True Grits

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590206508

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True Grit by Charles Portis Pdf

The #1 New York Times bestselling classic frontier adventure novel that inspired two award-winning films! Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America’s foremost writers. True Grit, his most famous novel, was first published in 1968, and became the basis for two movies, the 1969 classic starring John Wayne and, in 2010, a new version starring Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges and written and directed by the Coen brothers. True Grit tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is just fourteen when the coward Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father’s blood. With one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the killer into Indian Territory. True Grit is eccentric, cool, straight, and unflinching, like Mattie herself. From a writer of true status, this is an American classic through and through.

Author : Raymond A. Uzanas
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467039024

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True Grits by Raymond A. Uzanas Pdf

During the latter months of 2008 a financial calamity was unfolding and fears of another Great Depression were sweeping across the globe. In America, once all-powerful behemoths of corporate finance were collapsing into a mere shell of their former selves under a debt avalanche of unknown proportions. Unemployment was rising rapidly and showing no favorites among white and blue-collar workers. Personal and business bankruptcies and foreclosures would skyrocket. In March of 2009, with the U.S. stock market averages down over 50% from their record highs of a couple of years earlier, Uzanas set out on a road trip through much of the Middle Atlantic and Southeastern United States. From the coal country of western Virginia to the gilded avenues of Palm Beach, Ray visited places and met people that mirrored a wide swath of Americas complex profile. True Grits is a collection of his stories from those travels that portray the varying challenges faced by Americans as they adapt to an uncertain, but decidedly altered economic landscape.

Author : Junior League of Atlanta
Publisher : Favorite Recipes Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0871974258

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True Grits by Junior League of Atlanta Pdf

Ture Grits is a wonderful contemporay collection of 318 regional recipes, inspired photography, and lively, charming stories by some of the Souths most renowned authors.

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : Citadel Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 1559724544

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True Grits by Michael Lewis Pdf

From the Alamo Burger to Donovan's Beef, from the Quiet Man Corned Beef and Cabbage to the Crumb Buns of Katie Elder, "True Grits" features 100 recipes inspired by the Duke's greatest films. Each movie from which a recipe comes is examined in a brief essay and in many classic photos.

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590206546

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Gringos by Charles Portis Pdf

Charles Portis’s fourth novel—a truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists. Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situation—whatever it takes to remain “the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers.” But when Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of “hippies” (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.

Author : Angela Duckworth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781501111129

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Grit by Angela Duckworth Pdf

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent, but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.” “Inspiration for non-geniuses everywhere” (People). The daughter of a scientist who frequently noted her lack of “genius,” Angela Duckworth is now a celebrated researcher and professor. It was her early eye-opening stints in teaching, business consulting, and neuroscience that led to her hypothesis about what really drives success: not genius, but a unique combination of passion and long-term perseverance. In Grit, she takes us into the field to visit cadets struggling through their first days at West Point, teachers working in some of the toughest schools, and young finalists in the National Spelling Bee. She also mines fascinating insights from history and shows what can be gleaned from modern experiments in peak performance. Finally, she shares what she’s learned from interviewing dozens of high achievers—from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon to New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff to Seattle Seahawks Coach Pete Carroll. “Duckworth’s ideas about the cultivation of tenacity have clearly changed some lives for the better” (The New York Times Book Review). Among Grit’s most valuable insights: any effort you make ultimately counts twice toward your goal; grit can be learned, regardless of IQ or circumstances; when it comes to child-rearing, neither a warm embrace nor high standards will work by themselves; how to trigger lifelong interest; the magic of the Hard Thing Rule; and so much more. Winningly personal, insightful, and even life-changing, Grit is a book about what goes through your head when you fall down, and how that—not talent or luck—makes all the difference. This is “a fascinating tour of the psychological research on success” (The Wall Street Journal).

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468308495

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Escape Velocity by Charles Portis Pdf

Collected here in Escape Velocity, edited by Jay Jennings, is his "miscellany" †“†“ journalism, short fiction, memoir, and even the play Delray's New Moon, published for the first time in this volume.  Portis covers topics as varied as the civil rights movement, road tripping in Baja, and Elvis' s visits to his aging mother for publications such as the New York Herald Tribune and Saturday Evening Post.  Fans of Portis’s droll Southern humor and quirky characters will be thrilled at this new addition to his library, and those not yet familiar with his work will find a great introduction to him here.  Also included are tributes by accomplished authors including Donna Tartt and Ron Rosenbaum.

Author : John P. Kennedy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752331608

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Annals of Quodlibet by John P. Kennedy Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Annals of Quodlibet by John P. Kennedy

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600062500

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Quodlibet, containing some annals thereof, ed. by Solomon Secondthoughts by John Pendleton Kennedy Pdf

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112040244789

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Quodlibet by John Pendleton Kennedy Pdf

Author : Solomon Second Thoughts Schoolmaster
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368169640

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Quodlibet by Solomon Second Thoughts Schoolmaster Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.

Author : John Pendleton Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z218343404

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Quodlibet: Containing Some Annals Thereof (etc.) 3. Ed by John Pendleton Kennedy Pdf

Author : Charles Portis
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590206584

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The Dog of the South by Charles Portis Pdf

“[Charles Portis] understood, and conveyed, the grain of America, in ways that may prove valuable in future to historians trying to understand what was decent about us as a nation.” --Donna Tartt, New York Times Book Review Ray Midge is waiting for his credit card bill to arrive. His wife, Norma, has run off with her ex-husband, taking Ray's cards, shotgun and car. But from the receipts, Ray can track where they've gone. He takes off after them, as does an irritatingly tenacious bail bondsman, both following the romantic couple's spending as far as Mexico. There Ray meets Dr Reo Symes, the seemingly down-on-his-luck and rather eccentric owner of a beaten up and broken down bus, who needs a ride to Belize. The further they drive, in a car held together by coat-hangers and excesses of oil, the wilder their journey gets. But they're not going to give up easily.

Author : Marcie Cohen Ferris
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781469617695

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The Edible South by Marcie Cohen Ferris Pdf

In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustrated story of southern food and the struggles of whites, blacks, Native Americans, and other people of the region to control the nourishment of their bodies and minds, livelihoods, lands, and citizenship. The experience of food serves as an evocative lens onto colonial settlements and antebellum plantations, New South cities and civil rights-era lunch counters, chronic hunger and agricultural reform, counterculture communes and iconic restaurants as Ferris reveals how food--as cuisine and as commodity--has expressed and shaped southern identity to the present day. The region in which European settlers were greeted with unimaginable natural abundance was simultaneously the place where enslaved Africans vigilantly preserved cultural memory in cuisine and Native Americans held tight to kinship and food traditions despite mass expulsions. Southern food, Ferris argues, is intimately connected to the politics of power. The contradiction between the realities of fulsomeness and deprivation, privilege and poverty, in southern history resonates in the region's food traditions, both beloved and maligned.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1914 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498405

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf