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Creating Nonfiction - Twenty Essays And Interviews With The Writers

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 A diverse collection of essays and companion interviews that offer insight into the inspiration, drafting, and revision process.
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Vanished By The Danube - Peace, War, Revolution, And Flight To The West

by Charles Farkas

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 A story of loss and survival.
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J'Aime New York - A Bilingual Guide To The French Heritage Of New York State / Guide Bilingue De L'Heritage Francais De L'Etat De New York

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 A guide to the important but half-forgotten chapters of New York Stateâ€™s French history.
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Corbino - From Rubens To Ringling

by Janis Londraville e Richard Londraville

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 A biography of one of Americas neglected grand masters.
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Ordinary Jews

by Yehoshue Perle

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 Offers a translation of a modern Yiddish masterpiece.
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Body Shots - Hollywood And The Culture Of Eating Disorders

by Emily Fox-Kales

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 Combining the analytical tools of cinema studies with insights from clinical practice focused on eating disorders, this title offers a case for widespread media literacy to combat the effects of the eating disordered culture represented in Hollywood productions and popular images of celebrity life.
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Go, Tell Michelle - African American Women Write To The New First Lady

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 A treasury of letters written by African American women to Michelle Obama.
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The Revelation Of The Breath - A Tribute To Its Wisdom, Power, And Beauty

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 Celebrates and instructs in the healing power of breath.
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The Bhagavad Gita - Twenty-Fifthâ€“Anniversary Edition

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 An interlinear edition of the spiritual classic that provides devanagari, transliterated Sanskrit, and English versions of the "Gita".
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Queens - A History Of The Most Diverse Place On Earth

by Lawrence R. Samuel

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 Charts the historical development of Queens from the 1920s to today, focusing on its profound diversity.Queens charts the history of residential development of the New York City borough from the 1920s to today. The work focuses on the borough''s most remarkable aspect: its profound diversity as a multiethnic, multiracial, and multireligious place. The narrative traces the evolution of Queens from a quasi-suburb of Manhattan for the white middle class into the most diverse county in the United States and, many contend, the most diverse place on the planet. Following this trajectory adds much to our understanding of the borough, the city, the country, and even the world.
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Smashing The Tablets - Radical Retellings Of The Hebrew Bible

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 Provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers.Lot''s daughters rebel against their predatory father, Jacob wrestles an angel in a queer underground nightclub, Job arrives in the form of an avaricious former sorority girl-Smashing the Tablets presents a collection of provocative new readings of biblical texts by major contemporary Jewish writers. Behind this groundbreaking collection is the idea that foundational texts must be read anew or they become tools of conservatism and reaction. To achieve fresh readings, it is often necessary to step outside traditional modes of analysis, whether academic or theological, and to violate the conventions of storytelling and interpretation. By challenging dominant readings and identifying underrepresented characters and moments that have been "written out" of the biblical conversation, the essays, stories, and poems in this collection rupture assumptions, unsettle the reader, and give voice to the voiceless. The Bible in this collection is bent, recontextualized, queered, inverted, and smashed to pieces. Smashing the Tablets is one of the most significant Jewish literary collections in decades, a groundbreaking must-read for Jews and others interested not only in the Bible but also in identity, faith, and power.
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Losing The Garden - The Story Of A Marriage, A Suicide, And A New Life Of Self-Discovery

by Laura Waterman

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 A portrait of an intense and unusual marriage, and an affirmation of life after suicide.In 1971, Laura and Guy Waterman left New York City for thirty-seven acres in Vermont, where they would live in a hand-built cabin without running water or electricity for the next thirty years. It was a life based largely in the nineteenth century, a life of hauling their own water and growing their own food, of lighting candles in the evening and heating their cabin with wood from the surrounding forest. Combined with the trail tending they did in the alpine zone of the White Mountains and the books they wrote about environmental stewardship, it made for a rewarding, healthy, and fruitful existence. But that was only part of their story. Guy''s depression was another part, and his ultimate decision to take his own life on the wintry summit of Mount Lafayette-a decision he made with Laura''s support-was the crux, a term climbers use to describe the hardest move on the climb. Being a climber herself, Laura had to confront the crux. This meant taking a close look at Guy''s suicide and asking herself a hard question: How, or why, had she come to support the decision of the man she loved? In Losing the Garden, Laura Waterman comes to terms with her husband''s long depression and the complex nature of a gifted, humorous man who was driven by obsession, self-absorption, and a strange lack of confidence. Her account of her own marriage, idyllic from the outside but riddled from within, is nonetheless a love story, a portrait of an intense and unusual marriage, and an affirmation of life after loss.
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Mohawk Rebel - Shelley Niro’S Art And New York State

