AsylumGinn ... Read more

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Magic takes many forms. From malignant hexes to love charms gone amok, you’ll find a vast array of spells and curses, creatures and conjurings in this massive collection—not to mention a steamy dose of man-on-man action. Charmed and Dangerous features all-new stories of gay paranormal romance, supernatural fiction and urban fantasy by ten top m/m paranormal authors.Rhys Ford - Dim Sum AsylumGinn
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