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Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
Author
Publisher
Reader's Digest
Pub. Date
©2008.
Language
English
Description
Examines 180 historically and culturally momentous events in politics, war, science, sports, and the arts, spanning over sixty years from 1939 to 2008, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and the 2008 Democratic primary.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes, only to discover that claiming the winnings may unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins. A school principal unveils a bold plan to permanently abolish arithmetic. An acclaimed ambulance driver seeks the courage to become a singer-songwriter. Author John Grisham contemplates a monumental typo. These and many more short stories are included in an original...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Contemporaries, Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories by a writer best known for his work on the television series "The Office," including the title story in which a boy's sweepstakes win proves more harm than good for his family.
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