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Buffalo Dance - The Journey Of York

by Frank X Walker

35,78€ + 10% CARD

 When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of York, who was enslaved to Clark and became the first African American man to traverse the continent. The fictionalized poems in Buffalo Dance form a narrative of York's inner journey before, during, and after the expedition-a journey from slavery to freedom, from the plantation to the great Northwest, from servant to soul yearning to be free.In this expanded edition, Walker utilizes extensive historical research, interviews, transcribed oral histories from the Nez Perce Reservation, art, and empathy to breathe new life into an important but overlooked historical figure. Featuring a new historical essay, preface, and sixteen additional poems, this powerful work speaks to such themes as racism, the power of literacy, the inhumanity of slavery, and the crimes against Native Americans, while reawakening and reclaiming the lost "voice" of York.
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Driving With The Dead - Poems

by Jane Hicks

23,85€ + 10% CARD

 Appalachia is no stranger to loss. The region suffers regular ecological devastation wrought by strip mining, fracking, and deforestation as well as personal tragedy brought on by enduring poverty and drug addiction. In Driving with the Dead, poet, teacher, and artist Jane Hicks weaves an earnest and impassioned elegy for an imperiled yet doggedly optimistic people and place.
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Land We Dreamed - Poems

by Joe Survant

17,89€ + 10% CARD

 Weaving together universal themes of family, geography, and death with images of America's frontier landscape, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Joe Survant has been lauded for his ability to capture the spirit of the land and its people. Exploring the pre-Columbian and frontier history of the commonwealth, The Land We Dreamed is the final instalment in the poet's trilogy on rural Kentucky.
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Many-Storied House - Poems

by George Ella Lyon

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 Born in the small, eastern Kentucky coal-mining town of Harlan, George Ella Lyon began her career with Mountain, a chapbook of poems. She has since published many more books in multiple genres and for readers of all ages, but poetry remains at the heart of her work. Many-Storied House is her fifth collection.While teaching aspiring writers, Lyon asked her students to write a poem based on memories rooted in a house where they had lived. Working on the assignment herself, Lyon began a personal journey, writing many poems for each room. In this intimate book, she strives to answer lingering questions about herself and her family: "Here I stand, at the beginning," she writes in the opening lines of the volume, "with more questions than / answers."Collectively, the poems tell the sixty-eight-year-long story of the house, beginning with its construction by Lyon's grandfather and culminating with the poet's memories of bidding farewell to it after her mother's death. Moving, provocative, and heartfelt, Lyon's poetic excavations evoke more than just stock and stone; they explore the nature of memory and relationships, as well as the innermost architecture of love, family, and community. A poignant memoir in poems, Many-Storied House is a personal and revealing addition to George Ella Lyon's body of work.
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Appalachian Elegy - Poetry And Place

by bell hooks

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to stand up against a dominating and repressive society. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and children's books reflect her Appalachian upbringing and feature her struggles with racially integrated schools and unwelcome authority figures. One of Utne Reader's "100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life," hooks has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. In Appalachian Elegy, bell hooks continues her work as an imagist of life's harsh realities in a collection of poems inspired by her childhood in the isolated hills and hidden hollows of Kentucky. At once meditative, confessional, and political, this poignant volume draws the reader deep into the experience of living in Appalachia. Touching on such topics as the marginalization of its people and the environmental degradation it has suffered over the years, hooks's poetry quietly elegizes the slow loss of an identity while also celebrating that which is constant, firmly rooted in a place that is no longer whole.
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At The Breakers - A Novel

by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

13,30€ + 10% CARD

 A deeply felt and beautifully written novel about forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Buffalo Dance - The Journey Of York

by Frank X Walker

64,40€ + 10% CARD

 A blend of history and art, "Buffalo Dance" is a collection of persona poems that tell the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Clark's slave, York. These poems form a narrative of York's saga - a journey from slavery to freedom.
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Buffalo Dance - The Journey Of York

by Frank X Walker

64,40€ + 10% CARD

 A blend of history and art, "Buffalo Dance" is a collection of persona poems that tell the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Clark's slave, York. These poems form a narrative of York's saga - a journey from slavery to freedom.
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At The Breakers - A Novel

by Mary Ann Taylor-Hall

29,81€ + 10% CARD

 Features Jo Sinclair, a single parent of four children. Fleeing an abusive relationship, she winds up in Sea Cove, New Jersey, in front of The Breakers, a salty old hotel in the process of renovation. In this unlikely setting, Jo finds a way to renovate herself, to reclaim the promising life that was derailed by pregnancy when she was fourteen.
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Nothing Like An Ocean - Stories

