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"Luke Wallin's collection of five stories and twenty-one poems encompasses both nature and the supernatural. The collection is stitched together with Wallin's signature humor and thoughtful lens on the world. Readers are transported to landscapes infused with mystery and wonder. From conversant bears to young men in love, Wallin explores places where anything, including a greedy pig posting on social media, is possible. These are stories and poems to savor"--
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It is 1835 in the stolen Creek Indian lands of the southeast. Caleb McElroy, a white man of sixteen, riding on wolf hunt in the snow, discovers Six Deer, a young Creek near death on his vision quest. Caleb rescues Six Deer, and eventually joins Pine Basket, his sister, and their family in the struggle to survive the Trail of Tears. A New York Public Library Best Book, now recommended by the United States National History Standards. “Fast-moving and touching, this should appeal not just to history buffs but to anyone who enjoys a good story.” –School Library Journal
Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective presents 20 essays which explore diverse cultural interpretations of the earth's surface. Contrasted with each other and with the potentially cosmopolitan culture of science, these detailed studies of ways in which different cultures conceptualise nature appear in the context of global environmental change. Understanding across cultural lines has never been more important. This book shows how individual cultures see their own histories as offering protection for nature, while often viewing others as lacking such ethical restraints. Through such writing a discourse of understanding and common action becomes possible. The authors come from the ...
Philosophers and geographers have converged on the topic of public space, fascinated and in many ways alarmed by fundamental changes in the way post-industrial societies produce space for public use, and in the way citizens of these same societies perceive and constitute themselves as a public. This volume advances this inquiry, making extensive use of political and social theory, while drawing intimate connections between political principles, social processes, and the commonplaces of our everyday environments.
Fiction recounting the experience of growing up in the Deep South
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In 1916, on the immigrant blocks of the Southern port city of Mobile, Alabama, a Romanian Jewish shopkeeper, Morris Kleinman, is sweeping his walk in preparation for the Confederate veterans parade about to pass by. "Daddy?" his son asks, "are we Rebels?" "Today?" muses Morris. "Yes, we are Rebels." Thus opens a novel set, like many, in a languid Southern town. But, in a rarity for Southern novels, this one centers on a character who mixes Yiddish with his Southern and has for his neighbors small merchants from Poland, Lebanon, and Greece. As Morris resides with his family over his Dauphin Street store, enjoys cigars with his Cuban friend Pablo Pastor, and makes "a living not a killing," his...
Set along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, Come Landfall tells the stories of three women and the men they love in this novel of war and hurricanes, loss and renewal.
"Here is the book lover's literary tour of Florida, an exhaustive survey of writers, books, and literary sites in every part of the state. The state is divided into ten areas and each one is described from a literary point of view. You will learn what authors lived in or wrote about a place, which books describe the place, what important movies were made there, even the literary trivia which the true Florida book lover will want to know. You can use the book as a travel guide to a new way to see the state, as an armchair guide to a better understanding of our literary heritage, or as a guide to what to read next time you head to a bookstore or library."--Publisher.