by Claire Raymond

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 An in-depth exploration of the photograph and film works of Mohawk artist Shelley Niro as they connect to New York State.Mohawk Rebel is an in-depth exploration of one of North America''s most important Indigenous artists. Claire Raymond''s compelling and well-researched book connects Niro''s lineage as a Turtle Clan woman to the artist''s oeuvre that evokes and represents the Mohawk people''s memory of and continuing relationship to the land now called New York State. With profound allegorical and metaphorical power, Niro''s virtuosic photographic and filmic works create layered temporal tapestries that weave the past and present in a new vision. The book offers fresh interpretations of many of Niro''s best-known works and brings into view some of her earlier lesser-known works. Raymond''s sensitive and nuanced interpretations of Niro''s art ultimately contend that Niro''s work agitates subtly but unmistakably for the ethical rightness of the land-back movement. Raymond eloquently argues that this Mohawk artist''s relationship to New York State is one of rightful claim.
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Noteworthy Women Of Oswego County, New York

by Natalie Joy Woodall

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 Uncovers the significant social, literary, and political contributions of thirty-one notable women of Oswego County, New York.When called upon to name a noteworthy woman who lived in Oswego County, New York, most people would respond with Dr. Mary Walker, Elmina Spencer, or Malvina Guimaraes. And they would be correct: these three women played a prominent role in the county''s nineteenth century history. Yet, they were not the only ones. Many others whose names are less well known accomplished much within the legal and cultural constraints of contemporary society, including writer Julia McNair Wright, artist Mary Austen Oliver, and playwright Lottie Blair Parker. Whether fighting to end slavery or for the right to vote, running for political office, or seeking reforms in women''s place in society, the thirty-one women detailed in this book made a lasting impact in Oswego County and their country. Today''s professional women, lawyers, doctors, judges, professors, and bankers stand on the shoulders of these pioneering foremothers who refused to let prevailing societal norms stifle their creativity and ambition.
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Woodstock - From World War To Culture Wars

by Richard Heppner

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 The story of Woodstock, N.Y., over the last 100 years and how a small, rural town coped with the many challenges of changing times.Bronze Winner of the 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Popular Culture categoryFew towns in America are as famous as Woodstock, New York-although Woodstock may be most famous for an event that happened many miles away! Long before the 1969 Woodstock festival put the town on the map, it had been a center for artists and free thinkers who found refuge in its rural setting. Longtime citizens were often shocked by the arrival of these newcomers who brought new values and attitudes to their once-isolated village. From the transformative arrival of artists in the early twentieth century to the influx of musicians and young people in the 1960s, Woodstockers worked and struggled to balance everyday life in a small, rural community with the attention and notoriety the outside world brought to it. Presented chronologically, this text examines the nature of change within Woodstock''s uncommon story as it emerges from the Great Depression, confronts the realty of World War II, moves through the 1950s and into an unimagined and unintended future with the arrival of the Sixties through today. At its core, this is a story of how Woodstock''s cultural and political institutions, its citizens, and its physical landscape met the ever-changing challenges of changing times. It is a story of community, resilience, conflict, and transition into a world its early settlers could not have imagined.
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Buffalo'S Waterfront Renaissance - Citizen Activists, Ngos, And The Canalside Project

by Gene Bunnell

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 Recounts how preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading a powerful state agency to abandon its plans for privately developing Buffalo''s waterfront and instead revitalize the city by enhancing opportunities for members of the public to use and enjoy that same space.This book tells the remarkable story of howBuffalo''s post-industrial waterfront was reclaimed for public use and enjoyment and pays tribute to the many local citizens and nongovernmental organizations that made the city''s waterfront renaissance possible. After years of litigation, public controversy and debate, preservationists and environmentalists ultimately succeeded in persuading the state to abandon its contentious plans for privately developing Buffalo''s waterfront. Gene Bunnell, an experienced urban planner, lays out the Buffalo waterfront''s long and troubled history, from the torrent of shipping and commercial activity that was unleashed by the opening of the Erie Canal, to the contamination of the Buffalo River due to waterside industries, to how the Outer Harbor-the last portion of the waterfront to be industrially developed-was reshaped and contaminated by filling in low-lying areas with a toxic mix of waste materials. Drawing on interviews and articles, editorials, and op-eds from The Buffalo News, Bunnell provides the reader with a "real-time" sense of how the struggle over the future of Buffalo''s waterfront unfolded and the ultimate victory by local activists to secure environmental cleanup, restored natural habitats, and expanded public waterfront access.
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Algonquin Round Table - 25 Years With The Legends Who Lunch

