Southland

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070480
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Southland by : Nina Revoyr

Download or read book Southland written by Nina Revoyr and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. —Winner of a 2004 American Library Association Stonewall Honor Award in Literature —Winner of the 2003 Lambda Literary Award —Nominated for an Edgar Award The plot line of Southland is the stuff of a James Ellroy or a Walter Mosley novel . . . But the climax fairly glows with the good-heartedness that Revoyr displays from the very first page. —Los Angeles Times Jackie Ishida’s grandfather had a store in Watts where four boys were killed during the riots in 1965, a mystery she attempts to solve. —New York Times Book Review, included in “Where Noir Lives in the City of Angels” Nina Revoyr brings us a compelling story of race, love, murder, and history against the backdrop of Los Angeles. A young Japanese-American woman, Jackie Ishida, is in her last semester of law school when her grandfather, Frank Sakai, dies unexpectedly. While trying to fulfill a request from his will, Jackie discovers that four black teenagers were killed in the store he ran during the Watts Riots of 1965—and that the murders were never solved or reported. Along with James Lanier, a cousin of one of the victims, she tries to piece together the story of the boys’ deaths. In the process, Jackie unearths the long-held secrets of her family’s history—and her own. Moving in and out of the past, from the shipping yards and internment camps of World War II; to the barley fields of the Crenshaw District in the 1930s; to the means streets of Watts in the 1960s; to the night spots and garment factories of the 1990s, Southland weaves a tale of Los Angeles in all of its faces and forms.

Southland Tales

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ISBN 13 : 9780936211800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Southland Tales by : Richard Kelly

Download or read book Southland Tales written by Richard Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stage is set and destiny continues towards its fulfillment at breakneck speed. Southland Tales: The Prequel Saga collects writer/director Richard Kelly's (Donnie Darko) three graphic novels that set the stage to his second film, Southland Tales. Graphitti Designs and View Askew in conjunction with Darko Entertainment are proud to present this special collection prior to the movie release. These first three chapters set the tone and introduces you to the world and characters that comprise the movie events of July 4, 2008. The book and the movie combine to create a rich multimedia experience!

A History of Southland College

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750011
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Southland College by : Thomas Kennedy

Download or read book A History of Southland College written by Thomas Kennedy and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864 Alida and Calvin Clark, two abolitionist members of the Religious Society of Friends from Indiana, went on a mission trip to Helena, Arkansas. The Clarks had come to render temporary relief to displaced war orphans but instead found a lifelong calling. During their time in Arkansas, they started the school that became Southland College, which was the first institution of higher education for blacks west of the Mississippi, and they set up the first predominately black monthly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in North America. Their progressive racial vision was continued by a succession of midwestern Quakers willing to endure the primitive conditions and social isolation of their work and to overcome the persistent challenges of economic adversity, social strife, and natural disaster. Southland’s survival through six difficult and sometimes dangerous decades reflects both the continuing missionary zeal of the Clarks and their successors as well as the dedication of the black Arkansans who sought dignity and hope at a time when these were rare commodities for African Americans in Arkansas.

Vigilante: Southland

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Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1401285953
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Book Synopsis Vigilante: Southland by : Gary Phillips

Download or read book Vigilante: Southland written by Gary Phillips and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND is a hard-hitting tale of revenge and redemption from acclaimed crime novelist Gary Phillips (PEEPLAND) and artist Elena Casagrande (SUICIDE RISK) that puts an uncompromising, contemporary spin on the classic Marv Wolfman and George Pérez-created character. Donny thought he had it all. A cushy life in L.A. and a brilliant and beautiful girlfriend, Dorrie. While Donny just never seemed to have time for social causes, Dorrie dedicated her life to fighting societal and racial injustice…but crime and corruption have a way of fighting back. Now Dorrie’s dead…and Donny is left behind to take up the battle. It’s the last thing he ever expected, but the more he learns about the shadowy forces that killed the woman he loved, the more determined he is to find justice—by any means necessary. Conspiracies. Corporations. Assassins. Family secrets best left buried. The system can’t stop any of them from taking their bloody toll, but Donny can. All he needs is his fists, his smarts, a little training…and a mask. Because sometimes doing the right thing means breaking the law. He is the Vigilante. How far will he go to set the wrong things right? Collects VIGILANTE: SOUTHLAND issues #1-6, with the first publication of issues #4-6.

