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Author : Colleen J. McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Long Way from St. Louie written by Colleen J. McElroy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Grandmother Anna Belle Lee: 'Chile, they got some of us everywhere.' Thus began my wanderlust."
Author : Brenda Woods
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0142421863
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (424 download)
Download or read book Saint Louis Armstrong Beach written by Brenda Woods and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy, a dog, and New Orleans' most famous storm—Hurricane Katrina. Saint is a boy with confidence as big as his name is long. A budding musician, he earns money playing clarinet for the New Orleans tourists, and his best friend is a stray dog named Shadow. At first Saint is sure that Hurricane Katrina will be just like the last one--no big deal. But then the city is ordered to evacuate and Saint refuses to leave without Shadow. Saint and Shadow flee to his neighbor's attic--and soon enough it's up to Saint to save them all. "Woods takes us right into New Orleans, right into the eye of the storm and the heart of New Orleans' people." — Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winnng author of Brown Girl Dreaming "Provides a vivid description of what life was like in pre-Katrina New Orleans, and how quickly peoples' lives were shattered. The characters are well-developed, and readers truly will care about their fates." — Library Media Connection, starred review "A small gem that sparkles with hope, resilience and the Crescent City's unique, jazz-infused spirit." — Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Author : Lynn Austin
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 149643742X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Long Way Home written by Lynn Austin and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won’t discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith. Peggy Serrano couldn’t wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience as a medic in Europe that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable, his parents check him into the VA hospital. Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over the edge. She starts by contacting Jimmy’s war buddies, trying to identify the mysterious woman in the photo they find in Jimmy’s belongings. Seven years earlier, sensing the rising tide against her people, Gisela Wolff and her family flee Germany aboard the passenger ship St. Louis, bound for Havana, Cuba. Gisela meets Sam Shapiro on board and the two fall quickly in love. But the ship is denied safe harbor and sent back to Europe. Thus begins Gisela’s perilous journey of exile and survival, made possible only by the kindness and courage of a series of strangers she meets along the way, including one man who will change the course of her life.
Author : Lee Ann Sandweiss
Publisher : Missouri History Museum
ISBN 13 : 9781883982119
Total Pages : 1098 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Seeking St. Louis written by Lee Ann Sandweiss and published by Missouri History Museum. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementing the new permanent exhibition at the Missouri Historical Society, this anthology gathers over three centuries of writings on St. Louis by 100 individuals who have been inspired to describe the physical and cultural essence of this region. The volume contains excerpted selections from all genres--travel diaries, poetry, fiction, journalism, drama, and rare out-of-print and previously unpublished archival material--including poems by Angus Umphraville, from the first volume of verse published west of the Mississippi, and newspaper articles by Theodore Dreiser when he was a beat reporter for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Other compelling excerpts were authored by such notables as Auguste Chouteau, Charles Dickens, William Wells Brown, William T. Sherman, Sara Teasdale, T. S. Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Fanny Hurst, William S. Burroughs, Miles Davis, Nzotake Shange, John Lutz, Carl Phillips, and Quincy Troupe. A biographical introduction precedes each entry to place the author and the excerpt in the proper historical context. The content of Seeking St. Louis was enriched by the involvement of several of the St. Louis area's foremost literary experts--Robert Boyd, Jan Garden Castro, Gerald Early, Wayne Fields, and Karen Goering--who served as contributing editors.
