Shiner

Author : Amy Jo Burns
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525533658

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Shiner by Amy Jo Burns Pdf

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR “Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic – all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder.”—NPR “[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories.” —New York Times Book Review On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive. An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community, over Wren and her mother. But over the course of one summer, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter, Wren must uncover the truth of her father's mysterious legend and her mother's harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend. And with that newfound knowledge, Wren can imagine a different future for herself than she has been told to expect. Rich with epic love and epic loss, and diving deep into a world that is often forgotten but still part of America, Shiner reveals the hidden story behind two generations' worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. Amy Jo Burns brings us a smoldering, taut debut novel about modern female myth-making in a land of men-and one young girl who must ultimately open her eyes.

Author : Amy Jo Burns
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807052273

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Cinderland by Amy Jo Burns Pdf

A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn’t quite a ghost town—only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man’s reputation. As for the remaining girls—well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was one of them. But such a lie has its own consequences. Against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. This is the story of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth—a town that believed being a good girl meant being a quiet one—and the long road Burns took toward forgiving her ten-year-old self. Cinderland is an elegy to that young girl’s innocence, as well as a praise song to the curative powers of breaking a long silence.

Author : Terry Beresford
Publisher : Chipmunkapublishing ltd
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781847473769

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Shiner by Terry Beresford Pdf

Author : Michael L. Schuh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781470947842

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The Shiner's Fix Up & Drink Up by Michael L. Schuh Pdf

This book has many stories about my friends that are fine And them working on my place whilst drinking my shine Many weeks they get started with the repairs It's really nice to have friends like mine that truly cares I wish you could be here but then I would not write about All what I have to say and when I talk I tend to shout. But you'd not believe how beautiful it is, today for sure The birds are all singing and these hills are alive once more Spring is the season I wait for each year And I always feel much better once it is here Boy"" This shine that I'm now a-drinking is extra ripe That means I've made once again some, moonshine with bite You get all this and much, much more...

Author : LaRue Wells,Robert House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Cyprinidae
ISBN : UOM:39015086579805

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Life History of the Spottail Shiner (Notropis Hudsonius) in Southeastern Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River, and Western Lake Erie by LaRue Wells,Robert House Pdf

Spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius) were sampled from portions of Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River, and Lake Erie to determine ages, growth rate, sex ratios and life history information.

Author : Scott A. Gritters,Louise M. Mauldin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cyprinidae
ISBN : MINN:31951D01798946O

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The Status of the Weed Shiner (Notropic Texanus) in Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River System by Scott A. Gritters,Louise M. Mauldin Pdf

Author : Larry E. Shiner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0226753433

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The Invention of Art by Larry E. Shiner Pdf

"Larry Shiner challenges our conventional understandings of art and asks us to reconsider its history entirely, arguing that the category of ine art is a modern invention - and that the lines drawn between art and craft emerged only as the result of key European social transformations during the long eighteenth century"--Publisher's description.

Author : Rory Shiner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 1925424731

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One Forever by Rory Shiner Pdf

"When the New Testament describes what it means to be a Christian, it uses a phrase that is everywhere in Paul's letters but almost nowhere in our churches. Overwhelmingly, when the Bible wants to describe being a Christian, it says that we are in Christ. But what does it mean to be in Christ? And how does this important biblical idea help us understand what God has done for us through Jesus, and what it means to be a Christian? This short book by Rory Shiner sparkles with clarity, wit and biblical wisdom on this vital and much-neglected topic." -- Back cover.

Author : Maggie Nelson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781786994660

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Shiner by Maggie Nelson Pdf

In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles-syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems-to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson's first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015057968466

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : WISC:89082992264

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Larry E. Shiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9780190089818

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Art Scents by Larry E. Shiner Pdf

"An overview of the aesthetic and ethical issues raised by the contemporary olfactory arts, which range from gallery and museum sculptures and installations, through the enhancement of theatre, film and music with scents, to the ambient scenting of stores and avant-garde chefs' use of scents in cuisine. Special attention is given to the aesthetics of perfume and incense and the question of their art status, as well as to the role of scent in the appreciation of nature and gardens. Ethical issues are discussed regarding ambient scenting, perfume wearing, and the use of smells in fast-food marketing. Because of the traditional neglect and denigration of the sense of smell and its aesthetic potential by philosophers from Kant and Hegel to the present, and by Darwin's and Freud's view of the human sense of smell as a near useless evolutionary vestige, the first parts of the book counter that tradition with both philosophical arguments and evidence from current evolutionary theory, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, history, linguistics and literature. Although the focus is on Western olfactory arts, the book draws on non-Western examples throughout. The book is aimed at both philosophers and general readers interested in the arts, and develops positions that should stimulate further discussion"--

Author : Whitney Shiner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780826462206

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Proclaiming the Gospel by Whitney Shiner Pdf

Scholars have long understood that the texts we now know as the Gospels were read aloud in the Greco-Roman world, but few have actually envisioned what a performance of the Gospel of Mark would have been like in the first century and how it would have shaped the experience of its audience. Proclaiming the Gospel shows us. Oral performances in the New Testament world were lively affairs. In the performance of Greco-Roman theater, readers lose their voices from the stress of emotional passages. Audiences cheer for philosophers as if at a rock concert, and in law courts, they are paid for their responses. Storytellers compete for attention with jugglers, and some speakers must fend off hostile crowds. Congregations at churches and synagogues cheer as if at the theater. Shiner reveals the ways that Mark wrote his Gospel to compete in this arena and how his audiences would have responded: applause for the miracles of Jesus, then an altogether different response at the cross. Whitney Shiner is Assistant Professor of Christian Origins at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and the author of Follow Me: Disciples in markan Rhetoric.

Author : Robert Jay Goldstein,Rodney W. Harper,Richard Edwards
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0890968802

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American Aquarium Fishes by Robert Jay Goldstein,Rodney W. Harper,Richard Edwards Pdf

Aquarium species native to America.

Author : Eva H. D.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 1771261218

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Shiner by Eva H. D. Pdf

Shiner is Eva H.D.'s powerful successor to her critically acclaimed debut, Rotten Perfect Mouth, and includes the Montreal International Poetry Prize-winning "38 Michigans." This is lyrical poetry that is as beautiful as it is angry, bracing in the sharpness of its observations. Whether noting the emotional effects of the financial crisis, the long tail of grief, or the unfolding panorama of a cross-Canada road trip, Eva H.D. measures the world around her in vivid, rambunctious, and musical excursions that ricochet with images and ideas--a surprise at every turn.