Author: Angeline M. Jerz
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557081645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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This book is a wonderful compilation of stories as recalled by Angeline Jerz, a native of the South Side of Chicago who grew up in the 30's and 40's. "Grandma Angie" was a great storyteller that kept the old traditions alive from the past while always looking ahead for her children and their children - after all, it's NOT the olden days anymore!
Author: Chris Stark
Publisher: Loving Healing Press
ISBN: 1615995773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Minnesota Book Awards 2022 -- Finalist in Novel & Short Story "Fluid in time and place, Carnival Lights flows between one past and another, offering a heartbreaking portrait of multigenerational trauma in the lives of one Ojibwe family. This tapestry of stories is beautifully woven and gut-wrenching in its effect. Read it, and it may change you forever." -- William Kent Krueger, New York Times Bestselling author Blending fiction and fact, Carnival Lights ranges from reverie to nightmare and back again in a lyrical yet unflinching story of an Ojibwe family's struggle to hold onto their land, their culture, and each other. Carnival Lights is a timely book for a country in need of deep healing. In August 1969, two teenage Ojibwe cousins, Sher and Kris, leave their northern Minnesota reservation for the lights of Minneapolis. The girls arrive in the city with only $12, their grandfather's WWII pack, two stainless steel cups, some face makeup, gum, and a lighter. But it's the ancestral connections they are also carrying - to the land and trees, to their family and culture, to love and loss - that shapes their journey most. As they search for work, they cross paths with a gay Jewish boy, homeless white and Indian women, and men on the prowl for runaways. Making their way to the Minnesota State Fair, the Indian girls try to escape a fate set in motion centuries earlier. Set in a summer of hippie Vietnam War protests and the moon landing, Carnival Lights also spans settler arrival in the 1800s, the creation of the reservation system, and decades of cultural suppression, connecting everything from lumber barons' mansions to Nazi V-2 rockets to smuggler's tunnels in creating a narrative history of Minnesota. "Fluid in time and place, Carnival Lights flows between one past and another, offering a heartbreaking portrait of multigenerational trauma in the lives of one Ojibwe family, this tapestry of stories is beautifully woven and gut-wrenching in its effect. Read it, and it may change you forever." -- William Kent Krueger, New York Times Best Selling Author "Chris Stark's newest novel explores the evolution of violence experienced by Native women. Simultaneously graphic and gentle, Carnival Lights takes the reader on a daunting journey through generations of trauma, crafting characters that are both vulnerable and resilient." -- Sarah Deer, (Mvskoke), Distinguished Professor, University of Kansas, MacArthur Genius Award Recipient "Carnival Lights is a heartbreaking wonder of gorgeous prose and urgent story. It propels the reader at a breathless pace as history crashes down on the readers as much as it does on the book's vivid characters. The author's brilliant heart restores their dignity and via the realm of imagination, brings them home." -- Mona Susan Power, author of The Grass Dancer, a PEN/Hemingway Winner "It's not every day that one is given an inimitable gift of truth. Carnival Lights is that gift. The history books that we've all read throughout time were purposely devoid of the realities of decades of Native genocide, attempts to eradicate our culture, and the horrendous effects of the boarding school era-trauma that continues to permeate the American Indian communities today. Carnival Lights is an opportune story of how two young girls navigate these lived experiences and provides a veracity that will reach deep into your heart, creating a newfound reflection of the actualities of this historical trauma. Chris Stark, a skilled narrative artist, once again engenders storytelling that ingeniously weaves multi-generational authenticities for not only the Native communities, but also as reflected for so many others. It's time for all of us to embrace this gift of truth." -- Deb Foster, Anishinaabe, MS-MFT Executive Director for the Ain Dah Yung Center, a meeting place for American Indian homeless youth and families "There are so many moods and story currents running through this wonder of a novel that I can attribute to individual women whose lives experiences run parallel to Stark's many characters. The two female adolescences in this novel take us to high and low heights, just like a carnival ride. It's overwhelming, irrational and dangerous, and there is no one to help, just as it has been for Indigenous people from the moment colonizers stepped foot on this continent of Turtle Island. Carnival Lights is powerful storytelling. Indigenous ancestors are persistently returning, so as not to be forgotten in death and memory, and Stark puts the reader right in the center of their pain and struggles." -- Mary K. Kunesh, Minnesota Senator, Standing Rock Lakota descendant, chair of Minnesota Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women taskforce "Carnival Lights is a powerful story of resilience, an emotional rollercoaster ride and an expression of the raw truth of multigenerational trauma. Sher, a lesbian and protector, or what we call 'two-spirit, ' is particularly connected with the old ways." -- Lenny Hayes, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, and Two-Spirit activist "Chris Stark weaves Native spirituality throughout Carnival Lights from the 1960s, before the Religious Freedom Act of 1978. We will lay under a fern, waiting for a drop of water to fall from the tip of the leaf with Em, feel the freedom of fleeing abuse with Kris and get to know the protector Sher who watches over Kris like a wolf. Carnival Lights reminds us that we are not alone, and we are watched over by ones we would have never known or seen if it were not for this desperate moment we are in right now. Chris Stark reminds us how important our teachings are, how our memories can comfort us in our darkest hour when we need it the most. Chris draws us into the inspiration and comfort provided to the characters at times guiding their next move." -- Babette Sandman, Ojibwe elder, White Earth Nation enrolled citizen living in Duluth "Chris Stark has done a beautiful job of incorporating this story of cousins; Sher and Kristin, within a historical and cultural narrative. The trauma that they experience is a familiar tale for many of us. I did not just read this story.... I felt this story and I journeyed with Sher and Kristin in all directions, and through many emotions. The connection to the story of Native women today is clear and brilliantly written. Chi miigwetch, Chris!" -- Nicole Matthews, ED of Minnesota Indian Women's Sexual Assault Coalition, White Earth Anishinaabe Learn more at www.ChristineStark.com From Modern History Press
