ITA Journal

ITA Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

The Boundaries of Their Dwelling

The Boundaries of Their Dwelling
Author: Blake Sanz
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609388070

Moving between the American South and Mexico, these stories explore how immigrant and native characters are shaped by absent family and geography. A Chilanga teen wins a trip to Miami to film a reality show about family while pining for the American brother she’s never met. A Louisiana carpenter tends to his drug-addicted son while rebuilding his house after a slew of hurricanes. A New Orleans ne’er-do-well opens a Catholic-themed bar in the wake of his devout mother’s death. A village girl from Chiapas baptizes her infant on a trek toward the U.S. border. In the collection’s second half, we follow a Veracruzan-born drifter, Manuel, and his estranged American son, Tommy. Over decades, they negotiate separate nations and personal tragicomedies on their journeys from innocence to experience. As Manuel participates in student protests in Mexico City in 1968, he drops out to pursue his art. In the 1970s, he immigrates to Louisiana, but soon leaves his wife and infant son behind after his art shop fails. Meanwhile, Tommy grows up in 1980s Louisiana, sometimes escaping his mother’s watchful eye to play basketball at a park filled with the threat of violence. In college, he seeks acceptance from teammates by writing their term papers. Years later, as Manuel nears death and Tommy reaches middle age, they reconnect, embarking on a mission to jointly interview a former riot policeman about his military days; in the process, father and son discover what it has meant to carry each other’s stories and memories from afar.

The Lok: A Book in the Partha Wars Series

The Lok: A Book in the Partha Wars Series
Author: Tommy Rice
Publisher: Partha Wars
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2017-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781973319818

The story unfolds on the Victorian retro modern world of Partha Terra, a world of magic and advanced steam power. The alien race known as the Razium whose unending wars destroyed their own worlds, took what was left of their armada and fought their way across the stars in search of the magical power of the Labrynthain gates. Under a flag of truce they betrayed their new found allies, and in a coup for power assassinated the King of Ultima Thule. Walker, one of the few surviving Spartan Paladins, the Kings personal guard, has to try and find the Kings only remaining son; the Prince Lincoln. The prince is a Lok or mage and is the only one alive who can use the power of the Tempest, an ability that allows him to open the magical gates of the Labrynthian. On his journey Walker meets Tasha, Commander of a mad gangster's personal army, and gets dragged into her plight against the Razium's allies, the outcast Elves of the Dru-Nar. Lincoln has been in hiding with his uncle Matias, the commander of a small fortress Castle in a southern province of Ultima Thule. Matias is secretly readying to take Lincoln to see the Lok masters of White City so he can learn to control his growing powers and use them to reunite the people of Ultima Thule. However, after 7 years of searching, Nemsor Vaul, the diabolical leader of the Razium has found information about the Prince's location, and has sent his monstrous Zajust lords to find him. This is a fantastic journey of friendship, adventure, romance and combat that leads these characters on a collision course across the Planet. From the frozen castle prison of Ice Well, to the excessive Elven city of Royal. Follow the prince as he tries to unravel the mysteries of the Labrynthian, and the Spartan Paladin as he tries to find the prince, as he tries to find the LOK.

Radium Girls

Radium Girls
Author: D. W. Gregory
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2003
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9781583421901

In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the latest rage- until the girls who painted them began to fall ill with a mysterious disease. Inspired by a true story, Radium Girls traces the efforts of Grace Fryer, a dial painter, as she fights for her day in court. Her chief adversary is her former employer, Arthur Roeder, an idealistic man who cannot bring himself to believe that the same element that shrinks tumors could have anything to do with the terrifying rash of illnesses among his employees. As the case goes on, however, Grace finds herself battling not only with the U.S. Radium Corporation, but also with her own family and friends, who fear that her campaign for justice will backfire.

All My Sons

All My Sons
Author: Arthur Miller
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1974
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780822200161

THE STORY: During the war Joe Keller and Steve Deever ran a machine shop which made airplane parts. Deever was sent to prison because the firm turned out defective parts, causing the deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The

Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek
Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1800
Genre: English fiction
ISBN:

All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel

All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost: A Novel
Author: Lan Samantha Chang
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-09-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0393340562

A haunting story of art, ambition, love, and friendship by a writer of elegant, exacting prose.