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I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore: A Cathy Collection (Cathy Ser. #19)
by Cathy GuisewiteIn this funny collection, America’s favorite comic strip heroine balances the demands of life—love, family, career, food, and shopping.Cathy has been woman’s best friend in matters of love, food, and shopping, although maybe not always in that order! Here is a collection for the frazzled modern woman who is forever plagued by the innate love of chocolate, and who is constantly in search of at least a semi-decent romance in the midst of career demands and parents who always have advice.
Pullman: The Man, The Company, the Historical Park (Landmarks)
by Kenneth J SchoonGeorge Pullman's legacy lies in the town that bears his name. As one of the first thoroughly planned model industrial communities, it was designed to give the comforts of a permanent home to the employees who built America's most elegant form of overnight railroad travel. But the town was more than just a residential wing of sleeper car manufacturing; its 1894 railroad strike led to the national Labor Day holiday. In the early twentieth century, the Pullman Company became the country's largest employer of African Americans, who then formed the nation's first successful Black labor union. Author Kenneth Schoon revisits Pullman's monumental history and the lessons it continues to provide.
Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
by Stephen Shames Seale BobbyThis pictorial history tells the story of the revolutionary Black Panther Party in the words of its co-founder, Bobby Seale. Coming toward the end of America’s epic Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party was one of the most creative and influential responses to racism and inequality in American history. They advocated armed self-defense to counter police brutality, and initiated a program of patrolling the police with shotguns—and law books. In words and photographs, Power to the People explores the impact and achievements of this revolutionary organization. The words are Seale’s, with contributions by other former party members. The photographs are by Stephen Shames, the Panther’s most trusted documentarian. Power to the People is a testament to their warm association, combining Shames’s memorable images with Seale’s colorful in-depth commentary culled from many hours of conversation.Shames also interviewed major party figures for this volume, including Kathleen Cleaver, Elbert “Big Man” Howard, Ericka Huggins, Emory Douglas, and William “Billy X” Jennings. His photography is supplemented with Panther ephemera and graphic art.
Essential Wellness: Yoga, Meditation, Herbal Remedies, Spa Treatments, Massage, and More (Essentials)
by Nancy J. HajeskiEnhance your physical and mental well-being through practical solutions that are easy to incorporate into your daily routine. Whatever your goals, Essential Wellness walks you through the many ways you can maximize health and minimize stress. Whether you&’re recovering from illness, controlling your weight, managing an addiction, minimizing the effects of aging, or simply boosting your overall well-being, this book provides you with recipes, routines, tips, and tricks for living your healthiest life. It introduces powerful tools that are easy to incorporate into your daily routine, including yoga, meditation, massage, and herbal remedies. Essential Wellness covers the simple but effective tools you can use to care for body and mind.
Spill the Jackpot (The Bertha Cool and Donald Lam Mysteries)
by Erle Stanley GardnerThe diminutive detective and his bulldog of a boss head to Las Vegas to find a runaway bride in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason. Donald Lam and Bertha Cool make for a couple of unlikely detectives. Donald is a charming ex-lawyer in his thirties who may lack brawn but makes up for it in brains. Bertha, meanwhile, is a fifty-something-year-old widow who won&’t take lip from anyone. She certainly won&’t let a bout of illness keep her down. After a stay at the sanitarium, she and Donald are off to Las Vegas for their latest case. Who needs rest? Mr. Whitewell needs Donald and Bertha to find his son&’s fiancée and learn why she abruptly left town. Donald quickly gets to work with just a mysterious letter as his only lead. Soon he uncovers a scheme to swindle casinos, along with a brutal murder. Now he must determine what&’s going on before someone ensures he&’s the next member of the agency to have a long hospital stay—or worse. &“The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner.&” —Evelyn Waugh &“Gardner has a way of moving the story forward that is almost a lost art: great stretches of dialogue alternate with lively chunks of exposition, and the two work together perfectly, without sacrificing momentum.&” —Booklist
The Vegetable Bible: The Complete Guide to Growing, Preserving, Storing, and Cooking Your Favorite Vegetables
