David Bradley

"The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man." -- Christian Science Monitor Updated with a new foreword by the author in celebration of its fortieth anniversary, the classic PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel about a man's obsessive quest to uncover the circumstances of his father's death and his town's murky history. Legend has it something happened in Chaneysville . . . John Washington is coming home to Chaneysville. Old Jack Crawley, his father's closest friend and John's guardian, is dying, and the young man will care for him in his final days. For the brilliant and embittered Black historian, it is a return that will plunge him deep into the past, into the dark secrets of this town and the buried evil of his heritage. Investigating the death of his father, Moses, a moonshiner with a difficult past, John must come to terms with his family's proud and tragic history and the terrible truth of this white rural town close to the Mason Dixon line-- a waystation for slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad--that he once called home. The Chaneysville Incident is the story of John's relationship with his family, his hometown, and the woman he loves--and the indelible bonds between past and present, oppression and bondage, history and myth, faith and guilt, love and acceptance.

A Novel

The Chaneysville Incident

Mark Twain

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays

Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Eight essays include "Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences," "Travelling With a Reformer," "Mental Telegraphy Again," and "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us"

How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays

Pascal Covici

Tonation

Scott Gullan

Herald Sun journalist Scott Gullan spent 2007 covering the Cats. He takes you inside Geelong's march to a record-breaking Grand Final triumph, including:The story behind the infamous Review. Produced by club CEO Brian Cook after the appalling 2006 season, this was the blueprint not only for a premiership, but that reshaped the fortunes of every player and coach at the football club. Only one copy of his document exists, and it's in the GFC safe ... all notes and other copies were burnt.The painfully honest player meetings in which the truth came out: that the Cats of 06 had to change dramatically to turn the club around. Who said what, and to who.The Steve Johnson saga. From bad boy to Norm Smith medallist, the compelling detail of the football story of the year. Grand Final week. Behind the scenes in the most memorable week of a football club.The story is told over 264 pages and features never before seen photos from inside the rooms on grand final day

The Inside Story of Geelong's 2007 AFL Premiership

The Mission

Robert Frost

"Fifty-one of Frost's outstanding poems are interspersed with [forty-four color] photographs, and with a biographical text ... that illustrates the connection between the poet and the natural sources of his inspiration."--Jacket.

Robert Frost, a Tribute to the Source

No Place to Hide

A reissue of the 1948 eyewitness report of early atom bomb tests at Bikini & an analysis of the dangers of nuclear weapons, with a new introduction & epilogue.

No Place to Hide, 1946/1984

Lahu Dialects

Maya Bradley

Investigates the endangerment of languages and the loss of traditional cultural diversity, and how to respond.

Language Endangerment

Southern Lisu Dictionary

Proto-Loloish

The Depression-era murder trial of George Crawford in Northern Virginia helped end the exclusion of African Americans from juries. Nearly forgotten today, the murders, ensuing manhunt, extradition battle and sensational trial enthralled the nation. Before it was over, the U.S. House of Representatives threatened to impeach a federal judge, the age-old states rights debate was renewed, and a rift nearly split the fledgling NAACP. In the end, the story's hero--Howard University Law School dean Charles Hamilton Houston--was the subject of public ridicule from critics who had little understanding of the inner workings of the case. This book puts the Crawford murder trial in its fullest context, side by side with relevant events of the time.

Charles H. Houston, the NAACP and the Case That Put All-White Southern Juries on Trial

The Historic Murder Trial of George Crawford

Did your mother remind you to take off your coat when inside or you won't 'feel the benefit' when you leave? Have you ever been informed that what you need to cool down is a nice cup of tea? And are you bored of being told that you have to let that red wine breathe first to improve its taste? If so then 'Deceived Wisdom' is the book for you. Organised into easy to read standalone sections, it looks at the facts we all think we know and examines why we don't know them at all. David Bradley's clear and witty writing examines the science behind the statements to reveal the truth behind many popular myths.

David Bradley

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