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The Madman of Piney Woods

Author : Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545633761
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Madman of Piney Woods written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this poignant companion to Elijah of Buxton, two boys united by tragedy find friendship and adventure in the Canadian woods. Benji and Red couldn’t be more different. They aren’t friends. They don’t even live in the same town. But their fates are entwined. A chance meeting leads the boys to discover that they have more in common than meets the eye. Both of them have encountered a strange presence in the forest, watching them, tracking them. Could the Madman of Piney Woods be real? In a tale brimming with intrigue and adventure, Christopher Paul Curtis returns to the vibrant world he brought to life in Elijah of Buxton. Here is another novel that will break your heart—and expand it, too. This critically acclaimed story by National Book Award finalist Christopher Paul Curtis joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes extra bonus content! Praise for The Madman of Piney Woods “Humor and tragedy are often intertwined, and readers will find themselves sobbing and chuckling, sometimes in the same scene.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review “A delight, featuring the author’s obvious love for his characters, his skillful use of sentiment, and his often hyperbolic humor.” —Booklist, Starred Review “Heady stuff. Funny stuff. Smart stuff. Good stuff. Better get your hands on this stuff.” —School Library Journal “So suspenseful . . . Curtis deftly makes what might have been simply heart-rending hopeful and redeeming instead . . . A thrill ride of a plot.” —TheNew York Times

Piney Woods School: An Oral History

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034541
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Piney Woods School: An Oral History written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of an extraordinary school in the piney woods of Mississippi and of the enduring people of Piney Woods Community who forged on against incredible odds to make a better world for themselves and their children. To these poor backwoods turn-of-the-century African Americans of Rankin County, Mississippi, Laurence C. Jones (1882-1975) brought the Booker T. Washington model of training African Americans to be good workers. Because the school followed Jim Crow social codes and mirrored what were then expedient race relations in the South, Piney Woods School thrived without controversy and with encouragement from Mississippi whites. It served a noble purpose by opening its doors for the educational training of underprivileged rural African American students as well as for the visually and physically impaired of the state at a time when there was absolutely no other institution for them. Piney Woods School: An Oral History is based upon a series of interviews with e

Piney Wood Atlas: the Northwest

Author : Carolina Porras &
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366038203
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Piney Wood Atlas: the Northwest written by Carolina Porras & and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piney Wood Atlas is a project by Carolina Porras & Alicia Toldi that catalogues small, emerging, and unconventional artist residencies around the United States. This book focuses on the Northwest region.

Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods

Author : Mitchel Whitington
Publisher : 23 House Pubishing
ISBN 13 : 9780970672988
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of East Texas and the Pineywoods written by Mitchel Whitington and published by 23 House Pubishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ghostly guide to the haunts of East Texas, you’ll find many strange tales... • The spirit of a young bride who etched her name in her bedroom window glass on her wedding day many years ago, and continues to visit that room to this day... • An old, creaking staircase where phantoms from a time long ago wander up and down during the wee hours of the night... • An Indian brave in full battle regalia who is said to appear at the site of a terrible East Texas massacre... You'll read about these spirits and many, many more – all from the Pineywoods region of the Lone Star State.

Deep in Piney Woods

Author : J. W. Church
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Deep in Piney Woods written by J. W. Church and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aunt Puss & Others

Author : Emma Wilson Emery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Aunt Puss & Others written by Emma Wilson Emery and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emma Wilson Emery (1885-1970) spent her childhood in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. She later lived in Nacogdoches, Tex., and worked as typesetter for the Daily Plaindealer. She graduated from nursing school at Shreveport, La., in 1911 and later became the first poet laureate of Louisiana between 1942 and 1970."--Louisiana State University.

