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Cedar Crossing
ISBN: 9780875655451 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history--although it made front-page headlines in the "Dallas Morning News" and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This horrifying event is at the center of a compelling novel by author Mark Busby. He has not only researched original documents but has used family oral histories to probe the mysteries that still shroud a lynching that is as horrifying and baffling now as it must have been over a hundred years ago. The "War of Northern Aggression" was still fresh in the memory...
The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history--although it made front-page headlines in the "Dal...
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108,98 zł |
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Fort Benning Blues
ISBN: 9780875652382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby takes us on a journey through an era of hippies, the shootings at Kent State University, integration, and Woodstock. "Fort ""Benning"" Blues" tells the story of Vietnam from this side of the ocean.
Drafted in 1969, Jeff Adams faces a war he doesn't understand. While trying to delay the inevitable tour of duty in Vietnam, Adams attends Officer Candidate School in Fort Benning, Georgia, desperately hoping Nixon will achieve "peace with honor"... If you've never even been to Southeast Asia, can you be a Vietnam veteran? In a novel that captures the life and times of a generation, Mark Busby tak...
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107,02 zł |
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Through Our Times: Occasional Poems 1960-2017
ISBN: 9781942956402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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65,52 zł |
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The Southwest: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures
ISBN: 9780313328053 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From Native Americans to Basques, from the art colonies of Taos to Texas blues musicians, and from Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona, to early sod houses in Texas, this is the first in-depth reference source to Southwest regional culture and history.
From Native Americans to Basques, from the art colonies of Taos to Texas blues musicians, and from Frank Lloyd Wright in Arizona, to early sod houses ...
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414,23 zł |
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From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter
ISBN: 9780875652375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Katherine Anne Porter's uneasy relationship with her home state has become increasingly important to discussions of her life and work. Born in the now-gone community of Indian Creek and raised in Kyle, Porter is tied to Texas by three major events that occurred during her career.
In 1939 she expected to receive the Texas Institute of Letters Award for "Best Texas Book" only to be insulted when the award went to folklorist J. Frank Dobie. In the 1950s she accepted an invitation to lecture at the University of Texas at Austin. During her visit to present that lecture, Porter began to... Katherine Anne Porter's uneasy relationship with her home state has become increasingly important to discussions of her life and work. Born in the now...
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115,75 zł |
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John Graves, Writer
ISBN: 9780292714946 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Runner-up, Violet Crown Award, Writer's League of Texas, 2008 Renowned for Goodbye to a River, his now-classic meditation on the natural and human history of Texas, as well as for his masterful ability as a prose stylist, John Graves has become the dean of Texas letters for a legion of admiring readers and fellow writers. Yet apart from his own largely autobiographical works, including Hard Scrabble, From a Limestone Ledge, and Myself and Strangers, surprisingly little has been written about Graves's life or his work. John Graves,... Runner-up, Violet Crown Award, Writer's League of Texas, 2008 Renowned for Goodbye to a River, his now-classic meditation... |
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146,86 zł |
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Walking Out of the Storm: One Man's Journey From Victim to Survivor
ISBN: 9781446166963 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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229,74 zł |
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The Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature
ISBN: 9780890964170 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The frontier has evoked a set of images, attitudes, and assumptions that have shaped a peculiarly American literary heritage. This volume reconsiders the whole of American literary tradition by focusing on the imaginative impact of the frontier mythology. Exploring the aesthetic implications of frontier experience, these essays also illustrate the vigorous debate among scholars regarding canon formation. Long dominated by the works of white males from the northeastern region of the country, the American literary canon continues to expand to include works by minorities, women, and authors from...
The frontier has evoked a set of images, attitudes, and assumptions that have shaped a peculiarly American literary heritage. This volume reconsiders ...
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103,70 zł |
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