It'll All Come out in the Wash

It'll All Come out in the Wash
Author: Joanne Crutchfield
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2009-06-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1465330615

ITLL ALL COME OUT IN THE WASH is a vivid account of a tenderfoot Negro girls negative experiences while coming of age under Jim Crow laws. Deeply depressed by what she perceived to be a national disaffection for Negro children, debilitating physical and emotional symptoms asserted themselves in the authors early childhood and continued unabated into maturity. In an effort to manage her frequent bouts with depression, she would eventually seek mental health therapy as an adult. A book of many genres, this memoir is chock-full of nostalgia, situational humor, melancholy, loving family portraits, short stories, and philosophical musings on the pernicious effects of racial insensitivity. 2010 Semi Finalist Library of Virginia People's Choice Award

The Global Nomad

The Global Nomad
Author: Greg Richards
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781873150764

Backpackers have shifted from the margins of the travel industry into the global spotlight. This volume explores the international backpacker phenomenon, drawing together different disciplinary perspectives on its meaning, impact and significance. Links are drawn between theory and practice, setting backpacking in its wider social, cultural and economic context.

A Dictionary of Catch Phrases

A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1315
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134929986

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.

Soothing Music For Stray Cats

Soothing Music For Stray Cats
Author: Jayne Joso
Publisher: Y Lolfa
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 184771532X

Suicide, songwriting, and samurai philosophy within paper covers. It is 2005, your best friend just jumped from the 20th floor ... is it ever right to intervene in other's lives? With echoes of Catcher in the Rye and Anne Enright's The Gathering, a warm rites of passage debut novel.

The Dharma Bums

The Dharma Bums
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1971-05-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780140042528

Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on two ebullient young Americans--mountaineer, poet, and Zen Buddhist Japhy Ryder, and Ray Smith, a zestful, innocent writer--whose quest for Truth leads them on a heroic odyssey, from marathon parties and poetry jam sessions in San Francisco's Bohemia to solitude and mountain climbing in the High Sierras.

Dictionary of Catch Phrases

Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Author: Eric Partridge
Publisher: Scarborough House
Total Pages: 411
Release: 1992-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461660408

A catch phrase is a well-known, frequently-used phrase or saying that has `caught on' or become popular over along period of time. It is often witty or philosophical and this Dictionary gathers together over 7,000 such phrases.

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Martin H. Manser
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2007
Genre: Proverbs, English
ISBN: 0816066736

Lists the meaning and origin of more than 1,700 traditional and contemporary English proverbs.

It All Comes out in the Wash

It All Comes out in the Wash
Author: May Dilles
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2015-06-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 149087349X

People get ready, Theres a train acomin. Its picking up passengers coast to coast. All you need is faith to hear the diesels humming. You dont need no ticket, you just get on board. May Dilles took a little ride on that very train. God was on it too, in His bad outfit. This is the story of her remarkable journey, the events leading to that train ride that forever changed her life, and what happened next.