by Jim Tomlinson

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 Features eleven stories set in and around the fictional town of Spivey, Kentucky, which spotlight small-town lives that are thrown into quiet turmoil by unexpected events or outsiders. Adept at juxtaposing light and dark elements, this title displays compassion for characters searching for moments of found grace and earned redemption.
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When Winter Come - The Ascension Of York

by Frank X Walker

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 A collection of poems which embody the range of human ability, knowledge, emotion, and experience. It captures the profound feelings of love and loss on each side of the ill-fated meeting of souls.
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Upheaval - Stories

by Chris Holbrook

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 Set in Eastern Kentucky, this title includes eight interrelated stories which capture a region and its people as they struggle in the face of poverty, isolation, change, and the devastation of land and resources at the hands of the coal and timber industries.
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New Covenant Bound

by Tony Crunk

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 "Our only sin was not having what they thought was enough. And being forced to take what they called help."Pain and anger resonate deeply in the voice of New Covenant Bound's central narrator. Forced from her homeland on the Tennessee River in the 1930s, she recounts the memory of upheaval and destruction caused by the Tennessee Valley Authority.The Western Kentucky area that now boasts beautiful, expansive bodies of water was once home to some 20,000 people, their houses, farms, townships and ancestral history. Residents were subjected to three waves of forced relocation to make way for Kentucky Lake in the 1930s, Lake Barkley in the 1950s, and Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area in the 1960s.Renowned poet T. Crunk intersperses narrative prose and vivid lyric verse to explore the devastation one family experienced in this often overlooked episode in Kentucky history. The voices of a grandmother and grandson speak to each other over time, evoking the relentless advance of irrevocable forces that changed the land, forever.
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Buffalo Dance - The Journey Of York

by Frank X Walker

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 When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York.
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Buffalo Dance - The Journey Of York

by Frank X Walker

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 When Frank X Walker's compelling collection of personal poems was first released in 2004, it told the story of the infamous Lewis and Clark Expedition from the point of view of Clark's personal slave, York.
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Duncan Hines - How A Traveling Salesman Became The Most Trusted Name In Food

by Louis Hatchett

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 The success of this work and of his subsequent publications led Hines to manufacture the extremely popular food products that we still enjoy today. In Duncan Hines, author Louis Hatchett explores the story of the man, from his humble beginnings in Bowling Green, Kentucky, to his lucrative licensing deal with Proctor & Gamble.
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The Birds Of Opulence

by Crystal Wilkinson

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 From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centres on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness.
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Water Street

by Jacinda Townsend

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 The residents of Water Street are hardworking, God-fearing people who live in a seemingly safe and insulated neighbourhood within a small Kentucky town. But all is not as it seems as the secret lives of neighbours and friends are revealed in interconnected tales of love, loss, truth, and tragedy.
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Blackberries, Blackberries

by Crystal Wilkinson e Nikky Finney

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 As the title implies, this beautifully written collection bursts with stories reminiscent of blackberries - small, succulent morsels that are inviting and sweet, yet sometimes bitter. The stories in this award-winning collection are terse and transient, like snippets taken from random dreams, thoughts, or conversations.
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Crossing The River - A Novel

by Fenton Johnson

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 Make no mistake, Martha Bragg Picket is a headstrong southern woman with a rebellious spirit, a characteristic her son Michael shares. Both heartfelt and shrewdly humorous, this widely acclaimed first novel from author Fenton Johnson is an affecting look at one woman's reawakening and her son's coming of age in the heartland of America.
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The Civil War On The Mississippi - Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, And The Campaign To Control The River

by Barbara Brooks Tomblin

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 Drawing heavily on the diaries and letters of officers and common sailors, Barbara Brooks Tomblin explores the years during which the Union navy fought to win control of the Mississippi. Her approach provides fresh insight into major battles such as Memphis and Vicksburg, but also offers fascinating perspectives on lesser-known aspects of the conflict from ordinary sailors.
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The Birds Of Opulence

by Crystal Wilkinson

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 From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street comes an astonishing new novel. A lyrical exploration of love and loss, The Birds of Opulence centres on several generations of women in a bucolic southern black township as they live with and sometimes surrender to madness.
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The Historic Kentucky Kitchen - Traditional Recipes For Today'S Cook

by Andrew W. Mcgraw e John Van Willigen

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 Assembles more than one hundred dishes from nineteenth and twentieth-century Kentucky cooks. Deirdre A. Scaggs and Andrew W. McGraw collected recipes from handwritten books, diaries, scrapbook clippings, and out-of-print cookbooks to bring together a variety of classic dishes, complete with descriptions of each recipe's origin and helpful tips for the modern chef.
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Scissors, Paper, Rock - A Novel

by Fenton Johnson

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 Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbour, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole.
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