by Tricia SwantonEverything you need to know to plant and eat leafy, podded, bulb, stem, root, tuberous, and sea veggies, from adzuki beans to yams.It&’s not hard to follow Mom&’s advice to eat your vegetables when you have more than 300 pages of great information on more than 140 varieties. Getting produce from garden to table starts in the soil, and many people go as far as storing their harvest long term. This book includes growing charts with helpful gardening facts for each vegetable, and methods of canning and preserving that allow you to enjoy the fruits—or rather, vegetables!—of your hard labor all year long. Tasty recipes also offer ideas of how to prepare some of the more obscure vegetables you can grow, as well as tried and true family favorites. Become a gardenista with The Vegetable Bible.The Vegetable Bible serves up:· Beautiful photos, information on the origins and interesting facts about each vegetable, storage tips, a growing guide, and more· Preserving methods your grandparents would be proud of· Valuable tips and advice on health benefits and culinary uses More than fifty delicious, healthy recipes so you can enjoy your harvest
This Book Will Make You Fall Asleep
by Andrews McMeel PublishingBedtime tips, relaxing puzzles, soothing words, and fluffy sheep to help you get your ZZZs . . . If you’re tired of sleepless nights and wish you could drop off in two shakes of a lamb’s tail, then this book is for you! Filled with adorable sheep and plenty of relaxing puzzles and quotes, this soporific little volume will have you snoozing in no time. Or if you prefer, you can literally count the sheep on each page to help ease you into the land of Nod . . .
Arizona Oddities: Land of Anomalies & Tamales (American Legends Ser.)
by Marshall TrimbleArizona has stories as peculiar as its stunning landscapes. The Lost Dutchman's rumored cache of gold sparked a legendary feud. Kidnapping victim Larcena Pennington Page survived two weeks alone in the wilderness, and her first request upon rescue was for a chaw of tobacco. Discover how the town of Why got its name, how the government built a lake that needed mowing and how wild camels ended up in North America. Author Marshall Trimble unearths these and other amusing anomalies, outstanding obscurities and compelling curiosities in the state's history.
The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm (True Crime)
by Mark Sebastian JordanThis chilling true crime history reveals the story of a young woman in nineteenth century rural Ohio who poisoned her family for love.It was a cold and rainy day in Ohio&’s Pleasant Valley in the spring of 1896, one that began like any other for the Rose family. What they didn&’t know was that young Ceely Rose was brooding. She&’d been told to forget her obsession with handsome Guy Berry. She&’d been told about the danger of Rough-on-Rats poison. She&’d heard about murdering those who stand in the way of love. By the time Ceely was done, her family would be dead and others threatened. Later, the place where these crimes took place became Malabar Farm, the estate of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and conservationist Louis Bromfield. In The Ceely Rose Murders at Malabar Farm, Ohio author and historian Mark Sebastian Jordan examines the story of the Poisoner of Pleasant Valley, and how it has resonated throughout the years.
Understanding the Somme 1916: An Illuminating Battlefield Guide
by Thomas Scotland Steven HeysThis is a guidebook with a difference. It is not a list of memorials and cemeteries. Its aim is to provide the reader with an understanding of the Battle of the Somme. There were some partial successes; there were many disastrous failures. In 17 concise chapters dealing with different areas of the battlefield and various aspects of strategy, this book explains what happened in each location and why. Each chapter is accompanied by color photographs, taken by the authors in the course of many visits to the Somme, which will illustrate, illuminate and allow the reader to understand important points made in the text. It doesn`t matter whether you are in your armchair, on foot, on a bicycle, or in a car, this book will effortlessly transport you to the battlefield and will sweep you round the front line of 1 July 1916. From Montauban in the south, to Serre in the north, it will lead you to the night attack of 14 July and to the first use of tanks on 15 September. It will take you to the Pozières Ridge and to Mouquet Farm, and to the heights above the Ancre. You will visit the famous Sunken Lane near Beaumont Hamel, where the text will transport you in time to stand with men from the 1st Lancashire Fusiliers waiting to go over the top on 1 July 1916. You will look towards Hawthorn Mine Crater and almost feel the earth tremble beneath your feet as though you were there at 07.20 hrs. on 1 July 1916. You will go into Beaumont Hamel with the 51st (Highland) Division and climb up Wagon Road. You will look across to where Frankfurt Trench once was, and where men from the 16th Highland Light Infantry from Glasgow fought a last ditch battle, having become marooned in the trench, in what was the last action to take place before the Somme finally petered out in the mud in late November 1916. With its focus on informing and illuminating the events of 1916 on the Somme, and illustrated throughout by carefully annotated color photographs showing the sites today, this book will prove equally essential to the battlefield visitor or the 'virtual visitor' in their armchair.
