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Author: C. A. Lupton Publisher: Book Guild Publishing ISBN: 1915122694 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
Book Description
It’s the late postgenomic era and the loss of habitable landmass has led to severe limits on human birth. In the drive for species perfection, fewer and fewer can breed, and the long-simmering tension between the reproductive ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ is coming to the boil.
Author: C. A. Lupton Publisher: Book Guild Publishing ISBN: 1915122694 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 247
Book Description
It’s the late postgenomic era and the loss of habitable landmass has led to severe limits on human birth. In the drive for species perfection, fewer and fewer can breed, and the long-simmering tension between the reproductive ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ is coming to the boil.
Author: Katie Laur Publisher: ISBN: 9781949248593 Category : Bluegrass music Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Nancy Katherine Laur is a Southern girl raised on the red dirt of middle Tennessee. This is where she began to fashion for herself a different kind of American Dream. If this compilation of her stories rings true, it's because Katie is a keen observer of the human condition and her writing reveals a thread in the fabric of life that holds us all together. She writes about human frailty, successes, and she celebrates the lives of ordinary people with great compassion. Her stories will remind you of your own experiences, and she is as fascinated with people who might wander into a country bar at midnight looking like they had been to a prom to people attending an event hosted by the symphony. It has been said that if you haven't lived it, you haven't learned it. Katie's life in music has provided many unusual experiences, from performing bluegrass to singing for sophisticated audiences in New York City. She writes of family and friends, of relatives she hasn't seen in years, and of characters as different as riverboat captains and women who are her heroes. Reading these stories is like being guided through a museum filled with paintings of interesting people, each presented in a way that allows us to walk arm in arm with Katie as our docent"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806191694 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 252
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A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s and 1950s. In this exquisite rendering of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, the author bears witness to a family and community that still cling to the dream of America as a republic of landowners.
Author: Margaret Renkl Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 1571319875 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 187
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From the New York Times columnist, a portrait of a family and the cycles of joy and grief that mark the natural world: “Has the makings of an American classic.” —Ann Patchett Growing up in Alabama, Margaret Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and a fiercely loved daughter. Here, in brief essays, she traces a tender and honest portrait of her complicated parents—her exuberant, creative mother; her steady, supportive father—and of the bittersweet moments that accompany a child’s transition to caregiver. And here, braided into the overall narrative, Renkl offers observations on the world surrounding her suburban Nashville home. Ringing with rapture and heartache, these essays convey the dignity of bluebirds and rat snakes, monarch butterflies and native bees. As these two threads haunt and harmonize with each other, Renkl suggests that there is astonishment to be found in common things: in what seems ordinary, in what we all share. For in both worlds—the natural one and our own—“the shadow side of love is always loss, and grief is only love’s own twin.” Gorgeously illustrated by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, Late Migrations is an assured and memorable debut. “Magnificent . . . Readers will savor each page and the many gems of wisdom they contain.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author: Jodi Dee Publisher: Jodi Dee Publishing ISBN: 9781736209332 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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When Zafera goes to school for the first time, all the children laugh and tease.Zafera is a normal, beautiful little girl, yet she often has dirt on her hands and twigs in her hair. But, Zafera does not understand so she just smiles. Finally, Zafera invites all the children to her house for her birthday party. Find how she becomes the most popular girl in school in an exciting unexpected twist!The Dirt Girl is a multi-award winning story about a little girl who is different. A beautiful story about shining bright no matter what, because our differences are our greatest gifts. And if you do, others will eventually see your light.
Author: Susan Kates Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press ISBN: 0806150572 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 148
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For many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi-dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt-faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one-dimensional characterizations by exploring—and celebrating—the lives of contemporary Oklahoma women whose experiences are anything but predictable. In essays both intensely personal and universal, Red Dirt Women reveals the author’s own heartaches and joys in becoming a parent through adoption, her love of regional treasures found in “junk” stores, and her deep appreciation of Miss Dorrie, her son’s unconventional preschool teacher. Through lively profiles, interviews, and sketches, we come to know pioneer queens from the Panhandle, rodeo riders, casino gamblers, roller-derby skaters, and the “Lady of Jade”—a former “boat person” from Vietnam who now owns a successful business in Oklahoma City. As she illuminates the lives of these memorable Oklahoma women, Kates traces her own journey to Oklahoma with clarity and insight. Born and raised in Ohio, she confesses an initial apprehension about her adopted home, admitting that she felt “vulnerable on the open lands.” Yet her original unease develops into a deep affection for the landscape, history, culture, and people of Oklahoma. The women we meet in Red Dirt Women are not politicians, governors’ wives, or celebrities—they are women of all ages and backgrounds who surround us every day and who are as diverse as Oklahoma itself.
Author: E.M. Reapy Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1784974668 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 289
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A group of young Irish migrants leave a man called Hopper for dead on an outback road in Australia. They barely know him; no-one will miss him in their world of hostels, wild nights on cheap wine and grinding work on isolated farms. In this powerful novel about the discovery of responsibility, three young people – Fiona, Murph and Hopper – flee the collapse of their country's economy. In the heat and endless spaces of Australia they try to escape their past, but impulsive cruelty, shame and guilt drag them down, and it is easy to make terrible choices.
Author: Anna Myers Publisher: ISBN: 9780780755291 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown.
Author: C. A. Lupton
Author: C. A. Lupton
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Author: Katie Laur
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Author: Margaret Renkl
Author: Jodi Dee
Author: Susan Kates
Author: E.M. Reapy
Author: Anna Myers