The Southland

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Publisher : Polis Books
ISBN 13 : 1951709225
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (517 download)

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Book Synopsis The Southland by : Johnny Shaw

Download or read book The Southland written by Johnny Shaw and published by Polis Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SOUTHLAND tells the story of three unauthorized Mexican immigrants living in Los Angeles: Luz works multiple jobs to provide for herself and her teenage son Eliseo. Nadia, a former journalist with PTSD, fled Mexico and tries to stay hidden from the dangerous men that she exposed in Sinaloa. Ostelinda works as a laborer in a garment factory, having been deceived by coyotes and imprisoned in the same building since her arrival. Their lives intersect through terrifying circumstance that clarify and contrast the horrors of existence. When Eliseo goes missing, Luz is lost. She doesn’t trust the authorities to help. One wrong move could get her deported. Luz has no option but to investigate her son’s disappearance on her own. Engaging Nadia and her roommate, they navigate an increasingly hostile American environment in an effort to reunite Luz’s small family. When Luz and Nadia uncover a link to the people that run the garment factory, the two women become determined to save more than just Luz’s son. THE SOUTHLAND is a crime story, but more than that, it’s a story of America and the dangers that migrants face when being forced to live in the shadows.

For Home and the Southland

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ISBN 13 : 9780935523737
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Book Synopsis For Home and the Southland by : John Zwemer

Download or read book For Home and the Southland written by John Zwemer and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men form East Central Georgia form a regiment to the glorious struggles and triumphs in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland

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Publisher : Westphal Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland by : Ruth Lilly Westphal

Download or read book Plein Air Painters of California, the Southland written by Ruth Lilly Westphal and published by Westphal Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fingerprints

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ISBN 13 : 9780936211763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (117 download)

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Book Synopsis Fingerprints by : Richard Kelly

Download or read book Fingerprints written by Richard Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ronald Taverner awakens on a houseboat in Lake Mead suffering from amnesia only to discover that he is caught up in a conspiracy to kidnap and impersonate his twin brother Roland. His orders come from a neo-Marxist extremest group. Journeying to Los Angeles with escort Zora Charmichaels, he discovers that he has a psychic connection to movei star Boxer Santaros, who is also experiencing amnesia. Boxer, Krysta Now, and Fortunio Balducci have arrived in Palmdale, where they begin to follow clues hidden in a phrophetic screenplay called The power.

The Southland Columbiad, and Other Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis The Southland Columbiad, and Other Poems by : William Allen

Download or read book The Southland Columbiad, and Other Poems written by William Allen and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wingshooters

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070715
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Wingshooters by : Nina Revoyr

Download or read book Wingshooters written by Nina Revoyr and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michelle LeBeau and her white-Japanese family are forever changed when a black family moves into her all-white town in 1974.

Inter State

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Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1593766963
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (937 download)

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Book Synopsis Inter State by : José Vadi

Download or read book Inter State written by José Vadi and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "must read" debut collection of poetic, linked essays investigating the past and present state of California, its conflicting histories and their impact on a writer's family and life (Los Angeles Times). California has been advertised as a destiny manifested for those ready to pull up their bootstraps and head west across to find wealth on the other side of the Sierra Nevada since the 19th century. Across the seven essays in the debut collection by José Vadi, we hear from the descendants of those not promised that prize. Inter State explores California through many lenses: an aging obsessed skateboarder; a self-appointed dive bar DJ; a laid-off San Francisco tech worker turned rehired contractor; a grandson of Mexican farmworkers pursuing the crops they tilled. Amidst wildfires, high speed rail, housing crises, unprecedented wealth and its underlying decay, Inter State excavates and roots itself inside those necessary stories and places lost in the ever-changing definitions of a selectively golden state.

Broadway Jazz

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1495044661
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Broadway Jazz written by Hal Leonard Corp. and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Piano Solo Songbook). Jazzy piano arrangements of 24 Broadway favorites, including: All the Things You Are * Body and Soul * I Could Write a Book * If I Were a Bell * Lullaby of Broadway * Make Someone Happy * My Funny Valentine * My Romance * On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) * On the Street Where You Live * This Can't Be Love * Till There Was You * You and the Night and the Music * and more.

