Author: Peter Pauper Press
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593594695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8

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160 lined pages. 5? wide x 7? high. Bookbound. Elastic band place holder. Embossed with gloss highlights.

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Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
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Languages : en
Pages : 92

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Author: Nancy Rider Hunt
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
ISBN: 9781593598648
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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In this celebration of the bitch within, retro women bust down the walls without breaking a nail or mussing their hair. Nancy Rider Hunt, whose cards and magnets are sold nationwide, illustrated Bitch? Moi? With campy photo collages.If you find yourself wondering if he's worth shaving your legs for, if your inner diva just wants to get down and dirty once in a while, if you prefer your men tranquilized and tagged, make this book your manifesto and join the audacious sisterhood of women who know what they want and how to get it. Serve up some attitude with a twist as you tell the world: "It's Ms. Bitch to you!" Illustrated with photos or winsome artwork, Keepsakes are books to treasure and share. 72 pp, hardcover. 6 1/4" square.

Author: Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 9781617031113
Category : Cajuns
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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"This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Leta Weiss Marks
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807122051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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More than forty years afterleaving her native New Orleans as a young woman, Leta Weiss Marks awakened to the realization that her family history there was almost beyond the horizon of living memory. Rescuing it, for herself and posterity, became her mission and brought her home again. In a compelling, elegant blend of fact and fiction, Marks weaves a tapestry of family members and events, drawing mainly upon interviews with her nonagenarian mother and aunt. Letters, archival research, and Marks’s own recollections and imagination also contribute to the composition, which she calls “a song of myself and my family.” At the center are Marks’s mother and father, and the highs and lows of their courtship and marriage. Caroline Dreyfous was born into a prominent Jewish family of New Orleans; Leon Weiss, seventeen years her senior, always struggled to gain their acceptance. He was an ambitious, talented architect, the driving force in the famous firm of Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth, chosen by Huey Long to design the new state capitol and governor’s mansion, New Orleans’ Charity Hospital, and other landmarks. He also was implicated in the “Louisiana Scandals” and sentenced to two years in federal prison. Time’s Tapestry is in part Marks’s attempt to peel back her mother’s reticent yet unwavering loyalty toward her father and understand this man, who died when Marks was only twenty-one and preparing to move to Connecticut. Stories and memories of three generations of the Dreyfous branch of the family tree complete Marks’s portrait. She makes vivid not only the personalities of her kin but also the times in which they lived, conjuring the New Orleans of her great-grandfather, grandparents, parents, and own childhood—segregation, the alternate inclusion and exclusion of the Jewish community, the fervid politics of the Long era—and juxtaposing those scenes with her experiences as an adult returning to visit her family in a greatly changed city. Charming and evocative, a superb example of creative nonfiction—Time’s Tapestry makes for both an intimate family album and a priceless record of New Orleans’ cultural, social, and political history.

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Category : Acadians
Languages : en
Pages : 662

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Author: Darrell Bourque
Publisher: Louisiana Writers
ISBN: 9781935754244
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Megan's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie is a reflection of contemporary life in Acadiana in Louisiana and it is a story of the legend(s) of the journey of the Acadians from the Canadian Maritimes and the various ways they made their way to Louisiana. The book is divided into three sections: the first in mixed forms mostly about contemporary Acadie in Louisiana, a bridge section, and then a twenty-seven sonnet sequence featuring principal characters and historical figures of the eighteenth-century deportation experience.

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: Michael D. Picone
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817318151
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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An outgrowth of the Language Variety in the South III symposium, New Perspectives on Language Variety in the South: Historical and Contemporary Approaches comprises forty-five original essays on a range of topics regarding the languages and dialects of the American South. Book jacket.