Download or read book The Reverend s Apprentice Large Print 16pt written by David N. Odhiambo and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reverend's Apprentice, the third novel by David N. Odhiambo, is a powerful, tragicomic novel about power, culture, and identity politics in contemporary America, as seen through the eyes of an African student. Jonah Ayot is a graduate student from a fictional central African nation, studying in a fictional American city some time after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003; the novel mirrors Jonah's own struggle as a newcomer to American life, trying to organize his perceptions around an identity that is global rather than parochial. But those perceptions become muddied in the reality of the new war zone - on American soil, where the foreign becomes familiar, and the familiar is no longer what it used to be. Dissonant, frantic, and full of the white noise of a culture at war with itself, The Reverend's Apprentice takes the familiar story of the stranger in a strange land to new, disturbing, breathtaking new levels. The American magazine Black Issues Book Review has said: ''David Odhiambo joins a third guard of African novelists made up of peers like Uganda's Moses Isegawa and Nigeria's Chris Abani. The books of this younger generation of African writers (heirs to the continent's greats from Chinua Achebe to Mark Mathabane) shed the starched language and steep romanticism of Africa's literary tradition to expose the rawer, hipper, more vulgar aspects of life as lived by most Africans today.''
Download or read book Ghetto Girls Too Large Print 16pt written by Anthony Whyte and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best of the street chronicles today, Ghetto Girls Too is a wonderfully hypnotic adventure that delves into the convoluted minds of criminals and the dark world of police corruption. Yet, there is something thrilling and surprisingly tender about this ongoing young-adult saga filled with mad flava. This latest installment of the popular, action-packed series follows Coco as her fortunes take a turn for the worse as she faces a looming threat while on the brink of fame. Simultaneously struggling with her own potential handicap and her mother's precarious sobriety, Coco calls on Deedee to help decode an enigmatic message from Miss Katie. Meanwhile, Deedee is in a quandary of her own, as she discovers that her uncle has been having a relationship with Josephine and sets her sights on reuniting him with his former fiance. The tension escalates as Eric Ascot continues to be pursued by the police, who are dead-set on framing him in a multiple murder plot, and the story speeds to its explosive and shocking end.
Download or read book The Greek Plays Large Print 16pt written by Ellen McLaughlin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chilling passage is from Ellen McLaughlin's new adaptation of The Persians by Aeschylus, the earliest surviving play in Western literature, an elegy for a fallen civi-lization and a warning to its new conqueror. As Margo Jefferson wrote in the New York Times, ''the play is a true classic: we see the present and the future right there, inside the past. And when writers give us a 'new version' (a translation or adaptation) of a classic, they both serve and use it. They serve the playwright's gifts by refusing to simplify. But they can't just imitate. Every age has its own rhythms and drives. The classic must make us feel the new acutely. Ellen McLaughlin serves and uses The Persians with true power and grace.''
Download or read book Bretz s Flood Large Print 16pt written by John Soennichsen and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The land between Idaho and the Cascade Mountains is characterized by gullies, coulees, and deserts--in geologic terms, it is a wholly unique place on the earth. Legendary geologist J Harlen Bretz, starting in the 1920s, was the first to explore the area. Bretz, a former science teacher at Franklin High School in Seattle and then a professor at t...
Download or read book To the Death Large Print 16pt written by Patrick Robinson and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Patrick Robinson comes his most provocative international thriller and the much much-anticipated conclusion of his renowned series starring Admiral Arnold Morgan and his terrorist nemesis, General Ravi Rashood. The hunt begins when a bomb explodes in Boston's Logan Airport, and Admiral Arnold Morgan, ..
Download or read book Missed Her Large Print 16pt written by Ivan E. Coyote and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan E. Coyote is a master storyteller and performer; her beautiful, funny stories about growing up queer in the Canadian north and living out loud on Canada's west coast have attracted big audiences whether gay, straight, or otherwise. Missed Her is Ivan's fifth story collection, following 2008's Lambda Literary Award-nominated The Slow Fix, 2004's Ferro-Grumley Award-nominated Loose End, and 2006's Bow Grip, her novel that was named a Stonewall Honor Book by the American Library Association (now in development as a feature film).In her passionate and humourous new collection, Ivan takes readers on an intimate journey, both literal and figurative, through the experiences of her life: from her year spent in eastern Canada, to her return to the west coast, to travels in between. Whether discussing the politics of being a butch with a pet lapdog, or befriending an effeminate young man at a gay camp, or revisiting a forty-year old heartbreak around her grandmothers kitchen, Ivan traverses love, gender and identity with a wistful, perceptive eye, and a warmth that's as embracing and powerful as Ivan herself.
Download or read book The American Boy s Handy Book Large Print 16pt written by Daniel Carter Beard and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1890, The American Boys Handy Book is the ultimate collection of timeless boyhood activities. Written and illustrated by America's founding father of scouting, this book shows how to have fun while being constructive, creative and daring. The American Boys Handy Book is packed with tips, instructions, and illustrations fo...