Cape Cod Nights: Historic Bars, Clubs & Drinks (American Palate Ser.)
by Christopher SetterlundA guide to the historic places, music and drinks that contribute to the charm of Cape Cod&’s nightlife. The Cape has been home to hundreds of popular nightclubs and watering holes over the past hundred years, featuring such timeless drinks as the Cape Codder and the Sea Breeze. From orchestras to digital playlists, the clubs have evolved with the times. While many famous locales, such as Johnny Yee&’s and the Compass Lounge, have been shuttered, other classics like the Beachcomber, the Atlantic House and the Melody Tent remain, serving up a unique blend of entertainment and spirits for tourists and locals alike. Join local author Christopher Setterlund as he takes a look back at some of the places, music and drinks that have made Cape Cod nightlife sparkle.
Fundamentals of Psychopathology
by Ronald ComerDiscover practical insights on psychological disorders with Comer & Comer’s Fundamentals of Psychopathology: Science and Practice, 11e. The Achieve course provides a digital textbook and online resources, including Clinical Choices activities, adaptive quizzing, and over 250 video clips to enhance your studying and learning experience.
Three Sips of Gin: Dominating the Battlespace with Rhodesia's Elite Selous Scouts
by Timothy BaxThe memoir of a special forces veteran of the Rhodesian War, with over a hundred photos included. Nothing terrorized Russian and Chinese-backed guerillas fighting Rhodesia&’s bush war in the 1970s more than the famed Selous Scouts. The name of the unit struck fear in the hearts of even the most battle-hardened—rather than speak it, they referred to its soldiers simply as Skuzapu, or pickpockets. History has recorded the regiment as being one of the deadliest and most effective killing machines in modern counter-insurgency warfare. In this book, a veteran of the unit shares his stories of childhood in colonial Africa with his British family, documenting a world where Foreign Service employees gathered at &“the club&” to find company and alcohol, leopards prowled the night, and his mother knew how to use a gun. Eventually he would move to Canada, only to feel drawn back to the continent where he grew up. There he would be recruited into the Selous Scouts, comprised of specially selected black and white soldiers of the Rhodesian army, supplemented with hardcore terrorists captured on the battlefield. Posing as communist guerrillas, members of this elite Special Forces unit would slip silently into the night to seek out insurgents in a deadly game of hide-and-seek played out between gangs and counter-gangs in the harsh and unforgiving landscape of the African bush. By the mid-1970s, the Selous Scouts had begun to dominate Rhodesia&’s battle space. Working in conjunction with the elite airborne assault troops of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, the Selous Scouts accounted for an extraordinarily high proportion of enemy casualties. Not content with restricting themselves to hunting guerrillas inside Rhodesia, they began conducting external vehicle-borne assaults against camps situated deep inside neighboring countries. Recounting his experiences while surviving in this cauldron of battle, while also relating with dry wit the day-to-day details and absurdities of the world that surrounded him, Timothy Bax provides a rare look at this time and place.
Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm (Brad and Michele Moore Roots Music Series)
by Jan Reid Shawn SahmA biography of the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados founder, a rock and roll innovator whose Grammy Award–winning career spans half the twentieth century.Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included &“She&’s About a Mover,&” &“The Rains Came,&” and &“Mendocino.&” He made the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in 1968 and 1971 and performed with the Grateful Dead, Dr. John, Willie Nelson, Boz Scaggs, and Bob Dylan.Texas Tornado is the first biography of this national music legend. Jan Reid traces the whole arc of Sahm&’s incredibly versatile musical career, as well as the manic energy that drove his sometimes-turbulent personal life and loves. Reid follows Sahm from his youth in San Antonio as a prodigy steel guitar player through his breakout success with the Sir Douglas Quintet and his move to California, where, with an inventive take on blues, rock, country, and jazz, he became a star in San Francisco and invented the &“cosmic cowboy&” vogue. Reid also chronicles Sahm&’s later return to Texas and to chart success with the Grammy Award–winning Texas Tornados, a rowdy &“conjunto rock and roll band&” that he modeled on the Beatles and which included Sir Douglas alum Augie Meyers and Tejano icons Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez.With his exceptional talent and a career that bridged five decades, Doug Sahm was a rock and roll innovator whose influence can only be matched among his fellow Texas musicians by Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Janis Joplin, and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Texas Tornado vividly captures the energy and intensity of this musician whose life burned out too soon, but whose music continues to rock.&“Doug was like me, maybe the only figure from that period of time that I connected with. His was a big soul. He had a hit record, &“She&’s About a Mover,&” and I had a hit record [&“Like a Rolling Stone&”] at the same time. So we became buddies back then, and we played the same kind of music. We never really broke apart. We always hooked up at certain intervals in our lives. . . . I&’d never met anyone who&’d played on stage with Hank Williams before, let alone someone my own age. Doug had a heavy frequency, and it was in his nerves. . . . I miss Doug. He got caught in the grind. He should still be here.&” —Bob Dylan&“I once made the analogy that Doug was like St. Sebastian—pierced by 1,000 arrows—but instead of blood, talent coming out of every wound. I really regard him as the best musician I ever knew, because of his versatility, and the range of his information and taste.&” —Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records producer
Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?: Over 150 Curious Questions and Intriguing Answers (Fascinating Bathroom Readers)
by Andrew ThompsonThe bestselling author of Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red share more than 150 baffling, bizarre, and enlightening facts in the fun trivia collection.This curious, captivating collection of trivia will surprise and intrigue readers with amazing answers to questions like:• Is Jurassic Park possible?• What causes “the shakes” after drinking a lot of alcohol?• Why do dogs walk in circles before lying down?• What makes popcorn pop?The follow-up to the bestselling What Did We Use Before Toilet Paper?, Can Holding in a Fart Kill You? has even more fun and fascinating trivia. Perfect for the ever-curious trivia lover, this book is the ultimate in truly extraordinary information. From silly to serious to outright bizarre, this expansive collection offers surprising answers and unexpected facts on everything from history and science to pop culture and nature. From the everyday to the fantastical—it's all here.“A very handy book that could honestly, save their life—or just answer all those questions they’re maybe too embarrassed to even google.” —Buzzfeed
Exploring Chicago Blues: Inside the Scene, Past and Present (Music Ser.)
by Rosalind Cummings-YeatesDiscover the living legacy of Chicago Blues in this guide to the iconic clubs and musicians who made—and keep making—music history.During the Great Migration, African Americans left Mississippi for Chicago, and they brought their music traditions with them. The music took root in the city and developed its own distinctive sound. Today, Chicago Blues is heard all over the world, but there&’s no better place to experience it than in the city where it was born. In Exploring Chicago Blues, Chicago music writer Rosalind Cummings-Yeates takes you inside historic blues clubs like the Checkerboard Lounge and Gerri's Palm Tavern, where folks like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon and Ma Rainey transformed Chicago into the blues mecca. She then takes you on an insider&’s tour of the contemporary blues scene, introducing the best spots to hear the purest sounds of Sweet Home Chicago.
