Author: Diane Gross
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462821006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Discover the magic of America that beckons from your own backyard. You no longer need to rely on ancient fables from distant cultures. Do you want a cowboy hero? Look no further than Black Boots Bart and his magical boots. Do you desire mystery and treasure? Sail the high seas to The Cursed Isle. Do you think Cinderella is the only beauty? Meet Sapphira, Jasmine and Chenoa. Have you wondered if the Fountain of Youth existed? Take a journey to The Lost City of Quivira. American dreams begin with American Nights.
Author: Michael Hur
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365036820
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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American Nights are stories that come from real life encounters. It might surprise you to hear that, especially when the stories are not the common variety. American Nights is a book that tells seven fictional stories based on real paranormal and strange events. Names, dates and places were changed to protect the people who gave testimonies of events that are so hard for people to believe that for now books like this one can only tell it. American Nights tells the stories that take place in the world of the extraordinary and shows that no matter who you are, where you are, God is always watching.
Author: Jim Morrison
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734627
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The celebrated lead singer of The Doors, Jim Morrison is a legend of rock and roll. The American Night presents Morrison's previously unpublished work in its truest form. With their nightmarish images, bold associative leaps, and volcanic power of emotion, these works are the unmistakable artifacts of a great, wild voice and heart.
Author: Li-Young Lee
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160401
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 77
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Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity. Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailing Li-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book with The City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times and The Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers. Rose and The City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago.
Author: Talbot Greene
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Author: Grant Overton
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Author: nelson lowhim
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387101749
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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[this is the Black and white version] One of the best and most innovative set of stories you'll ever read. Written with the same fury they had in '68, these stories range from modern fairy tales to scifi to the best MFA-wannabe stories this side of the Rio Grande. I know you'll have your doubts, but assuage them with a quick sample, then buy it lickety-split-quickety or something like that. Be warned, though, you'll need a stiff drink of scotch to drink some of the stories down with. Note that this contains all the stories written by Lowhim from 2010-2017. This includes classics such as Satan's Plea, The Struggle, Cleanse the Soul, Quantum Swarm, RAW: RoboAnthroWar and many more! Enjoy them while you can. Thanks to The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, OMNI.Media, LA Review of LA for being the first to publish some of these stories. Oh, and the number is binary.
Author: Susan Nance
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807894052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
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Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the "East--witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a social and cultural history of this highly popular genre of Easternized performance in America up to the Great Depression. According to Nance, these traditions reveal how a broad spectrum of Americans, including recent immigrants and impersonators, behaved as producers and consumers in a rapidly developing capitalist economy. In admiration of the Arabian Nights, people creatively reenacted Eastern life, but these performances were also demonstrations of Americans' own identities, Nance argues. The story of Aladdin, made suddenly rich by rubbing an old lamp, stood as a particularly apt metaphor for how consumer capitalism might benefit each person. The leisure, abundance, and contentment that many imagined were typical of Eastern life were the same characteristics used to define "the American dream." The recent success of Disney's Aladdin movies suggests that many Americans still welcome an interpretation of the East as a site of incredible riches, romance, and happy endings. This abundantly illustrated account is the first by a historian to explain why and how so many Americans sought out such cultural engagement with the Eastern world long before geopolitical concerns became paramount.
Author: John Perry Barlow
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 1524760196
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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John Perry Barlow’s wild ride with the Grateful Dead was just part of a Zelig-like life that took him from a childhood as ranching royalty in Wyoming to membership in the Internet Hall of Fame as a digital free speech advocate. Mother American Night is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable (yet completely true) story of an American icon. Born into a powerful Wyoming political family, John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for thirty Grateful Dead songs while also running his family’s cattle ranch. He hung out in Andy Warhol’s Factory, went on a date with the Dalai Lama’s sister, and accidentally shot Bob Weir in the face on the eve of his own wedding. As a favor to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Barlow mentored a young JFK Jr. and the two then became lifelong friends. Despite being a freely self-confessed acidhead, he served as Dick Cheney’s campaign manager during Cheney’s first run for Congress. And after befriending a legendary early group of computer hackers known as the Legion of Doom, Barlow became a renowned internet guru who then cofounded the groundbreaking Electronic Frontier Foundation. His résumé only hints of the richness of a life lived on the edge. Blessed with an incredible sense of humor and a unique voice, Barlow was a born storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Through intimate portraits of friends and acquaintances from Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia to Timothy Leary and Steve Jobs, Mother American Night traces the generational passage by which the counterculture became the culture, and it shows why learning to accept love may be the hardest thing we ever ask of ourselves.
Author: Simon Han
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593086066
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar “A tender, spiky family saga about love in all its mysterious incarnations.” —Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs and Birds of America “Absolutely luminous . . . Weaves the transience of suburbia between the highs and lows of a family saga . . . Shocks, awes, and delights.” —Bryan Washington, author of Memorial From the outside, the Chengs seem like so-called model immigrants. Once Patty landed a tech job near Dallas, she and Liang grew secure enough to have a second child, and to send for their first from his grandparents back in China. Isn’t this what they sacrificed so much for? But then little Annabel begins to sleepwalk at night, putting into motion a string of misunderstandings that not only threaten to set their community against them but force to the surface the secrets that have made them fear one another. How can a man make peace with the terrors of his past? How can a child regain trust in unconditional love? How can a family stop burying its history and forge a way through it, to a more honest intimacy? Nights When Nothing Happened is gripping storytelling immersed in the crosscurrents that have reshaped the American landscape, from a prodigious new literary talent.
