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Author: E. L. Doctorow
Publisher: Random House Incorporated
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1400062047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn assortment of short fiction ranges across America, from Alaska to the District of Columbia, as it explores the complexities of modern life in such stories as "Jolene: a Life," "A House on the Plains," "Baby Wilson," and "Walter John Harmon."
Author: Pleasant DeSpain
Publisher: august house
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780874835694
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThirty-six true, tall, and traditional tales, primarily from the nineteenth century or earlier, selected by a professional storyteller and divided by the region of the United States from which they originated.
Author: Will Weaver
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2008-10-14
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0873517024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes "A Gravestone Made of Wheat", the basis of the independent film Sweet Land.
Author: Will Weaver
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 0873518802
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe feature film Sweet Land was based on this short story about a Norwegian American farmer and his German immigrant common-law bride. Excerpted from Sweet Land: New and Selected Stories.
Author: Thomas J. Sugrue
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 738
ISBN-13: 0812970381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue’s epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue’s panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present–more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history. He uncovers the forgotten stories of battles to open up lunch counters, beaches, and movie theaters in the North; the untold history of struggles against Jim Crow schools in northern towns; the dramatic story of racial conflict in northern cities and suburbs; and the long and tangled histories of integration and black power. Filled with unforgettable characters and riveting incidents, and making use of information and accounts both public and private, such as the writings of obscure African American journalists and the records of civil rights and black power groups, Sweet Land of Liberty creates an indelible history.
Author: Michael Crummey
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1472115872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor twelve generations, the inhabitants of a remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement. They have each been offered a generous compensation package to leave the island for good. There’s just one proviso: everyone must go. Gradually, all of the residents surrender to the inevitable. All of the residents, that is, but one: old Moses Sweetland. Motivated in part by a sense of history and belonging, and concerned that his somewhat eccentric great-nephew will wilt on the mainland, Moses resists the coercion of family and friends in order to hold onto the only place he’s ever called home. As his options dwindle, Moses Sweetland concocts a scheme to remain the island’s only living resident. Cut off from the outside world, with the food supply diminishing and weather shredding away the last evidence of human habitation, Sweetland finds himself, finally, in the company of ghosts . . . Written with incomparable emotional power and depth, Sweetland is a story about loyalty and courage, about the human will to persist even when all hope seems lost.
Author: Robert Cook
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1317893654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA powerful and moving account of the campaign for civil rights in modern America. Robert Cook is concerned less with charismatic leaders like Martin Luther King, and more with the ordinary men and women who were mobilised by the grass-roots activities of civil-rights workers and community leaders. He begins with the development of segregation in the late nineteenth century, but his main focus is on the continuing struggle this century. It is a dramatic story of many achievements - even if in many respects it is also a record of unfinished business.
Author: Amir Nizar Zuabi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-07-19
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 1472589408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThey call it a civil war, but there is nothing civil in this. Nothing civil at all. They came from Damascus, from Halab, from Banias where the bombs fall day and night and the wounded children look like sleeping angels. Now they live in camps and abandoned buildings in Lebanon or Jordan. Now Syria is just a distant memory, a home forever lost. This urgent and extraordinary play explores the crisis in Syria through the stories of its two million refugees. Oh My Sweet Land received its UK premiere at the Young Vic Theatre, London, on 9 April 2014.
Author: Patrick D Smith
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012-10-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1561645826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Land Remembered has become Florida's favorite novel. Now this Student Edition in two volumes makes this rich, rugged story of the American pioneer spirit more accessible to young readers. Patrick Smith tells of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family battling the hardships of the frontier. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias and Emma MacIvey arrive in the Florida wilderness with their son, Zech, to start a new life, and ends in 1968 with Solomon MacIvey, who realizes that his wealth has not been worth the cost to the land. Between is a sweeping story rich in Florida history with a cast of memorable characters who battle wild animals, rustlers, Confederate deserters, mosquitoes, starvation, hurricanes, and freezes to carve a kingdom out of the Florida swamp. In this volume, meet young Zech MacIvey, who learns to ride like the wind through the Florida scrub on Ishmael, his marshtackie horse, his dogs, Nip and Tuck, at this side. His parents, Tobias and Emma, scratch a living from the land, gathering wild cows from the swamp and herding them across the state to market. Zech learns the ways of the land from the Seminoles, with whom his life becomes entwined as he grows into manhood. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Author: Nancy Sweetland
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0802851673
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIllustrations and rhyming text depict the quiet wonder of God's creation.
