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Downeast

Author : Gigi Georges
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063254263
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Downeast written by Gigi Georges and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Downeast, Gigi Georges follows five girls as they come of age in one of the most challenging and geographically isolated regions on the Eastern seaboard. Their stories reveal surprising truths about rural America and offer hope for its future. “It’s almost impossible not to care about these fierce young women and cheer for their hard-won successes” (Kirkus) in this “heartfelt portrait” and “worthy tribute” (Publishers Weekly). Nestled in Maine’s far northeast corner, Washington County sits an hour’s drive from the heart of famed and bustling Acadia National Park. Yet it’s a world away. For Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie—five teenage girls caught between tradition and transformation in this remote region—it is home. Downeast follows their journeys of heartbreak and hope in uncertain times, creating a nuanced and unique portrait of rural America with women at its center. Willow lives in the shadow of an abusive, drug-addicted father and searches for stability through photography and love. Vivian, a gifted writer, feels stifled by her church and town, and struggles to break free without severing family ties. Mckenna is a softball pitching phenom whose passion is the lobster-fishing she learned at her father’s knee. Audrey is a beloved high school basketball star who earns a coveted college scholarship but questions her chosen path. Josie, a Yale-bound valedictorian, is determined to take the world by storm. All five girls know the pain and joy of life in a region whose rugged beauty and stoicism mask dwindling populations, vanishing job opportunities, and pervasive opioid addiction. As the girls reach adulthood, they discover that despite significant challenges, there is much to celebrate in “the valley of the overlooked.” Their stories remind us of the value of timeless ideals: strength of family and community, reverence for nature’s rule, dignity in cracked hands and muddied shoes, and the enduring power of home. Revealed through the eyes of Willow, Vivian, Mckenna, Audrey, and Josie, Downeast is based on four years of intimate reporting. The result is a beautifully rendered, emotionally startling, and vital book. Downeast will break readers’ hearts yet offer them hope, providing answers to what the future may hold for rural America.

The Workboats of Core Sound

Author : Lawrence S. Earley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610655
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Workboats of Core Sound written by Lawrence S. Earley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-water boats, both for their livelihoods as fishermen and to maintain connections with one another and with the rest of the world. As Lawrence S. Earley discovered, each workboat has stories to tell, of boatbuilders and fishermen, and of family members and past events associated with these boats. The rich history of these hand-built wooden fishing boats, the people who work them, and the communities they serve lies at the heart of Earley's evocative new book of essays, interviews, and photographs. In conversations with the region's fishermen and boatbuilders, the author finds webs of decades-old social history and realizes that workboats are critical in maintaining a community's memories and its very sense of identity. Including nearly 100 of Earley's own striking duotones, this richly illustrated book brings to life the world of a fishing culture threatened by local and global forces.

The True Story of Richard N. Lewis of Hard Times Growing Up in the Forties and Fifties

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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434945812
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The True Story of Richard N. Lewis of Hard Times Growing Up in the Forties and Fifties written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Orchards of Almonds

Author : Donald Junkins
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450299261
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Orchards of Almonds written by Donald Junkins and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-04-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When thirty-five-year-old Bill Armature learns hes inherited a house in California, he leaves Detroit, Michigan, to deal with his new home. Armature believes his stay in Chico will be temporary and leases an apartment for just three months. Soon this man of many hatspolitical cartoonist, fisher, hunter, former footballer, father, and husbandfinds himself teaching at Chico State and fiddling in politics. He attempts to fathom the roots of love and fatherhoodof betrayal, death, and losswhile searching for ways to fill the lonely places inside. Orchards of Almonds features characters that include Kennedys alive and dead, LBJ and company, and Ronald Reagan, along with California politicos, academics, Vietnam protesters, and movie stars. While weaving author Donald Junkins semi-autobiographical story, it provides an insiders view of California politics in the 1960s. Praise for the work of Donald Junkins Donald Junkins Half Hitch perfectly captures an American era and the story of a life caught in its baffling attitudes toward manhood, religion, and sex. Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize and National Book award winner Junkins is a highly regarded American poet and one of the worlds celebrated experts on Hemingway. How encouraging to see this stunning appearance in the world of the novel! Robert Kaiser, Author, RFK Must Die

They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music

Author : Rudi Blesh
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 144654690X
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book They All Played Ragtime - The True Story of an American Music written by Rudi Blesh and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blesh published They All Played Ragtime as first major scholarly work on ragtime music in 1950, which sparked a ragtime revival. He founded Circle Records in 1946, which recorded new material from aging early jazz musicians as well as the Library of Congress recordings of Jelly Roll Morton. He sparked renewed interest in the music of Joseph Lamb, James P. Johnson, and Eubie Blake, among others.

Playing in Time

Author : Carlo Rotella
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226729117
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Playing in Time written by Carlo Rotella and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From jazz fantasy camp to running a movie studio; from a fight between an old guy and a fat guy to a fear of clowns—Carlo Rotella’s Playing in Time delivers good stories full of vivid characters, all told with the unique voice and humor that have garnered Rotella many devoted readers in the New York Times Magazine, Boston Globe, and Washington Post Magazine, among others. The two dozen essays in Playing in Time, some of which have never before been published, revolve around the themes and obsessions that have characterized Rotella’s writing from the start: boxing, music, writers, and cities. What holds them together is Rotella’s unique focus on people, craft, and what floats outside the mainstream. “Playing in time” refers to how people make beauty and meaning while working within the constraints and limits forced on them by life, and in his writing Rotella transforms the craft and beauty he so admires in others into an art of his own. Rotella is best known for his writings on boxing, and his essays here do not disappoint. It’s a topic that he turns to for its colorful characters, compelling settings, and formidable life lessons both in and out of the ring. He gives us tales of an older boxer who keeps unretiring and a welterweight who is “about as rich and famous as a 147-pound fighter can get these days,” and a hilarious rumination on why Muhammad Ali’s phrase “I am the greatest” began appearing (in the mouth of Epeus) in translations of The Iliad around 1987. His essays on blues, crime and science fiction writers, and urban spaces are equally and deftly engaging, combining an artist’s eye for detail with a scholar’s sense of research, whether taking us to visit detective writer George Pelecanos or to dance with the proprietress of the Baby Doll Polka Club next to Midway Airport in Chicago. Rotella’s essays are always smart, frequently funny, and consistently surprising. This collection will be welcomed by his many fans and will bring his inimitable style and approach to an even wider audience.

