Nancy Roberts
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Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural.
This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who...
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Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural.
This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who...
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The Old South comes to supernatural life in this classic collection of chilling tales from the "custodian of the twilight zone" (Southern Living).
Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of the few who both write and tell their own stories. For more than two decades, Ms. Roberts has documented ghost stories and interviewed hundreds of people throughout the United States.
A nationally known...
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In these seventeen ghostly tales-including five new stories-Roberts expertly guides readers through eerie encounters and harrowing hauntings across Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and the Dakotas. Along the way her accounts intersect with the lives (and afterlives) of legendary figures such as Wild Bill Hickok, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday. Roberts also justifies the fascination among ghost hunters, folklorists,...
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North and South Carolina are steeped in history-some of it supernatural. The "custodian of the twilight zone" shares their spookiest tales (Southern Living).
Nancy Roberts, known as the "First Lady of American Folklore," is a topnotch storyteller and one of the few who both write and tell their own stories. For more than two decades, Ms. Roberts has documented ghost stories and interviewed hundreds of people throughout the United States.
A nationally...
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Nancy Roberts has often been described to as the "First Lady of American Folklore" and the title is well deserved. Throughout her decades-long career, Roberts documented supernatural experiences and interviewed hundreds of people about their recollections of encounters with the supernatural.
This nationally renowned writer began her undertaking in this ghostly realm as a freelance writer for the Charlotte Observer. Encouraged by Carl Sandburg, who...
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A history of the earlier Southern gold rush and its legends that-for the first time-ties it to the well-known California gold rush of 1849.
Nancy Roberts tells how it all began in North Carolina, which supplied all the domestic gold coined at the US Mint between 1804 and 1828. She tells the story of the discovery of the gold in Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama and later in California and Colorado, including how the Virginia, Carolina...
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The "First Lady of American Folklore" explores the supernatural side of the Civil War with chilling tales of spectral soldiers and haunted battlefields.
Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's stories of the War Between the States and she trekked over many battle sites with him during...
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As the stepchild of a State Department employee, she should have led a charmed life in exotic locations in Europe and Asia, as well as the United States. But her family hid a dark secret -- one that would affect the lovely, talented young woman's ability to form meaningful relationships long after she entered adulthood. This beautifully written novel is loosely based on author Nancy Roberts' life, and explores the effects of abuse on her as a child,...
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Ghada Samman's most recent novel, Farewell, Damascus is set in early 1960's Damascus – a city that now languishes in the grip of corruption and political oppression following the Baathist takeover in Syria. The book opens as Zain Khayyal, a university student and aspiring young writer, plots an early-morning escape from her house as her husband slumbers. Her mission: to get an illicit abortion, plans for which she's divulged to no one, and to announce...
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[2001]
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Widescreen edition.
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Returning home to Perfection, Nevada, Burt finds that the town has been turned into a tourist attraction, complete with simulated giant worm attacks. A phony attack turns real when the Graboids return. This time the Graboids are mutating into something far more lethal and virtually indestructable.
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