Download or read book Knee deep in Mississippi written by Clay Jones and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catch not only a glimpse into the muddy backwater of Mississippi state and local politics, but also a sidelong glance at national figures and issues. "Captain Kirk" lampoons Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice, while "Confederacy of Dunces" satirizes Mississippi's legislature, which makes an editorial cartoonist's job easy with "suspect politicians, a regressive tax system, and constant schemes to raise their own pay." Other chapters including "Sports," "Daze of Our Lives," and "Life with Bill" prove to be consistently funny and insightful.
Download or read book Knee Deep in Wonder written by April Reynolds and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling first novel about four generations of fear and longing in the deep South "Who're your people, girl?" It's the song of the South, the big question, persistent and unforgiving. Helene Strickland, daughter of Lafayette County, Arkansas, and lately of the Northeast, doesn't have an answer. Instead, she has memories riddled with half-truths, stories heard in fits and starts, a family history from a family that doesn't know its own past. In the steamy August of 1976, Helene returns home for her aunt's funeral determined to learn the truth, but her probing yields more questions than answers: Why did her grandmother, Liberty, a cotton picker turned saloon owner, have no name until she was fourteen? Why does Queen Ester, Helene's mother, dress like a child, talk to no one, and refuse to see her own daughter? And who was Chess, a man with a terror of water, a man like a honey trap who drew the women and then destroyed them? In a mesmerizing narrative, April Reynolds seamlessly weaves past and present, intricate flashbacks and interlaced stories to produce an epic novel of one family maimed by the deepest wounds of history. Rich with legend, poetry, and historic events, Knee-Deep in Wonder captures the complex humanity of black Southern life.
Download or read book Knee deep in Mississippi written by and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catch not only a glimpse into the muddy backwater of Mississippi state and local politics, but also a sidelong glance at national figures and issues. Captain Kirk lampoons Mississippi governor Kirk Fordice, while Confederacy of Dunces satirizes Mississippi's legislature, which makes an editorial cartoonist's job easy with suspect politicians, a regressive tax system, and constant schemes to raise their own pay. Other chapters including Sports, Daze of Our Lives, and Life with Bill prove to be consistently funny and insightful.
Download or read book Meacham MS written by Robert John Sand and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chicago cop injured and retired receives an unexpected inheritance in the deep south and winds up chasing a serial killer.
Download or read book Deep South written by Nevada Barr and published by Headline. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Deep South, Park Ranger Anna Pigeon heads to Mississippi, only to encounter terrible secrets in the heart of the south? Anna Pigeon finally gives in to her bureaucratic clock ? and signs on for a promotion. Next thing she knows, she?s knee-deep in mud and Mississippi. Not exactly what she had in mind. Almost immediately, as the new district ranger on the Natchez Trace, Anna discovers the body of a young prom queen near a country cemetery, a sheet around her head, a noose around her neck. It?s a bizarre twist on a best-forgotten past of frightening racial undertones. As fast as the ever-encroaching kudzu vines of the region, the roots of this story run deep ? and threaten to suffocate anyone in the way, including Anna?
Download or read book Knee Deep in Wonder written by April Reynolds and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling novel about four generations of fear and longing in the deep South. "Who're your people, girl?" It's the song of the South, the big question, persistent and unforgiving. Helene Strickland, daughter of Lafayette County, Arkansas, and lately of the Northeast, doesn't have an answer. Instead, she has memories riddled with half-truths, stories heard in fits and starts, a family history from a family that doesn't know its own past. In the steamy August of 1976, Helene returns home for her aunt's funeral determined to learn the truth, but her probing yields more questions than answers: Why did her grandmother, Liberty, a cotton picker turned saloon owner, have no name until she was fourteen? Why does Queen Ester, Helene's mother, dress like a child, talk to no one, and refuse to see her own daughter? And who was Chess, a man with a terror of water, a man like a honey trap who drew the women and then destroyed them?
Download or read book Knee Deep in the Dead written by Dafydd ab Hugh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gates were there on Phobos when mankind first arrived. Inert, unyielding, impossibly alien constructs, for twenty years they sat lifeless, mute testaments to their long-vanished creators, their secrets hidden. Then one day, they sprang to life... Meet Corporal Flynn Taggart, United States Marine Corps; serial number 888-23-9912. He's the best warrior the twenty-first century has to offer, which is a damn good thing. Because Flynn Taggart is all that's standing between the hell that just dropped in on Mars and an unsuspectingg planet Earth...
Download or read book Field Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.
