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Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fruits of a Gentle Madness written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Basbanes
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ISBN 13 : 9780812617764
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)
Download or read book A Gentle Madness written by Nicholas Basbanes and published by . This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lonn Taylor
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0875657206
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (756 download)
Download or read book Turning the Pages of Texas written by Lonn Taylor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers. Lonn Taylor writes from the point of view of a historian who has been reading books about Texas for seventy years, since he was seven years old, and who has known many of the authors he writes about. He presents his reflections about well-known figures such as John Graves, J. Frank Dobie, and Larry McMurtry. He also introduces readers to people like folklorist C. L. Sonnichsen, who wrote about Texas feuds; Julia Lee Sinks, who interviewed early settlers of Fayette County in the 1870s; Karen Olsson, who wrote a fine novel about the mystique of Austin; and David Dorado Romo, who describes himself as the “psychogeographer of El Paso” and is the grandnephew of a saint. Some of the authors Taylor writes about are truly obscure, like Gertrude Beasley, who published her autobiography in Paris in 1924 and died in a New York insane asylum, or Tony Cano, whose self-published autobiographical novel describes what it was like to be poor and Mexican in West Texas in the 1950s. Taylor also teases out the Texas connections of writers as diverse as William Sydney Porter, Hervey Allen, and H. Allen Smith, and he writes about tracking down Texas books in London and Washington, DC, as well as at Barber’s in Fort Worth, the Brick Row Book Shop in Austin, and Rosengren’s and Brock’s in San Antonio. This is a booklover’s book.
Author : Nicholas A. Basbanes
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ISBN 13 : 9780979949159
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (491 download)
Download or read book A Gentle Madness written by Nicholas A. Basbanes and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Gentle Madness continues to astound and delight readers about the passion and expense a collector is willing to make in pursuit of the book. The book captures that last moment in time when collectors pursued their passions in dusty bookshops and street stalls, high stakes auctions, and the subterfuge worthy of a true bibliomaniac. An adventure among the afflicted, A Gentle Madness is vividly anecdotal and thoroughly researched. Nicholas Basbanes brings an investigative reporter's heart to illuminate collectors past and present in their pursuit of bibliomania. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy McCrone
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845028139
Total Pages : 713 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Wax Fruit Trilogy written by Guy McCrone and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wax Fruit Trilogy" brings together Guy McCrone's three classic novels, "Antimacassar City", "The Philistines", and "The Puritans", which chronicle the life and times of the Moorhouse family as they rise from the obscurity of an Ayrshire farm to the position of great prosperity in Victorian Glasgow. The first part of the trilogy introduces the Moorhouse family - Arthur, the successful business man and first of the family to move to Glasgow; David, the dashing and impulsive socialite; Bel, driven by ruthless social ambition; and, Pheobe, the half-sister from the Highlands who grows up to be a great beauty. The second and third volumes follow the changing fortunes of the family, as their lives are touched by triumph and tragedy - in Glasgow at the height of the Victorian era, and in Vienna, glittering capital of the Hapsburg Empire.
Author : Sterling C. Evans Library
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Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Annual Report ... written by Sterling C. Evans Library and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Connecting Creations written by Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Timothy Hurley
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
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Author : Andrew Moore
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603585974
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Pawpaw written by Andrew Moore and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest edible fruit native to the United States tastes like a cross between a banana and a mango. It grows wild in twenty-six states, gracing Eastern forests each fall with sweet-smelling, tropical-flavored abundance. Historically, it fed and sustained Native Americans and European explorers, presidents, and enslaved African Americans, inspiring folk songs, poetry, and scores of place names from Georgia to Illinois. Its trees are an organic grower’s dream, requiring no pesticides or herbicides to thrive, and containing compounds that are among the most potent anticancer agents yet discovered. So why have so few people heard of the pawpaw, much less tasted one? In Pawpaw—a 2016 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in the Writing & Literature category—author Andrew Moore explores the past, present, and future of this unique fruit, traveling from the Ozarks to Monticello; canoeing the lower Mississippi in search of wild fruit; drinking pawpaw beer in Durham, North Carolina; tracking down lost cultivars in Appalachian hollers; and helping out during harvest season in a Maryland orchard. Along the way, he gathers pawpaw lore and knowledge not only from the plant breeders and horticulturists working to bring pawpaws into the mainstream (including Neal Peterson, known in pawpaw circles as the fruit’s own “Johnny Pawpawseed”), but also regular folks who remember eating them in the woods as kids, but haven’t had one in over fifty years. As much as Pawpaw is a compendium of pawpaw knowledge, it also plumbs deeper questions about American foodways—how economic, biologic, and cultural forces combine, leading us to eat what we eat, and sometimes to ignore the incredible, delicious food growing all around us. If you haven’t yet eaten a pawpaw, this book won’t let you rest until you do.
Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194753
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, rose to haunt the author later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or a life raft that supports us when we are sinking. Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Author : Taghreed Najjar
Publisher : Crackboom! Books
ISBN 13 : 9782924786222
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Watermelon Madness written by Taghreed Najjar and published by Crackboom! Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noura is crazy about watermelon. She wants to eat nothing else, every day, at every meal. In fact, Noura thinks there is no such thing as too much watermelon. Until one night, when the watermelon she has hidden in her room to eat all by herself begins to grow and Noura get taken on a wild watermelon adventure! A story that can be the springboard for a discussion on favorite foods, eating a balanced diet, sharing with others and trying new foods.
Author : Tonya Mitchell
Publisher : Cynren Press
ISBN 13 : 1947976214
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (479 download)
Download or read book A Feigned Madness written by Tonya Mitchell and published by Cynren Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Phoenix Award in Historical Fiction from the Kops-Fetherling International Book Awards Winner of the 2021 Silver Reader View Reviewer's Choice Award in Historical Fiction The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out. —Nellie Bly Elizabeth Cochrane has a secret. She isn’t the madwoman with amnesia the doctors and inmates at Blackwell’s Asylum think she is. In truth, she’s working undercover for the New York World. When the managing editor refuses to hire her because she’s a woman, Elizabeth strikes a deal: in exchange for a job, she’ll impersonate a lunatic to expose a local asylum’s abuses. When she arrives at the asylum, Elizabeth realizes she must make a decision—is she there merely to bear witness, or to intervene on behalf of the abused inmates? Can she interfere without blowing her cover? As the superintendent of the asylum grows increasingly suspicious, Elizabeth knows her scheme—and her dream of becoming a journalist in New York—is in jeopardy. A Feigned Madness is a meticulously researched, fictionalized account of the woman who would come to be known as daredevil reporter Nellie Bly. At a time of cutthroat journalism, when newspapers battled for readers at any cost, Bly emerged as one of the first to break through the gender barrier—a woman who would, through her daring exploits, forge a trail for women fighting for their place in the world.
Author : Maxwell Gray
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The World-mender written by Maxwell Gray and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Dead-sea Fruit written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia MacLachlan
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
ISBN 13 : 1466876646
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Iridescence of Birds written by Patricia MacLachlan and published by Roaring Brook Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hooper. A Neal Porter Book
Author : M.E. Braddon
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 384605819X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dead-sea Fruit written by M.E. Braddon and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