by Konrad Bercovici

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 The facts and legends of New York''s famed artistic hub told by one of its key participants.Located in New York''s theatre district, the Algonquin Hotel became an artistic hub for the city and a landmark in America''s cultural life. It was a meeting place and home away from home for such luminaries as famed wits/authors Alexander Woollcott and Dorothy Parker; Broadway and Hollywood stars, including Tallulah Bankhead and Charles Laughton; popular raconteurs like Robert Benchley; and New York City mayors Jimmy Walker and Fiorello LaGuardia. Observing it all was celebrated author and journalist Konrad Bercovici. Born in Romania, Bercovici settled in New York, where he became known for reporting on its rich cultural life. While digging through an inherited trunk of family papers, his granddaughter, Mirana Comstock, discovered this previously unpublished manuscript on Bercovici''s years at the Algonquin Round Table. Lovers of New York lore and fans of American culture will enjoy his vivid, intimate accounts of what it was like to be a member of this distinguished circle.
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Life And Death Of Buffalo'S Great Northern Grain Elevator - 1897-2023

by Bruce Jackson

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 A stunning visual memorial to Buffalo''s architectural and industrial history.Archer Daniels Midland got lucky the night of December 11, 2021: a fierce winter wind took out a third of the brick wall of Buffalo''s Great Northern Grain Elevator. ADM had wanted to demolish the building since 1993, but each of its demolition requests to the city had been blocked. Six days after the storm, with no public hearings, the building was condemned. A unique piece of Buffalo''s economic and global architectural history was gone.Grain elevators are part of Buffalo''s-and the nation''s-architectural heritage. Unlike earlier wooden structures, the Great Northern was made of steel; it was fireproof. The steel bins kept the grain dry and the rats out. The entire steel structure was riveted and bolted into a single entity. The Great Northern couldn''t burn down or blow up; it couldn''t be knocked down, and it was incapable of falling down. When the Great Northern was completed seven months after the shovels broke ground, it was the largest grain elevator in the world. It was built to last, and last it did until the eight-month task of tearing it apart began on September 16, 2022.Photographer and activist Bruce Jackson documents the story of this key architectural landmark through text, documents, and his own photographs taken over a period of several decades to tell this tragic story that will appeal to anyone interested in the history and preservation of America''s industrial culture.
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Calling Wild Places Home - A Memoir In Essays

by Laura Waterman

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 Poignant and vulnerable essays that weave together seemingly disparate themes of wild places and mountain stewardship, books and reading, and building a new life after loss."This is some of the finest writing in Laura Waterman''s long and distinguished career. Anyone who values the history of conservation, or the gnarled wilds of the Northeast, or the complexities of the human spirit will find nourishment in these pages." - Bill McKibben, author of Wandering Home"In this new book, Laura Waterman tells the full story of her unique life. It began on the campus of a boy''s school and took her to mountains, growing her own food, and writing. In these pages, readers find what it''s like to grow up the daughter of the scholar who put the dashes back into Emily Dickinson''s poetry; how Waterman coped with that brilliant father''s alcoholism; her development as a groundbreaking climber; and her homesteading life for almost three decades. In these pages she reveals how she kept her strong sense of self while living with a dynamic, lovable, and often challenging man, her late husband, Guy Waterman. She examines closely her role in his suicide on Mount Lafayette in 2000." - Christine Woodside, editor of Appalachia and the author of Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House Books
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Sun, Sea, Soil, Wine - Winemaking On The North Fork Of Long Island

by Richard Olsen-Harbich

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 Long Island''s longest-tenured winemaker weighs in on what makes the North Fork so unique for fine wine production.Growing up a stone''s throw away from New York City in a small house on suburban Long Island, Richard Olsen-Harbich always dreamed of being a farmer. After graduating from Cornell with a degree in viticulture, he found himself back on the Island at the heart of an emerging wine region that was struggling to find itself. Starting from the ground up with little information or experience, Olsen-Harbich began a lifelong quest to master the art and science of growing wine grapes less than 90 miles from Manhattan.In the last half-century, the North Fork''s bucolic seaside towns and humble potato farms were transformed into one of this country''s most compelling agricultural success stories, garnering praise from wine critics around the world. Olsen-Harbich charts the meteoric rise of North Fork winemaking from the historic failures of colonial times to the modern triumph of becoming one of the most important wine-producing districts on the East Coast. Through a poetic interweaving of personal anecdotes with scientific reporting about climate, soils, geology, and botany, Olsen-Harbich drills deep into the topic, giving the world a new language for talking about wine. In doing so, he redefines what it means to make wine in the New World.
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Growing Up Roosevelt - A Granddaughter''S Memoir Of Eleanor Roosevelt