Download or read book Tales from the Trumpster Fire written by Clay Jones and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nature s Wonderland written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-29 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the amazing natural landmarks and diverse wildlife of United States and Canada. There's nowhere on Earth like North America. From scorching deserts to frozen tundra, dense rainforests to coral reefs-this continent has it all! In this captivating nature ebook, you'll take a tour of the most amazing environments across United States and Canada, the two biggest countries in North America. Learn about incredible natural features like Niagara Falls-and find out which North American waterfalls are actually higher! Get to know the unique animals that live only on the islands of the Florida Keys. Find out which species can survive in Death Valley, the hottest place in the world. Full of colorful photographs and charming illustrations, this fascinating nature ebook is your ultimate guide to the amazing natural wonders, wildlife, and varied environments of the United States and Canada.
Download or read book The Loyal Republic written by Erik Mathisen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of how Americans attempted to define what it meant to be a citizen of the United States, at a moment of fracture in the republic's history. As Erik Mathisen demonstrates, prior to the Civil War, American national citizenship amounted to little more than a vague bundle of rights. But during the conflict, citizenship was transformed. Ideas about loyalty emerged as a key to citizenship, and this change presented opportunities and profound challenges aplenty. Confederate citizens would be forced to explain away their act of treason, while African Americans would use their wartime loyalty to the Union as leverage to secure the status of citizens during Reconstruction. In The Loyal Republic, Mathisen sheds new light on the Civil War, American emancipation, and a process in which Americans came to a new relationship with the modern state. Using the Mississippi Valley as his primary focus and charting a history that traverses both sides of the battlefield, Mathisen offers a striking new history of the Civil War and its aftermath, one that ushered in nothing less than a revolution in the meaning of citizenship in the United States.
Download or read book Marches of the Dragoons in the Mississippi Valley written by Louis Pelzer and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Shalom Y all written by and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the Southern Jewish experience through a collection of photographs that depict the merging traditions of both cultures.
Download or read book Mississippi s Civil War Battlefields written by Randy Bishop and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-22 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Crisp and concise . . . As the nation prepares to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the conflict in which brother fought brother, the current state of preservation that Bishop provides for each of these sites is timely and helps underscore the significance of Mississippi’s rich Civil War heritage.” —Terrence J. Winschel, historian, Vicksburg National Military Park, and author, Triumph & Defeat: The Vicksburg Campaign Between the years of 1862 and 1864, Mississippi was the site of such conflicts as the Battle of Corinth and the Siege of Vicksburg. This history book covers the fourteen major skirmishes that took place within the Magnolia State during the Civil War and offers a detailed description of each location’s current state of preservation. The maintenance of these sites are necessary to memorialize the more than 80,000 forgotten men who fought in these battles. In chronological order, sixteen chapters discuss each skirmish in detail and include firsthand accounts from those embroiled in the fighting, which depict the conditions faced throughout the series of conflicts. Photographs taken during the Civil War along with images of the sites today offer a past and present perspective of the battles that occurred within Mississippi’s boundaries.
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Download or read book American Trinity written by Larry Len Peterson and published by Sweetgrass Books. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Trinity is for everyone who loves the American West and wants to learn more about the good, the bad, and the ugly. It is a sprawling story with a scholarly approach in method but accessible in manner. In this innovative examination, Dr. Larry Len Peterson explores the origins, development, and consequences of hatred and racism from the time modern humans left Africa 100,000 years ago to the forced placement of Indian children on off-reservation schools far from home in the late 1800s. Along the way, dozens of notable individuals and cultures are profiled. Many historical events turned on the lives of legendary Americans like the "Father of the West," Thomas Jefferson, and the "Son of the West," George Armstrong Custer - two strange companions who shared an unshakable sense of their own skills - as their interpretation of truths motivated them in the winning of the West. Dr. Peterson reveals how anti-Indian sentiments were always only obliquely about them. They were victims but not the cause. The Indian was a symbol, not a real person. The politics of hate and racism directed toward them was also experienced in prior centuries by Jews, enslaved Africans, and other Christians. Hatred and racism, when taken into the public domain, are singularly difficult to justify, which is why Europeans and Americans have always sought vindication from the highest sources of authority in their cultures. In the Middle Ages it was religion supplemented later by the philosophy of the Enlightenment. In nineteenth-century Europe and America, religion and philosophy were joined by science and medicine to support Manifest Destiny, scientific racism, and social Darwinism, all of which had profound consequences on Native Americans and the Spirit of the West. Presenting research in anthropology, archaeology, biology, history, law, medicine, religion, philosophy, and psychology, Dr. Peterson provides the latest observations that delineate why the Native American's life was destroyed. American Trinity is a stunning portrait, a view at once unique, panoramic, and intimate. It is a fascinating book that will make you think about the differences between belief and knowledge; about the self-skepticism of science and medicine; and about what aspects of the world we take on faith.
