Author: Bobby Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947917750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Sinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston's stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of opressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.
The Saint I Ain't
Author: Bobby Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947917750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Sinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston's stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of opressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947917750
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Sinners, saints and saviors collide in Bobby Johnston's stories, which chronicle the savagery and poetry of opressive Catholic upbringing in 1970s Rust-Belt America. Johnston weaves landscapes of transgression and absolution, humor and resilience into his sharp-eyed tapestry of recall.
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't
Author: Scott Saul
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043103
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043103
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.
Saints Aint's and Wannabes
Author: Princess Reeves
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1621478505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The weekend ahead will be like no other. It will be the greatest test of faith one will ever experience. Lives will be changed in ways we can't image. What do you do when you don't know what to do? Where is God? What does His word have to say when your world comes to a crashing halt? Can life simple be put back together again after it's been shattered into many pieces? How do you pick up what's left and go on?
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1621478505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The weekend ahead will be like no other. It will be the greatest test of faith one will ever experience. Lives will be changed in ways we can't image. What do you do when you don't know what to do? Where is God? What does His word have to say when your world comes to a crashing halt? Can life simple be put back together again after it's been shattered into many pieces? How do you pick up what's left and go on?
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
Author: Firoozeh Dumas
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054461237X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home. A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi. California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award Winner Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Grades 6–8) New York Historical Society’s New Americans Book Prize Winner Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, Honorable Mention Booklist 50 Best Middle Grade Novels of the 21st Century
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 054461237X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time. California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy. It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home. A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi. California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award Winner Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Grades 6–8) New York Historical Society’s New Americans Book Prize Winner Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, Honorable Mention Booklist 50 Best Middle Grade Novels of the 21st Century
He Ain't No Saint
Author: Regina Swanson
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648405185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
When a man tells you that he wants to give you the world, believe him. And when he shows you that he's a piece of shit, believe that too. Sloane and Tisha have been best friends since high school. They do everything together. So when one married a millionaire, the other married his best friend. Sloane and Tisha finally realize that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. While having money and being a part of a social elite class brings them added perks, it also brings a string of other issues as well. To get away from their daily life of constantly being scrutinized by the public eye, they whisk themselves away for annual girl's only vacations. A trip to the Virgin Islands, proves to be not what they'd imagined at all. Everything that they once held near and dear comes crashing down around them. In He Ain't No Saint, Sloane and Tisha are left trying to pick up the pieces and hold on to A Hurtful Love that they've become accustomed to. This novel will have you screaming at the pages for these two best friends to wake up and honor themselves as the true queens that they are.
Publisher: Sullivan Group Publishing
ISBN: 1648405185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
When a man tells you that he wants to give you the world, believe him. And when he shows you that he's a piece of shit, believe that too. Sloane and Tisha have been best friends since high school. They do everything together. So when one married a millionaire, the other married his best friend. Sloane and Tisha finally realize that the grass isn't always greener on the other side. While having money and being a part of a social elite class brings them added perks, it also brings a string of other issues as well. To get away from their daily life of constantly being scrutinized by the public eye, they whisk themselves away for annual girl's only vacations. A trip to the Virgin Islands, proves to be not what they'd imagined at all. Everything that they once held near and dear comes crashing down around them. In He Ain't No Saint, Sloane and Tisha are left trying to pick up the pieces and hold on to A Hurtful Love that they've become accustomed to. This novel will have you screaming at the pages for these two best friends to wake up and honor themselves as the true queens that they are.
Saint Helenian English
Author: Daniel Schreier
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027248974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of diachronic material in the form of letters, court cases, ghost stories, etc. The analysis is embedded into a theoretical framework of contact linguistics (contact dialectology and pidgin/creole linguistics) and builds upon the social and sociodemographic development of the community. The aims of this book are to trace the origins and evolution of the variety, to pinpoint the forms of English it affiliates with today and the inputs it derived from historically and to investigate whether local contact scenarios have led to the formation of regionally distinctive varieties across the island. Insights from St Helenian English thus challenge us to rethink principles of classification that are applied to determine the status of post-colonial varieties of English.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027248974
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume provides the first-ever sociolinguistic analysis of English on the island of St Helena, the oldest variety of English in the Southern Hemisphere. It is based on a concise synchronic profile of the variety (describing its segmental phonology and morphosyntax) and an evaluation of diachronic material in the form of letters, court cases, ghost stories, etc. The analysis is embedded into a theoretical framework of contact linguistics (contact dialectology and pidgin/creole linguistics) and builds upon the social and sociodemographic development of the community. The aims of this book are to trace the origins and evolution of the variety, to pinpoint the forms of English it affiliates with today and the inputs it derived from historically and to investigate whether local contact scenarios have led to the formation of regionally distinctive varieties across the island. Insights from St Helenian English thus challenge us to rethink principles of classification that are applied to determine the status of post-colonial varieties of English.
Ain't Gonna Lay My 'ligion Down
Author: Alonzo Johnson
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This text examines how African Americans have created distinctive forms of religious expression. Contributors explore the degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage whilst meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570031090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This text examines how African Americans have created distinctive forms of religious expression. Contributors explore the degree to which newly imported slaves preserved their African spiritual heritage whilst meshing it with Western symbols and theological claims.
S[ain]t Louis Public School Library bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Ambivalent Affinities
Author: Jennifer Dominique Jones
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469673576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of civil rights organizations, Black liberal elected officials, segregationists, and far right radicals. Deployed in complex and at times contradictory ways, political ideas about homosexuality (and later, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects) became tethered to conceptualizations of Blackness and racial equality. In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469673576
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of civil rights organizations, Black liberal elected officials, segregationists, and far right radicals. Deployed in complex and at times contradictory ways, political ideas about homosexuality (and later, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects) became tethered to conceptualizations of Blackness and racial equality. In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.
The Applause/Best Plays Theater Yearbook 1991-1992
Author: Otis L. Guernsey
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831477
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
(Applause Books). The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1991-1992 season, including: Conversations With My Father * Crazy for You * Dancing at Lughnasa * The Extra Man * Fires in the Mirror * Lips Together, Teeth Apart * Mad Forest * Marvin's Room * Sight Unseen * Two Trains Running. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States, the Off-Off-Broadway season, the various awards, and more. Also includes lots of photos from the productions.
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781557831477
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
(Applause Books). The Applause Best Plays Yearbook was started by Burns Mantle in 1919 and has appeared every year since then, becoming the standard reference book for American Theater. This volume features synposes and excerpts for the ten best plays of the 1991-1992 season, including: Conversations With My Father * Crazy for You * Dancing at Lughnasa * The Extra Man * Fires in the Mirror * Lips Together, Teeth Apart * Mad Forest * Marvin's Room * Sight Unseen * Two Trains Running. This value-packed volume also includes Al Hirschfeld's complete gallery of the theater season as well as essays and statistics about the season around the United States, the Off-Off-Broadway season, the various awards, and more. Also includes lots of photos from the productions.