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Elizabeth Mansfield Irving was born in New York State just before the Civil War, when elocution (speaking well and effectively) was a national pastime, and she loved to recite poems and speak. As a woman, she was somewhat limited in what she could do, but she was successful at reciting poetry at veterans' reunions and encampments, and made a national reputation as a reader, particularly the poetry of her friend Kate Brownslee Sherwood. She also ran her husband's insurance business and taught elocution in Toledo over many decades.

Among Actualist poets and vegetarian restaurant/bakery workers, there isn't much serious crime, but there's plenty in the college town around them. This novel puts you in 1975, when Iowa City was home to several movements at the same time, and when that guy with the pitchfork in American Gothic gave everybody a hard look, because of all the things they were doing.

Twenty-three short stories with similar settings, namely McDonald's worldwide. The author neither glorifies nor ridicules McDonald's, but simply uses it as a common thread in the short story genre....

A series of short stories written from 2017 to 2020 by a well-known short-story author. His writing has been called "classic Americana", but it covers a wide range of topics.

These are short stories that proved very popular with English (ESL) learners. They have a personal touch and are timeless. They should be easy to listen to and should not take long.

This book is an account of four of the first Leveretts in the colony of Massachusetts. Two are well known, one being the Governor of the Colony during King Philip's War, the other being the President of Harvard at a critical time. The connection with the author and his known ancestors is murky because records were lost during the witch trials; the book explores that missing link.

This collection of 30 short stories by an author who has been described as writing "the best of Americana" is his seventh published collection of short stories, all under a thousand words.

Seventeen short stories written from 2006 to 2009.

21 short stories best described as bold, intense Americana, though one is set in Thailand. Written between 2016 and 2017, the stories display the author's mastery of the craft of short story writing -- this is his sixth collection.

Despite their common setting, these stories neither glorify nor castigate this store, which has come to play such a central role in small-town USA life. These are simply crime stories, direct, sometimes humorous, and well-written.

These 20 short stories were written from 2006 to 2013 by Thomas Leverett, who spent years teaching ESL - thus learning to scorn flourish and pretension in writing. His stories are bold and memorable

Twenty-one short stories best described as Americana, although not all stories are set in the US. The style is from an ESL/EFL background: free of flowery prose or oblique references. The reference to the Golden Rule amounts to this: All of life is noticing how what you do comes back around to affect you. Short stories must, by nature, embrace this.

This book tells the story of a time when society was divided and Harvard was becoming what it is today. It is not an exhaustive biography, but it has family information which puts things in perspective, and tells how he and Mather, who were about the same age, lived through the Salem witch trials. Leverett was busy writing logic textbooks in Latin at the time, but didn't dare speak out against the leader of the colony.

These 23 short stories cover a range of topics and are set in various places around the United States. All were written between 2020 and 2022, and reflect a time when the author lived in the mountains of southern New Mexico, but moved back to Illinois.