Bett

Bett PDF Author: Betty Green
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1504968204
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 139

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Bett is a story of the triumphs of young black baby boomers bravery in the South to push forward during the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Bett is by no means meant to make the grandchildren of African Americans frown on their past or to make the grandchildren of white Americans feel guilty. The goal is to show our youth how a people with very little to work with overcame in spite of it.

Still Looking

Still Looking PDF Author: John Updike
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1400044189
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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From a master of American letters and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series comes a richly illustrated book of eighteen insightful essays about American art, written while he was the art critic at The New York Review of Books. “Remarkably elegant little essays, dense in thought and perception but offhandedly casual in style. Their brevity makes more acute the sense of regret one feels to see them end.” —Newsday When, in 1989, a collection of John Updike’s writings on art appeared under the title Just Looking, a reviewer in the San Francisco Chronicle commented, “He refreshes for us the sense of prose opportunity that makes art a sustaining subject to people who write about it.” In the sixteen years since Just Looking was published, he continued to serve as an art critic, mostly for The New York Review of Books, and from fifty or so articles has selected, for this book, eighteen that deal with American art. After beginning with early American portraits, landscapes, and the transatlantic career of John Singleton Copley, Still Looking then considers the curious case of Martin Johnson Heade and extols two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. Next, it discusses the eccentric pre-moderns James McNeill Whistler and Albert Pinkham Ryder, the competing American Impressionists and Realists in the early twentieth century, and such now-historic avant-garde figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, and Elie Nadelman. Two appreciations of Edward Hopper and appraisals of Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol round out the volume. America speaks through its artists. As Updike states in his introduction, “The dots can be connected from Copley to Pollock: the same tense engagement with materials, the same demand for a morality of representation, can be discerned in both.”

Married but Still Looking

Married but Still Looking PDF Author: Travis Hunter
Publisher: Villard
ISBN: 1588361896
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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New from the author of the national bestseller The Hearts of Men: a novel about one man’s quest to end his cheating ways. Women have flocked to Genesis Styles ever since he was a teenager. He’s a good-looking, smooth-talking former pro-basketball player, but he has a problem: He has never been satisfied with just one woman. Then he meets Terri and everything changes. Sort of. Genesis knows that Terri is perfect for him, and he asks her to marry him. But Genesis just can’t seem to stop cheating on Terri nearly every chance he gets. Genesis’s best friend, Prodigy, constantly warns him that he’s going to mess up the best thing ever to happen to him, but Genesis is not ready to listen. After dealing with a family crisis, Genesis realizes the importance of his relationship with Terri, and he begins to change his cheating ways. He knows that once he says “I do,” everything will fall into place. But it may be too late, because one of his past indiscretions comes back to haunt him, and now Terri may have a few surprises of her own. . . .

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 990

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DON'T

DON'T PDF Author: R.T.SALAS
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 149072253X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 125

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Jim is a part time archeologist and finds emblems on an old mausoleum in an old part of a cemetery, sees some kind of inscriptions cannot make out the what it is, so he removes one. Jim inadvertly breaks a seal containing an untold evil, and starts to see horrific figures following him, eager to find out what the inscription means Jim does research, and when he does find out its too late.The inscriptions translate "He who breaks the seal is doomed." Jim tries to put back the emblem but to no avail, he is doomed and is taken by the evil tnto the mausoleum never to return. At the same time a young man Jason walking the cemetery reading tombstones sees the door of the mausoleum open, and looks in and sees something not meant to be seen by man, now his life is in danger. Until the ones that put the evil in the mausoleum finds out, now its a battle to save him and other mortals from this evil.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine

Harper's New Monthly Magazine PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1034

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Important American periodical dating back to 1850.

The Ruins of Fountains Abbey

The Ruins of Fountains Abbey PDF Author: Arnold Whitaker Oxford
Publisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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The Ivory Gate

The Ivory Gate PDF Author: Walter Besant
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Dumb Foxglove

Dumb Foxglove PDF Author: Annie Trumbull Slosson
Publisher:
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Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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A Midsummer Madness

A Midsummer Madness PDF Author: Ellen Olney Kirk
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Hoard's Dairyman

Hoard's Dairyman PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 956

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