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Robicheaux's Roots: Culture and Tradition in James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels

Product Description: James Lee Burke developed the character of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux through twenty mystery novels published over three decades. Despite readers increasing interest in Detective Robicheaux, his habits and preferences originate from a culture still unfamiliar to many of the books fans...read more

By Patricia M. Gaitely

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9780807164167 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, August 22, 2016, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: James Lee Burke developed the character of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux through twenty mystery novels published over three decades.

Haunted Boston Harbor

Product Description: Ghosts lurk in the waters near Boston's historic seaport, haunting the secluded islands scattered throughout the harbor. Boston Harbor brims with the restless spirits of pirates, prisoners and victims of disease and injustice. Uncover the truth behind the Lady in Black on Georges Island...read more

By Sam Baltrusis

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9781626199569 | History Pr, August 22, 2016, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Ghosts lurk in the waters near Boston's historic seaport, haunting the secluded islands scattered throughout the harbor.

Bali, Ancient Rites in the Digital Age

Product Description: Bali: Ancient Rites in the Digital Age is a personal portfolio of work by the photographer Ida Bagus Putra Adnyanaâoffering a close view of rituals that few people have seen, often in remote villages of the island. The Hindu Balinese rituals described by author Diana Darling cover rites of passage and the rituals of death as well as those devoted to the gods, to the lower spirits, and the initiation of priests...read more

By Ida Bagus Putra Adnyana (photographer)

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9789798926310 | Bab Pub, August 16, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Bali: Ancient Rites in the Digital Age is a personal portfolio of work by the photographer Ida Bagus Putra Adnyanaâoffering a close view of rituals that few people have seen, often in remote villages of the island.

Tales from Kentucky Lawyers

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813122946 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, November 21, 2003, cover price $25.00

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9780813168241 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95

Tales from Kentucky Sheriffs

Product Description: Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs. Montell collected stories from all areas of the state to represent the diversity of social and economic backgrounds in the various communities the officers serve...read more

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813134048 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, July 15, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs.

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9780813168265 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Following the success of his collections of stories from funeral directors, schoolteachers, doctors, and lawyers, folklorist William Lynwood Montell presents a new volume of tales from Kentucky sheriffs.

Tales from Kentucky Funeral Homes

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813125671 | 1 edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 1, 2009), cover price $24.95

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9780813168234 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95

Tales from Kentucky Doctors

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813124827 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, March 14, 2008, cover price $24.95

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9780813168227 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95

Tales of Kentucky Ghosts

Product Description: A good ghost story can make your hair stand on end, your palms sweat, and your heart race. The bone-chilling collection Tales of Kentucky Ghosts presents more than 250 stories that do just that. In his new book, William Lynwood Montell has assembled an entertaining and diverse array of tales from across the commonwealth that will keep you checking under the bed every night...read more

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813168272 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A good ghost story can make your hair stand on end, your palms sweat, and your heart race.

Tales from Tennessee Lawyers

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813123691 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, October 7, 2005, cover price $25.00

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9780813168289 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95

Tales from Kentucky Nurses

By William Lynwood Montell

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9780813160719 | 1 edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, January 8, 2015), cover price $24.95

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9780813168258 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Kentucky, August 5, 2016), cover price $17.95

Seven Demon Stories from Medieval Japan

By Noriko Reider

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9781607324898 | Utah State Univ Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $33.95

Haunted Old Forge

By Bernadette Peck

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9781467118798 | History Pr, August 1, 2016, cover price $19.99

Irish Ghost Tales: And Things That Go Bump in the Night

Product Description: Discover the darker side of Ireland with this collection of spine-chilling tales from across the country. Within the pages of this book Tony Locke will take you on a journey through the magical land of Erin. As you turn the pages you will find a whole host of dark spectral beings just waiting to take you by the hand...read more

By Tony Locke

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9781845888671 | History Pr Ltd, August 1, 2016, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Discover the darker side of Ireland with this collection of spine-chilling tales from across the country.

Women at the Beginning: Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary

Product Description: In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century...read more

By Patrick J. Geary

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9780691124094 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 30, 2006, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women.

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9780691171463 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 26, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women.

Miscellaneous:

9781400827084 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $26.95

The Mythology of the Superhero

Product Description: Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored...read more

By Andrew R. Bahlmann

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9781476662480 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 13, 2016, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.

The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives

Product Description: In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Gensberg bring together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) at the University of Haifa...read more

By Eli Yassif (contributor)

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9780814342084 | Wayne State Univ Pr, October 1, 2016, cover price $64.99 | About this edition: In The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives, editors Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Gensberg bring together a collection of fifty-three folktales celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Israel Folktale Archives (IFA) at the University of Haifa.

New Approaches to Teaching Folk and Fairy Tales

By Christa Jones

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9781607324805 | Utah State Univ Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $26.95

O'odham Creation and Related Events: As Told to Ruth Benedict in 1927

Product Description: The origin stories of the Oâodham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a handful of books. This volumeâthe third full Oâodham telling of ancientness to appear in printâbrings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist Ruth Benedict during her only visit to the Pimas...read more

By Donald Bahr (editor)

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9780816534159 | Univ of Arizona Pr, July 1, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The origin stories of the Oâodham (Pima) Indians of Arizona are renowned for their beauty and complexity but have been collected in only a handful of books.

The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture: Essays on Fiction, Film, and Television

Product Description: Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. These characters are often identified as heroines and recognized as powerful and progressive pop icons...read more

By Eileen M. Harney (editor)

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9780786478460, titled "The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture: Essays on Fiction, Film and Television" | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 17, 2016, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt.

Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore

By Theresa Bane

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9780786495054 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 17, 2016, cover price $49.95

Religion in Britain from the Megaliths to Arthur: An Archaeological and Mythological Exploration

By Robin Melrose

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9781476663609 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 12, 2016, cover price $45.00

Yokainoshima: Island of Monsters

By Charles FrÃ©ger

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9780500544594 | Thames & Hudson, June 28, 2016, cover price $40.00

Nature, Culture and Gender: Re-reading the Folktale

Product Description: Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries. In breaking new ground, Indian folktales have been reread and examined in the light of the Mother Earth discourse as it manifests in the lifeworlds of women, nature and language...read more

By P. Mary Vidya Porselvi

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9781138676749 | Routledge India, April 20, 2016, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries.

Encyclopedia of Norse and Germanic Folklore, Mythology, and Magic

By Claude Lecouteux

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9781620554807 | Inner Traditions, June 25, 2016, cover price $29.95

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table: Discover the Stories Behind Camelot, Excalibur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Quest for the Holy Grail

Product Description: "Here lies entombed the renowned King Arthur in the island of Avalon." -- Inscription found at Glastonbury in the late 12th centuryKing Arthur most probably never existed and if he did we know precious little about him, and yet he is one of the most famous Britons, while Excalibur and Camelot are perhaps the worldâs best known sword and castle, and Hollywood doesnât tire of returning to the world of Arthurian romance â another major movie is to be released in 2016...read more

By Martin J Dougherty

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9781782743743 | Amber, June 19, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Here lies entombed the renowned King Arthur in the island of Avalon.

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