Desert Oracle

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Publisher : MCD
ISBN 13 : 0374722382
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Book Synopsis Desert Oracle by : Ken Layne

Download or read book Desert Oracle written by Ken Layne and published by MCD. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

The Barbarian Nurseries

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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708932
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Barbarian Nurseries written by Héctor Tobar and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 A Boston Globe Best Fiction Book of 2011 The great panoramic social novel that Los Angeles deserves—a twenty-first century, West Coast Bonfire of the Vanities by the only writer qualified to capture the city in all its glory and complexity With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is, across its vast, sunshiny sprawl of classes, languages, dreams, and ambitions. Araceli is the live-in maid in the Torres-Thompson household—one of three Mexican employees in a Spanish-style house with lovely views of the Pacific. She has been responsible strictly for the cooking and cleaning, but the recession has hit, and suddenly Araceli is the last Mexican standing—unless you count Scott Torres, though you'd never suspect he was half Mexican but for his last name and an old family photo with central L.A. in the background. The financial pressure is causing the kind of fights that even Araceli knows the children shouldn't hear, and then one morning, after a particularly dramatic fight, Araceli wakes to an empty house—except for the two Torres-Thompson boys, little aliens she's never had to interact with before. Their parents are unreachable, and the only family member she knows of is Señor Torres, the subject of that old family photo. So she does the only thing she can think of and heads to the bus stop to seek out their grandfather. It will be an adventure, she tells the boys. If she only knew . . . With a precise eye for the telling detail and an unerring way with character, soaring brilliantly and seamlessly among a panorama of viewpoints, Tobar calls on all of his experience—as a novelist, a father, a journalist, a son of Guatemalan immigrants, and a native Angeleno—to deliver a novel as broad, as essential, as alive as the city itself.

The Infinite Blacktop

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Publisher : Atria Books
ISBN 13 : 1501165720
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Infinite Blacktop written by Sara Gran and published by Atria Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “delicious and addictive” (Salon) Claire DeWitt series returns with a thrilling, noirish knockout novel that follows three separate narratives starring the self-proclaimed “world’s greatest detective.” As Cara Hoffman, author of Running, says, this “is a hard-boiled, existential masterpiece.” Claire DeWitt, the hard-living and tough-talking private investigator, has always been something of a detective. As a young girl growing up in Brooklyn, Claire and her two best friends, Tracy and Kelly, fell under the spell of the book Detection by legendary French detective Jacques Silette. They solved many cases together, in the process witnessing human behavior at its worst. The three were inseparable—until the day Tracy vanished without a trace. That is still the only case Claire ever failed to solve. Later, in her twenties, Claire is in Los Angeles trying to get her PI license by taking on a cold case that has stumped the LAPD. She hunts for the real story behind the death of a washed-up painter ten years earlier, whose successful, widely admired artist girlfriend had died a few months before him. Today, Claire is on her way to Las Vegas when she’s almost killed by a homicidal driver. In a haze of drugs and injuries, she struggles off the scene, determined to find her would-be killer’s identity but the list of people who would be happy to see her dead is not a short one. As these three “eccentric, enticingly artful” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) narratives converge, some mysteries are solved and others continue to haunt. But Claire will continue her search for the answer to the biggest mystery of all: what is the purpose of our lives, and how can anyone survive in a world so clearly designed to break our hearts again and again?

The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195584974
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms written by Tony Deverson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark contribution to New Zealand English, the Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms is the most up to date and comprehensive work of its kind. The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms is a collection of entries for some six and a half thousand distinctive New Zealand words and usages,with around half of that number shown in actual use by way of one or more illustrative quotations from written publications. The dictionary's contents encompass the full range of New Zealandisms, drawn from a wide variety of domains and areas of New Zealand life, and including items both current anddisused, contemporary and historical in reference, colloquial and non-colloquial in style, and borrowed and internally sourced in origin.The Oxford Dictionary of New Zealandisms is the first to represent the entire spectrum of New Zealand English vocabulary since the publication of the late Harry Orsman's monumental Dictionary of New Zealand English in 1997.

Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1877

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Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Book Synopsis Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1877 by : Harvey Wish

Download or read book Reconstruction in the South, 1865-1877 written by Harvey Wish and published by New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1965 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: