2011, ISBN: 9780823216062

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Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 240 pages. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscript… More...

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 240 pages. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads: To Virginia View with thanks for your support Marita Golden. Marita Golden (born April 28, 1950) is an American novelist, nonfiction writer, professor, and co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization that serves as a resource center for African-American writer. Marita Golden was born in Washington, D.C., in 1950 and attended the city's public schools. She received a B.A. degree in American Studies and English from American University and a M.SC. in Journalism from Columbia University. After graduating from Columbia, she worked in publishing and began a career as a freelance writer, writing feature articles for many magazines and newspapers including Essence Magazine, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Golden's first book, Migrations of the Heart (1983), was a memoir based on her experiences coming of age during the 1960s and her political activism as well as her marriage to a Nigerian and her life in Nigeria, where she lived for four years. She has taught at many colleges and universities, including Emerson College, American University, George Mason University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds the position of Writer in Residence at the University of the District of Columbia. She co-founded the Washington, D.C.-based African-American Writers Guild, as well as the Hurston/Wright Foundation, named in honor of Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright, which serves the national and international community of Black writers and administers the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award. This is the author's first novel, and second book. Three women meet at college in the late sixties, become friends, and face difficulties as each confronts the passions, dreams, and chaos of their generations. Derived from a Kirkus review: A first novel from Golden that charts the lives of three black women who first meet at an Ivy League college in the 60's. The story is told, in a revolving-door narration, mainly by Faith, Serena, and Crystal, all of whom meet at Winthrop University in Boston: Faith is the shy scholarship girl from New York, Crystal's a budding poet, and Serena is a free spirit from Detroit. Since at Winthrop there are only 38 black faces in a sea of white, the three soon become close friends, despite their differences. Faith becomes pregnant (after a one-night stand, her first) and the old gang begins to change; Faith loses the baby, then joins the Black Muslims and eventually marries 47-year-old Rasheed; Crystal continues to write poetry which is at best mediocre but becomes a success anyway and has a dynamic relationship with a white film-director named Neil; Serena, always the adventurous one, severs her ties by going back to her roots, traveling through Africa working as a teacher and observing the reality of revolution and black rule. They all keep in touch, best friends to the end. At the close, Rasheed has had a stoke and Faith is nursing him back to health; Crystal has wangled a grant to write a cycle of poems on women's heroes, and Serena is still serenely on the road., Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1986, 3, New York: Simon & Schuster [A Touchstone Book], 2010. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [8], 279, [1] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads: To JoAnn & Bruce, Thanks for your support! I'm so glad my dad sent you to my signing, Allison Leotta. Allison Leotta is an American novelist, former prosecutor and blogger, best known for her popular legal crime thrillers. Her books have won various awards and have been placed on multiple best-seller lists. She has been dubbed the "female John Grisham" but has stated that she instead wishes John Grisham to be dubbed "the male Allison Leotta". Leotta graduated from Michigan State University and Harvard Law School and worked as a federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. where she specialized in sex crimes, domestic violence and crimes against children. In 2011, she left the Justice Department to become an author full time, writing acclaimed novels such as Law of Attraction, Discretion, Speak of the Devil, A Good Killing, and The Last Good Girl. She currently has TV reviews being carried by the Huffington Post as well running a legal blog known as the Prime-Time Crime Review which the American Bar Association hailed as "one of the best legal blogs in America". Her first novel, Law of Attraction, was published in 2010, and is part of the critically acclaimed series about the fictional sex-crimes prosecutor, Anna Curtis and her dealings with domestic violence cases. This has become a series of five books involving Anna Curtis. Leotta has stated in interviews that she has drawn inspiration from her previous legal experiences to write her novels and attributes their success to her first-hand experience as a prosecutor. From former federal sex-crimes prosecutor Allison Leotta comes the first book in the Anna Curtis series?a ?riveting debut legal thriller?[with] a vulnerable, tenacious heroine, surprising twists and turns, and equal parts romance and danger? (Library Journal, starred review). As a newly minted Assistant US Attorney in Washington, DC, Anna Curtis has already developed a thick skin to help her deal with the unsettling brutality she encounters daily in her overflowing stack of domestic violence cases. Yet when Laprea Johnson?battered to death by her boyfriend on the morning after Valentine?s Day?crosses Anna?s desk, there?s something about this particular case that Anna can?t quite shake, something that reminds the prosecutor of her own troubled past. It?s also the biggest case of Anna?s career?and the most personal. If she wins it, she could lose everything. The victim she tried to protect is dead. Her lover?no, her ex-lover?is defending the accused killer. Caught between seeking justice for Laprea and saving her personal life, Anna makes a series of choices that jeopardize her career, her relationships, and her very life as she uncovers the shocking truth behind the murder. Weaving expert knowledge with deft storytelling, Law of Attraction provides a fascinating glimpse into the most emotional cases of DC?s criminal justice system. Derived from a Kirkus review: First-time novelist Leotta follows a rookie federal prosecutor on the case of a lifetime in this thriller set against the backdrop of the Washington, D.C., court