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“michael cotter”

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  • The Killdeer

    And Other Stories From the Farming Life

    by Michael Cotter ...
    “Even after dark, if you are quiet and attentive, you can hear a Killdeer far off. Sandbars, mud flats and grazed fields are where you find them. They are commonplace. So much so, that you might miss them if not for the unique sound they make as they fly overhead, or dart back and forth on the ground, as if wondering which way to go next. So it is with Michael Cotter’s stories. They are like a ... Read more

    $10.29 USD

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    by John Steinbeck ...
    A Penguin ClassicIn the two years after the 1939 publication of Steinbeck’s masterful The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck and his novel increasingly became the center of intense controversy and censorship. In search of a respite from the national stage, Steinbeck and his close friend, biologist Ed Ricketts, embarked on a month long marine specimen-collecting expedition in the Gulf of California, which ... Read more

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  • Coming of Age in Mississippi

    The Classic Autobiography of Growing Up Poor and Black in the Rural South

    by Anne Moody ...
    The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change.“Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago TribuneBorn to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived ... Read more

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  • The Essential Writings

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    Frederick Douglass was born in 1817 and lived for ten years as a slave upon a Maryland plantation. Then he was bought by a Baltimore shipbuilder. He learned to read, and, being attracted by "The Lady of the Lake," when he escaped in 1838 and went disguised as a sailor to New Bedford, Mass., he adopted the name Douglas (spelling it with two s's, however). He lived for several years in New Bedford, ... Read more

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  • All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

    An Autobiography

    by Maya Angelou ...
    In 1962 the poet, musician, and performer Maya Angelou claimed another piece of her identity by moving to Ghana, joining a community of "Revolutionist Returnees" inspired by the promise of pan-Africanism. All God's Children Need Walking Shoes is her lyrical and acutely perceptive exploration of what it means to be an African American on the mother continent, where color no longer matters but where ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • ’Membering

    by Austin Clarke ...
    2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted2016 RBC Taylor Prize — LonglistedThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, ... Read more

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  • Casting with a Fragile Thread

    A Story of Sisters and Africa

    by Wendy Kann ...
    In this poignant, lyric memoir, a sister's tragic death prompts a woman's unbidden journey into her turbulent African past.A comfortable suburban housewife with three children living in Connecticut, Wendy Kann thought she had put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia—now Zimbabwe—behind her. Then one Sunday morning came a terrible phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, had been killed on a ... Read more

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  • A Memoir

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    From the personal to the political, this is the much-awaited memoir from Tim Pat Coogan.Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as editor for twenty years, he is renowned for bringing social and political change to Ireland. He went on to play a ... Read more

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  • The New Guinea Diaries 1871- 1883

    by N N Miklouho-Maclay, B Wongar ...
    Pioneering ecologist and humanist N. N. Miklouho-Maclay lived at a time of great colonial and industrial expansion; he was a pupil of the German philosopher Ernst Haeckel. To prove that the people of all races are equally human, Maclay went to the island of New Guinea (1870), the first white man to do so and stayed years with native Papuans while the rest of the world presumed he had been eaten. ... Read more

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  • The Unknown Kerouac (LOA #283)

    Rare, Unpublished & Newly Translated Writings

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Translated by Jean-Christophe Cloutier ...
    Series Book 4 - Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition
    This remarkable gathering of previously unpublished writings shines new light on the On the Road author’s life, from his French Canadian childhood to his meteoric rise to literary fameEdited and published with unprecedented access to the Kerouac archives, The Unknown Kerouac presents two lost novels, The Night Is My Woman and Old Bull in the Bowery, which Kerouac wrote in French during the ... Read more

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  • Eye to the Sky

    Storytelling on the Edge of Magic

    by Bobby Norfolk ...
    Nobody knows how to tell a story like Bobby Norfolk, and here he tells his own life story. Norfolk grew up in hardscrabble neighborhoods of Saint Louis, Missouri, during the 1950s and 60s, sometimes walking to elementary school from an apartment his parents could not afford to heat. Lifting himself up by force of will and God-given talent, Norfolk defeated a childhood stutter to become a high ... Read more

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  • We Carry Our Homes With Us

    A Cuban American Memoir

    by Marisella Veiga, Marisella Veiga ...
    On December 30, 1960, Marisella Veiga with her mother and two brothers boarded a plane from Havana to Miami. Her father fled a few months later, joining his family with a total of fourteen U.S. cents in his pocket and an understanding that he would never see his homeland again. Seeking a less competitive job market and thanks largely to the sponsorship of a host family in St. Paul, the Veigas ... Read more

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