Author: Don Terbush
Publisher: Author House
ISBN: 146347363X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Some people call it "earthquake weather," but during the Great Depression in a suburb just outside of Los Angeles, Joe Hodge knew them as "shaker days." In Joes world, such a day foreshadowed more than earthquakes; it meant personal catastrophe was also on the way-after all, Joes mother had died on a shaker day. Its the summer of 1933, and further tragedy, a trio of bullies, first love, and a revealed family secret are about to rock Joes world even more. Prepare to be transported to a time when life was hard, Hollywood was glamorous, and a boy discovered the truth. Shaker Days is a riveting tale that will warm your heart long after youve reached the end.
Author: Joy Olree
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 145821737X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 329
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Life is complicated and unpredictable, I have Aspergers and MS, but I refuse to believe I was born just to live a while then die. I am not the result of a Big Bang, nor did I come from a monkey. I believe, God, created the universe and everything in it, then he created Adam and Eve who were fruitful and multiplied until, well here I am. My new book of poems is the result of my reading and studying the Bible and my personal opinions of human life based on how humans act you dont have to agree with me, you have freewill just like me. Deeply Odd, Assuredly Strange Guess imbecile suits me fine. I am deeply odd, assuredly strange. Rebellion not, surrendered and muted of course. Hey listen up, what do you want from an autistic poet with MS? Thats not enough? Well kiss my grits. Bye, I hate grits. Ok so I save a few lives, not. Eat Jello, Eggos and applesauce, Woo woo breakfast is served. Im still deeply odd, assuredly strange. Strange. See Joy See Joy walk, see joy fall, see Joy blow her whistle. See help come. See ching, ching, Nothing is faster than the speed of light except money and it comes and goes so fast, you never really see it but you know its there by the stack of bill on the coffee table.
Author: Betsy Hearne
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313069387
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This volume offers 28 versions of the fable of "Beauty and the Beast", with minimal adaptations from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and America. Afterwards, the author discusses Disney's film version of this familiar theme of a lonely beast transformed by the magic of human love.
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 850
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Author: Bob Hawkes
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595317839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Eddie is the recipient of a gift handed down through the ages in his family. Though this gift is usually handed from grandmother to granddaughter. It once again has fallen into the hands of a grandson. The gift is as precious as the family it is handed down through. It is an essential part of grandmother's life. She needs to school Eddie in not only the power of the gift, but also the need to help others when called upon. It is all a part of the gift Eddie must learn and control. Edith, the grandmother, needs to not only educate her grandson on the powers of the gift but also needs to continue assisting her friends with her own form of it. Friends she has been with for years. They are dependent on her and her ability to use the gift in assisting them. She will not let them down. Her enlisting Eddie to assist her in satisfying the needs of her friends is the tale that unfolds. It is the two of these wonderful people assisting those needing their help that leads to understanding the importance of such a gift and the need to use it in it's most precious form. There have always been those with these abilities among us. Through these two it is hoped you gain some understanding and the need we have for them to continue their work.
Author: Terrance Dean
Publisher: Agate Publishing
ISBN: 1932841563
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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"An advice guide for straight women from the vantage point of a gay man"--Provided by publisher.
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Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Author: Ann C. Carver
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558610187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen writers, major figures in the literary movements of three generations, who represent a range of class, ethnic, age, and political perspectives. It is filled with "unexpected gems", writes Scarlet Cheng in Belles Lettres, including Lin Hai-yin's story of a woman suffering under a feudal system that dominated Old China; Chiang Hsiao-yun's optimistic solutions to problems of the elderly in the rapidly changing Taiwan of the 1980; and in between, a dozen richly diverse stories of aristocrats, comrades, wices, concubines, children, mothers, sexuality, rape, female initiation, and the tensions between traditional and modern life. "This is not western feminism with an Asian accent", says Bloomsbury Review, "but a description of one culture's reality... The woman protagonists survive both despite and because of their existence in a changing Taiwan." This book includes biographical headnotes, an introduction that addresses the literary movements represented, and an extensive bibliography.