Pot Culture: The A–Z Guide to Stoner Language & Life
by Steve Bloom Shirley Halperin“Essentially an encyclopedia of pot, filled with such top 10 lists as ‘best stoner movies’ . . . plus a ‘pot-parazzi’ section with celebrities sneaking a toke.” —BillboardDo you know the difference between burning one and Burning Man? Does using the name Marley as an adjective make total sense to you? Do you chuckle to yourself when the clock strikes 4:20? Are you convinced that the movie Dazed and Confused deserved an Oscar? If you answered “Dude!” to any of these questions, then Pot Culture is the book you’ve been waiting for. For those in the know, it’s the stoner bible. For novices, it’s Pot 101. Either way, Pot Culture encapsulates the history, lifestyle, and language of a subculture that, with every generation, is constantly redefining itself. From exhaustive lists of stoner-friendly movies, music, and television shows to detailed explanations of various stoner tools to celebrity-authored how-tos and an A-Z compendium of slang words and terms, it’s the ultimate encyclopedia of pot. Written by former High Times editors Shirley Halperin (now a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly and a TV talking head) and Steve Bloom (publisher of CelebStoner.com), and featuring contributions by a host of celebrity stoners, including Melissa Etheridge, Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, Redman, Steve-O, and America’s Next Top Model’s Adrianne Curry, Pot Culture provides the answers to everything you ever wanted to know about pot but were too stoned to ask.“This is a fun book that every toker should get their sticky green fingers on. Clever and informative . . . Great book and a must-buy for all us loadies.” —Blogcritics
Cats Prowl at Night (The Bertha Cool and Donald Lam Mysteries)
by Erle Stanley GardnerDealing with debtors turns deadly for a prickly PI in this hard-boiled mystery by the creator of Perry Mason and author of Bats Fly at Dusk. A hot-headed widow and a glass-jawed ex-lawyer, Bertha Cool and Donald Lam seem like an unlikely duo of private detectives. Even so, they&’ve managed to solve the most difficult of mysteries—when they&’re together. With Donald now on a European vacation, Bertha is hesitant to accept any new business—but money is money, and this new case seems routine enough . . . Bertha is hired to get sales engineer Everett Belder out of a $20,000 problem. Unfortunately, his troubles soon multiply. His wife is receiving poisoned-pen letters accusing him of infidelity. Then she disappears. And there&’s also the matter of the body in his cellar. With everything spiraling out of control, Bertha must determine who is behind this deadly game of cat and mouse before another murder comes into play. &“No one has ever matched Gardner for swift, sure exposition.&” —Kirkus Reviews &“The best American writer, of course, is Erle Stanley Gardner.&” —Evelyn Waugh
The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts (True Crime)
by Stephanie Schorow Beverly FordExplore the backrooms and seedy hangouts throughout the real story of Boston&’s gangster past in this true crime history guide. The capture of notorious mobster James &“Whitey&” Bulger closed an infamous chapter in Boston history, yet the city&’s criminal underworld has a long and bloody rap sheet that stretches back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Journalists Ford and Schorow reveal the underbelly of Boston through profiles of ruthless gangsters like Charles &“King&” Solomon, the Angiulo brothers, Joseph &“The Animal&” Barboza, Stephen &“The Rifleman&” Flemmi and many more who carried out deadly hits and lucrative heists.
Crochet with London Kaye: Projects and Ideas to Yarn Bomb Your Life
by London KayeWhimsical indoor and outdoor projects from the yarn artist known for her “boundary-unraveling work” (The New York Times).Yarn has always been a popular medium, but in the hands of artists like London Kaye, it becomes a vibrant new form for expression and personal creativity. Full of tips and techniques on crochet, types of yarn bombing, and at-home projects for the beginner and advanced crocheter, Crochet with London Kaye promises to engage and inspire crafty readers around the world. With beautiful photos of her most admired street art pieces, yarn artist London Kaye brings the lesser-known world of yarn bombing into focus, with the added bonus of more than a dozen of her most sought-after patterns: crochet covers for your sneakers, a vibrant case for that blue IKEA bag everyone has at home, or her signature eyeball that you can personalize and add to your own bag, jacket, or attire of your choosing. Her projects are unlike anything else you’ll find today, and with this book you can take an up-close look at her work—and take your needlework in an exciting new direction.
Haunted Florida Love Stories (Haunted America)
by Christopher BalzanoThe author and folklorist examines Florida&’s history through the lens of haunting tales of love. Wide eyes, sweaty palms and a racing heart. Are these the tell-tale marks of a love story or a haunted tale? If the story is set in Florida, there&’s a good chance it&’s both. From the infamous Bellamy Bridge to a haunted lighthouse in Key West, love is in the air—but it isn&’t always a good thing. Author and folklorist Christopher Balzano follows lingering campus whispers and trails that vanish into the swamp to track down the urban legends and ghostly lore of Sunshine State love affairs that live on even after death.
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck
by Roger EbertMore of the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic’s most scathing reviews.A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length collects more than 200 of his reviews from 2006 to 2012 in which he gave movies two stars or fewer. Known for his fair-minded and well-written film reviews, Roger is at his razor-sharp humorous best when skewering bad movies. Consider this opener for the one-star Your Highness:“Your Highness is a juvenile excrescence that feels like the work of 11-year-old boys in love with dungeons, dragons, warrior women, pot, boobs, and four-letter words. That this is the work of David Gordon Green beggars the imagination. One of its heroes wears the penis of a minotaur on a string around his neck. I hate it when that happens.”And finally, the inspiration for the title of this book, the one-star Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen:“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a doglike robot humping the leg of the heroine. If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.”Roger Ebert’s I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie and Your Movie Sucks, which gathered some of his most scathing reviews, were bestsellers. This collection continues the tradition, reviewing not only movies that were at the bottom of the barrel, but also movies that he found underneath the barrel. Movie buffs and humor lovers alike will relish this treasury of movies so bad that you may just want to see them for a good laugh!
The Secret Disciple
by Mark PenderghastThere met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who lived among the tombs; and no one could bind him anymore, even with a chain…. And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion, for we are many." --Mark 5:29 The Secret Disciple offers a riveting and plausible alternative version of the advent of Christianity, based on a close reading of the gospels. This religious mystery story comes to the startling conclusion that the risen Jesus was in fact Legion (Jeremiah), the &“secret disciple.&” If you are among those who have always questioned the story of the resurrection or wondered about the family of Jesus, this book is for you. WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYINGThe Secret Disciple retells the Christ story in beautiful language, demystifying the resurrection miracle and envisaging Jesus as a true prophet of his times whose demon-haunted follower, Jeremiah, becomes his most devoted disciple, with startling consequences. Readers also meet narrator Mary Magdalene, thick-headed Simon Peter, and James the younger brother of Jesus. A magnificent and fascinating read. --Bill Schubart, author, The Priest
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry: From Flint Axes to Automatic Weapons
by Chuck WillsA complete look at weapons—from the Stone Age and Bronze Age to present day—from spears and swords to handguns and automatic weapons.When did hunting weapons begin to be used against humans instead of animals? What is the difference between the Plains Indian War Club and the Fijian War Club? What weapon is common to peoples in every part of the world? The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry is a comprehensive guide to arms and armaments throughout history.Beginning in the Stone Age, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry travels through the Bronze Age to our present day, showing the tools humans have used to defend themselves all around the globe. There&’s the Japanese tanto, or dagger, which have become identified with gangs known as yakuza. There&’s the flaming arrow used when Swiss and Austrian forces clashed in the 14th century. And there&’s the revolver that Samuel Colt made practical for both military and civilian use in Hartford, Connecticut.The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weaponry will help readers better understand how—and why—the battles of history were fought.
Edna Ferber's Hollywood: American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History (Texas Film and Media Studies Series)
by J. E. SmythEdna Ferber’s Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America’s most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist, multiracial view of the national past deliberately clashed with traditional narratives of white masculine power. Hollywood paid premium sums to adapt her novels, creating some of the most memorable films of the studio era—among them Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. Her historical fiction resonated with Hollywood’s interest in prestigious historical filmmaking aimed principally, but not exclusively, at female audiences. In Edna Ferber’s Hollywood, J. E. Smyth explores the research, writing, marketing, reception, and production histories of Hollywood’s Ferber franchise. Smyth tracks Ferber’s working relationships with Samuel Goldwyn, Leland Hayward, George Stevens, and James Dean; her landmark contract negotiations with Warner Bros.; and the controversies surrounding Giant’s critique of Jim-Crow Texas. But Edna Ferber’s Hollywood is also the study of the historical vision of an American outsider—a woman, a Jew, a novelist with few literary pretensions, an unashamed middlebrow who challenged the prescribed boundaries among gender, race, history, and fiction. In a masterful film and literary history, Smyth explores how Ferber’s work helped shape Hollywood’s attitude toward the American past.