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| Author | : David Wroblewski |
| Publisher | : Bond Street Books |
| Total Pages | : 578 |
| Release | : 2009-03-19 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307371891 |
An Oprah's Book Club Pick A #1 New York Times Bestseller A National Bestseller Beautifully written and elegantly paced, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle is a coming-of-age novel about the power of the land and the past to shape our lives. It is a riveting tale of retribution, inhabited by empathic animals, prophetic dreams, second sight, and vengeful ghosts. Born mute, Edgar Sawtelle feels separate from the people around him but is able to establish profound bonds with the animals who share his home and his name: his family raises a fictional breed of exceptionally perceptive and affable dogs. Soon after his father's sudden death, Edgar is stunned to learn that his mother has already moved on as his uncle Claude quickly becomes part of their lives. Reeling from the sudden changes to his quiet existence, Edgar flees into the forests surrounding his Wisconsin home accompanied by three dogs. Soon he is caught in a struggle for survival—the only thing that will prepare him for his return home.
| Author | : Jennifer Adams |
| Publisher | : Babylit First Steps |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Ravens |
| ISBN | : 9781423635284 |
"Meet the plucky toddler Edgar the raven. He's mischievous, disobedient, and contrary. He's also lovable. Inspired by Edgar Allen Poe"--
| Author | : Arthur Hobson Quinn |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 872 |
| Release | : 1997-11-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780801857300 |
Renowned as the creator of the detective story and a master of horror, the author of "The Red Mask of Death," "The Black Cat," and "The Murders of the Rue Morgue," Edgar Allan Poe seems to have derived his success from suffering and to have suffered from his success. "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" have been read as signs of his personal obsessions, and "The Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Descent into the Maelstrom" as symptoms of his own mental collapse. Biographers have seldom resisted the opportunities to confuse the pathologies in the stories with the events in Poe's life. Against this tide of fancy, guesses, and amateur psychologizing, Arthur Hobson Quinn's biography devotes itself meticulously to facts. Based on exhaustive research in the Poe family archive, Quinn extracts the life from the legend, and describes how they both were distorted by prior biographies. "
| Author | : Edgar Villanueva |
| Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 215 |
| Release | : 2018-10-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1523097914 |
Decolonizing Wealth is a provocative analysis of the dysfunctional colonial dynamics at play in philanthropy and finance. Award-winning philanthropy executive Edgar Villanueva draws from the traditions from the Native way to prescribe the medicine for restoring balance and healing our divides. Though it seems counterintuitive, the philanthropic industry has evolved to mirror colonial structures and reproduces hierarchy, ultimately doing more harm than good. After 14 years in philanthropy, Edgar Villanueva has seen past the field's glamorous, altruistic façade, and into its shadows: the old boy networks, the savior complexes, and the internalized oppression among the “house slaves,” and those select few people of color who gain access. All these funders reflect and perpetuate the same underlying dynamics that divide Us from Them and the haves from have-nots. In equal measure, he denounces the reproduction of systems of oppression while also advocating for an orientation towards justice to open the floodgates for a rising tide that lifts all boats. In the third and final section, Villanueva offers radical provocations to funders and outlines his Seven Steps for Healing. With great compassion—because the Native way is to bring the oppressor into the circle of healing—Villanueva is able to both diagnose the fatal flaws in philanthropy and provide thoughtful solutions to these systemic imbalances. Decolonizing Wealth is a timely and critical book that preaches for mutually assured liberation in which we are all inter-connected.
| Author | : Edgar Martinez |
| Publisher | : Triumph Books |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2019-06-18 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1641252626 |
Patience, persistence, and the most unlikely of circumstances vaulted Edgar Martinez from a poor neighborhood in Dorado, Puerto Rico to the spotlight in Seattle, where he spent the entirety of his 18-year major league career with the Mariners. At last, his path is destined for one last stop: the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Long before he cemented his status as one of the finest players of his generation, Martinez honed his batting skills by hitting rocks in his backyard and swinging for hours at individual raindrops during storms. Loyal and strong-willed from a young age, he made the difficult decision at only 11 to remain behind with his grandparents while his family relocated to New York, attending school and then working multiple jobs until a chance Mariners try-out at age 20 changed everything. In this illuminating, highly personal autobiography, Martinez shares these stories and more with candor, characteristic humility, and surprising wit. Highlights include the memorable 1995 and 2001 seasons, experiences playing with stars like Randy Johnson, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez, and life after retirement as a family man, social advocate, and Mariners hitting coach. Martinez even offers practical insight into the mental side of baseball and his training regimen, detailing how he taught himself to see the ball better than so many before and after him. Interwoven with Martinez's own words throughout are those of his teammates, coaches, and contemporaries, contributing a distinctive oral history element to this saga of a remarkable career.
| Author | : Adrienne Edgar |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2022-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501762958 |
Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples examines the racialization of identities and its impact on mixed couples and families in Soviet Central Asia. In marked contrast to its Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union celebrated mixed marriages among its diverse ethnic groups as a sign of the unbreakable friendship of peoples and the imminent emergence of a single "Soviet people." Yet the official Soviet view of ethnic nationality became increasingly primordial and even racialized in the USSR's final decades. In this context, Adrienne Edgar argues, mixed families and individuals found it impossible to transcend ethnicity, fully embrace their complex identities, and become simply "Soviet." Looking back on their lives in the Soviet Union, ethnically mixed people often reported that the "official" nationality in their identity documents did not match their subjective feelings of identity, that they were unable to speak "their own" native language, and that their ambiguous physical appearance prevented them from claiming the nationality with which they most identified. In all these ways, mixed couples and families were acutely and painfully affected by the growth of ethnic primordialism and by the tensions between the national and supranational projects in the Soviet Union. Intermarriage and the Friendship of Peoples is based on more than eighty in-depth oral history interviews with members of mixed families in Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, along with published and unpublished Soviet documents, scholarly and popular articles from the Soviet press, memoirs and films, and interviews with Soviet-era sociologists and ethnographers.