The Pine Torch

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Pine Torch written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Piney Woods and Its Story

Author : Laurence Clifton Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Piney Woods and Its Story written by Laurence Clifton Jones and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The International Sweethearts of Rhythm

Author : Antoinette D. Handy
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461623596
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book The International Sweethearts of Rhythm written by Antoinette D. Handy and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, a popular women's jazz band of the 1940s, has earned a reputation as the 'best all-women's swing band ever to perform.' This revised and updated edition provides fascinating reading for jazz enthusiasts and students of American history, music, and women's history. It is the most comprehensive and objective history of the band to date. Handy documents all sides of the band's controversial story and interviews members of the band. She updates the careers of band members who remained in the music business. Accompanied by an extensive bibliography and many photographs.

The Little Professor of Piney Woods

Author : Beth Day Romulo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Little Professor of Piney Woods written by Beth Day Romulo and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Professor, a northern Negro, established a school in the south to help Negro children achieve a new way of life.

Sweet Tea

Author : E. Patrick Johnson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807882739
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sweet Tea written by E. Patrick Johnson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the South. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive" and offers a window into the ways black gay men negotiate their identities, build community, maintain friendship networks, and find sexual and life partners--often in spaces and activities that appear to be antigay. Ultimately, Sweet Tea validates the lives of these black gay men and reinforces the role of storytelling in both African American and southern cultures.

Work Requirements

Author : Todd Carmody
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 147802268X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Work Requirements written by Todd Carmody and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the expansion of literacy, and the rise of professionalization. In Work Requirements Todd Carmody asks how work, even the most debasing or unproductive labor, came to be seen as inherently meaningful during this era. He explores how the print culture of social welfare—produced by public administrators, by economic planners, by social scientists, and in literature and the arts—tasked people on the social and economic margins, specifically racial minorities, incarcerated people, and people with disabilities, with shoring up the fundamental dignity of work as such. He also outlines how disability itself became a tool of social discipline, defined by bureaucratized institutions as the inability to work. By interrogating the representational effort necessary to make work seem inherently meaningful, Carmody ultimately reveals a forgotten history of competing efforts to think social belonging beyond or even without work.

Ardent Spirits

Author : Reynolds Price
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743291905
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Ardent Spirits written by Reynolds Price and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two earlier autobiographical works-Clear Pictures and A Whole New Life-acclaimed writer Reynolds Price offers a full account of his life from the mid-1950s to the publication of his first novel in 1962.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811577
Total Pages : 2548 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Mississippi Encyclopedia written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 2548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

Yogamass

Author : Gena Davis
Publisher : Balboa Press
ISBN 13 : 1504377761
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Yogamass written by Gena Davis and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YogaMass: Embodying Christ Consciousness bridges yogic principles and practices with Christian spirituality and worship as a path for bringing the whole self (body, mind, soul, and spirit) to the experience of spiritual awakening. The author, an ordained Episcopal priest, weaves together spiritual practices from different traditions with her own discovery that yoga’s ancient truths are complementary with Christian beliefs — taking one deeper into the spiritual life in ways that people of diverse faiths can embrace. Blending yogic practices with Christian spirituality and worship, the Reverend Gena Davis has co-created an exciting and powerful new practice of spiritual ritual and celebration called YogaMass that leads to embodying Christ Consciousness. On and off the yoga mat, this book points the way to discovering a whole-self spiritual experience and connecting with God through an awakened open mind and heart. “I loved this book! The author, the Reverend Gena Davis, shares the story of her amazing spiritual journey that culminates in the creation of the world’s first YogaMass service. This alone would make the book well worth reading, but throughout, she integrates sacred writings, stories, and poems from spiritual masters of western and eastern spirituality, all the while never losing sight of her own Christian heritage. It is a remarkable accomplishment. You will be blessed by this book and want to share it with others.” - The Reverend Dr. John K. Graham, president and CEO, Institute for Spirituality and Health at the Texas Medical Center, Houston “I am delighted and privileged to encourage those who seek to worship God with all that is within to pick up and digest this spiritual teaching presented by the Reverend Gena Davis. Gena has captured the importance of worshipping God with, as the Psalmist uttered, ‘all that is within me.’ I am fascinated by the interplay of yoga and liturgy within these pages, and find myself wanting to go deeper into both. I think the Reverend Davis is on to something that has been lacking in our Christian path and tradition. The interweaving of her personal narrative and the spiritual insights she gained through the study and practice of yoga unveils how God’s truth makes itself known through many different paths.” - The Reverend Dr. Richard Kleiman, retired Presbyterian pastor “Yoga is an exploration based on experiential processes. It is defined by our own internal truth! Making Yoga universal but deeply personal is something Gena Davis expresses so beautifully.” - Robert Boustany, Yoga instructor and master, and founder of Pralaya Yoga system

Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings

Author : Michael Pye
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601636520
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Exposed, Uncovered & Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings written by Michael Pye and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are ghosts, spirits, and other apparitions? Why do they visit, and what do they want from us? Are OBEs, NDEs, and PDEs real? Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings tackles these questions and more, as some of the world’s best-known paranormal experts come together in a tour de force of investigative journalism. Ghosts have been an integral part of the folklore of almost every culture; indeed, extant references to them stretch as far back as the ancient civilization of Babylon. And the evidence for their existence is mounting. Resident psychic for Paranormal State, Michelle Belanger, covers the strange Phillip Experiment, in which a group of Canadian paranormal investigators attempted to create a spirit. Professor of parapsychology Loyd Auerbach tells us what every ghost hunter should know about parapsychology. Noted expert on paranormal research Joshua P. Warren carefully examines some startling photographic evidence of ghosts. Andrew Nichols, PhD, director of the American Institute of Parapsychology, discusses his theory of haunted houses, which posits hauntings as manifestations of ESP and/or psychological projection. Raymond Buckland (Buckland’s Book of Spirit Communications) looks at ghosts as spirits and gives a take on how to talk to ghosts . . . and get a response. Folklorist Dr. Bob Curran delves into the connection between poltergeists and human origins, and regales us with three classic cases of poltergeist activity. Journalist Nick Redfern examines cases of ancient animal ghost apparitions. Noted folklorist Ursula Bielski gives a spooky and detailed account of the “Vanishing Hitchhiker” phenomenon. Evidence of ghosts is everywhere—if you know what to look for. Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or somewhere in between, Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: Ghosts, Spirits, & Hauntings is sure to entertain and educate.

Right to Revolt

Author : Patricia Michelle Boyett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496804317
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Right to Revolt written by Patricia Michelle Boyett and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 10, 1966, Klansmen murdered civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer in Forrest County, Mississippi. Despite the FBI's growing conflict against the Klan, recent civil rights legislation, and progressive court rulings, the Imperial Wizard promised his men: “no jury in Mississippi would convict a white man for killing a nigger.” Yet this murder inspired change. Since the onset of the civil rights movement, local authorities had mitigated federal intervention by using subtle but insidious methods to suppress activism in public arenas. They perpetuated a myth of Forrest County as a bastion of moderation in a state notorious for extremism. To sustain that fiction, officials emphasized that Dahmer's killers hailed from neighboring Jones County and pursued convictions vigorously. Although the Dahmer case became a watershed in the long struggle for racial justice, it also obscured Forrest County's brutal racial history. Patricia Michelle Boyett debunks the myth of moderation by exploring the mob lynchings, police brutality, malicious prosecutions, and Klan terrorism that linked Forrest and Jones Counties since their founding. She traces how racial atrocities during World War II and the Cold War inspired local blacks to transform their counties into revolutionary battlefields of the movement. Their electrifying campaigns captured global attention, forced federal intervention, produced landmark trials, and chartered a significant post-civil rights crusade. By examining the interactions of black and white locals, state and federal actors, and visiting activists from settlement to contemporary times, Boyett presents a comprehensive portrait of one of the South's most tortured and transformative landscapes.