Author : Walch
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825149856
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Focus on Reading: A Long Way From Chicago - Study Guide written by Walch and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 0765386623
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Beauty for Ashes and Heaven Is a Long Way Off written by Win Blevins and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuation of Win Blevins's Rendezvous saga that began with the Spur Award-winning So Wild a Dream In the saga of the Old West, no figure was more legendary than the Mountain Man-the trapper-explorer who blazed the trails across the Rocky Mountains and opened the vast country between the Missouri frontier and the Pacific Ocean. Beauty for Ashes and Heaven is a Long Way Off follows Sam Morgan, a Pennsylvania boy who ran away from home and joined a party of fur trappers in the Rocky Mountains. Filled with action, danger, and romance, this is a memorable story of a boy who becomes a man by necessity in the cruel, beautiful, unexplored wilderness of the Old West. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Bruce Pegg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135356912
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book Brown Eyed Handsome Man written by Bruce Pegg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown Eyed Handsome Man: The Life and Hard Times of Chuck Berry draws on dozens of interviews done by the author himself and voluminous public records to paint a complete picture of this complicated figure. This biography uncovers the real Berry and provides us with a stirring, unvarnished portrait of both the man and the artist. Berry has long been one of pop music's most enigmatic personalities. Growing up in a middle-class, black neighborhood in St. Louis, his first major hit song, "Maybellene," was an adaptation of a white country song, wedded to a black-influenced beat. Thereafter came a string of brilliant songs celebrating teenage life in the '50s, including "School Day," "Johnny B. Goode," and "Sweet Little Sixteen." Berry's career rise was meteoric; but his fall came equally quickly, when his relations with an underage girl led to his conviction. It was not his first (nor his last) run in with the law. He scored his biggest hit in the early '70s with the comical (and some would say decidedly lightweight) song "My Ding-a-Ling." The following decades brought hundreds of nights of tours, with little attention from the recording industry. Bruce Pegg offers the definitive, though not always pretty, portrait of one of the greatest stars of rock and roll, a story that will appeal to all fans of American popular music.
Author : Walter Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541646061
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Broken Heart of America written by Walter Johnson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing portrait of the racial dynamics that lie inescapably at the heart of our nation, told through the turbulent history of the city of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and capitalism have persistently entwined to corrupt the nation's past. St. Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion, and its wealth grew on the backs of its poor black residents, from slavery through redlining and urban renewal. But it was once also America's most radical city, home to anti-capitalist immigrants, the Civil War's first general emancipation, and the nation's first general strike—a legacy of resistance that endures. A blistering history of a city's rise and decline, The Broken Heart of America will forever change how we think about the United States.
Author : Carlotta Walls LaNier
Publisher : One World
ISBN 13 : 0345511018
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book A Mighty Long Way written by Carlotta Walls LaNier and published by One World. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A searing and emotionally gripping account of a young black girl growing up to become a strong black woman during the most difficult time of racial segregation.”—Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School “Provides important context for an important moment in America’s history.”—Associated Press When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an even longer and much more turbulent path, one that would challenge prevailing attitudes, break down barriers, and forever change the landscape of America. For Carlotta and the eight other children, simply getting through the door of this admired academic institution involved angry mobs, racist elected officials, and intervention by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was forced to send in the 101st Airborne to escort the Nine into the building. But entry was simply the first of many trials. Breaking her silence at last and sharing her story for the first time, Carlotta Walls has written an engrossing memoir that is a testament not only to the power of a single person to make a difference but also to the sacrifices made by families and communities that found themselves a part of history.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard D. Arnold
Publisher : Book Venture Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1945960108
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Separated by The War written by Richard D. Arnold and published by Book Venture Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my first book, Separated by the War: The Cave, ten year old brothers are separated during a battle between Yankee and Rebel forces on their isolated farm. The boys are rescued and raised on distant homes. They are reunited ten years later during a conflict with The Flower Society. In the second book, Separated by the War: Steamboats, the twins twelve year old sister also survives that tragic battle on their farm. Believing that she is the sole survivor, she enlist the aid of friendly Indian traders to help her on the farm and to escape the renegades that raided the war-torn land during the war between the states as she tries to find her father’s brother oldest brother in the Big Bend of Texas. In this, the third book in this series, Separated by the War: Wagontrains, the survivors are united during their struggles with the Bosses and Drones of The Flower Society. Traveling by wagontrain, steamboat, sailing ship, and horseback they cross the American continent and Atlantic Ocean in pursuit of their lives and dreams. They encounter the efforts of the war torn nation to rise from the ashes of the Civil War during the post reconstruction era and delayed advances of the industrial revolution. The fourth book, Separated by the War: Pirates, is a prequel of the first three and details the Riley family coming to American and their initial conflict with The Flower Society.
