Red Dirt, Blue Blood
Red Dirt, Blue Blood

Author: Rahkia Nance

Publisher:

Published: 2020-11-30

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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What kind of life exists for an iliterate ex-slave in Reconstruction-era Tennessee? What destiny awaits as he settles into a thicketed corner of Coffee County, Alabama? In "Red Dirt, Blue Blood: The Story of the Nances of Lower Alabama," Rahkia Nance, answers these questions and more as she tells the story of her ancestors. Nance weaves a decade of genealogical research with historical context to illustrate the makings of an extraordinary legacy that spans nearly 200 years.

Blood on Red Dirt
Blood on Red Dirt

Author: Gary K. Cowart

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781468147575

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Blood on Red Dirt is the true story of Marine Corporal Gary Cowart. The book encompasses the time before enlistment, Boot Camp, Infantry Training Regiment, Artillery School, and his time in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive of 1968. Incorporated with actual pictures from the times and places remembered in this book, it gives the reader a mix of emotions felt during the good times and bad, of combat and of non-combat, with the intent of giving the lay person a more complete picture of the Vietnam experience. After serving in Vietnam, Dr. Cowart earned a B.A. degree in Zoology from the University of Washington, and a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the UW School of Dentistry He currently lives, writes, and maintains a general dental practice in Kent, Washington.

Red Dirt
Red Dirt

Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2006-02-13

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0806191694

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A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.

Red-dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
Red-dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes

Author: Terry Southern

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780806511672

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Before the "new journalism" of Wolfe, Talese, and Kubrick, before the Brave Gonzo World of Hunter S. Thompson, there was legendary cult writer Terry Southern. This widely recognized underground classic is a collection of Southern's short pieces--two dozen hilarious, well-observed sketches which expose the hypocrisy of American social mores.

Red Dirt
Red Dirt

Author: Gary Noy

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2002-04-05

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0595222765

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Red Dirt is the story of one man's quest for personal knowledge. It is a journey to discover the influences of his homeland on his upbringing, values, and relationships. But it is much, much more. Red Dirt is also the chronicle of an expedition along California's Landscape of Imagination. It is the story of a trip down Highway 49, the fabled roadway that slices through the heart of the Gold Country the Mother Lode, home of the 49ers, the land of dreams. It is the true story of the past, present, and future of one of the most important regions in American Western history. Red Dirt is about who we are and to what we aspire. Red Dirt is about us.

Red Dirt
Red Dirt

Author: Nancy Lynn

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1456756699

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Hunter Nichols, a successful narcotics investigator for the Pittsburgh police department, is critically injured during a drug bust. While recovering, his life is again threatened by the father of the man he killed during the bust, a Colombian drug lord bent on savage revenge. With the help of friends, family and a feisty Native American woman, Hunter discovers the true meaning of healing.

Red Dirt
Red Dirt

Author: E.M. Reapy

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-06-02

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1784974668

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A group of young Irish migrants leave a man called Hopper for dead on an outback road in Australia. They barely know him; no-one will miss him in their world of hostels, wild nights on cheap wine and grinding work on isolated farms. In this powerful novel about the discovery of responsibility, three young people – Fiona, Murph and Hopper – flee the collapse of their country's economy. In the heat and endless spaces of Australia they try to escape their past, but impulsive cruelty, shame and guilt drag them down, and it is easy to make terrible choices.

Red Clay, Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River

Author: William Johnson Everett

Publisher: William Everett

Published: 2008-01-28

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 160145418X

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The struggles of an enslaved African woman and two emigrant German farmers generate a sweeping saga of oppression, estrangement, and redeemed memory that binds together America's "Trail of Tears," South Africa's "Great Trek," and our contemporary search for reconciliation.

Blood from Stone
Blood from Stone

Author: Laura Anne Gilman

Publisher: LUNA

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1426847777

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Wren Valere's job is driving her crazy. She's still Manhattan's most sought-after Retriever, but after last year's deadly confrontation with the Silence, all this magic-user wants is a break. With her apartment going co-op and her relationship with the demon P.B. putting stress on her romance with partner Sergei, is Wren finally ready to settle down to a more stable existence? Not likely. Because when you're good, trouble always finds you. Wren's next assignment puts her on the wrong side of a child-snatcher—and a collision course with her past. But to save a friend—and protect her future—Wren must pull off the most important Retrieval of her life…and for once magic isn't on her side.

Death of a Blue Blood
Death of a Blue Blood

Author: Jessica Fletcher

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0451468252

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"Jessica Fletcher and her friend Scotland Yard detective inspector George Sutherland are invited to attend a New Year's Eve Ball at Castorbrook Castle, thanks to her British publisher. Shortly after arriving in the idyllic English countryside, Jessica discovers the body of a lady's maid in the garden. Now it's up to Jessica and George to find the killer--or killers--before another corpse welcomes in the New Year.... "--