Beneath The Second Sun

Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.

The Second Sun is, above all things, an adventure made animate by hundreds of distinct characters across half a world written to confess through prose and tale our tendencies poisoned by Dickensian bleakness or cruelty, and to wholly ameliorate that cynicism by the light and courage of those who live and labor for a just peace. The story begins with a fae boy named Moo on the island of Cero, understood by all who have heard the name to be a paradise where its residents live for thousands of years, sustained by the power of the fruits grown from the branches of the island's elders. A mist inexplicable even to the elders encircles the island and shields the people from hostile forces by taking the life of any who pass not in the company of a fae. However, a small ship is discovered on the island's shores and a young girl named Yuyu is rescued, astonishingly, alive from her place trapped inside a chest and reveals creatures with buzzing wings murdered the crew that kidnapped her. Her testimony compels a scholar of paradise named Kamo to leave her home aided in her investigation by her friend and master engineer Serkis. The second chapter follows the Odinites on the Raven's Word and their deliverance of ten children captured and sold into slavery. Captain Valara Viktor commands her crew make for the island city of Caradras to locate a translator who can negotiate their return home or their enlistment into Odin's Navy to aid in restoring their sovereignty stripped of them by the Polemarx empire before they make the return journey to Valheim, the last fortress of Odin, far north in the Hells Sea. The third chapter begins with a squire named Rade who is at the service of one none older than he but already knighted named Ser Barimon. Ordered by their dead Emperor's remaining council, they depart on a diplomatic mission but are offered the recreation of a man hunt by a lord now local to the region they were to pass through. The lord Juvie Morto, Ser Barimon, Rade, and seven others chase the shadow of an infamous deserter named Still Morrow, who fled with his troops during the battle for Victrious, the capitol of the Wooloe empire. When the pair return to brief the council on Still Morrow's whereabouts, Rade is offered leave by his knight to join a festival. Though his evident proximity to power leaving the council's chambers urged spies within the new capitol of Capra to kidnap the squire. Each chapter following the first three advances the stories born from these adventures.

A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson is the third volume in the distinguished series "Cornell Concordances." Like the others, it was programmed on an IBM 704 electronic computer and provides an alphabetical list of all significant words—each word given in context. In order to provide variants, it was based on Thomas H. Johnson's three-volume edition of all the known texts of Emily Dickinson's poems. Included are an analytical preface by the editor and an index of words in the order of frequency.

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2022 WHA Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the American West Can a sea be a settler? What if it is a sea that exists only in the form of incongruous, head-scratching contradictions: a wetland in a desert, a wildlife refuge that poisons birds, a body of water in which fish suffocate? Traci Brynne Voyles's history of the Salton Sea examines how settler colonialism restructures physical environments in ways that further Indigenous dispossession, racial capitalism, and degradation of the natural world. In other words, The Settler Sea asks how settler colonialism entraps nature to do settlers' work for them. The Salton Sea, Southern California's largest inland body of water, occupies the space between the lush agricultural farmland of the Imperial Valley and the austere desert called "America's Sahara." The sea sits near the boundary between the United States and Mexico and lies at the often-contested intersections of the sovereign lands of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla and the state of California. Created in 1905, when overflow from the Colorado River combined with a poorly constructed irrigation system to cause the whole river to flow into the desert, this human-maintained body of water has been considered a looming environmental disaster. The Salton Sea's very precariousness--the way it sits uncomfortably between worlds, existing always in the interstices of human and natural influences, between desert and wetland, between the skyward pull of the sun and the constant inflow of polluted water--is both a symptom and symbol of the larger precariousness of settler relationships to the environment, in the West and beyond. Voyles provides an innovative exploration of the Salton Sea, looking to the ways the sea, its origins, and its role in human life have been vital to the people who call this region home.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved memoir of self-discovery set against the spectacular Tuscan countryside that inspired the major motion picture starring Diane Lane—now in a twentieth-anniversary edition featuring a new afterword “This beautifully written memoir about taking chances, living in Italy, loving a house and, always, the pleasures of food, would make a perfect gift for a loved one. But it’s so delicious, read it first yourself.”—USA Today For more Frances Mayes, including a tour of her now iconic Cortona home, Bramasole, watch PBS’s Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special! More than twenty years ago, Frances Mayes—widely published poet, gourmet cook, and travel writer—introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned Tuscan villa called Bramasole. Under the Tuscan Sun inspired generations to embark on their own journeys—whether that be flying to a foreign country in search of themselves, savoring one of the book’s dozens of delicious seasonal recipes, or simply being transported by Mayes’s signature evocative, sensory language. Now with a new afterword from Frances Mayes, the twentieth-anniversary edition of Under the Tuscan Sun revisits the book’s most popular characters.

This is a story of Gods and mortals, of life and death, of a world where fate has no master. This is the Book of Lokk. ----------------------------------------- Kartos has fallen, and when Lokk descends to the streets he finds that everything he once knew has evaporated—and now the city faces the gruesome aftermath of apocalypse. A mysterious army of foreign mercenaries worshipping a god from a land far across the sea has come to enslave those few who survived the Reckoning. What lies beyond the walls of Kartos? Who, or what, lives in the forbidden mountains that surround the city? And what is the purpose of these mercenaries that call themselves the Iron Edge? In this second chapter of the Book of Lokk only two things are certain: Legends will be born. And men will die.