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Faithless

Alice Nelson

A passionate love story and an honest depiction of the self-deceptions we pursue seeking family and attachment.

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

Alice Nelson skilfully weaves together these shared stories of displacement and trauma into a beautifully told, hope-filled, outstanding novel.

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Violets and Other Tales, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made…

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The Last Sky

Alice Nelson

This special, book club edition of award-winning author Alice Nelsons The Last Sky recounts the story of Maya Wise a young wife alone in Hong Kong. The Sydney Morning Herald…

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them. Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each…

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After This: Holocaust Stories

Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015 the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson…

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After This: Survivors of the Holocaust Speak

Alice Nelson

On 27 January 2015, the world commemorated the 70-year anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. As the last living witnesses of that terrible time pass away, award-winning writer Alice Nelson…

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Political Bodies: Gender, History, and the Struggle for Narrative Power in Recent Chilean Literature

Alice A. Nelson

Political Bodies is one of the first studies to link recent developments in Latin American literature to the rise of new social movements in the late 1970s and 1980s. Focusing…

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The Complete Short Stories of Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson

This fantastic book contains a brand new collection of Nelson’s best and most famous short stories.

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 1

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

These works are as multi-faceted as their writer, who was a teacher, editor, public speaker, and campaign manager of mixed white, black, and Indian descent, born in New Orleans in…

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women writers.

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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 3

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America’s most seminal women writers.

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them.

Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each…

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The Children’s House

Alice Nelson

A love song to the idea of families in all their mysteries and complexities, their different configurations and the hope that creates them.

Marina and her husband, Jacob, were each…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

This early work by Alice Dunbar Nelson was originally published in 1895. Born in New Orleans, USA in 1875, Alice Dunbar Nelson was among the first African-Americans to be born…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque: And Other Stories

Alice Dunbar-Nelson

A stunning short story collection that takes the reader into the heart of the Creole community in late-nineteenth-century New Orleans, from a key poet and journalist of the Harlem Renaissance-featuring…

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All These Things the Old Tales Tell - The Best of Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Alice Dunbar Nelson was an American journalist, political activist, and poet. She belonged to the first generation of black southerners born into freedom following the Civil War and gained acclaim…

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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Professor Tara T. Green (Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, African and African-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)

A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. - Booklist, starred review
This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. - Publishers Weekly, starred review
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Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Professor Tara T. Green (Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, African and African-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA)

A fascinating biography of a fascinating woman. - Booklist, starred review
This definitive look at a remarkable figure delivers the goods. - Publishers Weekly, starred review
A brilliant analysis. -…

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Four Ducks on a Pond

Alice Brainerd Nelson

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Sister Josepha & Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Sister Josepha is a popular tale by Alice Dunbar Nelson which tells the story of a woman caught between her will to live freely but as a Nun or, to…

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Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a decade after Dunbar’s untimely death, Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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Mine Eyes Have Seen

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mine Eyes Have Seen (1918) is a one-act play by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Published in The Crisis, the influential journal of the NAACP, Mine Eyes Have Seen is a brutal…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Alice Dunbar Nelson

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) is a short story collection by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Dedicated to her husband at the time, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other…

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Mine Eyes Have Seen

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mine Eyes Have Seen (1918) is a one-act play by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Published in The Crisis, the influential journal of the NAACP, Mine Eyes Have Seen is a brutal…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Alice Dunbar Nelson

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories (1899) is a short story collection by Alice Dunbar Nelson. Dedicated to her husband at the time, the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Violets and Other Tales (1895) is a collection of stories and poems by Alice Dunbar Nelson. While working as a teacher in New Orleans, Dunbar Nelson published Violets and Other…

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Alice Dunbar Nelson

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Poet Laureate of the Negro Race (1914) is a pamphlet on American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Published nearly a decade after Dunbar's untimely death, Paul Laurence Dunbar…

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The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson

Ida Lee,Alice J Christie

Tuesday, January 26th. At half-past 12 bore away for Elephant Rock. At 5 P.M. the south extreme of Three Hummock Island bore south by east distance 19 or 20 miles…At…

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The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson

Ida Lee,Alice J Christie

Tuesday, January 26th. At half-past 12 bore away for Elephant Rock. At 5 P.M. the south extreme of Three Hummock Island bore south by east distance 19 or 20 miles…At…

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The Logbooks Of The Lady Nelson

Ida Lee,Alice J. Christie

Tuesday, January 26th. At half-past 12 bore away for Elephant Rock. At 5 P.M. the south extreme of Three Hummock Island bore south by east distance 19 or 20 miles…At…

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Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar,Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy…

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Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar,Alice Dunbar Nelson

Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar: Poems, Plays and Prose (2021) is a selection of the literary works of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Dunbar Nelson. With such collections Oak and Ivy…

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The Goodness Of St. Rocque

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Violets and Other Tales

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

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Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This anthology collects speeches and writings by African American leaders, activists, and artists from across the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring works by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, and Booker…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

Excerpt: … his dilapidated basket on one shoulder, a nondescript head-cover pulled over his eyes, whistling cheerily. Then he would slip in at the back door of one of his…

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The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

This anthology collects speeches and writings by African American leaders, activists, and artists from across the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring works by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, and Booker…

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The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

The book

The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories

has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts…

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Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence; The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time

Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence; The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history…

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Qaluyaarmiuni Nunamtenek Qanemciput / Our Nelson Island Stories

Nelson Island elders describe hundreds of traditionally important places in the landscape

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