Author : Admiral Pat Arnold
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496920074
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Omar Khayyam and Etta James Mooning Santa Barbara and Gertrude Tennyson, Your Protruding Colossal Bush Has Really Got Me Going! written by Admiral Pat Arnold and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though his legal name is Shane Honeycone, he goes by the Indian spiritual moniker of Slim Rock. Hes a sixty-eight-year-old going on seventeen-year-old child of the Great Spirit; he considers himself an artistic jackknife of a spiritual guru whose universal consciousness is ever evolving to higher levels of enlightenment. In Omar Khayyam and Etta James Mooning Santa Barbara and Gertrude Tennyson, Your Protruding Colossal Bush Has Really Got Me Going!, author Admiral Pat Arnold offers a biography of the life of Slim Rock interspersed with a discussion and observation of Omar Khayyam, a Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher born in 1048. Slim Rock begins his diary entries in October of 2012 and shares his thoughts, feelings, and reflections of his life in California, his spiritual being, his love of women, his sexual escapades, and how Omar Kayyam and Etta James mooned Santa Barbara.
Author : Greg Garrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019090626X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book A Long, Long Way written by Greg Garrett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning, American cinema has been both a powerful mythmaker and a social critic. D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation, arguably the first feature film, shows us just how early in its history cinema had established its influence. In 1915 it was the first movie to be screened at the White House. After the screening, President Woodrow Wilson is rumored to have said, "It's like history writ with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all terribly true." Birth of a Nation famously portrayed the Klu Klux Klan in a favorable light, a portrayal that contributed to the modern resurgence of the group and brought racist depictions of African Americans imported from the minstrel show to the silver screen. Such white fantasies of black American life have played out on our movie screens for the last century. In response, filmmakers of color have created nuanced and indelible portraits of race, as in Ava DuVernay's Selma or Barry Jenkin's Moonlight. Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman shows us just how far into our culture Birth of a Nation has reached. In this powerful new book, Greg Garrett brings his signature brand of theologically motivated cultural criticism to bear on this history. After more than a century of cinema, he argues, movies have altered our cultural perspectives in the same way that religious narratives have. And in fact, religious traditions offer powerful correctives to our cultural narratives. A Long, Long Way incorporates both cinematic and religious truth-telling to the subject of race and reconciliation. In acknowledging the racist history of America's national art form, Garrett offers the possibility of hope for the future.
Author : Richard Peck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101664363
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Long Way From Chicago written by Richard Peck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor Book A summer they'll never forget. Each summer Joey and his sister, Mary Alice—two city slickers from Chicago—visit Grandma Dowdel's seemingly sleepy Illinois town. Soon enough, they find that it's far from sleepy...and Grandma is far from your typical grandmother. From seeing their first corpse (and he isn't resting easy) to helping Grandma trespass, catch the sheriff in his underwear, and feed the hungry—all in one day—Joey and Mary Alice have nine summers they'll never forget! "A rollicking celebration of an eccentric grandmother and childhood memories." —School Library Journal, starred review "Each tale is a small masterpiece of storytelling." —The Horn Book, starred review "Grandma Dowdel embodies not only the heart of a small town but the spirit of an era gone by...Remarkable and fine." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review A Newbery Honor Book A National Book Award Finalist An ALA Notable Book An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
Author : William S. Burroughs
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802197183
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Word Virus written by William S. Burroughs and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age. Beginning with his very early writing (including a chapter from his and Jack Kerouac's never-before-seen collaborative novel), Word Virus follows the arc of Burroughs's remarkable career, from his darkly hilarious "routines" to the experimental cut-up novels to Cities of the Red Night and The Cat Inside. Beautifully edited and complemented by James Grauerholz's illuminating biographical essays, Word Virus charts Burroughs's major themes and places the work in the context of the life. It is an excellent tool for the scholar and a delight for the general reader. Throughout a career that spanned half of the twentieth century, William S. Burroughs managed continually to be a visionary among writers. When he died in 1997, the world of letters lost its most elegant outsider.
Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765344847
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Heaven Is a Long Way Off written by Win Blevins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seasoned fur trapper and mountain man Sam Morgan faces the most daunting task of his adventuresome life, as he makes a long trek from Wyoming to Santa Fe, in this harrowing tale.
Author : Nancy Gatlin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595512909
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Long Way Around written by Nancy Gatlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a memoir, this story centers around the life of struggle and survival of a young, single mother with three children whose journey through life takes them on a wild, wide ranging ride of never ending adventures and challenges. The underlying theme of this story, "God's Master Plan", points out numerous instances along the way where the author believes that God's hand was at work guiding them to where and what they were meant to be doing.
