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Voices from the Plains

Author : Neb Writers
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781981376612
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Plains written by Neb Writers and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Plains is a literary anthology containing the works of more than sixty contemporary authors from the Nebraska Writers Guild. The anthology shows the wide range of genres from mystery and thrillers, to short story, memoir, poetry and journalism in which the Nebraska authors write.

Nebraska during the New Deal

Author : Marilyn Irvin Holt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218027
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska during the New Deal written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote a national appreciation for America's history, culture, and diversity and preserve democracy at a time when militarism was on the rise and parts of the world were dominated by fascism. Marilyn Irvin Holt focuses on the Nebraska project, which was one of the most prolific branches of the national program. Best remembered for its state guide and series of folklore and pioneer pamphlets, the project also produced town guides, published a volume on African Americans in Nebraska, and created an ethnic study of Italians in Omaha. In Nebraska during the New Deal Holt examines Nebraska’s contribution to the project, both in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

A Lantern in Her Hand

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Lantern in Her Hand written by Bess Streeter Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Nebraska

Author :
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803268517
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939 and never before available in a paperback edition, this remarkable compendium of Nebraskiana includes chapters on the state's history, natural setting, flora and fauna, Indians, government, agriculture and industry, ethnic groups, folklore, architecture, art, and literature. Far more than a tour guide, it is replete with all manner of colorful and unusual sidelights on Nebraska places and people, the kind of information not readily accessible outside of archives. Tom Allan, veteran roving reporter for the Omaha World Herald, has written a new introduction which bridged the years between 1939 and 1979 an reveals some of his own off-the-beaten-path discoveries. Rewarding reading for the armchair traveler and an indispensable companion for the tourist, Nebraska: A Guide to the Cornhusker State will delight and inform all those interested in Nebraska and the Great Plains region.

My Mortal Enemy

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307805247
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book My Mortal Enemy written by Willa Cather and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1926, this book is Willa Cather's sparest and most dramatic novel, a dark and prescient portrait of a marriage that subverts our oldest notions about the nature of domestic happiness. As a young woman, Myra Henshawe gave up a fortune to marry for love--a boldly romantic gesture that became a legend in her family. But this worldly, sarcastic, and perhaps even wicked woman may have been made for something greater than love. In her portrait of Myra and in her exquisitely nuanced depiction of her marriage, Cather shows the evolution of a human spirit as it comes to bridle against the constraints of ordinary happiness and seek an otherwordly fulfillment. My Mortal Enemy is a work whose drama and intensely moral imagination make it unforgettable.

The Bones of Paradise

Author : Jonis Agee
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006241349X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book The Bones of Paradise written by Jonis Agee and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning author of TheRiver Wife returns with a multigenerational family saga set in the unforgiving Nebraska Sand Hills in the years following the massacre at Wounded Knee—an ambitious tale of history, vengeance, race, guilt, betrayal, family, and belonging, filled with a vivid cast of characters shaped by violence, love, and a desperate loyalty to the land. Ten years after the Seventh Cavalry massacred more than two hundred Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, J.B. Bennett, a white rancher, and Star, a young Native American woman, are murdered in a remote meadow on J.B.’s land. The deaths bring together the scattered members of the Bennett family: J.B.’s cunning and hard father, Drum; his estranged wife, Dulcinea; and his teenage sons, Cullen and Hayward. As the mystery of these twin deaths unfolds, the history of the dysfunctional Bennetts and their damning secrets is revealed, exposing the conflicted heart of a nation caught between past and future. At the center of The Bones of Paradise are two remarkable women. Dulcinea, returned after bitter years of self-exile, yearns for redemption and the courage to mend her broken family and reclaim the land that is rightfully hers. Rose, scarred by the terrible slaughters that have decimated and dislocated her people, struggles to accept the death of her sister, Star, and refuses to rest until she is avenged. A kaleidoscopic portrait of misfits, schemers, chancers, and dreamers, Jonis Agee’s bold novel is a panorama of America at the dawn of a new century. A beautiful evocation of this magnificent, blood-soaked land—its sweeping prairies, seas of golden grass, and sandy hills, all at the mercy of two unpredictable and terrifying forces, weather and lawlessness—and the durable men and women who dared to tame it. Intimate and epic, The Bones of Paradise is a remarkable achievement: a mystery, a tragedy, a romance, and an unflagging exploration of the beauty and brutality, tenderness and cruelty that defined the settling of the American West.

The Fishermen

Author : Chigozie Obioma
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316338362
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book The Fishermen written by Chigozie Obioma and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking debut novel about an unforgettable childhood, by a Nigerian writer the New York Times has crowned "the heir to Chinua Achebe." Told by nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, THE FISHERMEN is the Cain and Abel-esque story of a childhood in Nigeria, in the small town of Akure. When their father has to travel to a distant city for work, the brothers take advantage of his absence to skip school and go fishing. At the forbidden nearby river, they meet a madman who persuades the oldest of the boys that he is destined to be killed by one of his siblings. What happens next is an almost mythic event whose impact-both tragic and redemptive-will transcend the lives and imaginations of the book's characters and readers. Dazzling and viscerally powerful, THE FISHERMEN is an essential novel about Africa, seen through the prism of one family's destiny.

Nebraska Writers

Author : Alice G. Harvey
Publisher : Omaha, Neb. : Citizen Print. Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Writers written by Alice G. Harvey and published by Omaha, Neb. : Citizen Print. Company. This book was released on 1964 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographies of Robert W. Furnas, James Thomas Allan, James W. Savage, Albert Watkins, Orsamus Charles Drake, John Gneisenau Neihardt, Edwin Ford Piper, Helene Margaret, Cora Phebe Mullin, Ammi Leander Bixby, William Earl Hill, Bess Streeter Aldrich, Willa Cather, Leonard Stromberg, Mignon G. Eberhart, George C. Shedd, Keene Abbott, Avery Abbott, Anna C. Newbigging, Dorothy Thomas, James Edward LeRossignol, John T. Yates, Frank A. Secord, Caroline Renfrew, Elizabeth Jane Leonard, Howard Erickson, Fred Ballard, Grace Sorenson, Allena Harris, Pearl Holloway, Helen Geneva Masters, Mabel Conklin Allyn, Grace Welsh Lutgen, Magdelene Craft Radke, Beatrice Chesebrough, Maude Sumner Smith, William Jennings Bryan, Hartley Burr Alexander, Hazel Gertrude Kinscella, Leo V. Jacks, Frederick D. Leete, Robert P. Crawford, Will M. Maupin, Harrison Johnson, J. Sterling Morton, Addison Erwin Sheldon, Rose Rosicky, Dale P. Stough, and Joseph G. Masters.

A Different Plain

Author : Ladette Randolph
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803239586
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book A Different Plain written by Ladette Randolph and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O Pioneers! was oh so long ago, and yet Willa Cather's masterpiece has proven to be an enduring template for readers' notions of Nebraska writing. The short stories collected here, so richly various in style, theme, and subject matter, should put an end to any such plain thinking about writing from this anything-but-plain state. Nebraska writers all, the authors explore the Midwest, a vastness of small towns, corn, cattle, football, and family businesses. They also venture far afield, to desolate western lives, crowded urban relationships, poignant couplings, comic families, and the worldly idiosyncrasies of characters everywhere. Whether about aging or coming-of-age, leave-taking or coming home, falling apart or finding love, these stories represent contemporary fiction at its best, from the high style of Richard Dooling's "Immortal Man" to Kent Haruf's soft-spoken "Dancing," from Ron Hansen's "My Communist" to Jonis Agee's earthy, offbeat "Binding the Devil." Original, spirited, and surprising, these contemporary writings depict a modern world on the move and extend the tradition of great fiction from Nebraska into the twenty-first century.

Nebraska During the New Deal

Author : Marilyn Irvin Holt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496218000
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska During the New Deal written by Marilyn Irvin Holt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2019-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Nebraska Book Award As a New Deal program, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) aimed to put unemployed writers, teachers, and librarians to work. The contributors were to collect information, write essays, conduct interviews, and edit material with the goal of producing guidebooks in each of the then forty-eight states and U.S. territories. Project administrators hoped that these guides, known as the American Guide Series, would promote a national appreciation for America's history, culture, and diversity and preserve democracy at a time when militarism was on the rise and parts of the world were dominated by fascism. Marilyn Irvin Holt focuses on the Nebraska project, which was one of the most prolific branches of the national program. Best remembered for its state guide and series of folklore and pioneer pamphlets, the project also produced town guides, published a volume on African Americans in Nebraska, and created an ethnic study of Italians in Omaha. In Nebraska during the New Deal Holt examines Nebraska's contribution to the project, both in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

Goodnight, Nebraska

Author : Tom McNeal
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375704299
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Goodnight, Nebraska written by Tom McNeal and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 17, Randall Hunsacker shoots his mother's boyfriend, steals a car and comes close to killing himself. His second chance lies in a small Nebraska farm town, where the landmarks include McKibben's Mobil Station, Frmka's Superette, and a sign that says The Wages of Sin is Hell. This is Goodnight, a place so ingrown and provincial that Randall calls it "Sludgeville"-until he starts thinking of it as home. In this pitch-perfect novel, Tom McNeal explores the currents of hope, passion, and cruelty beneath the surface of the American heartland. In Randall, McNeal creates an outcast whose redemption lies in Goodnight, a strange, small, but ultimately embracing community where Randall will inspire fear and adulation, win the love of a beautiful girl and nearly throw it all away.

Nebraska Presence

Author : Greg Kosmicki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780979393433
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Presence written by Greg Kosmicki and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems by more than 80 contemporary Nebraska poets, including Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate of the United States, Ted Kooser, Nebraska State Poet William Kloefkorn, several poets who have had their poems read on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac including Greg Kuzma, Marjorie Saiser, Twyla Hansen, Grace Bauer, and Greg Kosmicki, as well as widely noted poets Hilda Raz, Roy Scheele, Steve Langan, and many others.

