Knee Deep In Wonder

Author : April Reynolds
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466866492

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Knee-Deep in Wonder by April Reynolds Pdf

A dazzling first novel about four generations of fear and longing in the deep South "Who're your people, girl?" It's the song of the South, the big question, persistent and unforgiving. Helene Strickland, daughter of Lafayette County, Arkansas, and lately of the Northeast, doesn't have an answer. Instead, she has memories riddled with half-truths, stories heard in fits and starts, a family history from a family that doesn't know its own past. In the steamy August of 1976, Helene returns home for her aunt's funeral determined to learn the truth, but her probing yields more questions than answers: Why did her grandmother, Liberty, a cotton picker turned saloon owner, have no name until she was fourteen? Why does Queen Ester, Helene's mother, dress like a child, talk to no one, and refuse to see her own daughter? And who was Chess, a man with a terror of water, a man like a honey trap who drew the women and then destroyed them? In a mesmerizing narrative, April Reynolds seamlessly weaves past and present, intricate flashbacks and interlaced stories to produce an epic novel of one family maimed by the deepest wounds of history. Rich with legend, poetry, and historic events, Knee-Deep in Wonder captures the complex humanity of black Southern life.

Author : Sheila Moon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fantasy
ISBN : UOM:39015009367924

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Knee-deep in Thunder by Sheila Moon Pdf

An unusual stone provokes a journey into an underground world of fantasy where Maris is guided by a dog-sized beetle.

Author : Gail L. Jenner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781493010912

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Ankle High and Knee Deep by Gail L. Jenner Pdf

Colicky horses, trucks high-centered in pastures, late nights spent in barns birthing calves--the trials and tribulations of farm and ranch life are as central to its experience as amber waves of grain and Sunday dinners at the ranch house. Ankle High and Knee Deep collects together essays about lessons learned by ranch women, cowgirls, and farmers about what they’ve learned while standing in or stepping out of “mud, manure, and other offal” in their day to day lives on the land. This collection of entertaining and inspirational voices offers unique perspectives on relationships, loss, love, marriage, and parenting and other universal issues. These are contemporary accounts of women struggling to keep a lifestyle intact, recollections of childhoods spent in open spaces, and tales of overcoming obstacles--inspirational reading for city dwellers and country folk, alike.

Author : Jordan Plevnes
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781951508203

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The Eighth Wonder of the World by Jordan Plevnes Pdf

In his novel The Eighth Wonder of the World, Plevnes takes his dark sense of humor and undeniable wit on a search for a common ground in an uncommon world. His protagonist Alexander Simsar, during the last 3.3 seconds of his life in Berlin in 1989 (weeks before the fall of Berlin Wall), envisions the creation of a monument—an eighth wonder of the world—that would embrace humanity in all its layers and countenances. In this absurdist novel, Plevnes invents a utopia that unites many of the differences in the world: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, and even Satanism. The Eighth Wonder of the World is yet another of Jordan Plevnes’s parables of hope. His preoccupation with the role of beauty in the context of social, religious, and cultural differences is front and center, as is his central question: Does humanism have a prospect of survival in the future of humankind? Plevnes suggests that survival and idealism can be found in beauty and art —and that only beauty and art have the power to save the world.

Author : Dryasdust ([pseudonym])
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89004713533

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Tales of the Wonder Club by Dryasdust ([pseudonym]) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Children's literature
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCR3Q

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Wonder-World Stories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Janet Poppendieck
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-26
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780520277540

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Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat by Janet Poppendieck Pdf

At no time during the Great Depression was the contradiction between agriculture surplus and widespread hunger more wrenchingly graphic than in the government's attempt to raise pork prices through the mass slaughter of miliions of "unripe" little pigs. This contradiction was widely perceived as a "paradox." In fact, as Janet Poppendieck makes clear in this newly expanded and updated volume, it was a normal, predictable working of an economic system rendered extreme by the Depression. The notion of paradox, however, captured the imagination of the public and policy makers, and it was to this definition of the problem that surplus commodities distribution programs in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations were addressed. This book explains in readable narrative how the New Deal food assistance effort, originally conceived as a relief measure for poor people, became a program designed to raise the incomes of commercial farmers. In a broader sense, the book explains how the New Deal years were formative for food assistance in subsequent administrations; it also examines the performance--or lack of performance--of subsequent in-kind relief programs. Beginning with a brief survey of the history of the American farmer before the depression and the impact of the Depression on farmers, the author describes the development of Hoover assistance programs and the events at the end of that administration that shaped the "historical moment" seized by the early New Deal. Poppendieck goes on to analyze the food assistance policies and programs of the Roosevelt years, the particular series of events that culminated in the decision to purchase surplus agriculture products and distribute them to the poor, the institutionalization of this approach, the resutls achieved, and the interest groups formed. The book also looks at the takeover of food assistance by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and its gradual adaptation for use as a tool in the maintenance of farm income. Utliizing a wide variety of official and unofficial sources, the author reveals with unusual clarity the evolution from a policy directly responsive to the poor to a policy serving mainly democratic needs.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175028563586

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruth Ward Kahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112106900241

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The First Quarter by Ruth Ward Kahn Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3004 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 083524749X

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Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Poetry
ISBN : NYPL:33433082137518

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The Magazine of Poetry by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Wells Moulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015070339869

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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review by Charles Wells Moulton Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3515065

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The Magazine of Poetry and Literary Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hank Phillippi Ryan
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250258793

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The First to Lie by Hank Phillippi Ryan Pdf

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan delivers another twisty, thrilling, cat and mouse novel of suspense that will have you guessing, and second-guessing, and then gasping with surprise. We all have our reasons for being who we are—but what if being someone else could get you what you want? After a devastating betrayal, a young woman sets off on an obsessive path to justice, no matter what dark family secrets are revealed. What she doesn’t know is that she isn’t the only one plotting her revenge. An affluent daughter of privilege. A glamorous manipulative wannabe. A determined reporter, in too deep. A grieving widow who must choose her new reality. Who will be the first to lie? And when the stakes are life and death, do a few lies really matter? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Rolf Boldrewood
Publisher : London : Macmillan
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:$B112610

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A Colonial Reformer by Rolf Boldrewood Pdf