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  • In Fear of Her Life

    The True Story of a Violent Marriage

    Frances Smith is a pseudonym for a woman who lived in fear of her life for 22 years. Married at 16 to a Dublin criminal, she endured years of relentless mental and physical torture until she found the strength to fight back. This is her courageous story told with brutal honesty and at times humour. It chronicles her descent to the brink of suicide and consequent rebuilding of her life. ... Read more

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  • My Story

    A Common and Unordinary Tell

    by Frances Smith ...
    Wrought by a childhood replete with trying circumstances and telling experiences (conveyed in Frances Smith's earlier book), and in tandem with resultant beliefs and attitudes she held toward herself and the world she was about to enter, the commencement of legal adulthood also removed any buttressing protection minority provided. Too many confused and self-critical assessments would ill-serve ... Read more

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  • Imagine

    Living in a Socialist U.S.A.

    The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and the earth's population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren't coming back. Young African-American men make up the majority of America's prison population. Half of the American population are poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the ... Read more

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  • Growing Up While Going Down the Rabbit Hole

    by Frances Smith ...
    As the author’s childhood tumbles from her memory onto the pages of print, the reader is privy to all sorts of surprising revelations. Be prepared to chuckle with glee, feel your mouth gape reading about situations too weird to be untrue, wince as your heart breaks in sadness and anger over sordid situations, and shake your head both in disbelief and even perfect understanding of unusual childhood ... Read more

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  • Rethinking the Aztec Economy

    Series series Amerind Studies in Archaeology
    With its rich archaeological and historical record, the Aztec empire provides an intriguing opportunity to understand the dynamics and structure of early states and empires. Rethinking the Aztec Economy brings together leading scholars from multiple disciplines to thoroughly synthesize and examine the nature of goods and their movements across rural and urban landscapes in Mesoamerica. In so doing ... Read more

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  • Bande de Filles

    Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France

    by Frances Smith ...
    Series series Cinema and Youth Cultures
    Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood). This book provides an in-depth examination of Céline Sciamma’s film, focusing on its portrayal of female adolescence in contemporary Paris.Motivated by the absence of black female characters in French cinema, Sciamma represents the lives of figures that have passed ... Read more

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  • Carmichaels' Diamonds

    Warning - Contains Adult Content. Colin Carmichael, notorious gangster and diamond thief, made one fatal mistake. On his last heist, he double-crossed his partners, keeping the haul for himself. His gang took their revenge. But the diamonds were never found.Now his son, Jasper Carmichael, has cut ties with his criminal past to create an ever-growing property empire. But Jasper is his father’s son, ... Read more

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  • . . . and Now the Journey Continues

    The Two Serial Killers in Southern California at Long Last Meet. Will It Be Before or After They Complete Their Evil Deeds?

    The Journey Continues -- is the third part of the trilogy about two serial killers. The book begins as one of the serial killers at long last finds his intended victim. Because of the pressure caused by a true crime book about two serial killers in Southern California specifically the High Desert he is determined to find the second serial killer. The book continues as he leaves messages for the ... Read more

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  • 'Til Death Or Distance Do Us Part

    Love and Marriage in African America

    Conventional wisdom tells us that marriage was illegal for African Americans during the antebellum era, and that if people married at all, their vows were tenuous ones: "until death or distance do us part." It is an impression that imbues beliefs about black families to this day. But it's a perception primarily based on documents produced by abolitionists, the state, or other partisans. It doesn't ... Read more

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  • Colonel Carter Of Cartersville

    Colonel Carter of Cartersville (1891) is a comic novella by Francis Hopkinson Smith. A Virginian gentleman Colonel Carter is stranded in New York without funds. He is campaigning for a railroad for Fairfax County in Virginia. The novel was successfully adapted for the screen in 1915. ... Read more

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  • Buster Meets Rodney the Golden Retriever

    In the continuing life of Buster, he takes a walk around the neighborhood, hoping to share his favorite blue ball with other dogs. He realizes that there is a park down the street where he lives. As he goes into the park, he hears a running stream and goes toward it. As he gets closer, he loses his footing and down into the water he goes, along with his favorite blue ball. Across the stream, sat a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD