Ohio Books

I first read this astonishing work in a class on "Unusual Narratives." I was not excited (although I had loved Stephen's sonnet sequences) due to the sheer amount of primary source material Stephens includes in this work. Once I started the work, I was quickly blown away.

Stephens weaves interviews, testimony, documents and his poetry together to form a seamless, swiftly moving testament to the White River Massacre. He writes with compassion and seemingly limitless understanding. "Song for the Captured Women" is one of the most amazing pieces of poetry I've ever come across.

It is a crime that this work is out of print, as it is one of the great achievements of American literature. Any historian or resident of the American West should read this astounding document.

Author Jack Swint brings these cold case Ohio murders back into the publics eye in his no nonsense straight to the point style of writing. As the fourth book in the "Who Killed?" series, Swint has detailed these unsolved murders in hopes someone will come forward to police with new information and clues to solve these brutal and senseless crimes.

I am confused though why Rooftop Publishing Company is not giving any acknoledgement or credit to this author. When I purchased this book online it arrived with NO AUTHORS name on the cover or anywhere in the content of the book. Also, Rooftop implies that they are the authors and this all appears very deceptive! I met author Jack Swint, and he wrote the manuscripts to this book and the ones in Savannah, Pittsburgh and Jacksonville.

Rooftops publisher needs to acknolwedge and give their writers credit.

I'm not a huge Janet Dailey fan, but I enjoyed this title so much I read it twice, thus I give it five stars.

Description from the book back cover:

He both attracted and intimidated her. When they first met, Elizabeth had thought Jed Carrel insulting and arrogant - though she couldn't ignore the turbulent emotions his kiss had aroused. But she had been only seventeen, and about to marry his brother, Jeremy. Then Jed set off to live his own life abroad. Elizabeth was a mature woman now, and a widow. And Jed had unexpectedly returned. Why? "As a woman-" Jed's voice was caressing - "you're even more desirable than you were as a girl."

This is the Ohio novel in Janet Dailey's Americana series - a romantic tour of America through stories set in each of the fifty states.

Fifty tiny tales, each exquisitely told, chronicle the settling of the Ohio River Valley. Scott Russell Sanders is a fabulous storyteller who collects the curiosities that would have travelled far by word of mouth in an earlier time. Sanders calls these "tales, stories provoked by germs of fact, rather than history." The characters are mostly forgotten--Indians, surveyors and drunks, flustered judges, animals fierce and tame, gravepickers, newborns, clergy and lovers. Taken together, the stories function like a fine illustration in a history book, artfully fleshing out the facts so that our understanding is deepened. This is a perfect book for a history lover, a bedtime reader or a lover of the quirky. I was glad to find it still in print.

this is a great book...the best about the brutal war in the american revolution...from the wilds of new york to the forests of the ohio this script relates with great veracity this black period of north american history...theres no book like this, this is the best.

Stories in this book are all set in a small midwest town in Ohio. We all have our preconceptions about midwestern people, their attitudes, sensibilities and way of life. Author digs deep into their lives and psyche. By the time you finish this book, you will pretty much know about every member of this small community. People we learn about are lonely, damaged, with no prospects. They are molded by their upbringing and their first experiences in love and marriage. They all have regrets, yet they are too weak to break away and start new. It is up to young generations to try their lives outside of confines of a small city and whether or not they succeed no one will know until much, much later. These are deep stories and they will get you thinking about them for a long time after you are finished reading. An absolute classic of short american story literature.

Sherwood Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio" tells the story of lives lost in the dark. The citizens of Anderson's fictional Winesburg all harbor mysterious secrets and are internally conflicted. In a series of vignettes that do not follow a chronological timeframe, tragic lives full of lonliness, longing and regret are delineated in plain prose. One man, George Willard, stands out above the rest of these "grotesque" characters of Winesburg, and, in the last vignette titled "Depature", it says he goes out to, "meet the adventure of life."

Written around the time of World War I, Anderson paints a lonely picture of the American small town. At a time when the nation was rapidly becoming a large, homogenized community, "Winesburg, Ohio" answers the sentiments felt by individuals living in small towns not yet assimilated by the emerging mainstream culture. For the marginalized denizens of Winesburg, Anderson portrays the small town as anachronistic in its isolation. This isolation reveals itself individually in the stories of the lives of the characters as told in the vignettes.

Wise Guide has done an excellant job creating a book that can be used by anybody to truly experience game day at Ohio Stadium to the fullest. Whether a rookie to the traditions, or a grizzled veteran, this book covers almost every Buckeye tradition that's related to game day. This book is perfect for fans who would like to pass on the great tradition of Ohio State football to others who have never had the pleasure of attending a game, or who may be unaware of the many wonderful experiences that can be had by being a Buckeye fan in Columbus on game day.

Women Surviving the Holocaust In Spite of Horror presents the experiences of ten female Holocaust survivors. Each one tells her story in a first person interview, the paragraphs of which are broken up by editor, compiler and author's Jutta T. Bendremer's summaries of the milestones of life. The tales are unflinchingly honest in their portrayal of unspeakable horror, but also reveal determination and boundless strength within the hearts of those who suffered. A powerful, poignant, and welcome addition to Holocaust literature shelves.

Dr. Lynn Alexander's recently published book, Women, Work, and Representation, asks why needleworkers represent working women in Victorian fiction and art. She explores the reasons readers do not see female mill workers in literature and art, and why, in an age that prized femininity and domesticity, women were working. Alexander's research and writing took a little more than five years, both in the United States and England.

The simple answers are that the economy was bad, so some families needed more than the male head of the household could provide, and some women had lost their husbands and had to provide for their families.

The Victorian period was an age of men providing for the women, but where there was little or no income in a family where there were marriageable females, there was no dowry and few prospects for a good marriage. Thus the wives and daughters had to work. The only acceptable positions for a female were as governess or needleworker; however, a governess had to be well educated, and many females did not have the necessary qualifications. No one wanted to think that a woman from an upper or middle class family had to work and certainly not in a mill or as a prostitute. Being a needleworker was seen as an extension of femininity and the family; it did not blend the spheres of men and women, thus posing no threat to the men or to the family as it was perceived. Women did work in the mills, but in doing so, they developed muscles and attitudes similar to the men, which made the men feel their way of life was threatened.

Alexander also explores the fact that being a neeleworker was a deadly occupation. The book cites statistics showing the age and cause of death for needleworkers. Consumption, blindness, asthma, and allergies were common, as was death in the mid-twenties from these things. Writers and artists who began to note the long hours, sometimes as much as 72 hours at a time, low pay, and resulting illnesses of the needleworkers slowly triggered the need for reform in conditions of the working class women.

Although the target audience for Women, Work, and Representation is academics and students working with the Victorian novel and art, anyone with an interest in history and women's issues should like this book.