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Category : Editions
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Guide to Reprints
Author: Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
Author: The Removed
Author: Brandon HobsonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062997564
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A novel “about a [Cherokee] family’s reckoning with loss and injustice...spirited, droll, and as quietly devastating as rain lifting from earth to sky” (Tommy Orange, New York Times–bestselling author of There, There). Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a family fractured by loss—from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer’s in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings of alienation. With the family’s annual bonfire approaching—an occasion marking both the Cherokee National Holiday and Ray-Ray’s death—Maria attempts to call the family together once more. But as the reunion draws near, each of them feels a strange blurring of the boundary between normal life and the spirit world. “Rich in Cherokee folklore” (San Francisco Chronicle) The Removed is “a moving meditation on family, home, and ancestral trauma” (Harper’s Bazaar). “A marvel. With a few sly gestures, a humble array of piercingly real characters...Brandon Hobson delivers an act of regeneration and solace. You won’t forget it.” —Jonathan Lethem, bestselling author of The Feral Detective “Multilayered, emotionally radiant...Highly recommended.” —Library Journal, starred review “Mesmerizing.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Hobson is a master storyteller. . . . This will stay long in readers’ minds.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia
Author: Richard Channing Moore PagePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Books on Demand
Author: The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality
Author: Marc Grau GrauPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030756459
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This aim of this open access book is to launch an international, cross-disciplinary conversation on fatherhood engagement. By integrating perspective from three sectors -- Health, Social Policy, and Work in Organizations -- the book offers a novel perspective on the benefits of engaged fatherhood for men, for families, and for gender equality. The chapters are crafted to engaged broad audiences, including policy makers and organizational leaders, healthcare practitioners and fellow scholars, as well as families and their loved ones.
The Annual American Catalog, 1906
Author: The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States, 1789-1800: The justices on circuit, 1790-1794
Author: Maeva MarcusPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231088695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Volume 2 details the workings of the Court's experimental practice of sending Justices around the country to serve as judges at sessions of the various federal circuit courts. The documents in this volume reveal that the justices quickly voiced bitter complaints about the demands of their circuit duties. They also questioned the propriety--and perhaps constitutionality--of assigning the same individuals to act as superior and inferior court judges. The documents in this volume also touch upon topics that figured prominently in the law and politics of the era: neutrality, the boundary between state and federal crimes, the constitutional prohibition against impairing the obligations of contracts, and the relationship between law and morality.