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Nancy Roberts

Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural.This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who enjoyed her stories and ar...

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Nancy Roberts

Seventeen tales of untamed spirits in the newly expanded edition of the Spur Award finalist from the "custodian of the twilight zone" ( Southern Living).In these seventeen ghostly tales—including five new stories—Roberts expertly guides readers through eerie encounters and harrowing hauntings across Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and the Dakotas. Along the way her accounts intersect with the lives (and afterlives) of legenda...

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Nancy Roberts

The Old South comes to supernatural life in this classic collection of chilling tales from the "custodian of the twilight zone" ( Southern Living).Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of the few who both write and tell their own stories. For more than two decades, Ms. Roberts has documented ghost stories and interviewed hundreds of people throughout the United States.A nationally known autho...

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Nancy W. Hawkins; Robert W. Neuman

"Louisiana Prehistory" by Nancy W. Hawkins and Robert W. Neuman offers a comprehensive exploration of the ancient cultures that inhabited Louisiana. The authors delve into archaeological findings, providing insights into the lives of Native American tribes and their interactions with the environment. Through meticulous research, the book highlights significant archaeological sites and artifacts, illustrating the rich tapestry of Louisiana's prehistoric past. The narrative is both informati...

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Ibrahim al-Koni

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Nancy Roberts

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Hoopoe Fiction

International Booker Prize finalist and "one of the Arab world's most innovative novelists" (Roger Allen) delivers a brilliant retelling of the Muslim wars of conquest in North AfricaThe year is 693 and a tense exchange, mediated by an interpreter, takes place between Berber warrior queen al-Kahina and an emissary from the Umayyad General Hassan ibn Nu'man. Her predecessor had been captured and killed by the Umayyad forces some years earlier, but she will go on to ...

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Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon

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Nancy Carol James

In seventeenth-century France, Jeanne Guyon wrote about God, "I loved him, and I burned with his fire because I loved him, and I loved him in such a way that I could love only him, but in loving him I had no motive save himself." She called this the pure love of God. Guyon traveled throughout Europe teaching others how to pray and her books became popular bestsellers. She expressed her Christian faith that Jesus Christ lives within our interior life. As Guyon became increasingly popular, t...

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Nancy Roberts

North and South Carolina are steeped in history—some of it supernatural. The "custodian of the twilight zone" shares their spookiest tales ( Southern Living).Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of the few who both write and tell their own stories. For more than two decades, Ms. Roberts has documented ghost stories and interviewed hundreds of people throughout the United States.A nationally ...

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Nancy C. Roberts

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Design Thinking, Design Theory

A new approach to addressing the contemporary world’s most difficult challenges, such as climate change and poverty.Conflicts over “the problem” and “the solution” plague the modern world and land problem solvers in what has been called “wicked problem territory”—a social space with high levels of conflict over problems and solutions. In Design Strategy, Nancy C. Roberts proposes design as a strategy of problem solving to close the gap between an existing ...

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Nancy Roberts

Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural.This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who enjoyed her stories and ar...

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Najwa Bin Shatwan

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Nancy Roberts

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Middle East Literature In Translation

Set in late nineteenth-century Benghazi, Najwa Bin Shatwan’s powerful novel tells the story of Atiqa, the daughter of a slave woman and her white master. We meet Atiqa as a grown woman, happily married with two children and working. When her cousin Ali unexpectedly enters her life, Atiqa learns the true identity of her parents, both long deceased, and slowly builds a friendship with Ali as they share stories of their past.We learn of Atiqa’s childhood, growing up in the "slave yard...

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Ibrahim Nasrallah

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Nancy Roberts

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Hoopoe Fiction

WINNER OF THE 2026 NEUSTADT INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE ~ SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION"Nasrallah's intensely eloquent voice gives Western audiences an insight into the lives of the marginalized "—New StatesmanSpanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before ...

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Nancy Kress, Robert Lanza, MD

Observer, by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress is a slick, modern, hard science fiction standalone medical thriller, combining classic Robin Cook with the hard edge of Black Mirror and Altered Carbon.After neurosurgeon Caro Soames-Watkins’s career has gone down in flames, she receives a strange job offer from Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sam Watkins, a great uncle she barely knows, and desperation overcomes any suspicions.Watkins’s my...