| Author | : Charles Ogden |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2009-12-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1442408499 |
Fire ants. Fraud. Footie pajamas. Twins Edgar and Ellen live alone -- their parents disappeared years ago, and who can blame them? -- in the quaint, little town of Nod's Limbs, in a grim, gray house overlooking the cemetery and the junkyard. They spend their days avoiding Heimertz, the mysterious accordion-playing caretaker; pestering Pet, a hairy, one-eyed creature of indeterminate species and gender; and wreaking havoc on the hapless citizens of Nod's Limbs. But wreaking havoc can incur expenses, so the twins come up with a unique fund-raising scheme: They'll nab the pets of Nod's Limbs and transform them into exotic animals they can sell for big bucks. Not a bad plan, if one of the purloined pets wasn't a lethargic python with a raging appetite....
| Author | : Victor Lodato |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2017-03-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1250096987 |
Eight-year-old Edgar Fini's loyalty is torn between the two women in his life. There's his mother, Lucy, who, though she has moments where she loves him, mostly disappears at night with her various 'suitors'. And then there's his grandmother, Florence, who dotes on him to the point where she is at a loss when he isn't around. Since his father's suicide, Florence and Edgar's relationship has become obsessive, each fully dependent on the other. When Florence suddenly dies, Lucy is thrown into the role of main caretaker and doesn't know how to handle her new job. But as Edgar and Lucy adjust, they must also deal with Ron, a local butcher who wants to court Lucy, and Conrad, an unsettlingly attentive adult whose intentions are at one more sinister and more innocent than Edgar could ever know.
| Author | : John Maxwell Hamilton |
| Publisher | : LSU Press |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2003-09-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780807129128 |
Edgar Snow (1905--1972) was one of the most notable Western journalists to report on China in both the revolutionary and postrevolutionary periods. He first became famous in the mid-1930s when he broke through a Nationalist blockade and reached the Communists in northwest China. For nearly a decade, no foreign reporter had seen the Communists, who were widely regarded as a ragtag bandit army. Snow took them seriously as a national movement. His reporting in the now-famous book Red Star over China was major news, even to the Chinese, thousands of whom joined the Communists after reading it. It has remained a seminal reference on the early Chinese Communist movement. In this award-winning biography, journalist John Maxwell Hamilton follows Snow from his birth in Kansas City to his rise as a celebrated foreign correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post, his ostracism during the cold war, and his role as a singular journalistic bridge between Communist China and the United States. With a new preface by the author, this revealing portrait of the widely misunderstood Snow firmly establishes him as a model for the kind of committed reporting that is crucial to understanding our interdependent world.
| Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
| Publisher | : Delphi Classics |
| Total Pages | : 3897 |
| Release | : 2013-11-17 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1908909137 |
At last, America’s Master Storyteller joins the ranks of Delphi Classics’ scholarly collections. This is the COMPLETE WORKS of the great literary giant Edgar Allan Poe. Now you can truly own Poe’s immense and diverse works on your eReading device. (Version 6) * the COMPLETE poetry, with special Chronological and Alphabetical contents tables * the COMPLETE tales, with its own Chronological and Alphabetical contents tables * brief but informative introductions to many poems, tales and other texts * images of how the books first appeared, giving your EReader a taste of the original texts * Poe’s rare unfinished play POLITIAN, with perfect formatting * BOTH of Poe’s novels, including the very rare unfinished novel THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN * many short stories and poems are presented with their original illustrations * Every non-fiction essay – even the rare ones recently discovered – available in no other digital collection * many images relating to Poe, his life and works * INCLUDES with the Complete Letters – spend hours perusing Poe’s personal correspondence! * the letters have separate tables to help you find whatever letter you want easily * scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * four biographical works exploring Poe’s mysterious life, including the infamous memoir by Griswold * criticism section, featuring essays by other famous writers examining Poe’s contribution to literature * features Poe’s contributions to THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK The eBook also includes a front no-nonsense table of contents to allow easy navigation around Poe’s oeuvre. Contents The Poetry Collections TAMERLANE AND OTHER POEMS AL AARAAF, TAMERLANE AND MINOR POEMS POEMS, 1831 THE RAVEN AND OTHER POEMS UNCOLLECTED POEMS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Novels THE NARRATIVE OF ARTHUR GORDON PYM OF NANTUCKET THE JOURNAL OF JULIUS RODMAN The Play POLITIAN The Essays INDEX OF THE COMPLETE ESSAYS The Non-Fiction THE CONCHOLOGIST’S FIRST BOOK THE LITERATI MARGINALIA FIFTY SUGGESTIONS A CHAPTER ON AUTOGRAPHY The Letters INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS, LETTERS AND DATES The Criticism EDGAR A. POE by James Russell Lowell. AN EXTRACT FROM ‘FIGURES OF SEVERAL CENTURIES’ by Arthur Symons AN EXTRACT FROM ‘LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS’ by Andrew Lang THE CENTENARY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Edmund Gosse FROM POE TO VALÉRY by T.S. Eliot The Biographies THE STORY OF EDGAR ALLAN POE by Sherwin Cody THE DREAMER by Mary Newton Stanard MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR by Rufus Wilmot Griswold DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE. by N. P. Willis