Works Cited

Author : Brandon R. Schrand
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803245319
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Works Cited written by Brandon R. Schrand and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Doing things by the book” acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand’s memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The “works cited” are those books that serve as Schrand’s signposts as he goes from life as a hormone-crazed, heavy-metal wannabe in the remotest parts of working-class Idaho to a reasonable facsimile of manhood (with a stop along the way to buy a five-dollar mustard-colored M. C. Hammer suit, so he’ll fit in at college). The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn informs his adolescent angst over the perceived injustice of society’s refusal to openly discuss boners. The Great Gatsby serves as a metaphor for his indulgent and directionless college days spent in a drunken stupor (when he wasn’t feigning interest in Mormonism to attract women). William Kittredge’s Hole in the Sky parallels his own dangerous adulthood slide into alcoholism and denial. With a finely calibrated wit, a good dose of humility, and a strong supporting cast of literary characters, Schrand manages to chart his own story—about a dreamer thrown out of school as many times as he’s thrown into jail—until he finally sticks his landing.

Nebraska Writers' Project

Author : Nebraska Writers' Project
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book Nebraska Writers' Project written by Nebraska Writers' Project and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebraska Writers' Project was established in November, 1935, and operated until August 31, 1939, as a federal project sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. From September 1, 1939, the project continued as the Nebraska Writers' Project, sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences of the University of Nebraska. The catalog lists available publications as of June 1, 1940, with prices marked for titles available for purchase. The list also includes works in progress as of that date, with anticipated publication dates.

Inscribing the Other

Author : Sander L. Gilman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803221345
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Inscribing the Other written by Sander L. Gilman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among others. In thirteen probing, provocative essays Sander L. Gilman reinterprets their writing as it reveals their efforts to come to terms with their real or imagined sense of difference. The chapters treat many themes and problems, ranging widely from the romantic notion of the transcendent artist to the twentieth-century artists-in-exile, and employing the perspectives of psychiatry, aesthetics, photography, politics, and the history of mentalities. The fate of Jewish writers in modern Germany, or of Yiddish writers whose language is devalued in European culture, is explored. The theme of difference and its artistic and intellectual manifestations runs throughout the book, which includes discussions of Goethe's and Wilde's homosexuality, Nietzsche's madness, Heine's refusal to be photographed, and Primo Levi's internment at Auschwitz, as well as an interview with Singer. In a frank autobiographical introduction, Gilman attempts to understand his own writing as an exercise in "inscribing the Other," in dealing with is own sense of difference through artistic creation.

Spring Came on Forever

Author : Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803259072
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Spring Came on Forever written by Bess Streeter Aldrich and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece, Spring Came on Forever, a novel of two Nebraska pioneer families from settlement to the 1930s. Elsewhere an artist of the romance, here Aldrich turns romance on its head. The heroine is Amalia Holmsdorfer, one of a band of German immigrants who settle on the prairie. From her late teens to her mid-eighties she confronts and defeats the forces of nature and society that discourage or ruin others. Her life might be a modest triumph but for one detail: she married the wrong man. Quickly paced and precisely drawn, this novel is Aldrich's greatest tribute to the complexity, humor, endurance, and intelligence of the people who settled the prairie. Whatever its sentiments, it has as many cutting edges as a buzz saw.

"I Am a Man"

Author : Joe Starita
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429953306
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book "I Am a Man" written by Joe Starita and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. "I Am a Man" chronicles what happened when Standing Bear set off on a six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground. Along the way, it examines the complex relationship between the United States government and the small, peaceful tribe and the legal consequences of land swaps and broken treaties, while never losing sight of the heartbreaking journey the Ponca endured. It is a story of survival---of a people left for dead who arose from the ashes of injustice, disease, neglect, starvation, humiliation, and termination. On another level, it is a story of life and death, despair and fortitude, freedom and patriotism. A story of Christian kindness and bureaucratic evil. And it is a story of hope---of a people still among us today, painstakingly preserving a cultural identity that had sustained them for centuries before their encounter with Lewis and Clark in the fall of 1804. Before it ends, Standing Bear's long journey home also explores fundamental issues of citizenship, constitutional protection, cultural identity, and the nature of democracy---issues that continue to resonate loudly in twenty-first-century America. It is a story that questions whether native sovereignty, tribal-based societies, and cultural survival are compatible with American democracy. Standing Bear successfully used habeas corpus, the only liberty included in the original text of the Constitution, to gain access to a federal court and ultimately his freedom. This account aptly illuminates how the nation's delicate system of checks and balances worked almost exactly as the Founding Fathers envisioned, a system arguably out of whack and under siege today. Joe Starita's well-researched and insightful account reads like historical fiction as his careful characterizations and vivid descriptions bring this piece of American history brilliantly to life.