Reducere. DescriptionUnforgettable people. Beloved places. Enduring memories. From its beginning in 1869 as a land-grant institution on the edge of the prair...
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Reducere. Colliding with and confronting The Tempest and postcolonial identity, the poems in Safiya Sinclair's Cannibal explore Jamaican childhood and histor...
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Reducere. A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book douard Glissant's novels, closely tied to the theories he developed in Po tique de la Relation (Poetics of...
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Reducere. DescriptionAfter a childhood of microwaved meat and saturated fat, Matthew Gavin Frank got serious about food. His "research" ultimately led him to...
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Reducere. A celebration of fresh daily fare lovingly prepared. "Cooking something delicious is really much more satisfactory than painting pictures or making...
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Reducere. In a blinding blizzard a schoolbus overturns and a young teacher, her seven pupils, and the driver-a mere boy-are stranded in the open country, mil...
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Reducere. In English disparate means "different" or "miscellaneous"--apt descriptors of these essays by Patrick Madden. In Spanish, however, disparate means ...
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Reducere. Kwame Dawes is not a native Nebraskan. Born in Ghana, he later moved to Jamaica, where he spent most of his childhood and early adulthood. In 1992 ...
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Reducere. Written as a tribute to family, place, and bodily awareness, Mukoma Wa Ngugi's poems speak of love, war, violence, language, immigration, and exile...
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Reducere. "Two Leggings . . . was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologi...
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Reducere. It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone...
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Reducere. Dear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light...
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Reducere. This Jade World centers on a Thai American who has gone through a series of life changes. Ira Sukrungruang married young to an older poet. On their...
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Reducere. The poems in The Rinehart Frames seek to exhaust the labyrinths of ekphrasis. By juxtaposing the character of Rinehart from Ralph Ellison's Invisib...
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Reducere. DescriptionHard Damage works to relentlessly interrogate the self and its shortcomings. In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Ar...
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Reducere. DescriptionThis dazzling debut announces a not-so-new voice: that of the spoken-word poet Tjawangwa Dema. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize ...
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Reducere. In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino Am...
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Reducere. Back by popular demand, the classic JPS holiday anthologies remain essential and relevant in our digital age. Unequaled in-depth compilations of cl...
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Reducere. What Freud did for dreams, Andre Breton (1896-1966) does for despair: in its distortions he finds the marvelous, and through the marvelous the rede...
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Reducere. Twelve-year-old Cotton Kinney has everything a boy could want--except a dog. For Christmas, Cotton bought his dad a studded dog collar and his mom ...
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Reducere. Clifton Gachagua's collection Madman at Kilifi, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, concerns itself with the immediacy of c...
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Reducere. "One of the first Indian autobiographies written. Revealing and provocative, Indian Boyhood remains a pivotal text to be understood by new generati...
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Reducere. In Sacrament of Bodies Romeo Oriogun interrogates what it means to be queer, male, and Nigerian. In this groundbreaking work, Oriogun seeks to unde...
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Reducere. La Brea Tar Pits once trapped prehistoric mammals. Today that killer has a chemical cousin in the Athabasca oil sands of Alberta, Canada--immense d...
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Reducere. Midwife Mildred Harrington is riding back home one evening after checking on one of her pregnant neighbors when she stumbles upon an injured strang...
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Reducere. John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied ...
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Reducere. In the face of amnesia, how does one exist? In this poem, Hawad speaks directly to Azawad, a silent figure whose name designates a portion of Tuare...
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Reducere. In 2001 Steve Edwards won a writing contest. The prize was seven months of "unparalleled solitude" as the caretaker of a ninety-two-acre backcountr...
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Reducere. Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The...
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Reducere. The title story, The Hanging Tree, is based on a true episode in Montana's gold-mining past. Three amazing characters meet: the cynical Doc Frail; ...
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Reducere. The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji's Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contempor...
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Reducere. Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Some Are Always Hungry chronicles a family's wartime survival, immigration, and heirloom traum...
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Reducere. Growing up in a tiny shack in the Dominican Republic, Felipe Alou never dreamed he would be the first man born and raised in his country to play an...
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Reducere. K'tonton-the lovable Jewish "Tom Thumb"-has cast a magic spell on children (and their parents and grandparents) for generations, delighting countle...
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Reducere. To this day, Emily Dickinson remains a beloved and enigmatic figure in American poetry. This "lady in white, " who shut herself away from the world...
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Reducere. In this visionary sequel to Castro's Curveball, the former Washington Senators Minor League catcher has returned to Havana with a small role in a m...
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Reducere. Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief. In these poems, the langu...
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Reducere. "Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn, " Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Be...
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Reducere. Joel Sartore has spent twenty years taking pictures for National Geographic magazine and has been a contributor to CBS News Sunday Morning since 20...
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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Grace JordanDuring the depression days of the early 1930s the Jordan family-Len Jordan (later governor of Idaho and a Unite...
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Reducere. This large print edition of the Torah is the essence of Jewish tradition; it inspires each successive generation. The current JPS translation, base...
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Reducere. Gabriel Okara, a prize-winning author whose literary career spans six decades, is rightly hailed as the elder statesman of Nigerian literature. The...
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Reducere. Bruno Walter (1876-1962), one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, lived a fascinating life in difficult times. This engrossing book is ...
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Reducere. George Blue Spruce Jr. is recognized as the first American Indian dentist in the United States. His life story reaches back to the ancient Pueblo c...
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Reducere. "Who's a good dog? " They're ALL good dogs, that's who Big or little, pedigree or mutt, rolling in stinky stuff, or stealing a T-bone meant for the...
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Reducere. Using a science comic format to engage readers of all ages, Mosquitoes SUCK! conveys essential information about mosquito biology, ecology, and dis...
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Reducere. Hailed by reviewers and readers for its originality, vitality, and truth, this novel secured Willa Cather a place in the first rank of American wri...
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Reducere. Inés Arredondo (1928-1989) published just three slim volumes of stories over twenty-three years, yet her reputation as a great writer, "a necessary...
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Reducere. For one family living on the very western edge of the Great Plains, life runs parallel to the forces that had always endangered its existence. Ther...
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Reducere. DescriptionSpanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned mode...
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Reducere. DescriptionWith his own words and images, Joseph White Bull tells of his memorable life and exploits as a Lakota warrior in the late nineteenth cen...
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