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Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini
epub |eng | 2008-11-04 | Author:Jay Parini [Parini, Jay]

III. THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK consists of fourteen separate essays and sketches, most of which had a separate life before coming together in book form. There is even one ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
Conversations with Ken Kesey by Scott F. Parker
epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Scott F. Parker [Parker, Scott F.]

Ken Kesey: The Prince of Pransksters Rick Saunders, Bob Nesbitt, and Vaughn Binzer / 1976 From Marijuana Monthly, Vol. 2 No. 3. © 1976 by Marijuana Monthly. Anyone with the ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life by James Still
epub |eng | | Author:James Still

Mountain Horse Sense “Yellow poplar makes good coffin lumber.” “The balk between the corn rows should be the width of a mule's rump.” “Corn meal that's not dried out proper ...
( Category: United States July 7,2020 )
Pussweek by Bexy McFly
epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:Bexy McFly [McFly, Bexy]

2 They tell you all their problems (and expect you to care) Humans have a lot of problems. This is nothing new. But has your human ever confided in you ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
Wrap It In A Bit Of Cheese Like You're Tricking The Dog by Thorne David
epub |eng | 2016-12-03 | Author:Thorne, David [Thorne, David]

I waited for a moment to see if Cathy would leap up again, then made my way to the podium. “Okay, firstly, my condolences to Simon’s family. For his loss ...
( Category: United States July 5,2020 )
Getting Personal by Philip Lopate
epub |eng | 2011-12-26 | Author:Philip Lopate [PHILLIP LOPATE]

7 “The weather is charming, the little birds sing, we all live in this world in harmony—what more could we have! [Accepting a glass of tea] Thank you, from the ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber by Nicholson Baker
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Nicholson Baker [Baker, Nicholson]

Eventually, armoires came to look more like modern bookshelves, shedding their cupboard doors, but thievery and misshelving led to the collateral invention of another deterrent: book chains. The books were ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
The Best Times by John Dos Passos
epub |eng | | Author:John Dos Passos

Next morning I was awakened long before dawn. The stars crackled in the cold. The camp was a struggling confusion of drivers holding their camels’ necks to the ground while ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
The Portable Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau
epub |eng | 2012-03-26 | Author:Henry David Thoreau [Thoreau, Henry David]

V SOLITUDE This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
Transgressive Fiction by R. Mookerjee
epub |eng | | Author:R. Mookerjee

“Not yet. I need to meet her, Ballard.” “As part of your project? I doubt she’ll be able to help you.” Vaughn sauntered around the room on his uneven legs. ...
( Category: United States July 4,2020 )
The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom by Barbara Smith
epub |eng | 2008-05-23 | Author:Barbara Smith

1992 T H 1.S .1 R I I C' L 1: was written /or the issue of Ms. that irnrnedi- ately followed the October 1991 Senate confirmation Irearints of'Supreme Court ...
( Category: African-American Studies July 4,2020 )
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds by Warner Marina;
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Warner, Marina;

Fig. 29 A few examples of statues called zemis, which were used to mobilize powers of prophecy, healing, and fertility, survived the iconoclasm of the missionaries (zemi, from Jamaica, izoo—1500). ...
( Category: Medieval July 3,2020 )
The Hidden God by White Ryan;
epub |eng | 2015-08-31 | Author:White, Ryan;

– 4 – Neither Here nor There Grief and Absence in Emerson’s “Experience” Yesterday night, at fifteen minutes after eight, my little Waldo ended his life. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, JOURNALS, ...
( Category: United States July 3,2020 )
Responding to Loss by Mugerauer Robert;
epub |eng | | Author:Mugerauer, Robert;

Figure 2.3. Old museum (left); new museum (right) As to the inattentive mode of experience: upon arriving, signs direct one to the museum entrance, which is to the north of ...
( Category: United States July 2,2020 )
Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being by Amy Fung
epub |eng | 2019-04-30 | Author:Amy Fung

I hear all sides of the housing crisis, and how it relates to foreign investment. I hear it almost always anecdotally. Intergenerational guilt and shame co-mingling with continual invisible entitlement ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism July 2,2020 )

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