Magic Shop
Magic Shop

Author: Muhsina Kealamthodi

Publisher: CONSCIENCE WORKS PUBLICATION

Published: 2022-03-01

Total Pages: 70

ISBN-13: 9393269467

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The Ink Truck
The Ink Truck

Author: William Kennedy

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1504042115

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A “wildly funny” novel of a monumentally unsuccessful newspaper strike in 1960s upstate New York from a Pulitzer Prize–winning author (People). The newspaper strike has stretched on for more than a year. When it began, the Guild boasted over 250 members. Now, they’re down to eighteen, with only three truly serious about the cause. Their leader, Bailey, is a columnist with an outsize sense of his own importance and a hatred of scabs that borders on fanaticism. Married to a roller derby queen, but smitten with one of his fellow radicals, Bailey is on a path of self-destruction that could take the entire city’s newspaper establishment down along with him. And that’s just what he has in mind. With the cape-wearing old-school Rosenthal at his side, Bailey embarks on a mad mission: hijacking the newspaper’s entire ink shipment and dumping it in the snow. But he’s hardly taken his first step when the scheme spins out of control, trapping him between armies of gypsies, scabs, and the wildest hippies New York has to offer. Set in a city closely resembling his native Albany, the fiction debut of William Kennedy is “a bawdy Celtic romp,” foreshadowing the wit and imagination that marked his literary career (Time).

Songs from the Kitchen Table
Songs from the Kitchen Table

Author: Archie Roach

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-11-15

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 1761422227

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The ultimate illustrated commemoration of iconic Australian musicians Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter in songs, stories, photographs and tributes. Longlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2024 Since he left us, Archie Roach’s legacy has continued to soar, like his totem animal from his mother’s ancestral lands, the wedge-tailed eagle. Archie’s songs stand as anthems for both the experience of dispossession and our shared humanity. Songs from the Kitchen Table is a tribute to the power of Archie’s voice, and to the love of music he shared with his life partner and musical collaborator, Ruby Hunter. This beautiful, illustrated volume contains the lyrics to over one hundred of their songs, carefully curated by Archie’s manager and friend, Jill Shelton. From Archie’s breathtaking early works, ‘Took the Children Away’ and ‘Charcoal Lane’, to the timeless classics ‘Tell Me Why’, Ruby’s ‘Down City Streets’, and Archie’s final masterpiece, ‘One Song’, the lyrics are accompanied by stories about their composition, rare photographs, original artwork, and heartfelt tributes to Archie and Ruby from those who knew and loved them. With forewords by their long-time friends and musical collaborators, Emma Donovan, Paul Kelly and Jack Latimore, Songs from the Kitchen Table is a celebration of one of Australia’s great creative partnerships, and a testament to the ongoing power of plain-spoken truths.

Messages from Above
Messages from Above

Author: Barb Munro

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2016-03-04

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1514470713

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Trust, my child. Why would I give you this guidance if it were not to be followed? Trust that all is in place for you, trust that I want only the best for you, and trust that you have many more years on this planet to spread your wisdom. But I would also like you to teach others about trust and believing. How can you teach what you do not do? Move forward, my child, giving thanks each day for all you have been blessed with, and trust the guidance I have put in place for you. Trust, my child, and teach others to do the same. Your Loving God

One Child
One Child

Author: Mei Fong

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0544276604

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist offers an intimate investigation of China’s one-child policy and its consequences for families and the nation at large. For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens. Now, with its economy faltering just as it seemed poised to become the largest in the world, the Chinese government has brought an end to its one-child policy. It may once have seemed a shortcut to riches, but it has had a profound effect on society in modern China. Combining personal portraits of families affected by the policy with a nuanced account of China’s descent towards economic and societal turmoil, Mei Fong reveals the true cost of this controversial policy. Drawing on eight years of research, Fong reveals a dystopian legacy of second children refused documentation by the state; only children supporting their parents and grandparents; and villages filled with ineligible bachelors. A “vivid and thoroughly researched” piece of on-the-ground journalism, One Child humanizes the policy that defined China and warns that the ill-effects of its legacy will be felt across the globe (The Guardian, UK).

All the World's Reward
All the World's Reward

Author: Reimund Kvideland

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2011-12-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0295800631

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All the World’s Reward presents ninety-eight tales from Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Swedish-speaking Finland, and Iceland. Each area is represented by the complete recorded repertoire of a single storyteller. Such a focus helps place the stories in the context of the communities in which they were performed and also reveals how individual folk artists used the medium of oral literature to make statements about their lives and their world. Some preferred jocular stories and others wonder tales; some performed mostly for adults, others for children; some used storytelling to criticize society, and others spun wish fulfillment tales to find relief from a harsh reality. For the most part collected a century ago, the stories were gleaned from archives and printed sources; the Icelandic repertoire was collected on audiotape in the 1960s. Each repertoire was selected by a noted folklorist. Introductions to the storytellers and collectors and commentaries and references for the tales are provided. A general introduction, a comprehensive bibliography, and an index of the tales according to Aarne-Thompson’s typology are also included. Period illustrations add charm to the stories.

The Lost Heiress
The Lost Heiress

Author: Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Publisher:

Published: 1854

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13:

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The story of a heroine rescued by her father from a domineering suitor.