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Author: Bobby Johnston
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Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781947917750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston's stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of opressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.
Author: Mary G. MacKiever
Publisher:
Published: 2001-12-01
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781903970355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Saul
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 0674043103
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.
Author: Firoozeh Dumas
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-05-03
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 054461237X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home. A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi. California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award Winner Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Grades 6–8) New York Historical Society’s New Americans Book Prize Winner Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, Honorable Mention Booklist 50 Best Middle Grade Novels of the 21st Century
Author: Regina Swanson
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
Published: 2017-01-03
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1648405185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a man tells you that he wants to give you the world, believe him. And when he shows you that he's a piece of shit, believe that too. Sloane and Tisha have been best friends since high school. They do everything together. So when one married a millionaire, the other married his best friend. Sloane and Tisha finally realize that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. While having money and being a part of a social elite class brings them added perks, it also brings a string of other issues as well. To get away from their daily life of constantly being scrutinized by the public eye, they whisk themselves away for annual girl's only vacations. A trip to the Virgin Islands, proves to be not what they'd imagined at all. Everything that they once held near and dear comes crashing down around them. In He Ain't No Saint, Sloane and Tisha are left trying to pick up the pieces and hold on to A Hurtful Love that they've become accustomed to. This novel will have you screaming at the pages for these two best friends to wake up and honor themselves as the true queens that they are.
Author: Bryan Batt
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0307588866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGayle Batt is the kind of lady who throws elegant cocktail parties while wearing layers of silk chiffon, dripping pearls, and eight months’ pregnant. She is the kind of woman who says “anyhoo” and calls everyone “Dahlin’” or a special pet name. With hair, makeup, and nails always done to perfection, she triumphs rather than crumbles when infidelity, alcoholism, cancer, or any form of adversity attempts to shatter her family. Endearing and enduring, Gayle is a big-hearted, strong-willed true Southern belle—and she taught her son everything he knows about being a man. In She Ain’t Heavy, She’s My Mother, Bryan Batt, the actor who plays Sal Romano on the Emmy, Golden Globe, and Peabody Award–winning Mad Men, chronicles his life—and his mother’s supportive presence in it. From growing up gay below the Mason-Dixon Line to landing principal roles on Broadway (his first was on roller skates playing a singing and dancing boxcar in Starlight Express!) and later on the picture-perfect sets of TV’s Mad Men, to opening the ever-popular Hazelnut boutique in his hometown of New Orleans with his partner, Bryan weaves a touching and hilarious story of the South, showbiz, and an unshakable bond between mother and son.
Author: Lisi Schoenbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-11-28
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 0190207345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPragmatic Modernism traces an alternative strain of modernism influenced by pragmatist philosophy and characterized by its commitment to gradualism, continuity, and habit rather than spectacular events and radical rupture. Through original readings of Gertrude Stein, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., this study rediscovers an overlooked cultural and social matrix and suggests an expanded range of responses to modernity.
Author: Sojourner Truth
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2020-09-24
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 0241472377
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. This selection of her impassioned speeches is accompanied by the words of other inspiring African-American female campaigners from the nineteenth century. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
Author: Cynthia McKinney
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2013-03-26
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0986036218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElected six times to the House from the state of Georgia, Cynthia McKinney cut a trail through Congressional deceit like a hot ember through ash. She discovered legislators who passed laws without reading them. Party leaders who colluded across party lines against their constituents' interests. Black-skinned individuals shilling for the white status quo. She excoriated government lassitude over Hurricane Katrina, uncovering dark secrets. She held the only critical Congressional briefing on 9/11, introducing counter- testimony of scholars, investigators, former intelligence agents. As a member of the House Armed Services Committee, she held Rumsfeld to account for malfeasance by military contractors and missing billions in the Pentagon’s budget. Then she hammered him on the reasons for the failure of NORAD air defenses on 9/11. She read truth into the Congressional Record, held town halls and hearings, led protests, showed up while others played along to get along, took the side of the people against the will of the Party. And when she got too truth seeking and speaking, the Republicans rigged the Democratic primaries to boot her out, leaving behind a trail of achievements mostly won singlehandedly as a result of her service on the House International Relations, House Agriculture, House Armed Services, and Budget Committees and the Select Committee on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita But McKinney rose again like a Phoenix, answering the call to run as 2008 Green Party candidate for President, challenging the corrupt two-party stranglehold on American democracy. Then it was on to the Freedom Flotilla to Gaza, to be seized on the high seas and imprisoned in Israel. On to Tripoli, to serve as witness to the NATO terror bombing of Libya. On to Malaysia to serve on the War Crimes Commission... Often introduced as the Sojourner Truth, the Harriet Tubman of our age, McKinney reflects here on the Biblical figures of Esther, Deborah and Naomi. This is the Cynthia McKinney saga as it stands to date-- what she saw, what she learned, and how she fought for change.
Author: Jesse Ventura
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 2000-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780613278928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJames George Janos describes his experiences in the Navy SEALs, the professional wrestling career that made him "Jessie the Body" Ventura, and his first year as governor of Minnesota.
