From the mind of Elizabeth Rhodes, author of Walk of Life, a poem, comes a soul stirring book about the life of a young African-American teenager, living in deep Southern America. The story gives an account of how circumstances in life can determine how we turn out in the end. Or does it?
From the mind of Elizabeth Rhodes, author of Walk of Life, a poem, comes a soul stirring book about the life of a young African-American teenager, liv...
At the height of Maria de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novels of Cervantes. But by the end of the nineteenth century, Zayas had been excluded from the Spanish literary canon because of her gender and the sociopolitical changes that swept Spain and Europe. "Exemplary Tales of Love and Tales of Disillusion" gathers a representative sample of seven stories, which features Zayas's signature topics-gender equality and domestic violence-written in an impassioned tone overlaid with conservative...
At the height of Maria de Zayas's popularity in the mid-eighteenth century, the number of editions in print of her work was exceeded only by the novel...
The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, while yet another is locked into a tiny wall closet where she dies. The hallmark of Zayas's aesthetics, these characters are the central reason why her fiction has increased in popularity through the ages. Yet their stories pose an apparent contradiction between the author's pro-female rhetoric and her gusto for killing model women, then beautifying their mutilated cadavers.
Dressed to Kill reconciles Zayas's Desenga?os...
The noble wives in Mar?a de Zayas's Desenga?os suffer terrible fates: one is beheaded, another poisoned, one is cemented into a chimney, w...
For many years I have been collecting recipes from friends, family, and acquaintances. I have used these recipes not only in my daily life, but also for entertaining and for special occasions. In 2010, my mother, Virginia (Jynny) Ruth Stanley passed away, and I was lucky enough to inherit her recipe cards and books. My mother had gathered a great selection of recipes from a lifetime of entertaining, as well as from family and friends. In order to share these with my sister, RuthAnne McGavack Belton, I started typing them out. I soon realized that my mother's recipes, along with my own, would...
For many years I have been collecting recipes from friends, family, and acquaintances. I have used these recipes not only in my daily life, but also f...