Wastelands

Author : Corban Addison
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593315324
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Wastelands written by Corban Addison and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham The once idyllic coastal plain of North Carolina is home to a close-knit, rural community that for more than a generation has battled the polluting practices of large-scale farming taking place in its own backyard. After years of frustration and futility, an impassioned cadre of local residents, led by a team of intrepid and dedicated lawyers, filed a lawsuit against one of the world’s most powerful companies—and, miraculously, they won. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. There is Elsie Herring, the most outspoken of the neighbors, who has endured racial slurs and the threat of a restraining order to tell the story of the waste raining down on her rooftop from the hog operation next door. There is Don Webb, a larger-than-life hog farmer turned grassroots crusader, and Rick Dove, a riverkeeper and erstwhile military judge who has pioneered the use of aerial photography to document the scale of the pollution. There is Woodell McGowan, a quiet man whose quest to redeem his family’s ancestral land encourages him to become a better neighbor, and Dr. Steve Wing, a groundbreaking epidemiologist whose work on the health effects of hog waste exposure translates the neighbors’ stories into the argot of science. And there is Tom Butler, an environmental savant and hog industry insider whose whistleblowing testimony electrifies the jury. Fighting alongside them in the courtroom is Mona Lisa Wallace, who broke the gender barrier in her small southern town and built a storied legal career out of vanquishing corporate giants, and Mike Kaeske, whose trial skills are second to none. With journalistic rigor and a novelist’s instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rights—and restore the heritage—of a long-suffering community.

A Little Life

Author : Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172706
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

The Home Missionary

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Home Missionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting.

Documents of Life 2

Author : Ken Plummer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761961321
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Documents of Life 2 written by Ken Plummer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents of Life was originally published in 1983 and became a classic text, providing both a persuasive argument for a particular approach and a manifesto for social research. As a critique of anti-humanist methodology in the social sciences, it championed the use of life stories and other personal documents in research which are now widely used today. This book is a substantially revised and expanded version which takes on recent developments. Providing numerous illustrations from a range of life documents, the book traces the history of the method, examines ways of 'doing life story' research, and discusses the many political and ethical issues raised by such research. The whole book has been substantially re-written and

Down East

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Down East written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lorraine

Author : Neil Simpson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 184358994X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Lorraine written by Neil Simpson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Simpson has been a staff reporter on the Daily Mirror, Sunday Telegraph and Mail on Sunday as well as writing for various newspapers and magazines. His recent books include Gordon Ramsay: The Biography, Charlotte Church: Hell's Angel, Jade: Story of a Survivor and Kings of Comedy, a biography of Matt Lucas and David Walliams.

The Stranger in the Woods

Author : Michael Finkel
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911530
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Stranger in the Woods written by Michael Finkel and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The remarkable true story of a man who lived alone in the woods of Maine for 27 years, making this dream a reality—not out of anger at the world, but simply because he preferred to live on his own. “A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival.” —The Wall Street Journal In 1986, a shy and intelligent twenty-year-old named Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the forest. He would not have a conversation with another human being until nearly three decades later, when he was arrested for stealing food. Living in a tent even through brutal winters, he had survived by his wits and courage, developing ingenious ways to store edibles and water, and to avoid freezing to death. He broke into nearby cottages for food, clothing, reading material, and other provisions, taking only what he needed but terrifying a community never able to solve the mysterious burglaries. Based on extensive interviews with Knight himself, this is a vividly detailed account of his secluded life—why did he leave? what did he learn?—as well as the challenges he has faced since returning to the world. It is a gripping story of survival that asks fundamental questions about solitude, community, and what makes a good life, and a deeply moving portrait of a man who was determined to live his own way, and succeeded.

El Dorado In East Harlem

Author : Victor Rodriguez
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
ISBN 13 : 9781611921335
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book El Dorado In East Harlem written by Victor Rodriguez and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ren?, all of seventeen and streetwise, is about to give up on the ñAmerican Dream.î Petty crimes, drug running and ghetto adventures bring him and his gang closer to an illusory Eldorado. But soon, his daydreams of limousines, fine clothes and finer women turn into a living nightmare that threatens to end his life and the lives of those he loves.

Sabrina

Author : Michelle Russell
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0980064201
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Sabrina written by Michelle Russell and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

THE BULLS AND THE JONATHANS

Author : James Kirke Paulding
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE BULLS AND THE JONATHANS written by James Kirke Paulding and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lillian Gish

Author : Stuart Oderman
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613699
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Lillian Gish written by Stuart Oderman and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a theatrical career spanning nearly 100 years, Gish saw motion pictures evolve from flickers to blockbusters. Usually playing someone needing to be rescued or protected, her trademark delicacy and vulnerability belied a strong and complex woman whose fatherless childhood taught her frugality, love for her mother and her sister, Dorothy, and a distrust of men. The author, who was her friend, chronicles the hardships, heartaches, and fierce determination that shaped her all her days. With rare photographs and intimate recollections of Lillian, Dorothy, and many other important figures.