Download or read book The Ghost Trap A Novel Large Print 16pt written by K. Stephens and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephens gives the reader an unvarnished view of the subculture of lobster fishermen in small - town coastal Maine. - James Acheson' author of The Lobster Gangs of Maine Stephens has a wonderful clear eye for people' especially Maine people' and The Ghost Trap is populated with dozens from all walks of Maine life. - Bill Roorbach' author of Temple Stream A salty' tangy read. . . . Stephens plunges you into the back - breaking' heart - breaking life of one lobsterman. - Richard Grant' author of Another Green World Stephens nails harbor life down to the unwritten rules and defense of imaginary territory lines. . . . Peppered with dark humor and brutal honesty' The Ghost Trap gives it to you straight' the way life should be. - Ryan Post' fourth - generation lobsterman' creator of Mainebuggin.
Download or read book Tu Large Print 16pt written by Patricia Grace and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three brothers, a war and secrets. Some years later, a niece and nephew come looking for answers. It is time for revelations"--Publisher description.
Download or read book Mariposa Large Print 16pt written by Greg Bear and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this near-future thriller, three FBI agents take on the Talos Corporation and its plan to destroy the government and constitutional law by means of a treatment program code-named Mariposa.
Download or read book The Irish Wine Trilogy Large Print 16pt written by Ken Dolan-Del Vecchio and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Wine; The Trilogy is the original group of short comic novels that first introduced Dick Wimmer's beloved cast of characters' the same characters who most recently reappeared in The Wildly Irish Sextet. In these novels' which span ten years and two continents' readers are introduced to Seamus Boyne' the greatest painter since Picasso; his old friend' erstwhile writer and practicing pest - control specialist Gene Hagar; his beautiful Dutch wife - and Hagar's lost love - Ciara; and his estranged' rebellious teenage daughter' Tory. From the first pages' in which an overwrought Boyne's suicide attempt is rudely interrupted by an attempted assassination' readers are in for a wild ride. A staged death' an unexpected father - daughter reunion' a madcap adventure of kidnapping and mistaken identity' and bizarre love triangles are some of the hijinks and tomfoolery to be found in Irish Wine' Boyne's Lassie' and Hagar's Dream - now back in print to the delight of Seamus Boyne devotees across the land.
Download or read book In the Courts of the Conqueror Large Print 16pt written by Walter Echo-Hawk and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echo-Hawk reveals the troubling fact that American law has rendered legal the destruction of Native Americans and their culture. He analyzes ten cases that embody or expose the roots of injustice and highlight the use of nefarious legal doctrines.
Download or read book Calculated Risk Large Print 16pt written by Mark W. Clark and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark W. Clark was a major figure in World War II. He was prominent as one of the top American commanders. Together with Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar N. Bradley, and George S. Patton, Jr., Clark was widely regarded as being responsible for victory on the European side of the conflict. - from the introduction One of the great World War II memoirs by a legendary American general in charge of operations in North Africa and Italy. General Mark W. Clark recounts his wartime exploits and tells the story of the battles in Tunisia and Italy with verve and attention to key detail. An unparalleled account by a great military leader.
Download or read book Best American Political Writing 2008 Large Print 16pt written by Royce Flippin and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Best American Political Writing 2008 draws from a variety of publications and political viewpoints to present the year's most insightful, entertaining, and thought-provoking pieces on the current political scene. This year's edition will include full coverage of the presidential candidates and conventions, and will offer incisive reporting o...
Download or read book Hartley Field Large Print 16pt written by Connie Wanek and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Hartley Field are by turns witty and amusing, lyrical and moving. But always they are clear and -direct. Wanek writes clever, closely observed poems on subjects as diverse as ''Butter'' and ''the Hammer,'' work which is in the tradition of Francis Ponge and Pablo Neruda. These are often humorous and are enormous fun to read. Similarly, a number of poems focus upon children's games and activities (''Checkers'' and ''Jump Rope,'' among others), and explore them physically and psychologically. What is most remarkable about this collection is the consistent originality of the imagery and elegance of language. In the poem ''Late September,'' we find ''a plumed of smoke hand-feeding the wind.'' The object poem ''lemon'' observes that the fruit has ''bumpers on both ends like a Volks wagon.'' A racoon advancing into a dark yard is described as ''a creature both manly and womanly/capable of force or seduction.'' Here is the first stanza of the elegiac ''After Us.'' Rain is falling through the roof. And all that prospered under the sun the books that opened in the morning and closed at night, and all day turned their pages to the light. . . . Joyce Sutphen says of Wanek, ''Nothing about what she says or sees is routine...(Hartley Field) is a book of revelations; in poem after poem, some ordinary object or event is split open with such keen tenderness that the heart is caught off guard.'' Connie Wanek was born in 1952 and lives in Duluth, Minnesota. She is the author of Bonfire, published in 1997 by New Rivers Press. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Virginia Quarterly, Country Journal, and many other publications. She has been awarded fellowship support from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council and The Jerome Foundation.
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Download or read book Lines from a Mined Mind Large Print 16pt written by John Trudell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Trudell's potent imagery and passionate convictions have established his international reputation as a poet and musician. Using his commanding voice, the ''people's poet'' has also made great strides as a Native American activist, as a leader of the American Indian Movement, and as spokesperson for the All Tribes occupation of Alcatraz Island. For the first time, Lines from a Mined Mind brings together lyrics and musings from Trudell's 20-year recording career. More than a simple anthology, this collection goes deeper, revealing the incendiary intersection of music and activism.
