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Heartwood
A brilliantly layered novel of crime, character, and place from the two-time Edgar Award winner, Gold Dagger Award winner, and New York Times bestselling author of Sunset Limited. Few writers in America today combine James Lee Burke's lush prose, crackling story lines, and tremendous sense of history and landscape. In Cimmaron Rose, longtime fans of the Dave Robicheaux series found that the struggles of Texas defense attorney Billy Bob Holland show Burke at his best in exploring classic American themes--the sometimes subtle, often violent strains between the haves and the have-nots; the collision of past and present; the inequities in the criminal justice system. Heartwood is a kind of tree ...
Heartwood and Tree Exudates
Why prepare a treatise on Heartwood and Tree Exudates? Why consider both topics together? What approach should be taken in their treatment? The exudates were one of the earliest items of trade between family, tribal, and racial groupings in prehistoric times. They became used extensively as items for the manufacture of implements and as commercial goods for illumination, for cosmetic, religious and magical purposes. Later heartwood from various trees entered intra and international trade for prestigious and religious buildings (when cedars were used), for the furniture (e.g., ebony, mahogany) of the nobility, for boats and vehicles. Consideration of their relevance to anthropology, and to th...
Conference Call
What happens when women leave their worlds behind to attend their favorite annual conference event of the year? Pretty much anything! Romantic interludes, mistaken identity, suspenseful intrigue and hilarious situations abound—especially for the new attendees, or “con virgins.” Anything can happen when old friends get together and new friends are made. Join twenty-eight of today’s top lesfic authors as they take you on the trip of a lifetime—whether it’s to ComicCon or to the annual premier lesbian literary event of the year. Who knows what will go down when these authors let their imaginations run wild… Conference Call is an anthology to benefit the Golden Crown Literary Society. For more information about GCLS, visit www.goldencrown.org.
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