system. The author, a federal sex-crimes prosecutor who hails from Michigan and has a Harvard law degree, pits her heroine, plucky Anna Curtis, a sex-crimes prosecutor against rich public defender Nick Wagner. Wagner, a handsome rake whose job defending poor clients is a type of penance for his father?s sins, sweeps Anna off her feet. The two share an Ivy League background, but they also have a case in common, and that case eventually leads them to go their separate ways. Nick?s client, D?marco Davis, has a bad habit of beating up his girlfriend, Laprea Johnson, but Nick?s slick defense always gets D?marco off. After lying on the stand to free D?marco one last time, Laprea turns up in a trash bag, dead after a beating witnessed by an elderly man. But while D?marco admits to the beating, he denies killing Laprea. Now he?s trying to get Anna to listen to him. Meanwhile, Anna is on board with D?marco?s prosecution, headed by the prosecutor?s homicide chief, a smooth African-American named Jack Bailey. Jack is the widowed father of a little girl and a lawyer with a reputation for chewing up the newbies assigned to him and spitting them out whole. Anna isn?t sure what Jack represents to her, but she knows she?s confused and that confusion turns to a whole different set of emotions following a harrowing series of events that puts Anna square in the center of a bull?s eye. The story is well paced and plotted. A respectable debut from someone who clearly knows her business., Simon & Schuster [A Touchstone Book], 2010, 3, New York: Fordham University Press, 1996. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. xxviii, [10], xxii, [2], 480, [6] pages. Illustrations. Maps. DJ has slight wear and soiling, and sticker residue on back. This is a volume of the series on the Irish in the Civil War. St. Clair Augustine Mulholland (April 1, 1839 - February 17, 1910) was a colonel in the Union Army in the American Civil War who later received the brevets of brigadier general of volunteers and major general of volunteers and the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action at the Battle of Chancellorsville. He was wounded during the famous charge of the Irish Brigade up Marye's Heights at the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, 1862. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, he distinguished himself by saving the guns of the 5th Maine Battery that had been abandoned to the enemy. For this he later received the Medal of Honor from Congress. Returning to civil life after the war, he was appointed Chief of Police in Philadelphia in 1868, and signalized his administration by the good order in which he kept both the force and the city. He was considered an authority on the science of penology and as a lecturer and writer on the Civil War and its records. He compiled a history of the 116th Regiment, and another of those to whom Congress voted the Medal of Honor. The 116th Pennsylvania was no ordinary regiment. For two hard years it fought with Thomas Meagher's celebrated Irish Brigade of the Army of the Potomac. Though only partially Irish itself, the 116th won an honored place in this famous unit's history by its faithful service in some of the bloodiest campaigns of the war. The mutual respect between the Irish and the 116th was certainly founded on their shared bravery and suffering during the campaigns from Fredericksburg to Petersburg, but it no doubt also owed something to the remarkable Irish colonel, St. Clair Mulholland, who commanded the 116th through most of its battles. Mulholland was a soldier's soldier: disciplined, courageous, caring, and dedicated to the men of his regiment. Wounded four times (once, it was thought, mortally), he time and again rose from his hospital bed to return to command.The 116th Pennsylvania Infantry was a volunteer infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It formed a part of the Irish Brigade.The 116th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was recruited from among the Irish Americans of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1862. Dennis Heenan served as its first colonel, St. Clair A. Mulholland as lieutenant colonel, and George H. Bardwell as major. At the end of August 1862, the regiment was ordered to report to Washington, D.C., and was assigned to the Irish Brigade, which was the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, II Corps, Army of the Potomac. The following month, it was ordered to the Shenandoah Valley, where it saw minor skirmishing. At the Battle of Fredericksburg on December 13, the 116th charged up Marye's Heights. Despite losing many of their officers and men, including Colonel Heenan, they remained at the wall until dark. The regiment had lost so many men that it was consolidated into a battalion under the command of Mulholland.The 116th performed well at the Battle of Chancellorsville, where it helped rescue the 5th Maine Battery from capture. In this action, Mulholland earned a Medal of Honor. On the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, the 1st Division was sent into the Wheatfield to support the III Corps, where the 116th engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Caught in a crossfire, the division was forced to retreat. During Pickett's Charge the following day, the regiment supported the 2nd Connecticut Battery but wasn't needed in the fighting.During the following few months, the 116th remained in northern Virginia. In the spring of 1864, Mulholland was given permission to recruit the regiment back to full strength. Enough men were raised in Philadelphia to form Companies E, F, and G in addition to bringing the four companies at the front to strength, though many of the veterans were consolidated into A Company. Companies H, I, and K were raised in Pittsburgh. Mulholland was promoted to colonel, while Richard C. Dale became lieutenant colonel and John Teed, who had been captured at Gettysburg, major.The 116th fought all through the Overland Campaign, where it continued to lose heavily in officers and men. Mulholland was wounded at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and Dale was missing in action. Mulholland was wounded again at the Battle of Cold Harbor. Heavy losses continued during the Siege of Petersburg. In July, the Irish Brigade was broken up and the 116th was assigned to the 4th Brigade, 1st Division. After the Appomattox Campaign, the regiment was sent to Alexandria, where, on June 3, companies A, B, C, and D where mustered out. The remaining companies were mustered out on July 14 in Washington., Fordham University Press, 1996, 3<

1995, ISBN: 9780823216062

Fordham University Press, 1995-01-01. Hardcover. Used: Good., Fordham University Press, 1995-01-01, 2.5