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(0)Karen Brown
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"Karen Brown's most hypnotic novel to date--gothic-inflected psychological suspense that unmasks the secret desires of a young woman with a mystical gift. On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by escaping to an inland college town. There, she is absorbed by a budding romance, relieved by separation from an unstable sister, and disinterested in...
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"In three sections--Results, Reflections, and Advancing Assessment to the Future--as well as eleven appendices of supporting material about the development and execution of the program, Shaping the Campus Conversation on Student Learning and Experience paints a vivid picture of the thinking that went into creating AiA, the results of the individual projects, the impact on participating teams, and the broader importance for the profession. While designed...
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A character named Stepin Fetchit may have opened the Hollywood door for other black actors. But many wished that he had stepped on rather than with Hollywood's stereo typical Uncle Tom image. The lazy, shiftless cowardly Stepin Fetchit played by Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry, could be depended on in late 20's and the early 30's to turn white in a graveyard scene or to literally sleep through a romantic scene. However, behind this "shiftless...
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The second installation of modern New England journalists who exposed the North's hidden history as a slave region. They also address king cotton and the legal and illegal slave trade. Journalist and co-author of "Complicity : How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery," Jenifer Frank examines how the North profited from slavery - but blamed the South.
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Was the first colony to give legal recognition to the institution of slavery a northern or southern state? The answer to that question is one of many surprising facts about the history of slavery in America. Journalist Anne Farrow, co-author of "Complicity : How the North Promoted, Prolonged, and Profited from Slavery," exposes the role of the North in the growth of slavery in America.