by Nina Roosevelt Gibson

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 A granddaughter''s intimate portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt at her longtime home of Val-Kill as well as on a diplomatic trip to Europe and the Middle East.When Nina Roosevelt was just seven years old, her family moved from California to live with her grandmother at the small cottage, Val-Kill, in Hyde Park, New York. It was at Val-Kill Farm that Nina shared her childhood years with her remarkable grandmother, the woman who would change her life. To Nina, she was Grandmère, but, to most everyone else, she was Eleanor Roosevelt. Few people realize how important Val-Kill was for Eleanor Roosevelt. Returning "home again" nourished her, allowed her time for reflection, planning, and rejuvenation so that she could continue pouring her heart and soul into the needs of so many people the world over.Growing Up Roosevelt gives an intimate picture of life at Val-Kill as well as Nina''s wide-ranging experiences traveling as a teenager with her grandmother. Included are portraits of the family, staff, famous friends, people in need, and world leaders as disparate as Nikita Khrushchev, Haile Selassie, and John F. Kennedy. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the life and times of Eleanor Roosevelt, her work as a trailblazing political and feminist leader, and the intimate behind-the-scenes details that only her granddaughter can tell.
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Curses Of The Kingdom Of Xixia

by Xue Mo

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 Reality merges with illusion in this novel of northwestern China.Winner of the 2024 New York City Big Book Award in the World Literature category Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Multicultural Fiction category Xue Mo''s novel Curses of the Kingdom of Xixia presents a rich tapestry of the history, religion, lore, and customs of a region in present-day northwestern China. During its heyday, the Sino-Tibetan kingdom of Xixia (pronounced see-sia; 1038-1227), also known as the Tanguts, rivaled the Song dynasty (960-1279) of China and boasted a cavalry so formidable that the Chinese paid tribute to it to maintain peace. Using the discovery of "lost" manuscripts as a frame, the novel presents historical events and tales of semifictional characters, including the avatar of a local Tantric Buddhist goddess, a Dakini/Vajrayogini named Snow Feather. Taking the readers through different historical times and the various geographical and cultural spaces of the region, Xue Mo reveals truths by blurring the distinction between good and evil, beauty and hideousness, reality and fiction, permanence and impermanence. Magical realism and mimesis coexist. Reality merges with illusion, the mundane with the supernatural.
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Downstate New York Rock Walks - An Explorer''S Guide To Amazing Boulders And Rock Formations

by C. Russell Dunn

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 An explorer''s walking guide to downstate New York''s awesome boulders and rock formations.Downstate New York Rock Walks is both a hiking guidebook and a history book, calling attention to some of downstate New York''s most spectacular and historic rocks: balanced rocks, perched rocks, rock shelters, talus caves, glacial potholes, split rocks, rock profiles, historic rocks, and massive, larger-than-life boulders.Many large glacial erratics have a history going back thousands of years to when they were moved to their present location by advancing glaciers. Many served as points of navigational reference at a time when the landscape was featureless and heavily forested, and still others were ceremonial sites for Native Americans. Rock shelters and talus caves have also been used for thousands of years by Native Americans and Europeans seeking refuge from the elements. It is important that these amazing natural wonders of stone be remembered and recorded before they are lost to collective memory or destroyed by the encroachment of civilization.Providing precise GPS location information along with length and degree of difficulty for each hike, Downstate New York Rock Walks will appeal to casual hikers, serious rock explorers, historians, geologists, and anyone wishing to explore some of nature''s greatest wonders within the reach of the lower Hudson River valley.
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Pepper Adams - Saxophone Trailblazer

by Gary Carner

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 A compelling biography of virtuoso, baritone saxophonist Pepper Adams and how his life intersected with some of the greatest poets, writers, painters, and musicians of his time.Pepper Adams is more than a definitive biography of Park "Pepper" Adams (1930-1986). The culmination of thirty-seven years of research, it''s a fascinating account of Adams''s life and times, thanks to colorful vignettes drawn from the author''s 250 unpublished conversations with Adams and other esteemed musicians. These candid observations about Adams and his colleagues reveal previously confidential aspects of Adams''s complex personality, his many outstanding achievements, and little-known facts about musicians with whom he worked, such as Thad Jones, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Charles Mingus, Stan Kenton, Duke Ellington, Bobby Timmons, Wardell Gray, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and others. Musicians, jazz fans and collectors, and readers who enjoy a hero''s journey will be intrigued by Adams''s extraordinary intelligence, the extent of his influence, the reverence he commanded, and his struggle to be rewarded as the unique stylist that he was throughout his career. Moreover, readers will be enlivened by the author''s unique approach to biography, in which storytelling moves thematically, sometimes in reverse chronological order.
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