Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
White Mule is the first of a trilogy of novels by William Carlos Williams about the immigrant Stecher family in New York at the turn of the 20th century. The "White Mule" of the title refers to Flossie, the angry, assertive, uncompromising baby, who can kick like White Mule whiskey.
White Mule
Author: William Carlos Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
White Mule is the first of a trilogy of novels by William Carlos Williams about the immigrant Stecher family in New York at the turn of the 20th century. The "White Mule" of the title refers to Flossie, the angry, assertive, uncompromising baby, who can kick like White Mule whiskey.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811202381
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
White Mule is the first of a trilogy of novels by William Carlos Williams about the immigrant Stecher family in New York at the turn of the 20th century. The "White Mule" of the title refers to Flossie, the angry, assertive, uncompromising baby, who can kick like White Mule whiskey.
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Everybody's
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Justin Wilson's Cajun Humor
Author: Justin Wilson
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455606962
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The world’s greatest spinner of Cajun tales and a leading authority on Cajun dialects combine their talents in this rollicking anthology of Cajun humor. For more than forty-five years the delight of audiences around the country, the exceptionally neighborly and friendly Justin Wilson is without peer in his mastery of the distinctive Cajun patois and the storied Cajun joie de vivre. Nattily decked out in string ties, flop-brimmed Panama hat, and flaming red suspenders, and punctuating his stories with a booming “I ga-ron-tee!” Wilson projects authentic Cajun Humor instantly recognized by anyone who has visited the Louisiana bayou country. Wilson, whose tales have been recorded on numerous bestselling albums, is also the author of More Cajun Humor, and Justin Wilson’s Cajun Fables, as well as many cookbooks, including The Justin Wilson Cookbook, The Justin Wilson Cookbook #2: Cookin’ Cajun, The Justin Wilson Gourmet andGourmand Cookbook, Justin Wilson’s Outdoor Cooking with Inside Help, all published by Pelican. Howard Jacobs, a widely read columnist with The New Orleans Times-Picayune, is the coauthor of Justin Wilson’s Cajun Humor, and author of Cajun Laugh-in.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455606962
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The world’s greatest spinner of Cajun tales and a leading authority on Cajun dialects combine their talents in this rollicking anthology of Cajun humor. For more than forty-five years the delight of audiences around the country, the exceptionally neighborly and friendly Justin Wilson is without peer in his mastery of the distinctive Cajun patois and the storied Cajun joie de vivre. Nattily decked out in string ties, flop-brimmed Panama hat, and flaming red suspenders, and punctuating his stories with a booming “I ga-ron-tee!” Wilson projects authentic Cajun Humor instantly recognized by anyone who has visited the Louisiana bayou country. Wilson, whose tales have been recorded on numerous bestselling albums, is also the author of More Cajun Humor, and Justin Wilson’s Cajun Fables, as well as many cookbooks, including The Justin Wilson Cookbook, The Justin Wilson Cookbook #2: Cookin’ Cajun, The Justin Wilson Gourmet andGourmand Cookbook, Justin Wilson’s Outdoor Cooking with Inside Help, all published by Pelican. Howard Jacobs, a widely read columnist with The New Orleans Times-Picayune, is the coauthor of Justin Wilson’s Cajun Humor, and author of Cajun Laugh-in.
The Mule Companion
Author: Cynthia Attar
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 0965177653
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This fourth edition of "The Mule Companion" is a comprehensive book on mules with new photos of many real people and mules doing real mule activities. "The Mule Companion" has been called an excellent 'mule primer' for those people just getting into mules. However, the book also hosts an in-depth study of why mules do what they do, their idiosyncrasies, training, and problem solving. Also, the book is rich with 'how to' information on: caring for, breeding for, fitting tack on, buying, and mule activities, past and present.
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 0965177653
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This fourth edition of "The Mule Companion" is a comprehensive book on mules with new photos of many real people and mules doing real mule activities. "The Mule Companion" has been called an excellent 'mule primer' for those people just getting into mules. However, the book also hosts an in-depth study of why mules do what they do, their idiosyncrasies, training, and problem solving. Also, the book is rich with 'how to' information on: caring for, breeding for, fitting tack on, buying, and mule activities, past and present.
Bloodlines
Author: Jason Starr
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307482324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man who makes money selling parking places at the Preakness and the intriguing woman he meets. Here is Bill Barich on the misfortunes of an Irish gambler, Joe R. Lansdale on one man’s ambition to win a mule race in east Texas, Laura Hillenbrand on the Kentucky Derby, and James Surowiecki on the wisdom of horse-racing crowds. Jonathan Ames adds his unique theory of horse love, Meghan O’Rourke shares her touching recollections of going to Saratoga as a child, and Jane Smiley tells of her experiences raising thoroughbreds. This standout collection on horse-racing featuring twenty authors, from national bestsellers to Pulitzer Prize winners, is as page-turning as it is diverse.Also includes pieces by Ken Bruen, Steven Crist, Maggie Estep, William Nack, Scott Phillips, John Schaefer, Jerry Stahl, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Wallace Stroby, and Daniel Woodrell.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307482324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
From provocative peeks into the lives of jockeys, trainers, owners, and breeders, to the down and dirty doings of bookies and gamblers, here is a literary tribute to a favorite national pastime. Editors Maggie Estep (Diary of an Emotional Idiot; Flamethrower) and Jason Starr (Twisted City; Lights Out) have brought together original fiction and nonfiction from some of our most beloved writers. Lee Child heads off the collection with a thrilling story about a hit man hired to knock off a horse mid-race. Laura Lippman contributes a vivid tale about a young man who makes money selling parking places at the Preakness and the intriguing woman he meets. Here is Bill Barich on the misfortunes of an Irish gambler, Joe R. Lansdale on one man’s ambition to win a mule race in east Texas, Laura Hillenbrand on the Kentucky Derby, and James Surowiecki on the wisdom of horse-racing crowds. Jonathan Ames adds his unique theory of horse love, Meghan O’Rourke shares her touching recollections of going to Saratoga as a child, and Jane Smiley tells of her experiences raising thoroughbreds. This standout collection on horse-racing featuring twenty authors, from national bestsellers to Pulitzer Prize winners, is as page-turning as it is diverse.Also includes pieces by Ken Bruen, Steven Crist, Maggie Estep, William Nack, Scott Phillips, John Schaefer, Jerry Stahl, Jason Starr, Charlie Stella, Wallace Stroby, and Daniel Woodrell.
Mule
Author: Tony D'Souza
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547576714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
A novel about the recession generation and a young couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it through.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547576714
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
A novel about the recession generation and a young couple who turn to drug trafficking to make it through.
Official Inspections
Author: Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Drug adulteration
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Drug adulteration
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: University of Maine at Orono. Maine Agricultural Experiment Station (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Popular Science
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.