Author: Natasha Trethewey Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 082034902X Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
Beyond Katrina is poet Natasha Trethewey’s very personal profile of her natal Mississippi Gulf Coast and of the people there whose lives were forever changed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Trethewey’s attempt to understand and document the damage to Gulfport started as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia that were subsequently published as essays in the Virginia Quarterly Review. For Beyond Katrina, Trethewey expanded this work into a narrative that incorporates personal letters, poems, and photographs, offering a moving meditation on the love she holds for her childhood home. In this new edition, Trethewey looks back on the ten years that have passed since Katrina in a new epilogue, outlining progress that has been made and the challenges that still exist.
Author: Rebecca Giles Publisher: ISBN: 9781734495041 Category : Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
Coastal Mississippi Alphabet celebrates the people, places, and events unique to the area of south Mississippi from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula teaching while it entertains. Rhymed verse, interesting facts, historical photographs, and beautifully detailed illustrations depict the rich offerings of this distinctive geographic region. A hidden picture activity and a glossary of terms enhance the learning in this delightfully educational book.
Author: Anthony W. Kalberg Publisher: ISBN: 9780692206287 Category : Languages : en Pages : 352
Book Description
Deep in the heart of the Mississippi Gulf Coast just before World War II, a brutal double murder turns the seaside and otherwise peaceful town of Port Haven upside down. But for some who run in certain circles-the political class, the cultural elites-the deaths of wealthy Sebastian DePellepoix and young roughneck Johnnie Necaise aren't such a big surprise. Taking place over a span of twenty years, A Chasing of the Wind is seen through the eyes of Cooper Austin Barnes, the enigmatic sheriff who went to the original murder scene in 1938 with his grandfather, who was Port Haven's sheriff at the time. Sworn into office after returning from World War II (where he spent most of the war years in a German prisoner-of-war camp), Cooper does his best to hold his beloved hometown together through triumph and tragedy (including a Katrina-like hurricane) while slowly gathering clues and evidence that might finally solve the murders. Filled with vivid portraits of the high-society set as well as a likable Andy Griffith sort who won't rest until he's given every last drop of energy to his family, friends, and the place he calls home, A Chasing of the Wind is a bittersweet, suspenseful tale of greed, lust, honor, loyalty...and secrets. Our first look at the mesmerizing work of Mississippi novelist Anthony W. Kalberg, A Chasing of the Wind will only add to the state's sterling literary reputation.
Author: Douglas Brinkley Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061744735 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1214
Book Description
In the span of five violent hours on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina destroyed major Gulf Coast cities and flattened 150 miles of coastline. But it was only the first stage of a shocking triple tragedy. On the heels of one of the three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the United States came the storm-surge flooding, which submerged a half-million homes—followed by the human tragedy of government mismanagement, which proved as cruel as the natural disaster itself. In The Great Deluge, bestselling author Douglas Brinkley finds the true heroes of this unparalleled catastrophe, and lets the survivors tell their own stories, masterly allowing them to record the nightmare that was Katrina.
Author: Jerry Cunningham Publisher: Jerry Cunningham ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Could slavery get worse after centuries of it? It did in the slave South in the decades just before the Civil War. This book explores the expansion of slavery during the period, the growth of the mass-labor cotton and sugar plantations, the expulsion of the Native Americans, and the new types of repression. Those new types of repression included new laws that prohibited the teaching of a slave to read or write - prohibited literacy - under penalty of whippings or worse. Other new types of repression included laws against gatherings - aimed at religious gatherings. Laws requiring slaves to have a pass from the slaveowner or a white person were ancient; they were tightened under the new regime. The laws were enforced by the notorious patrols, made of poorer white men, whose service was always mandatory and often drunken. The book chronicles, often in the voices of the slaves themselves, both the repression against literacy and religion and their resistance to it.
Author: Barbara Esham Publisher: Mainstream Connections ISBN: 1603364528 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 59
Book Description
ADHD, ADD, Dyslexia, Learning Styles, Learning Disabilities Introduces the mainstream student and educator to the world of the child who struggles academically. The main character discovers her father is dyslexic, as is one of her classmates-- and she tries to make sense of it.
Author: Anne R. King Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9781578061280 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Although his art took form in many mediums, this lush and colorful book focuses on Walter Anderson's murals, further expanding our understanding of the life work of this richly complex artist. 84 full-color photos. 20 illustrations.
Author: Natasha Trethewey
Author: Rebecca Giles
Author: Christopher Maurer
Author: Anthony W. Kalberg
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Author: Douglas Brinkley
Author: Jerry Cunningham
Author: John R. Swanton
Author: Barbara Esham
Author: Anne R. King